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I would like to take this opportunity to apologise to Michael O’Halloran, and remove him from my Imrie rogues gallery XI, to be rightfully replaced by Austin Samuels

No. Do not even speak that into existence, because the alternatives are repulsive.

He played about 10 minutes. Anyway, good to see his time at Morton left a lasting impression as he keeps the Morton conmection going by naming Jimmy Gourlay as his assistant.

Why 'somehow'?

A thoroughly deserved win. While I was concerned from afar about last week's scoreline as being a drop-off from recent levels (most obviously at Ross County), the team's performance tonight was really good overall. We were aggressive in winning the ball, mostly forward thinking with our passes and played some really good (occssionally risky) balls in the first half. The final ball was hit and miss, but we played some really good and smart football to get into the final third. My only concern was that our defence lacked protection and had to do a bit too much when we lost the ball in the first half, but we still should have been in front by half time. QP got a spawny goal from a blocked shot, when we had at least 4-5 similar efforts in the game and didn't get the good fortune of a rebound. The second half was one-way traffic in attempts at goal, and the only disappointment for me was that we didn't keep the momentum going in the final 15 minutes of normal time. O'Halloran's worldy finish was fully deserved, but happened when the game seemed destined to fizzle out.