Kmcalpin

Great win tonight and the players did show some bottle. Got a few monkeys off our back as well. That should boost our confidence. As County picked up 5 yellow cards they must have taken big John's team talk to heart. Talking of St Mirren they scored from 2 very controversial penalties tonight. As our luck has been out their's has been very much in.

We would have been aware of this possibility for some months now and so I hope we would have contingency plans in place. O'Donnell hasn't set the heather on fire.

I agree up to a point but what about Steven Lawless? Maybe being too ambitious but I'd like to see another winger coming in with either Hastie or Seedorf moving on.

No word yet on Polworth's appeal? According to Tony Watt he said "F****n hell" to Lewis Ferguson".

No it wouldn't. I'm being very greedy, I know, but I don't just want us to beat them, I want us to be utterly ruthless and rub their noses in the mud and scud them. Taking a leaf out of their book from February 2015 to a degree, we should play the long game and hurt them psychologically for the next few games. That game will live long in my memory, for the way they treated us. I have no doubt that they'll be utterly ruthless again under John Hughes - they'll be under instructions to give us a physical battering. All that said I'd accept a narrow 1-0 win.

A very important game granted and, one we don't want to lose but it won't be season defining. What could be season defining is our transfer dealings in the next few days.

RIP Shuggie. A big honest laddie. After he retired from football, he ran the Poolewe Hotel in Wester Ross, as a few of you will know. A decent guy.

I learnt from bitter experience many years ago that you should never expect a competent performance from a referee, for many reasons which we all know. We cannot control the officials but we can control our own performances. My late dad once spoke to Bobby Ancell who told him that the team should take the field assuming that they were 1-0 down, and play accordingly. Sound advice. Ideally I'd drum into our lads for Wednesday night that Ross County will be wrongly awarded a 1st minute penalty from which they'll score..........but then again our current team may just react the wrong way to that.

This issue was mentioned on P & B, a variable site in the extreme. We pretty much knew last summer that David Turnbull would leave, so that only left Polworth as his sole successor in the midfield creative role, unless you include Jamie Semple, who was punted out on loan. What if Polworth was injured? What if he lost form......? Again a failure of recruitment last summer.

I don't think its any exaggeration to say that the rest of our season will depend on who we bring in in the next week or so. We'll also have to jettison some deadwood.

Depends who the referee is. Different refs have different tolerance levels. I can recall Chris McCart being sent off at Starks Park in 91 for using a single swear word. I also recall a referee at Glebe Park use foul and abusive language for the entire 90 minutes.

GA saying we may appeal depending whats in the ref's report. He says Polworth did swear but at the Aberdeen player not the ref. Does that make any difference?

That assumes O'Hara recovers from injury. Grimshaw may have recovered from illness but that's not a given. Like it or not Hastie could be an option. Hopefully OTF is right about Lawless. He's usually on the money.

Its understandable that players like Polworth and Seedorf are coming in for some stick, but its time that others like Gallagher, Campbell and O'Donnell stood up to be counted. If they don't want to be here or have had their head turned...................

I didn't think we'd get a point from either game, so we're a point better off than I'd anticipated. Some more winnable games coming up but I'll be happy with a point at Dingwall; three would be better of course.

I think you're being overly hard on us. We are now debt free and that didn't come about by sheer luck. Our business model is to develop our own talent to sell on and showcase under achieving talent from lower leagues down south. That, fan ownership and prudent management has largely got us to where we are off the field.

Of course, then its the only penalty I can recall being awarded there in many many years

Today was always going to be a very difficult game and a 2-0 reverse should not have been unexpected. Still we gained 3 goals on Ross County, who took a thumping. Knowing our luck just now it was maybe too much to expect avoiding a red card. On this season's evidence, Polworth will not be much of a loss this week. Going back decades I can't ever recall us getting any penalties at Pittodrie, so today's decision is entirely in keeping with that. All in all an excellent game for the management team to watch and it will have given them food for thought before the transfer window closes. I reckoned before today's game that we still needed 3 players: a central defender, central midfielder and a winger and nothing that took place during the 90 minutes made me change my mind.

Long, O'Hara and Grimshaw will still be missing, but Hastie and Smith will presumably be added to the squad.

Pretty much agree with that. If something doesn't work and you continue doing it, why would you expect a different outcome? Smith would appear to offer us something different up front, but its essential he and the other strikers receive decent service both in the form of crosses and pacy support. With the exception of the out of favour Jordan White, the other strikers all need to feed off a main striker. Although slightly different in style, they are fairly similar in many respects.

That was part of the explanation Andy. Yes, a club has to have enough players to remain competitive. The other factor was that we released say 8 players earning £2k per week and signed 7 players earning say £1k per week saving £9k per week (I can't recall the exact figures).

I assume we're talking about Killie applying for the Holyrood Government emergency loan and then saying that they're making cash available to bring in another player? I agree with Stu92 in being puzzled as to how clubs can fork out such large sums on players when they can't afford it. Their fans and shareholders should be rigorously holding them to account about this, especially those of Dundee and their neighbours, given what they've been through. With the exception of Ross County all this money will have to be paid back, however its dressed up.

He will. He will have the final say (unless detailed contract discussions go badly wrong). He will tell the scouts the positions he wants to fill and the type of player he wants to fill them.

I think it was either St Johnstone or Aberdeen who mentioned this. I've no idea whatsoever whether the policy will pay out a very modest sum or a substantial amount.

I notice, from the accounts, that that the club had its claim under its Business Interruption Insurance policy accepted. Apart from the obvious title I don't know much about this provision. Other club have alsoclaimed under this provision I believe.