Stephen1876
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1 hour ago, Jimmy McD said:
Just watching Fake Thistle Vs Arbroath and looking at ex Jags players Devine,. Welsh, Craigan,, and even Riddgers..all playing well and not thought good enough to play for us..
I quite liked all of those players but I suppose the one difference was that we were in the Premiership when we released them. Still think Welsh is a class act
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Sena came in last season when we had an injury crisis and played centre half, part of a team the recorded six clean sheets when our strikers weren’t scoring. That contribution was as important as Rudden’s purple patch in the second half of the season in helping us win the league.
I for one hope he goes on to have a successful career, with the usual caveat of not playing well against us!
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3 minutes ago, Thistle88 said:
To be honest 2 individual mistakes lost us the game. Sneddon palming the ball into the middle of the goal and Akinola not following his man in the box.
And prior to that Doc’s awful pass to give the ball away.
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I struggle to understand the animosity of folk towards Foster. He has been a good signing for us and shows a great deal of fight and commitment despite him now probably having a very comfortable life - there is no coasting from him. He is probably a very strong leader in the dressing room and showed his class by giving his bonus to the young guys last year.
I missed the incident at half time but when he was walking off after being subbed, I was applauding in recognition of 4th after 36 games, but the guy behind was giving him absolute pelters, something you would never get away with in any other walk of life. I’m personally glad that Foster called him out.
The last three months haven’t been great on the park but we have achieved our target. Even if we didn’t, I wouldn’t criticise any of the players for lack of desire and I would never have anything against any Thistle player who tried. You can see the frustration in the players that we have struggled to replicate our 2021 form
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Despite the fact that it wasn’t entertaining or a great performance, glad to get the win and hopefully now in the playoffs.
Our creative play and goalscoring has been poor of late, but 19 clean sheets in 35 games is a fantastic record. With the exception of Bell who is at the end of his career and really did us a turn last season, I wouldn’t be sad to see any of our defenders at the club next year, although I admit our full backs offer little going forward.
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Today demonstrated to me why we need to play Turner in our remaining games. He was average today as he seems to be much of the time but we scored from one of his corners and our other two best opportunities came from his corners also. Set pieces could well be crucial in our three remaining games at Firhill where little football will be played on that pitch. He has the most assists in the league despite being an irregular starter.
Overall I thought we were much better today in terms of structure and effort, although we still created little and can’t deny that Killie edged the game
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7 minutes ago, partickthedog said:
For those not watching the game, Thistle playing really well and taking game to Killie. Only negative moment letting high ball bounce allowing Willie Collum to award soft free kick which Lafferty dispatched brilliantly.
Absolutely no complaints with level of performance. Stepped up hugely from last 3 games.
In fairness, Holt just lost it in very strong sun. Annoying though as we have looked the better side for much of it
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1 minute ago, Yellow & Redneck said:
Seems like a long list of bad decisions from Clueless McCall, Invisible Scally, and Emasculated Abject Archie have come home to roost. Starting a season with no experienced goalkeeper, and another loanee centre-back was bound to end badly. Couple that with the fact we sent Shea Gordon to QoS (who is still better than Crawford and Smith), and MacIver to Alloa (despite being better than the two loanees he gave his space); the management team have a sh!t lot to answer for.
For me tonight has shown me one thing that I knew quite a while ago but didn't want to admit. McCall is at best a League One manager.
Added to that, I know he did very little last season, but would Blair Lyons have been any worse than Hastie or McAllister, rather than us probably subbing his wages to play for Montrose?
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Caused once again by square passing in front of their defence
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2 minutes ago, fenski said:
So much wrong with that. Our midfield was over-run time after time. I have no idea what Crawford's role is apart from leaving a massive gap on the right side of the pitch.
Couldn’t agree more - how many times tonight and in other games is he just standing in the middle of nowhere
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What I can’t get my head around is that on an awful pitch, we keep passing backwards and putting ourselves under pressure because the ball takes a couple of touches to control. Teams know that and press us, and almost all of the goals came from that today. Better to play the percentages game on that surface and press high to get the second ball.
Tunji is an excellent players but his form has collapsed since that absurd red against Airdrie.
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6 hours ago, lady-isobel-barnett said:
Using last night as an example, perhaps wouldn't be a bad rule if the added time prior to our goal was discarded. Don't see why we've to hang around an extra few minutes playing out time caused by their goalie dithering about.
