Huns v Lions

Looks like my 5-0 prediction could be an optimistic one.

Hope to feck Sevco take their foot off the gas a bit when they hit 5, either that or the snow stops play to save us.

4-0 bring back Burchill.

And to add insult to injury just as becomes 4-0 at Hunbrox, Alloa take the lead over Morton

Needs to be an avalanche of snow, they have under soil heating

HT, thank feck, wonder if we've been in Sevco's half yet.

What a fucking disaster. Would this have happened under Burchill? No danger.

Non tae grips Morton, get the finger out.

EdinburghLivi wrote:What a fucking disaster. Would this have happened under Burchill? No danger.

3 games against them under him this season suggest not, even the 3-0 defeat was flattering to Sevco, this 4-0 HT game is flattering to us as it could easily be 8-0 and two of our players red carded. Fair enough Sevco are on fire just now but we are being torn apart here and it looks embarrassing.

Two half time changes for Livi as Buchanan and Mullen come on to replace Glen and Gibbons. #livilive

Well at least we now have an out ball and Buchanan will press them quicker so they can't build attacks so easily.

Yay we've had a shot at goal, Mullen fires in a shot and forces a save. We even got a corner too.

Fecking belter Buchanan scores, 4-1 Livi.

Alloa v Morton abandoned at half time.... That is Stenhousemuir and Alloa both abandoned at half time and both with so called "all-weather" pitches - go figure.

It was abandoned in the 69th min Bertie, would imagine the snow was affecting play too much. Anyhoo, good news for us as they were winning and now go back to 4 points behind us.


McCallum saves a penalty to keep it 4-1 FT. Well done big yin. Better 2nd half, mistake playing White up front himself but at least Hopkin made the change during the interval. Both Mullen and Buchanan coming on had a positive impact for us.

Sorry, had been in the loo and missed when happened so confused my timings with the Stenny game.


4-1 at Full time.... We should be awarded a point for winning the second half!!!!!!

Let's all laugh at Halliday for having his pen saved

Liviforever wrote:Ref being good to us so far:

Callum Carson ‏@CallumCarson34  · now1 minute ago  
Clear handball from Gordon to prevent the goal going in. Ref gives a corner to Rangers. Livi should be about 5 goals and 2 men down.

Trust me the ref was not good to us.  Never a penalty. His hands were by his side and I am not even sure the ball even hit him. Where is he supposed to put them?
First penalty was soft and I have no idea what the second was for.

orco wrote:

Liviforever wrote:Ref being good to us so far:

Callum Carson ‏@CallumCarson34  · now1 minute ago  
Clear handball from Gordon to prevent the goal going in. Ref gives a corner to Rangers. Livi should be about 5 goals and 2 men down.

Trust me the ref was not good to us.  Never a penalty. His hands were by his side and I am not even sure the ball even hit him. Where is he supposed to put them?
First penalty was soft and I have no idea what the second was for.

Sorry, but it was a penalty and probably a red card. Clearly stopped the ball from going in. Gallagher was also luck to still be on the pitch after giving away the penalty.

I would like to say the second half was an improvement, but I feel Rangers just stopped playing. They cut us apart at will in the first half.

Buchanan and Mullen were good when they came on, although Im not too sure what formation we were meant to be playing in the second? I think with the squad available we have to be playing 3-5-2 or 3-4-3.

Another Livi manager spouting a load of pish in the Courier and gets spanked for it.
Going to Ibrox to beat the home team, what's getting smoked in the managers office down there?

Sorry, but it was a penalty and probably a red card. Clearly stopped the ball from going in. Gallagher was also luck to still be on the pitch after giving away the penalty.

I would like to say the second half was an improvement, but I feel Rangers just stopped playing. They cut us apart at will in the first half.

Buchanan and Mullen were good when they came on, although Im not too sure what formation we were meant to be playing in the second? I think with the squad available we have to be playing 3-5-2 or 3-4-3.

Well we will have to agree to disagree.
Rangers players dropped like nine pins when anyone went near them and Thompson reacted to the combined roar of 42k voices. Funnily enough he tended to make a ball sign with his hands several times when Livi players went down. You get nothing at Ibrox but then all away fans who go there know that.

In the first half Rangers were extremely good. Our players couldn't handle them. It could have been six or seven before the break. Mind you the team that started for us was not what I'd have picked.
The substitutions did make a difference and led to a few rare attacking opportunities.
I have no idea what the second penalty was for as it was up the other end. I think we were wee lucky that Waghorn had gone off because he rarely misses. It was a decent save by McCallum and it kept the score that bit more respectable.

