Specky Ginger

I'm quite glad the way the playoffs have worked out. Bullen and Doolan are much less detestable than Dodds and Imrie. If Thistle fans and players would stop squealing for a penalty when the ball hits an opposition player's thigh, I'd be quite tempted to wish them every success in the playoffs.

To be fair, I can't recall Vaughan putting a penalty to the keeper's left too often. Fair play to Vaughan. It took a bit of bottle to step up tonight after missing at Firhill in March.

Most of the debt accrued under Nicholl was in his second spell. Penman was away by then. Alan Kelly to blame.

This Friday's programme includes the following: - John Greer chats to former Rover and Jag Jim Kerr, - An interview with Ross Mathhews about his injury hit season, - Reports and pics from the Arbroath, Morton and Ayr games, - A Memory Match from 1994 which was a dead rubber for Rovers, but an erse nipper for Thistle (sound familiar?), - Features on charity fundraising including Team Archie, Cahonas and Spirit of Excellence. Plus the usual features including: - Manager's Notes, On This Day, Mascot feature, Quiz, Visitors' Pics, Stats and Team Lines. On sale in and around the ground for only £3.

It might be worth emailing the club and ask explain your friend's situation. They'll hopefully put you in touch with someone from the 200 club which is in the south (home end) stand.

That report lacks a bit of detail. There's no mention of our losses, either average or cumulative, since 2005. They really need to get their fingers out and dig a bit deeper. They're keeping fans in the dark.

Livi will only be due a development fee if they offer him a contract at least equal to the terms of his current one. If they do, I can't imagine many championship clubs being able to compete with that.

'Had' and 'made' makes that a disappointing story. 'Has' and 'makes' would have made it a great story.

Andy Graham, who was on loan to us from Dundee United, saved a penalty that night as well.

Ah, fair enough. When you said 'this result' I thought you were referring to the 84/85 game. Got it now.

It was 62/63 that we lost 10-0 at Pittodrie. The stats aren't good from that season, but the only mitigation is that it was in the top league (and we made the Scottish Cup semis that season). The 84/85 vintage was basement league and to finish as low as we did with Keith Wright, Paul Smith and Paul Sweeney in the side, speaks volume about the rest and the management.

From what I can remember, Hibs had a game up north which was postponed. As a train load of their casuals were making their way back, they pulled the communication chord to stop the train and a load of them piled off and climbed into the ground (before the days of pneumatic train doors and before the railway stand at Stark's Park ran the full length of the pitch).

One of the worst ever Rovers teams against one of the best ever Aberdeen teams. Scottish Cup 4th Round 1985. Aberdeen won 2-1 thanks to a double from Frank McDougall. One of our better performances in a season where we got pumped 5-1 away and 3-0 at home to Cowdenbeath. Not sure if Leighton is wearing trackie bottoms because of the snow or just to hide his bandy legs.

That's why we have a manager and assistant manager. In our financial situation, we need to be signing players who can contribute regularly on the pitch. Signing guys who are only capable of playing limited minutes is financially imbecilic. Remember Rudi Skacel?

Given that it's been £20 walk up and £300 for an adult season ticket for the last couple of seasons, I wouldn't be surprised if it goes up to £22 walk up and £330 season ticket (given season tickets are normally priced equivalent to attending 15 league games). The psychological thing about breaking the £20 barrier won't count for so much nowadays given the high percentage of people who pay by card rather than cash.

Published in World Sports, November 1957

Moving back to our Goal of the Season competition, no one can fail to be impressed by the quality of the goals on the shortlist. There won't be another team in the Championship, and very few in the Premiership, that has a shortlist of that standard. However, it raises a couple of pertinent points. Firstly, given our poor Goals For total, it highlights our inability to score 'dirty'or 'scruffy'goals consistently where we execute a set piece or force the opposition into a mistake. Secondly, it highlights our inability to do the most rudimentary defending as other teams aren't having to produce moments of high quality to score against us. If you analyse the goals we've lost over the season, there are very few that would make a Goal of the Season shortlist. Off the top of my head, Aberdeen's second in the League Cup and possibly Inverness' goal in the game up there last October.

If MacDonald is keen to stay next season, we sign him. End of. Even if it means making savings in other areas of the wage bill. You go for the best goalkeeper available to you. Look at how Hearts have regressed since they lost Craig Gordon and look at the mess Leicester have been since they let Kasper Schmeichel go and replaced him with his understudy.

We've apparently been looking for a new physio for months, but the current one has agreed to stay until we find a replacement.

I heard he's part of the consortium.

Correct. And the talk was that the Dean Park shirt sponsorship was more lucrative than the previous sponsorship deal.

To those who are at best indifferent towards Jamie MacDonald - Premiership Ross County had Ross Laidlaw in goals today and Ross Munro on the bench. If either of those two rocked up at Stark's Park next season as replacements for Jamie MacDonald, would you see it as a step forward? Me neither. However, if Falkirk make it up through the playoffs, I see them trying to entice MacDonald as McGlynn is a big fan and the guy they have just now looks rank rotten.

I like Bene, but there's a world of difference between tearing it up in league one and cutting it in the championship. Just look at Cove Rangers.

Thank goodness for Yogi appearing in the papers. Suddenly the last few weeks don't seem nearly so bad.

It's about quality, not quantity