TSTtiger

From what I watched, Celtic dominated possesion in first half especially but hardly tested Esson, in fact we probably had the better chances. We seemed to give them a bit too much respect first half, defending deep, but second half was much better.

Great save from Forster to deny Sutherland, who thought had a good game. We came close on a few other occasions but didn't really get a break.

We've seen some dodgy referees of late but tonights seemed to know what he was doing, making sure Celtic got through. Samaras was playing basketball, free kick for their second looked dodgy and he was having none of giving our spot kick until the linesman intervened.

Would have liked to have seen Hayes and Doran on longer plus Macdonald but anyway there's always next year!

I have major doubts on it going ahead , more with the travel issue than the pitch, but there's a fair bit of snow coming and it's lying at low levels now.

The police would be quite happy to see it off with the marathon on tomorrow too.

Peter Lawell , John Reid and Lennon are pretty good at blowing hot air though, maybe they could send some north?

Superb result. We looked back near our best going forward and played some nice stuff. Macdonald looked very good when he came in too so good to have options. Delighted also to see Shane get his first goal and it was a total peach too. The standout performers for me were Cox, Esson, Foran and Ross. Essons save at 2.0 was sensational and went a long way to ensuring the win.

On the negative, our defending, at least in the first half was ropey at best, and at a time when Motherwell were dominating possession, our back 4 showed little composure and hoofed it anywhere, usually back to the opposition. No point being too critical given our injuries though but at the moment I think Duff is our best right back available and against Celtic we will struggle with today's back 4.

We've been short of confidence of late so it was good to see once the 3rd goal went in we looked more like the ICT of a few months back.

Bring on the shame FC.

Oil

On this matter I don't care what's best for our club, our board or whose interest this serves. A 10 team league is bad news for the fans and football in general, and it'll be a sad day if it happens.

Did anyone else think that the tannoy was miles better today?

Than the game or better than usual?

Aye was a bit better, think the volume was down a notch maybe

Did anyone else think that the tannoy was miles better today?

Than the game or better than usual?

Good win, If the players show that sort of detemination every week we'll have a superb season

Goaaaaaaaaaal. ! In Russeldinho we trust !

As good a game as this will be , it's hard to find the wisdom in a match v brazil with Scotland in desperate need of ranking points for the world cup draw!

We've a pretty strong squad when you look at that line up and consider the guys that are out. Rooney !

Esson should start as he's a better penalty stopper and our number 1. Esson has been outstanding for us and there's no room for sentiment here.

Our record is better against Celtic in Inverness but either way it's a terrible draw

What wing was Doran playing on? Against Aberdeen he was used on the right but looked left footed (Brewster tactics).

Played on the left, but like Hayes , hes comfortable on either wing. Hayes on right and doran on left looks the strongest combination though.

Spurs in for Charlie Adam?

2055: As we approach the last two hours of the transfer window, I can tell you English clubs have already broken the ?100m barrier for transfer fees spent this month - and that's before the mooted deals for Fernando Torres, Andy Carroll and David Luiz are taken into consideration. Unbelievable. By way of comparison - just ?29m was spent by English clubs this time last year. I repeat what I said at 1830... English football has gone absolutely mad.

^ from BBC , it really Is obscene money especially given the state the country is in.

El-Hadj Diouf to Rangers on loan until end of season. Seem to remember him spitting on a Celtic fan at Parkhead.

Lafferty probably delighted now that diouf has taken his title as the biggest c**t in scottish football, and by a considerable margin.

I quite like p & b . There's a lot of good posters too and I probably spend as much time in the general nonsense forum as the football side of things. It's got a good variety of forums and topics and usually good for a laugh.

Esson

Duff. Tokely. Innes. Shinnie

Hayes. Duncan. Cox. Doran

Sanchez

Rooney

Despite what the gloom merchants will say, we played well and for me, at the risk of sounding like Neil Lennon, the ref has ruined the game. Didn't see the Munro incident but mccardle should have walked and Blackman could also have gone.

With 11 men it would have been very different.

Keep the faith

I'm at the game and it appears the only one who knows why Munro got sent off is the linesman

Can he take throw ins?

very relevant question as none of current squad can!

Grant Munro takes a good throw in but we've gone from using it all the time a few seasons back to not using it at all.

I'd go with ,

Esson

Duff. Tokely. Munro. Shinnie

Hayes. Duncan. Foran. Ross

Sanchez

Rooney

We weren't as bad as some would have you believe but still

struggle to find a real cutting edge unless Hayes is playing.

I thought Sanchez played well and put in a lot of effort. Nick Ross was excellent and I thought Duff played well.

Eric really struggled, albeit out of position, and his first touch let him down a lot of the time.

I'd start Russell D , we always play better with him in the team and assuming we get some players in I'd send Sutherland out on loan.

Hayes has shown in just two minutes why we've missed him so much.thank feck he's back.