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Don't know if anyone else heard it but on radio before game Yogi said we'd tried to bring in players after Christmas but couldn't manage on the money available. Assume he meant wages?? That would not be a great surprise given our limited finances and I am sure the vast majority of fans would have been accepting if the chairman had said when Billy left something along the lines of we will try our best but will struggle to replace him on the money available rather than the very definite 'we have contingency plans' when that turned out not to be the case. The Board's in a no win position here. They need to attract potential players and then persuade them that the benefits of being here are worth signing a contract even if the money is not as good as the player was hoping for. If the Chairman states that it will be a struggle on the money available, potential players won't bother to look at us in the first place. Rather than stretch the budget to bring in someone new, the priority must be to secure contracts of players who have not re-signed. From the BBC match stats, the problem yesterday was not so much in converting chances as in creating them. Only 7 shots at goal against 10 men is not good. Yesterday was a team problem and not a lack of a striker problem.

The later apart from Watkins one imo By that do you mean he shouldn't have been booked or that it should have been a straight red? On the radio there was immediate shock from the commentary team at what they described as a two footed lunge. The immedate comments was that it must be a red card and that he will be off. They were then very surprised at it being only a yellow, particularly with the ref being so close. One of the team described it as a shocking challenge. Interestingly, later in the commentary they made mention of Raven being a very lucky boy not to have picked up a second yellow early in the second half but they didn't mention Marley. Perhpas they had seen a replay and realised their initial impression was wrong. Don't know if this will be picked up on in the "highlights" but how did you see the incident?

Can't remember why I didn't risk embarrassing myself with a prediction, but I see that Dougal predicted we would be 10th behind County and Hamilton would be bottom. Perhaps that is why he has been so quiet recently.

Ah! So it is. Maybe we just didn't deserve a point tonight.

In the post match interview Yogi was saying that all the decisions were going Utd's way as if the ref felt he needed to even things up. It certainly didn't sound that way on the radio and one gets the impression that we were lucky to end up with more than 8 players on the park. But even if there was serious provocation the level of indiscipline is inexcusable. Being one goal and one man up for 85 mins we should have been disciplined and focussed on possession and keeping the ball in the opposition half. We should have won the game comfortably. Not only has the indiscipline resulted in the gap being 6 points rather than 10, Warren will now be suspended and others are building up disciplinary points which could well be costly later on given the threadbare squad we have. It will be interesting to hear the views of those at the game.

Can't afford Raven, Warren or Shinnie to pick up a 2nd yellow. Need to press Utd and make the goal and the numerical advantage count.

No. He's destined to be heading for Peterborough to play for the Posh. Mind you, it is quite interesting to read that all three of Beckham's sons seem to be pretty talented footballers. I don't know if they have also inherited their mother's musical talent but if so, then my advise to them is to stick to football.

What happened to the good old fashioned Centre Forward ? and the goalie, right back, left back, right half, centre half, left half, right winger, inside right, inside left and left winger?

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Nice compilation of his best goals and there are some real stunners in there. He certainly looks like more of a replacement for Marley than Billy though. I was also impressed with his first touch . Of course these very brief videos can showcase highlights of a career of several years in just a few seconds. It's hardly a complete picture and it begs the question of why he is currently a free agent. But the boy obviously has a great talent and so well worth Yogi having a good look at him. This weather should make him feel at home!

Kink - that's big K and small k!

Well, Scotland didn't do it but I think they can take enough from the game to have a realistic hope of picking up their first ever World Cup win. England, on the other hand must now realise that they have a fight on their hands to even reach the quarter finals and are unlikely to progress beyond that. Without Moeen Ali it might have been a very different story. As an Englishman, I'm worried. I listened to commentary early on and went to bed with England coasting at 160 without loss. With all wickets in hand and with the pitch offerring little to the bowlers, the scene was set for the English batsmen to launch an assualt on the lowest ranked team in the competition. But no. Yet again the English batsmen failed and could only muster about 130 runs in the final 20 overs. Pathetic! Still a target of over 300 was always going to be too much for Scotland and so the English bowlers were under no pressure at all and should have been able to keep things really tight,so Scotland did well to score as much as they did. Moeen and Bell won the game in the first 30 overs. For the rest of the match Scotland at least matched an England side who were no longer under any pressure. They should take great heart from that.

