wellsince75

Hamilton will play with a 5 man midfield and unless we change we'll go with 3 men, which will force too much of the play into our half and stop us getting the ball to the front 3. Easily solved if we go to 3-5-2

recruitment is tricky and even the best managers sign people who just don't work out. Tommy Mclean signed some awful players but had the knack of moving them on quickly. Personally I'd rather try and find better Scottish talent than always going the lucky dip of the lower English leagues but appreciate it's easier said than done. Overall a smaller squad and use the cash saved on wages to bring in a better quality than we've had.

truthfully I think Kelly is the one who behaves most like a captain. S'OD is pretty quiet on the pitch (As is Gallagher ) Appreciate giving a loan signing would be a bit odd , personal view he's a natural captain.

This feels very similar to the Barraclough era for me. GA has come in and helped us to safety - snap Needs time to replace some of the squad - snap Talks about the need to work hard, blah blah - snap lack of willingness to change the formation or adjust during the game - snap Bit like when we stayed up people are happy to give him the benefit of the doubt and see what he does next season

completely agree with these posts. 4-3-3- doesn't work. Would be easy to change to a 4-4-2 or 3-5-2 and get the most from players like S'OD, Long etc. We can all see it , the pundits on TV call it out but GA does nothing to change it week to week or in the game.

great pen from Hastie

I rather wished I did something else for the last 2 1/2 hours

suspect the rep thought we didn't deserve it

we don't deserve anything from this game.

kinky called this out early and thus far we've done nothing other than to bring on Hastie . Dreadful

I don't agree - he continually plays the same formation. He must be the easiest person to set up against and he doesn't make changes. Appreciate the squad has issues but its hard to be impressed by his approach.

its embarrassing for the manager - unless he changes it - how can he expect to win this.

Why we set up and kept a 4-3-3- when its obvious we need to get in behind them. 442, 352 would have worked. Not impressed with the players or our mgt team.

Joak Brown "were going through a poor phase on the game" Its lasted 80+ mins.

Maguire, Lawless, Long should all be hooked off ,

disgraceful - no urgency and can't believe we've not pressed and brought subs on.

crying out for a 3-5-2 and getting down the wings. Come GA - change it - this is embarrassing.

he does "trying to figure out where a goal will come from' He should get stripped - he'd be better than this lot.

Agree - best signing by a distance., including the gaffer.

Person view we have 2 issues 1 ) formation doesn't work for us 2) 5 of our starting 11 aren't good enough for SPL. (McGinley, Lamie, Crawford, Maguire, Lawless )

this is what infuriates me as a fan - we can all see it what the F can't GA.

Last week StMirren tore us a new one in the first half - it took a serious injury to Roberts to change it. This week we've set up in the same way. Please take Lawless off and put Ohara on.

How can we (the average punter) see that a 3 man midfield doesn't work. That Long is wasted as part of a front three but the manager can't Same poor set up every week.

other than Kelly the full teams passing is poor.

We've been poor for many reasons. Playing a 3 man midfield that includes an attacking/non defence minded player has been the issue. This has impacted all midfield players (including Campbell). A 4 man midfield where 2 stay back and 2 push forward worked well for us last year - no idea why we dropped it this season .