Row S

No wonder they managed to shift 12,500 tickets L_C. There were H*bees in disguise on the train we were on from Glasgow Central to Mount Florida that day as well. We were amongst Jambos friends. I would prefer to see St Johnstone promoted instead of Gretna so a draw or defeat and a St J win would work for me. As for County I wouldn't care too much about how that affects them but I certainly wouldn't go and support Gretna. Surely heading down to Tannadice should be the only thought. Either that or doing what Dennis Law did during the 1966 World Cup Final - play golf.

At least 106 years now from the last time the H*bs won the Sc Cup.

I thought that we were aware that the building of a new stand will not be feasible without a certain level of commercial floorspace, whether that be offices, retail, hotel, pub/restaurant or other uses to fund it. Then there is the proximity of the gas main. I would also welcome supporters' pre- and post- match facilities that don't require special corporate hopitality invitations or purchases outwith the reach of most fans. How many have taken up this weekend's £65 package which includes a possible boredom factor, the Aberdeen v Hibs match on Setanta?

3 points behind Gretna after tonight's win. Hopefully they can overhaul them and stop the farce of a diddy team with a sugar daddy buying his way to the SPL. I'd rather have two shorter trips down the A9 to Perth than 2 extra trips to Muvverwell next season. It would also need our feeder team from across the bridge to beat Gretna on the last day if they really want to avoid relegation.

No indication in the highlights that it wasn't actually Rankin who scored? From where we sit in the North Stand it clearly looked like a Kenny Milne own goal under pressure from Rankin. I also thought that Charlie waited too long to bring on his second sub and made a big mistake sending on Rory instead of Markus or Zander to occupy the Falkirk full backs. Instead their left back was allowed to carry and deliver the ball to Finnigan (in an offside position) and bang we're 1-0 down. Rory also had his usual headless chicken run about for the last 10 minutes.

If Kenny Miller could shoot we would have been out of sight and not biting our nails for the last 10 to 15 minutes. Mind you trust a Sellick player to score in the last minute, but at least I was happy with that one.

She had more sense not to wear the shorts, if the ones Blackie and Zander are "modelling" are anything to go by.

My uncle stays in White Rock, Surrey BC, which is about 20 miles from Burnaby. I had told him about the game and as an ex-pat he thought he would travel across for the game yesterday. However, he discovered on arrival just 10 mins before KO that it had been switched to Coquitlam some considerable distance away. He therefore just returned home and by all accounts it was just as well he did.

18 home and 20 away!!! Season ticket holders short changed again thanks to incompetent SPL.

I go back to my original post and say that 5 defeats in the last 6 league games is a poor run of results for any team. Considering that in the previous last 12 seasons we have seen year on year improvement it is disappointing that despite beating the Huns twice we seem to have gone back this season. Okay so we have been unlucky with injuries to Denzil, Dargo and Royston but we do seem to be suffering from not strengthening the squad in the January window.

Five league defeats in the last six does not read well. Yesterday I felt that Charlie should have started with Dargo up front and then sub him after about 60 minutes if he was knackered, by which time we might have been 3 up. Instead the lack of pace up front limited our effectiveness. It was no surprise that at only one goal down The Pars came out after half time all guns blazing. There were many occasions in the game when both Caff and Dods were outjumped by their opposite number and when neither knew which player to pick up. Russell Duncan kept giving the ball away. JR was anonymous in the midfield engine room in terms of tackling back and winning the ball - I agree that Richie Hart would have been a better choice. In saying all that though we never got the rub of the green from the ref, especially in the second half. For the The Pars' penalty Hammell was outside the box when Hastings tripped him. Then Barry was inside the box when he got what looked like a forearm smash in the face, but a free kick outside. Over the next few weeks we are going to have to grind out some results from the teams below us, who will all be scrapping to keep The Pars at bay. Let's hope Charlie can guide the team through that. P.S. Tam McManus is a F*d

Ah, I remember the Home International games against Ingerland when you could sing "Bobby Moore, superstar, walks like a woman and he wears a bra" or "Jimmy Hill he's a poof". I guess songs like these would not be PC anymore.

