Semi Nurainen
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19 hours ago, Garscube Road End said:
If we get relegated he would deserve to be sacked.
That's a difficult one GRE. He inherited a pile of sh1te, which he seems to be offloading as fast as possible - probably hasn't gone far enough yet for the likes of you and me!
Had he been here from the beginning of the season I would have been be inclined to agree. In fairness I would give him a full season.
I think we are still in shock from the appalling performance on Saturday, where the new boys had given us a glimmer of hope. Any warm glow we might have had was blown away by the sea breezes at Gayfield (actually unless, my geography was all wrong it was a sou'wester, not a nor'easter).
A repeat performance on Friday will make me think me have replaced sh1te with more sh1te.
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Was that the game we won 4- or 5- 1?
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The highlights make it look as if 2-1 grossly flattered us.
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8 minutes ago, Auld Jag said:
Really don't see how you get that from my post, no i am not saying he is about to be sacked.
Think Steevo was just being facetious AJ.
Usually the statement 'the board fully supports the manager' immediately precedes 'manager leaving the club by mutual agreement'!
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3 minutes ago, Steevo said:
I honestly think even the manager would admit he never really gave Slater a chance to impress since he came in. Out for 6/7 months and needing a run of games,don’t think he was given the time to impress. There’s guys in the team who have had umpteen poor performances but have still kept their place. This is our managers prerogative. That’s why football is so polarising,it’s just opinions,Golf,running,tennis etc ability is black and white, good score or good time it’s easier to see if someone has done well or poorly.
I agree.
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34 minutes ago, Steevo said:
Heard the manager offered Banzo and O’Ware a new deal in his first days back to the club. So he obviously rates them very highly. Just got to trust he knows what he’s doing. Hopefully he’ll turn it around soon. Sorry to see Slater go nice boy good player
If I was being honest I'd say the same. I thought there was really good player in there at one time, but you have to admit he's had his chance and failed to impress.
As you say, really nice lad I hope he gets sorted out.
I couldn't, however, understand the logic of someone - I can't remember where exactly, so hope I'm not imaging it - who said something about him getting picked up by another championship club. As we are rock bottom, and deserve to be, why would anybody pick up a player who hasn't always made the bench amongst a bunch of failures. Rhetorical question.
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5 hours ago, ARu-Strathbungo said:
I would guess that Dick Campbell would have had Arbroath practicing that sort of set piece in the days prior to the game. He appears to have understood our weaknesses and has exploited them to the full
Like nearly every other manager in the league, including the one we're up against n Friday.
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38 minutes ago, Kingleo said:
Harkins, mansell, mcginty and cardle being shipped out would be most welcome. I’ve never rated Fox. Doesn’t fill the goal enough and inspires no confidence. A new keeper , I agree is essential. I’d punt Fox in a heartbeat
You forgot Robson and possibly Williamson.
I remain, at the very best, agnostic about O'Ware.
And GRE beat me to the punch (as usual) re Penrice and Bannigan.
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One of our eternal optimists.
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If he was to hit the ground ...
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3 hours ago, jaf said:
Are you counting Mackinnon as 1?
There is enough visual evidence for us all to see to suggest you could count him as 1.5. On yesterdays showing there is also enough evidence you could count him as 0.
Worrying. He was the boy that was going to stop up the holes in our defensive set-up.
An enforcer: sounds like he needs to enforce a diet.
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Starting out with 6 out of 10 defensive outfield players maybe didn't help either.
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4 hours ago, Firhillista said:
In all my years of following Thistle and Scotland there have been many depressing performances to cope with and I have to say that yesterday's was one of the worst for me.
Partly because I was really looking forward to the game. I'd never been to Gayfield and I was ridiculously excited to be going to an old fashioned ground. Partly because we'd signed some impressive players by all accounts, including football commentators and opposing fans and I genuinely thought that this was going to be a fresh start - the season begins here, kind of thing.
The reality was crushing. Another appalling away performance up (or down) there with all the low lights of recent years. Every bit as bad as the worst displays under Archibald or Caldwell in fact, and - and this is where the depression really kicks in - exactly the same.
Why is it that, no matter who's playing for us or who's the manager, we allow ourselves to be bullied out of games, over and over, by teams with more limited resources than us and players who, if we signed, we'd all rightly condemning the club for a lack of ambition?
Yesterday's experience can be summed up for me by the sight of Fox taking bye kicks that flew off the right hand side of the pitch over and over again, with the Thistle fans howling in outrage and the Arbroath fans pissing themselves laughing. You'd think he was trying to solve some particularly tricky quadratic equation instead of working out that you kick the ball to the left to compensate for the wind taking it to the right.... It was embarrassing.
It isn't any consolation at all, or any kind of excuse, but for those folk who are saying that the wind was the same for both teams, it wasn't. It allowed Arbroath to play to their strengths in the first half and destroyed any chance we could play to ours. It had reduced significantly by the second half. If we had won the toss, that would have been a completely different game yesterday.
Where now? We're in a relegation dog fight. Time to start playing like we are.
Quite true, it 'feels' exactly the same. This is the worrying bit.
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16 minutes ago, lady-isobel-barnett said:
That was horrendous. Whatever the respective corner count was will reflect just how much Arbroath were in command. Thought at one point that Fox was trying to get the game abandoned by kicking as many balls out the ground as he possibly could. He even enlisted McGinty's help on that score. Can't think of a single positive the whole game.
Chilling when someone as well balanced as your good self comes away with a statement like that.
Does the team have a collective sense of entitlement whereby they are only remotely conscious of the dire state of things.
Or has Bunter already factored in the probability of going down before we go up (his post match comments savoured ever so slightly of complacency - 'we'll need to do better next week'). Or the next again week, or the week after that ….
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4 minutes ago, TartanC4 said:
I have to disagree.... I don't think we are a yo yo team and I absolutely believe that it matters greatly who is playing or who is in the dug out.... That statement is utter balls... Doesn't matter. I think everyone might disagree. Do you not think it Could have just have been an off day, or caught cold by the conditions.
We seem to have an awful lot of off days, and even more where we don't adapt to conditions, strangely enough more than any other team, which must be why we are bottom in the league.
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Mind you with the official site still showing 1-0 to Arbroath (and that goal scored by Wighton, 33) you wonder if the malaise starts from the top.
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20 minutes ago, Dick Dastardly said:
Why stop with those 3 ?
Indeed. Would make a decent start though.
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On the face of it, Saunders McGinty and O'Ware can go any time
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4 minutes ago, Gary Peebles Tackle said:
Alloa 3-2 up...
And Morton step 6 points clear of us against the Arabs.
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Despite my earlier enthusiasm and (misplaced) faith if we can't get at least a point at places like Arbroath, notwithstanding all the new faces (just like the old faces!) we're probably going down. And deserve to do so.
We look as if we were slaughtered in the first half, not just beaten.
Bunter needs to plan for the long term.
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Ayr supporters no doubt currently squirming with glee. Who can blame them?
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Me too. Might blow his bunnet off!!
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2 minutes ago, Garscube Road End said:
Phew! Glad to get out only 2 down. This mob haven't adapted to the conditions at all. That is very , very poor.
Not finished yet, GRE.
Wonder what the Bunnet will throw at us in the 2nd half. Not his bunnet anyway.
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9 corners , 7 shots to our nil and nil.
And it ain't finished yet.
Friday Fright Night? - Thistle vs Ayr
in Main Jags forum
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Somehow, I just don't feel warm glow looking at those names.