Paradox

Would hope that both teams avoid each other and manage to get decent draws to prolong local interest. It would be nice to get an away day somewhere new for the fans, but not really fussed tbh.

Will learn plenty playing with Dobbie. Hope it works out for him, just not against us.

Heading up to see #themaroonmachine tonight. Should be a decent game, but would expect Kelty to win given recent form. Free Caramel wafers at all games too apparently?

He was on a yellow i think, and seemed to be fouling (or being fouled), putting him at risk of a second booking. Dow seemed to have taken a knock. Tod showed a couple of nice touches when he came on, but seems to lack a bit of pace?

Credit to McPake for changing things at half-time. That had as much bearing as anything in how the second half went imo.

If Nisbet's effort off the bar had gone in, the penalties wouldn't have mattered. I don't blame the refs actually. The rules now are ridiculously complicated. Decent game. Plenty for us to be positive. Footnote: BBC Scotland's presentation tonight was woeful. Struggled to get players names right throughout the night, and commentators and pundits all sounded equally amateurish.

I think it will be a fairly low-scoring game. I can see it being a 1-0 or maybe a draw. Hopefully we can take our Bet Fred form into the league, and keep the momentum going, which we failed to do last season.

Scottish football needs more people like Ross in charge.

Cue the internet meltdown! #crawfordout

I'm keen to see how Ryan and Nisbet look as a partnership today. Looking for another good performance from this new look Pars.

Hope the boys are ruthless tonight, and pile it on. Great to see the goals being shared about too.

Hope so. Goals were hard to come by last year, so we could do with a couple of players at leat making double figures. I'm sure there was one season (possibly when we won League 1) that we had 3 or 4 players in double figures for goals, plus a few more close behind.

I'm desperate for Andy Ryan to shine through this year. I think he just needs a decent run of games, and some good service. I think his goal and the effort that came back off the post show that he knows the way to goal. Hopefully Nisbet can be a good partner for him up front.

Is Tom Lang not a left back? Or is he a left sided defender? I had also heard that there was a young keft back coming in from Rangers? Matty Shiels?

Curious as to why we have so many left backs. Is that not 3 signed, plus Lewis Martin?