wellsince75

Big OX was very poor for the goal. That's a couple of very soft goals he's conceded recently. Appreciate he had a great start to the season, equally we can't afford to concede such soft goals without consequence. We've been quick enough to drop other areas when they've made mistakes, be interesting to see how many more goals before making a stitch in the sticks.

When paying fans rock up on cold winters night they need more than a pie and bovril to keep them warm. 4 shots all game/one on target is far from that. We had a such a good opportunity to build on the attacking display from last weekend. A draw is a decent result , just a shame not to offer much in the way of entertainment. Majority of the SPL clubs need a kick in the backside to up their approach to entertaining the fans.

VAR could and should be an amazing addition for our game. If it sticks to the purpose of minimising clear and obvious errorsthat could affect the outcome of the game, and to ensure fairer decision-making overall. If VAR can detect a clear and obvious error within 30 seconds it should . It if take more than 30 seconds then we should challenge how clear or obvious the error is. EG being 2 yards offside is obvious, having a left hand that may put you 2-3 cm offside isn't . We've made simple complicated - please delete and start again.

well done lads - great to see them out and about helping share a bit of festive cheer.

Scoring goals in the first half - who is this team Really pleasing to see energy, attacking football. Lots of chances for both teams. Much prefer this approach , got to give the fans something to cheer about during and as @wellfan mentioned - thoroughly entertaining game. Win lose or daw, entertainment and excitement is good for the game.

he's certainly a decent player - personal view is we need a good balance of hard working type s(which we have lots of) together with a few who can actually play football. Guys like Nicholson, Miller, Slattery, Watt all have decent skill - I'd like to see a team with all of them fit.

Very happy to stop the rot and get a win . Also very happy to have Tony watt in the starting 11 and get a goal . he has lots of qualities that I just don’t see the other forwards having .

I'd like to see Watt get a run of games. His quality would help link our midfield to attack options. Not sure what the formation or starting 11 will be but would build around Ox Gordon Miller Watt

Agreed history is somewhat repeating itself and looks like there stress and strain are showing . in simple terms play your best players in their best position and we’ll get through it . appreciate the debate will be who are the best players

3 shots on target in first half - that’s quite an Improvement . Positive approach 👏

How will we replace the 2-3 goals per season we'd have likely obtained 😉 On a serious note wonder if this pushes us to change formation - I'd like to see Watt have a run of games, he may be a modern day Stevie Cowan but he at least knows how to play footy and can join up midfield to attack.

Going to point out the obvious -we don't play attacking football. For the last 10 games we've averaged 3.8 shots on target "we are not entertained". We can live with not being entertained when we're winning but this is very similar style (or lack of style) to GA era. All teams will have poor runs, we accept and understand this but for crying out loud during these cold , winter months we need something that we can get behind and cheer on. This negative keep it tight ever game strategy is awful.

Our style of play isn’t that different to the Alexander era . acceptable when winning but far from entertaining

Very poor. Our style of football is poor. Hibs have a poor defence , we're at home and in the first half we haven't laid a glove on them. Our approach to games is not concede in first half and hope something happens. We have little to no creativity in this team and unless the wingbacks push up I'm not clear what our attacking intention is meant to be. Today was a day to get out and at them - we've allowed the reverse to happen.

don't worry Grizzly - if we lose today the forum will light up like a Christmas tree. Hopeful for a win today, looks like a much stronger formation. 3 points and a few goals will do nicely

Miller , Turnbull and Faddy are all players who will last long in the memory and all 3 quite different players. If I was a little bit older then Mclair and McAllister would also be on the list. All bloody good players who each brought something special to FP.

Until yesterday I thought the handball rule was much better managed this season . Given humans have hands , if the ball is blasted from short range there’s little anyone could do . Poor show on var for first one . great spot on second - think they were working hard to make up for the earlier error .

Appreciate the frustration with the lack of entertainment. There's not a huge amount of creativity , similar to last season we need to rely on young wingbacks to create. Given our current squad I'd be tempted to play Watt behind the front 2 and try to link more via midfield. That said credit to the team for conceding less goals, averaging 1.2 goals lost per game v's last seasons 1.7. That difference has us very nicely in the top 6.

I'd like to see him in a well strip

I really hate var wait …… oh quite like it again

Ox has been very good - much better than I had anticipated. I do think he also has the benefit of a better defence in front of him. we're far more solid as a defensive unit.

Kettlewell has his flaws - as will any manager and any player who comes through our club. If he was the perfect manager he wouldn't be with us and wouldn't be in Scotland. The pro's come down to 1) his record he's won +40% of games over 70 games. That's very decent for MFC manager. 2)his workrate and valuing the overall coherence of a team. 3) doing the ugly side of the game well. 4) playing young talent and given them a chance 5)He moves on players who aren't to his taste. His flaws are 1) A large chunk of signings have proven to be pretty poor. 2) several signings aka Obika, Callaghan, Nicholson all with proven injury records. 3) lack of entertainment - other than youngsters there's not much to get you on your feet (same could be said for vast majority of SPL) Overall must be one of the better managers we've had. Very similar to Robinson's stats.

Frustrating as the chance was there. Especially riding our luck and being 1-0 up . im a huge advocate of watt from his first time at the club and can see why people calling for him to come on . he looks out of shape and hasn’t had much game time , not convinced he’d have been the answer - albeit not any worse than who we did bring on . frustratingly even a poor rangers team on a poor run have players who are simply much better than the ones we have .

after last seasons poor run at this time of year tonight feels like a big step forward.