Uilleam

Two clear penalty kicks not awarded. Truly the officials in this League are corrupt.

Is it me, or was that a hand ball, penalty kick, and second yellow for the centre back?

Two goals, please Oh, and no concessions.

I think that we are playing the pitch rather than the opposition. We are, as a result, strictly second best. The next 45 minutes are of monumental importance.

Half an hour or so of utter keech. I think that the pitch figures too large in our minds. I don't know how we get back into the game. I worry that we won't.

It seems appropriate that, tonight, we visit Kilmarnock, in Ayrshire, one of the heartlands of the Covenanters, because on the 28th of February, 1638, in Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh, the National Covenant was first signed. Today should be a Public Holiday, of course, but what chance of that, under current political arrangements?

It's not the quantity, lads, it's when to start the toping.

Eight. I have four 500ml bottles, but there is a bottle of Dom Rep rum on standby.

It is always a pleasure to beat the fhilth: indeed, winning encounters against them is one of the few pleasures left to a gentleman. The circumstances, generally, are irrelevant. Some victories may be more important; some achieved in greater style; some even fluked, or against the run of play (which provide a particular pleasure): but they are all victories, will be recorded as such, and should be enjoyed.

And if we go to Dublin.......?

....Get one free?

Raymond Charles

He would have at ten past four.

I suppose that, somewhere in the world, the sun will be over the yardarm......

There are three massive lumps in their defence, I think

I do not like these noon kos: we always seem sluggish, and out of sorts. It's also too early for a drink.

Never count your chickens until you have cut their throats, and nailed the still twitching corpses to the door of Peter Lawwell.

They dropped two points, at the piggery, in Tim Time, with a little measure of controversy around the Killie equaliser with Bernabei, or an other, allegedly fouled in the build up, and Bro William Collum on the Var screens...... ....all of which made me smile..... ....still smiling.... Keep this grin on my face, tomorrow, Rangers!

They called him the Wee Prime Minister - primus inter pares, I am told. That says something, a lot, actually, when he was taking the field with likes of Baxter, Henderson, Miller, Brand, and Wilson. Nowadays, sadly, to call him that, or similar, would be to demean the man. A Rangers' Great. RIP.

Looked at simply, 23 shots 'on target', with an xG of circa 5, and an actual score of 3, means that a lot of the attempts were straight at the goalkeeper, or at a defender, or weak, or sclaffed, or speculative/hopeful, or merely rubbish in some other way - about 18 !!- and that at least one 'sitter' was missed. Is this wrong? And if it's not, is it worrying, and, if it's worrying, how may it be rectified?

Ross Co had, I think, 1 shot on target, and1 goal. What would we give for that level of efficiency?

FFS, lads! It's fucking Ross County!

I have to ask, anent the Staggies soubriquet, were the Seaforth Highlanders ever seen in red coats? If so, then Dr James McIntosh for the pre-match pep talk, sez I.

Skoosh case.