Livi Game

[fenski]

Or 3-5-2?

 

[Woodstock Jag]

Looks like a 5-3-2/3-5-2

Roberts

McBeth Ashcroft O'Reilly

Megwa                 Crawford                      Milne

Turner                     Fitzpatrick

Graham               Diack

Bit too defensive minded for my liking.

[fenski]

Main issue likely to be the hopeful long balls with two strikers not getting near them.

[javeajag]

Basically 4 4 2 and about time 

[Woodstock Jag]

Just now, javeajag said:

Basically 4 4 2 and about time 

I hope it's that, because I rate McBeth in midfield. But based on previous games this looks like 3 centre-backs.

[javeajag]

If so the manager is clearly not learning ….we will be slaughtered in the middle of the park 

[lady-isobel-barnett]

I hope it's not a back three but surely not 4-4-2?

[Woodstock Jag]

20 minutes ago, lady-isobel-barnett said:

I hope it's not a back three but surely not 4-4-2?

… and it’s 4-4-2 😂

[javeajag]

Best half of the season 

[javeajag]

Better….but still not good enough 

[dl1971]

Played fairly well first half. Pretty awful second half. Could easily have lost in last 10 minutes. Why we took off turner and Crawford, for banzo and Stanway was baffling.

[Yellow & Redneck]

If the board had a set on them, they'd have Kris Foolan out on his arse. All this nonsense about boosting attendances. Will be getting <3000 before long. People don't want to pay to watch that utter crap. 

[Derby Jag]

That was yet another shocking game of football

[javeajag]

1 minute ago, dl1971 said:

Played fairly well first half. Pretty awful second half. Could easily have lost in last 10 minutes. Why we took off turner and Crawford, for banzo and Stanway was baffling.

Because we were losing / had lost midfield .

[jagfox]

Felt like the 0-0 we had with Dundee United we had last season just after McBeth signed.

At least then we had a major issue keeping the ball put of the net.

That was another turgid watch. Neither keeper had much to do.

The crowds will drop with that level of 'entertainment' on view.

[ChiThistle]

I truly don’t know when we are going to score again.  I wish that was being over dramatic, but we look like we’ve forgotten how to get balls into the box, control a ball, and finish.

Figures we finally get a solid defense and this all goes to sh*t.

[stuart_adam]

Teams went massively backwards from last season, get to final 3rd with zero clue what to do. Don't think 90 mins with Brian Graham up front each game going to cut it this season. Thought Megwa looked good again, hard to really find too many positives as was a boring game. 

[King Kenny]

First half was fine without being brilliant to watch. Second half was awful, a game devoid of quality. 

Another week where we have a completely new formation. Players don’t seem to know what the tactics are and I can’t blame them. 

Signing Crawford just seems stranger every week, a complete nothing of a player. The fact that Turner is shoehorned on the wing, where we know he’s ineffective, to accommodate Crawford is not far off a sackable offence in itself. 

To put Stanway on at right wing with twin wingers on the bench was criminal. Doolan had no intention of winning that game against a very poor Livi team.

I wasn’t sure about replacing him but I don’t think he knows how to fix this, his team and tactics are so uninspiring. 

I’ve been critical of Fitzy but he was basically a one man attack today. 

That team won’t get a sniff of promotion currently. 
 

 

 

 

Edited October 5, 2024 by King Kenny

[javeajag]

As stated previously we won’t achieve anything if we can’t score.

[Yellow & Redneck]

I agree what others have said about Crawford. I can't quite explain it in simple terms, but I actually found Doolan's signing of him almost cowardly. It's so unimaginative in almost every possible way. A player who doesn't add anything different to the squad - but as soon as his contract wound down at Morton, it was almost a foregone conclusion he'd end up here. I can think that doolan thought he'd be a Doherty like personality. 

[Jag]

So who had 4-1-3-2 on the formation lottery? Thought it was shaping up to be a 4-4-2 diamond but Crawford played square of the other two, with McBeth in front of defence.

I said last week thaf Dools was clutching at straws and that continued today. Another 90 minutes for the captain and wee Fatzy, another 90 minutes of very little produce from either. 

Positives were we looked good at the back again, I thought Ashcroft and Milne were out best players. McBeth was OK and O'Reilly was steady again.

However, six goals in eight league games is pathetic, especially given the talent we have in the squad. There is obviously a long way to go, but a successful season looking very unlikely.

700 down from the crowd v Dunfermline. No wonder.

[jagfox]

22 minutes ago, javeajag said:

As stated previously we won’t achieve anything if we can’t score.

Relegation?

[javeajag]

7 minutes ago, jagfox said:

Relegation?

We will draw our way to mid table mediocrity 

[Weebaw1]

Diack wasnt brilliant but he offered some pace and physicality. I suspect he’d have been at the back post for Milne’s late cross. We were never going to score after he was subbed.

I thought Crawford should have been replaced by Robinson.

[Third Lanark]

Doolans interview on the Facebook page- you can be sure he’s not getting sacked.  They wouldn’t have uploaded the interview otherwise