Ya Bezzer!

First half was a bit cagey but I thought we looked more dangerous and as it turned out we got the goal. Ainsworth! Scored the hard chance and missed a sitter! Second half we did really well. Cadden did superb to create the goal and then we were well on top until we conceded a poor goal when we switched off, may we felt a bit too comfortable. Lots of good performances through the team, overall a positive start to the league season

Kilmarnock will be dangerous if we allow them to get balls into forward areas - they can put out a front three of Magennis, Coulibaly and Kiltie. Magennis has physical presence, Coulibaly looks like a goalscorer and Kiltie has pace, quite a good combination if you used them correctly. Otherwise they look quite inexperienced in midfield and defence - something we should be looking to exploit. If we can get the first goal, I'd expect the atmosphere (if there is any!) to turn against them.

You've hit upon the very reason I don't like it. We've taken one of the three major honours in this country and turned it into "pre season". As for the Irn Bru Cup, what is good for the U20s isn't necessarily good for the senior clubs. Any senior competition is devalued by bringing in 'colt' teams and bringing in teams from Wales and Northern Ireland smacks of novelty for the sake of it and is potentially disastrous for the competition. What if the final is Celtic U20s vs Afan Lido? The core concept of the cup is "a chance for lower league clubs to win a cup". That's what it should be about not U20s (who have their own cup) and Welsh and Irish teams. Celtic U20s are better funded than almost every team in the bottom 2 divisions and perhaps even some in the Championship, Dumbarton for instance.

I remember Jimmy Boyle scoring in the 120th minute to put us out the League Cup at Fir Park in about 93/94ish. Definitely felt like we'd lost a derby in the last minute of injury time! And if I remember correctly Airdries last ever top tier match was a beating off Motherwell when Ally Graham scored what I think where his only goals for Motherwell.

Clyde put out a supporters XI by the looks of it. David Marsh and Jamie Watson are about the only names I recognize.

Celtic U20s gonna win the cup, romping it against Annan. Motherwell, Aberdeen, Dundee and St. Johnstone U20's all beating senior teams at the moment.

Kilmarnock seem to be in disarray. Rumours about Clark leaving, apparently some senior players frozen out, Josh Magennis looking like heading for the exit, dismal performances in the League Cup (Morton absolutely bossed them at Rugby Park and their performance against Albion Rovers was described as "pathetic".) Clark clearly doesn't even know what his best team is and a lot of the guys he's brought in have virtually no first team experience. We should be going down there to pump this mob at the weekend. Simple as that. Having said that I'd still take a Moult-steals-it-in-the-86th-minute repeat of last season!

What if we have one offer at 450k? Or 450k is the best offer? You can't just make other teams pay what you want or some inflated fee. It's Marvin Johnson we are talking about, not Paul Pogba. I don't think Johnson's market worth is anything like what some people in this thread do, but as someone else said we shouldn't even be considering selling him at this point. Sit him down and tell him we won't accept any offers for him in this window but he can earn himself a transfer in January. If he gets better and adds to his market worth everyone wins. What did we get him for? £50,000? It's not a big gamble.

He played in 1 match out of the 3 while he's been there. Assume he's got a wee niggly injury or they wanted to try out other players.

If you were buying a wide left player from this league I think most would take Greg Stewart over Johnson. Stewart is also in the last year of his contract. Of course both might go.

Raith are out but I think Dunfermline can qualify on 8 points - they have a better GD than East Fife or Raith.

Good to get all our front 4 in among the goals.

3-0.

2-0. Looks good now.

Put your calculators away 1-0 'Well!

I don't know what we do but in my opinion player wages budget should be set annual and not gone over regardless of income to the club. To me that is the whole point of a budget. I also think we should also set aside some money to pay transfers say £100,000 but which is not used for wages or any other kind of expense. Could be the difference between getting a player with sell on value or not as the free transfer market is a difficult market with lots of competition. If we do get money for Johnson we need to invest that money wisely and not spunk it away in wages.

Have to say I never heard any booing at full time either but I am going a bit cornbeef in the left lug hole!

All the players could improve on tonights performance but I'd give it to Johnson even though he flirted in and out of the game tonight. Got the crucial goal and it was a very good finish on a night when the final touch was lacking most of the time. He also looked the player most likely to unlock E. Stirlingshire in a general sense over the course of the game. Anyway Johnson for me.

First half, after a promising start, was very poor. We just looked sluggish and had no sharpness. No one getting into dangerous areas or making any runs into the box and far too many sideways or backwards passes. First touch was uniformly terrible. Second half we improved a bit and got the pace of the game up and the goals came. Johnson's goal was really good. McDonald passed to Cadden when he should have just hit it in and Clay missed a sitter so if you just add those on to the three we got it should have been 5-0 and there were more chances besides. Overall all, a flat game played in front of a small crowd and flat atmosphere. It's also clear we are set up to counter attack and if we are playing teams who are going to sit in we need to alter the team shape and tactics a bit from our standard shape.

Kennedy uses his physicality much better than Laing. Kennedy needs to improve the non physical side of the game and he's no technician but at least has has a basic to build upon. If I wanted someone to run out from the back with the ball at his feet I'd pick Laing but that's not primarily what defending is about and we need to get the basics right first before we start adding more levels. Laing just doesn't look the part to me and the whole thing about him coming out and saying he was ready to quit the game, well that doesn't make him sound like someone that is mentally strong enough or someone who's heart is in it.

And one was their traditional penalty.

I have absolutely no knowledge whatsoever whether McFadden is suited to this role or not. I imagine McGhee will have been much better informed and he's made the decision in favour of McFadden. Therefore this is one of those occasions where I put all my trust in the manager to make the best decision. Good luck in your new role Faddy!

Johnson's goal was either a great goal or a terrible cross, not sure which! And Louis scored a great header with his shoulder there. Looked like a bad plastic surface similar to Douglas Park.

Always felt Vigurs was a player. As it turned out he has an almost identical record to Stephen Pearson last season in terms of goals and appearances.

I think the tactics for Tuesday should be "score a bucket load". Guess Moult's operation goes back a week then.