I fear the same, Chris. It will be more like a meaningless end of season game this Saturday despite having the top six to play for.

What about Liam Buchanan from the Blue Brazil?

.....and pretty much the same team that has failed to win any points out of the last nine, RiG. Some interesting comments folks and I would subscribe to the view about playing 4-5-1 next week with Bayne as the lone striker and perhaps giving Barry a free role. We will need the extra man in midfield to deal with Nakamura and Hartley. Perhaps Richie Hart could do a job in that respect. His tough tackling could help and I think Russell Duncan and Ian Black should play alongside him. It would then be a toss up between McBain and Rankin on the left. Rankin has certainly played better out on the left than Roy this season, but was poor in central midfield. As for the defence, I could venture to say bring in Caff for Tokely at right back, but Caff hasn't done too well there this season on the couple of occasions he has played there. On the subs bench we should have the young legs in Rory and Zander to throw on in the last 20 minutes, if it's still 0-0. No point holding out for a draw if we want our season to be meaningful beyond next week. After all I think we are going to struggle to make the Top Six. Here's to a semi final against Queen of the South.

Oops! I forgot about Markus being cup tied

I know we didn't deserve to lose the Celtic and Hearts games and I don't suggest Charlie hits the panic button, but perhaps freshening up the team is necessary to make more scoring chances. I fear we could lose heavily next week if our midfield don't get a grip of the game early on. I see that Blackie and Markus came on as subs today. Maybe they should start next week.

Time to rid Scottish football of this buffoon. If not then when Hearts season ticket sales drop by 10,000 for next season he might just get the message to clear off back to Minsk and take his Lithuanian loan signings with him. That's the only way Hearts will get close to an all Scottish team.

Perhaps we should make a loan signing of the excellent national team keeper "with the big gob who thinks he's bigger than Hearts". After all he if can't even make their reserve team bench so he might as well come and warm our first team one.

With regard to drinking before the match, did anyone else get to The Diggers around 11.30 am to discover it was not open? This "forced" us to accept second best, The Caley Sample Room, at the west end of Angle Park Terrace, just along from The Diggers. We managed to get a seat, have some great food and sample many of the Caledonian Brewery's finest ales. It is also child friendly with a section designated as a family area. Unfortunately we were the only ICT fans in there. There were plenty of Welsh rugby fans to get the crack with as well as Scots and Jambos without being crushed. So for next season we shall definitely go to back to the CSR and forget being uncontrollably jostled in The Diggers.

We seemed to spend most of the second half giving the ball away. The passing game that has served us well in recent weeks went right out the window. Another poor showing from Roy McBain and Russell Duncan was just outnumbered. High punts to Bayne and MacAllister were mopped up easily by the Hearts defence. I would have had Blackie and Marcus on early in the second half when we could all see things were starting to go wrong. We effectively gifted the game to Hearts.

On a small point about family sections at cup games, we were in the family section of Hampden for last year's Hearts v Gretna final and paid £20 for an adult and £10 for a child. The same prices would have applied if it was the Old Firm contesting the final. So why can't we have a family section for the quarter final? If there is no real answer it only serves to fuel the view that the club are trying to make as much money out of this tie as possible.

"Am wondrin if abody kens if she cams fae da Shetland Isles.... I kent lots o' Goodlads up yonder when I used tae bide there a lang time ago.... " Emily's English. Goodlad is her married name and I think her husband is either from Dundee or St Andrews. I remember him being an Arab supporter when they first moved to Inverness (they were neighbours of ours).

I expected this and wasn't surprised to see many ST holders missing on Saturday. However, no doubt they will all be back with more to boot plus the usual Sellick fans wanting tickets for the next round in amongst the home support. We also had the steady trickle of early leavers again. I know the second half was dire, but why pay all that money to watch the game then leave 5 minutes or more before the end? Was it because they feared another last minute opposition goal?

Yes Em moved away south a year past May. Her hubby got a job in Edinburgh I believe and they also kept in touch with Robbo, hence Em's "transfer" to the Livi dugout. I also noticed the sponsorship, but on her coat tail and not on her trackie bottoms.