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I'm not a big fan of White and, like you, I think Oakley is our best striker. However I think he (White) is getting a hard time on this thread from people who are slagging him off when his finishing was not the big problem yesterday. We again created precious little and struggled to prize apart a very strong Alloa defence. White isn't the kind of striker who is going to create his own chances. He needs to be set up with a good cross or a ball over the top to chase. Those kinds of chances were in very short supply yesterday so as much as folk can go on about White not scoring there are other parts of the side should be getting some of the blame as well.

This coming week will have an effect on our season. Two wins and a few goals scored would be good. Defeat to either not good. I think a win Tuesday and at least a draw Saturday needed. Let's get right behind the team and provide support ?

Utterly dire again this week. All well and good keeping clean sheets but we are absolutely woeful in the final third and Robbo's substitutions are frankly mystifying in the face of irrefutable evidence that his first choice striker is not up to scratch. A carbon copy of last season when he stuck with Baird for way too long when it was patently obvious that he wasn't the answer. Praying that Oakley is fit soon and back amongst the goals. Worth noting that Alloa had the very decent looking Daniel Zanatta, on loan from Hearts, giving our defence a tough time of it today. Meanwhile Jambos legend Robbo managed to acquire the services of Angus Beith as part of he Mulraney "deal". Rather sums up our season. I fear the worst next week.

I don’t think the team is massively worse off that anyone else overall but we do lack a goal scorer and atm it is costing us places and losing us ground on the leading teams. Obviously dunfermiline on Tuesday is big in terms of giving us confidence going into the weekend. People think we will be battered next week but I don’t think we will as we have the best gk and best back 4. Defensively we are as strong if not stronger than anyone else in the league. Robbo needs to find a new set up to allow us to score more as we can’t keep it going as it is and hope we can nick games. Big week ahead

I went to a Rollerbowl night a few years ago. I was staying in the Fairways. After a good few sherberts I went to the Fairways bar for a night cap. The barman gave me my drink and added "Good night at the bowling Johndo" - I responded but then thought how does he know that I have been bowling. I asked him and he pointed down to my feet. Bowling shoes !!

Our problem is the lack of decent midfielders. Forwards need a good supply of balls and this is not happening

I agree that white is not our answer the games I've seen him play he is never on the end of crosses his positional awareness is shocking. He gets out jumped by players significantly smaller than him in stature and continually has the ball nicked off him. We don't have the luxury of having a striker who can't run at defences who has to wait for the perfect cross or pass to score we don't have the players to provide that. We need a striker like Austin or Oakley who will put in a shift to help mid field to run at defences and take on defenders. It needs to change and it needs to change now as we are becoming detached from the promotion race and if it continues the play off places.

There is your answer Naelifts in bold Rig is giving his opinion based on seeing most of the games. You blame White for the lack of goals but in the last 6 league games we as a team have only scored 5 goals and White has scored 3 of them . His game awareness is very good he lays balls off well set one up for Walsh yesterday, he wins flick ons and links play up , if you actually suss out what type of player he is, like Rig has done, then as a back to goal striker he is a very good at it. I personally think we should change to a 442 and have him playing with Oakley or Austin and on yesterdays performace young McKay did enough for me to be given an opportunity in a wide position. I understand most people look for a scapegoat but the facts would lead me to the belief you you are picking the wrong player to blame. I think people have preference for a particular type of player look at arguments about Messi and Ronaldo for instance but they are both excellent players. Same with our strikers they all have decent scoring ratios for the Championship that could get them into the top five scorers in the league. So surely we need to be looking at other players to step up and play like they did against Partick which was a wonderful first half performance by eveyrone and some even said it was the best performance in years of free flowing football. Sorry if Im going against the tide with this one, same as Rig but I base my judgement on what I see backed up by facts not preference of a particular type of player.

