Double Jack D

I'm a huge fan of Hamilton. He was absolutely terrorising Queens in the first half on Saturday. He had 2 great chances. One where the goalie spreads himself well and gets lucky and one where he just misjudges the bounce of the ball. If you add in the red card then he could have had a first half hat trick. There is no doubt that they will be working on his movement with the balls that Mullin and Millen can supply and at some point it is going to bear fruit. For me, he leads the line all day long. The 3 in behind can do all the chasing down as, whichever 3 start, there are 3 able replacements to come on when they are goosed.

Hope it doesn't lead to a popcorn ban....

All for a singing section in the South Stand, then old codgers like me can move to the Railway Stand

Not as long as big Dick is fit....

I'm much happier going down the Callum Hannah route than the Callum Booth route for left back cover.

Signing young local talent is certainly a strategy I support.

Yup, 100p in the £ chap. Wee team pays its way...

Best part is we bought and paid for it all.

Wee city, surely?

Gutted I can't make this as it's my wee ones birthday. Effin bairns! Nervous as f**k about it too. Like many games this season it is on a total knife edge, need to see who shows up on the day. Mon the wee team fae the big toon, lets pump this "big" team fae the wee city.

Whilst it wasn't intentional, it's hard to argue that kicking someone in the puss isn't serious foul play if that's the refs view on it.

Now that was a laugh

That's my take on it. Fact it's a straight red means it has to be serious foul play, therefore suspension.

It was a straight red so it has to be classed as either serious foul play or violent conduct. Therefore I'd expect him to be suspended. If it's not classed as that then we should appeal as it's not a red card...

Also worth remembering that I don't think Jamie Macdonald caught a cross in 4 years at the Rovers.

I do think this is a key point. Last season we had a keeper who had more experience than our centre halves combined, this season we have the polar opposite. Hopefully as the relationship develops Dabrowski can become more confident and assertive with his defenders. Our defence certainly has the attributes to be a decent unit but we are leaking goals just now. It is strange that he is drawing this uncertainty from some of the crowd based on one or two dodgy kick outs and a goal conceded v Morton which was clearly much more down to very poor defending than a goalkeeping error. A couple of saves and a clean sheet on Saturday may help however his last appearance at EEP wont do much for his confidence

Goalie not at fault for either goal imo. Indeed he had a great save to keep it at 0-0 early in second half. Getting a bit uncomfortable at the growing number of fans being overly critical of Dabrowski when I'm not sure he has done much wrong. We had a few chances yesterday and scored a decent goal. Thought we matched Hibs for much of the game much like we did Kilmarnock at Rugby Park in the group stages.

Just to add in to the Broadfoot bashing, the penalty he gave away after that was howling too. Only took a bit of magic from Jammer to keep it at 3.

Got my ticket and my transport sorted out for Sunday, really looking forward to it. Expect there to be a great atmosphere in the away end, hopefully we get something to cheer on the pitch too.

Vaughan definitely plays for it, no doubt...as did Quitongo in that incident last season. They're either both penalties or both dives. I think I'd prefer they were both classed as dives and the players booked for unsportsmanship behaviour. I'd think most football fans would think the same.

The still frame below would suggest there was contact. There's no doubt goes down looking for it but there was definitely contact.

The Byrne signing really solidifies the squad depth. The only position we probably have little depth is left back but everywhere else we have decent championship quality and depth/ options to withstand injuries and suspensions. When all fit we could probably change half the outfield without reducing the quality on the park, that could be crucial in turning losses into draws and draws into wins and is an option we lacked for over 80% of games last season. The league is going to be very tight, but Murrays been given a squad that can definitely compete.

To be fair, our Adult price and Category A price helps us offset the cost of providing free entry to Under 12s and a heavily discounted under 16 season ticket. I think the Rovers pricing strategy is quite clever however it does come with the risk of suppressing the crowd for our 4 biggest home games this season. Still think we'll see plenty Pars and DU fans at both games though.

It's football, impossible not to have a biased opinion. Below is a level headed opinion from one of your own:

After seeing the text descriptions of the tackle I was more than a little disappointed with the content of the clip. Yellow card.