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Yeah i would say your right in terms of in the middle of the 1st/championship and the SPL/Premier League. Although unlike West Brom we haven't really been yo-yoing up and down the leagues that much just yet.

Match fitness was a problem for a few against peterhead and they didn't have to play their best to beat peterhead while against celtic it would have to be one of their best performances of the year I'm pretty sure if they performed with the same energy levels as they did against Peterhead with the same line up we wouldn't have lost 6-0, would of course probably still lost as Celtic played a blinder but not so humiliating. Also think that the players can't go from being needing match practice to needing a rest for other games in less than a month.

I really hope we win on saturday because if we don't that 6-0 humiliation will have been for nothing.

What i don't understand though is that against Peterhead we put out a strong side and i thought that meant we were serious about the cup. Then against Celtic we play youths and fringe players at parkhead when i don't really think its the right time to be introducing them. If terry wanted to focus so much on the league why not just play those players against Peterhead instead? Team that started against Peterhead. TEAM: Tuffey, Proctor, McBain, Munro, Gillet, Cox, Duncan, Ross, Hayes, Odhiambo, Rooney

I'm sure Shinnie will know he's dropped. Cant see him replacing Golly at left back.

The Semi's are played at Hampden and i'm not greedy, i know its hard to win them. A cup final would be extra special but a semi at Hampden will do me nicely.

Obviously we need to work for it but these stats show that the gulf between the top of the first and the bottom of the SPL is very slim. The team that gets promoted normally has a pretty decent start to the SPL. We shouldn't be scared of these teams and i think we ARE better than Kilmarnock, St Mirren, St Johnstone and Hamilton. 2010 - St Johnstone 8th 2009 - Hamilton 9th 2008 - Gretna 12th 2007 - St Mirren 11th 2006 - Falkirk 10th 2005 - Inverness 8th

What was the point in even beating Peterhead though? We could have sent them through and at least they would have given it their all. Who would have thought it was crazy to suggest a professional athlete could sustain playing a wednesday night and a saturday afternoon in the same week Obviously the league is priority but i just don't think that team selection was at all positive and TB knew exactly what would happen. I don't expect to win the cup (especially when bumping into the OF on the way) but i would love another day out at Hampden and its manageable to achieve that and to stay in the SPL. An extra couple cup games isn't going to make that much difference to our league form. I wouldn't have paid the £17.50 if i knew we were just going to lie down and take a beating like that. We're out of the cup for another year now so lets get back to league business and roll on the Scottish Cup, heres hope we can get a nice easy route to a semi final at Hampden.

A little bit more stat finding shows that in season 2007/2008 when we finished 9th (also quite successful) we lost our first 6 matches and finally managed to record our first win on the 22nd of September of that season. Its far too early on in the season to suggest how bad we'll be. I'm still very confident we'll managed around 8th or 9th.

Can anyone confirm the Concession is for Under 16s or Under 18s? I've got a friend wanting to come along and i told him it would be ?5 for under 18s, is this the case or will he have to pay ?15 being 17 years of age.

I think the easier thing to do is to make the opponents' goal a yard wider and a foot higher, and ours a yard narrower and a foot lower! They'll destroy us in the 2nd half though.

Is this so your 5-1 (ish) prediction for wednesday night comes true?

Its worth noting that St Johnstone in their first season back in the SPL last year took 7 matches before they got their first win. It came on the 3rd of October. They managed to finish 8th and IMO had a very successful season. We've already took a massive scalp off Utd at tannadice and if we can match that with a win in Paisley we'll be in a good place to build on. Also Hearts who finished 6th last season lost more than they won. We can't except to win more games than we lose its just not realistic. If we can manage to get the main wins against teams like St. Mirren, Killie, St Johnstone and Hamilton (from now on) and focus on draws away from home against the rest we'll finish in a good position.

Same in Inverness , Scotland and the rest of the Western world ! That figures Still not managed to take in a 3D match yet but looking to see one in the next month or so with my student union showing 3D matches

I'm not worried at all yet. I've seen enough good things this season to know we can come good when we get our players back. Losing to Celtic and Heartsat home isn't that bad, The Hamilton game was a bad one but we can make up for that one on Saturday against St Mirren.

Pretty sure it's Lewis Mackinnon. Either Craig Macmillan or Lewis Mackinnon?

Tokely played pretty poor today but he was out of position. Eric was good i thought and can't see any reason why people would think he had a poor game. Im guessing Innes is out now so its going to be a very out of form defence against Celtic on Wednesday. Golabek---------Munro-------Tokely--------Proctor ????????????? I can't see McBain going in at left back or Cox at right back.

No chance are we in a relegation battle. I can take enough from todays game to believe we can beat St Mirren next weekend, Tightening it up at the back is all thats needed and im confident the goals will be there next week, Rooney was unlucky a few times and just appeared to be having an off day infront of goal. Next weekend will give us a better idea of where we are. Losing to Hamilton could be down to a bad day but our second attempt is next weekend against St Mirren, if we lose that also then we may start worrying.

I'm a bit surprised we lost that one 3-1 to be honest, We didn't play badly but lost a couple of soft goals on the break, we did however have a few of chances to score. The only bad point i would say was the defence, Tokely at left back wasn't working and Proctor wasn't too good at right back either. Hayes had a good game and had their left back in his pocket all day. Rooney done well also and created a few chances with a great first touch but was unlucky with the finish. Pass marks for Duff and Ross too today who i thought offered a few nice balls through to Rooney.

"New signing Rudi Skacel is unlikely to be included in the Hearts squad as the Czech Republic international needs training, having been without a club." Taken from the BBC Website.

I've always wondered what sport dishes out the most wages. I guess it would it be Football but how does the NFL compare and sports like Golf and F1?

HD has ruined me now. After watching the world cup BBC games in HD and ITV games on regular i now find it really hard to watch matches at home that aren't in HD and for that reason i much prefered watching the BBC games over the summer. It really does make a different and defines the player so much better.

C'mon Rooney! Multitask! Get that contract signed as well as banging in a hatrick against Hearts.

Most likely you will be able to. I can't see this one being a sell out and i've turned up and parkhead and ibrox for league games before and bought a ticket before kick off from the ticket office.

Changing my first scorer from Skacel to Kyle as Skacel is unlikely to be in the squad.