Ya Bezzer!

Needs a big performance against Aberdeen to get the taste of that defeat out of my mouth. The fixture list goes thus.... Aberdeen (H) Livingston (A) Celtic (H) Hearts (A) St. Johnstone (A) Celtic (A) If we can't get points out of the next two I don't see us getting any out of the next four.

I was there today and I've no idea if it was a penalty or a deliberate hand ball but it doesn't matter. McHugh is rash time and time again and it was almost inevitable that he was going to get sent off as soon as he got the yellow. The guy is an absolute clown. The manager should have hooked him as soon as the card came out and should do the same if he ever plays and gets booked again. I genuinely hope he never plays again though. We were rotten in the match, gave away a terrible goal with 11 men on the pitch after only a few minutes and hardly strung two balls together all match. The one good move we had resulted in an equalizer despite us being pretty poor. This Rangers team was not a great team. At 11 v 11 we could have come out much better composed, instead we were a shambles. At 2-1 down we should have kept it tight and hit them on the break - we did neither - and gave away another terrible goal, a free header for the shortest player in the box soon after. We got pumped today because we were rotten. We've been rotten for over a year now but today was perhaps the nadir of a sustained period of dreck. Meanwhile Livingston get a clean sheet and a point against Celtic, St. Johnstone break the clean sheet record and Kilmarnock become the first team to win at Tynecastle in donkeys ages. Don't talk to me about budget. Robinson's legacy will be the non league clogger football he leaves behind him when he clears his desk.

As I've been saying for some time it's not budget, it's lack of ability and a defeatist attitude. We've got two players who are comfortable with the ball being played to them and one is a 19 year old rookie. Our manager is happy to do enough to stay up and nothing more. Maybe we can now drop this pish about Robinson not giving the Old Firm respect. Never beat either of them in a league match when both teams have been historically mediocre. Imagine that lot had been up against Larsson or Gascoigne.

Might as well stay and see our record defeat.

Absolutely cunted off a slighly above average team. Not sure why I'm still here. Now 7.

Should never play for the club again. As soon as he was booked you knew he was getting sent off. Seriously get him to fuck.

Our 3-3 draw was the only time Rangers have conceded more than one goal in a league game. On the other hand Rangers have only kept 3 clean sheets and they were against Dundee and St. Mirren - who can't score against anyone. So we might score once today but Rangers will likely outscore us. They aren't a great team, neither are Hearts, but like Hearts they have made their home ground a bit of a fortress. I think it will be tough for us today.

Rangers are 31-6 up this season at Ibrox with no defeats and that's including European matches against clubs that would pump us no problem. I'm going but I'm steeling myself. Rangers usually go 4-1-4-1 at home so I'd be surprised if we don't have 5 in midfield. Might be an idea to simply match Rangers formation rather than go with a more traditional 4-4-2.

For me Carson has been no where near this form from last season so I don't see him generating any more interest than he did during the summer.

To be fair he's already scored four times as many goals as Wes Fletcher.

We'd conceded in every league match up until the last two matches. And the Dundee match was won by 1 goal, ie, if we had conceded in that match we wouldn't have won it. Given that our strikers have a poor goal return and in general we don't have a lot of goals around the side we don't need to be shipping goals to drop into terrible form. Right now we are failing to score in about 50% of our league matches so keeping clean sheets is crucial to picking up points. It's how we stayed safe last season despite being pretty awful to watch. I'd prefer a different kind of football but right now we don't have the personnel to outscore teams.

Just shows you how far down the list of priorities youth development has been under Robinson. Hopefully the past week will open some eyes at Motherwell. Big changes are needed and if Robinson doesn't implement them, two wins against dross are only going to be a postponement to his problems.

The matchwinner - Turnbull.

Better performance and much better brand of football albeit with the caveat that we were playing a team rock bottom of the league. Once again Turnbull has made the difference and only adds more evidence to my theory that we can produce better players than we can bring in. Superb strike for the goal. There are still some glaring problems though- our strikers just aren't good enough and we still lack width, especially on the left hand side. For me these two games were must wins, now it remains to be seen if we can take points off teams outside the bottom two. Hopefully we can build from here and we don't revert to hoofball when we are being pressed harder and have less possession against better quality teams.

