steelboy

Partick have conceded 28 goals with 10 clean sheets and have only 8 games where they conceded more than once. We've conceded 43 goals with 5 clean sheets and conceded more than once 15 times. That's the difference between the teams at the moment. They can defend and we can't.

The 11 in the team earned their spot midweek. It's good to have strong options on the bench as well.

Given he's under pressure for selling their best players and pocketing the cash it's not a shock he's claming they are spending enough. Hearts have a bigger squad, a better squad and logic dictates that with double the average attendance they will be spending more on player wages.

He's probably thinking MLK while everyone else is thinking Subo.

Higher than Hearts?

It does look more likely that the eight teams bunched up will all continue to be inconsistent rather than one or two falling away. It's possible that you could have 8 teams on 30-33 points on Saturday night.

We got carried away with gubbing St Mirren and Accies last season. There's still a lot of work to be done.

We would have needed 42 to miss the play off last season. .

Including tonight we have 39 points to play for. Of the previous 39 points we have taken 15. Which repeated would probably see us in the play off.

Ripley Laing McManus Hall Cadden Lasley Gomis Johnson McFadden Moult McDonald

A Killie and Hearts double is 15-1. That's a decent enough fix without betting against us.

We've only managed two clean sheets in the league under McGhee so tightening up at the back has to be a priority. We also need our set pieces to be better at both ends. We are failing to the basics at the moment which is why Killie and Accies have moved ahead of us. If we get away with a nothing each tonight it's something to build on and at least takes some pressure off the prospect of finishing bottom.

Whether you rate him or not Alex McLeish won 9 trophies and did well with the national team.

Not signing a defender in the window will come back to haunt us.

Outcoached by Lee McCulloch.

I like the look of that team. Harsh on Lasley because he's not been the worst but brining him on for the last 30 might sort our problems in the late stages of games.

You're not excited at the prospect of Faddy signing for the 4 time in 3 years?

Until someone has a worse pitch than we had in 2009 and 2010 I don't think we can complain too much. Thistle's was shit but not anywhere near ours back then.

I suspect that to get a transfer budget in the summer some in contract players will have to be moved on and Mcghee has already decided that Ainsworth and Laing will be two wages he wants to free up.

I'm no fan of the police but I don't think they are to blame at all. Their horses sorted it out eventually. As I said you can't stop people getting in the park if they want to. The SPFL seem to expect the club to take some sort of action which will discourage people from running on in future. So it's either hand out a few bans or get punished.

It's not possible to put enough stewards between the stand and the park to stop people coming on. Their is no way the club, the stewards or the police can stop a couple of hundred people getting over the wall if they are determined to. The SPFL obviously think handing out a few bans might discourage it happening again. It'll be interesting to see how the club react.

Since we entered the top division in 1903 we've only spent 6 seasons outside it. Getting relegated would be a disaster.

Naebody is cutting their balls off. Let's all calm down.

I like Moult but he isn't young he's 24. He's got a lot of good things about his game so he's probably dropped to Conference level because he's one sided. The only teams spending money on transfer fees are the EPL teams and teams who want in the EPL, they'll never go for Moult. My opinion about whether Higdon should get a game changed depending on circumstances but I'll never change on believing that players showing up over weight shouldn't be tolerated

I don't think the problem was the 4-5-1 today. The problem is that every single time we've made a sub in the last few months we've got worse. I thought we should have stuck with the 4-5-1 but swapped Pearson and McDonald for Ainswoth and Moult.