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So, interested to know if it was just me that wondered why thon english wifie goalie didna bother to get dressed for the sports personality of the year event? Surely bordering on the pornographic? Her mother must be so proud.

We should point blank say he is not for sale until the end of the season. We are 3 points off the bottom of the league, now is not the time to be selling our best player. God knows how many points we would have had by now if Miovski had not been in the team this season

I disagree, he's never had a proper chance Rico. He's had 7 caps and played the 90 minutes once. The last four caps were 1 minute last night, 4 minutes last week, 1 minute against Spain in March and 3 minutes against Slovakia in 2020. It's nonsense like that which makes players walk away from the international squad.

Looks like Clarke does not fancy Shankland as a player at all. To bring him on with a handful of minutes to go in each game says it all because the guy is in decent form. It must really wrangle with a player to be brought on in the 88th minute and I'd imagine that is especially the case with a striker as they are so conscious of how their goals to games ratios look nowadays. On a separate point, got to wonder what the hell Jacob Brown has done to merit an international call up, never mind a cap. No goals this season in the league for Luton. Seriously? We'd have been better just playing Christie up front. Was it just that we needed a token black guy for diversity purposes?

It's decent. Makes him out to be a far better player than he actually was, as does his CV. I don't think in fitba terms he will be looked back on in years to come as a great which is incredible considering he earned well over 100 caps. Had to chuckle over the Simeone incident, 25 years later England STILL think they were the victims and paint Simeone as some sort of con artist. Must have been an imaginary kick by Becks .

Got to say Ange is class despite his Parkhead links and Spurs are ace to watch. A huge difference to some of the shite that some teams serve up. He also didn't moan once about the referee last night having had two players sent off, two goals disallowed and a penalty given against him. A Spurs fan would surely have gone away from the match last night thinking they had been entertained even though they lost.

If you look at the second video in Elgindon's post above, Roos actually plays the ball with his right hand. On the other one, I thought at the time it was not a penalty but harsh to book Miovski for diving. Pretty tough run of games coming up: PAOK (a) Celtic (a) Rangers (h) Helsinki (a) Hibs (a) Killie (h) Hearts (h) Frankfurt (h) Final

That’s a strange one because he has not used the squad at all. I know we are not privy to training but Robson must be thinking a lot of our signings are just not up to it. The likes of Williams, MacDonald, Dadia, Sokler and Gueye really have not had a chance. Seems like we are handicapping ourselves by relying on the same group of players all the time.

I hope he gets a bit more time and certainly if he wins on Saturday then you have to give him a crack at the final but I don't agree he's doing alright. This season it's played 17 with 5 wins, 5 draws and 7 losses. That is poor by anyone's standards. I think the Europe thing is a poor excuse. If you look at the Championship in England, they basically play 2 league games every week of the season so we cannot really use the excuse of too many games.

I don't know if that could ever happen in reality to be honest. Would Robson (or anyone else) have taken the job knowing that he would be in on a Monday morning having to explain to someone every tactical change and substitution he had made at the weekend? Does that happen in other clubs? I really don't know. I find it hard to believe that Gerrard would have had to do that at Rangers for example but maybe I am wrong. I get the idea of a sounding board and someone to lean on but that should be the job of the assistant and the other members of the coaching team, it always has been in the past. People with the footballing backgrounds of Robson, Agnew and Neil Simpson should have the capabilities of working it out on their own. Levein tried that overseeing thing at Hearts and it ended in disaster. Robson is the man Cormack deemed better suited to do the job than an experienced head like McInnes and if that is the case he should not need to be babysitting him.

I know what you're getting at Rico but can you imagine the scenario if you had someone that had never played or managed questioning the manager's game plan/formation/tactics. He'd be told to fuck off double quick. I just think you need a strong experienced assistant manager which is maybe where Agnew falls down?

