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Thank f**k for that.

Must be about time to abandon the season.

My memory differs on a couple of points - I think John Hollins was around for a bit more than one game; maybe more like a month. Sure I remember him being at McDiarmid Park during that run, at least. Also I think I'm right in saying that game at Stark's was actually Tommy McLean's *second* game as Dundee United manager. But I am pleased to confirm that we did indeed win, easily the most enjoyable moment in a pretty shit season. Add me to the Grant Anderson fan club - pity we'll not see him again, but wish him all the best.

I was trying to think who she was supporting, but yes that would have been it.

I'm not normally that much into electronica, but I just discovered Sylvan Esso's album from, I think, last month, which has got some absolute bangers on it.

Saw her in Glasgow a couple of years back. The songs I can take or leave but I absolutely love her voice. Very asmr.

Think it was Anna Meredith at Oran Mor in February. It seems a world away.

I just had a read of the first thirty pages, and was relieved to see that "trust in McGlynn and give it time" was pretty much my catchphrase throughout. What amused me more than the slagging of Tade and Hill was all the talk of how there was no way we'd get away with playing Davo at centre-back in the higher division.

That's the one, thank you very much.

Hello, good people of Ayr. Do any of you happen to know if footage is still kicking around anywhere of that game at Stark's Park in, I think, 2008, when yer man Alex Williams scored two of the best goals ever?

Shoulders with grant et al here - add me to the over-sensitive / PC mob or whatever other phrase you want to use.

You scan in at one station, and scan out at another, and only then does it work out the fare and subtract it from the balance. (If for some reason you scan in but fail to scan out I think it assumes you've gone to the furthest away zone and you'll get charged the maximum fare accordingly.) Not particularly obvious to me how that relates to football. (Edited to add: there are many other underground systems in major cities which do indeed have a flat rate, which makes it a lot easier.)

Excluding all the classical concerts I was being taken to since before I can remember, my first was Helloween at the Edinburgh Playhouse in 1988. Sorry about that, everyone, I was young. I'm sure I enjoyed it at the time though.

Simmons didn't score many but the ones he did were generally big moments - that one, the equaliser against Ayr I mentioned a few posts ago, the cup game at Dens. Add in his role in the winning streak that took us to the title in 2009, his absolute heroics at Pittodrie the following year (which alone merits cult status), his role again in the nearly season of 10/11 and his being so unpopular with Pars fans and I'm always mystified he's not more fondly remembered by us.

Well the most obvious difference was that I was there for Dickov's and not for Aguero's. But the more important difference, for me, was that by the time of Aguero's goal the Man City I had grown up supporting had ceased to exist and had been replaced by a PR exercise for a regime with a shocking human rights record.

Favourite injury-time equaliser would be a toss-up between Walker against Dunfermline and Casa against Ayr, yes. The one at Cowdenbeath I don't remember being too jazzed about - partly because despite all the goals I mostly just remember it as being a pretty shit game. A word also for Simmons' equaliser two seasons before Casa's - lots of parallels, also against Ayr, also at Stark's, it was equally late and equally important in the relegation scrap, changed the momentum of the season for both clubs. But whereas - as I remember it - Casa's equaliser was entirely deserved, Simmons' was a steal, they'd outplayed us and been denied by McGurn. (Think I'm right in saying it was also the game with the famous triple save, among others.) If we're expanding it to include winners then Mark Ferry's against Arbroath was my favourite of the several late winners we scored in the 08/09 promotion season. (For me personally, though, it's hard to imagine anything ever topping being at Wembley for this. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXbOPAuIo74 )

Had a decent career in the Juniors. He was the star player at Glenrothes when I last saw him a few years ago - prolific at that level.

Ooh, I have not, but will look them up. Thank you.

Oh really? Saw them twice last year. Loved them.

Another goal I'd not seen since the time. Remembered the strike itself but not how good a goal it was including the run before it. (I had to get up at something like 6am to travel down from Kirkwall for that game, just to stand in the cold and watch that lot. The goal made it all worthwhile. That and the absolutely delicious venison in The Mallard before the game.) The two year contracts in McGlynn's first spell were a very good thing for us, over the piece. But they also included Andy Tod and Joe Dunbar.

Thanks once again for all of your efforts @DanElderRRFC I generally didn't watch the highlights programmes, so it's still a bit weird to see all these goals I've not seen since they happened. Or, in the case of Partick's first minute effort there, goals I missed altogether 'cause we were still getting a cup of tea.

With Raith? Only Davidson, like dan says. Not quite sure how he ended up being signed at the same time - don't know if that was anything to do with Anelka or if he was one of the ones like Joe McAlpine who'd already been lined up by the board. One or two of the others weren't quite as terrible as that whole circus made them look and went on to have decent enough careers elsewhere - Tomas Hajovksy I think did okay and may have played in the Champions League with some Slovakian side or other. Wes Daly I saw playing for AFC WImbledon a couple of years later, where he looked excellent, and had a solid enough career as an English non-league journeyman. Otherwise I think they all sank without trace.

Yeah we played the youth team. Lloyd Young was about the closest to a senior player, as I remember. We were safe, the mostly Spanish players that Calderon had brought in had already been told they weren't being kept, and weren't keen to play and risk injury. A bunch of them came over and joined us on the terracing instead.

Yeah some of yous are getting wound up far too easily here.