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You'd imagine that conversation would be had prior to signing and if he doesn't live up to it, he doesn't play. An attacking 3 of Vaughan, Easton and Chalmers has the potential to be something fun to watch, add Stanton into that too and its a front 4 you'd be very happy to see on your team sheet.

It was a good night. The awards were all deserved. Callum Hannah I think was completely speechless at his award, comes across as a really humble lad. The speaker, John Gaghan was really good, toned down from some awards/events i've seen him at previously.

Really good evening of football. Turner, McGill and Matthews perhaps stand outs over the 90. Two well taken goals from Smith, two good pens from Vaughan. As Smith said in hospitality after the game, "when Vaughan is on the pitch, he's the penalty taker, I'm not going to argue that, especially the first one which made it 3-0". A good attitude. Hope Corr is OK, looked decent until his injury.

Feel for the Arbroath fans that came to watch that showing. To a man they didn't look interested or at any point did they look even semi decent. For Rovers, Kyle Turner was excellent tonight, probably my man of the match. Good to see Hamilton get a goal too.

Not sure I fully agree Tx. Bowie has been excellent at Northampton overall. 15 goal contributions in 44 games for a young player is pretty good at that/any level, Especially one who isn't playing as the central striker that often. He had fair competition from some excellent players at that level. I think regardless where he goes, he'll be an asset to the side. Maybe if we get promoted this year...

Personally hope he can get an English championship side, he's good enough for that level, well above St Mirren. If not mistaken, I think next year is his final contracted year at Fulham as well

I've got hospitality for this game, shame its not the end of season party we'd hoped for, but i'd like to see us using a settled side and build some confidence and form before the play offs. We have 10 days after the game to prep for the winners of Partick and Airdrie so everyone will ideally be rested after this game. Problem is, right now I have little confidence in us producing a coherent attacking display and controlling a game. Our defence have stepped up in the last while, with some good performances, but they've had to because further up the park we've really struggled to make things happen as much and as clinically as we did earlier in the season.

Nice. Also hints that our away kit is likely to be white or similar, given we may need a 3rd kit against some teams.

Just be glad its not going to be names on the shorts

Conservatories for all on the Hibs board.

To have only one red card is impressive though, given the number of yellows.

Who would you keep that's out of contract?

Has anyone actually said he was excellent? I don't recall seeing anything on here at least. He grew into the game, which is all you can expect for a player who's played little more than bounce games or testimonials for the past few months. I'd hope he stays on, gets some game time and becomes a regular but he needs experience and some continual coaching on some areas.

Well done to United, been a good season, we've run them close, but just not enough when it really mattered at the end of the season. Best of luck next year. Hopefully you'll continue to get your academy lads involved regularly.

It seems that Partick have no problem in getting goals against Airdrie. 3-0 up. 10 man Ayr still holding Dundee United too.

Our fullbacks this season have never been ones to get forward often, mostly because we had 1 midfielder and they were kept back to cover. That said, we do miss the crossing ability from Millen, that has to be addressed in the summer. Our midfield has been non-existant most of the season, we've seen numerous times that teams will just get so much space in the middle of the park as Byrne/Brown are isolated and its a free run on the defence, you'd hope that Murray, as a self-confessed Arsenal fan would take a few pages from Artetas book and make midfield the main focus of our gameplan. Stanton is playing a bit deeper now, as a result of our change since January, it shows in his final third contributions. Was outstanding last night. I know a few have been on his back costing us goals on occasions, but his points gained vs lost stats are only swinging one way and thats part of why we're where we are. Fair summary of Rudden. He's just chaos and little else. Every touch is a lottery, probably a worse first touch than Callum Smith. The good thing is, Smith has the ability to make up for that deficiency.

Another 3 points that Kev has won for us, some saves last night. Lucky to win but keeps United waiting for another week.

Thats a good point, surprised it wasn't mentioned either.

As talked about last summer with the concept images etc its part of revitalising the club and what is a very worn down old stadium/stand. Modernising the outside (as well as making big changes internally too) will be good for the club. The addition of an LED board will be massive for advertising as well overall, much less costly overall than made to measure PVC adverts that need to be taken down/replaced. A shame about the off street cafe, I can understand the concern from the council about parking given the location of the stadium on that corner. Had it been at the North Stand, it might have been OK'd as there is a car park there. Putting a sports bar in where the current offices are is also a good idea, generating income on match days and potentially non-match days as well. The club needs to look at additional revenue streams to remain competitive.

@Offshore Rover great write up, thanks for that

I'm sure Alex Samuel has already been on the mystical blower to ask for divine intervention for another hat-trick. Only scored 1 goal since then too. I don't see this being anything other than a turgid, scrappy game, probably pissing down and windy too.

Same amount of total goal contributions yeah. Stand corrected.

And one doing considerably better than the other. Nisbet has not been great at Millwall.

An incredibly tough watch today, for various reasons. The conditions again played a part and Partick were stubborn and defended well when they had to. Great save from Mitchell to deny Rudden in what was probably our only real clear chance of the game. For all of our good work in getting forward we just don't create a lot of chances for our forwards right now. However the biggest factor in it being a tough afternoon was both teams absolute inability to control a football at times. Many occasions in the first half someone controlled the ball out of touch. Rudden, Dick, Stanton and Mullin all guilty of it for us and Whoever was on the Partick right just watched as the ball skipped infront of him without even attempting to stop it. One of those days for them I think. Dabrowski looks so scared of the ball into his feet, you can see when its passed back to him that he's really unsure of what to do, very uncomfortable for him. I hope over the summer he, McNeil and Thomson spend a good bit of time practicing this to get more at ease with it. Its part of the game for modern goalkeepers. Kev needs to work on it. Positives, Vaughan looked up for it, made it a different game when he came on. Hamilton linking up with Vaughan was good to see and Brown in midfield was a great addition. Would be good to see him and Matthews paired up. As for the season, while we've faltered in the last few games and played our part in Dundee United pretty much guaranteeing the title is theirs, to be where we are after the mediocrity last season is a huge achievement. No matter what happens in the play-offs, its been a great season in all. Bodes well for next if we can strengthen and learn from the mistakes.

That was a tough watch, guaranteed second place. Which is good, but we've let the challenge go pretty easily. Still, playoffs await.