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It's only Groningenboy that is saying that.

I wouldn't normally consider a half time substitute, but Paton gets my vote, he added a different component in the middle of the park with his energy and willingness to carry the ball forward. Casey ran him a close second, partly for giving it tight to Armstrong when he equalised. McGinn & Slattery played well too and a decent debut from Spencer.

I read about this incident recently, quite shocking. I'll certainly join in the applause.

My exact words as we left after the game today. As for the game, considering we had three starters, and two subs, who weren't at the club last season, add in that Bevis, O'Donnell & Miller were nowhere near our starting XI, we are very much a work in progress still. All that considered, I was more than happy with the 90 minutes I watched today. Our back three plus Kelly were mostly untroubled and Bevis won just about everything in the air (which was all Hibs offered). The mid-field three were all good, although Miller will need a rest soon to let the bruising heal, especially if the referees are going to continue offering no protection. The wing backs did ok defensively but Souare, in particularly, seemed to lack a bit of confidence a couple of times when we broke forward, he continually looked backwards for someone else to take responsibility. The front two were ok (but no more than that), Biereth changed the game with his energy, he had no right to win the ball in the first place for the opener and then fooled Stevenson by refusing to fall down when he fouled him. He showed great strength and composure for his goal too. So far, so good. As for Hibs...................

Mika would be the obvious choice because of his impact but I thought our central three were all very good today. I went with Spittal, his work rate on and off the ball is very important to our system.

So the Boys in Blue, were FU@k3d 5-2? That has a nice ring to it.

I think we will finish somewhere between 6th and 10th. We'll go far enough in one cup to get us starting to dream. In other news, we'll have to put up with several posters irrationally blaming Spittal / Slattery /SO'D / Bair / *A N Other, for all our poor results, one of us will even blame Alan Burrows and / or Nicola Sturgeon. At least one poster will claim during the first round of fixtures that "If we lose this next game we are certainties for relegation" Is that specific enough?

He meant a portion of the Norwich keeper's wage, not Carson's.

A point I made to several of my fellow fans as we left yesterday. At that point we were one goal behind Ayr and out of the seeded positions. Injury time goals in two other matches have affected the standings, Ross County were winning 3-2 at 90 minutes and lost an equaliser in the 93rd minute (good for us as we got their seeded place), and Hamilton equalised in the 96th minute which meant, despite loosing the shoot out, they finished second in the group instead of Cove Rangers, potentially preventing Cove from progressing to the knockout stages.. There was an interview with an English (I think) refereeing supervisor at the end of last season when he was asked about the amount of added time due to VAR and his answer was pretty much that, you don't know how a goal may affect other teams in a league scenario. Bottom line is Clancy just isn't very good.

I voted for Miller, early days, but so far he looks like the real deal. Spittal, Slattery, Souare & Paton all played well too.

My memory was that Jim Jeffries was just trying to unsettle him before we played Hearts, a regular tactic of his. When he managed Kilmarnock he didn't have the budget, so the tactic changed to kicking seven shades out of Hammell.

You're probably right, possibly Arsenal paid Hibs £100k and I'm confused. An increasingly common state of affairs these days. As Weeyin said though, he was fabulous to watch

That first video is of the team I best remember from my youth, Rennie, Wark, Davidson, Marinello, Graham & Pettigrew, with plenty of steel (no pun intended) around them to allow them to strut their stuff. Two things jumped out to me; 1: I think we paid 100,000 for Marinello, what would that equate to now? 2: How many players would each team finish a game with if Colum was refereeing in the 70s?

The trick is to look and see who is posting the criticism..........then ignore it. It works for me.

Which was a replay, after he had scored a wonder goal in the first game to get them the draw. * *Subject to my dodgy memory being correct. ** ** Which is unlikely.

Furlong, Spittal, Kelly were all worthy of consideration, and the fact that Max forced himself into consideration despite only being on the park for 25 minutes says a lot about his contribution. I went with Furlong, admittedly though, it is because I've overlooked him a few times recently after good solid performances so it is a bit of a sympathy vote.

A really solid defensive performance and we matched them for work rate in the middle of the park. There was no great standout but I thought that Spittal shaded it.

In the same gossip it says this: Ross County manager Malky Mackay aims to keep Motherwell's former Staggies midfielder Blair Spittal at Fir Park on Saturday. I presume he is going to let the air out of his tyres or something!

I think it is to do with the League being rebranded from the Premier League to the Premiership, hair splitting nonsense in other words. They are probably ignoring any records set in the old First division days too.

KVV, I would close the poll now. Butcher & Casey probably the only others worth consideration.

You're trying to make MJC's aneurysm burst, aren't you?

My understanding is that the change to 65 happened last year but anyone who had already turned 60 continues to get the discounted rate. Coatsy just beat me to it.

The only criteria involve the arse cheeks, make sure they get 19 home games each, even if it affects the teams still with something to play for, then make sure that Celtic can't win the league at Ibrox. They also have to worry about the first game after the title is settled being at Ibrox to avoid the embarrassment of Rangers not applauding the Champions onto the park. Once that is sorted they just pull the other games out a hat.

Good to see that Motherwell's B team continued the tradition of blowing it when everything suggests a home win. In form, check, playing against a struggling team, check, full house, check. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. I'd still prefer they would have won though.

Lies, damn lies and statistics. Scott Brown used to have passing accuracies in the 90%s, but all of them were back to his centre halves. Spittal at least doesn't hide like some of his team mates, and, more importantly, didn't when things were bad mid-season. Maybe if some of the others had put in the same effort he did we wouldn't have been in the position we were. He isn't the best player I've ever seen, but he is far from the worst.