AllyMax

Brilliant goal. Stama actually getting some ball in the box makes a hell of a difference !!!!

We're second to everything in midfield.

Don't think anyone claimed for it, did they ?

Well, that was quick !

Pretty much picks itself really. Glad to see kaleta in instead of Tavares.

How many managers have left top division clubs in Scotland in the last 20 years for any other reason than failure ? I know there are few exceptions, but in general, managers get fired or 'leave by mutual consent' 95% of the time. When I started going to games regularly, Willie McLean was in charge. he created a team that challenged the old firm regularly in matches, got conned out of a semi final win over the h**s and is largely lauded as the best team never to win a trophy. He was still sacked a couple of years later for a poor results, as have most of our managers since. It's the same for every other club. 90% of managers ultimately fail and get the sack.

I was wondering about this too. Tavares ahead of Kaleta being the obvious one. Remember when Biereth arrived here (with a slight injury, and after his injury sustained here at St Mirren), we were told that Arsenal physio staff dictated down to the minute literally, how much ha was allowed to play. Possibly Kaleta has a niggle and Wolves have dictated his minutes. Not in the know or anything, but it is a similar situation. If we're currently stuck for a RWB though, that doesn't explain away why Koutrumbis (or what ever his name is) is't getting a sniff of a start.

I would expect DU would be keen to get him off their wage bill. Question is, will Tony see sense and sign for us or revert to previous and end up in the Khazakstan Premier Leage on 10K a week ?

We're second, and sometimes third, to everything !

I've supported kettlewell through all the bad periods. Blaney for Balmer I understand (although I'm not sure there's that much to choose between them), but this Tavares thing has me baffled. Is Taveres playing right midfield and either Seddon or Wilson is playing on the wrong side, or is Tavares a right wing back with either Seddon or Wilson (i'd expect) in midfield ?

I missed the game up to the point Stama scored. I really thought the game should have been stopped for the head knock before their second goal and it looks like half the team did too. After that, the wheels came off for 10 mins or so. I thought other than that 10 min period we looked ok. Watt and Stam looked decent together. Maybe a more 'midfieldery' midfielder than Tavares and we'd have competed better. The 10 mins after their second killed it as a contest though. I think the biggest miss at the moment is McGinn.

Well, thats fucked it.....

Game should have been stopped there surely ?????

Awful defending......

That bloody idiot Kettlewell can't even organise the weather for a big game. It's not as if he didn't know this game was coming up. It's stupid mistakes like this that prove he's not going to have long left in this job. Ooot his depth !

Will we win 2-1 and have all the usual suspects on complaining again ? Or will we lose 2-1 and have all the usual suspects on complaining again ?

Great cross from kaleta with his left......

Taken me till now to get over how fucking gutted I am at the result, and to a certain extent, the performance. Would certainly be the first to say that Ketts got the subs totally wrong. I think a lot of people would have liked to see us go toe to toe with them early, like we did against Celtic. First though, it has to be acknowledged that they simply have better players than us. You could probably take the income of their two top earners and float our entire club on it. FFS they lost the equivalent of more than three years of our turnover last year, and thats taking into account ther fact that their income is huge compared to ours. They just have the money (temporarily maybe 🙂 ) to have better players than us. Add to that the expanse of the pitch at Hampden and teams who try to match the Glasgow Arse Cheeks can easily come unstuck pretty quick. This is exactly the same reason that Rangers get pumped every time they play Celtic these days, cause they've got the pace and ability to tear them apart on a big pitch. I'm not saying the manager got it right, far from it, but a right into them, press high approach could have seen us turn into Aberdeen in their semi, so I can understand the approach to a certain extent. However, the subs were just bizarre. It's basically just gutting, especially after getting our noses ahead with the first decent attack we had.

Just back in from the game, which for one reason or another became a 12 hour round trip. Gutted at the result. We didn't play particulrly well but having got our noses in front I thought we might have calmed down and maybe managed to get the ball down and hold it more. Like another poster above, I completely lost heart at the subs, given that we needed someone who can control and hold a ball up, I was expecting Watt to come one. Even half fit, his ball control is better and his ability to collect the ball and win fouls or hold it up is well known. Also kind expected to see Moses instead of Robinson. In the end we went out with a whimper although, a lot of players ran themselves into the ground today. Crowd were great as well, apart form my phone vid of the teams coming out just became a wall of coloured smoke 🙂 Laugh of the day was a steward running down the stairs to chin a guy for vaping while the kick off delay for the smoke to clear was still going on 🙂

Brilliant !!!!!!!!! Unlikely win, given how we finished the 1st half, but played much better 2nd half.

YYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Terrible defending, both in the lead up and the goal. Thats a proper makeshift back 3 now.......

For fuck sake. We now have a VAR delay and it's not even a check.

Thank fuck for that !!! Nice to be able to celebrate a goal 3 mins after it happens.

Computer says no.....