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Paton tried to take some initiative, while the rest looked like they couldn't be any less fucked. His play for the assist was pretty much the only good thing in the game.

Well, they're 40% of the defense, so that seems fair 😄

SODs is fine, we need a squad. We are about to go through another significant rebuild with a manager thats new to the country, so having an experienced player thar can cover multiple positions is valuable. He may make mistakes, but we have a squad full of players that make mistakes, it just happens to be that we all notice more when SOD is involved. I'll preface my next comment with the fact that every goal in every game could probably be tracked down to a defender doing something wrong, and sometimes you just have to accept that making defenders make mistakes is kind of the point of attacking, but Casey has been culpable for a bunch of goals this season too.

I just assume everyone thinks they're a big deal, and forget that they might be pretty obscure to most folk. I'd love to see them live, not sure how they could fit this rig into fir park though.

Not a terrible point considering St mirren wanted to make it a bloodbath. I didn't see how their player got injured, but it looked like it was one of the St mirren players that caused it, which is apt. If we come out of that game with no injuries, we must be using weapons in training. Armstrong makes that system better, hope he's back soon.

I've not been Daws' biggest fan, but I'm as guilty as most at focusing on the duds he signed, rather than comparing his "hit rate" to other clubs, all of whom churn through their fair share of shite each season as well. You have to give him KVV, Spittal, Bair, Slattery, and maswanhise, and maybe AP and some very good loans with Biereth and Gent, and decent good-if-not-world-beating additions such as Spencer, Ox, woolery and Casey. I don't think he gets a bye for signing permacrocks though. Slattery's injury was horrible luck, but Ojala, Callachan and Nicholson all had a poor injury history before joining us, and there's no surprises as to what happened next. I also don't think his scouring of the globe has been successful, unless the likes of Sol, Davor, Moses, and Efford were significantly cheaper than their local alternatives. Overall he's probably done a decent job in the circumstances (budget, multiple managers, injuries, etc) but I wouldn't say he has such a golden touch that we'd fall apart if we switched him for someone else. He's also as responsible for us signing Josh Morris as KVV, so there's that

Burned 1000 calories during that second half, going to grab some burgers.

Andy Halliday thought the staunchfest was for him. He consumed all the staunch air and had his best game for us, while the Rangers players were running on fumes.

The problem with the high press is that teams practice how to beat it, and when it comes off, the pressing team looks silly. That's the risk you take with the style of play. You also risk everyone being gassed by 80 mins. Contrast that with the risk of whatever SK ended up doing, and I'm fine with it. I doubt we will approach Rangers exactly the same as Dundee. I don't think the manager is that naieve.

If you haven't noticed his skippy running gait, my advice is to not think about it, because once you see it, it's all you can see.

We are struggling to score goals this season, so for me bagging 2 of them gets MotM for Casey. There were a few other good options for man of the match, with Armstrong a standout due to the sheer power of work he put in.

Based on his first two lineups, I expect some changes for Saturday as part of wimmer assessing the squad. I wouldn't be surprised to see us rotate wingbacks over the next few games considering how much they're asked to do. It is a total free hit though, so hopefully we treat it like that and try to cause them problems.

Forest are doing a good job of employing those tactics in the English Premier league right now, and that's pretty much Robinsons philosophy at St Mirren as well. Possession isn't the be all and end all. It can be exciting to watch if it's employed properly with the right players. The difference is having the players that can make it work for the 30% of the time when you do have the ball. The last couple of seasons we had the right kind of striker and wing back combo to hit teams quickly on the counter attack. This year we don't, and we didn't really sign players of that profile this season for some reason, so we should have adapted our tactics accordingly. It's funny that when each new manager comes in, players will rave about how the new guy has simplified the message. Hammell and SK both got that, then they seemed to over complicate things. Wimmer is getting the same treatment, so hopefully he doesn't go down that road.

"Why does he not do better when I shout bad things at him? It works with my dog."

I might still owe my folks some money for those bills. Here's an austria vienna game from 2023 if you want to see his tactics in effect, or scout potential signings. https://youtu.be/S8TxRyGVOXk

This is kind of where I am. It's an interesting appointment, and I'd prefer we thought outside of the box, because that's our best chance of improving or finding value where orhers haven't. In an ideal world he's good enough that he gets poached by a bigger club after a couple of successful years. It has its risks too, but most of us would have been very underwhelmed with a scottish football stalwart, and any known quantity would have been divisive based on all of the shouts in the new manager thread. My preference was someone like Ryan Lowe, who reportedly priced himself out, but even then there's just as much risk with English managers. I don't know what is so unique about scottish football that causes foreign managers to fail. Progressive managers seem to struggle too, is the standard of player just that bad? I hope this works out, but I dont expect us to immediately be world beaters. There's gains to be made in the short term just through building confidence and freshening things up, but he can't change the squad or fix injuries, or make SOD not shite, etc.

He went off inhured about 20 mins into last nights game, and was apparently stretchered off.

They meant "balance" not "bellend" * * hopefully someone else caught that in the presser or this joke won't make sense 😄

Yep, classy from Frail. Shame he got caught up in the whole SK thing. He mentioned that he didn't want to get back into coaching until we reached out, so wonder what he will do next.

Clarkson is the academy director and Foster is the lead development coach, so unless there's an issue with the academy or young players, they don't need to be replaced with a new manager. I know they assist with first team stuff, but i cant believe they're much to blame for results on a Saturday. They'll have their own targets that they have to meet. The same goes for Daws, it depends on what his actual job is and where his influence starts compared to the manager. As with the others, it would come down to whether we can get someone that can do better. For Saturday, I wouldn't be surprised if the squad is pretty much the same with maybe some subtle tweaks. It would be nice if it turned out Ward, Koutroumbis, Andrews and Dickson were all world beaters in hiding, or if a simple instruction turns harry paton into the motherwell modric, but most likely they're going to stick with the experienced players and introduce incremental changes. Watt can't play though, which is nice. Miller and Slattery having a game under their belt is a good thing, and hopefully we see AP back soon.

They pulled it all off P&B, hilarious. Could be great, could be a disaster, but I'm happy with the approach and rationale in the appointment at least.

That article smacks of reading here and pie and bovril and churning out some column inches. Lieberknecht was literally sourced in P&B from folk just throwing names around looking for baldy foreigners.

The 2 baldy germans came up on p&b initially due to some of us messing around on transfermrkt. That tweet from a non-account probably came from someone seeing that. MvdG came up because one poster said he was at the game yesterday, which I believe led to that pic of the baldy guy with the hat. Frail said the manager had pedigree. Stephen Mcginn said it was a foreigner.

The usually reliable Scott Burns said it wasn't MvdG

It would be funny if it was lieberknecht, but he wasn't at the game yesterday, meaning we internet sleuthed it correctly by total accident.