Scarecrow

I was thinking more about if the Clubs pro-actively used a bit of common sense when it came to travelling fans etc. But yes, Police Scotland would have the final say

SKY will have a big say on whether the game goes ahead or not, if the weather goes downhill. Remember Boxing Day a few years ago when we played Rangers at Fir Park in the middle of the last REALLY cold spell that we had. Burst pipes in the East Stand toilets and all sorts of stuff flowing out of them down the stairs and on to the track. I can remember thinking that day, that the only reason that game went ahead was because SKY were already set up and ready to go. But, to be fair to them SKY paid the (pittance of) money for the rights and could make us play on the moon at 2.30am on a Sunday morning, if they wanted. Just checked there....that game was on 26th December 2010.

Very fine margins in this league. Hibs took their chance and we didn't. Always noticeable that fans seem to default to blaming refereeing performances after a defeat, I agree Madden didn't have a good game today but he wasn't a patch on Finnie during the week at Dens Park and we won that one. Three games in six days was always going to have an effect on the overall squad performance, Hibs had three games in seven days, playing Saturday, Tuesday & Saturday. As I said, fine margins.

He signed for Cork City.

Conversely these teams will licking their lips at the chance of playing against a team who have shed a barrowload of goals this season. Inverness for example have been doing the same to bottom 6 dross as we did to them last season.

Think of Utd fans who booked buses for the Wednesday and were then told 11 days ago that the match had been moved, they had to rearrange their transport to tonight. Then they get hit with this. Another example of clubs taking their fans for granted. No other type of entertainment treats their paying customers as badly as football does.

That was my first thought when the postponement decision was made

Letter by letter that was exactly what I was going to post. Thanks for saving me the effort bud.

Bugger Time for Plan B.......oh hang on!!!

From Utds twitterfeed: Fixture amendments: V Motherwell now Tuesday 27th November at 7.45pm instead of Wednesday 28th.

Its good to know the HCC are still going strong

Tony Parks on SSN......remember him going off like a kep at Fir Park? lol

Latest twitter: This time from Douglas McNeil at BBC Sportsound team Ipswich Town midfielder Ryan Stevenson to sign for Motherwell later today on a permanent deal. 2 or 3 years, still to be ironed out.

Your definition is of failure must have a very low threshold. Riordan is the third highest goalscorer in SPL history !! Plenty of other reasons not to sign him but to say he has failed everywhere he has been is plain wrong !!

I cannot say St Mirren didn't deserve a point today. Gave us a right pounding in second half. As for Hutch, regardless if officials saw anything untoward, he was stupid for starting the finger wagging once he got treatment, think the ref gave him a chance and then he kept at it. Had he kept his frustration in check for a couple of minutes we could have been looking at a different result. The throw-in for prior to the equaliser....WTF was that all about??

The pedantic gene in me wants to disprove that statement on so many levels, but to honest I canny be bothered !!!

You missed out ruling himself out of the return leg when we already have a centre back struggling !! I agree he was amongst the best of a bad bunch, but cannot understand this new concept of being treated as a hero after getting sent off. Never happened back in the day, you got sent off you trudged off you got suspended. This applause thing seems to have crept into the game over the past few years. Cant get my head around it...sorry!

Booing their huddle right after the presentation wasn't the classiest thing our support have ever done!! Oh....and what was the partial standing ovation for Hutch after he got his red card all about?

Remember that quote at the time and thinking that it wasn't the cleverest thing to say based on the fact that he was a Blackburn player and that money talked. He done us a turn and moved on!!

Stevie Hammell already has a Scotland cap !!

Chelsea finished 6th........!!

Lech Poznan have been put out by Solna tonight

Zeta Golubovci 1-0 FK Sarajevo FT (agg 2-2) No effect on us, but the lowest unseeded team in 3rd round just won through on away goals!! Just shows it can be done.

At least 2 seeds Famagusta & Lech Poznan out, so a couple non seeds should move up to the seeded group

Dnipro should move into seeded group. Three and a half day camel hike if we get them!