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Laughed way harder than I should have at this.

10-week scan earlier today showed a buoyant heartbeat of 150 bpm. Which was probably about half my bpm. Many excellent members of P & B have been active via the PM function but 3, in particular, have offered advice, given the chromosome balanced translocation and the greatly increased risk or another Patau bairn. But all is good thus far. Grimbo.

Comparing Brannigan to Naysmith ? Whilst not knowing him, Brannigan appeared to thrive on his reputation as be a bully on and off the pitch. Naysmith comes across as thoughtful and honest in his interviews - even if that includes being critical of some of the players. In fact, I would say he has been more critical of himself when selections, formations or tactics have went amiss. I would rather listen to that as opposed to the usual ‘sound bites’ that previous managers have rolled out. You pass comment on supporters slating players and we should be aware that players have feelings and should be mindful before verbally abusing them You are mindful of Chris Mitchells tragic story, and the well written words of David Wetherston. But then you spend every single tiresome post, you have is aimed personally towards Naysmith. Surely you are condoning what you are preaching against. Or is it a different set of rules for managers (or directors). Could they not have mental health issues?. Could they have depressive symptoms? I am pretty sure they will take as many headaches home and have equally as many sleepless nights as the players. You have made your points regarding your thoughts on the manager - please move on

It's all downloads nowadays

Yas. Getting to watch my big team at my wee teams stadium. Mon the Sons!

Here's our new addition to the family, Herbie. A whirlwind of puppy excitement.

Neither you nor your alter ego Steakngravy attended this meeting. You’re slavering!

More people who pay income tax in Scotland will pay less as a result of the SNP government tax changes.

No need to panic, mate. Second place is still well within your grasp and it doesn't look like it'll be Dundee who pump you in the playoff final, so you've every reason to be cheerful.

"British act". Pfft. The "British act" for footballers these days is getting a sleeve tattoo when you're 14 and pupping a couple of scheme rats by the time you're 17. This c**t is "Sunday league style". Turn up hungover, belligerent and then melt someone that's better than you. I admire that.

that sounds good. A freebie week. An open day. A quizzing amnesty. Anyone else up for it? (except the few that managed to get a good score this week!)

Look in a mirror.

We don't sign any central midfielders in pre-season, meaning we can't play Barton in the position where he won Player of the Year. We sign a centre mid who then almost immediately gets injured, meaning we still can't play Barton at sweeper. We play three games with Barton at sweeper and take 7 out of 9 points, keeping two clean sheets in the process (Hamilton, County, Motherwell). We finally have fit central midfielders available, and we change formation rendering Barton a substitute centre mid.

I think that is part of it. The record against teams outside the rest of the top five has been good and pretty consistent. But the results that get noticed and more importantly the results that get the fans excited are those in the big games. Unquestionably we've not been good enough in these. A big part of the issue is we have too many players this season who are shrinking violets. Thinking back particularly to the games against the OF, consistently GMS, Stewart, Christie, AOC and Considine go missing as they just don't have the battling qualities or temperament for it. Going back to last season and more pertinently the season before where we took Celtic at Pittodrie with 10 men and pumped them in the second one, players like McGinn, Hayes, Jack in the first one and Craig Storie in the second one stood up and were counted, had the character and fight. We lack that. However Del is also not above criticism. Quite often in big games in his time, we've come up short and on a number of occasions this has been due to conservative tactics. Sitting off Rangers last season and this when you need to press high, consistently is baffling. The insistence on 3-5-2 when we simply don't have the players to play it is mental. And the loyalty to the players when they aren't standing up to be counted in these games is surprising. Saturday was the time to give a proper rocket and criticise them highly. Instead we heard that this was out of character and that he couldn't be overly critical. Sadly it was very much in character this season and Del would have been well within his rights to call the players out publicly on this. In no way am I calling for Del to go or anything stupid. However I do feel for him to reach his target of multiple trophies here, there needs to be an honest assessment of why we fail in big games as these are what is preventing him from reaching his goal. Part of the blame lies with players who are big game bottlers, part of it with his own tactical limitations. Player wise he can only fix that through targeted recruitment of players like Barry Robson with big game character or to develop young lads with that. For his own tactical limitations, perhaps a new coach being added to the first team mix with some tactical advice for approaching big games would not be such a bad thing. Whether "happy clapper" or "moaning b*****d", we all want to win. To do this, I think an honest and frank discussion is necessary and hopefully this post gets the ball rolling. All thoughts and solutions welcome!

