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No easy answers but perhaps the club could initiate some kind of fan's forum or a focus group to throw around ideas? They'd be daft to not want to try and involve fans as much as possible right? To just blank them and ignore would only foster more disengagement from the 'masses' you would think.

I thought this was quite interesting. Liked Welsh at CB as he has far more vision with forward passes. Cammy played really well. Carson’s battle with Zenatta first half was interesting. Reece looked better apart from woeful free kick. Mcdonald and Jamieson got game time. Cammy in goals looked confident (he normally scares me) Overall the better team and considering how well Raith have been going, and how experimental our team was, I think that’s not a bad nights result. Haven’t seen a game with so many off side calls ! Fine margins.

The game had a nil nil feel from the start, the only good thing was it was warmer than Saturday! We have better players out on loan that would have featured tonight and it might have been better but I think being on loan and missing out will benefit the club in the long term. Our league game on Friday is more important and I hope it's a better game.

I’d certainly hope/expect to see some fringe players getting a game, with Friday’s league match being far more important than this one, as is the Morton replay next midweek.

Well that was a poor advert for championship football! 95% effort and 5%skill. Both teams were guilty of some shocking passing, Mixed in with some dire attempts on goal, And the one piece of skill ended with a total fail from Jamieson, super ball across to an unmarked Jamieson, smack it first time? No took too long to sort himself out giving keeper plenty to block attempt. Very poor, He'll no be the answer to our goalscoring woes. And what the feck was Shane doing at the pen, jeez summed up his performance tonight...shyte.

Not overly fussed about tonights result. As long as we focus on the league, and beating Morton in the replay, I'm happy.

Clear from the outset both teams had their minds on bigger challenges. We were (slightly) the better team and Jamieson should have scored late on. The pass from McAlear to Walsh to create the chance was superb. Other than that, not too much to get excited about. MacKay was rarely tested and after a shaky start had good distribution. Welsh was at centre half and was comfortable until replaced like for like by Allardice. I thought Deas marshalled the defence well, with Carson and Harper both getting forward effectively. I thought McAlear had a decent game, apart from his free kick, and he was very close with a good effort early on. Walsh seems to have been practising crossing as he seemed less erratic. Not sure what conclusions to draw: it’s all down to Friday and next Tuesday whether we were right to sacrifice tonight’s game. Good to see the two youngsters, although they were a bit “rabbit in the headlights”. It will have done them good though and the young right back had one very decent challenge that won a goal kick. Just don’t let Shane take a penalty in a shoot out: 2 misses out of this season!

Wasn't able to get to the game today but did manage to try out the ICTV coverage for the first time. It was good to see a number of the younger players in the starting line up with MacInnes and Carnihan coming on for debuts later in the game. With so many changes it seemed pretty obvious that this was all about resting players with a busy schedule of more important games coming up. Stand out for me was Cameron Harper who was always positive going forward and looking to play balls into the gaps. Cammy MacKay looked pretty solid between the sticks which is encouraging but other than that, there was not much to enthuse about. The ICTV coverage was pretty decent though. Shooting practice before Friday's game, please.

Don't often agree with you Dougal but the evidence would suggest this is bang on.

Can't find a bookies that will give me odds on the holders being knocked out.

Before anyone else does it, the original post is from 2016….. (A spammer posted on the thread today which brought it back to the top)

I will be the one with the ICT hat and scarf on

Make sure that you have been counted by Dougal!

didnt even have to travel to the game

If the squad players are fit, it's about time they are given a shout for the first eleven. Anthony Mcdonald was impressive in his loan spell with us, but hasn't had a sniff this season, and Jameison always looks good when he gets a few minutes, Harper as well maybe needs another go. I'm all for retaining a settled team, if they are delivering the goods, but if not, things need to change. As for the tactics, far too many hopeful balls punted up the park, only for the opposition to mount another attack. Where, or what is Billy Dodds plan B? Our tactics never seem to change when we go behind, there has to be a change that will impact on the opposition. We have a lot of important games coming up over the next two weeks, and it could go a long way to defining our season.

Well I thought the morton game was bad but this was dire. After a couple of good moves in the first half, we seemed to lose any tactics we had by just kicking the ball up the park. Where does all the coaching go, where is all the combination play and the triangles that you need to play good football? I know that it's not the greatest cup competition but it's a chance for fringe players to show what they've got, but on this show, apart from harper and Mackay, it isn't much.

When the manager takes off three first team regulars within an hour that should tell you how little we cared about getting through. Friday is infinitely more important that this tournament.

Fairly uneventful match, but we were the better side and should’ve won it in 90 minutes.

We lose 4-5 on penalties after a goalless 90 minutes. All will be forgiven if we can beat Kilmarnock on Friday.