El Grew

I think that’s the nub of the matter - he’s a coach not a manager and there’s a huge difference. If he and his family have been experiencing personal abuse from our supporters then that is to be utterly condemned. I used to have a season ticket in the centre stand section above the dugouts and you wouldn’t believe some of the abuse that comes from there so if his family have attended games recently it’s quite likely they’ll have heard some of this. However I doubt very much that this would be sufficient to force him to resign. As some have posted it does appear to be the lot of being a football manager - look at the abuse the Spurs fans have been giving Postecoglu recently. In the past weeks as results weren’t in his favour he did show signs that he was feeling the pressure of the job - regularly arguing with match officials, getting yellow cards, a red card leading to a touchline ban and rumours of a bust-up with a senior player at half-time during the recent cup tie at Perth. For me I think perhaps deep down he sensed that his direction of travel with the club wasn’t going the way he would’ve liked and that maybe he wasn’t able to get the players up and onside with him anymore. I wish him all the very best for the future but if he’s being honest with himself then perhaps he’d be better suited to a coaching position or assistant manager.

Quite simply, the man’s a fraud. Oh and if the board are doing their job properly, they should have him in for a discussion about the team’s present form and what his plan is to stop the bleeding.

Duncan Ferguson available. Was doing a decent job up at ICT up until they went into administration.

I don’t know about the dressing room (although there was rumour of a bust-up with Casey last week) but judging by the fans reactions last week at Perth and on here, and again on here this evening I would say that he has lost the fans for sure.

Won’t be sacked - board has allowed him to bring even more deadwood into the club.

Apart from the score this performance is every bit as poor as last week.

That’s us now played 3 clubs who were at the bottom of the league table and in dire form and we haven’t laid a glove on any of them - Hibs. Hearts, St. Johnstone. Since we beat St. Johnstone on 9th November we’ve played 12 games- W3, D2, L7, scored 13 goals, conceded 24. And we’ve now only had 1 win in our last 8 games. Anybody that thinks that we’re not in trouble and heading for the bottom 3/4 is sadly deluded.

Ditto. They’ve spent their hard-earned ££ and turned in great numbers only to be served up something you could see in a under-12 game down the local part. Sorry but IMO he has taken us as far as he can with his lack of coaching ability the board really need to be seriously looking to get him out the door. I still can’t fathom why the guy in the other dugout today couldn’t get a gig with us. Since he arrived at Perth he has got them playing a decent possession and passing game and using the full width of the park. Us?! We are still persisting with a form of football that couldn’t win us a raffle.

I assume we’ll now implement Plan B which is actually more of Plan A!!

St. Johnstone know we can’t hurt them and will see this out no bother.

Honestly don’t think making changes in personnel will improve things since it won’t change the way we play.

Alas true. So there’s no real point in complaining about our so-called style of play.

Apologies to the Kettlewell fans but if we are ever going to progress from where we are then we must get rid of him, and the sooner the better. No matter who we play or when we play its Groundhog Day with the same turgid non-football playing performance every f*cking time.

In our last 5 away games we’ve only scored 2 goals and conceded 9. Celtic Lost 0-4 St Mirren Won 1-0 Dundee Lost 1-4 Hearts Lost 0-1 Kilmarnock Drew 0-0 Not expecting anything against Celtic so revise to 2 goals for and 5 against. It’s not just that we’re losing away games but rather the manner in which we are playing. I don’t go to as many away games as I once did but I take my hat off to all who do so to watch utter drivel.

After that insipid showing what does that make us?

It’s on occasions like this that show the poor standards in our top league. Yes, it’s a very windy day so that dictates a passing game with the ball on the ground BUT no team is set up to play that way. They are all set up for hoofball due to a complete dearth of skill.

Turgid! Over a third of the game played and we haven’t had a single attempt at goal. How does Kettlewell expect to win games playing like this!

Team selection as follows: Goalkeeper - A. Oxborough All other positions - Names to be drawn from an old hat or one of Kettlewell’s tracksuit jacket pockets.

Really couldn’t give a flying f*ck right now. We are being managed by a guy whose mentality seems to be “we’ve got a point before we start so don’t take any risks and we’ll have a point at the end”. The football being produced under this guy is horrendous to watch.

We’ve played them 4 times in the cup at Perth and won all 4 with 10 goals for and 3 against. Unless we smarten-up I doubt we’ll get it to 5 wins though!

We seem utterly clueless and aimless. Not one bright spark and producing performances like this is as bad as anything produced by Alexander!

We’re 2-0 down at home to a side with only one win in 16 games and who away from home have scored 4 and conceded 12. The question has to be asked of the manager why set-up so defensively at home against such a poor side!

Here is our all-time home league record v the Hibees. P139 W62 L44 D33 Win 45% Lose 32% Draw 23% My memory may be playing tricks on me but I seem to recall far too many occasions when we’ve played a team on a (long) losing streak we always manage to lose to them.

The bigot bros media lackeys are always moaning about a lack of competition in our top league yet every time a promising young player pops up they immediately start touting for him to go to them. I just hope young Miller and his dad look past that crap and look further afield for his future. A move to either of the bigot bros would not help his development one little bit as he’d still be playing in exactly the same league as he is with us now.

Great post.