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Would be an excellent value addition to the sqaud on a Bosman. I'd compare what he could do with us,... to what Halliday is doing this season, only better. The type of player that SG could trust to do a job.

Difficult game to referee and Clancy struggled with the pressure. He got a lot wrong for both sides.

I don't think sight was the issue.

At least the replay will bring an extra wedge of cash to the club. This will be the fifth SC game and we still aren't in the semi-finals. Between the two replays thus far it'll be not far from another seven figure sum to add onto the revenue column. #SilverLining

Cosgrove got booked, his second of the competition and probably out of replay.

Good question. Maybe there were so many candidates to come off the manager couldn't make up his mind

Poor conditions, poor game, poor performance BUT we are still in the Cup.

No subs yet but the change has to be the approach and attitude.

Not for the yellow. IIRC it's only Lafferty who has had a yellow card in the Scottish Cup this season.

If we aren't making any headway come 60 minutes I'd be tempted to bring Lafferty and Defoe to go 2 up top.

Big Game needs the Big Players to come to the party. Someone let Alfredo know that this isn't a training match.

SG has got to change something and some. #StatingraBleedinObvious

Not at the races. One of those all too familar days against Aberdeen where a Morelos red looks more likely than a Rangers goal.

Don't know but tbh I think the others on the bench deserve to be in front of him.

An unchanged team is a rare but welcome sight. Let's hope Arfield is closer to 100% than 75%. We'll get a better idea about Kamara today. The sheep are going to come out and try and get away with some early hits, especially on our midfield three, Alfredo and Ryan Kent..... Hopefully we dance around them and score an early goal.

Is Kamara our best option for this battle game ? If Arfield is available then there is a good case to be made for not changing it. If not then it's how a midfield combination would work in this particular game rather than individual for individual. Will McCrorie be considered ? Who would replace Arfield and play his role ?

Huge game ! If Morelos can stay on the pitch and Arfield can make the starting XI, I'd be confident of us being in the semi-final draw. First and foremost it'll be about attitude then the football. I can see both teams being up for this and it being another battle. We'll have to be fully up for it but without losing the heid or giving the referee an opportunity to get the red card out. It's the middle of the park where SG will probably have to make the difficult calls....team news less than 3 hours away. -------------- Meaningless Aside of the Day (MAD) Going into this season, we hadn't played Aberdeen in any Cup competition for 15 seasons. Waiting ages for a bus then two come along...........

You don't seem to get it or realise that the difference (like it or not) are those decades and current reality. Put bluntly and generally, stop playing the victim regards the songs and simply stop singing them. Then we'd see where that would take us. At this point we'd have to wake-up politically and start being savvy or just be kept in a similar place under a different charge.

Would seem to be the case although the curious case of David Templeton comes to mind.

The future will be better if we drop some of the now embarrassing baggage from the past. Back in the 70's I'd sing all the songs but I now cringe when I hear them. Not only is it embarrassing that grown men feel the need to do it but it's self-harming as far as the club is concerned, never mind individually. IIRC you wrote a fair bit about the O.O. when those threads were up in the Lounge. If your opinion here is intertwined with the O.O., maybe they along with the RC church, are indeed part of the problem and society would be better off without both. The RC Church has major issues with headline industrial scale child rape but what are the Scottish newspapers talking about ?.....Rangers supporters singing songs within a sectarian problem. Politically, we don't have a scooby doo.

What about the gullibility angle ? A football manager/player proclaiming undying love for the badge who suddenly goes elsewhere and pledges his life/love again is par for the course. The main issue is that the support were taken in by the standard rhetoric.

I haven't seen the programme so can't comment regards balance. When it comes to pundits, Stewart is a different animal to the custom and you could say, is a product of the times whose particular views/slants suit the #EditoriallyFair PQ almost perfectly. It (PQ) is BBC Scotland and it's natural that Scots take control of it's management. The issue is that it is a publicly funded broadcaster that should take due care to be balanced in it's output. Wrt the situation between us and PQ, IMO there is enough evidence out there to put forward a convincing case but the club need to find partners/conduits to help collate and present such, in a strategic way that can bring real pressure to bear. A series of disparate actions won't get us any further forward.

'Lies, damn lies and stats' The result contains the two numbers that matter and dictate through what prism the rest is viewed. Hence the manager and his coaching staff have the responsibility to make judgement calls regards the future, not the historic past. The historic past obviously has it's relevance but it is limited and from a Joe Punter POV is perhaps best illustrated in a Fixed Odds coupon, where no matter the time spent pouring over form, etc...... more often than not, an unexpected narrative emerges to scupper the best laid line

The BBC describe it..........Adapted from the cult podcast The Terrace, it will have a cheeky and irreverent tone that is heavily rooted in the hosts’ love of the game........... That is consistent with the content you describe. Unbalanced automatic criticism doesn't do us any good.