El Grew

Petsonally I thought along with Moult he's been our best forward over last 4 games.

Ainsworth sounds as though he's on fire tonight.

Yessssss. Come on the 'Well. See it out now.

Sounds like real nerve jangling stuff. We always do things the hard way.

Absolutely massive result for us in a real pressure game for the players. Performance didn't matter only getting the win. Not pretty to watch but for once the team battled and stood their ground and gave the fans (what a great support by the way) something to cheer. First Saturday in yonks that we've gone home happy. Well done guys. Now just beat Killie on Tuesday and we should be safe.

Still not too late to go for Lee McCulloch for next season. Only interim manager at Killie but has shown that he knows what he's doing in that short time.

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I never ever thought I'd see the day that Hamilton Accies would be in a position to relegate us. Oh the shame!

Even if, as looks likely, we are playing in the Championship next season, I certainly wouldn't want Robinson in charge. Far better to cut our losss with him and get somebody in fairly quickly - can't be too hard as we already interviewed quite a number when McGhee departed.

That's all well and good but that won't stop us sinking into the Championship.

Do we have an option to get rid of him at the end of the season? Or does he have a longer term deal? I thought he was only going to be given until the end of the season and then the club would re-assess things.

I'll second that.

Whether we stay up or go down, of those on first team duty today the only ones I'd retain would be: Russell Griffiths, Carl McHugh and Chris Cadden. The rest need to be shown the door.

More coaches than Parks!

Another winnable home game - another defeat. Groundhog day! I do not doubt that the players have been trying their level best but that's the really sad thing because that's as good as they are. They simply can't play any better. They don't have it in them. Again today plenty of industry and grafting but very few real chances created. Ross County were well organised but no world beaters but just had to keep it 0-0 and wait for us to blunder which we duly did. Don't know what Jules was thinking about but two points about him (1) If Hammell wasn't injured why was he brought on to replace him? (2) Yes the lad cocked up but he's hardly had any game time so I blame Robinson for putting him into a pressure situation in the first place. I thought our best players were McHugh, Lasley (up to the hour mark) and Ainsworth. Couldn't fathom Robinson subbing Ainsworth with 15 minutes to go with Bowman. When Ainsworth was on he was the only foward player that showed appetite and his movement when in the middle kept the Ross County defenders on their toes and he had our only two shots on target! I've watched Robinson in all of games since he took over after McGhee and to me its quite obvious that he is way out of his depth. Even allowing for having a poor squad of players he can't organise them, get his tactics right nor read the game. Dundee had lost 7 on the trot but just look at how well organised Neil McCann had them last week - playing as a unit. Robinson has us playing as if the players don't know what his game plan is! And why if McFadden is stripped on the bench and fit was he not brought on for the last 25 minutes instead of Bowman and Clay? Surely worth the gamble in the circumstances. Sorry but for me he needs to be binned whether we manage to stay up or not. Does anyone know if we have the option to get shot of him at the end of the season?

Kyle Lafferty? Hope this is a jest.

Poor result at home again - a pattern developing? Yes, we dominated possession in the first half but that was as much due to Dundee being content to sit-in as our football ability. Never created anything worthwhile and then concede a bad goal in last minute of first half - McCann must have thought it was his birthday! Don't know what Barley Water said in half-time pep talk but it worked wonders as 3 minutes into second half its 0-2! McCann had clearly worked out that we were very weak on our right hand side because Dundee started to probe and push there and it paid off as their two second half goals came as a result of this and yet Barley Water failed to address the problem even after the loss of two goals. We had 11 corners in the game - most squandered by Frear which failed to trouble Dundee back four or 'keeper. After he'd f*cked up the 10th one in the second half, wee Lionel grabs ball from him, crosses a brilliant balll which caused utter mayhem in the Dundee defence and Heneghen put ball in the net. Simples! We were right behind the goal in the Cooper and believe me the ball was at least a yard over the line. Also when we dropped the useless, aimless punts forward and actually played football on the grass during the last 10 minutes we looked half decent and showed that their defence was piss poor - pity we hadn't started this much earlier. Don't understand Barley Water's tactics (were there any?) with 3 at the back and asking young Cadden to double up at right back. People getting on his case is ridiculous as he is out there trying his best but playing a role for which he is not suited. Need to get back to an orthodox back four asap or we have had it. Don't think we deserved to win the game but I dodn't think we deserved to lose it either. But have been here before and its losing games by the odd goal like this that gets teams relegated.

Steven Naismith?

The title of this topic should be amended to "The Great Clear Out 2017".

Pearson shouldn't even be considered for a place on the bench nver mind a starting place. Since his second return he's contributed the square root of f*ck all and should be booted out asap.

Same pish as Wednesday. Certainly we have as poor a group of players has bee seen at FP in a long time but the manager is clueless:- (1) Same starting 11 as against Accies with exception of Jules in for Hammell; (2) Same set-up/formation as against Accies; (3) Same awful first half as against Accies; (4) Same players substituted as against Accies; and (5) Same awful second half performance as against Accies. Our manager comes out and states that the game was lost because of our poor first 30 minutes!!?? Well, that's just absolute f*cking twaddle. We were only a goal behind and with a full 2/3 of the match left to try and remedy things. However, it was really only in the last 10 minutes that we exerted any pressure and even then it was really only wind and piss. Prepare for a future in the Championship.

Well that's rich!! If that is the case then why sack McGhee, who had to work with exactly the same limited resources??? Seems to me like one step forward and umpteen backwards.

Poor, poor stuff. It wasn't hard to see why these two are where they are in the league. Kick and rush football from us. I was fed-up seeing Heneghen (obviously under managerial instructions?) lumping aimless long high punts to a target man who never won a header all night. This is the worst squad of players I've ever seen at FP and based on tonight's performance they are heading for the Championship. The only football ability in our team was shown by young Cadden and wee Skippy who both played their hearts out and tried to make something happen. As for the remainder, well you would be pushed to get a balloon for them. I couldn't for the life of me work out our shape or our tactics and if this is the best the manager can come up with - route one football then we are f*cked.

I think the criticism of the young lad Ferguson is grossly unfair and way off the mark. Sure his clearing header at the second goal was poor BUT all of the damage had already been done with his 3 other defensive teammates being culpable in allowing two St. Johnstone players to far too easily create a position where they could get an easy cross into our penalty box. Oh, and apart from Samson, he was the only home player in the box trying to defend. Time will obviously tell if he's got what it takes to make it at SPFL level but for any sake cut him a wee bit slack - its not his fault we are where we are.

How anyone can blame Samson for us losing today is beyond me. He had no chance with either goal. The four guys playing in front of him, and I use the word playing, advisedly, were totally inept. Some of the worst defending I ever seen at FP. They were totally shapeless, never played as a unit and were continually caught ball watching. If we are depending on this lot of players to keep us in the SPFL, then I'm sorry to say we've had it.