steelboy

Aye it's mindboggling how we end up signing these guys.

Liam Donnelly giving us a nice cameo before he hopefully fucks off for good.

Half the officials will still give that onside with VAR. We're not dealing with incompetence here.

That linesman was guaranteed to give them an offside goal.

Is Shields there for the title party? He's not kicked a ball.

So many stupid errors. Niernold swinging at the ball like he's a bam drinking Bucky down the park. Dean getting the ball stuck in his feet. Carroll letting the ball drop over his shoulder. Failing to do the absolute basics.

Why is Carroll not heading that? This will be 7 or 8.

Cornelius made an arse of that. Disappointing as Celtic seemed to be slowing down a bit the last 5 minutes.

Niernold is utter pish, surprise surprise.

We are just soaking up pressure here until KVV comes on after 60 minutes and we spring into attack.

Our first half formation made it easy for Hearts to keep possesion. We were limited by who was available and creating a few good chances with Efford and Shields up top was relatively impressive. Van Veen playing the second 45 made a big difference to the game as well. In the summer we will be looking for quality over quantity so we should hopefully see an improvement in the standard of play.

Where we finish in the league only effects seeding in Q3 in terms of being above or below Dundee United. I think when I looked last night we were worse case scenario 32nd highest rank in Q2 out of 90 teams. In Q3 there are 54 teams so 27 seeds but a maximum of 9 higher seeded teams coming in at that stage. So we would need 14 higher rank teams to lose in Q2. But our coefficient will go up further if Rangers win next Wednesday and it could be as few as 6 higher ranked teams entering Q3 so it could be more favourable to us scraping a seeded spot.

I don't think that's how it works. If we get knocked in the Q2 we get 350,000 EUR, if we get knocked out in Q3 we get 550,000 EUR. So entering at Q3 is more guaranteed money.

The bizarre team selections, a style of play and tactics that that made it impossible to believe that training was going well and the lack of subs which gave the impression that we were less than fully committed during matches. The January signings weren't great either and Alexander must have known they were not what we needed. Whenever we have went off form to that extent in the past it always comes down the manager no longer being focused on the job. This squad aren't world beaters but they should never have been that bad either.

Jordan White scored a belter at Ibrox last night.

There aren't really many youths missing out. Cornelius has had his breakthrough season and is a real first team player now and Max Johnson has been playing for QOTS. Sam Campbell on the bench last night is only 18, it's not like we have 19 ,20, 21 year olds kicking their heels, most of our best prospects in that age bracket left for transfer fees. Dundee United have been played a few teenagers recently and hopefully we will take that approach with the next crop of youths who the club rate very highly. Since the January restart I had the impression that Alexander was less than 100% committed to the job and might have been looking back down south. The next few months are vital in terms of bringing in the correct quality of players, doing our best in Europe and being ready to compete for top 6 and Hampden from August rather than the transitional start we had to put up with this season. Hopefully he is focussed on that.

It looks we'll be seeded in Q2 if we finish 5th. Hopefully the pitch is finished, no one wants to go to Airdrie again.

We'll be in Europe at the same time Aberdeen and Hibs are in the Betfred. We can all be critical of how things have went this season but walking out the 3-2 HIbs game in August absolutely everyone bites your hand off for that outcome. Hopefully the management and players are looking for fourth. I won't be shocked if RC do us a favour but we should have another cup tie attitude on Saturday because looking at our results in Glasgow this season it's very possible.

Aye it's all about the win tonight. Hopefully we have an atmosphere and performance like the Aberdeen cup win.

Hearts played a strong team on Saturday so I can see them resting players on Wednesday then giving everyone a run out at home on Saturday against a weakened Rangers.

He scored three for us but two of them were against Accies in a final day game that was played like a friendly so he wasn't much better here.

I'd go Kelly O'Hara Mugabi Ojala Lamie Carroll Cornelius Slattery Goss KVV Tierney Shields and Woolery don't contribute enough so I think we would get more from an extra body in the middle of the park.

More likely Hiya Gordon.

If he is trying to get a pay off before the end of the season he has to go onto gardening leave. We have to show some backbone.

It'll be a strange one if he goes tonight. We have two winnable games coming up to make it a successful season so if the rumours are true it seems more likely to be from GA's side rather than the club.