Pie Of The Month

Going by the cost of the North West bus to most away games this could bankrupt Hearts.

Cerny Dumbaya Lindsay Seaborne Booth Osman Bannigan Amoo Nesbitt Lawless Doolan I'd put Lindsay in ahead of Frans. Both are prone to being far too tight on their man and get turned easily but Lindsay is improving and is still only 20. I'd also make space in the team for Amoo as otherwise you're relying on Doolan on his own for goals based on the poor return from the rest of the midfield this season.

Other than switching the Hearts and Aberdeen games around (which SLJ said would be difficult due to rescheduling postponed fixtures rules) that's about as good as we could've hoped for. Gets the fixtures against the top 3 out the way fairly early and gives us a favourable run of games up to the split. If we're bottom 6 then it also means 8 of our last 9 games against bottom 6 sides. Looking the teams in 6th at the split over the last decade the average number of points after 33 games is 45pts so we're looking at needing another 14pts from those 9 games to be in with a shout. Although one of our players will mention it in the media soon and jinx it anyway.

You could've been standing in the city centre and still been spotted in that picture with the height of you

So has ours in fairness.

Is he being punished for something?

Didn't realise a half lasted 17 minutes.

If you think anything posted on this last page is 'over the top' then the internet isn't for you. It's little to do with resources that Archie chooses to play the style of football he has done this season. It matters to the extent that we don't have as big a squad as others but team selection suggests it's not down to restrictions placed on the budget. We start most games with 8 defensive players out of 11, 7 if you want to be generous and pretend Welsh is meant to be more attacking than whatever it is he actually does. If it was down to resources instead of a conscious choice of the management then we wouldn't have had Muirhead and Fraser on the bench for the 1st half of the season with the more conservative 3 of Bannigan, Welsh and Osman playing week in week out. Even when another more attacking option was used it tended to be in place of Lawless or Amoo rather than breaking up the midfield 3 whereas in previous seasons we were far more likely to play with 2 central midfielders, the usual 2 attacking wide players and a more attacking player in behind the striker. We've went from being a team where defensive responsbility was left pretty much to the keeper, the 2 central defenders and a holding midfielder whilst the full backs and the rest of the midfield bombed on to 1 where yesterday anything attacking wise was left to 3 players, there's probably an answer to our problems somewhere in the middle of the 2. The current system makes the team much more difficult to beat but much less easy on the eye. It's hardly sacrilege for pointing it out and discussing what level of progress is required in order to accept a decline in the quality of football.

This time last season P23 W6 D7 L10 F32 A28 GD +4 Pts 25 9th League Cup - Quarter Finals Scottish Cup - 5th Round This season P23 W7 D7 L9 F22 A28 GD -6 Pts 28 9th League Cup - 2nd Round Scottish Cup - 5th Round Is that the level of progress that's acceptable enough to turn to shitfesting our way through the season? It's fair enough if you get St Johnstone levels of success out of it but by their 3rd season in the Premier League they had reached 2 national semi finals and finished their 3rd season in the top 6. If we improve on last season's finish then arguably it's a success but there was plenty of people who were all for playing the right way at all costs when we went up which seems to have disappeared now the football isn't very good.

We are pretty shite to watch which is probably worth it if we can see genuine improvement year on year but if we're still going to stay just above the playoff spot and shite the bed when we play in the cups then what's the point?

It's a shame he's shite with numbers.

Dundee Utd game from last weekend rescheduled for Tuesday 5th April. Means our last 4 fixtures before the split are Hamilton (a), Kilmarnock (h), Dundee Utd (h), Ross County (a) which is pretty decent.

It was expected but confirmation that Booth has triggered a contract extension due to the number of games he's played this season http://ptfc.co.uk/news/2015-2016/february_2016/booth_triggers_contract_extension

In the month since Celtic leading up to last night we'd played 2 league games, drawing 1 and losing 1 (the Dundee game you mention). Going into the Celtic game we were on a 6 game undefeated streak having won 4, drawn 2 and kept 3 cleans sheets in a row. It's hardly a stretch for them to say that we've not been as good since the Celtic game even if there's only 2 league games between then and last night to judge it on.

Why did Gary Dicker cross the road? To avoid G_Man after that incredibly awkward situation where he made a c**t of it and decided to argue about stats with craigkillie of all people.

Unless it's just so he can sign for Oldham, similar to happened to Maguire today when he was released to sign for his loan club. Tony Watt has played for 3 clubs this season but there's probably some sort of technicality there because Cardiff had a transfer embargo. Edit: It's a FIFA rule so I imagine it would apply even outside Europe.

He's already played for 2 clubs this season so he's out.

Name the 3 other than the 1 I've decided doesn't count.

Looks like the kind of c**t who would take a flight home via Berlin to save £8.

Sun journalist on twitter has us signing Aiden Nesbitt on loan from Celtic. Real rumours aren't nearly as entertaining as the made up ones on here.

He deserved it for the Eddie Malone signing shout alone in fairness.

At least big Gordon will be able to go out and try and get his hole after that news.

I'd imagine you'd find out more once we know if Celtic are in the cup final after tomorrow as if they are the first team's game v Celtic that weekend will be postponed. Development games tend to be at Airdrie. With the pitch at Firhill a bit of a mess I'd be surprised if they were willing to play a friendly on it.

Going by Antonio German's twitter he seems to enjoy playing in India so he could be our new Lyle Taylor where he plays in India October-December and joins us every January. He got 6 goals and 3 assists over there in 9 games, no idea of the standard but the likes of Pearson was there plus a few guys like Lucio, Roberto Carlos and Mutu strolling about in the sun for one last payday so I doubt it's any worse than the level we're at.

Watching the Colchester v Spurs game just now and the commentator mentioned George Moncur is Colchester's top goalscorer with 8 goals from midfield this season. Is he one that we let get away or is it just the football at that level is awful? From the little I saw of him up here he looked alright but just didn't seem very fit.