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He came off the bench last week against Montrose and looked good. He’d played in a semi final for Kilmarnock Under 18s the day before the Montrose game.

Graeme Shinnie for Aberdeen and Aribim Pepple for Chesterfield today, whilst Manny Duku got tow on his debut for Solihull.

Indeed, he’d already accepted we’d be relegated and had his excuses ready! As fans we all knew we’d clawback the gap and Scott & co have done just that. However, the job is not done yet and we need to keep the recent run going to ensure safety.

Happy with that. Well done all! Nice to be winning late points after all the late ones we’ve lost in recent seasons!

Cove @ 2.0 please.

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Two for Cillian Sheridan for Brechin last night.

That stems from the update at the Fans Meeting where Charlie Christie indicated that we cannot extend players contracts whilst in administration and a high proportion of the squad are out of contract in June. On the other hand, he also said that at least six of those had already advised Scott Kellacher that they wanted to stay with the club. Scott Young also said that, based on discussions with the Administrator, he expected an update from them on the way forward in the next two to three weeks.

It looked good in real time but even better seeing it back. I also liked Bray’s reaction after he scored, which showed how much it meant to him.

Noted today were George Oakley for Ayr, Nikolay Udjur for Queens Park, Shane Sutherland (2) for Brora and Garry Wood for Deveronvale.

I agree with the posts above. At half time, I’d have taken a point but I’m disappointed we didn't manage to get a winner. I wonder how things would have turned out if Bavidge’s wonderful strike had gone in rather then hitting the woodwork. Slack play was the cause of the goal we lost and Montrose seemed to fancy a second the way they started the second half, but we got ourselves back into it and deserved the equaliser when Bray finished after a great ball by Devine (making up for his slack pass that gave Montrose their goal). Bray did well when pushed further forward, and the early signs with Brannan are encouraging. I really hope Longstaff is not badly hurt as he’s been our creative spark, and MacKinnon took a sore one too but seemed to run it off. To end on a positive, that’s a game we would have lost in the last couple of seasons and the point keeps us in touch with Montrose. Interestingly it was our first draw since 2 November. How times have changed! Now we have a big fortnight with Dumbarton away, then Stenhousemuir and Annan at home. These games could define our season.

Let’s not underestimate Montrose. They are unbeaten away from home in the league in 2025 and in Stirton they have a the player with the best minutes per goal stat in League 1, and he’s scored 6 in 5 games. That said, there’s no reason why we cannot win this if we play as we have been in many games and play to our strengths. Three points would do us the world of good.

Zak Elbouzedi for St Patrick’s Athletic tonight. Jake Mulraney is also with them.

He played the full game which Carlisle won to get themselves closer to safety. I hadn’t realised that Mark Hughes was appointed as their Manager recently.

Edinburgh City @ 2.2 please.

Cammy Harper has been included in Carlisle’s starting line up tonight for the game on Sky (channel 403) against Barrow. He’s typically been on the bench for the last few months. Sadly he’s facing a second successive relegation with Carlisle currently bottom of League 2 and 5 points from safety. Kick off is at 2000.

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On Saturday I noted Adam Brooks for Queen of the South, Ross Draper for Elgin, Sam Pearson for Weston-super-mare, Shane Sutherland and Alex Cooper (2) for Brora, and Cillian Sheridan and Brad Mckay for Brechin. Last night Andrew Shinnie scored for Livingston.

I’m having a ‘mare this season with this!

If things had been different and we’d not entered administration and still had Ferguson, in points per game we’d only be 5 points better off than we are just now, so we’d be well and truly in the relegation mix. We got 12 points in 10 games under Ferguson. We’ve got 28 points in 15 games under Kellacher. On that basis, under Ferguson we’d have taken 18 points in the next 15 games so we’d now have 30. We have 25 despite the 15 point penalty. What’s also telling us that we drew 6 of our first 10 games under Ferguson. Under Kellacher, we’ve only drawn 1 and we’ve not drawn any of our last 13, winning 9. We’ve had blips, but they are being offset by the winning mentality we now have, whereas before we’d have played for draws. We’ve a real chance to climb to 8th next week and will do if we beat Montrose and Annan don’t beat Arbroath.

Couldn’t have asked for a better set of scores today: well done guys! I see there were two breaks in okay for injuries to Musa. I hope he’s fit for next week.

Let’s see it out now. Annan and Montrose both losing now.

How have we lined up? Is Alfie Stewart at left back (as the BBC imply)?

Cove @ 1.57 please.

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