Another day on from Raithgate and, in preparation for the weekend's football, the routine is more or less back to normal. The first team are off, probably nursing battered bodies and bruised egos before a tough training session on Friday and the Falkirk match on Saturday. Despite the bad result midweek, a fair number of the Red Army are picking up tickets for the game - hopefully to back the team to the hilt and hopefully to see the team setting out to repair the damage done on Tuesday.

The under 19s had a training session this morning and are now engaged in assorted forms for education and skills development ranging from engineering or catering to sports coaching or linguistics. The club and the SFA provide plenty of opportunity for young players to prepare a safety net in case they don't make it as footballers or indeed, in case injury shortens their careers. Today a couple of them were handed certificates after successfully doing some basketball coaching in schools.