Kingsmills

I remember it as though it was yesterday. What a switch in emotions in the space of a minute or two.

Especially with the red diesel ?

I suspect that there will be more to emerge here.

Again ?

Selfishly, either of those would suit me better than Friday evening.

If the tie bores you then simply ignore it.

Was thinking much the same. That would be a welcome £80,000 boost to the coffers.

That is an assumption that I am a very long way That is an assumption I am a very long way from making. Despite losing the last league match, we have outplayed them three times this season and there is no reason why we can't do so again and with any luck at all, progress to the quarter finals.

Away to County

I probably feel the same way but sincerely hope that the players and management don't take that view unless or until it becomes arethmetically impossible.

We won with ease, scored four goals and with a bit of good fortune, could have doubled that, we kept a clean sheet. Is it really time to publicly criticise any of our own players ?

Worrying. Could be the difference of promotion or not.

Beginning to look like nobody here much cares where Motherwell might finish in the league this season.

A bigger crowd certainly. Doubt you would get a better crowd than those there yesterday.

Agree with all of that apart from the last sentence. I like the cup to hold a bit of novelty. Accordingly, rather than play County for the fifth time this season, I would prefer a winnable home tie against a club from a different division.

A good first half where the game was effectively and efficiently won within half an hour. Those who are constantly on Jordan White's back may care to note that he is now on double figures for the season with almost half of it still to go. We did ease off and become a bit sloppy in the second half but I didn't mind that too much. We certainly gave Aberdeen a lesson on how to clinically dispose of opposition two or more tiers below.

Do you have fifty pence for the meter ?

I have not heard anything to suggest that there is.

Terrible when the ICT family lose one of our own, especially so tragically early, Let's applaud until our hands are sore and fill the ground with love and condolences for her family and loved ones. Might not be possible for tomorrow but a bucket collection for a charity of her family's choosing might be another fitting tribute.

The very fisrt Scottish Cup tie ever to be settled by a penalty shoot out.

It's not about quantity, we have plenty of forwards on the books, it's about quality which was not easy to find when we had a Premiership budget and is even more difficult to find now.

A blog blow to our promotion prospects.

Great thread allowing us all a wonderful walk down memory lane. Scottish Cup has been by favourite competition since watching Thistle 'giant killing' Queens Park at Kingmsmills all of half a century ago. Never, even in my wildest dreams, did I then think I would be at Hampden watching a team from Inverness win it.

Coming back from being 3-0 down at home against Ayr United to win 4-3 was good. A typical Pele performance. However, that was probably topped by beating East Fife in a replay at Methil just because with a couple of minutes to go, their arrogant player manager Steve Archibald subbed himself so he could take acclaim from the fans for their narrow 'win' a situation we then remedied within seconds before going on to win.

There may be a few decent prospects in the Highland League but the quality there is not nearly what it once was. The league have lost big sides in Caley, Thistle, Elgin, Peterhead and even County. They have been replaced numerically but by generally inferior sides from generally smaller communities. That sad fact is amply demonstrated by the fact that Highland League sides hardy ever take league scalps in the cup these days and are quite often beaten by junoir and Lowland League sides, something that would have been almost unthinkable in days of yore.