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Yes, confirmed in the same Courier article.

Yes and then the Courier scours our website and turns it into part of the main back page article today that says he's out for 2 to 3 weeks with a knee injury. Amazing!

Spot on. I very much welcome the singing and flag waving to help create a better atmosphere at matches. However. I deplore the alter-ego of a number of the youngsters. I found the verbal abuse and barging of those trying to protect a lady in an electric wheelchair from being over run by the mob near the pie stall utterly disgraceful. Those who witnessed this and complained to the police then faced more abuse from the mob for doing so. If this behaviour goes unchecked then we potentially face the regular experience of having to watch what's going on in the crowd rather than on the pitch, just like in the 1970s and 80s, and then some fans will stop going to games because of it. The spilling over of mob behaviour into the streets putting others at risk also means more policing and cost to the Club. The long term damage this could do to our reputation and the sport in general is unthinkable.

I agree with Scotty and Ronaldo - too much sniping and bickering for daring to express an opinion on the performance of the team. I wasn't the only one who came away from the game feeling as if we'd lost after the effort of some of the players. We still struggle in defence and we have a few players who just don't do enough to justify a place in the starting line up. Glad we moved off the bottom though, but amazed how we are still in touch having failed to take more than 1 point from so many games. The support was great today but can those kids stop acting like casuals and start behaving themselves? There was no need for their antics at half time in the toilets and snack bar area, and certainly lying not along Longman Road towards the railway station after the match. About time they learned to show respect for the police and their own fans or someone is going to take away their sweeties and give them a lesson they won't forget.

Does it have to be a back 4? I think we need to play 3 at the back plus 2 full backs capable of both going forward and defending well. Our defence has been pick-pocketed so often this season when we haven't had midfielders that provide the cover needed when other teams attack us down the flanks. So my picks for a back 3 are Meekings (if fit - Mckay if not), Laing, McCart with Raven and Tremarco flanking them in the full/wing back positions.

Yes, the Dandies proved to be chocolate fireguards at crucial time again. Might as well give the SPL trophy to the Tic after tomorrow, regardless of the result.

I take it your talking about the pigeons. Being better organised than us is not difficult.

....... but Brown, MacLennan and Wilson are still allowed to play for our Development side?

Strange that we let a 21-year-old fringe defender go on loan to Cove Rangers then bring in a 19-year-old defender from another club. Jason must wonder what he's got to do to get his career moving forward with ICT. Strange one about Doran, particularly as he wasn't mentioned amongst the injured players. Yet, on the other hand, Fisher was on the bench last night when it was announced beforehand that he was still out but no injury mentioned. Is this just squad rotation?

It would be interesting to know how many points we have taken this season when wearing that vanilla away top. I can't recall us winning a league game when wearing it and perhaps only gaining two draws. I know there are other more serious problems, many of which have festered since the time Hughes was in charge, but I think that top has been a bit of a jinx. No wonder there were plenty of them in the JD store before Christmas when the home top was sold out.

I think we've been on the slide since Rice came in to replace Latapy. Richie was an inexperienced choice for manager and should have been either a coach or assistant to learn his trade. I've been told that he lost the dressing room weeks ago and some of the players want to leave. Apparently Fisher is one in that category. Fail to win on Saturday and I fear we will say bye bye to the Premier League for many seasons to come.

Free for kids under 5 if accompanied by a grown up so it'll nae cost yir auld man onythin tae get ye in ma loon.

This is just the game we need to get a morale boosting win from which we can kick on and climb back up the league over the next few weeks. Nothing less than a clear 3 goals and none conceded will do nicely but I would be happy with the same score as 6 years ago.

Re the photo, I'm more impressed with Richie having shaved that awful beard off than by the new signings.

Cheers to you and RossP for the advice on the various hostelries. As we're hoping to arrive around noon and looking for food and real ale we are minded to try the Muckle Cross and/or the Drouthy Cobbler.

On the unprecedented theme this is my first competitive match against Elgin on their own turf. So to get back to one of the Immortal one's original questions, what hostelry are we planning to take over? I am not so familiar with pubs in the place but I know that some of my contacts from Moray Bowling Club drink in the Ionic.

Gary Miller and David Badwillie too?

The only thing that performance did for me was help me make my mind up not to go and purchase a ticket for the game in Dingwall on Saturday. I hope they prove me wrong but no way do I want to witness a thrashing from our local rivals. I'd rather spend a less stressful afternoon doing something else.

Fon Williams The Bionic Man McKay - Warren - Meekings - Tremarco Polworth - Draper - Tansey Cole Fisher - Doumbouya Subs Esson, Gilchrist, Mulraney, Doran, Vigurs, King & Boden

Well my information came from someone close to a source within the Club. That was the position last night and came with the rider that every effort was being made to try and address it before they had to resort to asking for a postponement. It looks as if STV did a bit more digging to check out the situation rather than taking what I had been told at face value. As said above all should become clearer in the next 21 hours and 21 minutes.

We have a goalkeeper injury crisis! OFW and Ryan injured, Cammy Mackay back on loan at Elgin and Daniel Hobban also injured. Only available keeper is a 16 year old youth player. This could see the Hamilton game being postponed.

I won't repeat much of the negatives expressed above as many sum up how I felt. So disgusted was I that I left the ground after the third goal with about 8 minutes to go, something that I don't normally do. In leaving early to find my car in the car park this brought me into contact with many of the St Johnstone young soccer casuals, the Fair City Unity (scumbags). They too left early to go round to our end of the ground, with the intention of spoiling for a fight. Seeing what was about to unfold I spoke to stewards and also let them know my feelings about their behaviour during the match. I mentioned that our stewards would not tolerate that from our fans. I got a sort of explanation along the lines that as they are contained to one area of the ground and watched it was okay, but not in my book. I trust that there was no trouble with our young fans as I might have heard about it on here. Hopefully my warning to the stewards worked. This is the same crowd of youngsters that were misbehaving outside our stadium at the end of August and on their journey back along Longman Road into the city centre. I for one don't like to see this and feel that it needs to be stamped out and I'm minded to write to St Johnstone FC about it. I doubt these youngsters try that when their team are up against clubs with bigger supports - they'd certainly get a good kicking if they tried anything outside Ibrox or Celtic Park.

Thanks for that folks. Here's hoping we can get 3 points for a change.

Looking to make my first away game of the season this Saturday. Does anyone know the set up for entry? Is it the same for all away games, that we need to buy tickets in advance? Can I buy them at Mcdairmid Park on the day? Don't want to get caught out like I did for the Hearts game this time last year when I was down that way for the weekend having bought tickets in advance and then the game was called off.

Play like they did against Motherwell and the next 4 games are all winnable - Dundee, St Johnstone, Hamilton and Kilmarnock. Onwards and upwards.