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Why? He can't go out on loan and play for the under 19s. I'm assuming that Ian Cameron knows what he's doing and feels the lad will have a better chance to develop playing within his own age group at the moment. That's been a major part of the youth policy up till now. The only real exception being Fraser who we all know has developed physique wise ahead of his age. Ketterer or any other player won't be sent out on loan till they are ready. As for Stevenson, altho' Cameron is not a fan of doing so, he is entitled to play I think one over age player. I wouldn't be surprised, given the severity of his injury if he makes an exception for Colin.

We're always looking for ways to brighten up football. It should be compulsory. Shorter goalies should be provided with stilts.

Still, never a penalty

Maybe the elderly gentleman was a vegan with a grudge . Anyway, judging by Saturday, the old fella used the wrong protocol for away fans. Surely he should have splashed everyone in the vicinity with cola and pelted them with coins?

That was never a penalty

Be careful what you wish. On one front we're not far off those heady days.

Can anyone name an instance over the last 180 minutes where any of the suggested strikers in this thread would have scored where Stewart, Doolan or Grehan missed? It's one thing to say our strikers, or the sum of our strikers, aren't up to it, HJ, Lindau, TL & others have been saying it for weeks. But for anyone to draw that conclusion based on our last two games is daft. Nobody's suggesting we need more midfielders, tho' based on these two games the addition of McCann if only from a coaching point of view could well be beneficial, but we need to get balls into our frontmen. Once that happens and if Doolan, Stewart and others are wasting chance after chance then I'll concede that our strikers are our weak spot.

thanks for these stats, afk . As I read that in the 87 games the opposition has scored first only on 25 occasions (29%) have they failed to take full 3 pts. I've no idea what the league norm would be but it doesn't look too clever from our point of view.

Got to agree. It may well be our strikers aren't good enough but we'll never find out till they get some service. On the basis of our last two games their talent, or lack of, is academic.

I'm not too sure what these stats really tell us tho'. What about the games we've come back to get a draw? It's more the number of times the opposition has scored first and go on to win that would tell us more.

If I was Stewart or Doolan I'd be complaining about the lack of chances. Erkine is probably the only one seriously guilty of wasting chances. Had he squared the ball with pace from the right in the first half against Berwick, see the above with Dundee and not dithered going thru on goal last night Jaggernaut's question (see other thread) might be redundant. Ironically the area we looked strongest on paper with, midfield, is looking like causing the biggest concern. Usually in previous seasons Rowson worked quietly away in the background, breaking up attacks and a quick short pass to another midfielder to push on. This season he's still doing what he does best but now he's also the midfielder most likely to move the ball forward. That shouldn't be and if Rowson gets injured or suspended it'll be like losing two midfielders. I've got tremendous respect for Rowser but even at that I feel we've got a real problem when David's our most creative player.

I did question that after Saturday but to be fair Scott got down for that one last night.

The only positive I can take out of the last two games is on play we don't seem to be far behind two of the fancied teams. Put another way, soft penalties or whatever aside, Hamilton and Dundee can't score against us and we can't score against them. If this is what the season has in store it's gonna be a painful experience but at least not just for us. Any of our players who did well, or at least were largely free of criticism, tonight all got pass marks from a defensive point of view. I can't think of one single player who anyone could say did well going forward.

I'd be extremely upset if PTFC wasted money on Sky TV packages. Most pubs with turnovers at least twenty times that of an establishment only open a handful of times a year can't afford that.

Tis highly probable if you're a regular in the Aitken Suite.

I don't read the Sun and I'm a moron.

I heard it was the Propco boardroom.

Why?

Not too concerned about injuries as I'd rather see players rested tonight especially as we'll be playing them a week on Saturday. Forgot all about Doolan getting a knock against Dundee. A back four of Campbell, Robertson, Lindsay and Sinclair would be interesting .

Not strictly true, tho'. Being a bit voyeuristic when those clubs like Dundee, Livingston & Gretna have run into bother I've noticed their websites are peppered with posts along the lines of "don't care what division we're in as long as we've still got a team to watch". I'd find it hard to believe fans of other clubs are not influenced by the trials and tribs of those three. In fact posts on Falkirk & Q o S websites are more often or not revolving around finance. According to the Board this season is planned as to be break-even. I hope to hell that they have factored in the customer satisfaction element. Personally I don't get the impression that our fans sights are set that high but the views of season ticket holders are more academic than pay at the gate punters.

Not that you're necessarily saying it but I wouldn't say football has stood still. It's just moved forward in a wrong direction. Besides moving sport forward need not involve gentrification. For instance a lot of us would advocate the return of terracing or standing area enclosures but that doesn't mean that we'd want uncovered toilets or wish to use those covered ones at Central Pk, Ayr or Morton as a template. We're repeatedly told by football authorities that providing terracing would be a backward step where I'd argue providing safe standing areas would be part of the way forward. Sorry all that's off on a tangent but no more than discussing the pros and cons of the Sun newspaper and its readership.

Might be wrong but I thought Campbell ended up in central mid when Flannigan came on so he was only out wide for half the time he was on. Campbell can play as a fairly orthodox right winger and give the team either a bit more width or at least allow Paton & particularly Sinclair, who had to be tiring, to stay back. For all the games he's now played (or played part of), end of last season, friendlies and so on Jamie hasn't really had a continued spell at possibly his best position as a winger. Because he's got a bit of bite, can track back and tackle, unlike recent previous wingers (Murray, Strachan, Erskine, Corcoran etc) I don't see much of a risk factor playing Jamie from the start.

You didn't enjoy the previous league match at Firhill?

Incidentally there was good piece of PR on the Cowan/Cosgrove radio prog yesterday. I know the kids go free has been mentioned a few times but not accurately. After evidently erroneously in midweek saying it was a £1 for kids to get in Cowan appologised and got it spot on. Probably for the first time it was mentioned that unaccompanied kids could also get in foc. Obviously either someone from the Club or a Jags fan got in touch with BBC/Cowan/Cosgrove to put them right. Well done to whoever it was.