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The only person making nonsensical 'suggestions' in an inane attempt at 'wit' is yourself. Thanks for playing anyway and don't let the door hit your arse on the way out. PS: Don't think that your white knighting for previous, gutless loser custodians of the Cappielow dugout like Gus McPherson has been forgotten either. Very much an 'autofile in the bin' case.

I presume this sounded hilarious in your head.

Jamie Brandon providing the cross assist for Livingston's sickening winner to floor media darlings Partick on their own, rancid bin. Top work.

Looking forward to watching their abject collapse on Sportscene, paired with another showing of The Famous from last night.

If 'Dingwall FC' to use their correct, FIFA 05 name are such a plum job as you claim, then why has their manager just abandoned a job for life* and flounced out after a couple of months? While at the start of a season everything that you state about the comparison is true, there is a time and place to make a jump and now... really isn't it. *owing to standard, teuchter inbred nepotism

I'm willing to call it after a long parade of (utterly pathetic) pretenders to the throne: Iain Wilson is in fact the long awaited, real successor to Allan Jenkins. Having that physically dominant, midfield powerhouse is crucial in taking us to the higher level witnessed in recent weeks. Even if they didn't play as foolishly as today, Dunfermline had no easy way to break our control of the game, determined by Wilson being literally head and shoulders above their midfield and making that advantage count.

Think Sir Douglas was wanting a wee bit more from the fans during the second half to recognise the team's efforts, but the issue is that they managed to make such a comprehensive victory seem... almost perfunctory. The game was completely done as a contest after the third goal. The team did not stop, which made the performance of the highest quality, but it's hard to maintain noise when the opposition are as dead as Rangers and the only stake involved is goal difference. That doesn't mean the quality of that performance is taken for granted though. While we've produced some comparable results, I haven't seen us combine a scoreline with such a dominant performance at this level. Certainly away from home. Motherwell on Friday should be entirely different in terms of response. The onus is on us to turn the place into a bearpit and I've little doubt that'll happen.

We're deservedly ahead by keeping things simple, pressing hard to force a ton of errors on this ploughed field and then putting quality deliveries into the box. We need to stick to that plan to secure the win - not try anything risky on the ball like Power's failed block or the mess just before half time. Those were Dunfermline's only good chances and could have been cut out. We also should avoid sitting deeper as the pressure on the ball is key to forcing these haddies into a mistake.

We had a long unbeaten run last season when Dunfermline were festering in the seaside leagues.

If some of the old turnstiles are in fact being chiselled out of storage as rumoured today - preferably by Warren Hawke and his cheerleaders, from a gulag camp in the car park, using a single toothbrush between them - and combined with handheld scanners then we don't need a publicity stunt tour though. Not suggesting that's what you're arguing for, but *if* a credible solution is finally being made then we don't actually need a lame PR job of observing queue formations and all the other bullshit excuses previously used to deflect from the basic arithmetic error* of having a maximum of 4 entry points to meet demand for up to 6,000 people. *Reflecting on Iron Man's moronic white elephant scheme makes me want to remove the luxury of that toothbrush and require them to use their tongue instead.

Previous, gutless, loser managers - see Gus 'slaphead' McPherson, James Grady, Jonatan Johansson or Raymond 'Ray' McKinnon - would be looking for a lap of honour and an end of the ground named after them for achieving such a margin of result with pishy wee Morton in second tier Scottish football. In stark contrast, an ambitious and highly competent manager calls out performance levels, when he knows that the underlying confidence level in the squad is strong enough to respond effectively. While on the longest unbeaten streak at this level since the 1980s. The contrast between a real fucking manager with goals and standards to the parade of imposters we have had previously couldn't be more stark right now. Long may it continue. That said, the club needs to take note of the key attributes that took Imrie over the top in the selection process, for when the inevitable happens and Sir Douglas moves to a (potentially much) higher level. If he had the player CV of 'Scott Brown, football manager - 'ambitious' club' then he'd already be the Hibs or Aberdeen manager.

Not disputing the original post at all, but I went behind the goal for the Bo'ness cup game and thought the steward did a really good job being laid back around a bunch of annoying (not causing any trouble, just your standard annoyance-level) weans. So I'd say it's more of an individual steward issue in terms of interpretation and/or patience, although you could add a point about the lack of a consistent policy. Good on the young (young) team behind the goal at the end today though - seemed to enjoy the game more than a fair few of us today! We can't turn away the future fan base of the club.

I agree with the tactical point but they shouldn't need any great composure to step forward with the ball in today's circumstances though. They're not going to be pressured because Arbroath want our extra man to be the centre back at all times. Any player worth their salt should be recognising that obvious tactical situation and driving forward 10-15 yards - then moving the ball to another defender - and simply repeating that until the opposition are pinned into their own penalty box after about 30 seconds. And then just keep doing it until Arbroath/assorted diddy change their approach. We make heavy weather of this exact situation so often - it used to take us 75 minutes until Greacen would have enough and drive forward when trying to get out of the seaside leagues.

Same sloppy level of performance as last week so far. If Power makes a foul then the referee will be under pressure to even the game at ten men each - so I'd put Blues there for now and bring on an actual wide player. The defenders - especially Baird and O'Connor - need to drive forward with the ball when under Jo pressure, instead of just shelling it 50 yards up the park.

