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Goodwin relegating Aberdeen would amuse me.

I actually laughed when I saw in on Sportscene, the boy just falling over on the line was pathetic. OK, it should've been a Hibs throw, but they're still defending a throw in almost at the half way line and conceded a goal.

The mixture of nouns and verbs there is annoying me.

With 4 games to play we're 7 points ahead of Hibs and 6 ahead of Dundee. We've got quite a tricky run of games but even with that, Hibs would need to pick up 9 points from their 4 games to have a chance of catching us. It would take a pretty big swing for us to end up bottom six.

Does no one else quite like the fact that a grass pitch changes throughout the season? I don't think any of the grass pitches (in the top flight anyway) are horrendous, but I don't mind seeing teams have to deal with a tricky pitch.

We should be if it means getting Kenny Miller off the airwaves.

I'm just not sure how it works. It wasn't a snarky or loaded question, apologies if it came across that way.

Probably been answered already, but is there no copyright issues with sharing these?

Grieve was a complete punt who gave everything and did reasonably well. He's not making it into anyone's best ever St Mirren 11, but he was a decent player who chipped in with some important goals. There won't be many fans with a bad word to say about him.

As for one Aberdeen player (I'm assuming Miovski) is worth more than the whole St Mirren team, I don't think that's particularly controversial. Consider our best players: Baccus, currently worth nothing as he'll leave for free in the summer, same for Gogic and Strain. No one is coming in with decent bids for any of our players. As for Warnock, strange situation all round. I can't help but think, what was the point?

He could've been booked twice before that in the game as well. Quite funny that he managed to get away without a booking for nearly 90 mind, then talks himself into the book and out the semi final.

Shinnie gets away with murder, was the same last week.

Does a couple of top flight teams having an artificial pitch give kids more opportunities to play? Most high schools have them as well as councils having ones. I'm all for having more and widening access, but I don't think there'd be a noticeable drop in kids' participation if Kilmarnock and Livingston had to switch to grass pitches. Maybe I'm wrong. I was surprised to hear that only one highland league club has an artificial pitch. I'd have thought a lot of these clubs would've done well from being able to rent out their pitches.

I dunno, there's something I like about a grass pitch. I like how a grass pitch will change with the season, and will vary from team to team. A good grass pitch just looks much better too. I'm not particularly strident and I think there are more pressing issues to deal with in Scottish football, but I would prefer to have all grass pitches. Possibly just being a bit nostalgic. Edit: I agree with the point about football snobbery.

It's a very tall ask for a team finishing 5th, or even 4th, to make the group stages. There are some very decent sides in the later qualifying rounds. Hibs last year met Villa and Hearts lost to a pretty strong PAOK team. Like you say, any sort of away day would be brilliant. A team in the Baltic states would be a good trip, hopefully we could progress and draw a decent outfit. It would be unbelievable to see us play in a big European stadium. Wait to see us finish 6th now.

I'm not sure many folk are saying that we are massively overperforming. Based on our resources finishing in the top 6 is a good achievement, to do it 2 years on the bounce is excellent.

I agree with you, which is another reason why I think if he was offered a job like Aberdeen, he'd most likely take it. I just don't think Aberdeen will come for him this time. There might be some English League 1 clubs that would be interested, but there's such a massive amount of out of work managers down there. And most of these teams would probably plump for someone like Wayne Rooney over Robinson. Hibs maybe, when they inevitably sack Montgomery. I think Northern Ireland is a more likely step up for him.

Totally agree, but if someone offers to double or treble your wages it's a different story. We also know how fickle football is, one bad run and he could miss the opportunity for a move.

I'd be surprised if Aberdeen went for Robinson. Firstly the fans have ideas above their station and given they recently took a manager from us and it didn't workout, then I don't think they'd be happy with the appointment. Secondly - and I guess this is linked to the first point - a lot of their fans are calling for a manager that plays some sort of expansive, passing game. OK, you work with the tools at your disposal and Aberdeen would have a much bigger budget for players, but I don't think Robinson is that type of manager.

He actually seemed to have some decent patter in the past. Then he started with his Avon for wankers and it all went down hill.

Did you ever listen to his podcast series, 'Wind of Change'? It was terrific.

I mind Nani getting sent off against Real Madrid about 10 years ago for a high boot that was totally accidental.

Just finished 'Rogues'by Patrick Radden Keefe. Actually took me a wee while to get through it as it's a series of articles he's written over the years, so I tended to put it down for a while after each one. It's a good read though, he's a brilliant writer, and there's some really fascinating pieces about a variety of different criminals - and one about Anthony Bourdain. I'd definitely recommend Say Nothing, his book on the troubles/IRA that surrounded Jean McConville's murder. I couldn't put it down. Empire of Pain about the Sacklers was really good too.

Incidently, here's what Rodgers said after Olusanya was sent off against Celtic.