Of course that sort of "punishment" would be hard to mete out. The ref (4th official, whoever) would have to distinguish between genuine hold up in play and blatant time wasting. Plus he'd have to ask the team in the lead their preference as they might be needing another goal(s) for reasons of goal difference. Just a thought, ideal world and all that.
I’ve been thinking this for ages - I think the captain (Doc in this instance) should be asked by the ref if he wants the extra time played or taken off the clock. It wouldn’t happen though if refs acted quickly - Rae was doing it from early in the first half last night and Walsh never once spoke to him let alone booked him
I know we do it when winning but it’s not great to watch
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Perhaps with an intensive run of games, our genius strategy is just to play 45 minutes in every game and just keep a clean sheet in the other 45 minutes
Sneddon must be closing in on some sort of season clean record surely?
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That was the worst half of the season, outfought and outplayed. None of them could complain if they get hooked at half time.
Said on Saturday that Akinola seems to have lost confidence after that red against Airdrie. Cost the first goal at ICT, was a bomb scare on Saturday and all over the place tonight. Needs taken out of the firing line for a bit
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Tunji appears to have had a slight drop in confidence after that absurd red card against Airdrie, had a few hairy moments today which weren’t previously evident.
Sneddon did well today as did Foster and I thought Hendrie and Mayo. Little else to write home about really
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8 minutes ago, Third Lanark said:
Graham is poor at scoring penalties while McIver, Smith, Jackuaibuk seem to have a poor record at scoring goals- not overly optimistic about our options
I can’t understand why Graham gets to take take the penalties, some of his efforts in League 1 last year were terrible. We must have other options, including Banzo
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10 minutes ago, Garscube Road End 2 said:
Killie 2 up already.
Raith seem to be falling apart in recent weeks - hope it continues for next Saturday
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1 hour ago, Third Lanark said:
Considering he was signed as back up do you really think Hendrie has been that bad when features? Didn’t put a foot wrong last Saturday
Agreed - I’d more than happily keep Hendrie for next season. As with Stone and McKenna, the guys who have been playing in front of them have been undroppable
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As well as the awful performance, the officials were unusually down the tunnel before the players at the end
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35 minutes ago, exiledjag said:
Why no Foster?
Injured
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1 hour ago, fifexile said:
With the pre contract rules clubs and to an extent players are in a difficult position. Will Zac bust a gut and potentially risk injury between now and the end of the season? If he plays today and has a nightmare that will be the accusation. Similarly will McColl want to risk playing someone who isn't 100% committed? I'd be tempted to leave him out altogether for the rest of the season if a deal can't be done with Dundee.
I suppose the opposite example of that is Doc, who signed a pre-contract with us, came to Firhill with Ayr a couple of weeks later and bossed the midfield.
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Every time we score a goal with the last kick of the ball against a Fife side, restrictions follow! Need to walk it into the corner next time…
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2 minutes ago, exiledjag said:
Seems red card was for a high tackles on Smith!
It was high and late - no malice I it but dangerous and no question it was a red
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28 minutes ago, partickthedog said:
In John Lambie Stand, so saw nothing of the goal. I understand that Turner was the scorer. Could somebody who did see it give a description of the passage of play which ended with the goal?
PS Iain McCall interview on official website indicates that Kyle Turner "popped up" with the goal and Ross McIver provided the assist.
Tiff got one one-on-one with the Raith right back, beat him to the line and stood it up beyond the back post. MacIver headered back across and Turner swept in. He will have been a relieved man as he missed a sitter minutes earlier.
We totally dominated the game, pressed much better than last week and missed quite a lot of chances. We did though look better and more composed against 11 than 10 where we were just hoofing it forward.
Need to enjoy Mayo and Tunji as a partnership whilst we can. Mention also to Foster who had Zanatta in his back pocket all day.
Rudden could be a great striker, makes good runs at times no bags of pace, but could do with some one-on-ones with Dools to learn how to control a ball, his first touch is awful
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I think this is the smallest forward line I have ever seen, but playing reasonably well for a friendly. Fitzy has had some brilliant runs so far.
Brownlie understandably still looks a little rusty and Tunji not as dominant as he was in the first half of last season.
Really positive that two or three of the young players look like they could step up this season. Been really impressed with Lyon every time I have seen him.