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I'm calling it, Dykes isn't in the top three strikers we've had this century.

This is a massive concern for me tbh, there's allot of players who have been regular stalwarts during Clarkes reign, but at club level their role has changed. However we're still trying to use them how we did a couple of years ago. It's daft.

Nah, his time is done for me tbh. He's a league one level striker who we utilised and got the best out of during a purple patch. Let's not kick the arse out of it by continuing to watch him stink the place up, a player who looks that bad against McNair, Ballard and Toal shouldn't then be played against whatever combination Germany have. He's Josh Magennis.

Agreed, people would have paid a decent amount of money for that tonight through transport and ticket prices. And it's been an utterly gutless performance as the Northern Ireland/Rangers fans have ripped the pish.

Saying Ferguson has been a bright spot. How? What's he actually done?

Said it on another thread and I stand by it, there's a conversation to be had about Dykes. We've been awful going forward and he's played a major part in that.

Agreed. The defending has been poor even outwith Patterson, the balls moved far too slowly and the off the ball movement has been dreadful. Front to back it's been awful.

Wild that people had Patterson ahead of Hickey.

See if the thinking is that Dykes is there for the tougher games where we'll have to go direct etc, why did we start him tonight and Shankland against the Netherlands?

Tbf, it was only till after I realised I'd forgotten about Kelty Hearts.

I too, barely class Methil as Fife.

I'll be cheering you on when you play Airdrie Fwiw Championship/league one titles don't particularly bother me, it's something that I've seen Dunfermline win, that we'll probably win again at some point, likewise it's only a matter of time for Falkirk to win the championship again. I also supported Raith against Rangers in the challenge Cup final so I'm not totally full of bitterness.

You're a much better man than me Ranaldo, fair play.

I hate the old firm. I hate seing our rivals (Falkirk and to a much lesser extent, Raith) do well. I can respect Falkirk fans, if they'd been born twenty miles east they might have been Pars fans, they are just guys following a fellow middling Scottish football club because it's where they're from or it's who they're Dad supported, I'll have far more in common with a Falkirk fan than an Old Firm fan, however... When Dunfermline played Celtic in the three national Cup finals between 04-07 who did you support? Maybe I'm just petty, but despite me despising everything about Rangers I was still happier when they beat you in one. The drama I've got is that if Falkirk, or Raith for example win a national title they'd quite rightly use it as a "Get it up ye" point against Dunfermline, you beat them in a derby game the retort can be "Aye, but I've seen my team win the Scottish cup" that's game set and match eh? Whereas if the old firm beat Falkirk in a final it's just another day for them. Again, it might just be me being petty, but it's how I see it. Edit - I've just seen I've used the word hate a few times there, that's more than just a bit excessive.

Sometimes I'm absolutely shite at betting, christ.

SoT is an absolutely daft way to a judge how many goals should have been scored.

For me, absolutely not. But it's a personal thing. Can't really disparage someone else for holding a team in high regard. The word legend gets chucked about a bit too easily for my liking in any case.

Odd that despite having won 3/4 games against Morton, we've came out with a negative goal difference against them. Silly league.

Fantastic win!

Thought that should've been a Dunfermline foul just before the penalty award, fantastic save by Mehmet.

I can't beleive we didn't score there.

Another goal from United puts us 7 points clear, Mon lads.

Jakubaik didn't move for 15 seconds, what rule does he violate? He's entitled to stand at the edge of the box? Mullen could've retreated a metre into his box if he was concerned about hitting Jak. Strapp off for Waters looks on the face of it, an odd sub. Lovely header, could be a huge goal.