Ya Bezzer!

Have you paid £23 to see your goalkeeper sent off for picking the ball up outside the box?

Unbelievable. If Samson had done that there would be a lynch mob on the pitch.

Even the 5 yard passes are going in the air.

Perked up a bit since the goal. Still think we look dodgy at the back though.

2 against Rangers, 2 against Ross County, 2 against St Johnstone (so far). Joke defence. The goals we have given away in this match have been pathetic and St Johnstone look they will score every time they come forward.

St. Johnstone will play 5 in midfield so I'd be surprised if we didn't match up.

Blyth was inept while jogging. Truly awful and good riddance. Look forward to his selfies from the bench at upcoming Airbus vs Connah's Quay matches.

This. Rangers haven't had an away draw this season or last season but the season before (2015/16) that they had 3 - Airdrie, Ayr United and Hibernian. Presumably then the conspiracy started sometime between 2015/16 season and 2016/17 season. Also, noticed a full moon last night. Stay indoors and watch out for lycanthropes.

We had 3 out of 11 perform today. If that's good enough for you fine. Most likely St. Johnstone will be no worse and probably better than Rangers today so we are going to have to improve in all the areas I've mentioned if we want any points on the board in Week 2. Our passing, crossing and finishing aren't good enough and the fact that a poor Rangers team were a bit lucky to beat us doesn't change that. Standards have to be raised if we want to get better than scrambling around at the foot of the table every year. As for balance, I gave a thumbs up to Heneghan today, a player I've been fairly critical of, while being fairly scathing of McHugh, a player I've mostly praised. You can't really accuse me of agendas or ploughing the same old furrow. All I do is say what I see. We lost at home to a very average side today and if we had shown even just a little bit more quality when it mattered we would have got something out of the game. Dropped points are dropped points whether its the first day of the season or the last.

Kipre, Heneghan and Cadden were the three players that could say they had a good game today. Going for Cadden.

A few people have said that recently while cutting out the praise I've given from their quote.

Thought it was quite exciting but low quality match. The ball was given away more often than not and the final ball from both teams was shite. Finishing was poor. Besides the first 20 minutes or so I felt we were always in the match, despite most players not playing that well, that maybe tells you something about Rangers. I said last week the gap between Kipre and Tait was going to be a weak spot and so it proved to be. Middle of the park was poor, Rose was fairly anonymous and McHugh gave the ball away just about every time he played a pass. Dunne/Frear on the left just wasn't working. Sometimes feel like Frear is tied to our post with an elastic band. He just doesn't make the runs and when he does he usually makes the wrong decision. Dunne's balls forward were howling and he needs to concentrate more when defending. On the up side Heneghan and Kipre did well at the back and I thought Cadden was excellent today. We should have scored more goals but so should Rangers so in that sense the result could have varied wildly, we could have won, we could have got a pasting. Overall though I felt we competed reasonably well but our quality needs to improve - crossing, passing, finishing. Ultimately a little bit unlucky not helped by a shocking display from Madden but we just looked like we lacked that little bit extra quality that in the end gets you the points.

Quite bizarre that they chose to go full time after being relegated from the Championship. Looks like they are going to romp that league based on early form so it might not be his last hat trick of the season.

Generally, I think if you go toe to toe with a team that's on a different level of quality you are likely to come off the worst, whereas if you try to tactically nullify a teams advantages you have a fighting chance. The thing is we are going into a game tomorrow and we don't really know how good or bad either team is.

BIGIRIMANA, Gael BLYTH, Jacob BOWMAN, Ryan CADDEN, Chris CAMPBELL, Allan CARSON, Trevor CLAY, Craig DUNNE, Charles FISHER, Alex FREAR, Elliott GORDON, Shea GRIFFITHS, Russell HAMMELL, Steven HASTIE, Jake HENEGHAN, Ben KIPRE, Cedric LIVINGSTONE, Adam MacLEAN, Ross McHUGH, Carl McMANUS, Stephen McMILLAN, Jack MOULT, Louis NEWELL, George ROSE, Andy TAIT, Richard TANNER, Craig THOMAS, Dom WATT, Luke Of course Dom Thomas and Craig Clay have left and Ellis Plummer has come in. I mistakenly included Craig Clay but that still gives you 27 players.

Loans can be used as a form of player development. Unfortunately in recent times we've used loans to simply move youth players out of the way and sideline them until their contracts run down. See - Dom Thomas, Dylan Mackin, Craig Moore, Tom Fry, David Ferguson, Luke Watt.

I've voiced similar concerns many times and I won't repeat them but on top of what you are saying above I think it's worth noting that we now have a first team squad of 28 players. That doesn't seem like a sensible number on a whole number of levels.

Funnily enough although I'm not Heneghan's biggest fan I think he's been decent in the recent matches against Rangers.

Great analysis comparing Berwick Rangers, Edinburgh City and Queens Park to Dunfermline. Add in Morton and the Dunfermline still have about 2,000 more supporters than the average of all of them.

Do you want me to post a list of lower league teams that have put us out cups? If only we could dominate Hearts at Tynecastle.

Called it.

Dunfermline have been in very good form for the whole of 2017, only lost 4 out of 25 matches - including 3 draws against Premiership teams. Think they will be up there challenging for promotion this season and I think this would be a tricky tie with Motherwell with the dreaded 'favourites' status.

Ross County away is my prediction.

He'll have another week to work towards full fitness but yeah, perhaps a place on the bench would be best. In my view Moult hasn't often played that well without McDonald to support him and today was certainly not one of his best performances. He also just didn't look happy today whether it was fitness, lack of support or perhaps behinds the scenes stuff and all the speculation around him.

Kipre. Strolled through the game. I guess we'll find out if he can actually defend next week.