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Makes a mockery of the entire thing, really, a club deciding that it simply can't be arsed getting promoted. In an ideal world the play-off spot would go to the next highest ranking club that meets the entry requirements.

Come what may, it's obvious that the club needs a full reset in the summer and we can only hope and pray that these twerps can carry us over the line to ensure that Maitland can oversee it with us still in League Two. Over the piece, I haven't been impressed by McCall or several of the players he's brought in, so I wouldn't say that he should automatically be immune from that reset either. Today felt like a massive missed opportunity against a Stenhousemuir team experimenting with a new formation and six starters missing, their two goals (and several other situations) a very familiar tale this season of a jittery defence handing out freebies in most games. Rennie's been murder for a while now, since every left-back in the league cottoned on to the fact that they can afford to get very tight to him since he lacks any kind of turn of pace to get beyond them. There are a good few I'd immediately parachute Scullion in for next week and he'd be one of them, as the only thing he's offering at the moment is a bit of height. Sula didn't do enough wrong to deserve his dropping for me and if we are looking to offer more of a threat in both boxes then I'd bring he and Dunachie back in, as much as I'm not a big fan of the latter at right-back. Leitch showed once again why he's been a big flop despite his early goal, Kabia makes some hilariously bad decisions at times and it beggars belief that Cammy Ballantyne perpetually manages to be so anonymous. It all just feels so cursed and, as a result, it's impossible to have any belief that we will achieve the results necessary to scrape safety.

Another two points chucked away. Unreal.

Seriously poor. Chris McGinn

Not ideal with the other sides picking up points, in fact that result for Bonnyrigg means they're probably only a couple of points off being safe. Really need to win next week.

You should see the Stranraer supporters' Facebook group. Apparently the celebration was "disgusting" and "should be reported as a hate crime". I'd love some of whatever they put in the water down there!

Fair play to Stenny, a classic case of clean sheets win titles, and one that Capello would be proud of. Pretty nuts to think they've conceded 19 goals all season, that anomaly of a game against Clyde aside. You really can only tip a cap to that and say "fair play!". A good deal more quality is required to survive in League One I would suggest, but the club seems to be very well run at present and I wouldn't put it past them to survive and thrive a league up the coming years. A sad loss to the seasidest league.

I'm not usually a fan of players celebrating in front of opposition fans, but it was absolutely delicious watching the Clyde lads standing open-armed in front of the away crowd. I don't think anyone could argue that we didn't deserve to win that by a greater margin. Plenty of stuff that ranged from bad to awful on the day but the three points really are all that mattered. Thought Peterhead would have enough to win today but fair play to them for hanging in there and getting a late equaliser which keeps things VERY tasty at the bottom. Important that we recognise today only gives us a great chance, I suspect we will need a bare minimum of four points from our remaining games, but likely more than that.

Wow.

King is more of a reliable defensive option than McGinn, but he's a bag of nerves back there and makes so many poor decisions. Howie has had an absolute shocker as well, hopefully a few eyes opened for those who worry about Sula's work in possession. Plenty of graft elsewhere but the usual lack of quality, we're barely better than at the end of December despite the players that have come in. The good news is that we'll have the wind here, I suppose.

By all accounts, Grant showed up quite well at Peterhead, so hopefully we can put an end the Howie in midfield madness and shift him to centre or right back, depending on whether it's Lyon or Sula that McCall's tombola machine least fancies on Saturday morning. Cuddihy's a weird one; it feels like these persistent injuries wreck any rhythm he's finding in his game and then, when he does recover some form, he's swiftly out for a few weeks with another niggle. He and Ballantyne have been big disappointments of late though; I had high hopes for the latter but he hasn't shown much at all, work rate aside. If we're ever going to start Robbie Leitch again then it should probably be at home, but he's been a massive disappointment too after a bright debut and strikes me as a deluxe Euan Cameron type, who trains well enough to be rated but never really makes a mark on games. A draw doesn't kill us completely I don't think but, given our recent mini-dip in form, that or a defeat would be a big old step towards confirming 10th place. A win hauls us off bottom and big-time hands us the impetus heading into the last handful of fixtures, so hopefully we can show up in one of these games again and not hand out any freebies like we did at Bonnyrigg and Peterhead (x4).

Diddies. You're welcome.

Yeah, the goal difference hit is a real bummer given the fact it is looking like going right to the wire. The biggest concern for me is that it seems McCall still appears to have no idea what his strongest team is.