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Billy Reid was good with Hamilton but bored his way through the leagues. Peter Houston was pish at the end at United.

I kind of want a new manager now.

Walter Zenga will apply for the job, no doubt about it.

Mixu couldn't get Finland to finish above Spain and France, he's not good enough for Caley.

Jimmy Calderwood can **** off. We should appoint Sergio Markarian. He's an Armenian-Uruguayan, was Brewsters mentor and has been a hugely successful manager in South America. Just getting in a ridiculous suggestion before Renegade logs on.

If we can avoid any of the utterly horrifying out of work managers who are linked with every vacancy then I'll be moderately happy.

I'll be there but am between two nightshifts (finish work at 7am that morning, back in at 7pm after the match) so won't be out on the bevvy creating anarchy. If I'm up in time I assume that people will be going to the Iona pre-match?

I was sitting one seat along from a complete roaster at the abandoned County match. I've emailed the club and asked for him to be banned for life.

Keep the same XI as Friday night. Don't think we'll be winning this, 3-1 Yinted is my prediction

We've sold between 25 and 35,000 tickets.

Devine is a good centre-half and is great to have as cover. He's been dealt a ****** hand having to cover in midfield in the last derby and at right backj against St Johnstone.

Decent goal last night from Kasami. 4-1 away win with a couple of utter screamers would suit me on Friday!

They'll be papping us from somewhere. What a waste of money.

We aren't exactly in amazing form going into this. What do you think the starting line up should be? I think we have a few problems with the '3' in our 4-2-3-1. You need a great ball player like Andy Shinnie in the middle or failing that a dynamic player who can make things happen, make runs, have a shot and we don't really have either. The game yesterday we seemed to have three wingers in the '3' and it didn't work that well, especially in the second half. Greenhalgh didn't impress me, he did well when he hit the post but didn't contribute much else. Doran was good, he is shooting more this season, hopefully trying to replace Shinnie as a regular goalscorer and hsi deliver from set pieces is excellent. Nick Ross seems to just be Nick Ross - solid 6/10 doesn't do much wrong but doesn't actually influence the game that much or make much happen. In terms of changing the players in the '3' there are a couple of options. Liam Polworth could come in and play centrally, which we tried in Perth and wasn't a great success. We could bring in Marley Watkins who showed some good touches when he came on for a cameo yesterday. Polworth lacks experience and we saw in the last derby what happened to Conor Pepper but he offers more of a presence physically and can hold the forward line together. Watkins looks dangerous but is coming back from injury and would still leave us with three wingers. I'd be inclined to put Watkins in for Greenhalgh but I could see Butcher sticking with the same XI as yesterday. Maybe Watkins is best from the bench. As for the rest of the side, I think it picks itself, assuming we have no injury worries. Our back four didn't do as well as we have been used to this season yesterday but the four of them are pretty obviously the best we have. Draper and Foran will be the key men if we are going to get a result in Dingwall, we succeeded last season against County by dominating midfield and we need both the players in there to play the way they did earlier in the campaign - breaking up play, using the ball well and coming out top in the physical battles. County have Kettlewell, Brittain and Quinn in a central area meaning that this is probably their strongest area on the pitch, despite losing Lawson and Vigurs in close season. I wouldn't think about dropping Brill, the mistake for the goal is just one of those things that happens, he's been solid and consistent for the rest of this season. Also, McKay is the only choice up front. Looking forward to going to Dingwall, confirmed that I've got a ticket today. I was there for the 3-3 cup game, a great atmosphere from our fans during the game on the train home. Anyone thinking of taking any flares etc (the nautical fireworks not the cutting edge of Dingwall fashion) might want to think twice as I imagine the police will be cracking down heavily on it after them getting lobbed about last season and the linesman getting hit by a smokebomb in the Spurs-Villa game. I wonder if we'll be getting filmed by cops from the wendy house again

Watched on TV. I thought we were better going forward in the first half but our defending wasn't great in either. For the first Partick goal we gave them too much room from start to finish during the move, it was good play though. We did pretty well after the goal, although I thought Partick looked dangerous. From what I can see the corner goal should've stood, it's pretty annoying to get a decision like that against you. However, in the linesman's defence I doubt he's had a scenario like that before in his career, it's a difficult one. As I understand it the ball doesn't have to leave the quadrant so was in play. I felt pretty confident when we scored the goal straight away in the second half (and it was a great ball from Doran and header from Warren) but we didn't seem to offer as much going forward and I thought Partick responded to the goal stronger. We had to defend well to prevent them breaking through on several occasions. Doran had been at the heart of most of the good work we'd done going forward in the first half but he faded out in the second half. Greenhalgh and Ross were anonymous in the second half, Watkins will have done himself a big case for inclusion next week with his display after the break. The winning goal is just one of those things, Brill has been good since he came in. Disappointing performance really, there are difficulties with the '3' I think.

To quote Messrs Michael and Ridgely, if you're gonna do it, do it right - right do it do it. Don't scrimp, card on every seat, proper quality card.

A few posters on here might like this one

If these things work they are brilliant. If they don't they are paaash.

What were the teams?

Should've been tasered, IMO.

St Johnstone just completely dominated us, especially in the first 30 minutes. They pushed us deep and pressured us when we were in possession, forcing us to hit long balls which didn't work. When St Johnstone had possession they used it well, May looks a very good player. The second goal in particular was superbly well worked. We managed to push our way back into things to an extent although we were never really the better side and didn't threaten, aside from a long range shot by Doran. St Johnstone did to us what we do to other teams, dominated the midfield, tight at the back and dangerous up front. From our perspective we lost the midfield so offered nothing going forward. Butcher obviously thougth Polworth would be better holding position than Greenhalgh and give us more of a physical presence but he was overrun, especially in the first half. He did improve in the second, with some decent touches but we were far gone by then. The defence was imbalanced by Raven being out, who I assume was injured. Devine was pish, it was like the game at Tynecastle years ago when Roy McBain was sent off and we played Grant Munro at full back, he was slow, didn't get forward and thus contributed to us surrendering possession. I feel a bit sorry for Devine, obviously we didn't want to break up Meekings and Warren in the middle. Danny tends to get shunted into an unfamiliar role - he played in centre-mid a fefew times last season as well. For once the international break is welcome, we can regroup, hopefully get injured players back (although I hear Vincent is out for months) and hopefully get a decent win against Partick.

utter pish

Same XI as yesterday. If Vincent is injured then bring in Greenhalgh.

Didn't think we had enough width in the last few games so ----------------Brill-------------------- --Raven-----------------------Shinnie--- --Warren----------------------Meekings-- --Draper------------------------Foran---- --Doran-------------------------Ross---- --Vincent------------------------McKay--

Quarter final line up ICT Morton Hearts Hibs Aberdeen Dundee Utd Motherwell St Johnstone