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That was a surprisingly poor display after a few weeks of really disciplined and positive performances. Obviously it's unrealistic to expect the same level of performance in every game, but after a reasonably bright start, we lost any hold we had on the game and spent the rest of the first half, and parts of the second, just clinging on. With better finishing, Accies probably could have been three up at half time. I was surprised to see Mulraney dropped and Vigurs brought back into the middle of the park, altering a team that had just produced our best performance of the season, and although Vigurs, as usual, looked neat and tidy, it did seem that we were missing Polworth's energy and ability to close players down more quickly than Vigurs in the middle, and missing Mulraney's pace in the wide areas. When Mulraney was finally brought on, and then switched to the right after initially being played down the left, he produced our most incisive attacking moment up to that point by knocking the ball past Darian MacKinnon and tearing past him to get to the bye-line and fire over a cross which went behind, probably because he was fouled as he made it. From the resulting free kick, we had our best chance of the match, as Draper's downward header was saved brilliantly by the Hamilton sub keeper. With all of our strikers essentially being target men, we need much more of the sort of play that Mulraney produced here, and surely there is a strong case to be made for starting him on the right so he doesn't have to keep cutting inside. At least, however, the equaliser was a thing of beauty, with Polworth picking up possession maybe twenty five yards out, making space for himself and turning onto a low drive which flew in to the bottom corner. The fact that he has this sort of shot in his locker is also, perhaps, another argument for playing him through the middle instead of out wide. Great in the end to get a point that we didn't really deserve, and maybe it's no bad thing thing if we can produce a strong reaction to this performance in our next game, with players like King and Mckay, who were much less effective today than in recent matches, hopefully upping their games again. A wee repeat of the December 2006 evening game against Rangers would do me fine; we do seem to be making a habit of last-minute goals this season, after all. As for the aggro after the game, it was obvious that the Hamilton young team and our young boys were winding each other up throughout the game, but we only saw the tail end of what happened afterwards, so no idea who started what outside. There is a group of absolute wee welts who follow Accies, however, that we've seen noising people up and fighting among themselves at previous games, so it's no real surprise that if this sort of thing was going to happen, it would happen there.

1-1 Liam polworth !!! Like I said, plenty of time for an equaliser??!!!

Sighs of relief all round, and an away draw is never really a bad result. But most of us had high hopes of winning this one after our very decent run of form, having (indirectly) shown ourselves to be as good as Man City!

If its a card display you are looking to do, we still have some of the card left over from the cup final. We have blue, red and white card which would be enough to do something in one section of that would help?

Gauging interests: would there be support for any kind of TIFO at home games? Especially against the likes of The Rangers?

McIntyre is the biggest example of Sportsound's obsession with the OF. He just can't wait to turn the conversation round to the erse cheeks.

Loving this season's spirit/resilience/fitness in repeatedly scoring late, late goals

Only spotted two scorers this afternoon (1 Oct) :- Adam Rooney scored two for Aberdeen in their 4-0 win at Killie and Zander Sutherland got both goals for Brora in their 2-0 home win v Fraserburgh (No scorers in England unless you count Charlie Taylor's own goal in Leeds 2-1 win over Barnsley)

More than likely, it would just get negative publicity in the press.

so i just googled it, in hindsight i really should've done that first! i'm going to hide in the corner... in my defence, pointless though it is, other than on here, i've never seen or heard any reference to HMS Sneck before.And i've only been active on here for 6 months. crawling back under my rock