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Looked a pretty safe red card there, dumb challenge. Also looked like Kelly made a save from cummings at the end there, we got a wee bit of luck.

Checked youtube, mcskimming was better than I remember Challenging for honors

I'd rather see us improve our game management, something we have been poor at for a while. GAs tactic of defending the box has worked the majority of times, and I guess we will need to get used to it, but I don't think it will ever fill me with confidence. Grimshaw has always been effective at pushing us up the park, and has the work rate that will endear a player to our fans. I agree with the need for a left sided midfielder, which would give us some decent flexibility and balance. Woolery looks like he has the pace to breeze past defenders at will, and uses his strength well, but for some reason he is really negative. Maybe he needs a goal or two, but that effort after being put through by grimshaw was poor. Amaluzor caused their defence some trouble, and it will be interesting to see how he progresses.

Watt was good when we got him into the game, but we didn't do that often enough. Finding a forward line that clicks with him is going to be key to our season. Lamie was solid again. When he stays on his feet and cuts out the nonsense, I almost like him. Went with Grimshaw mainly because he scored, that last ditch block near the end, and the story.

Better performance, great comeback, nice gesture at 34 mins, and Liam Fucking Grimshaw. Have a nice weekend.

Look, Donnelly and Maguire are defenders who play in midfield and aren't available for some reason. Therefore, one of those CBs is a midfielder today.

We are investing all over the place right now, so the community work isn't taking away from our squad improvements, academy, pitch improvements, stadium improvements, and everything else. I'm going to have a guess here, but I'm pretty sure the money we spend on players eclipses that which goes towards community stuff. We also receive funding for those programs from elsewhere. I don't get where the apathy thing comes from, are there any actual examples of apathy from the club towards football operations? We don't know what goes on inside the club all day long, so how do we know that they aren't working every hour trying to improve the squad? The struggles in the transfer market are well documented, we could funnel every last penny we have into player salaries and it still won't move the needle, players don't come to us for the money, so we have to be creative.

Can he take corners?

SOD Playing hardball. Which is fair enough, he can always fall back on the security of a 2 year deal with us.

Maybe if SODs has the shits for the rest of the season.

We need to run the rule over another goal ace before the window slams shut.

I like when we slap in offers. We should slap in more offers.

Midfield is our biggest problem by a mile, and has been for a long time, and we have signed Slattery and a guy who the manager said is shite in the announcement. Donnelly was good when he had Campbell/Gorrin/polworth/turnbull around him, and he got us a bunch of important goals from set pieces when we had someone who could take them. However, we can't have him and another passenger in there protecting a defence that needs a lot of protection. Maguire is improving, but he isn't a top level starter unless we have someone very good in there to talk him through games, and we don't. He should not be anywhere near set pieces either. O'Hara and Crawford are handy backup players, with the former being a decent bench option in certain occasions. The talk a couple of weeks ago was that we still had 3 or 4 to come in, although that seemed to soften last week. If we are going to stick with the tactics we are deploying, we need a defender who isn't hopeless on the ball, a midfielder who is willing and capable of taking the ball off said defender, and at least one player who can put in a half decent free kick or corner. I think we are probably stuck with the attackers we have. As always, we are one signing or result away from optimism, but things can go the other way pretty quickly too.

We let brown go about 3 years ago and he is only now getting anyone's attention. We can't keep everyone forever. Our support has its fair share of weapons too.

I like 433, but we don't have the squad to play it. I also like passing it out from the back, but we face the same limitations there. Short corners are fine if you have the players to execute. If we're in the process of bringing in players that suit these things, then great. But we can't shoehorn the current squad into that. Punting on the early games is a huge risk.

We are not good. Opposition really could just give us as much of the ball as we want. We just didn't look like the game mattered.

Been a pretty tame game so far. Dundee have had some dangerous balls across the box to no one, and about 50 corners, but we've had the best chance with shields trying to murder the ball and missing from around the penalty spot. We only look dangerous when Lawless and Slattery are on the ball, as they aren't just punting it every time they have it. It feels like we're not setting ourselves up to take advantage of woolery's pace and being able to body everyone. Ojala has been fine, and it's nice to see grimshaw again, hopefully he does a line to line horizontal dribble for old times sake.

Dundee are streaming it for international folk if you want to pay for the privilege.

Van veen and o'donnell not even in the squad. Can only assume it's injury related. The same with Watt being on the bench

Done, best of luck.

I don't get it. These are getting harder.

I thought Lamie and Mugabi were fine. The latter was causing havoc in their box at set pieces as well. The problem with them is that they're both going to cost us with absolute howlers a couple of times a season, but overall they're steady enough. The way we play exposes our full backs. There's no protection from the midfield and we also expect both to be an attacking threat. I don't think odonnell or Carroll are nearly as bad as being made out. The latter assisted both of our goals last week. There's no way we're signing replacements, so get used to who we have.

That was a good point considering we still look like we're in pre season mode. Slattery came into the game more and started to show flashes, and the move for the goal was excellent. Having someone who could make an impact off the bench was nice. Shields looks like he's got a way to go to get up to sharpness, he never got into the game, but his pace and power will go a long way. Donnelly is miles away, hopefully he can get back the yard he's missing. Overall, we got more value out of the little possession we had, and made plenty of decent chances. If only Watt had buried that chance.

They were just strolling through our attempts at a press like we weren't there, and our guys look like they're running on quicksand. Things looked promising early on with a couple of chances, including a good save from Clark, but we've fallen right out of the game. Their goal was a good cross, but we needed to deal with that.

Yep. At this point the treble is still 100% in our hands, and will be for at least another week.