Oh come on RIG. This criticism of White is surely entirely fair. I dont like having a go at an individual and I realise you are an ever present whilst I attend less regularly. I have however seen enough of Mr White to be fairly sure that i am close to the mark. His game awareness appears poor.........where is the ball likely to be played.?...........anticipation of touches and knock ons......is amongst the worst I have seen from an ICT striker. He wins little in the air and rarely gets more than 6 ins off the ground when jumping. It is true we are short on creativity but all the more need then for a mobile,alert man up front giving 100% (I dont believe in 110% as I feel it is impossible......over to the mathematician Mantis). It is no coincidence that the goals have dried up with the current line up. I like Oakley at this level.......he really puts himself about and is our best option.........hurry back son. Cheers from Porto Santo. Oh and stop press from here..........Cristiano Ronaldo ,who owns half this island, is entirely innocent of all accusations..........

Saw spaces and angles that, in his prime, others could benefit from. The current bunch are decent Championship players but don't have his Premiership football brain. ...and yes, he might've lost a yard.

Not much point having a goal scorer in the pitch if we, erm, don't create goal scoring chances. That was dire today. Narrow pitch or not players like Doran and Walsh failed to provide any meaningful chances for White who is unfairly getting pelters on here. He really doesn't have much to work with most of the time. He's the kind of striker that plays with his back to goal so coming up against a team like Alloa that sits very deep he isn't going to get a lot of opportunities to score. We never stretched the play, we never managed to attack with any kind of pace or incision that allowed us to get in behind the home defence. We were just meh all over the park. MacKay probably had the best chance for us when, in the second half, he gambled on a ball being played in and Parry rushed out smartly to smother the shot. Aside from that we were desperately poor. Forget about County next week, we've got Dunfermline on Tuesday night first. Let's focus on that.

A truly arctic experience at the Indesit, sorry Indodrill gazebo this afternoon. Apart from a couple of years in the noughties, the Recs has never been an easy place to visit and so it proved. Alloa have been stuffy and hard to break down this season but they have what we lack (sorry, ONE of the things we lack) - a bit of pace on the break. They actually got down both flanks and got crosses in. They were the better team by a distance in the first half. Second half we dominated the possession as Alloa appeared to just want to hold what they had, but it was the usual overplaying, square balls from big Joe, and a lacklustre Polly trying to make a telling pass. Welsh was almost decent, but Doran was invisible again and Walsh just appears too lightweight most of the time. Calder slotted in reasonably well when Tremarco went off, but Brad continues to be a bit of a bombscare. We could have lost it late on when the Jambo rattled the bar with Ridgers a spectator. Apart from one season with Livi, Jordan White has never scored goals. The white Doumbaya. I’ve never felt that Daniel Mackay was quite ready for this level any time I’ve seen him, and I can understand Robbo giving him some game time, but what about winning the match? With Coll our talisman back, I think we’ll do a bit better next week than some are predicting, but scoring goals looks beyond us at the moment. Even if big George makes an appearance he’s never going to be match fit. Truly dire, dire times for us.

Not for the first time in our last 2 games, it has been quite apparent to me and all the people around me that we just aren’t going to score many goals with White as the striker. I’ll be diplomatic and say he is “not the most technically gifted” player, of which we’ve had many before such as Graham Bayne, but White doesn’t compensate for it with other attributes (eg pace, work rate, positioning, good in the air etc). Change needed upfront, and until Oakley returns Austin looks a livelier and more threatening option. Not that it’s all White’s fault. Shots at goal today from the rest of the team were mostly pretty woeful efforts.

A bit harsh although lack of finance can't be an entire excuse. Ayr United managed to unearth a prolific striker on a budget less than ours who propelled them to one promotion and may well take them to another. Livingston, fresh from league One last season, achieved promotion to the Premiership on a budget lower than ours and with crowds considerably lower than ours and look very like retaining that status even this early in the season. We really must start being more positive and taking more risks, maybe both on and off the pitch, if we are going to make progress.

Grim reading I'm afraid but it reflects the state of the club. The money is simply not there to be able to bring in the quality needed to get this club back into the Premiership. Looks like we will just have to go with what we have, and has been said already they are not really up to the job. The defence is holding up, but our lack of finances is showing up our wafer thin fragility.