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When do tickets for this game go on sale?

We should definately sign GMS - he is what's needed for us to push forward in our hunt for the title.

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Imagine your manager leaving to be someone else's assistant.

Who have we all seen off as managers? Tom Hendrie, John Coughlin (both St Mirren), John Barnes, Neale Cooper (crying in a layby ) Mark isn't happy tonight

Brechin's is just round the corner from Govan subway station, yes?

I think going 4-2-3 in our first nine games is pretty good going. It's our best SPL start, I think, and we haven't looked out of our depth. The last time we were promoted we went 1-1-7 over the same time period, St Johnstone went 1-3-5 in their first nine games last season and Hamilton went 3-0-6 in their first nine games the season before, so we are doing pretty well compared to recently promoted teams. In terms of our performances I think we've been solidly good. Up front, Rooney, Hayes and Odhiambo have looked at home in the SPL and have all scored a good few goals. Foran is just getting into his stride since coming back after injury and I think he'll come into his own during the second quarter. Defensively, I feel we've been relatively poor, conceding some bad goals. We looked disorganised against Hearts in that defeat and gave away preventable goals against Hamilton, St Johnstone and Hibernian. However, we have the best defensive record outside the Old Firm so perhaps I'm being a bit harsh on us.

I kept pretty quiet walking back from Ibrox after the last time we beat them.

We aren't playing Celtic. It'd be pretty funny if St Johnstone get three late penalties to win the tie

I am sceptical about the idea that league reconstruction will revitalise Scottish football. I don't think there are hordes of potential supporters waiting for the SPL to be changed to include more First Division teams before coming to games. Scottish football actually holds up pretty well in terms of average attendances to similarly sized countries in Europe, even if you exclude the crowds from Ibrox and Parkhead. If you include these then Scotland has the highest average crowds outside of the Big Five leagues of England, Germany, Spain, France and Italy. We also do OK in terms of average crowds within our league - there are clubs in the Greek top league, for example, who get average crowds of less than 1000. The main issue with Scottish football is that the quality of play. There are two ways to improve this - better young players coming through and generate more revenue to buy better players. I don't think changing the structure of top flight football will influence better young players coming into the side and I am also pretty sceptical about the revenue generation of including more teams in the SPL. Adding Dunfermline and Falkirk, say, to the current SPL roster isn't going generate that much more revenue for the game. There will be two more bottom six sized clubs with a bit more cash to spend on players but in terms of generating more TV money or pushing up average crowds, I don't think it would have an impact. People aren't interested in watching Falkirk v St Mirren on ESPN or Dundee United v Dunfermline on Sky Sports - if they were then you can bet that the TV companies would have forced a change happen by now. I don't really have an answer as to what will improve Scottish football, increase revenue, increase crowds. I think that clubs like Caley have to be realistic about what we can achieve, I think that every fan and member of the BoD would agree with that. We aren't going to storm to the title but we can become a solid member of the SPL, challange for top half finishes and cups. What would revitalise Scottish football would be a club challenging the Old Firm - the last significant increases of average attendance in the SPL came when Hibs had Tony Mowbray as boss and made a run for third place and when Hearts finished second in the table in Romanov's first full season. Of course, Mad Vlad's reign has descended into farce, with unsustainable debts and Hibs have had to break up their side in order to balance the books. Also, the SPL potential for generating revenue took probably a fatal hit from a series of ludicrious decisions in terms of TV money in the last ten years - turning down a Sky deal in favour of setting up 'SPL TV' (thanks Roger Mitchell for that one) and signing up to a Setanta pie-in-the-sky deal when Sky had a good offer on the table. Probably the last chance for the SPL to really improve left the building with those mistakes. Clubs like Aberdeen, Hearts, Hibs and Dundee Utd are now too indebted to ever challenge the Old Firm, leaving us in a kind of limbo. Bit of a rambling post, I accidentally deleted what I was going to say earlier, doh.

