texanwellfan

I think several people have mentioned 4-4-2 instead of 3-5-2 and I’d tend to agree although it’s a dynamic game and regardless of what you call your line up it’s about how you instruct the players to play but I think playing 4-4-2 line up as follows would perform much better Carson Tait Aldred Hartley Dunne Caden Campbell Turnbull Frear Bowman Johnson Tait and Caden work well together. Frear can have a bit more freedom to take on players and not worry about getting beat. Hartley and Aldred are center backs so now they can both play as center backs. We might be able to actually get some decent service to our forwards and actually create some decent amount of reasonable chances. There will be options from the bench to work with to keep that formation.

Based on my criteria set previously I no longer think he is doing fine. If he doesnt win against St Mirren and Dundee then he is in deep shit and us along with him. If that's the case then what does he have to do by Christmas to keep his job? I think if he can have us in 8th place or better by the end of the year and 9 point gap over 11th spot he stays but he needs to have some expectations laid out for him if he wants to continue into next season. Yes we need results but there has to be some attempt to play some football that people will pay to come and watch. We need to play the system that suits the players or if he sticks with 352 he needs to be buying players that can play in that system.

I don’t think lack of information has stifled many contributors on here previously :-)

Conversation seems to have wandered off topic, which is fine but is it because most of us can’t really think of a realistic good option?

I’m surprised no one has mentioned Aldred being off the park for the st Johnstone goal. Probably didn’t help. Having said that I think our main problem (no pun intended) is making chances. Certainly not going to score many if we don’t make a lot more chances.

Got the live stream on MFC now. So even if you come to visit you won’t be able to escape watching the games!

Yep. Forwards have to fight for almost every ball. We make very few clear cut chances. Even the best strikers need a few chances to score.

I’d agree for the first 55 mins. But after that nothing. Thought Turnbull was very good but then faded, which is not really that unexpected. Certainly done more than enough to merit starting again next week. We just are not an attacking threat at all just now.

4-0 to superwell to set us up for our next 2 games and racking up another 6 points after this game

Regardless of our formation it’s up to the players to do the basic stuff right. Like passing, not getting caught on the ball, marking up, moving off the ball etc. Robinson has to get the formation, tactics and personnel right in order for us to pose an attacking threat whilst still keeping it tight at the back.

If we take 10 or 12 points from our next 4 games he's doing fine. If we take 7, 8 or 9 points I'm undecided. If we take 6 or less points then I think he is under severe pressure to fix things quickly, at least by Christmas.

No real shape to the team and a lot of aimless kicking (Although Bigi could have used that) Considering how disjointed we are, we can still run the "top" teams pretty close, so I have got to think that a few changes from the manager and we could be alright. I think we have a few winnable games coming up so I'm willing to wait and see how we look after those. I still think our only major F*** up has been against Accies but we have to make sure we minimize the number of F ups through the season.

what a finish

Yep! no surprise

Definitely , we have a chance to win it Lets go!! COYW

I'd say Bigi had a few good moments but he has continually given the ball away

Cadden playing better Bigi not playing well at all Main struggling to worry the hearts defense when we attack Id be tempted to bring on Johnson for Main. Do we have someone to replace Bigi or doe he get a kick up the arse and play better the second half.

We at just making a lot of mistakes with the simple stuff which makes things harder. We have made a few half chances and moves up front but Main just seem to have the confidence or skill to take advantage of them and they just peter out.

WTF was bigi doing

we need to stop giving the ball away so easily

I’m blaming spell check for that ! even my fingers aren’t fat enough to hit b instead of z

Not sure how that ended up quoting ya beeper. Fat finger disease I suppose

Hibs loose on penalties Prefer dons thru than Hibs Just hope we can do it tomorrow night

He is not playing well but he has shown that he can be a great player. Juatvhopw he gets through form slump sooner than later. As said though I think how he is being played and who plays beside him is a big factor.

Just a dreadful game all together