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Came from Paton dithering on the ball

Slattery booked for dangling arm but Ralston fouls Motherwell player on purpose to stop counter attack and doesn’t even get a finger wagging. Great save by Kelly to stop OG. Two decent chances for us. Defending well but we all know it’s just a matter of time. Let’s see if we can stop giving ball away so easy and actually give Mika a pass that he can do something with.

Maybe or maybe not. They might be happy to get his wages off the bill and he might be happy to go back to his old stomping ground. I’d hope we would at least try if he was available.

Maybe Obika and Mika will be the magic combination up front to Lift us back up but need to cut down on the hoof balls. Ok to play over the top if Mika in a good position to run onto it but most of the time they are hit and hope(less)

Casey done his best on the left side of a back three if I remember correctly? So maybe we give Casey another chance and go back to a 3-5-2 Doesn’t have Bevis but I don’t recall us giving up goals so easily? McGinn Butcher Casey Spencer Paton Slattery Spittal Gent Beireth Obika or maybe 4-5-1 McGinn Bevis Butcher Casey Spencer Paton Slattery Spittal Gent Beireth whatever he picks I think we need 5 in midfielD AND we need to keep our shape and stay connected to the 1 or 2 playing forward. Long balls are ok now and again but we need to give the forward players crosses, cut backs and through balls. SK had us playing well as a team keeping our shape and moving/transitioning back and forth between defense and attack. Looks like he has panicked now and reverted to hoof ball for Beireth to chase and we are all over the place with bugs gap all over the place. As someone mentioned get back to basics and tweak it from there!

If he plays, are we playing 3,4 or 5 at the back and who do we drop?

I read that as 98 goals but I’m sure that’s not the message 😄

Post of the year!

Biereth, Spencer and Gent. But we need to Play them and get the defense sorted again

He needs to turn it around and pick up decent amount of points in December. I’ve already written off the Celtic game. I’d say his target is at least 9 points better off by end of the year to keep his job.

2 Points off bottom with teams below us game in hand

70 Mins and zero shots on target for us.

It was mentioned earlier that it was denied due to handball from Boyce. Is that not the case?

No shots on target for us so far then.

So Madden talking shite then

So it’s a different scenario, specific to the goal scorer in our case last night

While the refs in Scotland are crap, I do think the handball/scorer rule is consistently applied. It’s other handball situations that are totally inconsistent.

Grizzly-itis is apparently contagious

Or give the other young lad a run out again…..Lucas?

Unfortunately, correct call by the VAR team. It’s the rule that is shite!!

Earlier in the season our defence looked very comfortable. Our midfield were playing some lovely football but we couldn’t score. Now our midfield and our defense are posted missing but we are scoring a decent amount of goals. SK needs to figure out a formation, players and tactics where all 3 aspects are working. With the league being so tight a decent run of form and results will catapult any team up the league.

We need to do better at creating chances. We were doing a good job at that for a while but not a shot on target first half of the Aberdeen game. An earlier post made a fair point that it doesn’t matter when you score as long as you score more than the other team but the trouble is we are not scoring more than the other team and are having to leave ourselves even more open at the back than we already are. The players need to up their work rate, intensity and focus because that seems to be the difference between winning games and losing games. We know they can do it and they know they can do it so they just need to get it done.

I like the idea of a separate time keeper or game clock. I’m sure they could come up with a set of rules for when clock stops and starts and game at ends at 90 mins regardless of what’s happening(just like it used to be) and the clock should be available for all to see. (Perhaps just having the clock displayed for all to see might be albthats required? clock stops for below and starts again when play resumes, maybe not a perfect List but simple and captures the vast majority of the time taken up when the game is actually stopped injury, sub, goal, var review,

Heading out to the game now. COYW!!!

Well we do have an international break so let’s hope for some crappy weather in November as well