El Grew

I’m not a great believer in bringing players back. He was on loan to St Mirren last season - only played 10 games and scored 1 goal. Obviously can't get into the Dundee Utd team. Maybe a bit of a desperation signing by Kettlewell. Time will tell. How many strikers (including the crocks) is that we have now? 🤔

Spot on Grizzly and grasping this fact seems to be beyond our manager.

Older posters will doubtless recall signings made in the Bobby Howitt like Jackie McInally (Kilmarnock) Jimmy Wilson (Aberdeen) Billy Campbell (Dundee), Billy Ritchie (Rangers), John Fallon (Celtic). All very much in the “older guys whose best days are behind them” category. So nothing has changed.

That’s now 3 games on the trot where we haven’t scored a goal. Most worryingly we don’t seem to be making many chances.

Aye it’ll be a great workout for our goalkeeper.

Aye, get them out selling match programmes at the corner of Manse Road!

Is there a doctor in the house?

Totally agree. He’s the only real creative player we have at the club. The opposition know this and know that if they stop him playing (by fair means or foul) then we’ve no other threat.

Couldn’t agree more. Once we were clear of the drop at the end of last season he should’ve been thanked, had his contract terminated and we should then have began looking for someone who was capable of trying to raise the bar above the current level of mediocrity. However the club became mired in a power struggle between those who invited and wanted external financial investment and those who wanted nothing to do with it. This dragged on for too long and nobody seemed to be interested in asking if the club had progressed or regressed under the present football management team. I haven’t seen any signs of improvement, even small incremental improvements in the performances under the present manager during his tenure and he seems to have a blinkered approach as to how he wants the team to set-up and play and it has been and still is spectacularly awful.

People shouldn’t have to pay to watch this sh*te. Like last week; perfect playing surface and clement weather and this is what gets served up!!

Same line-up as the Partick cup game except Ebiye in for Stuparević (who doesn’t even make the bench!?). As I said last week 5 defenders and 2 defensive midfielders and rely solely on 3 players to try to create and score goals - young Miller for the former and Ebiye and Robinson for the latter. How the f*ck can Kettlewell think he can win football matches with a line-up line and tactics like these? Answers on a postcard! He seems wedded to the use of full-backs to provide an additional attack option - defenders miss the midfield out and get the ball to the full-backs who are expected to provide crosses for the strikers. Fine if you have got Roberto Carlos or Kyle Walker but not with the ones we have. FFS get a couple of wide-playing midfielders to play with Miller and ditch one of the defensive midfielders Halliday or Zdravkovski. We need to win our home games against the likes of Ross County or we’ll become relegation fodder.

Not building flats. It’s being demolished along with the ‘white house’ and adjacent car showroom on the other side of Windmillhill Street to make way for the ‘new’ road that will be cutting through there.

FFS can’t even score from 12 yards! First game I’ve seen this season and on the basis of what I’ve seen its is going to be a long turgid slog of a season.

The mediocrity from last year has been replaced by…. well even more mediocrity.

Ah so it’s all O’Donnell’s fault that we’re shite then!

They look more like winning this than us. Kettlewell playing for a draw? This is just shite.

Forward off and a midfielder on?? So back to 1 striker!?

Yes and that’s the worrying thing. Partick have been able to play through our midfield with relative ease.

What a load of tripe. Have to wonder what goes on in Kettlewell’s head. Playing 5 defenders, 2 defensive midfielders, 1 forward-playing midfielder and 2 forwards. No wonder Partick are all over us.

Making heavy weather of it against a team almost relegated to the Lowland League last season.

🤮🤮🤮 Why black? The trim looks more red & yellow than claret & amber especially on the socks. We could pass for Partick Thistle in this get-up! Sorry I’m a traditionalist and IMO our change strip should always be white with claret & amber trim.

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I’m not for one minute going to suggest that the club go back down a road that once led to administration but it raises a few questions: (1) Was The Well Society consulted and did it agree with the decision to seek the external finance? (2) Why solicit external finance if now when it’s been offered, there is a reluctance to accept it? (3) Does the finance offer have too many strings attached and why? (4) Who has the final say - the Club Board or the Well Society?

Does that mean they get to keep us? 🤬

I thought it would be Aberdeen (H) Livingston (H) St Johnstone (H) Hibs (A). Ross County (A)