LiviLion

Clearly taking PR advice from Derek Adams.

That penalty decision btw Euan Anderson needs to hand his whistle in* *Actually, not giving it in the first place was one of the few things he got right all day. Watching it back and thinking it's a penalty is an utter riddy

Imagine desperately defending wee degenerates just because they support the same team as you. Weird little creature you are.

We're far too happy to invite pressure here, can't see it ending well

Euan Anderson's clearly got St Mirren on the coupon. I know our referees are laughably incompetent but this has been next level so far.

I'm starting to think we might not win this

That doesn't sound right at all

9 goals conceded and 0 bookings, soft as shite.

Yeah, they were definitely building a bit of momentum and would be interested to know how many new members forms they got (especially considering they need them physically handed to them), but more or less radio silence after the Rankine case was a bit weird. I get the guy running the account is ill but based on how they refer to him in the third person sometimes I'm going to guess he's not the only one on it; so shouldn't really have been anything stopping the odd update.

I can get on board with that tbf, we were going to give it a bash this season and chose Broxburn for the 1st Round, couple decent games and knocked out by Buckie; then fully prepared to go wherever they were in the 4th Round but couldn't bring myself to go to Parkhead so just went to the Livi game instead. Maybe give it a proper go next season.

As above, not exactly "pay at the gate" but you can buy a ticket from a wee window at the stadium. Alternatively you should be able to buy tickets online right up to kick off, can do so on your phone while you're in the car/bus/train/walking to the ground and just flash the QR code you get.

My confidence for this is purely dependant on Penrice and Donnellan's fitness. If we start a back 4 of: Brandon, Donnellan, Obileye, Penrice, then I'll be happy. However it's very possible we end up needing to switch out Donnellan for Nottingham and Penrice for Sangare, which would make me much less happy. Nottingham is fine if he's at right back I think, so that's still an option if Penrice is out but Donnellan is fit with Brandon playing on the left. The last couple of performances have definitely been encouraging, and the fight back against Partick (let's ignore how we found ourselves in that position in the first place) was great with the feeling in the stand at the end being very similar to when we turned our form around to survive in the Championship back in 2015, so hopefully we can kick on for the same outcome (survival, not the Championship). Bit of a weird situation in midfield for me, Shinnie is clearly a great player and made a huge difference coming on at Firhill, but I'm not sure if you drop Holt and Carson has been impressive since he signed, which would leave Shinnie as either the attacking midfielder or as an option bench; would be quite harsh after how good he was but I'd probably have him on the bench again. Think Yengi did enough to keep his place and when Nouble and Brandon were on the same side they looked very good going forward. George Brandon - Donnellan - Obileye - Penrice Holt - Carson Nouble - Kelly - MacKay Yengi All set up perfectly for Martindale to play a 3-6-1 with McGovern in goals and Nouble at centre back. Heart says a battling 2-1 win, head can't see past more heartbreak and a late St Mirren goal.

A couple different threads over the last few days for me I've clicked the next page and it's just been a repeat of the same page I was on; click back to the previous page and it's completely different. Assuming it's just some weird bug with the forum (@Div using Chrome FWIW) and not my sanity on the way out.

Away to the Celtic in the cup, our reward for getting this far for the first time since 2005 (?) is a pumping. At least there will be some dosh for us. Suppose we'd reached the end of the clear winnable ties; Morton at home (away would give me the fear) was probably the only one you'd be confident with, so a pay day isn't to be sniffed at. Hopefully Celtic are still in a bit of disarray, the poor wee souls, and we've picked up a good bit of form to make it interesting.

Purely for the sake of moaning about something, can we just send McGovern back to Hearts? I don't care if Hamilton isn't fit yet, surely whoever plays for our reserves/U18s isn't as bad as McGovern. Nothing he could do for the first goal but the second he booted it straight at their attacker - not the only time he done that either - and then the shot goes underneath him at his near post, woeful. That's before you think about the crosses he flapped at. On a more positive note, much much better to see us fighting and picking heads up. First half was a bit of a shit show all round, was hoping for Nouble to get subbed at half time but then he came out his old self in the second half to make me look a right tit. Definitely at his best out wide when he can run at defenders, and Tete was a handful as well. I'm feeling dangerously positive about our chances of dragging ourselves into a proper fight to stay up, I'm sure it'll be shattered when we get news that Donnellan and somehow MacKay are out for the rest of the season.

Had to laugh at Jonathan Sutherland opening up the Partick Thistle v Livi analysis with a desperate attempt to talk about VAR, as if having it would have stopped our first goal. Does the fucking idiot think it would have changed the corner decision? Weird that that was his main VAR topic (in a game that didn't have it) and not the goal we had ruled out that looked fine, or the clear handball we should have had a penalty for. They might well have talked about them later but I turned off pretty quick, very good reason I like to skip the "analysis" and just catch the highlights and interviews.

Aye, Thistle have got absolutely everything all day. Not that it makes any difference, when McGovern is doing shit like that

State of this pitch btw, cracking advert for plastic I haven't seen much of Thistle this season but isn't their whole thing that they get it out wide and cut it back for a Graham tap in? No clue why we're set up to give them so much time out wide, infuriating. Even worse that our RB and LB are covering more centrally with Nouble and MacKay going to the winger with the ball, means that if we do get it back we've not really got a counter attack. TL;DR: Shite.

Aye, already played for Caley in the cup. Much better than him being injured!

Michael McGovern in goals to give Thistle a 2 goal head start. Rest of the line up looks fine I think, though I do think it's pointless having both Nouble and Yengi starting, interested to see how it goes.

^^^ never seen a Livingston player take a penalty

No idea who's fit, only know that Carson is cup tied and Montano is still injured. Assuming everyone else is available: George Brandon - Donnellan - Obileye - Penrice Holt - Pittman MacKay - Kelly - Nouble Anderson I wouldn't mind seeing Yengi start again though, but I probably wouldn't have him on at the same time as Nouble; and it would purely depend on us not lumping long balls up to Anderson if/when he came on. Main reason for starting Anderson would be having Yengi to come on when we tire and just start launching it. Looking forward to this, a good break from our record breaking bad form in the league. Hoping we don't embarrass ourselves.

Half decent shot at 2nd if we play our cards right, very aware that's optimistic but no reason to rule it out completely.

If you come back a third time and try a wee bit harder you might get some bites, but it would look a bit desperate