BobbyBiscuit

Nice one, thanks. Looking forward to it!

Ok, let's go with Accrington Stanley to win at home v Forest Green Rovers to kick us off.

Thanks Rocket, that's nice of you to say so and a kind gesture. Feeling the pressure now right enough!! I'll have a look at the fixtures and get back to you

Celtic I'll give you but you hear very little about the only team to receive a European trophy indoors. I think our lads do alright in terms of publicity these days - maybe not in the few years after Gothenburg, but that's maybe understandable. The enormity of achievements like that only tend to really sink in some time after the event.

I've tried over the years, but very few takers. And I also got depressed at posting losing bets all the time

The problem being that any attack on that club or it's fans, is instantly assumed to be an attack on Protestantism. If it wasn't for the football clubs, these people would have no interest in religion. It's not even religion they're interested in. They just use it as an excuse to be fucking bams.

I'd be surprised if that was his thinking because the backline (not just last night) are very reluctant to pass it back to Woodman. I think he just got caught under it and in a bad position generally, because he was running back with his head down not looking at the ball. By that point Brophy was nearly on top of him and he was caught between a rock and a hard place. Either way, as with the shambles in the first game, he should know better.

Why's he letting it bounce in the first place? He got himself into a terrible shape It was a clear foul if you see it from our end - had his right arm round him, then as May got away from him put his left out and hauled him back. Clear as day right in front of the ref. He wasn't as poor as he has been but he still wasn't great. A big problem for the whole side has been his reluctance to get forward. I can think of one occasion last night where he did get forward and caused them problems but that was it really. It's hampering our attacking play, and having Considine on the other side doesn't help that either.

He got caught under the ball (he actually didn't know where it was at first) and then stepped off and let it bounce rather than being ready for the dropping ball and stepping on to it to clear the danger. It should never have got to the point that he was actually engaged with Brophy.

Horrendous game, both teams exceptionally poor on the ball which is never handy in a football match. Took for them to score for us to play with a bit more purpose and we got the goal and could have had another. Time for Logan to take a rest. Abysmal at their goal again tonight and we need to bed in a right back for the semi final anyway, so let's give whoever it's going to be a decent run at it and not just expect to turn up on the day and slot someone in there. We will miss McLean massively in the semi final. The other McLean on the pitch tonight, is a total fraud, but we all knew that anyway.

It's not to do with the TV stations, it's to do with the SFA - it's their decision if games are shown the same night as CL matches. They've obviously decided they don't want to go against UEFA.

Saw something in front of us today where the stewards stepped in but don't think punches were thrown - a lad screaming for DM to change it was told to "support the team". He turned and told the "happy clapper" to fuck off, few words said and the stewards moved in. There is a bit of a divide in the support; some are fed up of the manager, some have faith he'll come good again. It's frustrating for everyone though at present.

Need to stick up for Dom Ball here, did the job he was asked to do and as soon as he was off the park Thistle started to stream through the middle of us on the counter. How Christie survived the hook is incredible, rarely found a Dons shirt all day and that's been in keeping with his recent performances. Always wants/takes a hard first touch, generally from where the ball has come from - has to get his head up quicker and realise what's happening around him. Huge difference between today and the first quarter of last week's game (when we actually attacked well) was trying to attack down the left; predictably our flow just stops with Considine - offers us nothing in an attacking sense and is getting poorer defensively. Greg Stewart being flung on for the final ten to try to nick it for us when we've not seen him since the Ibrox debacle smacked of desperation from McInnes. I like Stewart but it's clear DM has taken the huff with him, his only first team football in two months is the last ten mins when we need a goal... hardly fair on the lad is it? Hard enough coming off the bench and affecting the game never mind when you've not had a kick for 2 months. Deserved boos at the end. Not for the effort of the players, but the directionless, unimaginative management on display yet again.

I thought McGinn was sitting a bit too deep in the first half, but didn't look his usual self throughout. Thought he was more involved in the second and put across a couple of great crosses. Christie is a really talented player but his biggest problem is that he makes the wrong decision far too much; shooting when it isn't on, running into dead ends etc. He tries to do too much; as much as you'd always want to encourage a player of his ability to take a risk, it's too often not a calculated risk, the shot he had in the second half from the left side, 20 yards out, bouncing ball, three defenders round him was an example of that. Leathers it miles over the bar when a simple pass was on where we could have got a cross over. But, if the papers are to be believed this morning, he'll be back at Celtic next season regardless.

