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Lasley's interview hurts. He obviously cares about this club, and the players have screwed him by not even doing the bare minimum of showing they give a fuck. Hopefully we can get rid of the people he and Robinson have been alluding to. I have to assume that Dunne is finished with us, but hopefully Donnelly is back soon, and for the love of god, Carson as well. We were trying to extend Crawford before Robbo left, hopefully we just scrap that whole idea. Surely today marks the end of the Hastie experiment? Maybe he will work it out somewhere else, but whatever he had in is purple patch with us just isn't there. Are either of Devine or Hussain close to ready?

The league situation is salvageable, with or without the magic covid points because, just like last season, other teams are conspiring to be worse than us. However, we're in a position where our best players (for what it's worth) are most likely going to be sold or on pre-contracts elsewhere over the next couple of weeks, and we only have a couple in the squad who will be affected by relegation, since so many are out of contract at the end of the year. We are then going to try and salvage things with loan signings, which isn't going to do much to improve the commitment factor. So whoever our next manager is is going to need to be a motivational genius, or a terrifying bastard.

I'm a Memphis 901 guy. They're shite too.

One good thing is we didn't stick a camera in someones face as they walked off the park. I'm happy with silence today, instead of the usual shite.

Tweet them a Gif? I'd cancel my streaming subscription, but for better or worse, it's my weekly homesickness cure. I think the team is trying to reverse my decision to move back home though.

Watt seems to care. That is the bar now.

Backwards suggests movement. if that was the players showing they’re behind Lasley, they’ve screwed him.

I don’t think Martin Foyle is responsible for Lamie and White, but I assume he had a hand in McGinley, Mugabi, and Chapman. He’s also not responsible for most of the players we’ve made money from, so he needs to go, and we can replace him with some guy off Twitter.

Someone told Mugabi to fill in for Lamie and he took it literally. Gallagher spent half the game marking him in case he fucked up again. Chapman is bad. Very bad. Watt seems to give a fuck.

White?

Mcginley has found a niche as a substitute defender who only plays on the left side of a back three.

Could be 442 with grimshaw on the right of midfield, or 433 with grimshaw in a 3, or 3 at the back with o'donnell moving in one. I'll go with option 2.

Chapman, O'Donnell, Gallagher, Mugabi, Carroll, Grimshaw, Campbell, Polworth, Cole, Hastie, Watt. Subs: Morrison, Devine, McGinley, Johnston, Crawford, Maguire, Cornelius, Seedorf, White.

The sun just made that up, if you pay close attention you can tell its bollocks, because its written in the sun. It's not unusual for the remaining staff to take care of the team while a club searches for a manager, I doubt we're going to wait 4 games before starting a search, and like previously, Lasley will apply like everyone else, just like robbo did.

Was mcginley even on the bench the other day? If he can't force lamie out of the team he must be worse than I thought. I agree with polworth and lamie dropping out, but that shouldn't take a tactical genius to notice. Cole was rubbish the other day as well, but out of our options he's probably the best to partner Watt.

There's bugger all in this league, particularly from 5th downwards, and each team is going to have their good and bad runs. I didn't realise St J were doing so badly either, they might sack their manager too. If we don't get those covid points, we still have a couple of games in hand on our rivals, so a shite result tomorrow wouldn't kill us, but it would be terrible in it's own right with it being a "derby" on plastic against a team managed by brian rice. A reaction from the players would be nice, I guess they got what they wanted, so it's time for them to step up. If Lasley has any ambitions for keeping the job, I'd expect a couple of personnel changes to put his own stamp on things to a degree, but the style of play isn't going to change so quickly.

We rarely go with the obvious choice, or pick from the usual suspects, but on this occasion I just can't see past us sticking with who we have internally by going with Lasley and moving Ross up to assistant. Las was apparently close when Robbo ended up with it, if I remember correctly, and he has all the badges. It is also the cheapest option. Livi went a similar route and it has worked for them so far. I understand the need for new blood, but unless some experienced manager like a Steve Clark or Craig Brown type applies, I'm not sure if we will be up for the risk of a left field guy this time around.

I liked Polworth last season. He's been hopeless this season though, hardly putting himself in the shop window. Our set pieces have been terrible, which is frustrating as that's something that can be worked on. We are in that stage of denial where we think we're better than we are, while the teams around us know the score and are scrapping. These signings that we have "lined up" terrify me.

Jordan White is Paul Keegan without a pizza shop.

Could see Greg Stewart, hes 30, not getting a game, and I think his contract is up in June. Ross not so much, I think county are expecting a decent fee for him. Cummings looks to be going the way of Tony Watt with his moves not quote panning out, maybe we're his level. I have to assume we're close to arranging some outgoings too, outside of Lang going back to Wigan. Maybe ending the Hastie loan.

Went with Watt, good goal and great work rate for the whole game. It would be nice if he had some support, because he's doing a great job of holding the ball up.

It scares me that Lang is gone after next week, and White was the first choice to come on today. If White ends up starting games, we're done. Overall, if I'm going to pick out the good points, I thought Crawford had a good game, and Grimshaw held his own again and was close to that elusive first goal. Watt does a really good job of holding onto the ball, and has steadily improved for us. He needs better around him though, Lang works hard, but made some poor decisions that cost us a couple of chances. Gallagher, O'Hara and Lamie looked relatively comfortable, although the latter was lucky with a couple of penalty shouts. It was good to see Carson back, and he made a few key saves. His distribution makes us better too. I think United should have cashed in on Shankland last year, he looked pretty shite to me.

Jordan White can do 2 things - 1) Foul 2) Flick on to nobody. He must be fantastic in training though.

We should have had that game wrapped up by about 60 mins, and it took a Carson save to ensure we even got a point. That was poor.

Odonnells disallowed goal was a thing of beauty. We've done a better job of trying to play forward passes, rather than pissing about with passes back to the keeper. The movement up front has been better. The midfield has improved as well, still some way to go, but encouraging so far. Unfortunately Robbo seems to have a knack of helping the opposition with the half time team talk.