Hmm not sure Rico. There’s a scouting/recruitment system in place, a director of football, a cracking training ground and a pretty decent level on investment in the playing side. All Robson has to do is pick the right 11 players and form a gameplan, I mean how much backing does Cormack need to give him to do that? I don’t see how Robson’s backing from above is less than any previous manager has had from this or any previous board but of course we are not privy to all that happens behind the scenes. Now seems like a fair amount of time and games have passed to judge Robson and to me, he’s just not cutting the mustard. I am not sure he actually knows his best 11, he has no particular style of play and looks poor on the tactical front. Even when we do get a good result, it seems a lot of the time, to be papering over the cracks. On Thursday night for example, despite the decent second half, we were absolutely abysmal in the first. His post match interview today looked a bit like he had run out of answers. To suggest they could not play football because the pitch had been narrowed is a real disservice to Killie who were excellent and managed 19 attempts at goal. He would have gained a lot more respect by simply saying we were beaten by the better side and we’ll need to get back on the training ground tomorrow to improve before Wednesday.

Sorry but we are an absolutely horrible team to watch. It’s a hoof up the park every time. So few times we actually make more than two consecutive passes.

Nah, not for me Panda but it's a game of opinions. It's a coming together and fitba is a contact sport. I'd be well pissed off if it had been up at the other end and that was awarded against my team. All contact in the box does not necessarily have to be a penalty.

I don't know what the fuss it about on the McKenzie one. Even with the red tinted specs on that was never worthy of a penalty in my opinion, the guy just used his strength to ease McKenzie out of the way. It was actually very good defending.

The substitutions certainly changed the game, we were in the ascendancy at that point and if there was going to be a third goal we looked the most likely to be scoring it. The modern day phenomenon of taking your players off with 20 minutes left is sometimes just plain stupid. The three guys that came off are 21, 23, and 24 years old. They have just had a fortnight off while Scotland played, came back and had their next game postponed so we played no games for two and a half weeks. I mean, why can't they last 90 minutes? There was absolutely no reason to change the game. The players have also got to just calm down a bit out there. Two of those PAOK goals happened through sheer panic. On the plus side, don't know what Robson said at half time but we were getting murdered in that first half and came out like a different team in the second half so he deserves a bit of credit there. Wee Barron is making a big difference to the team and Clarkson must be wondering how on earth he is going to get his place back.

If game is on this has 0-0 written all over it. Horrendous day of rain and wind expected.

He’s away to get two weeks off, the next game is not until 21 October.

There are three central midfielders in there though Rico, which should be ample against a team like Helsinki or playing against your average SPL side. McGrath is not exactly playing up front albeit he is the furthest forward of the three.

We'll just need to reschedule the fixtures so that every week when we play twice, our second game of the week is against a shite team so Shinnie can take it easy

We did not really get started until about 70 minutes in, a real lack of intensity and the midfield were non existent until that point. It was all very predictable stuff from us, hopeful balls into the box. Sorry but still don't get the hype about Shinnie, he should have been taking a game like that by the scruff of the neck. I could sit in front of three centre halves and make a two yard pass to the left back, I am expecting a bit more from him than that. Barron made a massive difference and did more in his time than Clarkson had done in the previous hour. Not sure why we needed five defenders on the pitch last night, it was as if we were wasting a player in that first half having so many men behind the ball. Class finish from Miovski but Duk had to bury that one on one.

After a few weeks of shittiness we have just won 4-0 against the same team we are playing tomorrow. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. We are three wins away from winning a trophy, don’t mess about. The modern day fitba player can easily manage two games in a week.

Last night could have been brutal and I suspect most of us were expecting it to be, especially with the early goal. We did well to hang in there against a good side. On the positive, that is likely to be the toughest match (on paper) that we will play this season and I don't think we should necessarily be planning our remaining games on the same basis. Against Ross County, playing five at the back and two holding midfielders is just overkill. No way in the world should we be setting up with that many defensive players on the park against Ross County at home. I make that 9 games we have played in 48 days, one of which was against a league one opponent. That is hardly a torturous schedule Rico. Why is he needing a rest already? He just had two weeks off over the international break!

Come on Rico, Robson was an international midfielder himself and a pretty cultured one at that, give him a bit of credit. He knows much more about it than you could ever hope to know. It’s not working for him yet but we have only played five league games. Give the guy a break.