0 in 14 for May

Brutal game. Shinnie showed what we miss in an attacking sense when he's not at left back. But obviously it also showed what we miss when he's not in midfield. Killie fans getting a lot of praise, and their numbers were great, would be more impressed if at least one of their songs wasn't linked to the huns. Wankers. Not enough fight, too many aimless punts (O'Connor particularly guilty of this), goalkeeper who doesn't want to come off his line, not enough movement partly because we're playing our centre forward as a winger - again, Logan again beyond poor, Christie making the wrong choice time and again and was lucky to stay on the park as long as he did. Greg Stewart is clearly completely bombed out now as we were crying out for someone to put their foot on the ball today and calm things down, and patiently look for that opening we needed. Still got no idea what we're supposed to be doing with/for Stevie May. Looks like a team merely, or not even, going through the motions.

Dons in upper RDS. Killie in normal away section.

Possibly, but we've also lost there twice since then, and both times without a fight. Does that not come into it? Competed well in the cup final, absolutely. also gone out in another cup to Motherwell, where we didn't even compete. To fucking Motherwell. I think that also has to be taken into consideration. It's not just about McInnes, it's never just been about the manager for the last 25 years. But you're saying it's a personnel issue, I would assume as in the players we have? I don't know if you've missed a word out there and don't want to misquote you but his signings are, for the most part, utter shite. And that isn't just this season. Why anyone would have faith in him turning the squad around this summer when he failed to do it last summer, and quite spectacularly too, seems strange to me. I genuinely hope I'm wrong, but I think the evidence suggests otherwise.

Aye, pretty brutal, relatively speaking (i.e. not really that brutal) He should have given himself more room for a carry out and drinking partner in there. Poor planning. 8/10 for structure, 3/10 for planning.

no doubt. But, considering the palaver the last time, why the fuck have the SFA/SPFL not stepped in long before now? Not having audited accounts, within which they've not once broken even, common knowledge they're taking soft loan upon soft loan while giving the likes of Bruno Alves (and more) a ridiculous wage, not to mention Ibronx is in huge need of repair, estimated at 20m. Hope they die (again), but for the authorities to not have stepped in on this is ridiculous as no doubt more SPFL clubs will be left out of pocket as the huns go bust again.

If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck.... for as long as those scum fans attach themselves to a vessel playing in blue out of Govan, those two clubs will be known as the Old Firm to me. Fuck all has changed, but I do admire your stoicism! Shinnie has looked leggy and probably did need a rest. He's not been playing well recently and that tiredness has clearly played a part in that and as a result I don't think he'd have made as much of a difference to tip either game our way. I think you're probably right in that apart from the majority being upset. I still think it'll be the minority, and I don't think it'll be that vocal at matches either, i just think people would vote with their feet.

King supposedly sanctioned 1m for Murphy to quicken the admin event to avoid this whole scenario but the other board members blocked it. What will he do now the transfer window is shut?

To be fair to McInnes though, Hibs, Hearts and United were all out the league because they deserved to be so - they were the worst teams in the division for a whole season. So saying he's had it easy by them not being there isn't really fair. All the other "shite" in the league may well have been shite, but they were better shite than that lot.

King loses his appeal over the courts ruling he had to make Sevco shareholders an offer for their shares, which would cost him 11m.

That's fair enough. I can understand people wanting to give him that bit more time because he improved us so much when he first came in. My patience was going after his reluctance to push us for the league title a couple of years ago - not replacing Ward in January and going with Scott Brown whom he had already decided wasn't good enough to be our no.1 from the season's start, but when we were in with a chance of the league we bizarrely went with Brown. Then last season, the LC final followed swiftly by the similar performance at Ibrox the week later was hugely disappointing. I thought he'd learned from them with the win at Ibrox and the performance in the SC Final - we lost but we had a go, i think we all accept that more than not having a go at all. It's not because it's the gruesome twosome, it's because if we want to achieve anything these are the games we have to do better in. The fact it's the same story pretty much every time as well is alarming, he doesn't seem to learn from his mistakes.