Let's be honest - Rory was poor for us. He showed potential in the reserves and on a couple of occasions coming off the bench but he never really cut the mustard. His last appearence for us was against Morton in the league cup and he was abysmal that night, one of the worst performances I've seen from a striker. He is doing really well in Division Two and I am pleased for him as he always had a bit of potential and did get a lot of unwarrented stick. For those that want to sign him, how are St Mirren getting on with the players they have signed from the Second Division this season? How did Andy Barrowman do for us after a similar scoring record at the same level of football?

Not content with battering his own players, blaming the wind for being pumped by the champions and racking up a world record standard of touchline bans, Derek Adams reacted to his relegation threatened sides latest defeat by letting rip with a hilarious outburst at Scottish football's conspiracy against him and valient, football-playing heroes Ross County FC. Man having nervous breakdown

He is young and has great potential, that's why clubs would bid six figures for him. Burnley signed Kevin McDonald from First Division Dundee for half a million quid a few years ago. Even though they aren't splashing the cash Blackpool are earning tens of millions of pounds this season from TV money so spending ?100,000+ on a young player who, if he succeeds, will have big resale value makes sense. Having said that they should wait a few weeks and buy him off KPMG for ?150.

Huns winning 3-1. We're going to do them next week.

I haven't watched all of that, but in the paper today he is quoted as saying: That's absolute pish. Holloway is effectively saying that we should go back to the pre-Bosman system where players registrations are held by clubs even after contracts expired. In any other walk of life that simply wouldn't be tolerated. I've been on fixed term contracts and the idea that my employer could forbid me from working after my contract expired is a joke. Holloway also doesn't seem to get the fact that players pay back their transfer fees in the way they play for their club. Since signing in 2004 Rooney has helped Manchester United win three Premiership titles, one Champions League, a league cup and an FA Cup. That's what they paid the money for so even if he left for free after his contract, he's still repaid his wages/fee/bonus etc.

Close enough! According to the RC OS they will be selling autographed copies of the game. I'd be disappointed if they weren't

Xausa isn't a legend!

Oh dear

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse

I'm not going because Kilmarnock is miles away and is a horrible, horrible place.

How not to run a football club

Strachan is a complete cock. Great to see him fail in such an abject manner.

We played very poorly in the first half, reduced to constant long balls that were eaten up by Michael Duberry. St Johnstone looked sharp in their play, reducing our defence to total confusion at times. Kevin McCann had a shaky game overall and was awful in the first half. The goal was an absolute joke, a simple diagonal ball that Tokely left for McCann who left it for Esson who hadn't shouted so was caught out. A ball like that should be cleared at first opportunity, Tokely needs to have a look at himself. Parkin really should have doubled the Saints lead when he was put through again. We improved a bit in the second half, mainly because we stopped hitting the ball long to Rooney and tried to vary our attacks a bit more. Even so, St Johnstone had another brilliant chance when Liam Criag scooped over. Perhaps our more industrious second half performance deserved a point but we were lucky to draw that. I don't understand why Butcher changed that team - we played well, scored four goals and conceded one (a wonder goal) in our previous matches with the same team but he altered it. Obviously Butcher fancies McCann as our first choice right-back but Duff has slotted in well there and Duncan brings a lot of balance to the middle fo the park. Playing Foran deeper might work but he's so much more valuable up front, with his power and aerial prowess. At the back we looked disorganised and lacking - in the first half we were continually caught off the pace and outwitted by St Johnstone. Perhaps we need the experience of Chris Innes to steady the ship, but he is still out injured. On a positive side we came back well and could even have stolen it at the end and Hayes took his goal well. I thought St Johnstone looked a good side, they reminded me a bit of our first few seasons in the SPL - they are solid defensively, have some enterprising players and were capable of playing some good football. I hope we're still three points ahead of them at the end of the season.

They will be adding this to their roll of honour in the match-day programme.

Remember that this is aclub where the Supporters Turst owned 25% of the club and had representatives on the board! Alan Sugar said in an interview the other week that if clubs that go bust don't have a benefactor come in and clear the debts they should, in his words, "go back to Hackney Marshes and start again". The fact that football clubs tend to get bailed out perhaps encourages the ego boost risk taking from guys like Melville.