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Couple of questions/observations from myself. 1. It is my understanding Chris Ross left earlier than expected plus, as we know, Levi Gill's start was delayed because of a family bereavement so we had a period at a very important point of the year with no real leadership in place. 2. Did we start the season fully prepared? We only had one open door friendly against Glenafton which had been agreed as part of McBeth's transfer so had to play a bounce game against Hearts plus a game between the squad. Not what is the normal sort of pre season, did the issue from point 1 contribute to this? 3. Is the documentary having a negative impact? Is it putting more pressure than is needed on the management and/or players, is it taking people at the club away from their regular duties and is it making people act or do things differently? Now none of these points take away from the fact that the play in most of our games has not been good but we know from the last 18 months that Doolan likes to play good attacking football, we know from previous seasons that players like Turner, Chalmers and Graham are good at this level yet none of these are on display at the moment so it says to me some other factor is at play.

A hard fought 3-2 victory sees us progress to the next round of the League Cup - well done!

Back to Petershill today for League Cup action Spartans. Obviously we got to the final of this competition last season so would be nice to see if we can replicate that but Spartans are always tricky opponents from the times I have seen them so won't be easy. https://ptfc.co.uk/ptfc-fixture/partick-thistle-wfc-v-spartans-wfc/#match-preview

From what I have seen (just the home games) it has been bursts of individualism rather than 11 guys working in a co-ordinated fashion.

I don't think I said him being out was the sole reason we are not playing well but his pace and skill on the ball would at least have given us another option to change things during a game and it was an unexpected injury whilst we knew Lawless was going to be out. Anyway, what we can agree on is that so far there has not been one combination of players that has really clicked which needs to change.

I said in another thread that managers should get the first quarter and stand by that so a big next 2 games for Doolan. I would make a couple of observations before that though. I thinkl we have a decent a squad for this level (McKay being injured was a big blow) but even in victory we have not been great so something not quite right in how they are being deployed which it is the manager's job to fix. Also, the Board have made it clear that we want/need promotion and have put the money in so if they think that we can still achieve promotion based on the squad then it only leaves changing the manager as an option. When it came out we are budgeting to lose £280,000 as we had pushed the boat out I said to someone who sits with me at games that we should have gone full out and budgeted for a Dundee style loss by buying up all the best players that other teams went for but we went for the still (for us) big loss but not doing enough to guarantee promotion.

Watched the Celtic game on BBC Alba and Emma Lawton was excellent.

Highlights from the Dundee United win: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAJJRiZptZw

Here we go. Women H H H H A A H H H A H A Men H A H H H H A H H H H A H H A H H H A A A H H A H H A A H H

I used to remember people on here saying "it is a results driven business" and "I don't care about performances just points". I assume we won't here any of that going forward, in the more modern world it will be all about the process - all passes on the ground, huge possesion stats and the result being an after thought. Reminds me of the old saying - the operation was a success but the patient died.

Away to Dundee United today in a game we need to win to keep up the push for a top 6 place. https://ptfc.co.uk/ptfc-fixture/dundee-utd-wfc-v-partick-thistle-wfc-22nd-sep-2024/#match-preview

Winning numbers from today's draw: https://ptfc.co.uk/ptfc-news/half-time-draw-results-21st-september-2024/

Happy with the win and personally don't think we were as bad as some are saying (not so say I thought we were great). The one thing I am certain of is that Dunfermline got what they deserved - nothing! I assume Euan Anderson's birthday was recently and he got a new whistle as a gift and wanted to make sure it worked as he was giving it plenty of use.

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