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HT: 0-0 FT: 2-0 1st ICT: Daniel Mackay 1st Opp: Lewis McCann Crowd: 1034

East Fife @3.00

If Shankland keeps up this form I think Ayr will struggle to keep him post Jan transfer window. Maybe Aberdeen will see what a bad mistake they made letting him go and tempt him back.

HT: 1-1 FT: 1-3  1st ICT: Chalmers 1st Opp: Shankland Crowd: 2876

Tell big Col to go through him in the first 3 minutes, pick up a yellow then he’ll be scared to take him on again.

Forfar @ 2.75

HT: 0 - 0 FT: 0-2 1st ICT: Austin 1st Opp: Shepherd Crowd: 2330

What a roller coaster of a Saturday. Clyde where ahead with about 20 minutes to go then Motherwell banged in 3 goals. What does that mean for us? Well if we lose there will be 5 teams on 9 points. 1. QOS - 9pts, GD 7, 12 goals for 2. Dundee - 9pts, GD 7, 8 goals for 3. Caley - 9pts, GD 6, 9 goals for 4. St Mirren - 9pts, GD6, 8 goals for 5. Partick - 9pts, GD3, 6 goals for So providing we don't lose by 4 goals we will qualify for the last 16. That being said a draw or win will see us finish top of the group.

HT: 1-0 FT:2-1 1st ICT:Walsh 1st Opp:Ikpeazeu Crowd:10089

So once again I've been doing some calculations and once again I have been enjoying a glass of vino or 3ish so please double check my sums and let me know. If we win or draw on Sunday we finish top of the group. If we lose it all comes down to our points and GD. There are 8 groups, we need to out qualify 4 of them, so..... Group A: County and Alloa are 1 and 3. Arborath in 2nd have played all 4 games and have 8 points. They play each other for the final game. We currently have more points than both of them so if it ends a draw we still finish with more points. Therefore we out qualify 2nd place from Group A regardless of our result against Hearts. ? Group B: Montrose are in 2nd with 6 points and have completed their games. Forfar are in 3rd with 5 points, their max is 8 points therefore we out qualify 2nd place from group B regardless of our result against Hearts. ? Group D : Dundee sit 2nd with 6 points and a GD of 4. They play Brechin for their last game so I am going to assume 3 points and at least 3 goals so Dundee will out qualify us. ? Group E: Ayr Utd play Partick on the final day. This is a 1st v 2nd clash. Ideally an Ayr win would suit us as Patrick currently have a GD of 5. If Patrick win we need a swing of 5 goals to help us. This is 50/50 ? Group F: Currently both 1st and 2nd have less points than us. Livi play Berwick so certain 3 points, Airdrieonians play Hamilton. If we go on cup form this should be a win for Airdrie but I can't call this one as Hamilton had a good win in their last game. A Hamilton win suits us perfectly. ? Group G: Motherwell sit 2nd with 7 points and are away to Clyde. 3 points to the Well therefore we won't out qualify 2nd place ? Group H: This is not so straight forward. St Mirren currently sit 2nd with 6 points but are without a win in 3 games. They play Dumbarton on Saturday, a Dumbarton win suits us and I think they might turn them over so I am going to say we will out qualify 2nd place. ? So as it stands, we have 2 groups that are out of the running and 2 that are certainly through. It all comes down to groups F and H. Of course ideally we go to Hearts and stuff them but I'll also take a draw and another win on penalties. After all we have a good record in League Cup penalties against Hearts ?

Are you suggesting that the SPFL conspired to ensure the match on TV gains a big an audience and revenue as possible at the expense of the integrity of the game? Surely not.

