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That stat has made me smile for some reason! I would have thought there has been a few season where we got nothing off the OF! Here is hoping we do it against the Huns at home! Then break the duck at Ibrox when we sneak into the top 6! Shaft their title ambitions!

Adult tickets are £10 for the South & RDS, £20 for the Main. I read somewhere you pay at the gate at all stands too! I think with the game being on the Beeb it will lower the attendance too! I think we will get through - even more so now that they have sold Gibson to Crawley Town! We need to watch out for Kirk & Clarke up front though!!

Not a bad youth player at all! Has played in the Premiership and not looked out of his depth! Would have been a good loan signing for us but would never have come off!

That might be what we say about Murray tomorrow!! I liked Broon's interview with BBC Scotland when he was asked about the effects of heavy defeats on the team! And he replied by saying we haven't had any heavy defeats! We have only lost 1-0 to Celtic at Celtic Park! Good to see [as he should that he does not think back to the 9-0 game!!] Hopefully we can give them more of a game on Tuesday

Good to see we are going there to have a go! We don't have anything to lose!! a 1-0 defeat last weekend in a strange way was a positive result - conceding 3, 4 or 5... would have damaged confidence but 1-0 gives us something to build and by the sounds of it with a bigger crowd behind us hopefully we can make a good game of it and get through to the final

Hopefully this means they won't be putting in any crunching tackles on us ruling out anyone for Hampden!! Caley have been poor lately but we haven't beat them this season! But I think we will bounce back from Saturday with 3 points to set us up for Hampden! I can see Blackman getting on the score sheet too

Is that the guy who is going out with Nicola T, the model??

Was he not also in goals for the 5-0 game a few years back so that would be 2 shut-outs against East Fife!!

Good news! Now means I will be able to get up for the game!!

On Saturday morning when I got my tickets there were only single seats left in the main stand and a handful left in the Family Section of the West Stand!! Should be a good crowd down there with us all boozed up and backing the team to get to the Final!!

Here is the full article - http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/scot_prem/9359765.stm "The 12 Scottish Premier League clubs have reached a broad agreement at a meeting at Hampden for a 10-team top league and a second tier of 12 teams. The SPL will now consult the Scottish Football Association and the Scottish Football League to progress the idea. A top tier of 14 teams had looked the most likely alternative to the 10-10 arrangement proposed by the SPL after some clubs had voiced reservations. But Monday's meeting suggests those clubs are now convinced of its merits. A statement released by the SPL after the meeting said: "The Scottish Premier League clubs today reaffirmed their commitment to the work of the Strategic Review Group to develop a structure for the whole of Scottish football. "Broad support was given to progressing a 10-team Premiership and a 12-team Championship at the top of a pyramid for Scottish football as the preferred option. "The SPL clubs have asked the executive team to further develop aspects of these proposals and to update the Strategic Review Group's report." SPL chief executive Neil Doncaster and the league's chairman Ralph Topping were keen on a 10-10 format, an arrangement favoured by Celtic and Rangers. However, Dundee United, Hearts, Inverness Caledonian Thistle and Kilmarnock had expressed doubts about that set-up and St Mirren had stated their preference for a league of 14. Doncaster said on Monday afternoon: "Clearly when clubs haven't got a detailed, finalised plan in front of them, then we need to understand that clubs want to reserve their final position and need to see a final document in front of them before they can give their ringing endorsement. "But all 12 clubs have agreed to the statement today so hopefully this gives us a mandate to move forward." Among those lobbied for support by the SPL top duo in the past 10 days were Dundee United chairman Stephen Thompson and Hearts owner Vladimir Romanov. Following the first meeting of all 12 clubs on 4 January, a 16-team league, known to be popular among fans, was seemingly dismissed as unworkable. Doncaster and Topping said that it was not financially viable, with their calculations seeing each club losing around £1m per year as a result of lost matches and television revenue. A 14-team league would have involved a split, a much-maligned aspect of the current system, but it would have seen the end of the fixture imbalances that have been thrown up in recent seasons since teams would have played their opponents twice each either side of the division. No vote was possible at Monday's gathering, since a formal resolution needs to be put to clubs 14 days beforehand and that had not happened. The package of reform proposed by the SPL also involves play-offs, an earlier start to the season and a winter shutdown." It is a shame there isn't a good enough product on offer for a 16/18 team SPL whereby the TV companies would increase the money on offer so the money received by clubs wouldn't decrease! Does this mean we should be greatful to have the Old Firm as some sort of appeal??

Yesterday when I tried to order them online the only section available in the South by the looks of it is the bit above the tunnel in the corner next to the West stand! Now they aren't even selling anyonline by the looks of it so it looks like we are close to the 9000 mark which isn't too much of a surprise for a Semi Final at 3 on a Saturday!!!

Does anyone remember the days when the kids use to get free McDonalds vouchers in the Merkland!? I am sure I also remember Wee Alickie kicking a load of Green Final fly-away balls into the Merkland at one game!!

I couldn't get a ticket near my mate either! Tried to order them online and the only section available in the South by the looks of it is the bit above the tunnel in the corner next to the West stand!

It is a boost that Blackman is available for the Scottish Cup!! He hasn't scored in a while but was on form for Brown at Well so hopefully we can get another 10 goals out of him in the second half of the season! Would lessen the blow of Maguire leaving in January! But come the summer means needing to get a decent replacement permanently.

They will sell well on Ebay when the allocation is gone!!

Scottish Cup Fifth Round draw The full draw is: Aberdeen v Montrose or Dunfermline Inverness v Morton or Airdrie Hamilton v Dundee Utd or Ross County Stenhousemuir or Threave or Stranraer v Motherwell East Stirling or Buckie Thistle v Queen of the South or Brechin Rangers v Celtic Hibs or Ayr v St Mirren or Peterhead Hearts or St Johnstone v Partick Thistle or Falkirk

We will see Lennon on the news by the end of the week complaining that this is another conspiracy against Celtic!!

Shame they weren't drawn together for the League Cup Semi too!!

With Paw Broon in charge now, I am a hell of a lot more confident that we will be able to get a result against either of them!!