Yorkyred

The signings in the window are a strange one, maybe unlucky with Lawless but two or three have hardly had a mention. I was hoping for the whole spine to be strengthened with a bit more quality out wide but we’ve ended up with nothing.

Yodo will be starting the Alexander out thread by 6pm.

Today has just been dreadful, difficult to know which area of the team has been worse.

Normal service against Accies who look way more up for it, we are very, very shaky. Accies should be asking themselves why they are bottom after last weeks performance and this so far.

I have to be honest, outside of the fir park area I have no idea of the layout of the town. Would it pose problems for those attending, how far out is it. The new stadium in York is fine as a stadium but it’s moved 3 miles or so out of the city centre, parking is going to be something like a fiver, and you can’t walk to it if you live in the city, real worries long term that it’s going to effect attendances.

Personally I don’t see either as long term options but happy to see improvements. Players are certainly written off too early at times, McGinn being another of the latest but even in my time Donnelly and Gorrin are another two that spring to mind. I think Lamie may be just below Premiership level and does have his moments simply because he’s probably batting above his weight, a good championship level player. Mugabi I’ve never been a huge fan of, a mistake waiting to happen most games but he’s improved no end, just don’t think he’s going to end up keeping his place but hope to be proven wrong because he’s strong and quick at times. For me though if Gallagher goes we need two new centre halves for next season with Mugabi as a back up.

Think I do remember that, I only mention the New York stadium because it’s around 12000 capacity, steep sided stands and looks great. But maybe above what we could afford.

To be fair he’s keeping a winning team which is fair enough, I also wonder if he may start to drift from a first 11 start. When Donnelly returns that’s more competition.

If and when it happens something like the Rotherham stadium would be nice, the right size with a good atmosphere, I suspect thought it would be closer to the St Mirren stadium.

50% of success in football is confidence. We started the season dominating possession but could not put the ball in the net. The confidence slowly slipped away and decent players started looking poor. The main part of this squad finished third last season, they did not suddenly become one of the worst group of players in the last 50 years and they have proven that in the last half dozen games. A decent keeper and Carroll back has made a difference, the return of Donnelly will be another boost.

I do get the very fair points regarding the cost to stay, both ongoing and developmental, but I really like Fir Park, moving out of the area would never be the same.

Huge result.

Looking forward to seeing the work completed, it should make quite a difference.

If that had been a Celtic or Rangers player there would have been uproar

Certainly interesting, could just have easily been our manager for this game. Is he past his management best ? we will see.

Yep

Well done Hamilton, that’s how you take on the old firm.

To be fair though I think at this stage it’s probably too early to call him a Jordan White clone. The new guys are going to take awhile to get up to speed and need the minutes.

Ok we lost but not a humiliation and confidence should remain high. No reason we can’t pick up points in the next few games.

Yep, I would say absolutely Zero chance of a clean sheet, can we keep it down to 3 ? They are not at their best but a centre half pairing of Mugabi and Lamie is pretty frightening in truth.

Lot of players going to leave this summer, maybe not a bad thing as it gives the manager a chance to build his own team.

Normally a game I would just write off but they really are a poor team so you just never know.

Happy days, onwards and upwards.

Please god let’s not drop more points late on.

There is no way we would have replaced Gallagher and O'Donnell with anyone near their level in January, the pair of them staying is huge.