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You mean were not going to get it v County???

County will be my 100th game at TCS. Also 398 ICT games overall.

Mon 28 Dec 2015 E L 1 S Winnall (2) (Barnsley 4 - Blackpool 2) M Watkins (Barnsley 4 - Blackpool 2) National League North R Eagle (Corby 3 - Lowestoft 5) Highland League G Wood (5, yes, five!) (Formantine 10 - Buckie 3)

Imagine playing in these conditions? Disgraceful ! No wonder Miles was beat when he was subbed. How can any team play at their best and entertain the crowds in such conditions? By the end the players looked more like rugby participants than SPL figures. Summer football is a must --for the players and the fans. Attendances would go up also IMHO. Why do the Scottish Football authorities hang on to such outdated and primitive rites, such as Winter football? Nobody benefits without a major cost, so why? Their penalty was unmerited. The Caley player could never have avoided being hit by a very hard shot and the player says he was hit on the shoulder which was what I thought as well when I saw the highlights before I read what he said. Mind you, our penalty was a really soft one also and how it could be construed that our boy was in a scoring position facing away from the goalmouth and almost on the outer edge of the box is mind-blowing. Strange how you rarely if ever see the ref running to the linesman to seek his opinion? Since they are both wearing headsets then can we assume that a fair assessment has been made on the incident. Mr. Collum kept his whistle in his pants during the cup final and it was a good performance from him but , once again, he still seems to be controversial with the bread-and-butter stuff and this business of levelling up, either to appease the crowd or just because he feels he may have made a prior mistake, is not a great, or fair, way to go about his business. He is not the guy to decide the outcome of a match; that's up to the players and how they perform and/or react to incidents. If he makes a mistake he should stop there and move on and simply try to do better the next time.

How much for the fox Mickey? If he's keen to get forward like that we could do with him in our team.

I thought we played really well yesterday against a good aberdeen side who were (in the second half at least) determined to go all out for the win. In the first half, we played them like a fiddle. Despite the pre-match doom spattered statements, the shape worked really well. Aberdeen's midfield had absolutely no chance of getting past Draper and Wedderburn and by the time they had tried and shipped the ball to Hayes etc., they were mugged time and again by Tremarco and Raven . The only real surprise was that we weren't three up by half time. Don't listen to those who tell you that Aberdeen "bottled it" or didn't play well - they didn't, they were just bettered in the first half. Second half, they were better when they went two and the workload we had put in showed. By the time Storey was subbed, he was out on his feet. So, pretty natural that we get pushed deeper and there is only one outcome from that. A Gary Warren slip and it's 2-1 and the Collum show starts. He was dreadful to both sides in equal measure yesterday, but the worst of it was that when the crowd got on his back he reacted to it. I can't see any other reason for the penalty in the last minute. Not so much inconsistent as incoherent. David Raven looked fresh and determined to reclaim his place but Liam Polworth was astonishingly good. I had concerns that he might not make the breakthrough this season that he needed to but was I wrong. He's blossomed under the Hughes passing regime and added passion and dig to that yesterday. Don't be downhearted, this was a great point.

Some say that a draw, on the balance of play, seems a fair result. However this negates the fact that there was a foul by Mcginn just before he scores and their penalty wasn't a penalty. It clearly strikes his midriff. If they score 2 fair goals then it's a fair result but that was robbery. And Willie Collum yet again proving how rubbish a ref he is. I don't think there's a fan in the country who thinks him any good. He's a skinny balder Willie young. I propose in referee screening processes they bar anyone called Willie from top flight football because they often tend to live up to their name.

Puck off ya hockey stick lovers