Ya Bezzer!

Cos I saw him playing for the Under 20s and Hastie and Turnbull were the stand out players in a good team. ANYONE that watches the Under 20s will tell you the same. It's nothing to do with hindsight. These guys have turned the season around, no one was expecting them to do this well and have the level of impact that they have but it remains a mystery as to why the two best youth prospects at the club went into the 2nd half of the season out of contract. And the supporters that booed Hastie today need to take a long hard look at themselves.....especially as probably about half of them are fair weather guys.

I agree to an extent with that. However I think it's maybe time to give James Scott more starts. He does some things well but 3 goals in 35 starts from Main is just not good enough for a forward player.

It's strange but I can't remember us going in at half time with a good lead and coming out 2nd half and really building on that. We nearly always switch off and that's what happened today. It was a bit too easy today and the game was effectively won in the first 15 minutes. Some good individual performances but I didn't think we really linked up as a team today except in a couple of spells, even first half there were a few fallow periods and while we looked comfortable enough there was a lack of impetus but that was probably down to having the points in the bag early in the match. Ariyibi was great in the first half, thought Gorrin had an excellent match and was a bit puzzled why he was the first to come off, Turnbull is just a classy operator. But Main wasn't good enough again and Johnson looked rather rusty, perhaps understandable since he hasn't played since December. Hastie and Turnbull have scored 10 of our last 15 league matches and while it's great they are scoring I think it points to the importance of them in this run. Take them out and maybe we are struggling a bit because the rest of the team and in particular the forwards aren't scoring.

On the Hastie/Rangers thing, I don't have a problem with the player. I have a problem with the manager and the club who have allowed the two top players from a very good youth side to go into the last 6 months of their contracts without getting them tied up. If Hastie had been given a contract a year ago, or 6 months ago, when everyone knew he was one of the two stand out players coming through our system, he'd have probably signed up and that would be that. The way the club has conducted it's self over the last few years with regards to it's youth policy, it's (non existent) long term strategy of promoting youth and for giving youth players a clear path into the first team has been shamefully misguided and shambolic. Robinson's volte-face of recent weeks doesn't cut it. Horrendous mistakes and mismanagement have occurred under his, and his superiors, watch in this regard. Whether Hastie stays or goes some arse's need kicked, a coherent and future proofed youth strategy needs to be put in place and the first team manager should be working under a specific remit to develop youth players within a first team context.

Will be a good test to see how far we have really come. Not putting down the winning run but that's a step up in quality from the likes of Dundee, Livingston and St. Mirren and you'd expect Hibs and Accies to be better than the last time we played them.

Main contenders would have been Gillespie who made a couple of good saves, Aldred who's been a rock recently in defence and Gorrin. I'm giving it to Gorrin though.

Difficult conditions with the weather and the pitch but I thought Kilmarnock were the better team marginally in the first half and were much the better team in the second. If anyone was going to score it looked like them especially as they strengthened by bring on Jones and Brophy as subs. Main had a very poor match today and we rarely threatened outside of the occasional cross or set piece. On the other hand I thought Gorrin was excellent today and as far as I am aware didn't get booked for once! Overall a decent point away at a difficult venue.

Difficult conditions for the players. Not been a final touch in the 45 minutes.

Saturday would make sense to replay it, but I guess there's considerations like Stewarding, Catering, Match Officials etc all unplanned and at short notice. Apparently Kilmarnock are away to Tenerife at the weekend so that's not going to happen.

Visibility is probably 35-40 yards.

Fog now so bad you can't even see the half way line.

European Championship Finals....just cos I wanted to know. Bruno Alves (winner with Portugal but didn't play in final) Giourkas Seitaridis (winner with Greece, played in final, was unused sub for Panathinaikos at Fir Park) Kostas Katsouranis (as above). Thiago Motta (runner up, played in final. Played at Fir Park for Italy U21s) Andreas Thom (runner up, played in final. Played at Fir Park for Celtic) Aleksei Mikhailichenko (runner up, played in final for Soviet Union. Played at Fir Park for Rangers. Sorry for the Russian spelling Ukrainian nationalists!) Sergei Baltacha (as above, only played for St. Johnstone) Riccardo Montolivio (runner up, played in final. Was unused sub in Scotland v Italy U21 at Fir Park)

The 'Big Three' East Germans that switched over to the Germany team were Mattias Sammer, Andreas Thom (played at Celtic of course) and Ulf Kirsten.

