Caley Mad In Berks

Chesterfield ffs? How can that be better for his career than us?

We actually had a penalty in one of the pre season friendlies (Yeovil I think), taken very competently by Tansey. Its an interesting question as to who our penalty takers would be in the event of a penalty shoot out. Subject to them being in the team I think I'd go for Tansey, Hayes Tokeley, Gillet and Foran. As OCG said, if we were in a penalty shoot out I'd definitely want to see Esson in goal for us. After last Saturday surely there is no longer any doubt that he is our no. 1.

I assume you mean packing all home supporters into Main stand and letting Celtic have both south and north. Personally I think this would totally spoil the atmosphere. I would be completely against it.

Am I imagining it but have there been more controversial 'straight reds' than usual this season, in both Scotland and England? We all remember Chris Hogg's diabolical one a few weeks ago v Celtic. And yesterday, yet another debatable one for Gillet. I couldn't really tell from the highlights (should I say lowlights?) just how much contact he got on Barrowboy, but he seemed to win the ball. A red card? Surely not. Bolton had a shocker a few weeks ago too (successfully appealed I think), and just yesterday Kompany for City v United was surely not worth a red, and almost certainly put City out of the FA cup. Trouble is of course that even when successfully appealed it doesn't alter the fact that a game has been spoiled as an even contest for the paying public. And the potential loss of points for the innocent side could have, who knows, what consequences at the end of the season. I really don't know what the answer is, other than full, instant replays of every on field incident, with all the attendant problems this would bring. But surely referees at least should be held more to account when it has been proved that their over zealous decisions have been blatantly wrong.

Johnny Hayes in 5th min of injury time! I'll take that. Its usually us who concede late goals. Having played over an hour with 10 men, that can't be a bad result. Well done lads.

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Yes, Good luck to him. He's been good for us. Wish he was staying. Interestingly I don't see him listed on the Wolves site player listings, not even as being out on loan to us!

Pretty good statement. When you see everything in context it makes the postponement more understandable.

I noticed that Felipe Morais got another one for Oldham in their 3-2 win v Notts County on 31 Dec.

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Just watched it all on Alba, without knowing the score. Two points lost in my view. Hibs were there for the taking. Apart from injury time they were never in the game. Silly free kick given away by Golobart for Hibs goal, but Esson must take some responsibility. His positioning for O'Connor's shot was abysmal, giving himself no chance. Goal of the season contender by Hayes, but why does he disappear for long periods during the game? No problem with Foran tonight, back to his best I thought. Also Gillet looked sound. Golobart gave me some worrying moments. Up front we created enough half chances to have won this game easily, but we seemed to want to walk the ball into their net. Can't help feeling disappointed with only a point from this game. But, looking on the bright side, I hadn't really realised just how poor Hibs are this season. Unless they improve dramatically, we should manage to stay ahead of them.

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Yes, I couldn't agree more. Its an abysmal record the Scottish players have had when they have ventured abroad in recent years. They are all quick to take the money at the beginning, but not prepared, it would seem, to put the effort in to overcome the language and cultural difficulties they meet. We've had so many failures, I'm surprised that foreign clubs even bother trying to recruit from Scotland anymore.

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It sounded as if we had enough chances to be 2 or 3 up before Rangers got their second against the run of play at the time. The luck clearly wasn't with us today but it was a vastly improved performance after last week's huge disappointment. We should go to Pittodrie with some confidence. I think we really must win that game to keep in touch with Aberdeen. Hibs will surely improve and I don't want this season to be a one to one clash with Dunfermline.

On 'Final Score' Ryan's save has just been compared to that of Gordan Banks from Pele! Must have been a bit special. I'm already looking forward to the highlights.

What has Andrew Shinnie done to warrant getting relegated to the bench?

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Surely the worst result of the season. 2nd half sounded like a real horror show. Hogg and Davis out for Ibrox! Hard to see how Terry can motivate the team for next week. All teams below us have a game in hand. Can it get any worse?

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That's really clever CC. For Countdown fans like myself (its an age thing!), I'm sorry Jeff Stelling is leaving next month. He has been the best presenter since Richard Whiteley. At least we'll still have the lovely Rachel Riley to look at. And she's brilliant at the sums too.

Just finished watching the match on Alba. Well worth our win. I thought we controlled the second half apart from the last few minutes. Several good performances today - I thought Davis was outstanding, well worth his MOM. I particurarly liked his short interview at the end where it he talked about the team spirit. That shone through today and I feel a lot more comfortable that we can now stay away from the bottom. But we will have to sort out our defending at set pieces where we were all over the shop. My heart was in my mouth every corner St Mirren got. Gillet looked a lot better today, particularly going forward. McKay had a couple of nice touches. Its a pity he slipped just after winning the ball from their keeper with an open goal in front of him. Probably worth another go though. Well done lads, I'm off to the pub now to celebrate.

Great result. Off to watch it on BBC Alba now. Looking forward to seeing how McKay played.

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Can't really see Butcher having the cash to make any new defensive purchases in January, so I expect this newspaper report, if true, is just him trying to motivate what he has got. I know we've had lots of injuries but I don't get the feeling that Butcher knows what his best defensive line up is. He has certainly tried a few different permutations. Losing 2 goals a game indicates that he hasn't got it right yet. I sincerely hope he cracks it soon.