Mad Dog

Need to stop the long balls as Stewart is winning almost everything.

I'm reasonably confident that we can sneak a win, going to be a hard watch though.

Well this kind of backs up your opinion. VAR is doomed before it even starts.

Really don't understand all this pish about no-one being willing to take a yellow for the team to stop the first goal. There were bodies close enough to Tillman to have made a fair tackle or to have got themselves between the ball and the goal at the very least.

The second goal was a header.

Thought Morris had a fair game today, certainly an improvement from him. Tierney was probably our best player, either him, Goss or McKinstry.

Was just about to type that Efford's having a really good game. 3-0.

Looks like Efford and Lamie might be fit but Arrons is out.

McGinn was solid at the back and with real pace too. Got forward well and had two good opportunities to get shots on target. The second one was poor but on another day the rebound would have found van Veen rather than Gordon.

How do you know that he didn't try to get someone in?

At this rate, we'll need to merge this thread with the former players thread.

^ Exactly. Then if he gets injured again he returns to Burton and it doesn't cost us anything. Worth a punt for sure.

Hopefully this time round we can afford to buy him a brand new baselayer.

One embarrassing humping like that would certainly put his coat on the shoogly peg but two in a fortnight? Think he had to go.

Still no news on Snoddy? If he's taking this long to think about it then maybe his heart isn't fully into a move to Motherwell so we don't really need him.

Finished 7-0 so they didn't set a new record.

I don't understand those advocating Malky Mackay for the job. Has his racism, homophobia and misogyny been forgotten already?

Good thing about Valakari is that the Finnish league concludes in just a few weeks, so could potentially keep Hammell on in the interim and avoid having to pay out compensation.

I wish that I could see us scoring.... 5-0 to the Sheep.

We've had clubs poach or try to poach our managers in the past and it's a shitty thing to do. I'd rather our club didn't go down that route.

I've got the international subscription and it's a pretty good deal at only £15 a month for all first team games.

The creative midfielder(s) may well be in our squad but we haven't seen much evidence of it yet. If the team is set up with the idea of Kelly going long to the front three every single time with the midfield seemingly following orders to hold their ground, then there won't be many opportunities to see what they can do with the ball at their feet. As onthefringes says, with new ideas and a different formation with the ball on the deck, we will see what this squad is capable of. I'd play 3-5-2 - O'Donnell and Carroll have taken plenty abuse defensively so play them as attacking wing-backs with less emphasis on defence. McGinn, Lamie and a dominant centre half between them - could Sol, Bevis or Ojala do that job or do we need to recruit? Maguire to sit in midfield with Cornelius's energy and Slattery's ability on the ball. Who partners KvV? Tierney playing off him or Shields right up alongside him? We've got options and some good young lads on the bench. Johnston, Devine and Spiers need minutes this season.

Defi-nat-ley.

Is the nearside stand almost empty or is the TV microphone right in front of the one roaster that keeps screaming abuse?

We have often struggled against managerless sides so surely it is our turn now. 2-1 to us.