roman_bairn

I honestly cannot think of a single time when I went to Ibrox and did not get abuse..whether that's from supporters or stewards.

Ehm, I think you said that the problem was that the players just accepted their level? I don't think that was the case. Hence the examples. To me the issue was mentality. As you say, we set up defensively, that invited United onto us. Houston tried to change it with the subs but it did not work. Austen looked tired and I think should have been replaced by Miller.

Don't agree with this at all. I though Kerr in particular was magnificent in the first half and throughout the first leg. Leahy and Craigen also had good games. Not sure it was not a mentality issue. We were a goal up going into the last half hour with United giving everything they had left in the tank. We just backed off too much and could not work our way back into it.

I think there needs to be some recognition that he has been in charge at a time when we have had Sevco, Hearts, United and Hibs in the league as competition. In that time we have been runners up twice and been to a cup final. Assuming United go up it's a much more open Championship next season and I believe Houston deserves one more shot in more even circumstances.

Take that picture yourself did ye? Where did ye get the mask?

Aye...we will. Ta for that tip.

There definitely something in this! [emoji16]

Lol. What a w****r. [emoji16]

Does not make it right though does it?

Nah, I'm still p*****d off at United.

Hey, we've even got an anti-Dunfermline song, remember?

Yes, I was a little unfair. Nevertheless surely you can see why I am frustrated at having to do a 60 mile round trip on a Saturday morning to have the privilege of a 170 mile round trip on a Tuesday night? The second trip may be worthwhile but the first one is really entirely pointless and should not be needed as Morton have already demonstrated by PAYG.

Despite having to make a round trip from Motherwell to get my ticket, I will be there early enough as I am passionate enough about my club. Try not to get too excited for nothing now.[emoji16]

Why don't you do your bit tomorrow and not queue at all? You don't appear to be too worried whether you get a ticket anyway?

Hey, here's an ideal. Why don't we just reserve all stadiums purely for home supporters? We won't be giving any advantage to away teams and most games will regularly end up home wins. Atmosphere of the sweetie papers should be good too....or at least that's what The Grass is Greener thinks...

Talking to yourself again trump? [emoji3]

How is that remotely relevant? If stadiums have capacity for bigger occasions we should be trying to fill them. The game is live on national TV. We should be doing everything we can to market how great the Championship is. Whether we go up or otherwise, I think this is a great league with decent teams and competition for pretty much all.

Yes, that attitude of yours pretty much explains the whole problem. And yet we hear about Celtic whinging about a couple of hundred possible tickets less than Aberdeen and it's all over the media. Fans are what makes this game what it is. If we ALL don't start to recognise that ,especially for teams outside the bigot brothers, attendances will only diminish further.

Genuinely I do not get how you cannot see an issue here? We are now being forced to queue up at the very last minute to ensure we have a ticket for the game on Tuesday night. I live in Motherwell so that's not so easy. We faced a similar scenario last weekend with an 80% full stadium at Dumbarton. We complain about dwindling attendances but we don't make reasonable efforts to accommodate fans. I agree we are often a bunch of moaning faced c**ts, but I genuinely am concerned re how fans are being treated at the moment.

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How big do we think the queue will be tomorrow?

Hmm, we may well go up this season without doing what you suggest. Also if we don't, the only significantly bigger budget side in the Championship next season may be Dundee United. Personally I think we could get past them over 36 games if we keep most of the current squad.

Ok, but you still have not explained what it is that we need to do differently to reach the Premiership? Are you saying we should have held onto Vaulks and Alston when their minds were about going elsewhere at a higher level? Remember this is the second season in a row we have finished second in a league to a team that ought to be in the Premiership top 6.

Agree with most of this. I think mistakes have been made in previous seasons by our board but generally they got it right with Houston. Really, as I have said before, spending fortunes to get us up to the league of doom and gloom is not the right way to approach things. Re the issue of how many seasons we have spent in the top league since the 90's being below what we might expect, I think it's important to remember we were deprived of that opportunity by the 'Make it up as we go along gang' formerly known as the SPL.

Can anyone - especially those that keep suggesting it - explain what it is you think the BOD is doing differently at Premiership clubs that we should be doing at Falkirk. It's ok to make statements but how about backing it up with some facts? If the answer is invest more, can you explain where the cash is coming from?