Iron Man talked a good game to begin with as well - you don't get a job in that field if you can't. Delivering on the message is another matter - although at least the issue has been acknowledged to a greater degree than the initial reports suggested. The Motherwell cup tie is an acid test for the turnstile issue. I won't be buying a ticket until I see what the script is outside the ground, and if it's as bad as the Patrick game then I'll be taking that £18 to the pub and watch the entire game from there instead of paying to see 70 minutes inside the ground.

Can't agree with this - we created about 5 good chances in ten minutes around the opening goal, so Montrose were really not set up to make it difficult. We made it difficult for ourselves by playing backward passes under no pressure with the opportunity to turn and drive forward (the issue that led to Blues' clash). I'd have no issue with us keeping the ball to control the game at 1-0 but we didn't actually do that either. After a few backward passes it inevitably went to O'Connor and a fairly aimless punt to Montrose. The team just played weirdly without confidence in their own ability at times - perhaps it was just an off-day.

Positives were progression of course, no injuries to key players (with some rested towards the end) and an hour for some players short of match fitness. The performance was quite disjointed though when I think if we had started with a couple fewer changes, we'd have produced a really convincing performance and scoreline. When we got decent service into the final third we always looked threatening to score, but for large periods we didn't use the ball well or didn't win it back effectively. The clean sheet was fortuitous as even at 2-0 we seemed to be trying our best at times to convert a both teams to score coupon. Looking forward to the next round draw but we'll need to up our game significantly to get three points next week.

Couple of changes too many here. I can account for players being a bit short of match sharpness, but our inability to defend from the front and play as a cohesive unit has made for a frustrating half. If we keep giving Montrose time and space to fire crosses into the box then we'll get punished.

You address him by his proper title.

No it is not 'very easy'. Most normal people do not actually spend their lives memorising how close is too close to use a QR scanner. Which is why at any area where QR scanners are used on a much more regular basis than a football ground - in train stations and supermarkets - they do not in fact operate seamlessly. When handling a thousand punters minimum in the space of an hour outside a football ground, regular hold ups and issues are inevitable. The reason why this becomes a problem is not down to the fans, nor the queue formation that the chief steward thinks will magically solve the problem. It's not even the fault of the QR technology either. The fault lies solely with club's 4 turnstile capacity being insufficient to cope with the slightest inefficiency without piling up everyone behind them. It was signed off as sufficient by a clownshoe based on crap, back of a fag packet sums - that is the issue that needs resolved here.

I misread your post but the main reason for that is that your original post does not stand up your argument anyway. 1) That some people joined a queue after you did doesn't address the most significant issue yesterday - the ginormo-queue that was already present, by the time that you and others politely request customers turn up at. 2) At least a few of those fans will likely have been waiting for the queue to subside before actually joining it. Just because they're behind you doesn't mean that they didn't turn up at their mandated timeslot. 3) Your assertion on another thread that it's not difficult to scan tickets "as long as you don't hold it too close" is an obvious contradiction in terms. How close exactly is 'too close' - where is the instruction about this at the gate? Or better still, where is a rest fitted underneath the scanner that would allow customers to automatically place their ticket at a scannable distance? It's ridiculous to presume that the onus is on the customer to traipse to the ground half an hour before kick off - rain or shine - and to internalise the ins and outs of the club's white elephant infrastructure project, all before paying significant money to watch Championship football. They're not going to their place of work - they are spending their free time on a leisure activity. And with the eye-rolling mentality that persists among a minority of posters and club officials too (hopefully only a minority too), the chances are that they'll find something else to do with that time and money instead.

No it doesn't because the queue was already beyond the ticket office at 2:40. What you in fact found was the tail end of a queue that people had been standing in like spare pricks for the previous 20 minutes if not more already.

None of the above will have any measurable impact at all. The number of turnstiles (4) are simply not sufficient to meet demand - even for a normal game at peak time never mind a somewhat larger crowd today. Iron Man produced a back of a fag packet estimate of processing a ticket every 10 seconds, which doesn't match up to any real world understanding of the technology, crowd dynamics or indeed primary school level logic and reason. This was all pointed out at the time. Cappielow needs at least 6 if not 8 turnstiles to cover the two home terraced sections - some of the manual turnstiles should have been preserved for spare capacity when required. Instead we have a white elephant entry system that is only going to strangle the club going forward. It's not the current board or ownership's fault, but ultimately they have to resolve the problem left to them.

Good to see an original white knight for Iron Man provide such an obvious ridiculous response, befitting of the nonsense produced at that time between the club and the Trust's relationship: 1) A blatantly false misrepresentation of an already enormous queue at 2:40 as the fault of 'folk turning up 5 minutes before kick-off'. 2) Arguing under the premise that it is the job of paying customers to turn up long in advance of the event they've paid for, because the organisation running it is too incompetent to handle demand. Meanwhile, back in the land of reality, Cappielow following its gubbins 'upgrade' should not actually have a safety certificate for more than 5,000 people - because if we get a genuinely big crowd either in the cup or a promotion game, then there's an accident waiting to happen outside on Sinclair Street.

It's days like today that will cost the club huge amounts of money in the long term compared to undoing the mess left by that charlatan Hawke - and cheerleaded by not a few hangers-on at the time. An opportunity to build goodwill and wider interest being undermined by the complete inadequacy of our facilities to do its fundamental job - which will happen every single time until they fix the problem.