I think a lot of the comments stem from an earlier comment about it being dull for a 3-3 draw and perhaps it should be seen in that context. From an entertainment perspective I have seen far worse at TCS this season but I've also seen far better. Match stats show that between the 2 sides there were 16 attempts on goal which is pretty average. 6 goals is clearly a plus point entertainment wise but apart from Williams goal and arguably Slater's free kick the goals were more down to sloppy defending or good luck than good attacking play. But rather than judging the game by my own subjective opinion, folk might be better to reflect on the response of the crowd as a whole rather than applauding the players. The game never really got the crowd going and at the end most folk moved quickly for the exits. I know there was a big element of disappointment but I have been to games where a hatful of goals have been scored and fans of the losing side have stood at the end to applaud the entertainment provided by both sides. That was never going to happen yesterday. It wasn't a bad game but it was not as exciting as the scoreline would suggest.

Hamilton have now got just 2 points from their last 8 games and scored only 1 goal in their last 7. Today they only had one shot at goal in the entire match. With Dundee and St Johnstone both with games in hand I would be really surprised if they finished in the top 6. They played some really good football earlier in the year and it is a bit of a shame to see them fall apart like this.

What on earth have these factors got to do with anyone's opinion on the entertainment value of the game itself? The game is what it is. If it's a dull draw it's a dull draw whether you happen to be top of the table or bottom. Gaining a point over Utd, still unbeaten in 2015, 3rd in the league, cup QF, still scoring goals even after losing our top striker? - Fantastic! Entertainment value of yesterday's game? - Not great.

Mckay....small "k" Caley D small minded CaleyD.....no space.

I never like the fancy terms that are used to define players these days. The extent to which someone who lines up toward the back of the team joins the attack will be dependent on the game plan and the way the game develops. As far as I'm concerned, Raven is a Right Back and Shinnie and Tremarco are Left Backs. I think they are all good going forward and personally I would like them to press forward more positively more often. By the way, where did the term "Fullback" come from? what is wrong with simply a Left Back and Right Back? After all, you have Centre Backs and not Centre Fullbacks.

Apart from consolidating 3rd position, a win at Tannadice on Tuesday would also all but guarantee top six. Kilmarnock in 8th would not be able to match our points total before the split. Whilst St Johnstone possibly could, they have to play both Dundee and St Johnstone and it would require a particular combination of results on those two matches and then for all three of them to win the rest of their games before the split and for us to lose all of our for us to drop out of the top six. It simply isn't going to happen.

Given the run we've been on I thought that was a pretty nervy and lacklustre performance against a team we should have beaten. We have a huge game against Dundee Utd on Tuesday and we are going to have to play better if we are to get anything out of that. I thought Tansey and Draper were both well short of their normal high standards. Ross and Williams both did reasonably well in midfield (great strike from Williams!) but MOTM for me was Christie by a country mile. He worked tirelessly and was always wanting the ball despite getting some pretty rough treatment which the referee seemed happy to condone. Defensively we were not great and there were a number of individual errors which led to goals. Whilst it is, of course, fantastic that we are still unbeaten in 2015, it is a bit worrying that after taking the lead against County we were pegged back to a draw, then against both St Mirren and Partick we had a two goal cushion and they pulled one back and then today, we took the lead no less than 3 times and were pegged back each time. Yogi was talking about this last week saying we have to learn to kill teams off. Whatever he said to the team clearly didn't work! That is now 4 games in a row where we have allowed the opposition to score the last goal of the game and these games have been against 4 of the bottom 5. Interestingly, that coincides with Brill's absence from the team. It would be good to know how close he is to a return to fitness. On the balance of play we might consider ourselves a little unlucky not to get all 3 points but to be honest, we never created a lot of chances and at times gifted them opportunities to attack through sloppiness. So we probably got what we deserved. A 3-3 scoreline sounds great but in truth it reflected defensive frailties rather than good attacking football. At least Dundee Utd lost and we strengthen our hold of 3rd place.

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The clips are quite impressive but his record over the last two years is not great. Playing in the 2nd tier in the Dutch leagues he has averaged just one goal every 6 games. I guess Yogi needs to judge whether his undoubted talent can be exploited within our set-up and whether he has got the appropriate work ethic. If he signs then we will have an interesting player on our hands.

What a crepe name for a lad - although he probably doesn't give a toss.

Proof if proof were needed that Inverness is out of this world!

John Sutton?

One amazing fact I read today is that of the 5 successful run chases of over 300 in the cricket world cup history, it has been Ireland that has achieved the target in 3 of those.