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It's a scouting trip. Knowing Benetiz' transfer record we'll be swapping Barrowman for Torres in January.

Like it.

One of my 'squad' is going for tickets on Thursday - I take it we will be OK to get them then?

Remember when he left and seemed to put on about five stone? Bizarre. Great player for us though.

Queens - 23 Dundee - 23 Raith - 21 County - 21 Partick - 19 Caley - 19 Dunfermline - 15 Getting tight!

Elgin City away would be a great draw. Choo choo, etc.

Both good points. McBain does have a good engine and is naturally left-sided, perhaps giving a better balance to the midfield. Barrowman would benefit from having more forward thinking players pushing up around him and would hopefully get more chances in this formation. however, you can't really tinker with a team that won 5-1 the previous week so I'd expect Butcher (correctly) to stick with the same XI. Also, I see Morton have appointed james Grade and Allan McManus as managers until the end of the season - link.

Is the game all ticket?

There are many better teen pop tunes that can be converted into football chants. Hey County You've got it all wrong You think that you're champions But you're ***** scum.

As I don't get to many home games I have missed his influence. I really do wonder what he is for though - what has he contributed to our club?

In the league this season Rooney has scored once every 164 minutes. If Rooney played 90 minutes of every game and scored at that same goal/minute rate he'd score 19 goals a season. However, that's a bit of a false statistic because he has only started two games - the small sample size is skewing the figures. For example, Derek Holmes is leading goalscorer in the First Division but if you take his goal/minute ratio then it's much the same as Rooney's. this is only because Holmes has played the full 90 minutes most weeks.

His four goals have come against Annan and Albion in the league cup and Partick and Ayr in the league. He started all these games except the Partick game and the Partick goal was the only penalty. Foran, Hayes and Proctor (!) have all scored more goals than Rooney in the league. I don't really know what to make of Rooney, he's often very unimpressive but occasionally produces a good finish or a piece of endevor that really rewards the team. I do think that he doesn't have the pace, strength or skill to be a prolific striker for us though.

He's the ideal player to have on the bench, I think.

Celtic and Rangers are both absolute garbage. Samaras :)

I see all the talk is that Glasgow Rangers are effectively being run by Lloyds Bank, who are looking to recoup the ?30,000,000 debt by selling players and cutting costs. A well known corporate 'cutman' has been placed on the board, contracts are being allowed to run down and the Ibrox natives are getting restless. Daily Torygraph story

Any team news? Will this match be Twitter'd?

Cox is only 19, we can't expect him to shoulder responsibility as our main midfielder just yet. I think our best player is Richie Foran but Grant Munro is our more important player, if you get me.

Having watched us the other night I think we will probably go unchanged. However, I would make a couple of tweaks. -------------------------Esson----------------------------- ---Tokely-----Bulvitis-------Munro-----Golabek------- ---Hayes---------Cox-------Duncan-----Imrie--------- --------------Sanchez-------Foran----------------------- It's a little harsh to drop Proctor but he isn't really an attacking option on right midfield - he's good at holding the position and defending but he doesn't get forward or past his man. Imrie is better wide left than up front so I'd put Hayes on the right, Imrie on the left and get them pushing up to support Foran and Sanchez. I can see the logic behind Imrie up front though and we could do with some pace up top. I'd also rather see Barrowman on the bench than Eagle.

There's a reason that no-one plays 2/3/5 anymore. The best way to space players out in the defence is to cover the back line with four players. We haven't been losing at home because of the number of defenders we have on the pitch, we've been losing because of the mistakes they've been making. With regards to play attacking football - you don't have to have x number of players playing as 'attackers' to play attacking football. A 4-4-2 formation is no bar to playing attacking football, it just depends on what players you pick and how you go about the game. Conversely, playing the formation Renegade suggests would lead to certain defeat. I don't even think that we'd score many goals playing like that. -----------------------------------------Esson--------------------------------------------------- -----------Tokely-----------------------Munro-----------------------McBain------------------- -------------------------------------------Cox---------------------------------------------------- ---Hayes--------------------------------Imrie----------------------------------Djebi-Zadi----- ----------------Sanchez--------------Barrowman-------------Foran--------------------------- Three central strikers playing in between two 'wide' men? One of the keys to opening up opposition defences is making intelligent runs into space. There wouldn't be any space to exploit given that we'd have three players playing across the middle. None of these players would be used to playing in this way with two other strikers in the central area so building understanding and good interplay between the forwards would be very difficult. Also, with this formation you are effectively surrendering the midfield by having one player sitting back (in thsi case Cox). A single player couldn't physically cover the area required and he would be overrun. Hayes and Djebi-Zadi already have to cover the entirity of the flanks so asking them to tuck in when required would be unrealistic. Defensively it's obvious that any team playing this formation would concede a lot of goals. Three central defenders is a discredited system that is barely used anymore at the top level of football, it's easy to pick apart by attacking wide areas. In this formation this tactic would be especially devastating - play a ball into the wide area (where you'd normally expect a full back to be) and pull one of the central defenders wide. This would expose space in the middle of the defence for opposition forwards or midfield runners to exploit. The defensive system would also have the flaws of the attacking system, in that our defenders have no experience of playing in a back three with no full backs or wing backs. The obvious outball for a central defender is to lay off to the full back, that's taken away in this formation. In fact, what playing this way would lead to is far more long balls simply because there isn't anyone to pass to on the rare occasion when our defenders would get the ball (rather than pick it out of our own net). I don't normally go into detail on Renegade's crazy scheme's but it's worth doing so simply because people seem actually to be giving credence to these fantastical ideas as a potential system toplay! Literally, incredible stuff.

eh aye at any level... well done wee man :024: no, Roscoe was called up when he was a teenager. Mark Brown, Ian Black & Craig Dargo all played for Scotland B against Turkey B up here in Inverness. Rory McAllister had played for Scotland under 19's when he was here and im sure there was someone else Guy Kerr also played for Scotland Under 16s. Or Under 17s.

I am assuming that the money from the transfer would be held in anticipation of this case being concluded? So we should have the money ready to pay back?

Dodsy was sitting on his own, he probably just fancied watching the game.

Grant had a good game last night - he won lots of balls in the air. Bulvitis had a few shaky moments where he gave the ball away or was found wanting positionally. Granty gave him a roasting at one point.

Russell Duncan won't get dropped, he had a good game last night.

I thought we did well in the second half, although Raith had their chances - Esson made a great save in the second half. We certainly looked more dangerous with Sanchez on and probably had more chances overall. Good finish from Proctor for the goal.