Raith Against The Machine

When Lang goes off, there's nobody in this side who can win a header. All we've done since is put the ball in the air.

Well. That looked like a penalty to me.

This panic management is ridiculous. It might still pay off here, of course, but if it does it'll be through luck rather than design. We've abandoned any semblance of shape or structure.

We cannae have two bogey teams in the same division as us, it's no fair.

That's the kind of goal you concede when you're not very good at football.

That's exactly the kind of goal you concede when you're bottom of the league. Harsh on Accies, who haven't offered much but still don't really deserve to be a goal down.

The Rovers have (sensibly) made this available for UK PPV tonight. £14 for anyone who can't make it down to Stark's.

I thought about changing it to "Frank conner" but I didn't want people to think I'm a fucking moron.

Fewer people turned out for a run of the mill league game than went to a cup final? I'm stunned. Do The Courier know you're gazumping their exclusives?

f**k up, silly p***k.

Somebody remind Vaughan that he's the striker. I love the guy to bits but he's constantly dropping off or peeling out to the wing, and we're left with nobody in the box.

Your player burst into the box and was clattered by Ryan Nolan. Rovers players making the case that Nolan was basically static and all the contact was initiated by the forward, but I'd have wanted a penalty for it.

Hahahaha yasss get it up ye ya rat

That's a penalty.

McGill/Vaughan must be about the 73rd 10/9 combination we've fielded this season. Will it be more successful than the others? It's not for me to say, but... no.

Your misuse of commas upsets me.

If we win this, and Thistle somehow lose to Cove Rangers, we might get a slightly exciting run in. As things stand at the moment, though, it feels like our season ended on Sunday.

How about I give you minimum wage and ask you to go wading into a group of coked up young guys who are throwing fireworks about? Edit: The tone of this is more confrontational (ironically) than I ended. My point is that stewards are essentially just living scarecrows in a situation like this. They're punters in high vis jackets with the hope that that puts off any potential bother. Once bother starts, though, you've just got a teenager with little training and less power. They're doing f**k all, and I'm with them wholeheartedly.

I think if we had a second Isma to sub on for the first one after an hour, we'd have won that game.

The first half was terrible, but the second half was really just a return to what we saw time and again in the first half of the season. Four (or five, or six) attacking midfielders milling around the edge of the box, crying out for a big number 9 to just stick the ball in the net. Isma might well have managed it, but he looked knackered after a first half of running around under high balls whilst nobody else got near him. It's very frustrating, and it's largely due to the profile of the players we've got available rather than individual failings from those players, but it absolutely has to be addressed in the summer.

Hard to be too bothered by that, to be honest. Play that second half 100 times and we score by hook or by crook in about 95 of them. You've just got to congratulate Accies. There are things we could've done differently, of course. I'd have had Ngwenya on for Dick the second the red card came out, for one, but ultimately that wasn't an embarrassment or anything. The Rovers created enough chances to win two games but bad luck and astonishing goalkeeping kept them out. These things happen. You take it on the chin and you move on. Enjoy it, Accies.

This is one of the all time great backs-to-the-wall performances.

Can't believe he didn't want it so much that he got sent off.

Four separate Accies injuries, two which required subs meant six minutes of injury time. And the game kicked off at 4.15pm, not 4pm as advertised some places.

As bad as we've been, you can see in this stoppage time where our route back into the game is. Accies can be stretched and we can get men forward and into the box. Need much more quality in the middle, though. Spencer has been so far off it, Vaughan, Easton and Stanton aren't doing enough to get close enough to Goncalves to actually form an attacking unit. I'd change Vaughan for Connolly at half time. If Vaughan is going to spend his time floating about on the wing, we might as well get someone who's better at doing that on. It's a long way from over. Hamilton have basically had one chance and took their goal from it. As much as we've still been giving them plenty encouragement, it's not like we're being pinned back. If we can avoid throwing another one away early doors, we should be able to dial up the pressure somewhat as the half goes on.