Kmcalpin

If they don't go up their fans are more likely to say that they should have forked out more for a better player.

Their fans won't be concerned about that. Simply not an issue.

Sorry to report that Ian Thomson passed away earlier this month. He was part of the first Well team I remember watching. RIP Ian.

Great to wake up this morning after a win. Hopefully we've turned the corner. Don't quite get the criticism of Gallagher. Yes, he could have handled Hylton better, as could Mugabi, but it was hardly a blunder. Kelly ought to have done better and Olly Shaw was all on his own for the tap in - where was Jake Carroll? Campbell was lax in losing the ball at the outset. No one player's fault but a combination of poor defending. Having said that Hylton won the ball and sped goalwards in a way that Willie P and King Louis would have been proud of - so credit to him. Is Allan Campbell burnt out - maybe, but there could be other reasons. To turn to the positives we did fight back from a goal down and the first goal was well worked from O'Donnell, through Long to Watt and Cole. For the second Mugabi times his run excellently and leapt like a sailfish to head home. Maguire had a decent game and I'd rather see him in the starting 11 before Crawford, on current form. Cole is hitting the net just now and long may that continue. Watt is putting in apower of work and thats telling. Thankfully we're not playing on Saturday as I suspect the treatment table will be busy after last night. When the chips are down, County can be quite ruthless and brutal as their recent crime counts show. Good to see John Hughes is bringing silky football to Easter Ross! GA's post match interview hints that more signings could be made in the next few days as money is available. A slight change from his earlier comments about not rushing and giving all players, including Jordan White no doubt, their chance.

Ross County also interested in Foley. They seem to be signing everyone in sight just now - not for the first time. I suspect that we've paid up part of White's contract if he's only signed with County until the end of the season. Still, good bit of business for us getting a player off the books who didn't fit in, and gives him a fresh start.

But when? Will we see much of him this season? We still need 2 or 3 bodies in but that depends on shifting some out. The next 5 days will be massive for us.

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.