Happy Dosser

Meant Hendry. Apologies.

Thought it was just me. The manager must have seen Welsh’s ability yet he plays Henry and McKenna (whom Welsh had to baby-sit in Slovenia already). Let’s hope Pocoglioni learns quickly where the duds are.

They never rated him, incredibly: doesn't say much for their coaching staff or management. Swansea fans seem very happy with him, especially since he was a free transfer.

An excellent point, but the ordinary fan seems to be the last person The Powers think about.

The curse of Sky?

Well said. I've been a bit taken aback by the reaction here to the last three games. A week is a long time in politics, it's said, and the same can be said for football. Things can change very quickly and we should wait and see how AJ uses the three week international break to remould his line-up. We are in a period of transition and i think we are missing the influence of SOD and Paul McGinn to steady the troops. They are great senior pros and the coach needs to draw on their experience, imo. Unfortunately, I don't know if Paul will be playing any time soon but Stephen is an obvious replacement for Tom Sparrow, who isn't an RB but has been pressed into service there. Our defence needs an organiser on the pitch. I feel P-H and Thor need a run out together. If AJ still has faith in Maswanhise, he should surely be employed as an OAO winger to augment Longelo on the left. Lots of work to do for the coaching staff in the next few weeks........

Written off at St Johnstone, I meant. Let's hope the coach can improve him.

"Burton", obvs!

Watt made absolutely no progress at St Johnstone either (or at Salford or Burtion A.to be honest) yet look at him now (badly missed at the moment but I think Oscar can fill the void on his return to fitness). I was relieved there were no boos for Vogt when he came on because his confidence looks fragile but his two crosses were excellent. We need players like Thor and P-H to be getting on the end of them.

"Naw, Alfie, jist hoof it up the pairk!" That'll do the trick..........

Sums it up for me. Judging the manager so soon after a summer of turmoil, both personal and professional, is misguided. The new players need time to gel to produce something like the kind of football we saw last year. Aberdeen had nothing but the long ball for the first half hour, kicked and niggled all the time and got a goal with their first shot on target. The second, a deflected one from a simple mistake was the killer. They could pick us off then when we went for broke and it worked. The much-criticised Vogt produced two excellent crosses which should have been more productive and Thor a couple of flick-ons and hold-up play which was an improvement on the performance of the front three which started, who offered little/nothing as a unit. The Dundee game is a test for the new manager and players to show a big reaction.

Had a quick look and this looks like an enormous amount of work. Will look furrit to digesting it at leisure and full marks for finding the true origin of our beautiful C&A: Lord Hamilton of Dalzell's racing colours were red and white.

If you want MFC to play out from the back, which is the basis of our possession play, then the odd mistake is inevitable. Paulsen has been excellent this year but simply made a misjudgement today. Donnarumma of Man City committed a howler that escaped a goal by about three cms today so it can happen to the best of GKs. Even then I thought we could have scored but three reasonable chances went a-begging in the first half and we looked out of it in the second: knackered. The international break for once has come at the right time for us. I'm pretty sure we'll come back strongly against The Mutton Molesters. Alfred was honest in his post-match comments and I'm sure we'll make amends.

Downward spiral......

Sadly, true. And I have little confidence about the refereeing tomorrow. i meant centre circle btw: sausage fingers.