Livi v St Mirren Saturday 17th Feb

We are staying up we are staying up. So now lets get second place in the play offs secured and see where that takes us.

Excellent performance today, what a group of player we have at Livi just now, and Hoppy is also deserving of all the plaudits he's getting, top job Livi.

So have you finally conceded that ICT will not win this division? And who are Ross County going to finish above?

Yeah they brought a healthy number with them but they are top of the league & looking likely to win it, so that was to be expected.

Terrific win, I feared the worst when they scored so early & I couldn't figure out how/why we couldn't clear it before he scored. For the next 5 minutes they dominated & McGinn seemed to be running the game. Then a big punt up the park, Hardie getting himself into a threatening position waiting for the bounce, defender goes to head it back to the keeper who should have been back around the 6 yard area waiting for him to do just that, but Sampson wasn't where he should have been and Hardie capitalised by rolling it in, very similar to a goal he scored a few weeks back. So I'll give Chic Young that as a defensive howler but there has to be some credit to Hardie for forcing the issue when he really had no right to get anywhere near the ball. If he hadn't been on the defenders heels then it's an easy clearance, but his presence forced the error.

Goals 2 & 3 showed up their defence as being pretty static but I wouldn't say those were defensive errors. I missed the 4th as I was sending a text but from the description I heard it was a mistake by McGinn that initiated the chance so maybe we can let Chic Young have that as well but Robinson had to provide a very good finish to score.

Chic is only a Buddie when he wants to be, he's a closet Hun.

Everyone contributed to that result & performance today, I think we have played better football but have rarely capitalised on our chances as well as we did today. Good use of the bench by Hoppy as well. Felt good to go home with a smile on my face

A win on Friday would have us in the driving seat for second that's for sure but still a long way to go. What we can say with some certainty is that it has been a much more enjoyable season than our previous recent forays in this division... The great escape/cup win season ended superbly but was pretty dire until we turned that corner in March. Here's hoping we don't do things the other way round this season.