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Fair does, but the ball just tends to come straight back in causing the defence to work harder whereas if we leave someone up to hassle the opposition players, especially someone fast like O'Brien or Clarkson who can close down the defenders quickly, it slows down the return ball and lets us reorganise. It also forces them to leave more defenders back reducing the number of targets that the dead ball taker has. It isn't just McGee who has used this tactic, Malpas and Butcher regularly did this as well.

Why do I hate Hearts? John Robertson, Craig Levein, Dave McPherson, Wayne Foster, Walter Kidd, the list is endless. FHW

Not the greatest performance I have seen, but a much more comfortable result than the scoreline suggests. I just wish we would shoot on site occasionally. One thing that does annoy me (other than referees of that standard) is our insistence on pulling everyone back for free kicks and corners, fair enough if it is the last 5 minutes and we are hanging on but it was just about every time last night.

Should this not be in the "Drunkest watching the 'Well" thread? Oh aye, and for someone with a Higher English your spelling is terrible.

18th May 1991, no question. At the age of 28 and after 23 years of glorious failure, not so glorious failure and on more than one occasion being cheated by the officials out of at least getting to a final (thank you messers Kyle and Thompson in particular) I had finally witnessed my dream. I remember my wife saying before the game she would cry if we lost, my reply was "I won't, but I will if we win" That day will live with me forever.

I don't think you can draw a parallel between wages and club size in this instance. There was a story in one of the broad sheets a couple of months ago (The Scotsman I think) which compared wages as a percentage of the clubs income ours was a sensible 45% (ish) The jambos was something like 130% a completely ridiculous and unsustainable situation and just one of the reasons that they are paddle less and up the proverbial brown coloured creek.

Done. Good luck with the project.

Joe Wark and Willie P. Dead heat.

Yes, but that was not the calculation which was being done in the thread earlier, it was the games per goal ratio which was being quoted. i.e one goal every so many games. I was merely supplying the mathematical equation for that calculation.

You divide the number of games played by the number of goals scored. E.G. For Ian St. John; 113 divided by 80 equals 1.412

Bah! Humbug!