El Grew

Yes I was at the game so wind yer neck in. My remarks were meant to be constructive and anyway they were factually correct. Maybe the name of this site should be changed to Pravda because it seems if you dare to post anything even vaguely critical on it you just get pilloried? Everybody is entitled to express their views whether you like, agree or disagree with them.

Bloody awful draw! We’ve played Celtic 18 times in LC and only won 3 times. Only ever KOd them once and that was way back in 1950 in 1/4 final over 2 legs. We lost 1-0 at home and won 4-1 away. We went onto win it that year.

Good result absolutely no doubt. My only gripe (again) is that only one of our 4 goals came from open play and if Van Veen doesn’t score we’re shafted.

You’re trying to steal grizzlyg’s thunder.

If you pay peanuts…..

Wee bit unfair on Shields. Since he arrived he’s been asked to play out wide but he’s really a centre-forward. Maybe we should play two up and try pairing him through the middle with Van Veen.

Why? There’s only 2 competitions we’ve a serious chance of doing well in and maybe make some money along the way, so why start f*cking about with the team selection? Stevie Hammell must identify his best/ strongest 11 and play them.

Spot on. I’m not knocking the guy we’ve signed but compare the player we got to the one Kilmarnock got and be totally honest, which would you rather have? Ours is 24, 5’8” and on loan from a League 1 club (Div. 3 in old money) We’re now the 6th club he’s been to in 6 seasons and this is his 4th loan deal. During those 6 seasons he’s only played 70 games. Theirs is only 18, 6’0” and on loan from a Premiership club with whom he signed a new deal in January and Steven Gerrard rates him a good prospect. He’s just starting out on his football career. The point I’m trying to make is that if we must sign players on loan then ensure their fitness for purpose first. Stop bringing journeymen in heaven knows we’ve got more than enough already. Perhaps we should try to foster relationships with Premiership clubs who would be willing to loan us their up and coming young players.

I know we can’t possibly have tabs on every player that may be available for a loan deal from England, but it’s been obvious for quite some time that we badly need a left-back. From what I saw yesterday, Kilmarnock looked to have picked up a very decent young left-back on loan from Aston Villa in Ben Chrisene from their academy side who has represented England at under-15, under-16 and under-17 level. Wonder what players our scouting genius is watching?

That’s just what we need another journeyman sand dancer.

Why?

Really?? So what’s keeping the rest of the squads’ head above water then!

Wtf are you girning about Van Veen for? He is in the team to score goals and so far he’s proved pretty adept at that. We’ve played 5 league matches, scored 7 goals and he’s gotten 5 of them. If only the rest of them were as efficient at their job as him.

Spot on mate. Kilmarnock better team by a mile and in the second half they bossed the game. I know we lost 2 soft goals and our back four is very weak but in their defence our midfield was again posted missing - Goss, Slattery and Spittall just not good enough. If Stevie Hammell really thought there had been an uptick in performances from this lot he’s just had a right good rude awakening.

Refs do not cause us to lose games.

Same old same old. Van Veen must be sick of it. Does his business and gets no win bonus because of our diddy defenders. Kilmarnock had a -8 goal difference going into this and only scored 1 goal in 4 games.

As an old cartoon cat called Katnip used to say “Duh, that sounds logical”.

We’ve a decent record at Rugby Park: P115 | W45 | L51 | D19. A lot will depend on how we handle their plastic grass but no obvious reason why we shouldn’t be able to win.

Totally agree Gazzy. I watched the highlights of the games on Sportscene last night and Lundstram’s foul was referred to as “tactical foul”. That’s certainly a new slant as a few years back it used to be called a professional foul and there were calls to stamp it out by sending players off who resorted to it. As for our penalty against Livi it wasn’t. Neither the referee or his linesman on the Hunter Stand side had sight of it and were indulging in guesswork. I I was a corner kick at best. But hey ho we take it with thanks and move on as we’ve had enough that went against us in the past.

I’d agree with that. I think fan sites like this are great but they do afford fans the opportunity to have a rant and vent their feelings almost instantaneously either during or after games when their emotions are running high - not always a good time to be commenting on anything. I can remember after a game, whether we’d won or lost, played well or badly the only outlet for comment was in the pub afterwards with your mates.

Good post Spider. I thought out of the midfield that started the game young Cornelius was unfortunate to be subbed as he was the only one that got forward in the first half. Lamie’s passing was lamentable but in his defence he was having to be play-maker much of the time as Goss and Slattery went missing.

Agreed. Some are saying we need another striker (and maybe we do) but if we aren’t creating chances it won’t matter how many strikers we have. I felt for KVV today as he again battled manfully up front on nothing but scraps.

It’s been utter dross so far. No creativity at all from us. Stats show we’ve had 67% possession but we’ve done very little in the final third.

I’m with you on this. The one thing Efford has is pace and that will always worry defenders. If he could just add an end product he’d be a really good asset.