So I've been doing some rough calculations. Group C Team Played Won Drawn Loss For Against GD Points 1 Inverness Caledonian Thistle 2 2 0 0 7 2 5 6 2 Cowdenbeath 3 2 0 1 5 5 0 6 3 Heart of Midlothian 2 1 1 0 3 2 1 5 4 Raith Rovers 2 0 1 1 1 3 -2 1 5 Cove Rangers 3 0 0 3 1 5 -4 0 That is the current group as it stands before we play Raith on Tuesday. Now there are a number of outcomes but below is what I'm hoping to see and IMO the most probable outcome. Caveat on all of these, I have been sampling the local beverages waiting for Sunday dinner to took so I accept no responsibility for the maths being incorrect. If Hearts take a 3 point deduction tomorrow for fielding an ineligible player and we win on Tuesday the table will look as below. I haven't factored in a possible Hearts result on Tuesday because it wouldn't affect the top 2 places of the group. I have assumed a 1-0 win for Caley as this is a minimum GD increase. As you can see that puts us 3 points ahead with 1 to play. Assuming there isn't a 6 goal shift on the final day we should finish top of the table = qualification to the knock out. Group C Team Played Won Drawn Loss For Against GD Points 1 Inverness Caledonian Thistle 3 3 0 0 8 2 6 9 2 Cowdenbeath 3 2 0 1 5 5 0 6 3 Heart of Midlothian 2 1 1 0 3 2 1 2 4 Raith Rovers 3 0 1 2 1 4 -3 1 5 Cove Rangers 3 0 0 3 1 5 -4 0

Any word if this means a ban? The SFA has the ability to apply a ban for red cards in friendlies if they are for violent conduct.

Just read that on Twitter. Possible punishment is getting kicked out.

I loved the look of Col and McCart in the back 4. Saw them in friendlies and the communication between the two was immense. Always shouting at the defenders and midfield. Controlling the formation and balls being played.

Ha so we do ?? Well that's a bit better for us, week break now then a 5 day break until the last game.

Also the fixtures are kind to us. We play Raith on Saturday then have a break of a week until the Hearts game. Hearts are playing tomorrow, Saturday, Tuesday and Sunday.

The first goal was a screamer, 25 yards out and bullet into the top corner but the 2nd sounded really soft.

This is much better from Caley. Great inter play and confidence from the midfield.

That is already in place. I got into the Cove game using a QR code tha was on my phone. If you go to the ticket hour page on a mobile device you can bring up the tickets. Id like to see them expand on this and load single game tickets onto my card.

Within in my job, one of my tasks is continuous improvement. One of the mantras to bring in change is something called Lean Principles. I won't go into major details because it takes far too long but basically it boils down to little changes. Quite often that huge change you are looking for is not feasible to bring in. Be it too expensive, too large a change to adopt, you don't have the infrastructure etc etc. However if you bring in 10,15, 20 little changes this often increases productivity more than that huge change you wanted to bring in. I'll give you an example. Our HR department while very good are always busy and trying to get basic things like paperwork can be tedious at times. How was this resolved? By simply putting copies of forms for people on the wall outside. This idea wasn't thought of by by an exec, or a consultant brought in but by an apprentice carpenter. Quite often the ideas come from outside the department. So again I put the question forward to you all. What little thing would you like to see changed and how would you change it? Signs within the ground? News published to the supporters? Perhaps a way for the supporters to put ideas forward to the club.

Course there are, I'm just trying to encourage a bit of open discussion into the club and if you held the purse strings what would you like to change. So I throw it back to you, what would you like to see changed or brought in?

So I've been reading the Who would you like to see thread and it got me thinking as to what people would like to see at the club? Any improvements? Updates? New things? My change I'd like to see is an update to the car parking. There have been countless occasions where I've forgotten to take £3 cash with me. The club has moved to ticketless sales so lets see the same with the car parking. I'd like to see the ability to pre-buy a block for the car park. I would happily pay another £15-£20 on top of the season ticket to pre-pay for parking. Or have an option to buy a block of 5 games and print off vouchers that I can give to the attendant rather than the attendant give me a pointless raffle ticket that doesn't do anything other than get re-cycled once a year when I hoover my car out.

HT: ICT 1-0 Raith FT: ICT 3-1 Raith 1st ICT: Austin 1st Raith: Nisbet Crowd: 1632

HT: Cowdenbeath 1-2 Caley FT: Cowdenbeath 1-3 Caley 1st ICT: Chalmers  1st Cowdenbeath: Renton Crowd: 302