Yorkyred

The plus will be Donnelly returning.

Onwards and upwards, never write off the well. Now to read back some of the earlier posts.

Makes sense

I think people also need to be realistic in their expectations. It’s the January window and we won’t be signing stand out players from other Premiership clubs. There are probably a good eight teams in our division all looking at the same type of players at the moment, that’s just the way it is. It’s either this type of player at our level, someone at Championship level who looks promising and that won’t even be easy, or the lower leagues down south.

I could see the guy from St Mirren actually being a decent signing. He was their player of the season and most supporters don’t have a bad word to say about him. I would think the Covid lay-off may have effected him but you don’t go from player of the season to past it in six months, the guy is 34 not 44, there are plenty of players at that stage still playing in the English Premier league.

I think we’ve been doomed that many times over the last three years I’ve given up counting, we’ve always proved people wrong. The point he’s making is yes we’ve had a poor season, yes we need strengthening, but we’re nowhere near relegated. People make the doomsday predictions way to early.

I would rather the club just announce signings when they are completed, rumours don’t particularly help the club. We have to just have faith in the new managers judgement and he feels there is plenty of quality still in the squad.

Over Robinson’s Tenure he did do a good job, the stats don’t lie including his win percentage.

The problem is the whole midfield, name one midfield players that’s had a good season ? We badly miss Donnelly who is far more of an influence than he’s given credit for. We were fine last season when he played even without Turnbull.

Jake Mulraney for Hearts back end of 2019

I would add a lack of confidence, Campbell and Gallagher have hardly got started this season, they are both living on previous seasons in my view, let’s be honest on this seasons form Campbell would get little interest from anyone.

Well he seems to keep proving everyone wrong. Sadly it’s been obvious for a long time that he’s way out of his depth, pure speed can only get you so far, he’s simply not got a footballing brain I’m afraid.

The thing is anyone can state that a team did better against another team, they did better against Aberdeen, we did better against Rangers, just the way it is. People say it’s a relegation team, I just think with a couple of addition it’s not. Results would back that up but I don’t think results will remain that bad, I just think we’ve hugely underperformed. The defence and goalkeeper should be about the best in the division outside the old firm for a start, of course we lost half of that for most of the season up to this point. We have also lost a very influential midfield all season who I believe would have made a difference. Just my opinion.

How did we ?

Yep, next two game are big. Ross County got a doing today which is not a bad thing.

Don’t agree, we were well in it for long periods, another appalling ref decision against us today, it’s becoming a habit. They are a top three team and we more than matched them, we were the better team first half last week against the best team in the league. There is still quality in the squad but again we lose a new player to injury, that’s just bad luck. I would hope with another one or two signings we will be fine.

Well not the best of days.

Sadly we’re on a terrible run of ref decisions going against us, seems to always be the way when a team is struggling.

Clearly he feels not.

God we have had no luck with injuries this season.

Probably best to just accept changing manager is not going to change the clubs policy on where they see the market for players.

Delighted on the Carroll extension, he will hopefully only get better. Can we maybe give a Harry Smith a chance, other clubs were obviously interested so he must have something about him.

Tony Watt has been accused of giving less than 100% in the past and he’s the most smiley individual you will ever see in a player. I think Long suffered from frustration and that leads to him sometimes jumping in when he should hold back. I’m not convinced he’s not interested, he could however still be unhappy at the situation.

I’ve always said there was plenty of quality in the squad, if we’d had a decent summer transfer window we would be top six again, confidence has dropped and that’s cost us points. We’ve just taken a point off a team far and away the best in the league with 15 straight wins and that’s without Carson, Dunn, Donnelly, OHara, Grimshaw, Long, Hastie, who would all be challenging for a place in the team. Carroll back has already started to make a difference and Donnelly would be the same. A lot of the games we’ve played have been fine margins, how many times have we been thrashed outside of the old firm games this season, not often. We’ve generally had more possession in games along with attempts on goal but can’t put the ball in the net.

I went for Gallagher but could just have easily gone for another two or three players.