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Yous had 11 men behind the ball the whole game. Erm, apart from when you scored those two goals.

Here's one I've not seen mentioned. Taylor clearly fouls Danny and gets away with it, no free kick. Moments later Taylor has it on the touchline and BOOM f**k ye, Danny sends him flying and takes a yellow card for it. Love to see it!! Wee Greg hardly went near him the rest of the game.

He had a right moan about in August, which is when I posted this...

It's a hard one for me with McInnes. Obviously looking at it over a long period of time, he's succeeding and making us incrementally better. Won promotion, (just) survived in our first season back, looks set to have us finish higher up this season. I mean, we're a couple of points off 3rd at the moment. But it's hard not to look at it in the much shorter term, game to game, and on that basis he just annoys me too much for me to really take to him. The football is eye-bleedingly brutal at times, the away record is non-existent, and he seems absolutely blind to things in certain games and/or unwilling/unable to change things. I do try my very hardest to keep the long-term picture in focus, because like I say we're undoubtedly better when looking at it like that. I just know in the next week or two we could go away to Livi or have St Johnstone come to town and have a game where we're a million miles off it, and that's galling. It's especially disappointing when you've gone to great lengths and financial outlay to follow the club away from home and watch yet another turgid performance. But we've won away from home, we've beat the champions, I just wish we could build on that. If we could start winning more than 1 game at a time - that's 2, can we make it 3? - I might slowly and begrudgingly come round to him. Some fans seem guilty of swinging wildly from "McInnes out" to him being the messiah week to week as we go from winning to losing, so I'll try to stay consistent and be honest with my point of view, which is that I still haven't really taken to him. I thought I'd turned a corner in August, then the last couple of months have been mostly shite with the odd good home performance. I hope this isn't another false dawn and this is us putting together a head of steam that's going to have me absolutely eating my words and admitting I was wrong about him.

We were slow to start today and let's be honest, if it wasn't for Will Dennis in that opening 15, Celtic would have already put the game to bed. After that I thought we matched them a lot better. They've a poor defence and goalie. They're supposed to be a possession-based side but the truth is their back four isn't good enough for this; they're not "press-resistant" enough to use a Rodgers phrase from today! Last August I was so critical of how McInnes set us up at home to Celtic; sit in, invite as much pressure as we could, pay them way more respect than they deserve. The Old Firm sides of present are not those of years gone by; they're very ordinary with very ordinary defences. He got his tactics absolutely spot on in January at Hampden, and better again in the games vs Rangers and Celtic this August. Show them absolutely no respect at all, get on top of them, make it uncomfy, test them in a way they aren't normally tested. If they normally look good, it's only because teams sit off them and let them have lots and lots of the ball. Delighted to see after a ropey start, we started to make life difficult for them. Very unlucky not to have ourselves a goal in that first half, between Kennedy's excellent ball in to the back post for Kennedy (how? how did that not go in?) and Ndaba's back-post sitter. At the game I was livid with him for not scoring it; seeing it back, Alistair Johnston rolled in and turned it away with an arm on the line, which VAR weren't interested in for obvious reasons. Really good input from McInnes at half-time, had us a lot better drilled and going at Celtic better. I think he deserves tremendous credit for being so positive with his enforced subby. Donnelly had been awful negative with a lot of his passing I felt. Taking him off when he got injured and throwing another striker on was a bold move that paid off. Our one performer that wasn't a 9 or a 10 today was Vassell, but to be fair to the big man he looked better in the two. Watkins when he came on absolutely worked his baws off. The two goals were thoroughly deserved and both things of beauty. Armstrong's cut inside and whipped ball in to the feet of Watkins was a tremendous pass and a difficult bit of skill. Big man took it in well and picked just the right pass. I said to my dad before the game that when Armstrong and Lyons play well in these games, the team play well. Brad had a great game today and took up a brilliant position for the equaliser. We should take a moment to appreciate the work ethic of the guy; he covered every blade of grass today and when he's doing as much hard defensive work, to burst forward like that takes a great engine. Good of Philips to be so slow getting out that he plays him on, and even nicer still of him to turn it in for us. Big haddy. The second goal is even better. After a bit of defending of our own, let's give credit to Liam Polworth, who does exactly what he does best and why I think he should start more often. Stops, slows the game down, stays calm, doesn't panic - picks a really good forward pass to get us up the park instead of just launching it. Armstrong and Kennedy combine brilliantly and I love the wee point from Kennedy - Danny picks him out perfectly. Delighted for the wee man that he finally gets his Killie goal. Super week for him, an assist and a goal. Another assist for Danny, who will be back to having a target on his back for certain sections of the support come Saturday no doubt. You could go through the team and make an argument for MOTM today. Fantastic to a man. The best bit for me is that my wee nephew was there. Started out a Rangers fan at a young age, has been coming with me to Killie games on and off for years, and recently as he develops a real interest in football and goes to any game he can, has been to a lot of Ayr with his dad. Even got a top. I've been forking out for scarves etc to try and keep his interest in Killie. I've seen him swithering in recent weeks, as Ayr continue to be an embarassment and Killie pick up some good victories. Yesterday got his gran to buy him the full Killie keeper kit for his Christmas. Today sees us beating the Old Firm in a home league game, something he'll never see Ayr do. I can see him inching more and more in to the Killie camp. Wants to come to Livi next week. A beautiful thing to watch develop in front of your eyes!

