wellsince75

not sure we'd sign him if that opportunity came up as we ignore wingers. Poor Davy if he did get signed would be put into a wingback position and get dropped for not tracking back enough

All the best to smudger - must say the overhead kick against Rangers got me off my feet and I was told to behave as was in the Rangers end - how could a young fan contain themselves with such an effort.

if ever we needed a win it's this week. Just compared stats against St J over the last 14 games. Although we've picked up more points than them during this period our goals for against are both about 1:2 ratio. Our goals conceded slightly worse. Stating the obvious but we need to flip that ratio back to 2:1 in our favour . For moral more than anything else we need to win this one.

Id like to think the premium for Miller in this window would be higher than what we'd get in summer. For his personal development now feels a decent time for Miller to move on, preferably abroad. Equally I'd like to see the club stimulate change in this window by offloading/loaning fringe players. We need something as fans to get behind and a shrewd move by the club is to start offloading and brining in something different - even if it's just loan signings or brining back some of our loanees to give them the opportunity. FWIW I'd accept 9th in the league if I could see some form of plan/strategy that at least made the oppositions defence work. Not looking for total football but reasonable to expect a team to get shots on target/make chances and get the old ticker beating faster.

You may be right @wellfan. what he has on his side is he’s managed to improve results . Points tally is still higher than last season so some progress made . run since been early move has been horrendous. I don’t see anything changing until the rest of the season unfolds

of course it makes a difference. From an attacking sense we certainly miss Miller, the boy is heads and shoulder above everyone. Suspect we also miss Robinsons work rate , no other striker has put in that level of effort. That said I don't think it's all down to injuries though and I fully accept we won't be brilliant every game. I dislike our approach to football, even when we were winning it was rarely easy on the eye. We simply need to get back to looking like a team who work for one another and understand what role each player has. We've lost that since October/early November.

Thanks David . Personally I’m not looking to replace manager and can’t see us being worse than 9th - probably somewhere between 6-9th . i don’t think sacking a mgr for 9th is sackable either . It’s not for me purely about points For me SK needs to evolve and develop as a mgr . In sep we beat st j 2:1 as we had 10+ shots and 6 on target - the energy we had has gone , and has been lacking for months . sk needs to learn how to adapt and have more than 1 string to his bow .

David - suspect it’s more about where we’ll finish no debate we are 5th . 6 wins in early part of the season are key . 3 wins in last 14ish games don’t give confidence we’ll remain in this position. unless of course we get back to basics with good energy , work rate , get in the faces if the opposition.

Even a fit Callaghan is a pretty poor signing . He struggled with spl level with hearts and stjohnstone albeit had an OK spell with Raith . Risking a contract on 30/ 31 year old who had an injury would be understandable if it was someone making a big step down in their career but to do it on someone who struggled with other spl clubs is poor .

I don’t think SK is anywhere close to being sacked . Results have improved year on year since he’s come in. this season likely to finish between 5-9th spot . At our best we’re a hard working unit that wins a lot of 1st and 2nd balls . Battle hard and get some wins . We did this aug-oct and with average 4 shots on target per game were top 4 + semi final . Most fans happy , albeit not amazing to watch . At our worst we still work hard but stopped winning 1st and 2nd balls with average 2 shots on goal . This has been the case since October. There never been a plan B plan A is simply set up to work harder than the opposition. re the injuries , I think it’s a bit of a red herring . Assuming we had everyone fit I think our style of play would be exactly the same - but we’d pick up a few more wins . none of this means SK will be sacked. For me I don’t like our brand of football under SK and although stats are improved year on year I find it a tough watch . if we finish top 6 I’m guessing majority of fans will want him to stay .

With the exception of 3 games we’ve been horrendous since the semi exit . in the last 14+ games we’ve averaged 2 shots on goal and conceded twice as much as scored we had an excellent first round of games and since then been other than a couple exceptions been utter tosh Annoying this result isn’t a surprise

Bowman is pretty much what I was thinking and appreciate the big man worked hard. What I find disheartening is the solution to fixing midfield seems to fall to ignoring the midfield and getting a big man to punt the ball up to. Each to their own, SK favours physical and work rate over guile/finesse.

I hope not . im struggling to see why we need another striker , particularly one who struggled in league 2 and found his level in the national league . I’ve lost count of the number of journeymen who have been at several clubs in the lower English national leagues that have churned through . At this stage of the season would much prefer we went for loanee players and give promising youngsters a chance

Our strategy should be reasonably straight forward Balance of squad , defenders/midfield/attack. young homegrown talent - who would be better than we can afford and ideally sell them on. 24/25 year - who didn't make it with bigger club and need a chance. average Joe- established pros who we can afford. seasoned pros - who're past their best and stepping down to our level to help improve out youngsters loan signings - compliment your squad/short term gaps. It's about balance - these all need to be balanced out. Recent years we've lost basics of not enough mix of players for positions and for me too many risk players with injuries. eg more strikers now than midfielders ! Add to that there's several players who don't even seem to make it to testing them out - guys from NZ, Japan, Australia , Stupavic etc - complete lack of due diligence. Bottom line. I'm far from convinced we have a good recruitment team.

SOD comes across as really good guy but for me he's inconsistent. Defensively he switches off, lacks concentration and costs us goals. Several managers dropped him for long periods of time due to this. He was decent moving forward 2-3 years ago but this has become less a feature of his game. Ok as a squad player /sub but not a starter for me. Similar to likes of Mugabi & Lamie who do 90% right but pretty much every game switch off at the wrong time.