AndyM

I had no issue with our relegation in 2014. Totally and utterly deserved. Hearts were already doomed in the August but we deserved to go with them. Hamilton was the final insult but appointing that dickhead Butcher when we were sitting 6th and then being told for months that we just needed one win to be safe was just mind boggling. Fat Boyd scoring at Easter Road to make Killie safe was the end, I knew we werent getting through the play offs.

They'e 3 games till the split, 2 against top 6 sides (Hibs and Aberdeen). But the biggest game of the lot in terms of consequenses is Hamilton away on Saturday.

I thought we played well and whilst delighted to get 3 points and get Captain Jack off to a flyer I was impressed by Motherwell except for the dive. But they're a very different side to the one that played timidly at ER last season.Lots of good play and posession and some really exciting players. At times however they seem to be attempting to score the perfect passed goal rather than peppering the opposition goal when they get the chance. They'll be top 6 no problem so all in all thats's a great 3 points.

The ability to converse in spoken English will be a prerequisite so Yogi won't get it. And Kano really should give it a rest. He is the voice of a football.

Great happiness!

The boy who wrote that will have an aneurism when Cove eventually encounter a Premiership side in the cup because with their billy big baws attitude they'll get absolutely destroyed. Speaking of Gretna it reminds me of when they were on a similar trajectory to Cove and were drawn to play Hibs at Easter Road in the League Cup. All sorts of chat about how the Premiership side would struggle etc . Needless to say Gretna were two goals down and blowing out of their arses having been chasing shadows after 15 minutes. Finished 6-0.

To be fair, you could have been down to 10 men early in the first half. But I was impressed with Livi. You're a well organised side and you'll be absolutely fine this season.

It was dreadful. I'd like to go all Sellik nutjob and make some sort of lame excuse regarding our player and 'momentum' or 'anticipated contact' but I can't. Awful. Having said all that and much as I love him, Marv was a fortunate boy. The elbow in the first half and the "tackle" on Horgan which might have been ok in 1972 were howlers.

Hibs couldn't win a raffle right now. If Hecky stays we will be bottom by December and facing trips to Arbroath and Alloa next year.

0-1 (Bartley) We go bottom of the league. Hecky gets his jotters. Jack Ross sitting in the stand at the weekend. Well I can dream.......

Oh Christ I'd forgotten about this bloody game on Saturday....... 1-1 Goal (S Allan 68) Goal (L Fontaine 90+4)

Oh really...... **Examines First Class Ticket Waverley to Aberdeen **

This match has the strong possibility of being genuinely terrible. The footballing equivalent of watching a house fire. Aberdeen looked genuinely awful at Ibrox and looked to be asleep for most of the proceedings. We on the other hand are still poor and have not won at Pittodrie since Rangers died. 0-0

First Tynecastle game for me was a 1-1 Derby in 84 or 85 played on a freezing day. Given all the pre match refreshment taken pre game that bog was literally gushing out a river of pish by 3pm. Was quite the sight.

A 1-1 draw and this place will be full of Hibs and Hearts fans in full "he's still a total arse and should be sacked" mode. That and "but fucking hell we actually scored a goal. Even if it was a clearance rebounding of someone's arse."

The problem with this undoubted shitfest is that nobody really wins. If one side wins the game as soon as the fans leave the ground has crushing reality descends on them of "Ah shit. We're stuck with this absolute muppet of a manager for at least another month serving up more dugshite performances and getting horsed by Killie/Motherwell etc." 0-0 and everyone is raging.

Our idiot of a manager will probably have him on the bench behind a one legged and now sadly broken David Gray.

That's an awful lot to ask of a player who is a couple of years older than both Milligan and Bartley were.....

The Dugshite Derby beckons as we both get firmly planted in the Bottom 6.

Whinging about his player ending up with ankle ligament damage from an idiotic challenge.......

Exactly. If you had run up debt all you might have won is a cup and for that you could have slammed a few million on your debt. They get a hard time from some fans but neither Petrie or Milne would allow that and rightly so. Clubs like ours run on a tenth of Celtic's budget. We can beat them in one off games but over a season, no chance. The lessons of watching financial lunacy run rampant at Hearts, Dundee and Rangers won't be lost on anyone.

Hibs would never go down that route, Merkland. The approach of every penny being a prisoner has served us well for nigh on 30 years. The basic ethos of the club is the same as Aberdeen's. Identify and develop your own or buy young talent and look to sell on. Any transfer fees will be undisclosed and moderate in scale. The new owndership may give us a bit more flexibility in the market but nothing is gonna change rapidly. Financially we'll still be as tight as two coats of paint.

Sevco TV is marvellous and essential viewing every time there's some catastrofuck for them. Wee Tam Miller's voice varies between incandescent fury or the head hanging disappointment of a wee laddie who's just has a telling off from his maw. And it gave us the never to be forgotten glory of "WHIT's THE GOALIE DAEIN' TAM!"

Correct. Leith is incredibly gentrified and the old shitehole Trainspotting boozers are very much disappearing. It's all craft beer, pubs doing street food and modern apartments built in old Bonded Warehouses. It's not cheap either.

He also enjoyed denying the use of mendacity. He was from the era where football journalists were roaring alkies, cigar smoke used to belch out of the centre stands at games, there was deference to the Old Firm. And Scotland used to win international matches.. A very different world.