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But it took him a lot longer to get there. Like every other player, you need your mates around you pulling their weight. If he had some help I think he’d back back performing like we expect.

We don’t really vary our set pieces. Including long throws. So easy to defend against us

I would have let O’Hara have a go and hope it’s a scorcher or the goalie spills it back out

I got the kick off time wrong. Sat down to watch and got the last 5 mins. Sounds like I didn’t miss much.

Done well in Europe too

Just frustrating when we got so close. Makes it a long game watching it but probably a better approach than open football. We are not very good at open football just now.

Whilst I don’t agree with first sub you could maybe somewhat put up a case for it but putting White on was ridiculous. What In the world was he going to contribute to the team performance at that point. Laing and Watt were both putting a power of work and still looked they were good to keep going.

Didn’t see the need to start making subs.

Polworth trying to pull the ball back instead of clearing

Is long on bench? I’d have put him on for some speed at least. White offers nothing in a game like this

Yep

Really!! White??

Not sure about the sub

Starting to show a few little cracks but holding on

I hope we can keep up the concentration. Being so compact means we haven’t spent all our energy chasing them around. So I think it comes down to focus and no silly mistakes and no gift penalties.

Plus Mugabi penAlty and gift penalty so we need another 3

We need at least 1 more since Lamie is playing.

Well dammit. Just signed on to see we are one up and missed the goal

Yes. My point was that the statistics don’t give you the full picture of the game.

Getting close to the time when we gift them a second goal?

BBC stats make it look pretty even but we are dreadful.

What build up?

We are not even trying to pass through midfield despite it being blatantly obvious that long balls are not working

Yes, too many long balls. At best they are al 50/50. It’s ok to put a long ball in behind the defense with someone running onto it but all of ours are just long balls tossed up there for both teams to challenge and we are not winning most of the challenges.

I agree with some of the comments in that we need to revert to 4-4-2. With O’Hara and Gallagher in the middle of defense. O’Donnell out right and I’d put Grimshaw at left back. Midfield 4 Crawford, McGuire polworth and Campbell. Watt and long/Lang up front.