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Get the train - you can arrive early and drink in skanky boozers in the rough part of town and can get a couple of slabs of Tenants for the journey home. Happy days.

I booed when we lost 5-1 at home to County. Nothing wrong with booing at the right moments - booing after a 0-0 draw at home to Ayr is a bit Old Firm-esque though. I remember when we beat Albion rovers 6-1 in the 3rd, people booed because we didn't score in the second half!

CaleyStan made a good point when he said that our midfield lacks experience. If we go with Eagle-Stratford-Cox-Hayes then we will have a midfield with the following experience of first team football: Hayes - 19 (29) Eagle - 8(8) Stratford - 5(0) Cox - 5(0) Dundee have guys like Paul McHale (over 100 starts at this level), Richie Hart (played First Division and SPL since 2002), Brian Kerr (100 odd starts at SPL level), Gary Harkins (60 odd starts at First division level) and Colin Cameron (played in the SPL and Premiership for donkeys). Obviously experience isn't everything and Cox has looked a promising player. I just wonder if we will be able to get a handle on the game in the middle of the park. I wouldn't be upset to see either Russell Duncan or Roy McBain coming back into the side.

Teams left in the draw: Annan Ross County Partick Thistle Elgin Stirling Albion Dundee Queen of the South Elgin away would be a great draw, I might even go up for it!

The First Division is going to be very close this season. Only one game so far has had more than a goal in it and that game (Morton 0 Pars 2) featured a last minute goal.

Good point, perhaps we should introduce either Duncan or McBain to the midfield on Saturday.

When we played Dundee in the cup semi-final one of their fans threw a bottle at me on the way to the game. :) It's all getting a bit naughty!

I am the voice of sanity. I don't think we have enough goals in our team. We did create some chances against Dunfermline but Rooney squandered three great opporunities without even getting a shot on target. What we need for a title challange if for either Rooney or Barrowman to step up their performances and start scoring regularly. Whether either of them can do this is another matter. I also think we'll really miss Dougie Imrie while he's out, he could be a great asset in the First Division. Eagle hasn't looked the real deal to me, although Hayes looked direct and pacy in his cameo at East End.

I am going with a few of the faces.

I worry that we'll end up like St Johnstone in the first season they came back into the First Division. They had the best defence in the league but were left behind by Falkirk, who had more goals in the team. :(

Can Andy Barrowman contribute to the team this season more than last? My two cents: I think Barrowman could contribute goals this season. He was clearly out of his depth at times last season but equally he scored over 25 goals for County in the Second Division. I don't think you could score that number of goals and be incapable of making an impact one level up. Last time out Barrowman was part of a strike force of Adam Rooney, Garry Wood and Rory McAllister, with no experienced player to play alongside. Now he has an experienced targetman in Richie Foran and some players with real pace in Odhiambo and guile Sanchez, if he lives up to early promise, I think he has the potential to concentrate on bagging goals. One aspect of his play is his confidence - he had the look of a player out of sorts and timid towards the end of last season. Hopefully he will be gee'd up and ready to prove his worth. Thoughts?

Any news on this?

Will there be caleyjags.com photo galleries this season?

They didnt' show any of the chances that Rooney missed or the break from Sanchez - I'd say they were all good opportunities. Obviously it's going to concentrate on Dunfermline.

I think Dunfermline put highlights on their website. They have highlights of their cup game with Dumbarton on there, so I assume they do league games as well. Edit: Highlights now live on www.dafc.co.uk

Agreed. He actually did OK in general play I thought but the three easy chances he missed were criminal. Not getting his effort on target in the first half was amazing. I'd love to have seen us with Foran up against their defence, I think he'd have ripped them a new one.

First half I thought we were by far the better side. We had more of the ball, played some decent passes and had better chances. Second half we seemed to sit a lot deeper, like our players were scared to lose. Having said that, the Pars didn't offer up much going forward other than long range shots, few of which troubled Esson. I thought that Eagle was abysmal, Rooney was terrible and Imrie looked ineffecitve. I hop that this is a one off as going forward we didn't look much. The chances that Rooney missed were unbelieveable, especially the one in the first half when he was clean through,. Hayes seems a much better option than Eagle, who didn't do anythuing. Great strike by Cox, fantiastic bounce frfom the fans. Good support I thought. Didn't know who the player was getting the stick from the fans, but it was pathetic. Grow up bell ends..

Confusino reigns over County's game tomorrow. They will play Airdrie and the game wil go ahead but if Livi successfully appeal their relegation the result will be voided. What a farce.

I can exclusively reveal the other fun celeb guests for the fun-filled, fun-and-frolics Kenny Dalglish special fun day are the Rev IM Jolly, Droopy and Thom Yorke from Radiohead.

I haven't seen any of the pre-season games but I have to say I am concerned that we are signing what are basically released youth team players from other clubs or lower league foreigners. Last time we won the First Division we had David Bingham, Barry Wilson and Paul Ritchie up front - all of these players were experienced at that level. Do we have anyone comparable to them now? I hope I'm wrong but I just worry that we are taking a big gamble on these players and it isn't going to pay off.

Renegade, are your other ideas playing Djebi-Zadi behind the strikers and signing up rugby players from Fiji to play centre-half? Why not include these in your 'open letter'?

Sounds like a pish pre-season style game.

Barrowman off, Rooney on. Who did McBain come on for?

I'm going, easy game for me to get to.

--------------------Esson------------------ --Stratford---Tokely--Munro--Djebi-Zadi-- --Eagle----Duncan----McBain----Hayes--- ------------Rooney---Foran-------------