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Or to put it another way, why did crosses constantly go to the back when White was always going to the front post? Players putting in crosses need to look up and see where people are rather than simply hit and hope.

I liked the banner which mocked the Christian reactionaries with the message "Non-judgement day is coming"! It's a shame the march couldn't have ended at TCS. This would have challenged the ingrained homophobia in football and allowed us to rightfully claim the "Pride of the HighlandS" epithet again.

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Robbie Neilson seems to be the bookies' favourite and the fans' choice too. Jim MacIntyre and Laurie Ellis at short odds as well. Robbo and Yogi lead the outsiders at 10-1 and 12-1. Giving the job to Ellis might free up a bit of cash for the January transfer window so I guess they will see how he does for a couple of games rather than rush to make an appointment. I agree that Utd will not want to pay compensation on top of what ever Lazlo has walked away with but on the other hand, the appointment of the right manager for the club is the best investment a football club will ever make. Lets just hope our Board will not have to make these kind of decisions again any time soon.

It take it you mean Dundee Utd? MourInho hasn't been sacked yet! I would have thought a move to Utd was unlikely. Anything short of promotion will be seen as failure for them and I would expect they will be looking for a higher profile manager. For Robbo's part, the expectation would put a great deal of pressure on him to deliver on those expectations with a group of players he didn't pick. If it didn't work out then what next for him? He's settled up here and is getting good results from a squad that don't cost much and there must be a fair amount of job satisfaction in that. From a career perspective (if he has ambitions to manage bigger clubs again) he will be far more marketable if he achieves promotion with us rather than simply having a lengthy unbeaten run in the league. I can't see him going South unless there are things unsettling him behind the scenes here (which I certainly wouldn't rule out!) These situations are always a good opportunity to indicate an interest and to suggest to your current employer that unless you get some movement on certain issues you might be off. Robbo is about the greatest asset the club has at the moment and the Board should be doing all they can to keep him happy.

I saw him saying that on TV and he actually kept a straight face. But the text could have been taken from a satirical comedy sketch such is the absurdity of what he is saying. He complains about Murrayfield not being a neutral venue when playing against an Edinburgh side yet he seems oblivious to the lack of neutrality when everyone else is expected to travel to Glasgow to play Celtic. Maybe they should play the Celtic Hearts game at midday in Aberdeen? Would that suit him better? After all, whilst it might be a tad inconvenient, at least it would be a neutral venue and therefore fairer than expecting Aberdeen to do the opposite journey to play The Rangers in a non neutral venue.

Had there been any proper objective assessment of his performance he would have had £110,000 deducted from what is, in any case, a salary well in excess of what the job merits. Why is it that the people who receive this type of bonus always seem to be the sort of people who are least deserving on them? The very least one might expect from people being paid these huge sums is that they accept invitations from the media to justify their decisions. Typically, none of the people involved in making the decision were "available" to be interviewed on Radio Scotland this morning.

Yes, but don't forget the Scottish Police Federation were not consulted over this. The SPFL will have discussed this with Police Scotland. Just as there seems to be a disconnect between the SPFL and the clubs, there is a disconnect between Police Scotland and the Police officers who will actually be tasked with policing the streets of Glasgow with 100,000 fans of 4 different clubs. If the senior officers of Police Scotland felt there was a significant problem with the arrangements they would have vetoed them.

When we had a similar situation a while back I wrote to the SFA about the situation. I said I wanted to be a responsible supporter and follow the police advice and make my way straight to Hampden after getting off the train. I informed them that the last train before kick off got in the night before kick off and I therefore expected to arrive at Hampden some time before 11pm. Given that it seemed unreasonable to expect me to hang around outside the stadium all night I asked if I could be let in and pitch a tent on the pitch. Funnily enough, I never got a reply!

Very disappointing performance in front of the back four. We created little and and seemed to be very lacklustre. we only looked as though we might threaten when Calder came on. I’m really not sure what the lad has to do to get more game time. I wasn’t at the County game but had been delighted to hear the good reports about Polworth’s performance. But where was he today? He was almost anonymous. Happy for us to come away with a point we didn’t really deserve.

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They are making both ties on Sunday because both of the ugly sisters are playing in the Europa league. This is just another consequence of the farcical policy that you can get knocked out of the Champions League and then be given a slot in the Europa competition. But if it wasn’t for a team in both ties being involved on a Thursday, when on the Saturday would the semi have been played? There is a league program on that day so 3 pm is not an option. Whether before or after is not great for fans traveling a distance. Personally I’d put the Celtic game on at 5pm on the Saturday and the Dons game could have been played at 3pm on the Sunday. It is time the football powers that be stood up to the big two and considered the fans of other clubs for a change.

As long as its not like the Judean People's Front we should be OK.

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In the same way that they don’t pay all the players in the men’s team the same. Just as in any business you tend to pay staff more if your contribution to the profitability of the business is more crucial. If women players perform at a level which brings in the the same level of income to the club as the men’s team then equality of pay would be appropriate.

It’s interesting to look at the situation in Wales. The big two there play in the English set up and so too do some smaller teams. This means the teams who compete in the Welsh league have a chance of European football and of winning a national championship which they otherwise would not have had. But as the Irn Bru cup has shown, the top sides in that league are at Scottish Championship level at best. Their crowds are dismal. Merthyr who play in English level 7 probably get bigger crowds than most of the Welsh level 1 sides. So whilst I don’t think that having 2 sides dominating a league is healthy, I don’t think allowing top teams to play in England would be healthy for the game in Scotland either. With more money in the game and with improved transport networks, I personally feel that the best way forward would be to have a British league with regionalisation at perhaps the 3rd and 4th tiers which might allow several Scottish teams to play against teams from the Northern half of England. Below that the tiers would be more local so a fifth tier would have a Scottish only division. This would bring Scottish clubs into the mix for the big TV money and give fans the opportunity of seeing a wide variety of other British teams. Promotion through the tiers would give all clubs the potential to experience the broader dimension I am sure this would be good for the game in Scotland, but the reality is that it will never happen for a variety of reasons related to vested interests and politics

The only certain thing is that they won’t take notice of your opinion if you don’t give it. You can only legitimately say you are being ignored if you give them something to ignore in the first place. As surveys go, it’s actually not a bad one. Well worth filling in in my opinion.

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Adam Rooney scored again for Salford tonight. That is 6 in 7 games. Would they notice if we swapped him for our Rooney?

Interesting stats but as with so much of this kind of stuff, interpretation is difficult. For example, a high proportion of shots on target may simply reflect a tendency to hit the ball to the centre of the target where the keeper is likely to save it. Aim the ball just inside the post and you will miss the target more often but you will also probably score more. Having a low number of shots on target per goal would therefore seem to be the key. You won't score if you don't shoot so the number of shots at goal would also appear to be an important stat in principle. There are times when people take speculative shots when they would better off just working the ball or passing to someone in a far better shooting position, but more often it is a case of someone in a shooting position who doesn't shoot but who passes the ball and the move breaks up before anyone else can get a shot away.

Surely the manager gives instructions as to who will take penalties and this will include a fall back position for when the allotted penalty taker has gone off. When a kick is awarded that player should immediately step up to take the responsibility. There should never be a situation where nobody seems to want to take it or where players are arguing over the ball. Any issues with that and the captain on the park should step in and sort it out.

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Particularly if you turn up for a game when there isn't one.

Alex Fisher got a hat-trick for Yeovil in their 4-0 win at Notts County on Friday evening.