Ya Bezzer!

You can't go into a season with these youth players like Watt in starting berths. They have to fight for, win and then keep their place in the team. What I disagree with is not giving them a chance when form or opportunities demand but I don't think we can afford to just say to a prospect - here's a berth in the team it's yours, let's see how you do for the next two years. Given a fair crack at the whip, the good prospect will break through. It's easier to do on paper than in reality but we should have a hierarchy of players in each position going down the ranks. If one player is injured or out of form, the next guy steps up. However I think we need the first XI to be mostly experienced players or guys that have previously broken through and won their position.

I'm certainly no Baraclough fan boy, I think he has made a lot of mistakes but I think you are wrong that he has taken us to new lows. I think he needs to improve to dramatically but we have been better in the second half of the season than the first. The performances under McCall were truly woeful. We have been better under Baraclough, even if we haven't been good enough overall. Also we don't play a McCall style 4-4-2. Baraclough has improved us formation wise and 'modernised' us by playing quite a flexible 4-2-3-1 base. We can play it as a 4-4-1-1 or a 4-4-2 or a 4-2-3-1 and switch about as the match demands it. That's how we should be playing and how most of the rest of the league plays.

Law isn't good enough if we want to be competing in the Premiership or at the top end of the Championship. It's that simple. Giving him a 2 year deal is pretty worrying.

True but so is this. We have won 1 of the last 6, all against bottom 6 clubs in a relegation battle. Baraclough needs to get us through this play off to win over any waverers.

They should have to go to the match on supporters buses. Guarantee you we'd get better results away from home!

You'll have Falkirk, QoS, St. Mirren, Hibs and Motherwell or Rangers just for a start. So 50% good enough for the Premiership. Then you have clubs a little bit below that like Raith Rovers, maybe Morton and Livingston ended the season strongly. Only really lower level clubs will be Dumbarton (minus Murray) and Alloa.

Not much difference between most of the top level and most of the level below it.

Piteous dregs of society IMO.

All due respect but you sound like one of those blathering idiots in films that the hero grabs and slaps around the chops to knock them out of their hysteria. This is a 50/50 match. We might lose but we might win. It's there for us if we approach it properly and ditch all the Private Frazer stuff. Imagine what a boast it would be if we could get a couple of supports out for these matches that actually got behind the team and backed it for 90 minutes instead of grumbling, sitting silently, howling abuse at their own players etc, etc. It's two games. Give yourself an optimism injection.

I like to watch the players training especially shooting practice and Moore strikes the ball quite well and has one of the more accurate shots in the squad. After Ainsworth, Sutton and McDonald, he seems to hit the target more than most but I've not really been impressed with his play whenever I've seen him.

Those four matches you have mentioned were very much the highlights in a full match season. We had an 11 and then a 9 winless streak that season. That's two winless streaks worse than our worst run this season which is 8.

Have you been following Joe Hart's career at all?

I think Ruddy wasn't especially good in his second loan spell, as good as he was in the first. For me, he dipped quite a wee bit in the second half of the season. Randolph was also here for 3 years whereas Ruddy was only here for 1. Randolph's level of performance and the consistency of performance over that length of time I think puts him ahead of anyone else in my time.

I've been saying it since about October. If we escape relegation this season it's been a success. If it goes to the last minute of a two legged play off, so be it. As for this guilty chat, a lot of the players in that squad this season have contributed significantly to almost a decade of unparalleled league finishes. This season has been very poor but the key part of that phrase is "this season". Fans need longer memories before they start going around looking to scapegoat players, especially guys that have done a lot for this club down the years.

Twardzik.

Dead rubber match that was totally insignificant and it showed. Does Moore offer anything more than McHugh? Clean through twice today and didn't have the pace to even make it to the 18 yard line. Agree Watt showed a little something. When these guys get a starting chance they have to stand out a bit and Watt did that. Twardzik showed he's better than Long though. Should start next week but probably won't.

Rangers are stinking. Hibs are stinking. If we get relegated this season Baraclough needs to be fired.....out a catapult.

In my opinion we don't want to lose our good record at home. Need to keep the impetus up and not have players going down a gear. We shouldn't need to rest players with the format of the play offs. Our biggest worry about putting out more or less a first team is player discipline which has been absolutely shocking and something that has to be addressed big time.

According to BBC he is "now expected to join a Premier League side". Best goalkeeper we've had in all the time I've been watching us. Randolph would have won us about 10-15 pts at least on his own this season!

To be fair though Willie Collum has not had a match yet in the play offs!

Except they have been playing Alloa, Cowdenbeath, Livingston, Dumbarton, Raith Rovers....

The ironic thing is if our squad really didn't give a fuck we'd have probably been a lot better this season.

Rangers have kept 5 clean sheets in their last 19 matches. You WILL be jumping out your seat a couple of times at the very least.

We shouldn't go to Ibrox and sit back. We can't defend. But neither can Rangers. Vuckic is involved in about 90% of Rangers good play, eliminate him and we have a pretty good chance of getting at least a draw. Usually Erwin plays up front with McDonald playing in the hole. Think we just need take the McDonald role and reassign that role to man mark Vuckic. Perhaps Carswell could come in for that role. Keep the two wide players.

The key will be getting a result away from home. If we can get it back to Fir Park we have a very good chance. Rangers are highly dependent of Vuckic. They aren't even a great team with him but without him they are a pretty poor outfit.