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Efete in particular was playing quite far up the pitch. White actually looked pretty comfortable in that middle advanced midfield role, he uses his strength quite well, and has a lovely knack of turning without touching the ball and going with it. I'm generally not a massive JW fan, but he did well there.

Technically, you braid rope, rather than weave it.

Very hard to hear anything other than "I'm gone tomorrow" from that interview. Whether it's Adams' own choice to leave, or he anticipates getting sacked, who knows, but it's not the words of someone fighting for their job.

1. It absolutely was right to get shot of Malky. His time was up, and we were going nowhere 2. Derek actually seemed like a reasonable shout at the time, plenty of experience, knew the club, hope that some of the rough edges polished off 3. First three games actually went OK, with a January window to rebuild. 4. Lost the plot in post match interview and pretty much spiralled from there. I really wanted this to work. It really hasn't.

I'm still annoyed at Efete ignoring the ref and moving his throw even further up the pitch, which got penalised and effectively wasted the last 3-4 mins.

I hoped the same. Tough to step up after zero game time for weeks, but didn't see much today I'm afraid.

I don't see Loturi contribution further up the field as particularly great either I'm afraid. I think we've got better options.

Lack of defensive work? Are you kidding? For a wee skillful guy, he's regularly tracking back and putting it about with guys twice his size. Clearly not been watching him play.

Ah, right enough, that takes me back. To paraphrase the words of Maximus, "There was once a dream that was free flowing Ross County full width football . You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish... it was so fragile." Or something like that.

He came on with ten minutes to go, I don't think that's really enough time to make a definitive call

Sproule back in 2013? In my head I've got recollection of lopsided formation with Ivan as winger on one side with Oikonomou as rampaging fullback on the other?

I am also all for a thread with more football and less Douglas Ross, so we're aligned there. Onwards to speculation over the glories or horrors that await us under the third Adams era.

Aye Staggie52, it's an interesting area, and gets fuzzier of the full scope of hate incident legislation is enacted, where it's the perception of motivation that matters. But yes, def take the point that politics per se are not a PC.

No fan of the Tories in general or Ross in particular, but this isn't about your personal view of him (reasons to hate him etc), it's about abuse. You've said (and doubled down) on the legitimacy of abusing someone in a public place because you don't like their politics, but at the same time you've taken a moral stance on the basis of someone else's abuse of a different type. Does PtJs moderate highlighting of that discrepancy really merit that level of response (Dumb as hell/utterly disingenuous etc)?

Religion and belief is though, which includes philosophical beliefs.

Brilliantly awful. Awfully brilliant.

I remember being at that game, in the away end at the dump, and all of us trying to work out who the new guy was. We won 2-1 in the end, and Slew looked a handful. Never quite clicked for him, although he had Curran-esque levels of effort, he never had a corresponding Boyce to take advantage.

Genuinely think he's a better shout than any of the other realistic prospects mentioned. Who would be better ?

There's a surf'n'turf joke in there somewhere, desperately trying to get out. I for one welcome the return of our Adams overlord.

I genuinely struggling. Is this a whoosh?

Firstly, an apology - I turned to the guy next to me and said "I admit it, I've judged Loturi all wrong, he's actually decent" at which point he gave away the ball leading directly to the second goal, and generally made only negative contributions until being subbed. So, I'm sorry about that lads. I actually thought Sims did OK given how deep he was playing, effectively a full back. Leak showed a couple of wobbles which were a wee bit of a worry, esp compared to st J game. Dhanda was class above again, for a wee guy, his effective tracking back and last ditch tackling, but tidily done without giving away fouls is an under appreciated element to his game. He's just excellent. I'm sorry to go against the flow re Jordan white, I'm simply not seeing why he gets the full 90 week in, week out. His contributions Vs the others just don't square for me, and failing to get the one header on target summed that up. Turner wasn't quite as neat/elegant/precise as I'd hoped when he came on, even with a wee bit of time on the ball, his passes weren't then level I'd expected from week before, although his driving forward was decent. Previously I've been vexed by MM refusing to make subs until too late. Today he changed all sorts quite early, although I'd like to have seen Alex Samuel (and his wondrous posterior) get a bit of game time. Just my own thoughts, and although it sounds negative, to be at this point having played both sides of OF, having 3pts and not horror goal difference is reasonable. Onwards.

I was resigned to relegation, compensated by high hopes of MM moving on. Now, while I'm obvs glad we're staying up, another turgid season of that under MM may seriously damage the affection I have for the club. Really hope he just slips away having kept us up, thanks very much, see you later. We can then start the rebuild thats been needed since the season we won the u21 league and did hee-haw with the players.

This. ST not applying here hasn't been widely announced, just buried as part of safety notice. Expect a fair few of non social media older fans to turn up and expect to get in.

Given a) season tickets don't apply, b) the game is on a Sunday, c) the result in Thursday, d) the a(nti)pathy re the club in general and MM in particular, there's a very real risk that home crowd will be less than away. I just want it to be over, Malky gone, and press the restart button, I'd rather a Malky-less Championship than starting next season with him still in charge in top league. Very worst case is the drop + him still here. Absolute worst worst case is Caley also win the cup, same weekend we are relegated, and MM stays. Nightmare territory.

https://www.rosscountyfootballclub.co.uk/news-items/safety-message-ross-county-v-partick-thistle No parking available at the ground.