Fearchar

Buy a ticket to a Bundesliga match and local travel to and from the game is included. Integrated transport designed for people to travel! It'll never catch on, you know.

Tangential to this, summer shinty, which is very much a community sport but covers long distances at times, seems to have bedded down very well.

Yes.

Killie's long ball game isn't serving them well. Thanks, Tommy!

First half: virtually all the possession but not a shot on target, with the effort all squandered on crosses. No wonder the Pars took heart and realised that the good old long ball game could bring this team down to their level.

Interesting that every name seems to be male. This may reflect membership; is the club effectively dependent on support from only half of the potential market? Does the same apply to other clubs?

Perhaps the fact that he has other responsibilities (managing the women's team) provides enough of a distraction for him to relax more (or at least be less obsessed with where the next goal is coming from) when on the field. He's also looking prolific in assists.

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Disgraceful - losing a goal after taking control of the game! Sack the manager!

More pointless high crosses into the box when our team has possession in the first half - on top of the 6'5" Brynn.

Not 0 out of 9, at any rate: otherwise, what's the point of players forcing corners? 1 out of 9 would surely still be a low rate, I'd suggest, especially for a team with two tall strikers (and usually a few tall defenders) in the box when corners are taken. On the other hand, if there really were no expectation of a return from corners, players shouldn't even be looking to get the ball to the byeline, but be told to cut in or pass back in order to get the ball into the box every time. It's a very curious statistic, and should surely warrant comparison with other teams' performances at corner kicks.

According to the stats collected for the BBC, we had 9 corners - yet none of them resulted in scoring. That's extraordinary, and surely needs to be looked at.

The ideal forward combination is two very different players - not a pairing of tall, not very fast target men. Taking a completely different approach, I'd play Tiffoney through the middle with either Graham or Rudden - combining speed with height and still using two goal-scorers. All we're doing at the moment is trying to match the conventional two tall central defenders with similar players in the hope they'll get their chances. It won't happen, of course, because in British football you take your fastest player and tell him to take the ball to the part of the pitch where nobody scores.

A winger has to get the ball past at least the fullback, launch it into the air for one striker in the goalbox to beat two giant centrebacks facing the right way, with the head, a rounded surface that offers little control, to get it past the third giant facing the right way, who's also allowed to use his hands. Outside corners, which can be trained for to use the speed of the ball, how often does a cross result in a goal? I'd bet it's successful in fewer than 1 in 10 cases. That goes at every level, which is why successful teams have abandoned it.

The team lacks a heart. Oh for a figure like "Boab" McCulloch. You could see the panic breaking out once the penalty was conceded, and it took an age, and 2 goals, to get back sufficient confidence to play the ball on the ground, by which time Timmy Wright's team had realised the big boot game was making these players uneasy. It doesn't help that Graham and Rudden are both constantly looking for a header: that just encourages the big boot up the park. It's not as if this team is very successful with headers, anyway, other than at set pieces.

Wingers are yesteryear's tactic. Tiffoney, like everyone else, doesn't score from the wing. Watch any top European side and you'll see the lengths they go to to avoid being pushed into those dead areas near the corners.

Apart from the medical/pandemic aspect, there might be an interesting comparison with the implicit agreement to be searched at the turnstiles. In Germany (where fans tend to be more boisterous than at Firhill, even at "lower" grades of football) you either agree to this or don't gain entry. AFAIK nobody has ever objected. (The police, who attend major matches, are armed, btw.) In much the same way as we generally carry fistfuls of cards - credit, driving licence, season ticket, etc. - but express shock and horror when someone suggests ID cards, is objecting to a vaccine record not the same emotive rather than rational response? (On a personal note, if I'm travelling to a country with tropical diseases, I ensure that I have a record of my vaccines with me, just in case it's useful for medical reference. That might be a potential employer, rather than a medical practitioner.)

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It's a bit unchancy to have comments on a game without any complaints: what's got into you all? Surely it's worth commenting that the team could and should have been ruthless: Graham's miss before an inviting goal set his teammates' efforts at naught, and various other attempts were made speculatively instead of punishing Greenock Morton. These can be important later in the season for goal difference.

At times, you wonder where players' heads are. On at least one occasion, a passback to Stone was aimed straight at the goal: if he'd slipped or the ball had bobbled, it could have resulted in a goal. Don't they know that a passback should be beyond the posts? Late on in the first half, in additional time, the players decided they had to work themselves back into the game just after losing a goal and passed it to and fro at the back - not a thought for game management: obviously, if you have a minute or two to go and have just lost a goal, the best thing to do is get the ball into the opposition penalty area. Was the loss of Docherty not just affecting midfield resilience but also leadership?

Without Docherty, our midfield melts away. A serious rethink is needed about whether Bannigan should be a starter, with his one-legged play and pirouetting. How many passes are these players completing to the opposition, as opposed to our own players?

Soft centre in midfield, and a goalkeeper whose confidence has gone.

Barely stringing passes together. Plenty of throw-ins and long balls giving away possession. Capped by a goalkeeper beaten at the near post. This needs a lot more effort from the midfield to sort it out.

In a rationally organised football league, you'd buy a kind of away viewing ticket which would allow you to view any single game on each day. The myth that football clubs are independent companies lives on, though, with its administrative disarray.