At the Crossroads

 

With our season gradually disintegrating, we head to Recreation Park Alloa to face The Wasps @ the Indodrill Stadium. It's a 3:00pm kick-off on Saturday with both sides lingering at the wrong end of the table, games in hand or not. 

Our games in hand are dwindling away and there's little improvement in our league position. Four wins from sixteen games is not the form of a team challenging for a play-off slot to the premiership.

This is now a crucial game in our season which is at the crossroads. Which way do we turn?

Crossroads

 

We have found Alloa difficult to beat recently with no wins in our last four meetings, such is the demise of our club. Financial constraints have seen us unable to attract the quality of player required at this level to sustain a challenge at the top end of the table and we are having to blood youngsters in the Championship. The latest jumping ship is James Keatings who has reportedly signed a pre-contract agreement with Raith Rovers. With little leadership on the park, it's difficult to get any consistency and Premiership football looks unlikely with the prospects of league 1 closer to the mark. It's a tough league to get out of at the right end and there's a fine line between challenging at the top to falling into a relegation battle and that is something we have to get used to pretty quick. We have eleven games left to save our season, which way will we turn?

Last 10 Competitive Meetings

2 - 2 (H)

1 - 2 (A)

0 - 2 (A)

1 - 1 (H)

3 - 2 (A)

2 - 0 (A)

2 - 2 (H)

3 - 0 (H)

2 - 1 (A)

3 - 2 (H)

		Pld	W	D	L	F	A	+/-	Pts
1.	Hearts	18	12	3	3	44	20	24	39
2.	Raith Rovers	16	8	3	5	32	24	8	27
3.	Dunfermline	17	7	6	4	26	19	7	27
4.	Dundee	16	6	6	4	30	30	0	24
5.	Queen of the South	18	7	3	8	26	35	-9	24
6.	Arbroath	18	5	6	7	15	20	-5	21
7.	Inverness CT	16	4	7	5	24	21	3	19
8.	Morton	17	4	7	6	16	22	-6	19
9.	Ayr United	16	4	5	7	20	21	-1	17
10.	Alloa Athletic	18	3	4	11	20	41	-21	13

 

All Championship games this weekend

 

Raith v Dundee - Postponed - Covid

Alloa v Inverness CT

Arbroath v Queen of the South

Hearts v Dundee

Morton v Ayr United

Only eleven games left and we need to start picking up points starting with Alloa away at the weekend, so get behind the guys, for better or for worse.

 

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Neil McCann pre-match with Alloa...

 

***Latest Team News***

Anthony McDonald has had an operation on his knee and with only a dozen games left in this season, it is unlikely we will see much, if anything at all from him this campaign. Roddy MacGregor is doubtful after the clattering he took against Hearts from Kingsley. The rest are back in training and will be needed as soon as they are ready for action before our season is beyond repair. It looks as though the best we can do this year is survive and get the youngsters some valuable game time ready for next season. This is not a drill!

Alloa will make it difficult and for the first time ever we will probably be regarded as underdogs in this fixture. Their mix of experience, young loanees and dogged journeymen have been good enough to hold the Indian sign over us recently and I see little evidence that will change this weekend. Loan signing Innes Cameron seems to be prospering with game time and Innes Murray likes a free kick, both scoring against us in the last couple of meetings. 

Here's a wee reminder that not all left feet are just for standing on....

 

 

 

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1-1. Toddy!

Picked out by Sutherland and well finished by Toddy. 

Edited March 6, 20215 yr by Robert

Good equaliser.  Maybe Toddy should have been starting every gamr!

Great goal. Out of the blue. Have to admit I was about to post that they were all over us. Hope we can build on this.

What’s Duffy doing over there?

Saved by Ridgers again.

Just as we seemed to be getting on top. 

Ridgers was lucky there

Yes, lucky not to be 2-1 down!

We are not good enough to play it out like this. Ridgers kick out straight to Cameron. Lucky escape as he blasted wide. That’s a few times Ridgers has been under pressure trying to pick out a pass.

Followed by another decent save by Ridgers when Cameron in on goal. Alloa will feel they should be in front.

Edited March 6, 20215 yr by Robert

Miss the away trip to Alloa normally have something to eat at the KFC we keep seeing in the background 😂

You can say that again!

The boy got away from Brad there. Wonder if Devine is carrying a knock or McCann has just dropped him.

Half time

Well, lucky to be level. We simply must mark Cameron better, he is getting too many shots in. Looks like a horrible surface to play on!

1-1 at half time.

Fast start by Alloa and they have had the better chances, with Ridgers keeping us in it.

Good equaliser and we’ve had our moments but playing less offensively than we were used to under Robbo.

I feel we are still trying to get to grips with the style of play McCann wants, playing it our from the back, and Alloa’s pressing means we are struggling to keep possession.

According to the BBC, Alloa have had 10 attempts, 6 on target whilst we have had 3 with 2 on target. Possession has been pretty even, but most of ours has been in our half!

This game can go either way. If we can keep possession better we can win this. If not, we can easily lose this.

Morton and Ayr drawing just now but looks some game at Arbroath with 5 goals by half time. 

Edited March 6, 20215 yr by Robert

Around the grounds

 

Devine on for Harper! An injury?

Deas to left back presumably.

Edited March 6, 20215 yr by Robert

Has Harper taken a knock?

Who's playing at LB?

Sutherland with a chance but a good save by the Alloa keeper

2 minutes ago, WYNESS101 said:

Has Harper taken a knock?

Who's playing at LB?

Deas.

Didn’t see anything and only 2 minutes into second half so maybe Harper was given time to try to run a knock off. Just before the change, Storey was giving him more cover so may well be a knock. 

Edited March 6, 20215 yr by Robert

2 minutes ago, WYNESS101 said:

Has Harper taken a knock?

Who's playing at LB?

Looks like Deas has moved over to LB

How did Sutherland not tuck that in?

Just needed to lift it over the ‘keeper’s leg but put it wide.

 

Edited March 6, 20215 yr by Robert

Sutherland with a great chance to make it 2-1 but drags his shot just wide

Another decent save by Ridgers from the free kick. His kicking today is still making me nervous though.

Ayr leading Morton now.

Mackay on for Storey. 

Edited March 6, 20215 yr by Robert

Strange substitution, just when Storey was looking more dangerous!