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It was half a good performance tonight, that half being the half we were on the ball. Keep possession quite well, pinged it about, always looking for a pass. Maybe didn't create a huge amount of chances but I always felt we had a goal in us, especially with Kilmarnock sitting really deep at times in the 2nd half, for me you just can't do that and not concede. The other half wasn't quite so good. Looked defensively frail, especially Grimshaw, and when Kilmarnock had the ball they didn't really look like they had one man less for most of the game. Took a great save from Gillespie in the last few minutes to secure the points and I thought Brophy caused us a lot of problems, if he'd started over Jackson I don't think that would have been to our benefit. Overall though I thought it was a good game and a good performance albeit with a touch of good fortune about it, our first goal looked to me like it should have been a routine save from the keeper and our game management in the closing stages of matches needs some work. Good to see Cole getting some goals now.

I always felt the closest comparisons in Scottish football were guys like Christie in particular and perhaps Rogic. Celtic already have these guys. Having said that perhaps Christie will move on. He's performed really well in Europe this season and that's where the scouts really take note of people.

Personally I'm completely ambivalent about Robinson and I'm not sure why anyone would be against him outside of him being ultimately responsible for results and performances. Also bringing up St. Johnstone is a bit silly. Tommy Wright has a 40% win ratio over 300 matches. He has four Top 6 finishes in 6 seasons, won a Scottish Cup and has had some decent European results. And all at a club with the second lowest average attendance in the league. Robinson hasn't achieved anything like what Tommy Wright has. It's not even close.

Only Celtic have beaten Kilmarnock in the last 8 league matches and excluding the Celtic match, they have only conceded once in that time and that was an OG. We've lost 3 out of 5 home matches so I think we really need to grind something out of this one but looking at it form wise we haven't been able to beat the top 6 teams that we've played - Rangers, Celtic, Ross County, Aberdeen... Although we have been sitting in a higher league position I think that right now we are still struggling a little bit to move out of that 'middle rank' where we usually beat the lower level teams but can't quite match the better teams.

I've been keeping a record of kits worn for a couple of seasons now and there is no consistency whatsoever. Last season we were more likely to wear our change kit against teams in green than red or maroon and changed our away socks and home shorts in an apparently random manner.

Problem is we probably didn't sign this guy for sweeties. I'm guessing as a Danish international that's played at a good level he's probably one of our higher earners. Some times there are unfortunate circumstances and every transfer has a risk element but I can't help feel for a club with not much money we squander rather a lot of it. Over the last five seasons or so player turn over has been huge, and an awful lot of those players have contributed nothing. I don't think our 'bang for buck' has been quite where it should have been over a period of time and it's something we should be looking to improve on.

We should be using last weeks results going into this game. Firstly our performance just wasn't acceptable and everyone needs to find a different level of performance. The fact that we are playing at Ibrox doesn't matter. We need guys to stand up this week. Secondly Hearts showed that Rangers aren't unstoppable and while I didn't see the whole game, only the highlights, surely we should be pouring over it to see what Hearts did to basically stop Rangers dead in their tracks. I also think Rangers result last week can be used against them this week. Rangers will know dropping more points is a big no-no and is potentially nervy for Rangers. If we make it difficult we can use 40,000 Rangers supporters in our favour. Of course we need to keep it locked up to do that and for me we really need to look at the full back positions because the guys that played last week aren't good enough defensively.

To be honest I don't think anyone should be getting picked out this week. We failed as a whole today, right through the starting XI and up to and including the manager. Tough couple of weeks coming up. Everyone will have to step up because today was a no show.

Have said it before but I'd play Cole over Long in this set up. Long is a two up front guy.

Hard to imagine a more comprehensive pumping. Match analysis will be pretty simple. Aberdeen defended better, were better in midfield and more dangerous going forward. Our manager didn't react quickly enough tactically to obvious deficiencies and the first couple of substitutions were pointless. Overall it could and should have been more than 0-3. A total failure from top to bottom.

Would love to win this one but as a long term fan I know that these are exactly the kind of games we get nervous about. I'm assuming Aberdeen will have McKenna and Devlin playing together for the first time in a while so you'd imagine that they will be stronger defensively. Cosgrove isn't much more than a big rough boy hopefully we can match him physically. Shay Logan has usually been a decent player at this level but recently he's been absolutely stinking. Would suggest that might be an area we look at.

The thing with managers in recent day Scottish football is that you don't have to be any good to have 'relative' success. If you have 10 dopes taking a maths exam one of them will still be top of the class. The jump up to English football level is colossal.

Went for Hartley.

See Jason Krones has started the last couple of matches for Albion Rovers.

First half performance was good. St. Mirren had 9 or 10 players behind the ball most of the time but we manage to keep possession, spray some passes around and create a few chances. Great finish from Scott and I thought we missed him when he went off early in the second half. Second half you could see echoes of the Ross County match. Started to look a bit nervous and weren't putting in the defensive work, either preventative or clearing our lines. Too slack and allowed St. Mirren to come back into the match and at a 1-0 the game was still up in the air. Was glad to see Maguire fitted right in. Like Scott I think he's got the potential to be an excellent player for us.

As others have said St Mirren have been pretty stuffy this season. Only conceded more than 1 goal in 2 out of 7 league matches and one of them was late in injury time. Rangers, who put 5 past Aberdeen and 6 past Hibs only managed 1 against St Mirren. Might well be a tight and frustrating match today, maybe it's going to be down to one defensive mistake.

I'd pretty much agree with everything up until your comments on Cole. I thought Cole showed today he links up far better than Long does. He had some really nice touches and lay offs around the 18 - 20 yard area. Having said that Long has a couple of goals without really looking like a player whereas Cole doesn't really look a goal threat. I'd rather play Cole right now, have some joined up play and hope he can contribute goals at some stage. The problem today was we were sloppy in midfield and there were too many over hit forward passes but I thought Cole showed a hint of something.

I thought James Scott was our best attacking option.

I'd agree about the sending off but Robinson says it was never a yellow and to be fair he was a lot closer to it.

Strange game. Almost like a pre-season. Slow, players looked rusty, oh and sunshine. Lots of chances created by both teams but the goalkeepers had very little to do. Before we scored I felt like Ross County created more and better chances, really too many for a visiting side of Ross County's calibre. Well taken move and goal looked like it was going to give us the three points but then we missed a great chance to make it 2-0. Echoes of the Celtic match in that we couldn't hold a lead for very long and crumbled a bit under pressure. We've conceded 10 goals in the last 5 and a lot of them have been really cheap goals.

Need to keep an eye on Ross Stewart today. Seen him a few times over the last year or so and he always impressed me.

I want to formally apologize to everyone as I put Motherwell on my coupon this morning.

Donnelly keeps his run going - 5 league matches, 5 bookings!

Apparently we should have pumped them. Looks like the score flattered Hearts a bit. Anyway. Tee hee at Hearts and Levein. Fucking hate them.

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