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For those not there: Fans Awards: Musa Dibaga and Keith Bray. Players Awards: Charlie Gilmour and Keith Bray. Well deserved.

To quote Danny Devine when he spoke in the bar after the game, “it was never in f***ing doubt”.

That was a brilliant performance. Arbroath had one attempt all game and we comfortably outplayed their first team. The atmosphere was good and Bar 94 after the game was jumping, particularly when Kel and the players came in. The drum and singing in the bar added to the atmosphere. I am delighted Billy McKay deservedly got the Man of the Match award as he was immense today. I hope he remains a player next season, but without the pressure of being our only striker. His comments on receiving his award were spot on, as were those from Danny Devine, Musa Dibaga, Remi Savage and James Nolan (apologies if I’ve missed anyone but it was very loud!). In a strange way, this feels as good as our Scottish Cup win, albeit for very different reasons. What a relief to have avoided any last day drama.

There should be a decent crowd there today. Let’s all get behind every player from start to finish and help inspire them to get the result we all want and need. Dumbarton can do us a favour but we can’t rely on that. It’s in our own hands and we can do it.

Edinburgh City @ 8/5 please.

HT 1-0 FT 2-1 ICT Mckay Arbroath Winter Crowd 2065

Yesterday, Reece McAlear for Livingston. Today, Billy King for Arbroath, Kai Kennedy for Queen of the South and Nathan Austin (2) for East Fife.

Annan are at Dumbarton next Saturday then finish at home against Cove. Dumbarton have been on a reasonable run with only one defeat in six so hopefully they can beat Annan or at least get a draw. It’s good to see Mckay on the scoresheet and Longstaff back playing. A massive weekend (or two) ahead!

Gilmour og. Help!

Let’s see this out now!

Not any more unfortunately. 1-1.

Arbroath 1 up at Annan.

Not sure what I expect this afternoon. Both teams are on poor runs and we’ve done well against them this season. I’m hoping for three points, but not that confident we will get them.

Rice is not available as he’s back up for their first team goalies due to Schmeichel being injured.

Marcus Gill has joined on emergency loan from Celtic. He’s 17 and has played for the Republic of Ireland at under 19 level.

Arbroath @ 1.85 please.

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Sam Pearson for Weston-super-mare tonight.

Oh well, at least I got something for my joker and have inched up the table slightly!

Yesterday Jordan White for County, Nikolay Todorov for Hamilton, Adam Brooks for Queen of the South, Nathan Austin for East Fife, Cillian Sheridan for Brechin and Shane Sutherland (4) for Brora.

Unless Alan Savage has had a major change of mind since he announced the terms of his bid, Scott Kellacher is not going anywhere, nor are Billy McKay, Charlie Christie, Andrew Benjamin or Grassa. He said they would remain part of his team. Notwithstanding that, there’s no way we should be questioning Kel’s future given how he’s got safety within our own hands.

That was a poor performance but we’ve been inconsistent recently, particularly at home. We've three games to secure 8th (or better) and two of those are away. We’ve the second best points per game record away from home in the league so if we can maintain that we will be fine. For being thrown in at the deep end, Rebillas did well on the whole, but should have been given more protection. Other than hitting the post and an effort by Bray, both in the first half, I don’t recall us troubling Kelty. Musa made two good saves in the first half, so it could have been worse. A bad day, but it’s still in our own hands. Time to focus on next week.

That surely makes up for your form in this competition!!

Alloa @ 2.00 please.

HT 1-0 FT 2-0 ICT MacKinnon Kelty Johnston Crowd 1750 Joker please.