A bit of a shame for Alloa that their game was abandoned when they were winning but I must confess that it was the most cheering thing at the game for me.

orco wrote:

Sorry, but it was a penalty and probably a red card. Clearly stopped the ball from going in. Gallagher was also luck to still be on the pitch after giving away the penalty.

I would like to say the second half was an improvement, but I feel Rangers just stopped playing. They cut us apart at will in the first half.

Buchanan and Mullen were good when they came on, although Im not too sure what formation we were meant to be playing in the second? I think with the squad available we have to be playing 3-5-2 or 3-4-3.

Well we will have to agree to disagree.
Rangers players dropped like nine pins when anyone went near them and Thompson reacted to the combined roar of 42k voices. Funnily enough he tended to make a ball sign with his hands several times when Livi players went down. You get nothing at Ibrox but then all away fans who go there know that.

In the first half Rangers were extremely good. Our players couldn't handle them. It could have been six or seven before the break. Mind you the team that started for us was not what I'd have picked.
The substitutions did make a difference and led to a few rare attacking opportunities.
I have no idea what the second penalty was for as it was up the other end. I think we were wee lucky that Waghorn had gone off because he rarely misses. It was a decent save by McCallum and it kept the score that bit more respectable.

A bit of a shame for Alloa that their game was abandoned when they were winning but I must confess that it was the most cheering thing at the game for me.

Just in from the pub so apologies if i'm taking pish here, well more pish than normal anyway. Was quite hopeful pre match but when I saw the starting line up of going for White up front alone I knew we were knackered. Really don't know why Hopkin thought White up front was going to work, Burchill tried it and until he went with 2 up front we just didn't get the best out of our team. What Buchanan brings is a player who will chase down balls and force defenders into playing early passes, which will give our defence a better chance of winning possession, White up front alone lets defenders take the piss out of him and build from behind to set up an attack. wasn't at the game but that is exactly what looks to have happened in the first half.

2nd half we bring on Buchanan and we immediately put pressure on Sevco's defence and along with Mullen we get our first shot on goal, and corner.  Yes Sevco were up 4-0 and had less incentive to pummel us but I totally believe Hopkin's first half tactics/formation was all wrong and we wouldn't have been overrun had he got it right.

Anyhoo, game is gone and out of the way, doubt we'd have got anything from it anyway so credit for Hopkin for making changes during the break and making it more respectful 2nd half. The Alloa game was a reprieve for us as they looked to have closed the gap on us to 1 point, here's hoping Morton win the replay.

Finally, hope to feck Hopkin learnt that 1 up front doesn't work for us, took Burchill long enough to learn, ffs give us a chance mate and play 2 up front.

Annoyingly predictable scoreline from Ibrox yesterday.Warbarton must have been rubbing his hands together when he saw our team line up from the start with only one man up front.My prediction of damage limitation got tossed away after about 40 mins,although credit to the guys for not totally caving in in the second half.Cracking strike from Liam to make the scoreline slightly credible,wish he had been on from the start to give them something to think about.Agree with L/F,ragardless of who we are playing get 2 up front to give us a chance.Its not as if we have a shortage of forwards.Cmon Hoppy be brave before its to late.

What was it Callum Carson said on his twitter about not having seen such a one sided game with 2 teams in the same league when we were getting pumped 4-0 by Sevco; Celtic 4-0 Accies after 22 mins, Celtic possession 74%.

Well done Accies in being worse than us, it is now 5-0 Celtic. Good to see we're not the only team being keech this week.

Finished 8-1 & after 5 in 35mins it took them until the 89th minute to get the 8th; they should have had double figures; clearly Celts are rubbish.

Giving Sevco a guard of honour next week: http://livingstonfc.co.uk/honour-guard-this-tuesday/

Is this officially what every team they play has to do after they won the league?

Makes me want to puke the way Livi fc suck up to these odious c**** (sorry for the language Orco).

Did Hubs do it last night? If they did then I don't see why we should also do it, surely once is enough and if they didn't then for us to do it is just sycophantic in the extreme.

Come on LFC you're wanting to mix it with the big boys but you're behaving like rank amateurs

Going by their match thread on P&B Hibs didn't give them a GOH, Stubbs said pre match they wouldn't get one too. Are the powers that be down at Livi Sevco fans, certainly seems like it the way they're constantly fawning over them on our OS.

The club are serving Mammon.