Kmcalpin

No point in further speculation. Just wait and see if he plays at Castle Greyskull.

Play him in the right position and he do'll the business. Interested clubs will be well aware of that and the fact he's not match fit.

All speculation. Bigi has already played in the League Cup and don't forget the SFA approved his registration. Time this rumour was quashed.

The winner takes it all.

Great point. In the first half, all too often Moult was outside of the box when the crosses were put in and there was no-one to get on the end of them.

Surely its not beyond the capabilities of a publicly owned organisation as large as the BBC to employ informed and unbiased commentators and pundits.

I hope not. What has become apparent is that we seem to have good cover for central midfield holding players but very very few options for attacking central midfielders.

I wish Richard Gordon and Willie Miller would stop criticising us on BBC Sportsound for not accepting Aberdeen's bid for Moult. This pair of clowns carping on and on is very tiresome. Moulty is under contract to us and if any club won't meet our valuation then we have every right to reject the bid.

If Bigi isn't fit I'd play either MacLean or Gordon alongside McHugh in the middle. Although Campbell might be top of the youth central midfield pecking order, he is more of a defensive player. Plummer is a defender. We need someone with a bit of dig and ability to go forward. Now if McHugh wasn't fit that would be a different matter as Campbell would his natural successor.

Hopefully lessons will have been learned from today's defeat.

Forgot to add - the referee was a D-.

Result was no great surprise and I left the ground thinking we could have done better. In school terms a C+ "Did ok overall but with some significant weaknesses and plenty of room for improvement". Disappointed that Biggy didn't play and he was a huge loss. Surprised that Rose was given the nod and he was totally anonymous. Our tactics in the first 25 minutes were nothing short of shambolic and it would seem that we didn't do our homework on Sevco. Tait was all over the place and badly caught out for speed but he knew that and was none too pleased with Cadden and for lack of support and others for lack of direction. Moult played in every position except goalie and main striker. Tanner tried his best and was passable but again was being asked to play right across the park and as a sole striker at times. Our equaliser settled us and the second half was far better although we were always going to find it difficult to score with such a toothless front line. A poor first half but far better second one. McHugh missed Biggy and had a poor game by his standards. I thought Kipre was excellent and Big Ben wasn't far behind. Dunne too had a reasonable game and although he doesn't have Stevie Hammell's style and panache on the ball he's a more solid defender. I was disappointed that Ross MacLean wasn't asked to fill in for Biggy to give us some dig and attacking ability in the middle but he wasn't even on the bench - perhaps he was injured. Suddenly our midfield options look very limited. We look to be a shade better than last term and the new guys have still to settle in, but we need to improve markedly defensively and in attack. It was ironic that rangers fans were "allowed" to bring in smoke bombs but 70 year old guys had umbrellas confiscated not to be returned (yes, it was wet day). Officialdom gone awry and overboard.

Kipre for me. Heneghan also had a very good game. Cadden had a jekyll and hyde performance - good going forward but poor defensively. Felt sorry for Tanner he was playing all over the place and still put in a decent shift.

So what we're saying is that he looked good and was entertaining but didn't actually do anything?

We've been guilty of this in the past but then again have we had a fitness team?

Hopefully there'll be no Rangers fans in the south end of the POD Stand. Time to move them to the Cooper or East Stand. Agree about our fans buying tickets for them. It does go on unfortunately and anyone found out for doing this should be banned.

Jay - I've 2 suggestions /comments to make, that may be of interest to others. Firstly, the double your money offer by Les. Only 5 months to go now and the clock is running down. The Society has a window of opportunity between now and say late November for fund raising. Many folk have returned from holidays or are about to. From mid/late November onwards many families' attentions will be turning to Christmas and all the expense that brings. We need to pull out all the stops now to raise more cash from members. I know there has been a fair bit of publicity already but lets see more reps in stands or outside the club shop; yet more publicity; even bucket collections. We'll only get one chance and we need to maximise that. Secondly, I know this is about the club but maybe the Society could exert some gentle pressure on the club to update the official website. Its our door to the world and badly needs refurbishment and updating.

I've a lot of time for Michael Higdon, a thinking man's player, but he'd be nowhere near my top post WW2 strikers. Guys like Wilson Humphries, Ian St John, Joe McBride, Dixie Deans and Willie Pettigrew (my personal choice) would rate above him in my opinion. I never saw Wilson Humphries but think we do have to include players we've not watched or the results could be very unfairly skewed depending on the age of the participants. Agree with Fizoxy's comment about handing out hard copies.

I don't think we'll see much of Hammy this season. Given his age and injury record now I suspect he'll make the odd appearance but no more. Hindsight is a great thing but he should never have been awarded a 2 year deal. Like you the only area of the team I'm concerned about is our strikers. We struggled a bit last term at times to link Moult and MacDonald and the same will happen with Moult, if he stays, and Tanner. Neither Fisher nor Bowman have set the heather on fire so far this season.

We'll certainly learn something from the Sunday's game but maybe not as much as many folk think. Our defence may not be at full strength and we'll be short up front. I think what is clear is that we'll go with one out and out striker. A lot of unanswered questions remain from last season and it'll be interesting to get a few answers at least.

Avoid information overload Al, give limited weight to other people's views and come your own conclusions.

Good to read that you're optimistic Luke. However Heneghan may not be fit and Moult is nowhere near 100%. I hope that Plummer is reasonably fit, if he has to slot in.

Yes, Dave I've made the same point. We have, I believe several promising young defenders, but none currently ready for the step up. No young home grown strikers ready either. So, thats 2 critical areas of the team for which we've had to bring in players. Midfield is a bit different.

I don't know Andy. Folk were less than happy with Jim Gannon for hanging a youngster out to dry. It was embarrassing. As for David Ferguson last season that was also very embarrassing and I really felt for him. Robbo did the right thing by taking him off post haste. Some youngsters would just shrug it off but others would really let it get to them and it could damage their careers.

Pretty much agree with that. In principle I too would like to see more home grown Scottish talent coming through our ranks but the reality is a bit more complex. We mustn't forget that Robbo has also been charged with keeping us in the Premiership. If he overplayed his hand by playing too many youngsters and we went down most fans would not be too forgiving. Be in no doubt that if our competitors thought they could steal a march on us by signing up a squad of non Scottish players they'd do so in a minute. Some of our young lads might well go out on loan to toughen them up and give them competitive gametime. However when looking at our Under 20s we have to look, not just how good they are but also what kind of players they are. A simple question to start - should Peter Morrison have been clear second choice for goals? In terms of centre backs and left back, what youngsters could step into the team right now as cover and do a job? Midfield? I would see Alan Campbell as back up to Carl McHugh in terms of position. He's not an attacking midfielder. Should we prefer Ross MacLean and Jake Hastie to Elliot Frear and Craig Tanner (back up maybe)? What young strikers are pushing through just now? These questions may throw up potential shortcomings in our past youth development set up. Its unlikely that our Under 20s will produce 11 great prospects for all positions at once. Historically we've maybe produced a maximum of 3 at any one time eg Hammell, Faddy and Pearson. Recruitment from Scottish lower leagues is difficult and any decent prospects won't come cheap. There are also far fewer clubs and therefore less choice in Scotland's lower leagues as opposed to England's lower leagues.