I've got a stauner watching them back

Pish, took his goal brilliantly today

Three minutes Brendan has been on the radio and he hasn't cried about the pitch once!

Seems mad there's no topic for this one. Hoping we can turn in a performance like we did in August, but with key midfielders missing- especially Watson - I can't see it.

Mine there now - and had the email (in my spam) Cheers gents

Done!!!! To save any panicking, I assume when others click in to their "My Tickets" its blank, but you can see it in Order History?

The clearest red in the game by an absolute mile was Hayes cynically stopping Vassell from breaking, when he was already on a yellow. As clear a second yellow as you'll ever see. So pipe down.

Gotta love a last minute winner! Give all credit for that goal to my two MOTM candidates tonight. Big Stu Findlay with an absolute sensational tackle, just sublime. We go up the other end and then Davie Watson starts the move out wide, picks up a position in the box, takes a world class touch then lashes it in to the corner like Ibra in his prime. What a way to finish an absolutely dire game!

Second booking Hayes surely to f**k!!

An absolutely brutal first half. Only got about 5 hours sleep last night after a late one with work. Struggling to stay awake here

Stupid useless incompetent b*****ds. Lots of us questioned why codes were coming out at 1030 when the sale took place 90 mins later. Why not yesterday, Monday, Sunday? Why cut it so close? Could see something like this coming a mile away. Useless.

Keep waiting for our away form to turn. Maybe this'll be the one...

Admittedly the only other full SWNT game I've ever watched was the reverse fixture, but that goalie tonight cannot possibly be the best keeper Scotland has to offer? I made it 7 shots on target, 6 goals. I remember a save with her foot and that was it! The last one at her near post is an absolute bloody shocker. Even though we lost 0-6 I feel the scoreline flattered them just from the point of view that everything they hit went in.

No, 3-0 in 2009. An expected loss, but my first visit to the city was superb. Went back a couple of years after with the missus as I loved it so much

Would love to do Amsterdam again, possibly my favourite Scotland trip ever. Next year already expensive enough though from a fitba travel pov!

Going to my first ever SWNT game tomorrow. Been coaching girls football for a while now and have organised to take 29 of them to their first fixture - needless to say they're all absolutely buzzing!

I was coming in to post just that. Thought it was quite revealing in terms of the level of opponent we are looking at. A regular group stage side from a smaller nation. If we can find a similar opponent they'll prove good preparation for both Hungary and Switzerland IMO.

Listening to Scottish Football Podcast earlier who were going through Hungary and Switzerlands recently results. Hungary qualified well, but didn't really meet anyone of note. Their recent big victory was 4-0 at home to England, which is obviously excellent. Otherwise the rest of their results came against so called easier sides. Switzerland's results in the last year or so are really nothing special.