After a strong start felt it went a bit flat. Dundee hitting the bar seemed to affect our confidence and we've not been quite the same since. Probably the better team but Dundee looked like they had a decent penalty shout. We've not been convincing defensively.

Dundee have conceded two or more goals in 8 out of 11 matches this season, and more than two goals in 6 out of 11 matches. We will surely score. The concern then is at the other end. Dundee have scored in 2 of their last 7 matches, or 3 in their last 10 and have scored more than once only once this league term. So just put Motherwell on my accumulator....

For me it was between Turnbull and Bigi. Cadden was better tonight but still too many wayward final balls from him, even if attitude wise, he looked up for it. My vote goes to Turnbull.

It's definitely a trend. Been like that pretty much all of this season and to an extent last season as well. And it seems to be escalating. The club and police need to step on it now before it gets out of hand but most likely they won't. Foresight isn't in great abundance these days. At least the daftie that ran on the pitch gave us a laugh when he fell on his arse!

Comfortable win against very limited opposition. As I said at half time if you are a St. Mirren supporter it could be a long time before you see your team score. They had absolutely no threat whatsoever, their delivery into the box was atrocious and there was no link up play middle to front. We played better but caution should be advised. We need to be able to beat teams outside the bottom three before anyone gets carried away. Turnbull though has stepped up no problem at all. Way more accomplished with a football at his feet than almost anyone else in the team. More of our youth players need to be introduced and although I don't want to complain too much after a long awaited victory, we were 2-0 up away from home, very comfortable in the match and we bring on Campbell after 72 minutes to no real purpose and then bring on Maguire in the 89th minute. These are the matches when you can bring younger players on from the bench and give them some real game time and I still feel like Robinson just doesn't get it. Given Dundee's form we should be looking to follow tonight up with another win. That's bare minimum. Then we can see if we can actually perform against teams that don't lose against, literally, everyone.

St. Mirren look like they could play for the rest of the season and not score.

Only in Scotland could you harm a players development by not playing them.

There is no way Robinson is going to change his formation tonight. You think he's played time after time after time with 3-5-2 and then he gets to a game that, even in our abysmal form are probably still favourites to win, and decides to change it? Tonight is his chance to prove the tactics and formation work enough to put a win on the board. Of course it's a big gamble for him but it would be a bigger gamble for him to change it. If we played a different formation and different players tonight and lost he'd have no where to go. For St. Mirren and Dundee he'll stand by the formation and players that got him here. These two matches are a last stand for everything the manager has believed in.

But it's a complete misnomer to say that because a player didn't make after being misdeveloped and released during the most crucial period of their careers that they wouldn't have made it if they had been given better exposure to first team football. We have had good players leave this club aged 21 or 22 with less than half a dozen first team starts. The way our youth development links up with the first team stinks and the way most youth development systems link up with first teams stinks right across the country. Out of 22 players we've used in league matches this season only 6 of them are Scottish and only 3 of them were developed by the club. Dundee have used 24 players, only 7 of them are Scottish and only 3 of them were developed by the club. The pattern is repeated across the rest of the league. St. Mirren 24 players, 13 Scots. Hamilton 26 players, 10 Scots. The Hearts v Celtic league cup semi final had 6 Scots in the starting 22 players. If you include the Aberdeen v Rangers semi final it was 15 players out of 44. The league is filled with imported dross while youth players get released left, right and centre. Youth development in this country is atrocious and it's the single biggest reason for the catastrophic decline of quality in the league and our European and International failures. Things HAVE to change.

They signed Jake Mulraney from Inverness so anything is possible.

St. Mirren have scored 2 goals in their last 9 matches and taken 1 point from the last 27. But if you think that form makes us look good remember they can leapfrog us if they win on Wednesday. If we can't beat this mob it's the end for Robinson. Perhaps not on the night but it would take an almost impossible upswing in form to save his job in the short to medium term. Our November/December fixtures look like a death spiral.