Kingsmills

I imagine they will take a thousand. Big game for them too. Would settle for the same outcome as our first SPL match back in Inverness.

Surely we can get a crowd in excess of four thousand on Saturday.

Another fine result and the dream lives on. However, now is where the real work begins with three games all of which we must win against more formidable full time opponents. It won't be easy but we can do this !

I wonder why.

Sorry, middle age has dimmed my memory ?but not my appreciation of Denzils skills. I agree with Scotty that as well as being a fabulous player he was and is an absolute gentleman.

Dennis Wyness plays his last ever game of professional football on Saturday assuming he is selected by Huntly at the grand old age of forty one. One of the most talented and entertaining players ever to wear our shirt. His cheeky step overs will live in the memory forever and there was seldom talk of a striking crisis when he was on our books in partnership with Iain Stewart, big Brian Thomson and others. Thanks for those great memories Denzil and enjoy your retirement from the game.

Can we forget about the 'wee team' paranoia and focus on securing the three points we need to keep our faint hopes of an immediate return to the Premiership alive.

and, well before half time, many of us were wishing it hadn't !

That postponement might have worked to our advantage. With Falkirk winning tonight, Dumbarton can no longer hope to avoid the relegation play off place so might be just a little less motivated.

Polworth is the second best player we have ever produced through our own youth system and although, like much of the team, his form has dipped on occasion this season, he is always fully committed and the team tends to do much better with him than without him. Everybody is entitled to their opinion but I really don't understand the abuse that Liam gets from the stands and, far too often, on this forum.

A month ago the play off place that concerned us most was the relegation one. Whatever happens now, we have done incredibly well to turn things round so quickly.

The equation remains the same. Win our four remaining games and we are in the play offs irrespective of what anyone else does. Still an extremely big ask but we have hit form in the home straight and the confidence from that is now clear to see.

Two very difficult games coming up against a resilient Dumbarton team fighting to avoid the play off place. If, and it remains a big If, we can win both of those we can then seriously think of making the play offs but whatever happens now we have demonstrated that, if we avoid the errors we have made this season, we are very well placed to make a real push for it next year.

I agree although, it has to be said, that advice and assistance appears to have been offered from a number of sources but those offers have, as far as I'm aware, all been scorned.

Which is why we won't make the play offs this season. However, that doesn't stop me enjoying and being encouraged by our current, albeit too late in the season, run of success.

It wasn't so much our awful start that was the frustration. That was entirely predicaible after the chaos of the close season. What really killed off our hopes of an immediate return to the Premiership was our dip in form in December and January after our encouraging run of games without defeat in October and November. That was very disappointing indeed and much of the blame for that must be laid at the feet of the manager with a number of players suddenly seeming disinterested and a truly shocking spell of indiscipline where we seldom seem to finish with eleven men. It is very encouraging to see that we have turned things around again but, despite the enthusiasm of some, it is too late for this season we are too far behind and, even if we keep it up, we will shortly run out of games to catch up. What we can do is build up momentum for next season. St Mirren did the same last year in the last ten games and look where they are now. If we can keep this up and retain our best remaining players we are well capable of gaining promotion next year. We just need to be far more consistent than this.

After all that has happened, and very often not happened, it beggars belief that the incumbent office bearers have failed in the very simple and straightforward task of providing the minimum legal notice of this meeting. Caley D, is right, to hold this meeting now without the requisite notice is fraught with potential difficulties. At the start of this sorry affair, the board had my sympathy. Personally speaking, this latest fiasco has lost that sympathy completely. There may be good intentions but, once a properly constituted meeting does take place, the present office bearers should be replaced en masse by people who can run things competently. I'm sorry but this is the last straw and enough is enough.

Gosh, and there we were, the rest of us, taking it seriously.

What it doesn't say is that there is also a detailed and properly funded plan to bring Champions league football within three years with the signing of Harry Kane to solve our striking problems once that funding is in place by the Summer.

A post from someone who knows much about the properties of Kevlar and very little about the subtleties of cricket.

The twelve month bans imposed by Cricket Australia on Smith and Warnner seem appropriate and proportionate. A personal blow for the best batsman in the world currently who's reputation will forever be tarnished. I feel a little sorry for young Bankcroft who was clearly selected as the fall guy. That said, I find it difficult to believe that these were the only individuals involved. Smith originally stated that it was the idea of the 'leadership group' of players. Bankcroft is too young and inexperienced to be included in that description so it now seems that that was a group of two. Very implausible.

An excellent combination of results this evening which go a very long way indeed to easing our fears about occupying the relegation play off place. Almost certainly too little too late to make a serious push for a promotion play off position but it does ease the pressure and means that we can play positively without fear and with nothing to lose for the rest of the season. The absolute priority is to get young Daniel McKay signed up for next season and beyond.

Mystifying. I certainly didn't witness anything untoward either inside or outside the ground. If the club are going to issue such a self richous statement they really ought to be a bit more specific.

I agree with much of what has been said but, even so, the poor umpiring decision and the vagaries of the D/L system should not detract from the magnificent achievement in bowling out a still formidable West Indies side for under two hundred. Our lads can return home with their heads held high. The Australian Test team in Cape Town however, should be hanging their heads in shame and Smith and Bancroft should be banned from all forms of the game for a minimum of six months.

Agree. Punching above our weight is the sort of patronising comment beloved of condescending central belt pundits. We were in the top league for all those seasons on merit and with proper organisation and sound management, both on and off the pitch, there is no reason why we can't be again. Scottish Cup wins and European campaigns may be rare and special events but there is no reason whatsoever why top flight football should be. The reason why we are where we are is nothing to do with our fan base, geographical location or lack of resourses but everything to do with appalling mismanagement in the board room and the dressing room ever since that amazing season