Yngwie

There was a wee feature on him on A View from the Terrace in which he came across well. He mentioned that the moment which handed us the Scottish Cup was the lowest point in his career. Helpfully, the show’s producers showed the goal several times.

It’ll be Jekyll. Hyde is on loan at Rothes.

This leads me on to another thing that struck me last night. What does it say about Duffy when, given the choice between playing our only recognised right back or moving a central midfielder there, we’ve again opted for the latter?

One things that has been apparent recently is that when opponents take the lead then set out to resolutely defend (Hamilton, Raith, Arbroath) we really struggle to break them down and create chances. It’s not as if their keepers have been making great saves or we’ve missed sitters, we just don’t create enough. Our potentially most creative players like Walsh, Doran, McGregor, have offered very little recently. Gardyne is the only one who looks a threat at the moment.

I’d say first half red cards for 2 of our opponents was luck! Our failure to capitalise was to do with the team rather than misfortune.

Totally. Free kick was nicely whipped in but it was an uncharacteristic blunder from the keeper. Edit to add - I don’t imagine that Carson at right back would have given away the free kick that the goal came from.

I don’t think it is a coincidence that our winning run turned into this dismal run (starting with Hamilton away) when we lost Carson. Doesn’t bode well.

How many of them would you need to drink to find positives in our performance?!

P1sh all over the park. Bubble well and truly burst.

Was hoping to get a team we’d never played before rather than a boring fixture like this. Not especially easy either. But Morton will be even more disappointed with the draw than we are.

Raith fans must dread playing us. They haven’t beaten us in any of the last 20 league fixtures, going back 21 years. For 2 fairly equally resourced clubs, that is a remarkably one sided run. Prior to 2001 we had only taken 1 point from the first 6 fixtures against them. Then Wyness started tearing them apart and they’ve been traumatised ever since.

6 in 9 matches apparently. Saw him referred to by one of their fans as Ryan Assistie!

Well spotted, although it seems he signed for them 6 weeks ago!

Raith we’re really sloppy in the first half and looked a really poor team. The red card and the HT team talk seemed to galvanise them and they played better afterwards.

They had the sprinklers on it before kick off and again at half time.

They’ve done really well, regardless of what happens from now on. A few South Africans in the squad (just like the rugby team these days) but most of the team seem to be Scottish, which makes it even more impressive given the lack of professional cricket played up here.

(For the avoidance of doubt, I couldn’t find the tongue in cheek smiley)

Dykes, scoring in his 4th consecutive match, cements his place as one of Scotland’s all time great strikers ahead of the likes of Dalglish.

What a game, helped by a great crowd. Scotland are so good we can let Dykes take the penalties and STILL win!

Whatever it is he looks 10 years younger, fair play.

Great set of results for us this weekend.

Is this the only away ground where over the years we’ve been put in 3 different stands?

Did you also see the cutting from the paper, a midweek match with “Kick off 6pm prompt”. Presumably 6pm because no floodlights? I wonder why they felt the need to add prompt, it kind of implies that other matches weren’t so prompt!

Liked the line that said Caley and Thistle weren’t even the best sides in Inverness that season!