KirkieRobRoy

It was carnage among Scottish football managers thus week. Billy has to really demonstrate clearly why he shouldn't be next.

Who coulda predicted even half an hour ago we'd be - marginally - the top five side who gained most?

Quite agree about the commentators. Prefer them to the BBC. Could have gone either way and you could argue the league leaders should be winning at home, so celebrate the point.

3 minutes ago, Caley Mad In Berks said:

Doesn't say much for the standard of our league when it is topped by a part time side. 

It's how hard you work and how well you're coached that matters most. The main problem with Arbroath being up there is that nobody at ICT can use the 'Och, we're just a wee team wi a wee budget' getout.

Was at work. Watched it unfold on the BBC website. Went to the game at Cliftonville which I found reassuring. The Rovers fans had great patter and it was great to be reminded of normal people who don't kill.

The League Cup is a competition we should have a chance of going deep into, but this is embarrassing. I say it every year but an unambitious pre-season of mainly doling out beatings to HL teams disnae prepare us for the hard stuff. 

Still a bit focused on the might-have-beens to think too much about next season.

I think the general improvement - there is one - since McCann took over is indeed a thing to ponder.

Whoever takes the team into the new season, let's have a half-decent pre-season with fewer hidings doled out to Highland League teams and a few more interesting and testing match ups. As I say every summer, how about ICT v Kirkie Rob Roy?

Funny watching the game and the summariser turns out to be one of our coaching staff. It's like being the Old Firm.

Two unbeaten finalists in a national cup competition.

We'll be part of a pub quiz question for all time, anyway.

Defensively, the record isn't too bad but if you don't score, or can't score, one goal beats you, as tonight.

And if there was one thing for certain about the Pele years, whether we played Celtic or Cowdenbeath, win or lose, we didn't often not score.

Agree. He's a matchwinner when fit but he never is.

It is frustrating that we're walking a tightrope where a couple of bad results would put us in deep trouble but a couple of good ones would put us right in the play-off picture.

That said, who fancies us in Spiffle Premier play-offs?

I was actually quite possitive about the squad at the start of the season, thought there were some good signings in there but that's how much I know.

Cervantes might be beyond our means. You could be tilting at windmills there...

Come back refreshed and rejuvenated, Robbo, and take as long as you need.

(But sign our souvenir Hearts tickets before you go...)

Aye, I enjoyed the commentators - was Andy Ritchie the summariser? I came to the game late.

Two games in a row where other results generally ran in our favour and we couldn't capitalise.

A bit like all of last season, then.

Letting the Evil Two youth teams in helps the Evil Two and no one else. So at some stage it will probably happen.

The whole game in Scotland has been badly run - and run in the interest of the big two - for so long that there was no way it could cope with the disruption of Covid. Whatever you think of English moneybags football (and I loathe it) their authorities were clear about what they wanted to do from the off. The SPFL and SFA are making stuff up as they go along.

Every poll of Scottish fans makes it clear we are fed up with playing teams 3/4 times a year. Everydicussion of change makes it clear the authorities and the broadcasters want to keep four league Domestic Abuse Derbies a year above all else.

In many ways I don't see any hope for Scottish club football. We just must cultivate our garden - fllow your team wherever, whoever they play, at whatever level.

I accept what some have said about the dead wood in League 2. Assuming the clubs and syste survives there needs to be a wider exchange of clubs between L2 and the Highland and Lowland (and, now, West and East tier 6) Leagues. That'd freshen things up and bring fresh interest. So it'll never happen.

What an utter mess our game is. SPFL and SFA incompetent, nothing new there, but the clubs are now being shown to be venal and backbiting and self-serving. I thought there was a lot of good in our club statement but I'm worried about being linked to Sevco 2012. The media are already saying we 'support' their campaign.

Some of the usuals on the club Facebook site going on about how the whole thing is a Central Belt plot. I suppose they don't know where Hearts or Plastic Whistle play...

Oh, and Jordan White for Murrawell? All the best to him, and all that, but is he really likely to get a game for a third-place team?

Hearts are an absolute shambles and their only advantage will be the anger at being relegated by paperwork rather than football.

Caley have to cultvate an anger at being kept down by edict, too.

Reconstruction won't happen. 14-team-leagues would be rubbish and 12 is the way they'll choose in order to guarantee four domestic abuse derbies a year.

5-2 utterly flattered Hibs who were quick and direct but that was it. The Walsh shot, the penalty shout, lots of might-have-beens. But they're a league above us, we've nae money, we've had a decent run, now for promotion. But if we do get promotion, many of this team not good enough.

Last dig at Hibs. My pie was like burnt leather.

Once they leave Ibrox because Sevco have splurged millions of funny money on expensive signings leaving no place for them, I hope some of that Sevcolts team find their way to TCS.

Get Rossco out of the commentary box and on the pitch.

Offside? Aye, right. Refs and assistants serving their OF masters today.

Yup, I'd say so. I don't like VAR but it would've egged that ref's coupon