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With an Osman type player beside him a lot. As a sweeper, even more. He doesn't have an Osman beside him and is struggling.

I'll give you Lawless v Rangers. That was mad. Especially as he'd got by, just, v Dundee. Again I feel as if I'm a broken record. He's playing Barton there because there is no one else. I don't believe for a minute Barton and Edwards would be our midfield pairing if one other player was match fit. Regards his legacy being eroded. Let's judge that at the end of the season. If he is sacked before that, it won't be his decisions that eroded his legacy it will have been some players in this squad who have let him and us down.

You know what I mean though. There's no point slating Barton for being slow. He's not miraculously going to become fast. He's never been fast! You can't take a pot at him for not putting in tackles. Hes never put in tackles. Direct you're ire at the ones you know can perform but aren't.

I'm saying it would be suicide to start the pair of them. Equally as risky as what we have now, starting one of them. I'm saying both should be increasing their game time from the bench. What Archie needs to do is better protect his midfield pairing with those around them. Instead of the pair of them getting torn apart every week whilst their team mates look on shrugging their shoulders. In an ideal world I'd want Barton in a back 3. A solid flat defensive back 5. With Turnbull and McGinn either side. If Woods or Fraser can step in beside Edwards then I'd go with that.

Because up until now, or at least up until the next couple of games. There's been no one else to play there. Osman out Bannigan out McCarthy out Fraser not yet fit Woods not yet fit He's playing his 6th and 7th choice centre midfielders. Because there's no one else. Stay with me here... Say you ran a kitchen. Brought in a kitchen porter who had shown promise as a chef. You stuck him on the dishes to get him used to the kitchen. But he dropped plates. He was slow. Dishes didn't get washed. But once you got him cooking food. He was a joy to watch and he won awards as a chef. Now you know the guy can't wash dishes. But what a chef. A few weeks later your KP goes off sick. His cover goes off sick too. The only guy you've got is this star chef. Now youve got three other chefs. None with the same flare but theyre solid. So you stick him on the sink. You know he's going to break dishes and sure enough he does. But he's the only guy you can put in there. Come the end of the shift. You can't turn round and slate the guy for smashing plates!!! Barton is that star chef you had to put back on the sink for a few shifts.

There's no doubt. We're gubbed. Injuries have destroyed our season so far. They've devoided us of half our first team squad. What was the strongest squad on paper. Is, with Injuries, one of the weakest. I wasn't at the game. So I can't comment on Boyds fitness. But his game has never been about fitness so it's a mute point. Has he ever been "fit"? As a lump of a target man, He just needs to win headers and free kicks from the long balls pumped at him. Use his football brain to outsmart our centre halfs. Know when to fall down. So now we're acknowledging that neither Fraser or Woods are fit and both are going to get through games on experience and adrenaline, alone. And you think with my mentality We're gubbed? There is a perception that Archie has a blind faith with some of our players. Mostly the fans who perceive it like this are the ones who can't acknowledge just how crippling our injury list is. For you there are two options. I refuse to acknowledge one of them. On the park with the players we have, we are being let down at the back by sloppy defending and up top by lazy attackers. And in between the two guys in the middle are getting hung out to dry. There are players in that team who need to up their game. There are some who need to have a word with themselves. Decide of they want to fight for the team. If they don't, they can go. I don't fear us going down. But id rather us go down with a team that care, than a team who don't give a shit and will walk away having destroyed everything our manager has built.

Sorry. I'm not getting your referencing Osman and him being ahead of them. I think it would be ****** ridiculous to throw in woods and Fraser to start the game. Fraser should be getting nursed back he's been out for most of his time with us. Woods played 15 minutes and wasn't match fit. Got injured and has been out since. But suddenly he's fit enough to start? Regards Barton. Yeah you're probably right to acknowledge it. He's getting torn apart every week on the park. Which makes it even more ridiculous that folk acknowledge he's not good enough to play there... Then come on here and slate him for not being good enough. He'd not a ****** ball winning centre mid. That's not his fckin make up. He's only a midfielder when a ball winning is beside him. Criticising him for not doing the things he's incapable of doing is daft. Regards Osman. I don't know what's going on with him. All over Instagram doing keepy uppies telling everyone he's not far off getting 9n the park. 3 days later and Archie actually went public on an injury, stating Osman still has to see a specialist. Something didn't sit right with Osman doing that.

When you have seen Fraser playing for 15 minutes against knackered players. Was he quicker than them? Was he brushing tired legs aside to win ever ball? Or did he probably look about the same pace? If you look back and think. He wasn't head n shoulders above guys who knocked their pan in for the vast majority of the game. Then you cant seriously think he can compete with a couple of fit, top 6, midfielders.

I don't know. I don't even know what Woods injury was. All we were told was he picked up a knock in training. I don't know how serious it was. He'd hardly kicked a ball before joining us. So wasn't match fit when he made his debut off the bench. This would have set him back further. But folk want to start the guy on Wednesday night!

The trouble Archie has is, his hands are tied and he is having to go with the same 2 in the middle 9f the park, every week. There's no one else. An attacking midfielder and a ball playing midfielder who is only comfortable there, with a tough tackler beside him. As much as I'd love to go with Fraser & Woods, too. I'll ask again, is either anywhere near match fit to be able to deal with the pace of fully fit players. Definetly not.

When Fraser has been coming off the bench, when others around him are knackered, has he looked miles ahead of everyone else? Or has he been at around the same pace as those already on the park for 75 minutes? I'm struggle to understand why you would start him, unless he's fit enough to keep up. Likewise with Woods

I really dont know where to start with that. The first half was very even and quite entertaining. Entertaining in that, there has been no entertainment at all this season. For the 90. Turnbull and McGinn were our best attacking options down the flanks. I am getting really frustrated with our front 4. Some would argue we started with our best attack today. But there was so little from them it was painful. Lawless could have been hooked after 30 minutes his performance was so poor. If he cut inside once, he did it a hundred times. And every time he was brushed aside. Gutless in every 50/50. Spittal offered very little if anything. Erskine had a good first half. Disappeared in the second. I'm struggling to get behind Storey now. His crossing is terrible. On 2 occasions he had space to shoot and chose the wrong option. As a unit they offered little for Edwards and Barton. So little movement, all the pair of them could do was go sideways and back. Waiting for a run. Something! But nothing came. 4 statues doing nothing to create an opening. Keown is being bailed out time and time again by Devine. I don't know what was up with Cerney today. He was really poor. Is he still not fully fit?

Davie looking great in an old pair of Adidas Rom.

Can we not get the answers to the last one, first Stu?

Maxwell at 6 with the armband?

I don't think we have any influence over the timeframe, hampering our ability to give it time, as you suggest.

Good luck with your recovery, Sean.

What's your opinion?

What a difference a week makes. Not that long ago he was getting touted as the solution to our Full Back crisis.

Currently 5 points off the top 6 with 25 games to play, having spent the first round of games with a ridiculous injury list. Hats off, to Archie. The man's a miracle worker!

You've lost me. There was no intention to deflect. Whilst you could attempt to argue that everyone on here is entitled to an opinion. It is without doubt that not everyone's opinion on football should be taken seriously.

Listen, if you can't answer, it doesn't do your case any favours being abusive.

Why are they entitled to it?

Our home gate has been consistent this season and hasn't dropped

You jest?