Nicholas Rage

Any suggestions of why they weren't available? Would have likely been a different result even with a couple of them.

Would be great if this signing means we get to see McCormack back at right back, great attacking threat which is negated when he's playing at centre half. And while it wasn't a big test in any way, McArthur looked very comfortable in his brief appearance against Cowden, more than Stevenson has looked playing there.

Good performance tonight, Alassan the clear star performer. McArthur looked good in his brief appearance which bodes well. Gemmell could do with realising that sometimes players might need some encouragement rather than shouting at them.

On your first point, the lowland league is less physical than the top divisions - you see that every time a full time team comes to play. Yes the challenges might be a bit heavier, but the physical attributes of the players and the game is lower. That was clear on Wednesday when you saw the build and fitness of the full time Celtic players. If players are lost to the game it's not because aren't physical enough, that's not the lowland leagues problem, look at Lennon Walker playing for the BU on Wednesday. If you're good enough you'll play. If playing in competitive environments is important is it not better on loan where games actually matter? Ultimately Rangers B might run away with the league by double digit points but it means nothing. Same if they were in a relegation battle - they're not fighting for the future of the club. We're not in the dark ages, we have performance schools across the country producing technically fantastic athletes - people like yourself are dismissing this system too quickly. There are one or two B teams that have a decent track record of decent development, there's a lot more that fail and are use to park players. Anyway can't wait for tomorrows match when Rangers B come to Newtown with players bought for hundreds of thousands of pounds, most likely dominate and we're all think it's great because one day they might play for Scotland. Though they probably won't because any players they actually rate are already in the first team by that age (Lowry, King) or on loan (Kennedy / Mayo / McPake).

Scotland are as good as they've been in 20 years and have players at big clubs in England with lots of promising youth prospects on the way. The system has been working, people just aren't patent enough to realise it takes ten years to start seeing the benefits. The most recent 17s squad had 12 players from the performance schools, the first team had three in the squad, Gilmour, Patterson and Ramsey - three of the youngest in the group. We're begining to reap the benefits of the system set in place 10 years ago and should see it through, rather than trying to pivot a B-Team system that has very little evidence of being better than using loans.

Good game last night, interesting watching with the different tactic approached. Celtic had more or the ball but BU the more clear cut chances on the break. Ref overruling his linesman was an odd one, went through a pile of legs so would have been hard to tell who if any the ball hit. Found him not sending the Celtic boy off for the tackle on Lennon Walker at the end even stranger, if being through on goal on the edge of the box isnt an obvious goalscoring opportunity then I don't know what is. Sure the defender may have got across, but it's still a goalscoring opportunity from where he was pulled down never mind if he progressed further.

When I was there (albeit more than a decade ago) the uni were directly approaching players down south to play on scholarships for them. Signed a few boys from English championship youth setups.

Thought Cowden were really poor, but did create 2/3 great chances on the break. Lots of the ball for BU with little penetration, kept at the passing game for some reason when the pitch was clearly rough and the long ball to Watt was working. Thought it odd taking Watt off when he was doing well against the defenders, should have put Zander on to play alongside him. Two points dropped for Bo'ness, point won for Cowden.

Comfortable win, felt like Hearts weren't ready for the heat and ran themselves out in the first twenty minutes. One way traffic after that and only disappointment was not getting more. Hope the hearts goalie eventually gets his ambulance!

Good game tonight, think BU probably deserved to edge it but 2-2 not a bad result and top of the league. Alasson free kick was brilliant and thought they might kick on to win it from there but alas not to be. Big Watt up front did some amount of work but felt he was a bit isolated at times. Anyway a good night and lots to keep positive about