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Irish commentator agreeing with me!

Yep, ref has made a c**t of that.

Absolutely suckered into carrying that ball there. Got bored with the kicking.

Why is he doing this game anyway? Is it normal for Aussie refs to do URC games? I always thought it was just those affiliated with the countries involved?

It's that kind of decision making that has stopped Horne from progressing. Utterly brainless.

He looks a completely different player. He's playing ok.

I probably just don't notice it with other teams, but the amount of penalties Glasgow concede on their own ball seems massive. At least 5 and a yellow card already today, when we had ball in hand.

Glasgow's play is so brainless sometimes. They are their own worst enemy.

Confirmed now, game off.

Hope somebody from Kibble gets the job.

I think so as well. We didn't actually have a very good team at all. Thinking about it now, Paul McGinn and Magennis would probably get a game for us now from the team that played Dundee United, maybe Hladky as well, with Mullen, McAllister and Flynn on the bench, but that's about it. Obviously Erhahon was on the bench that day as well at 17, but he'd spent most of the season hung out to dry at left back. We did get very lucky that Dundee were that bad, but it was still some achievement keeping that team up.

It's a bit of a cliche, but when you sign loads of players in January it can take a fair bit of time for them to gel and actually start making a difference. As so many teams have shown, two wins in a row can absolutely change your season. The two times St Mirren have survived after signing a load of players in January, it still took us to mid-fed- start of March to really start winning games.

Goodwin has pretty much said on a few occasions that it depends on players going out.

Aye, fair enough, and I've criticised people for the same, definitely willing to give the guy a chance!

I thought Grieve was pretty poor when he came on, first 5-10 minutes at least. He didn't really look like he knew what he was supposed to be doing, wasn't pressing well enough and often just looked like he was standing in the wrong place. He got a bit better towards the end of the game, but he's got a fair bit to learn. The drop off between Brophy and him was significant, but he's young, and looks like he has the physical attributes at least, so I'm hopeful he can do a job. Also, would be great for it to work out as it would be a great story.

There's a guy on black and white army right now saying we are in such financial peril it's when, not if, the club dies if that's any interest to you?

I actually thought it might be the opposite, hence why they were constantly going on about Brexit and insisting we focus on "priorities".

Yeah, definitely. Ronan wasn't having a great game until he scored, and it wasn't really a surprise when he was hooked. Power gave the ball away a lot as well. He made up for it with his ballwinning and presence, but he made plenty of mistakes on the ball.

Erhahon is still pretty young to be fair. I think he should have a bit more credit in the bank than people are allowing him. He seems to be a real boo boy target online, with quite a few waiting for any mistake to jump down his throat. He wasn't great last night, he had one really bad pass that put us under pressure, and that one where the ball got booted at him knee height by Power (I think) completely ignoring the massive overlap on the other side, that ran past him and again put us under pressure, but he wasn't the only player giving the ball away.

I thought we were really comfortable, Aberdeen didn't really lay a glove on us, and apart from one misshit cross Alnwick didn't have a save to make, though there was a wee heart in the mouth moment with the clearance off the line during Aberdeen's decent five minutes at the start of the second half. Otherwise we contained them very easily, letting Bates, Brown and Ferguson play pointless sideways passes to each other. Thought Power, McGrath, Shaughnessy, Dunne and Tanser all had very good games. Brophy as well worked very hard and we missed him when he went off. Grieve looked a wee bit lost when he first came on in all honesty. He grew into it a bit, and physically he looks like he could do a job, but he'll need to start making better decisions. Henderson did ok as well, though he was up against the worst player on the pitch and maybe could have backed himself a bit more at times.

Maitland called up to the Scotland squad. Duhan and Rowe haven't trained yet due to "illness" which tends to be code for Covid these days.

So, with MacPherson gone and McGrath on the way out, what do people think we actually need? After the change of shape in the last two games, and Kiltie and Henderson almost looking like new signings, I'm pretty relaxed about our squad all of a sudden. I guess tomorrow will be a better test, and a proper doing from Aberdeen will spike the anxiety levels, but I feel if we are going to get in anyone now it just needs to be a bit of quality, almost anywhere. We also definitely could do with a bit more pace, but it doesn't feel as urgent all of a sudden. I actually wouldn't be that upset with a new first choice centre half, but I can't see that happening.

What I heard at the weekend, and this is very much just gossip, is that we were looking for around £100k but settled for £75k and the sell on. To be honest, I had heard that the deal was done at the weekend as well, so not sure what all the recalling from loan and all that was about.

Yeah, but we paid a fee to get the loan. The only reason it was a loan instead of a full transfer at that point was because it was slightly better for Killie as it meant he couldn't play against them.

I've never really got the hype with MacPherson to be honest. I think he's ok, he's capable of scoring the odd good goal, and sometimes his delivery is good, but I often thought he was poor at the basics. He wasn't really a great passer at all for us, not a great tackler or ball winner either. He thinks he should be playing more often, and to be fair, he does need to be at his age. Davidson really likes him, Goodwin not so much obviously so you can't blame him for taking the offer. St Mirren are also quite right to recall him and ask for some money up front. We keep getting told how rich St Johnstone are so pay up. I expect they will in the next few days.