Stiff Little Fingers - Tin Soldiers

So you wouldn’t think that a league of Celtic Rangers B Aberdeen B Hibs B Hearts B Partick Dundee Ross County Well Hamilton St Johnstone Kilmarnock Would devalue Celtic winning the competition? You don’t think Celtic fans would stop going? You don’t think it would ruin the league? You are a liar [emoji1]

I blame these Millenial Snowflake swans and ducks with their 'wheat allergies' and 'gluton intolerances'....... When I was a kid swans and ducks got given bread and liked it and never a problem, and now there is. Not sure if to blame BREXIT , PC Gone-mad, snowflake wildfowl or Trump.......... but someone is to blame.

Mark O'Hara isn't the finished article but I think it's often forgotten that he's just turned 22. Stick with him and he'll be big a player in a few years in my view.

Starting to think Nadir Ciftci is some urban legend that fans of other clubs tell their kids about. Either that or we've signed Dave Ciftci by mistake. Regardless, whoever we've ended up with seems some #boi to have around the place.

Let’s not be too hasty here.

Donovan - Universal Soldier

It's a dug.

Their used to be rules about a certain number of youth players on the bench, but it was horrendous. You'd have six youngsters consigned to sitting on the bench every single week never getting any football. We've had two youngsters sit on the bench and solely play youth football with youth team mates, those two have gone absolutely nowhere and soon left us. We've had two youngsters have numerous loans throughout the lower leagues, playing beside senior players, ones now our starting CH and the other earned us £1m. You get players need to play senior football with senior players, folk who can talk them through the game and motivate them after any mistake. Colt teams is a daft idea because you're removing the most vital part of a players development, a mentor.

Sticky Fingers - Happy Endings

Despicable act by a despicable player at a despicable club imo.

Powderfinger - Sunsets

I agree. I think the semi-final being on telly (and the way we won it) has woken some of the locals up. I've had a ridiculous number of congratulations and messages of "see you at the final" from people who normally don't bat an eyelid about Dumbarton. I am hopeful we'll push 3,000 and I think that would be fantastic. The best thing that could happen is the final venue/date/time gets set as quickly as possible and the club can start the PR machine - first domestic final for over 100 years has a fair amount of marketing power in it IMO.

Mike Berry - The Sunshine Of Your Smile

Josef K - It’s Kinda Funny

Kinks - Funny Face

The Rockin' Berries - Funny How Love Can Be

I think you’re overestimating throbber.

REM - King Of Comedy

Ben E King - Stand By Me

I'm pretty sure O'Hara is needing a bit of training to help him learn his position - he's not long been shifted out of defence and asked to play a totally different role under Hartley, before McCann has come in and got the team playing a totally different way again. Don't deny his forms dipped since the pre-contract stuff but I think that's happened across the team at times recently and suspect they might be scared of making mistakes since they've played well at times but still lost the games and suffered the wrath of the home support for it... I might be wrong and it might be McCann's tactics but I think it's got as much to do with them panicking about the league position and the boo boys starting to get on their backs so they 'play safe' and end up making it worse Just my thoughts for what little they're worth + Edit to add - sorry Gman but I have to disagree, we dropped Gowser earlier in the season and the team lost any drive (& nearly every game) til he was back in the team again. Might be coincidence but I think he's seriously underrated by some of our supporters...

Small Faces - One Night Stand

Mark O'Hara has the potential to be our best player. He shoulders a lot more criticism than our 'own' youngsters, I've no idea why as he's generally better. I really like him as our future Gavin Rae but he admittedly has been off the boil for a wee bit.

