MJC

We won’t be relegated this season. As poor as we have been/are we are not going to lose every single game between now and the end of the season and St.Johnstone & Dundee aren’t suddenly going to go on a crazy winning run either. It might be a bit less comfortable than we’d like for a couple of weeks and it certainly wont be pretty viewing but we’ll be fine.

2-1 to us, based on nothing more than optimism. One of those games where we go 2-0 up then concede meaning it’s a nerve racking last 20-30 mins. But this time we’ll see it out. Hopefully.

Davie Cooper’s anniversary today, 27 years. RIP

Mmm, I’m not even convinced that that would happen. If we managed to scrape into the top six then that would almost certainly ensure a ‘6th placed’ finish with two pumpings off both halves of the OF, one point(if we’re lucky) against the Edinburgh sides and more awful, eye bleeding football. Football is meant to be an entertainment business and we offer absolutely nothing in that department. The grumbling of the fans both at the ground and online over the past few months would suggest that the support as a whole are absolutely scunnered with the fare on show.

Likewise. I don’t think there’s any way back for him with the support to be honest.

The thought of a Stephen Robinson led St.Mirren side with several ex Well players coming to Fir Park and beating us is horrible, but it would sum up our season if it happened.

That’s just it he doesn’t appear to have a plan, either long term or short term. At least if we could see what he was trying to do but it just wasn’t coming off he might look as though he did, but there is nothing. His team selections and use of subs are mind boggling. We have players like Slattery who can’t get a look in for whatever reason. We brought in Tierney in January and Shaw on loan from Celtic and both have hardly featured. What’s going on there?? And when it’s not working he waits until about 70 mins before making any changes most weeks. I don’t know what, if anything, the manager is trying to achieve but whatever it is it clearly is not working and some of the players are looking increasingly more frustrated week to week.

Did he actually say that “we have had some good draws”?

I see where you are coming from and there is some merit in that, but in the long term it would be detrimental to us because as long as we weren’t relegated he would almost certainly be given the job on a permanent basis. And that really isn’t what we need right now. Pardon the cliché but we need a ‘new broom’ to come in.

100% this. Lasley is a club legend but giving him the managers job would ensure ‘same old, same old’ that we’ve seen over the past few years. A drastic change is needed at the club, not just in the dugout.

I don’t think we will be relegated this season, purely because I don’t see St.Johnstone or Dundee being able to sustain the kind of run to overhaul us. But I do think it’s going to be a lot more uncomfortable than many of us thought even four weeks ago. Whatever happens though, Graham Alexander absolutely cannot be allowed to take us into a new season, new contract or not. If he doesn’t walk away of his own accord and our wretched form and performances continue then the support will start to split between those who will vote with their feet and just don’t come to games and those who will become vocal in their calls for him to go. In fairness to the club, whenever we’ve reached that stage in the past, with Malpas, Baraclough and McGhee second time around and supporters were calling for the managers head they have acted pretty swiftly and made the change. We’re not quite at that stage yet with GA, but it’s not far off imo.

Because we weren’t really doing that well before Christmas. We were pretty dismal to watch then as well but the difference was we had Tony Watt who could grab goals at crucial times to get us out of jail. That we haven’t won since he left tells you all you need to know.

For us to be heading into April looking for our first league win of the year is scandalous. I’ve seen enough, it’s time to go Alexander.

No one is forced to buy it but nonetheless the club/kit maker want people to buy it and indeed they know that people will buy it if a new kit is released. There are people who like to buy every kit so as to have the most up to date version, or to put money into the club, or just because they want to. People who have young kids who want the latest kit and will buy it for them every time a new one is released. You’re right it is the going rate it seems for most clubs to have a new kit every single year and perhaps that’s part of the contract with the kit maker, I don’t know. I’d just like to see us keep the current home kit for another year if it was possible.

I’d like to see us keep our current home kit for another season (assuming we are staying with Macron?). It’s a nice kit and as has been said in these tough financial times asking fans to fork out for a new set of kits every single year is pretty steep. I’d imagine we will change the away kit or at least bring out another change kit. I’d like to see another mostly white effort, similar to 19/20 which was our best change kit in recent years.

I don’t think Graham Alexander even knows who will start, his selections week to week are baffling.

Hearts will pump Hibs as they usually do, they really are a bang average side but we just weren’t good enough against them yesterday.

We could really be doing with winning our first league match this year, that should be our main focus to halt this wretched run. Cornelius needs to start, as does Slattery but who knows what team will be picked. No doubt our lovely black away kit will get an outing for this one too.

It would appear so. Hopefully we call them out and bill them as appropriately. This seems to be happening more and more these days, with several different sets of fans, likewise with jumping on the pitch to celebrate goals. I include our own in that. I don’t get why football fans can’t just go and support their clubs without this nonsense. Or is it more about getting likes on social media under the hashtag ‘#scenes’??

Agreed. We are not getting relegated as it’s almost if not impossible for St.Johnstone or Dundee to claw back the points difference between now and the end of the season. Neither of them are good enough for that type of return and as poor as we are, I really don’t see us losing every single match between now and then. We should be looking towards next season now.

If you can’t defend and you can’t score goals then you will lose more than you will win. That is why we haven’t won a league match in 2022 and are out of the Scottish Cup. Yes, having a player red carded inside the first sixty seconds hampered us, but that doesn’t excuse our defending for both goals, our inability to create/score chances and our managers refusal to change things when it was badly needed. Again! On a positive note today Cornelius was superb and Donnelly actually had one of his better games for us in a long while.

Let’s concentrate on next season more like!

We would give them a fair run for their money to be fair. If Hibs were to go four goals up and we pulled it back to take it to ET and penalties we’d only lose the shootout.

Game over.

That was a yellow card at best. Mugabi was daft to go in like that but that is Willie Collum at his pedantic, petty best.