Ya Bezzer!

Just don't get Kevin Twaddle to do it.

Partick are safe already in my opinion. I tipped them for Top 6 at the beginning of the season. I think they have probably the best squad in the 'pack', Alan Archibald has done a tremendous job as manager there and their defensive record is highly impressive. In fact if the points had been wiped out at New Year Partick would be third in the league in 2017. Weirdly Kilmarnock have shown enough this season, despite all the huge player turnover, back room turmoil, and managerial changes to stay up. They tend to pull out a win here or there when not expected. I think they will be OK. Dundee have probably the toughest run up to the split and if I was a Dee I'd be a little nervous. We all saw them demolish us but by all accounts they haven't been playing well and St. Johnstone turned them over pretty easy last week. I think they might be sweating a bit going into the break as I can't see them picking up too many points in the run in. Ross County have been poor this season and they have lost 7 out of the last 10. The weekends match against Inverness will be huge for them. Lose and they could be in really big trouble. Accies will be in the bottom two. They have done very well to stay in the league the past couple of seasons but I think there time is just about up. Not won away from home all season. Despite being bottom Inverness have been in pretty decent form, they have only lost 1 of their last 6 matches. As I said above the Ross County match is going to be huge for both clubs. If they can win it I think they have a decent chance of getting out of the relegation places.

If we live within our means there should be no 'financial oblivion' but it will also mean that our Premiership status will be at risk more often than not and if that is the case it's only a matter of time before we are relegated, if not this season, then probably soon. I've said it before but 30 years of top level football has created a 'big club' mentality among many of our supporters. In reality we have lived a very charmed life but those days are over. Fans expectations need to re-align with where the club is financially.

TRIANGLE OF DOOM Robinson Barraclough Erwin

I've complained about the miserableness surrounding this place but there is no getting around people's initial reaction to this appointment. We just put a guy in place with a terrible record in club football. I think most people have said they are willing to support Robinson regardless if they think he was the right choice or not. He's in a difficult position though and with the spectre of relegation hanging it's not going to be a big surprise if he doesn't get much of a honeymoon period. I'm sure he realised that when he took the job.

Perhaps but I think I am right in saying that Lindsay has never been recognised at any age level by the SFA despite coming up on 100 league appearances and being one of the players of the season. The fact that Chris Cadden only got into the U21 squad after a full blown media campaign just shows you that the whole thing is a nonsense. Our youth football set up at national level is completely myopic.

Hughes walked out on Inverness when they were in a relatively comfortable place because of the clubs budget plans. Could never see him agreeing to become our manager. You might say "but he's at Raith Rovers now!" but I'll bet he agreed a budget for next season that will make them competitive in their league. That wasn't going to happen at our place.

For once I will agree with steelboy. I think it is a really poor and uninspiring choice. Pretty much tells you no one else of any calibre wanted the job. However Robinson is the manager now and you have to support him. I like to think I am pretty open minded and don't mind saying I was wrong if that's how it turns out so it''s down to him because you can't really argue with results.

Surprisingly the form is this Motherwell P10 W3 D1 L6 St. Johnstone P10 W4 D1 L5 Fair to say St. Johnstone have been a wee bit patchy lately. Anyway looks like it will be 3 points or none.

Albion Rovers are heading for relegation and apparently their dressing room is in uproar with players fighting each other.

Has Gus MacPherson been mentioned? Has done a good job at Queen's Park and has quite a good record at Fir Park (albeit with St. MIrren). Just a suggestion, not saying he's my pick.

Apparently our great young hope, Tom Boyd, has 252 appearances for the club and left 26 years ago.

It was me! And you are right enough. But we can't let the teams above get any further away.

The Pack has become The Battle of the Bottom 4.

Again, maybe, but you'd have another promotion under your belt rather than 6 months of supporter animosity. Better to succeed at a smaller club than be smothered by the failed giants.

Maybe but I'd say you'd be better off at an ambitious League 1 club than one of those awful strugglers in the bottom half of the Championship. Who in their right mind would touch the jobs at Blackburn, Nottingham Forest, Wolves, Aston Villa etc? Managerial suicide.

Alex Neil would surely be able to get a gig at an ambitious League 1 side. Would be nice but it's not going to happen. Someone like Pressley fills me with horror but I don't think Robinson should get it either. His track record at Fir Park and elsewhere makes him far too big a risk.

The worst thing that can happen today is we risk injured players just to put a team out.

On Sky Bet right now it's 8.5 for a straight win and 67 for 3-1. You can get 3-0, 3-1 or 3-2 for 34.

Don't think Top 6 is on the cards. Partick will probably be the best of the rest. Our main concern should be getting enough points to avoid the bottom two places. 40 points ought to do it so that should be the target, 13 to go. If we could get 3 home wins up to the split that would go a long way to doing that.

Boyd held up two fingers (not the v kind) and smiled at the crowd. That's what the supporters reacted to. At the time I didn't know what it was about but that's obvious what it was.

Carl McHugh

Pretty much. Hammell and Lasley went off because we had to change the shape, not because they were having stinkers. If players were subbed on performance Heneghan and Jules would have been off.

Like I said at half time we started the match the better team and pressed Killie back for the first 15 - 20 minutes. We didn't really have a lot of threat though. When Kilmarnock came forward they looked more dangerous as our two centre halves were getting knocked around every time by Sammon and Boyd. After 20 minutes Kilmarnock came more into the game, they'd already cracked one off the bar before they scored. A very poor goal from our point of view, defenders just weren't physical enough. After the goal Kilmarnock dominated up until half time and probably should have gone in more than 1-0 up. We looked in a sorry state at that point and not much different from against Dundee when the heads went down. The difference though was it was only 1-0 at HT and Kilmarnock didn't take their chances. Second half changes made a big difference. That said you couldn't see us scoring too many from open play (can only really remember one chance when McDonald hit one from 18 yards and the keeper saved it low to his left) but Kilmarnock defended poorly from set pieces and were made to pay for it. As you'd expect in the later stages we got deeper and deeper and Kilmarnock rallied and they had us camped in our own box for most of the last 10-15 minutes. Samson has made a tremendous save from Gary Dicker fired in from 20 yards that looked a goal all the way. Penalty, I couldn't say for sure if it was or wasn't. Looked like the Kilmarnock player went down kinda easy but very difficult to say if there was any contact from the opposite end of the ground. Overall I'd say the performance wasn't any thing radically different from what we've seen this season. We had good spells but didn't ever dominate the match, we looked shaky in defence and lost a soft goal, and when we went 0-1 down our heads went down and we looked to be struggling for confidence. The difference was we had a bit of luck that we've not had recently. Couple off the wood work for Killie that on another day go in, the missed penalty, a couple of scrappy goals where the ball falls for us ping ponging around the box, something that hasn't been happening for us. If Kilmarnock had got a second in the first half which they looked like they were going to get today would probably been a lot different but they didn't and we made some good changes at half time and managed to pull 3 points out it.

Changed to 3-5-2 at half time and looked much better for it. Killie still had us pressed back for spells but we didn't look like we were going to concede every time they swung a ball in. McDonald went back into midfield and fought like a trooper. Though Bowman and Frear made a difference too, Bowman gave us a target man to aim at and Frear gave us something down the left. Two of the crappiest, scrappiest goals you'll ever see but we'll take them! In truth we were lucky to win the match but we got some luck that has been deserting us recently. Hopefully the confidence goes up and we can build on this result.