Ya Bezzer!

It's the good players we part ways with.

Obvious what the issues are. Our away form is abysmal. Last 12 we've won 2 drawn 1 and lost 9. And only 1 win in the last 9 away matches which was at Ibrox. Post Kettlewell we are 2-1-4, never kept a clean sheet and have conceded 2+ goals in the majority of the matches. (2,3,3,4).

St. Mirren have the easiest fixtures,. on paper at least, but I honestly think we are going to have to take at least 6 points to make the top six so if we do that I reckon that probably knocks St Mirren out of it anyway. I mean it could go to goal difference if St Mirren won all three games but they've only won 2 out of 11 so I don't see them winning 3 out of 3.

Hearts could crash and burn or absolutely romp it. It's kinda in their own hands with the fixtures they have. They are in good form but a loss to Celtic might give them the jitters. Dundee Utd are in really poor form and have two away matches. They have 4 points from their last 15 away points. Ross County and Hearts have also been pretty strong at home. I think if we are going to make it it's more likely to be Dundee United we leap. Away to Ross County after a really poor performance against Dundee is a tough one for United. Only Celtic have beaten Ross County on their own patch in 2025. Then they are away to Hearts, who have only lost to Rangers at Tynecastle in 2025, and then they play us.

Physicality is part of the game but Iacovitti was just being a prick today.

Not Slattery's biggest fan but probably his best attribute is his shooting and he took his goals well today.

Poor to middling performance today depending on the period of the game. Not for the first time the opposition getting a player sent off seemed to help them rather than us. I posted at half time today so I won't repeat myself but if you are looking at the two Wimmer matches I've seen and looking for themes then the one that jumps out at me is our lack of creativity. I really can't remember the opposition goalkeeper today or against Dundee making a proper save which means we've been super efficient in taking our chances. That's fine when you are getting results in a couple of matches but longer term we really need to create more. Very little up front today. Looked like we were playing the same system of two midfields 'up front' and someone sitting deeper. Not sure how that is going to pan out over the longer period but it didn't work today.

Never really started playing until we were 0-2 down. St Mirren definitely worth their lead at that point. We just didn’t look like we had a cohesive game plan. Getting the goal back immediately has probably saved the rest of the game for us. Balcome has been unconvincing. Completely missed two crosses and we were lucky not to concede from. Iacovitti seems to have a 10 free foul card. St Mirren have generally beaten us physically which is something we are going to improve on. Games still there to be won, lost or drawn depending on our 2nd half performance but I just get the impression St Mirren have the street smarts and we don’t. Would be happy to be proved wrong.

We also lost a lot of control in the match after he went off.

He had an accidental world class diagonal tonight.

What? Picking him? 🤣🤣🤣

Much better on the ball tonight with the caveat that we were playing the worst team in the league right now. However don't really remember creating too many chances, we probably created more in the Ross County match it's just that our execution was terrible in that game. Stats say the keeper had 4 saves, I don't remember a serious one. And I thought we always looked venerable when the ball was turned over even when Dundee weren't really in the match in the first half. Stuff to work on for sure, need to tighten up off the ball and I'd like to see us perform against a team in better form than Dundee before I declare a revival. Overall though much better than the Ross County match.

Only beaten Dundee once since they got promoted. We've lost the 2 this season which actually makes you think we'll get something tonight cos there aren't many clean sweeps in this league.

Dundee have concede 20 goals in their last 5 matches. Motherwell 0 then.....

It's amazing how people let their own opinions obliterate actual facts. Kettlewell took over and took us from 11th to 7th with a P15 W9 D3 L3 and one of the draws was at Celtic Park. If Wimmer even gets close to that record he'll be praised to the skies.

It's an interesting appointment. It worries me a wee bit though that he'll be learning Scottish football at a point in the season where we need an experienced hand. It's not a high quality league but it is a tough league to compete in.

People like you are going to manifest a dark destiny for this club.

Playing O'Donnell, Slattery and Watt in the same starting 11 is akin to putting a big red self destruct button in a toddler's playpen. Then you have Bacolmbe who couldn't grab his wife's tits, Thompson who's had an absolute shocker, and Halliday and Sparrow are totally anonymous. The boo boys have got what they wanted. Morale and confidence is totally shot. 9 points from 12 matches to stay up and that's basically our lot.

A lot of the time defending errors are made in midfield. 4-4-2 is the simplest, least complex system and you should be able to get a team to defend in 2 banks of 4. Also the three centre midfield vs the two centre midfield thing is a bit of a myth. Often it ends up 2 v 2 as very few teams play a flat 3. There are lots of tactics videos on this. As for full backs, that's pretty much the case at every club for decades. They still have to defend though, just the same as strikers sometimes have to chase back or get behind the ball and wingers have to drop back off the ball. And there in lies the problem for me. Too many players at this level are either a bit lazy or don't have the engine. To play at the very top you need the technique but you also have. to absolutely work your arse off. That's what I don't see very often at this level. If you could get players at this level to physically work as hard as players at the top level, even without the technique, you'd dominate.

So we've probably had to go over budget to cover for injured players and you think that means....what exactly? The money will come out of next couple of annual budgets or be paid for by Lennon Miller. It definately doesn't mean we've magically got more money to spend.

Hope our goalkeeper coach is good at remembering names.

I expected to get a drubbing today so considering the start we made we did reasonably well to stay in the match. I mean Celtic were in 2nd gear, had 2 goals disallowed and hit the post, so on another day it could have been a drubbing but we hung in there. New players looked decent and I thought we looked threatening in the first half with Maswanhise and Armstrong up front but second half we've not really created anything at all. It's a game we just needed to get out the way and now it is. Hopefully have a new manager in place by the time the Ross County match comes round and we start again.

Never mind that all 9 matches we've won this season we had less than 45% possession and every time we've had the majority of the possession we've lost. When you have less technical players having the majority of the possession isn't always the best thing - one of the reasons St Mirren convincingly beat Aberdeen 3-0 with 25 % possession last week. Sure you'll be a lot happier if we don't get results with higher possession stats.

Robinson's tenure featured three terrible runs of form the last of which almost got us relegated. It wasn't all bad but here's the thing about 'style of play'. When Robinson had either of the two outstanding players during his reign, Moult and Turnbull, we were decent to very good. When those players weren't there (or not being played) we were mostly garbage. To play good football you need good footballers. Under Robinson, under anyone. I'm in my fifth decade going to Fir Park. In that time we've had 4, 5, maybe at a push 6 teams that actually played consistent good football and all of them had, at our level, outstanding players whether it was Tom Boyd, Davie Cooper, Tommy Coyne, Brian Martin, Paul Lambert, David Turnbull, Ross McCormick, Darren Randolph, Michael Higdon or who ever. Outside of Lennon Miler we don't have anyone and he's had two periods of injury that, both times, has seen our form fall away. At its most innocent the quest for good football without good footballers is like the alchemy of the modern day. It's a bird brained folly. It's just not going to happen. At its worst it's a re-write of the clubs history to justify the most atrocious toxicity. It's like alt right weirdo Trump stuff that denies actual reality. It used to be you went to the football to escape all the bad things of life. Now the football is all the bad things of life magnified. Support the team and stop all this idiotic, toxic hatred.

I never said it did. However the ones who are should be called out. I said after Alexander we would struggle to attract good managers to the club and we have struggled. Now it's happened again. What does the future hold for us when managers are rewarded with hatred for what is to all extent and purposes, relative success? This has become a trend and if it continues we are going to be the worse for it.