tokelyisvictorious

1000 up from falkirk is decent, but i'd love to see a game other than the ones against the OF nearly sold out for a change. You'd think this could happen with a lower ticket price thanks to the Butcher bounce, especially for a massive cup game (1 away from another day in the sun). no matter the crowd, it will be a day i'm looking forward to already.

Possibly the best draw, certainly it will be interested with us being 'relegation rivals', but also one of the hardest. I'd have rathered aberdeen, airdrie utd/dunfermline or hamilton. I wish the two clubs could get together and organise some decent ticket prices. ?15 isn't bad, but if ICT and falkirk agreed to lower that then we would easily get 5000-6500 instead of the wierdly low previous attendances. ?15 was alright in the previous rounds but i really want a good attendance playing hosts to falkirk.

So as it turns out robbo was exactly the same as ardiles, publicly declaring his willingness to do the job only because he has been out of football for a while. Now that the ict manager isn't struggling he doesn't seem to love us as much now.

Anyone at home, or possibly aberdeen/hamilton/falkirk away. I'd take celtic or rangers at home, i think we could take them. Not away though despite the extra money it would be better to have a day in the sun at Hampden.

I honestly believe that if the game and the price to get in had been publicised a bit better there would have been a bigger crowd. ?10 for me and ?15 for adults is lower than usual, and normally more than 1000 or so turn up and pay to get into a league match. Crowds will always be a problem, but i thought more would turn up for a cup game against an spl side. Still, the players didn't seem to mind and it didn't take anything away from the game.

Never a penalty, and the answer to your question is both diver and whinger. He is extremely overrated and whenver he comes up against a strong team like we were today, he runs completely out of ideas and then gives up.

ps latviaman, would you be able to get the highlights off the bbc.co.uk website?

Pretty good game, exceleent banter with richie. alan combe seemed a bit more focussed than usual today, last couple of times he responded to the heckling. Pavels was an absolute rock in the hearts of our defence, a stand-out performance from the big man. When he didn't have the ball he knew where to go to get it, and when he had the ball he always looked to play pass to the strikers feet: a joy to watch. I am confident we'll keep hiom, he seems to be settling in well enough, all the players celebrated his goal with him. Imrie was also class today, chasing everything, so probably deserved the MOM for sheer effort alone. the only downside was the low attendance, but it didn't stop the match being thoroughly enjoyable.

great performance, showed celtic to be the sh*te team they are, nothing but a pathetic bunch of divers and moaners. exactly the same as rangers, they are a scar on the face of football. other than that, we played exceleently

fantastic signing for a club battling relegation. much more confident now, we are as good as if not better than falkirk in terms of squad strength now.

mike in goals. pavels in central defence, with munro partnering him. big dezbi-shabby left back (give him his chance) and roscoe right-back imrie wide elft and cowie wide right of midfield. duncan and black in central midfield rooonneey and barrowman up front (with foran replacing barrowman late on, although i have heard from a couple of people that hes out with a back injury) the only player i am worrying about is big dzebi-zadi. at times he looks a bit of a liability, but hopefully he will be on top of his game today. barrowman should now get a crack at holding down a first-team place, and rooney has consistently been our best player all season.

yes we are staying up. i predict a win today will set the ball rolling. i don't know what it is but when the players have an air of confidence about them, they almost seem unbeatable. celtic aren't that good a team, they are relying a lot on the fact that rangers have their worst squad in years, and they feed off the 'fear' from the smaller teams when they coma calling. this time though there isn't going to be any fear, so we have a very good chance. once we win our first game, many more will follow. plus, we mostly seem to have a good record of post-split games, and those will be the big ones.

Without butcher on the other end of the phone, neither of those would have given us a second thought. Eric is a good player, i've seen him a couple of times, and foran is an excellent signing for a club staving off relegation.

Impressive if he has decided to join, he could easily sit with his easy setanta job and rake in the money. instead he wants to get back into management, and takes up a job with the club bottom of the spl and on the worst run in their history.

the board have sense, they know that a new direction is needed with a new experienced manager. robbo isn't the way to go this time. maybe for the future when we are safe for the season, but not now. the pressure on him would be immense, the fans would expect an instant response and i think it just wouldn't materialise.

not seen or heard anything, just a hunch. i mean someone with the same experience in football as a player and manager. i thought he made a decent job of manager, won the league with Blackburn.

i seriously believe it will be a surprisingly big name. maybe not along the same lines of dalglish, maybe someone with the same reputation though. at least with the show yesterday, the players showed the new manager that he has something to work with.

whats all the fuss about calderwood? he seems to be exactly the same as malpas, a failure. i have a funny feeling that the manager will be someone no-one reckoned with. not a nobody, but someone who has been out of the public eye for a while now. ian holloway anyone?

Roscoe is just showing exactly the type of fight we need right now. A team in our position could do with more players of his calibre. With a new manager he will be back to his best, and flying down the right.

the seltic game can't come quick enough, i feel three points a coming.

all sounds very promising, hopefully a new manager can shore things up at the back, sign a goalscorer and we'll be alright. i am growing closer to changing my name to pavelsisvictorious every game i see the man in action, he seems a quality signing.

not quite so sure as everyone else about Knox, from what some people tell me he is quite a volatile person; but maybe that could work in our favour as some of the caley boys clearly needs kick up the proverbial a@se. perhaps knox is the slightly less risky option to ossy, and both would have the same effect. bigger crowds, coverage and respect for the manager's playing career.

malpas isn't a contender, give the board some credit. i think robbo is not going to get it, hallelujah, so that leads to Knox. It seems likely he'll get it, but i don't know how he'll do as a manager; although you can't get a better apprenticeship than under feguson.

the best minute of my life: listened to dougie scoring a beauty in the last minute to salvage a point, and then hearing my comments read out on that 'final score' programme. then the worst, kingston scoring in the last second destroying any hopes of any points and crushing the team once again. a point against hearts when down to ten men would undoubtedly have changed the season around completely with a new manager added to the mix as well. at least this gives some hope, only a good team can go away to hearts and push them all the way.

please not robbo, he will put us down. i'm surprised everyone is dismissing ardiles, a man who has won the world cup and saved other teams from relegation before. take into account PR and attendances, i can't see a fault. even the man himself has come out and mentioned us as a "wonderful opportunity". time tos how ambition, and robbo aint that.