Cannigia wasn't in the 1986 squad. He was in the 1990 squad but didn't play in the final.

In my time the world cup winners that have played at Fir Park are... Stefan Reuter (actually played in the final) Karl Heinz Riedle (squad player) Andreas Moller (squad player) Stephane Guivarch (actually played in final, I know!) Lionel Charbonnier (squad player) Gennaro Gattuso (actually played in final) Giovanni von Bronckhorst played in a world cup final but obviously lost. So did Edson Braafheid who had a short spell at Celtic but although he played against Motherwell at Celtic Park, he never played at Fir Park.

In 30 years times my AS Nancy thunder sticks, unopened in bag, will be worth a fortune.

Kilmarnock are on a bad run but I think if you actually look at the results it's not that bad. Draws against Aberdeen and Dundee, one goal defeats to Celtic and Hearts. The away defeat to Livingston can happen to any one on that surface. One thing about Kilmarnock is that they don't keep a lot of clean sheets so you always have a chance against them, especially when they haven't been scoring as often since Greg Stewart moved on. Also they aren't used to runs like these where they aren't winning and they might feel a bit under pressure. They rested a lot of players on Saturday so I'd expect to see a more familiar Kilmarnock side with the likes of Taylor, Dicker, Power in it. If we turn up, I think we can get something out of this.

Let's be honest, James Scott shouldn't have done what he did and our reaction would have been similar if the roles had been reversed but at the same time the whole incident has been blown up and Rodgers comments after the match are ridiculous and show off his clubs sense of superiority and entitlement. Rodgers comments about the how the goal shouldn't have been allowed and that we should have let them score are there purely to create a reaction. James Scott is a rookie player making his first start in a match and has probably got a bit excited. Rodgers is an old pro who knows exactly what he's doing. So who's the cynic? As has been said I don't remember Celtic letting us score after dodgy penalties or letting us bring on an extra player after red cards for nothing. The whole thing has the same kind of stink around it as the whole 'guard of honour' thing. When Celtic are involved there are obligations that don't really exist.

I don't watch Celtic TV but I'm happy to have a total bellend wankpiece who is one of the best players this club has ever produced and who can lead us to a major honour.

Turnbull and Hastie should have been signed up ages ago. They were the best players in a very good U20s team and for both of them to go into the last 6 months of their contracts without a renewal shows you how little interest we had in developing youth to first team level until very recently. I honestly believe both these players could have been heading out the club under slightly different circumstances at the end of the season (either being released or snapped up) and it's only the huge impact both these players have had, Turnbull, is the single individual most responsible for turning our season around almost 180 degrees, that has seen these players re-evaluated. Our attitude has been entirely reactive when we should have an inside scoop on how good these players are and prioritized keeping a hold of them. I mean, I knew Turnbull was a fantastic footballer last season watching half a dozen U20s matches and not that I'm claiming any special abilities. Some things are obvious and yet seemed to remain unnoticed. Of course now we are offering deals to other younger players, and I genuinely believe a number of other players from Craigan's Babes, can step up to first team level but this whole situation could have and should have been avoided. Hopefully we have seen the error of our ways and are taking a much more progressive path.

We have a midweek game away to Kilmarnock so I'm wondering if we will 'rest' players like we did the last time at Celtic Park. Celtic's domestic home record is formidable. They have won every league home match this season with 37 goals scored and 4 conceded. They have scored in every league match at Celtic Park and kept 10 clean sheets from 13 matches. In the last 75 home league matches they have won 60 and lost only twice. Once to us under McGhee and a meaningless last day of the season encounter with Aberdeen. Interestingly despite the claims of a dodgy defence they have only conceded 6 league goals at home in the last 24 matches. Just out of interest our line up for 19th Dec 2015 win was - Ripley; McManus, Hall, Hammell, Grimshaw, Lasley, Law, Pearson, Johnson, Moult, McDonald.

You keep it going. If a player is tired you sub him.

I thought we looked a wee bit tired as the game went on. Hearts are a physical team and you get the feeling they just grind teams down with their physicality but I also felt that the fact that we didn't have a competitive match last week showed today. We didn't look at peak fitness today. Quite a few players dipped around the 60 - 70 mark.

I feel ya. Used to come up from Brighton on the bus to go to home games. Wouldn't do it now mind!

Tough one. Gillespie was excellent, Campbell was great, especially first half, Hastie scored a beauty, Turnbull just oozes class, Grimshaw was decent but I think I have to go for Aldred.