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Dunno how much he actually played, but Tony Bullock produced the best goalkeeping performance I've ever seen against us in 2009. Gary Harkins scored and delivered a grudgingly excellent GIRFUY to the Thistle fans, dodging a few launched pies on his way.

Cerny and Gallagher would be the best since I've been following the club (early 00's); we would have been relegated from the top flight a lot sooner without either and Cerny especially put some amount of points on the table for us when we got top 6. Tuffey would be the third even if he had the odd howler in him - seeing him save a penalty from Giampaolo Pazzini was a fun novelty. We may have had worse goalkeepers (Graeme Smith, Colin Stewart) but Scully played in the team quite consistently for a period and so probably did more damage than most. Throw in Halliwell and Cammy Bell to round off the three.

Norway appear to be managed by a fraud, resplendent in his baldness. They've never been particularly good qualifiers and their squad doesn't compare to, say, Denmark's, but drawing a blank at home to Latvia is a shocker.

Me reading Ayr fans' posts

That's a pie and broon sauce in the baws for Israel.

For all that people complain about his lack of club game time, you have to say now that Patterson has been a very important player for us in this campaign. He set up the only goal against Moldova at Hampden, iirc set up the winner in the Faroes, and I think tonight would have been a good bit edgier if he wasn't turning up on the right flank as opposed to us just attacking from the left. I think he'll eventually take over the right back position at Rangers, but bigger clubs will be interested in a 20 year old established international in any case.

Silky goal from Fiorini. He looks the clear standout from this group of u21s.

Gilmour, McGregor and McTominay in midfield and tika taka our way to a painless 0-0 with 90% possession.

As punishment for getting pumped today and generally being a tractor driving rabble, you have to keep @Big Jocks Chewin The Fat

The change in formation should have probably happened a couple of weeks ago, or at least after the Dunfermline result. Rudden seemed to excel with the added responsibility of leading the line and Turner/Smith fit into the team much more neatly. There's still a place for starting Graham and Rudden together to steamroller dross like Hamilton and Morton, but against the better teams we'll need more than brute force and a pacy winger.

I was listening to 5 Live on Saturday and their fans were reminiscing about Pochettino as if he had them playing and winning like 2011 Barcelona. Their rot had set in long before he left the club. Their team is built around Harry Kane and other teams simply figured them out a long time ago. Any other manager will encounter the same problems as their last three have had. The last transfer window was the perfect opportunity to cash in on Kane and refresh their squad, but their chairman shat it and his value will only deplete now. Levy has set the club back at least a couple of years through sheer idiocy.

Our central midfield are too similar which, in a flat 4-4-2, means we are not playing between the lines. There were countless occasions where Bannigan takes the ball and Docherty just stands behind him - with no one showing in space we're forced to pass back or opt for an aimless lump to the strikers. I'd be looking at dropping Docherty for Turner in CM if we're going to persist with the same formation. Both Rudden and Graham themselves however look gassed and like they could do with a game or two on the bench. With no other credible strikers it may be worth dropping one of them for Turner and going to a 4-2-3-1. I'm bewildered that we've got away with a clean sheet but we won't be as fortune next week if we put in a similar level of performance. P.S. Can someone teach the match announcer how to read out half time scores correctly - i.e. 'Kilmarnock one, Queen of the South nil', instead of 'Kilmarnock lead by a goal to nil at home to Queen of the South'.

I think it was called 'Thistle For Ever', which obviously marked him out as a complete simpleton from the off.

Elgin have been ganting, especially in the second half. Very much there for the taking.

They seemed like the height of professionalism in the mid-late 00's. I can only assume being household names in their teens has held their deviance back til now. I expect a story to break before the end of the year about Gary Neville gimping up and murdering stray animals with his bare teeth in the dead of night.

That was like watching the Faroe Islands game again, only without shanning any kind of 87th minute redemption.

I can never have one at a game without sitting in constant dread of some carthorse player booting the ball into the stands and directly onto my cup, giving me permanent facial burns. Definitely haven't bought one since Sean McGinty played for us.

Paul Gallacher and Kyle Turner.

Customary mention of the last-minute postponement in the Scottish Cup in about 2008, and Liam Buchanan returning from injury to sword Dunfermline in the rearranged fixture.

Toney looks an awkward b*****d of a striker and is good to watch, but he doesn't half love a dive.

The voice break clip was far too close to where I was sitting for me to be comfortable about it.

Shagged up the arse.

Lest we forget shite goalkeeping.

Tonight was this campaign's 'Georgia away' - an awkward opponent in an awkward stadium, not playing at our best. The wins against Austria and Israel were great, but allowing myself the feeling of that demon being put to bed it feels like it might be a turning point despite the poor performance. We basically have 2nd sown up which is an improvement on every qualifying campaign since probably 2008 qualifying (where 3rd in that group was probably an equivalent achievement). I really don't see a thing to be upset about.