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I’d love Craigan to be back at FP . He called it out brilliantly tonight and was the best thing about the £15 I forked out

Sligo well deserve to go through - a limited team but they are a team and did the basics well .

This is malpas and kampman bad

Not laid a glove on the over 2 games goss making a difference through

This is about as far from a team as I’ve ever seen .

Bring dean c on pls

Craigen made another solid point . we have no width and no number 10 to link play - this has been an issue and no sign of addressing it

Shambles . 1) we offer no more of a goal threat than we did last season 2) same joke of a defence 3) midfielders are no better than what we had 4) shocking prep of pre season

Worth getting sod on and push him up the flanks

He sure has - calls out the obvious we’ve not worked their keeper we lack intensity

Why spittal is left mid and Morris is right mid is nonsense - that said this team are so far off being match ready

This is a carbon copy of last weeks nonsense

Much prefer listening to craigen than Lewis on Motherwell tv Would much rather have him in the club through

We need to get hold of the ball and play simple passes

This is certainly the change many of us would have made. Hopefully he tucks behind KVV rather than played as a winger.

Top 4. Rangers, Celtic, Hearts & Aberdeen Top 6. Utd & Hibs likely to be there. Potential for 1 or 2 clubs to get ahead of Utd/Hibs but on paper they should be ahead. 6-12 the rest are fighting it out . Expect us - better than 9th.

You make a great point. Just listened (tried to listen) to the pre match interview and the gaffer mentions more than once there's no need to change. Just need to be a bit sharper and ruthless. There's no question in his mind that our approach to games is right, it served us well last season hence being in Europe. And Sigh

completely agree which speaks volumes for Efford/Shields - they should be moved on.

that's some list Feels like a long time since played some decent footy. Both McCall and McGhee v1 had some great spells of not just picking up points but entertaining the fans. Think this is why so many are pissed with current regime - even when we were winning Aug-Dec 21 it was bloody awful to watch. Tony Watts class was the difference. The cyclical debate will continue until we're no longer top 6. Future viewing will be painful to watch win/lose/draw but doubt we'll sack as manager for anything other than a poor eague position.

similar goals for as KVV over his career. You should be out there as a scout finding these sorts of available players

Good shout Dennyc. If we were playing to strengths I reckon this is the type of formation that would work. 3 centre halves enable us to have more in midfield where we' get out muscled most games. It also removes the need to force a front 3 when we don't have a right winger and play someone like Tierney who's likely to cause problems. One big weakness is to repeatedly play the same formation, force players into positions that don't work for them and when it doesn't work bring out the tombola and see who else can be squeezed into a position that doesn't work for them

wouldn't touch Griffiths with someone else's bargepole. Too much baggage, Dundee and Falkirk both gave him 2nd and 3rd chances and he blew it. I thought Allen was a midfielder - I'd rather we invest in someone who can score goals - a Moult type player.

Suspect he's our best midfielder. He took a lot of slack on Thursday night but it's questionable who actually remained in midfield in the second half. Morris, Spittal were both dead on their feet and Maguire dropped almost into a centre half portion. That said Slattery also died on his arse, just shows that none of the team were ready for 90 mins. Additionally none of them suit the 3 man midfield. I'd happily see a 4-5-1 next week.

At 24 I don't believe he has it in him to develop beyond what he is. Appreciate this won't be popular but I don't think he's good enough for the 1st team. A strong, hardworking midfielder who can stop teams playing, that's about it. Had he come up from Englands D2 rather than through our youth system I don't think he'd be anywhere close to being as popular as he is.

completely agree about ditching the 4-3-3 as as simply we don't have 2 wingers. I'd accept KVV up front without either Shields or Efford as long as we had Tierney playing in the hole between Midfield/Attack. Unconvinced that Morris/Maguire/Spittal should stroll straight into the Midfield. Cornealius added a lot of value to our midfield and I'd play him ahead of most we have. I'd also have a place for S'OD - appreciate he splits the fans but he has much needed experience and very decent going forward.