MJC

We learn absolutely nothing from one week to the next. The same basic errors leading to goals all the time.

Ffs

Unchanged starting lineup by the looks of it. Max Johnston and Blaney on the bench.

That’s the fine margins that make the difference when you’re in a relegation battle. Going by our form so far this season it is unlikely, but it’s do-able and it’s something that we really need to happen.

Livingston 1-0 up at Ross County. Good news for us.

That penalty miss against Rangers still annoys me 👊

We’re definitely in trouble but we’re certainly not “favourites for the drop”. The next set of results may or may not change that but it’s very much in our hands just now and with two very winnable home games back to back then we can make things a lot easier for ourselves by winning both. Obviously that’s easier said than done given the team we have but we have a great chance of easing some of the pressure.

Exactly, it will be very difficult for us to attract players in this window, it always is in January but with a rookie manager? Even more difficult. That is why Hammell needs help from those above him at the club, both in scouting and financially. If that means pushing the boat out further than the club’s comfort zone* then I’m all for it if it is the difference between relegation and survival this season. *And by that I am not suggesting that we spend £1M + or anywhere near it before any of the “punching waaaaaaay above our weight” brigade drench their knickers.

Without doubt, I’ve long said that our recruitment is absolutely diabolical and needs to improve drastically. However signings are attributed to the manager and those two signings reflect poorly on Stevie Hammell.

Signing two injury prone players on loan and both of them end up having their loans cut short due to, surprise surprise, injuries and making little impact certainly doesn’t look for Hammell, rookie manager or not. He absolutely has to get any signings he makes this month absolutely spot on, which is a tall order.

I don’t want a 6-6 and a “great spectacle for the neutral” and an “entertaining match”. I would take an absolutely awful game as long as we win. 1-0 with a KvV penalty or an own goal will do me.

Sadly I agree with you there. I wish Louis Moult all the very best though, hopefully he can get back to playing regularly at some level.

A pity it didn’t work out but terminating the loan was the only common sense thing to do. For the love of God please let that be a lesson to us about re-signing popular ex players who have injury problems.

Plus Calum Elliot from Hearts. 🙄

God almighty, don’t give the club ideas. 😩

Perhaps but all of those were injured/had been through serious injury problems when we signed them and with the exception of Faddy for the first few months none of them made any impact for us and spent the majority of their returns out injured. We cannot afford to gamble on players we know are injured right now. I appreciate that every signing we make is a gamble but we could at least try to stack the odds in our favour by steering clear of players who have been lying on the treatment table for the past six months.

“If Faddy is fit, not the worst move.” ”If McCormack is fit, not the worst move.” ”If Moult is fit, not the worst move.” ”If Aarons is fit, not the worst move”. If we bring in yet another ex player who has spent the best part of the last year out injured then we will officially become a full blown parody of ourselves.

Wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest to see James Scott back this month, injury or not. 🙄 A nice wee video for social media of him gazing at the empty swing park in the Duchess Park as his hair blows in the wind to welcome him back….then in the next pre-match press conference SH will tell us that he’s just trying to shake off a wee niggle and he’s hopeful he’ll be available before the end of the season.

Bring him home….😐

I think our game is a nailed on draw. Two poor teams, both struggling, both managers under the cosh. Can’t see past a 1-1 shitfest. I wouldn’t count on Rangers winning at Tannadice either as Utd have an excellent record against them especially up there and took four points from Rangers two visits there last season. We may well be either joint bottom or just one point off it come Sunday evening.

That’s how it appeared. Again, do you know different? And so what? We also had van Veen who along with Watt contributed by scoring six goals in the same period last season. Losing him last January was a big reason why the arse fell out of our season and we haven’t come close to replacing him since. This season we have really only had one forward - KvV - worthy of the name at the club and that’s why we struggle to score goals and thus win games.

The only ‘stupid’ thing about Alexander’s departure was the timing of it, he should have been gone in May. And it obviously would have been added to had Alexander not departed? Really? Perhaps you know something I and others don’t but Alexander seemed happy enough with what he had over the summer. We might have got another Vauxhall conference league dud that had previously worked with Alexander in before the end of the window I suppose. And your last point, I’ve said this before, we had Tony Watt for the first half of last season who’s goals won us at least ten points in the first half of the campaign, we didn’t have him in the same period this year so your comparison is pointless. If we were to sign a player who can get us similar during this window then I’m confident we’ll survive relegation this season. edit: Fifteen points Watt won for us between August and December ‘21. We weren’t playing particularly well then either but when you have a player who can get you goals you can win points. It’s no coincidence whatsoever that our form nosedived as soon as he left last season and we and and GA were found out.

The support were scunnered with Alexander's management of the team, the dreadful performances and poor form which culminated in one of our most humiliating results in our history. You'd be hard pushed to find any support of any top flight club that would have reacted any differently. And this is the team that Alexander was largely responsible for building and deemed acceptable to go into this season with the additions of Josh Morris, Paul McGinn and Blair Spittal so it's understandable that he gets some of the blame for what's happened this season.

I agree with what David says above about changing the manager now being chaotic. Like it or not I think we need to stick with Hammell and back him this month in the transfer window and hope for the best really because that's all we can do. The manager situation over the summer and at the beginning of the season was absolutely shambolic as Alexander was never getting sacked in May having delivered Europe, but it was painfully obvious we were only heading one way. It did nothing but paper over huge cracks and he and we were found out big time with the Sligo games. The seeds for all of this chaos and the situation we now find ourselves in were planted at the very same ground we played at today back last April. Had we lost that day Alexander goes in the summer and our entire approach to this season would be completely different.

Only the fact that he is a club legend and so popular with the support is what is keeping the ‘boo-boys’ off Stevie Hammell’s back right now. If Alexander was still in charge he would get far less leeway. Of course this mess is not in any way all down to SH but he has a big, big month ahead of him and things need to improve because this has all the hallmarks of a team heading for relegation. The fine margins are what is going to cost us come the summer. We should have beaten Dundee Utd at home, only got a draw. We should have taken at least a point from Hearts at Tynecastle but lost, should have beaten Killie at home, threw 2 pts away. Should have beaten Livingston today, only drew. Our inability to defend at one end and/or score goals at the other has played a part in all of those results going against us and things need to start picking up asap.