Doubtless someone will end up pointing out that I've made some daft basic data entry error along the line but, assuming I've managed not to do any double counting or silly mistakes with the formulas, I put together a wee spreadsheet that makes grim reading. A couple of snips of my feeble attempt at being @Fuctifano below, for anyone interested, hope they're legible : (all goal times taken that were used are from the PTFC website so there may be some errors along the way, but I'd assume its more accurate than the Beeb; stats from the above graphic apply to league fixtures only) The above doesn't include cup games but maybe worth mentioning that we did score late through Elliot against Stranraer and from Doolan against Rangers to take the cup game to ET (but, quelle shock horror, the arse collapsed in the latter despite Doolan's 90th min goal and we lost 3-1) We've lost 12 points in total from goals on 76+ minutes (Ross County away to draw 1-1 with an 85th min Schalk goal; Motherwell away to draw 1-1 from Ciftci on about 85 mins; Aberdeen at home to go from 3-3 to lose 4-3 through a late Rooney goal; Dorrans goal in the 2-2 against Rangers was on 76 mins according to the OS so that's squeezed in; Hearts phantom Callachan goal in the 1-1 at Firhill on roughly 80 mins; Murray's double for Dundee in the 2-1 on Saturday just there on 85 and 90) By contrast, by my count we've only salvaged 3 points from goals on 76+ minutes; the late winner against Dundee got us an extra 2 points and the late equaliser at Tynecastle. Edited to add: I had to check for the sake of my own sanity for the Dundee game because I was sure both goals were in the last 10 mins, but the OS has Edwards goal down as being on the 74th minute. Both these late goals were rendered as being pretty much contra entries by the reverse fixtures tbh. An honourable mention due to Connor Sammon for his late goal against County in the 2-0 win at Firhill, saved a twitchy last few minutes at least. Netting off our points gained from goals we've scored in 76+ mins against points we've lost from goals conceded on 76+ mins indicates that we've lost 9 points overall. - We've lost 20 points from winning positions (! : we led Hibs 1-0 via Erskine first day of the season and lost 3-1, we led Aberdeen 2-1 in the 4-3 loss, we led County 1-0 and drew 1-1, led Rangers 2-1 and drew 2-2 albeit with Erskine's red card mitigating things, 1-0 up to 1-1 against Hearts with the phantom Callaghan goal, 1-0 up on Celtic from the Sammon penalty to lose 2-1, 1-0 to 1-1 against Motherwell through Ciftci, and finally 1-0 to 1-2 against Dundee on Saturday). By contrast, by my count we've only salvaged 5 points this season from losing positions; we salvaged a draw from Hearts away which sort of balanced out with the home draw against them, came back from 1-0 down to ultimately draw 2-2 against Rangers, and beat Dundee 2-1 at home from 1-0 down, thanks largely to luck and a Cerny pen save... which as per the Hearts game pretty much balanced out in the end. Netting off the clubs points gained from losing positions vs. the clubs points lost from winning positions, we've chucked away 15 points this season. I also had a look at our margins of victory and defeat for all wins and losses: (cup and league margins of victory and defeat. Also technically lost on penalties in a draw with Livingston, but that isn't included in the above stats, however the cup loss AET to Rangers is) edit: just noticed there that there's some rounding discrepancies. Serves me right for using an Excel knockoff tbh Would seem pretty clear that teams are better at killing games off against us when they're at home than we are against them; 6 out of 9 defeats away are by 2 or more goals (Hibs, Motherwell, Kilmarnock, Rangers, Dundee, Celtic) whereas we've only won home games by 2 clear goals or more twice this season (Ross County and the cup game against St Mirren, who are in the league below) and my arse is still twitching from the 3-2 Motherwell game. TL;DR : This season by the numbers - it ain't pretty.

Totally agree with this he's still very young for this position and has scored 6 goals from midfield this season. Some people's expectation seems to be that he's the finished product and some kind of Frank Lampard. Some of the criticism he gets on off days is totally unwarranted. As others have said, his ability to time runs from midfield is something you can't teach, good coaches can improve positioning and ability to control a game. I'd like to seem him get a new contract.

This is fucking wild. https://www.gq.com/story/inside-federal-bureau-of-way-too-many-guns

On a similar note. If you have a dump and there is someone in the cubicle next to you. Wait until I've washed my hands and left. Don't come out before then, I don't want to know who just had a shit next to me.

What's the most "Tin Pot" thing you've not seen in the SPFL thread for this pish.

"I'm bored with colts now; I paid £6 to see a football match. How much do you diddies pay to watch football? I reckon you should all slash your prices and do family tickets and shit. Bet that's never been tried before, or discussed repeatedly on your diddy forums ad nauseum. You're welcome."

Faces - Stay With Me

Year of The Jocky.

I was fuming on Saturday. But calling for mcinnes to be sacked is for wee bairns who need the ‘soap opera’ element of football to get their kicks. Derek is still doing a grand job. He will know better than any of us the big game record is a disgrace.