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I would love for us to score 3 against the arabs but it will be hard since we're playing St Mirren Aye aye... arabs, minks middens they're all the feckin same to me....

Hey folks, I said a good while back that our season will really begin in December. No need to worry, as I had said if we can stay within touching distance with the rest, and get our injuries down then it will change in the month. Our injuries are clearing, just 2 or 3 out now, those back are getting fitter, and we now have a run of games throughout December and January where we can win. November was going to be very very difficult to get any points out of the 3 games, the media hyped good footballing Killie away, The we are all Neil Lennon bandwagon at home, and Jam tarts away. Thought we might just get one point out of the nine, but we got Three, and our goal difference stayed the same as the start of the month. Now December brings St Mirren away, Dundee Utd home, Rangers Away, Aberdeen Home, Hibs away, and January has St Johnstone home, Mothers away, and Hearts and St Mirren both t home. We will start to pick up points, our goals conceded will reduce, and we will get off the basement. Have faith. Can also see Kilmarnock getting dragged back down towards the bottom soon, although I think Hibs will now improve enough. Between Pars, Dons and Killie for me to be rplaced by the caravan dwellers

What I can't understand is no-matter what manager it is at ICT, Proctor always seems to get a game. I don't rate him at all!

Two very different performances either side of half time. 1st half had us attacking Hearts on several occasions, Tade getting his routine 1 on 1 that he passed up and Shinnie cracking the side netting with a great turn and shot. For most of the first half Hearts huffed and puffed but produced very little and Tokely and Meekings in paticular were producing some solid performances, Meekings was especially composed at dealing with Templeton. 2nd half the good old crap defending returned in an astonishing 15 seconds approx. Couple of passes, one punt and suddenly Skacel has all the space and time he needed with everybody looking at each other wondering what went wrong, eejits. We struggled on but won a free kick which was well dispatched by Jonny with Rosscoe catching on his head very nicely. The problem was though we failed to build on the equaliser. Hearts began pressing more and more and sadly Proctor came on just to confuse matters and make life easier for Templeton and then a few moments later Hearts win the game with Jonsson having all the space needed to head home. Points go to Tokely, Meekings and Esson. Tokely gave a solid display at the back, winning his fair share and probably cheesed of with what surrounded him. Also grabbed his goal very nicely. Meekings seems to have a wise head on those young shoulders. Today was a big test for him against Templeton and i thought he coped very well and it was only when he went off that we began to struggle at the back. Think Terrys made a decent find there. Esson also did his best to keep Hearts at bay was again let down by others around him. My qualms for the day go to our midfield who tryed far too hard to impress, Davis looked lost, Tansey got it wrong alot and Tade got very little service and more often than not was feeding of punts. Another goes to the overall quality of our defence. Hogg and Gillet were poor but i know for a fact they can both do better, but we need better quality brought in during January. It baffles me that our managment team is made up of internationally decorated defenders that cant even patch together 1 clean sheet in 16 games.

Defence is the biggest problem for me. That was supposed to be our strongest back four out there yesterday and they were feckin abysmal at times. We have no real competition either, our back four were poor yesterday but are defnitely capable of doing better but the likes of Proctor and Golobart are meant to be cover? Get a grip. The managment have to take the fall for this because Tokely and Esson aside this is Terry's defence mainly and it is clearly not up to scratch, i think it needs to be priority in January if the funds are there. Alot of our success over recent years has come from having a solid foundation at the back and was never really tinkered with and when it was it usually proved to be our downfall in games. We are nearly 6 months into the season now on the back of wholesale changes and we still havent found that solid foundation and suprise suprise our main downfall has been poor defending.

Agree with above. I certainly think Proctor is a liabilty in the team.

I was listening to the game on line and as soon as they said Meekings was going off for Proctor I said 'That's that then, we've lost this one'. :irritated:

When you concede 2 goals week in week out, it's hard to pick up points.

Quelle surprise! Bin him.