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This could be the turning point in the season or……

That’s another way of saying the manager and team are underperforming

We will draw our way to mid table mediocrity

As stated previously we won’t achieve anything if we can’t score.

Because we were losing / had lost midfield .

Better….but still not good enough

Best half of the season

If so the manager is clearly not learning ….we will be slaughtered in the middle of the park

Basically 4 4 2 and about time

Only a win will do…..ditch the 3/5 at the back and stop punting long balls…..it’s time for the team and the manager to step up…..no excuses

So back to topic …….doolan has to get his finger out as performances and results are simply not good enough. 1. We need to switch to a back four the back 3/5 has not worked 2. We need to play someone in front of the back four 3. We play a double pivot 4. Play the two wide players but they need to defend as well as attack 5 play two up front or go to 4 4 1 1 6 Graham needs to come off if he’s not playing well or tired 7. Fitzy needs to some coaching and attention at this stage points are more important than performances but both need to improve

The issue is having someone to replace Graham either when he is tired or off form …. If that’s not Diack then why is he at the club

Of all the problems facing the team Roberts is not one of them

It’s not a couple of games though is it ? not won away now for 14 games we have scored less than 1 goal a game we have played 12 competitive games been poor in most of them, out of two cups at the first time of asking and 10 points off top after 7 games. He has a squad of 32 players. he gives a good impression is someone who doesn’t know what to do

The performance last week was poor, no improvement this week and now scoring less than 1 goal a game. We had a great chance today to close the gap at the top with Falkirk losing. the formation isn’t right, the midfield has never been right and creativity has gone. It’s not clear Dolan knows what’s wrong never mind what knowing how to fix it. the peg is very loose

If you look at the squad we have, indeed we listed 38 players in the programme yesterday, we should in this league be challenging at the top of the table ……let’s hope we soon are but we won’t get promoted simply by having clean sheets.

Last season we could score but couldn’t defend with goals against hitting 1.8 at their peak. Doolan rightly addressed that and since then we have been defensively solid…..4 goals conceded in 6 league games. Good. Now we struggle to score …..6 in 6 games, we won’t get promoted until we radically improve that number. The real concern is that we are struggling to create any chances. The service to the strikers is non existent, did we have any shots on goal yesterday apart from the goal ? Nope. And the final pass or cross was woeful. we also seem to have reverted to punting aimless long balls, I lost count of how many times muirhead and Macbeth gave the ball away. Macbeth managed three in a minute ant one point. Everyone can see Graham is off form but will never get dropped so the focus needs to be in midfield where things are still not right. I think brannigan or stanway starting yesterday would have been better. im also not sure the ‘tweak’ to what seems to be his preferred 3-5-2 system helped much either though at times we lined up 5-3-2 or it seemed 5-4-1. we were lucky to get a win yesterday - ‘ we didn’t create much ‘ doolan - and their keeper should have saved the shot, we will take it but need to improve substantially for next week. still not convincing after 6 games.

Keep playing like this and the crowds will turn down , it was a very hard watch

Let’s not kid ourselves we stole a win … we were dreadful and didn’t look like scoring ….the midfield is still not right again

Poor performance in a poor game of football …..the formation is nuts as the gap between defence and midfield is often 30 yds so muirhead and Macbeth punt it long to no effect no chances, no shots on target zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

26 players now in the first team and 32 in the extended squad …..Best squad in the league …..hopefully Doolan can now put it together

A better performance but still not at league winning level but it gives us something to build on. but let’s be clear to be 10 points off top after 5 games is unacceptable

Now playing Questions by The Moody Blues

If think if we don’t run out of money by the end of the season or sooner you should volunteer to turn over your record and give the rest of us a break.

What if tranche 3 is never needed ?