Tulloch Gorum

We need some new arguments, these ones stopped being even ironically funny years ago. Right then, communism, Airdrie and the Orthodox Church will prevail. (1-1)

Away win. Please. I've seen far, far too many games where we've gone into them with a real chance to kick on with a big result and just not turned up. We've failed in almost all of our big tests for years. Time to change that. Oh, and there will be denim jackets and nudging from the scoundrels in the Airdrie end.

He's Frank Haffey's one true heir, he must play for us!

Sometimes I go maybe two, three hours at a time without remembering the end of that game. It'd be good to exorcise it with a win and a solid performance on Saturday, but Raith are a good side and I've yet to see us really dominate a game in the league this season. I think a draw would be acceptable, but a win could see us getting into gear for a really good season.

If you prefer, but there's never been a King David of Britain

David III, King of Scots.

I don't see what good a stack of unsold programmes does for anyone - club or sponsors.

Well, it depends on how many were printed, no? If they printed the same number as usual and sold them all that's surely what they're trying to do.

Roasters heckling players is something that'll always happen - it doens't matter if it's merited or not. I remember some years ago someone giving abuse to someone-like-but-not-necessarily Kevin MacDonald who not only wasn't playing that day but had in fact left the club about a season before. There's no rhyme or reason to it.

Yaasss!

Listening to this on the radio. At some point Willie Miller is going to need to get over McLeish getting sacked, this holding on is... not healthy.

Imagine being so breathlessly desperate for something so trivial to be a major scandalous disgrace. Riddy.

That Brechin - Elgin game is the game to be at tonight. 0-2 for Elgin after three minutes, 3-3 at half time.

Usually in a cold sweat at about 4am.

The Dakotas are in the Midwest rather than yer proper John Wayne country, surely? I thought Airdrie deserved the win. Would need to see the penalty decision again, but the linesman certainly had a much better view of it than I did. Had that been scored you're looking at a very different kind of game in the second half, but while it was a fairly even game in terms of chances created, I don't think we were really under all that much pressure at the end. I think we're still trying to figure out our best XI, which is normal enough at this stage of the season. Wedderburn, McKay and Smith were all good for us, I thought. We'll play better than that and lose this season. In fact we already have, against Hamilton. It was an enternaining enough game, even though not that many clear-cut chances were created.

That's right - had my years mixed up.

Without checking (honest!) - the first game of the 2002/03 season, and it was against Arbroath?

People talk about "a twenty goals a season striker", but those are few and far between. In 2016-17 we very nearly had two strikers pass 20 (Russell finished on 18), which would have been the first time since at least the 1980s*, and we still were no nearer to winning the league than we were to walking to the moon because we simply couldn't defend. *can't find the figures - if someone can tell me the last time we had two players hit twenty in a season I would appreciate it.

Very true. We can all get carried away and go too far at times, especially if we feel gotten at, but I hope Diamond Owl has the decency to apologise about that. Quite happy to debate and differ about football, but that's crossing a line that shouldn't be crossed.

I genuinely don't mind defensive football. Attacking football is great to watch if it's done well, but I think if you can't appreciate good defensive play you're missing a crucial part of the game. Defensive football done well isn't spectacular, but equating it with bad football or ugly football or anti-football is false to my mind. I don't know if you follow cricket, but personally I think a solid defensive batting display in a test match can be just as intriguing to watch as sloggers bashing the ball all around the ground. In any case a solid foundation at the back is absolutuely critical to a successful team - think about a few years ago when Ryan and Russell scored about seventy goals each if memory serves. We had two strikers who seemed to score goals with their every sneeze and fart (granted a fair few of Russell's were penalties), and we still finished with negative goal difference almost thirty points behind the champions because we'd have struggled to defend our goal agaist a team of snowmen (corners were especially bad, I seem to recall). We had the top scorer in the division, but we also had the third worst goals-against column in Scotland (66. Motherwell on 69 and Inverness on 71 were the only two who were worse). If focusing more on the defence means we don't get a repeat of that 5-0 home defeat to Stenhousemuir, I'll take it.

I liked Edwards and would have been more than happy to have kept him on. But is developing young players and selling them on to bigger clubs (granted for we don't know how much at this point, but there may be a sell-on clause, and we've got a loan player out of it) not generally seen to be a A Good Thing for a club at our level to be doing?

Chucking a spadge (as my wee brother's pals used to say) about not finding out about a nominal fee is just looking for things to be annoyed about. Most clubs do it these days, it's pretty standard. I just hope we've got a sell-on clause there so we can get a penny or two should Edwards turn out to be as good as looked when he first broke into the team and gets another move to a bigger club. As for Stewart, I liked him and would have been happy to see him stay at Airdrie. But let's not kid ourselves that we've lost a superstar here: he was a core part of several squads that have consistently finished mid-table in the third tier.

That is just atrocious.

The yellow away kit we had in the mid-late 1990s is one I always associate with Kevin Gallagher. I had some cash-in book that was released in advance of the 1998 World Cup, about the squad and all the games in the qualifaction campaign. There was a picture of Gallagher in that kit that just stuck in my mind. Still my favourite Scotland kit, home or away. There was another one in the book of Jim Leighton in this top, and again I always associate with him: The tartan home kit from 94-96, which I still think was pretty cool, is always Paul McStay - again because of a tournament book or all the teams at Euro 96. I think he, McCoist and Hendry were the Scotland players in it. I grew up abroad and very seldom got to see Scotland on TV, so photos in those kinds of books were how I got to see the kits and what players looked like.

Lyon are supposedly after him. I hope it's true, and I hope he goes and gets a chance to develop beyond what he can do here.