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Oh piss off. Jai stood over him shouting but he didn't stamp anywhere near his head - it was right in front of me and all Jai did was shout at him. It was a cynical foul and arguably a red card - it wan't just a simple trip, he seemed to hit him with an elbow as well and went in quite high. I like Murdoch, was a great player for us and sad to see him resort to that sort of thing. Ayr have a hard edge to them and are not averse to fouling or other cheating. Near the end one of their players picked up the ball right in front of the cowshed before it had actually gone out of play, and took the throw - the linesman should have picked that up as it's pretty basic stuff. Ayr also indulged in a lot of time wasting after they scored until Crawford's superb equaliser. Good to see the smile wiped off Sean McGinty's coupon. What Ayr are good at is breaking quickly. They seem to have plenty of pace and they'll likely be all right this season. Morton struggled against them last season but I think our settle squad, albeit handicapped by injuries, showed they are better than at this time last season. Early days, but in what was a hectic game, we looked decent and deserved the win.

Seems out of character for Murdoch. Never been a dirty player.

McDonald would be a solid replacement for Mullen. I wonder if the intention is just to cover this injury, or will it be a longer term thing?

This year is the 60th anniversary of us losing to this lot's predecessor club in the league cup final. Time to right a historic wrong.

"No Championship clubs in Ross County's group"? And he actually played for us...

I think Imrie is playing a very clever game. Leaving everyone else believing we don't have a credible title-challenging squad when in reality we're not that far off it as last season showed. Imrie has a pretty good record so far of getting the best out of our squad, and I'd expect him to manage the same this season. Last year we had a couple of duds (Kabia for example, and Easdale) and he remedied that as soon as he could. I expect him to strengthen when the loan season starts, but this year we have a far better initial starting point with a fairly settled core to our squad. Of course he wants more funds - we would all like that - and I'd trust him not to waste anything he does get, but I'm fairly sure he knows what he's doing. Let's see how the manager of the month trophies pile up this season.

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Looks like Partick bet the farm on getting promoted. I'm sure they'll muddle through but quite likely the standard of their team will be much reduced next season. Tiffoney already away and probably a lot more to follow.

QP might well follow the example of Arbroath last season. From title challengers to bottom three in one season. Never had any view about QP up till this season but you do seem to have a fair number of supporters who have already forgotten where you have been for the last 100 years or so.

Have you changed a tyre recently? Car wheels are so big now, and much wider than they used to be. It's practically impossible to lift them - and many cars don't even have a spare tyre, just a can of squirty stuff that's mostly useless. It's not 1973 any more.

We're actually still able to get 4th place depending on other results. i think technically third might be possible but very very unlikely. We need Ayr and Inverness to their remaining games (possible) with the game between them either a draw or maybe an Inverness win I think. Anyway, we definitely need to beat Raith or we're going nowhere. The reason we are not in the playoffs is Arbroath. Sad but true.

Keeper made a right mess of that shot.

Could have been about 6-0 in the second half. Credit to Hamilton though as they never gave up. Our subs changed that game within seconds of coming on. Suddenly we upped the pace and just blew Hamilton away. Surely Dougie can now see that McGrattan should be starting games?

Is Oakley definitely out? I thought there was something about two yellows means the suspension is not immediate. Or is that just for accumulated yellows over a period of time?

That's not good news. I do hope McGrattan gets a starting place as we seem to win most games when he's in the team.

We owned Dundee there. They huffed and puffed but we always looked the more likely team to score the second goal. Grimshaw bossed the midfield, Blues was exceptional and what a goal that would have been from him if Dundee's MotM, the keeper whose name I can't remember and certainly can't spell, hadn't pulled off an excellent save. Baird dominated the airways. We fully deserved that win - if only we could be as dominating against the Arbroaths and Hamiltons of this division.

Certainly like to see McGrattan starting. Every time I've seen him play and he gets subbed after an hour, we seem to get worse (usually replaced by Kabia, no departed). I'd be inclined to drop Blues to the bench as he seems to be a bit anonymous at the moment.

Is Strapp fit? Seemed to have got a bad knock last Saturday as he was limping when he left Parkhead. Could bring in King at LB if so.

On the left, he may well be. However on the right, he was having to cut inside on to his left foot. There's a player there but playing him wide right seems a bit akin to playing Robbie Muirhead at left back. I'm happy to give Roy a chance as that was his first game and I remember Grimshaw didn't impress when he first arrived,, although when I look at opinions about Roy when he was at Queens it doesn't paint a very optimistic picture. i'm sure dougie will get the best out of him in time.

Look at the highlights. That was never a penalty. The referee must have got confused because Gillespie cleared the ball towards his own goal line rather than upfield. If anything should have been a free kick to Morton - which is what the ref indicated at first. Shocking refereeing. As Ally Roy is only on loan, can we send him back to Glentoran? He looks as shite as everyone has said. We are a lesser team without McGrattan, and for that matter if Reece Lyon has recovered his mojo, he'd add something to our midfield rather than Annan's. Miller was struggling as he seems to have no right foot. We need a decent striker.

Are we not three points behind you with a game in hand, and the same goal difference so that if we win that game in hand we will be above you? If we've bottled the playoffs, so have you, ya stupid mutant.

There was never any chance we'd be signing him. Just a lazy piece of journalism. Under some of our previous managers, signing an unfit has-been might have been seen as a good idea, but we've moved on. He'll be signing for Queens Park - here's a picture of him in his new strip: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Prisoner-Convict-Robber-Burglar-Costume/dp/B00JQ3T0TY/ref=asc_df_B00JQ3T0TY/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=309990544451&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=11164598138620191158&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1007320&hvtargid=pla-540938479885&psc=1

Same conclusion from the game against Partick a couple of weeks ago. We were doing well with Mcgrattan on & the performance dropped as soon as he was replaced by Kabia.

You don't need to "shore up" the car park embankment - I assume you mean a retaining wall. Just dig out material & move the slope of the embankment over a bit. Not terribly expensive to do that, but tbh i think any significant investment in the ground would need to lead to increased income of there's no point. Putting a roof over the WDE is probably the cheapest option (not necessarily the old Love St one which I suspect may have suffered a lot of corrosion over the years, if it hasn't been chopped up and sold for scrap). Wouldn't be too difficult to fit seats to the existing bench seating although it's many years since I was in the WDE so no idea what sort of condition the terracing is in.

The problem with that is that the Sinclair Street end tapers in depth so doesn't really lend itself to a decent stand. The answer might be to get Sinclair Street diverted so that it runs parallel with the Sinclair St boundary wall, with the realignment bringing the road back to meet the main road as the existing junction. That idea was actually discussed several years ago during Warren Hawke's time as CEO but it never got anywhere. Idea was to accommodate facilities in the new stand and even possibly have direct access from the car park via a footbridge. Would have been nice but the cost would almost certainly kill off such an idea.