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She was 52 in 1994 - Happy 77th Birthday MrsCaleyjag ?

A damming enditment of the nick of our fans eh cutting about in 4xl footy tops is never a good look

Our style of play needs to change for sure and has been evident all season. We have players who can take the ball down and run at defence but the mental block we have with tactics and persistent long ball won't a loud it. Have to agree with you regards the management team and their thinking.

Indeed, I married a cougar who showed me the error of my ways not least my choice of teams and here we are ......... ?

Don’t understand why Vincent is being slagged off. Issues are around long ball to a player who never holds it up and being supported by Keatings who either stands looking at the opposition getting to the ball first or has no end product. Will save the standard of crossing for another day

Punted long balls, no midfield distribution and very little upfront. I think we have better players than our performances have shown. I think the management team are our issue right now.

Hope the commentary sounded okay for those who were listening in. Thought the first half was great entertainment. Arbroath had no interest in sitting deep and pushed players forward when they could with Linn the obvious threat on the left. He had a shot over the bar with his left foot and a right footed one saved comfortably by Ridgers early. Meanwhile Keatings kept popping up in the space in front of their centre backs and was the creator of almost everything good for us. Doran got in behind twice, but the first time he struggled to get the ball out of his feet and shot tamely and the second time he took too long and allowed Jamieson to block. Keatings then had an audacious overhead kick which looked terrific from my vantage point but was probably an easier save than it looked. So since we were on top, of course Arbroath went and scored. Ridgers flapped at a cross, the ball fell to Linn and instead of racing out to block his shot our players all tried to form a wall on the goalline. So Linn did the sensible thing and just leathered it. Having seen the footage at half-time I think Ridgers should still have saved it. He got a hand on it but was beaten by the power. Crucially we got level just before half-time. Unsurprisingly it was Keatings who played the killer pass (Polworth-esque!) and this time Doran finished the one-on-one. Half-time probably came at the wrong time for us as we looked like kicking on. After the break we started slowly; whilst Doran had another half chance so did Arbroath with one that somehow got flicked away from goal at the front post. The decision to bring Storey on for White kinda made sense as Arbroath were playing a super-high line but White's linkup play had been decent. And with Arbroath now tiring they dropped so deep that their central midfielders were on top of their centre-backs...and therefore denying Keatings any space to orchestrate in. That said when Storey went wide we didn't look any more threatening. Whilst the visitors were now leggy and sitting deep they defended pretty comfortably...until Storey cut in from the left and had a speculative shot that looked like a comfortable save at the near post, only for it to end up in the far corner via Jamieson's hands. It was an absolute gift. I'd love to hear what Dick Campbell said when that happened! Over the 90, we deserved the three points but anyone expecting a comfortable win will have been disappointed. As mentioned above I thought Keatings was terrific. Walsh had the beating of the full-back all day long and our central defenders were excellent in and out of possession. That was as good as I've seen Rooney defensively too, he was well disciplined and dealt with Linn very well. The obvious problem is in central midfield. Vincent's energy proved crucial in the later stages but Carson looks like he's still getting used to playing at this level. His decision-making wasn't great and he was too hesitant. We miss Welsh's confidence on the ball so much. A midfield duo of Welsh and Tansey (hey, I can dream!) would make us an altogether different proposition. Three points are three points. We only won five home league games last year so it's not to be sneezed at.

Vincent and Carson in midfield together just doens't work. Would definetly say Vincent's the poorer of the two. Nobody wanting to get on the ball and find a pass into feet to the forwards or wingers.

Daniel Hoban and Daniel Mackay sent on loan to Elgin City Read it HERE Aye, give youth a chance he said............

Yeah I suppose but then on the flip side Arbroath made it difficult to get into quality crossing positions. Maybe if players had started making runs to the front post, we may have got more chances to score. In regards to the Arbroath defenders as players I don't think they were better than any in the Caley defence. I think it's the more the fact they are so well drilled defensively and know what their doing as a unit. If Caley can get the sort of cohesiveness defensively as last season then things will definetly start looking better.

3 points at the end of the day no matter how we got them! See the style of plays getting slated remember the same s£it when yogi had us playing good passing football been spouted a lot of fans wanted route 1 stuff then no point crying now wev got it!

Good player hungry for it as well! Never no some club might be insane enough to come in for some of our players make space could probs do with a central midfielder instead Carson and so far Vincent don't seem up 2 it

Unfortunately the manager seems to only to have one way of playing regardless if its a strong Dundee Utd away or an average part time team at home .The formation and tactics remain exactly the same. Scraped by today but only just and that was down to a bad error by their keeper.

That was pretty woeful. Took a mate down to watch and he left at half time! First half looked nervous and devoid of any creativity. Ball spent most of the time being lumped into the air and then a series of head tennis. No one made any movement or created any space. They all looked to be waiting for someone else to do it. Dave Carson’s touch in first half was poor but he definitely improved. Not quite sure man of the match though! A shame Jack Brown who is now with the Fort, hasn’t been given a chance he has drive energy and great technique. Hopefully he’ll be back stronger after a season in adult football Rooney made some great bursts but seems to get past players with a mix of determination and complete luck. Second half was a bit better. White looked totally despondent when he came off - very interesting body language. Storey added a bit of pace but his touch in general play was rough. Todorov came on and whacked a few boys and looked like he wanted to fight. Overall, it’s worrying to see the ball lumped aimlessly from back to front so often. The times we did look like breaking them down it was through some decent passing and movement - there’s just not enough movement to create space - there were a lot of pedestrians out there - does that come down to attitude? Now off to find my pal who went to the pub

Three points but not much else to enthuse about. Dreadful defending for the Arbroath goal but at least we fought back to win. When Storey came on it made a difference and he took his goal well albeit with a bit of assistance from the Arbroath goalie! Robertson must surely have a good look at his starting line up especially up front - we were toothless until changes were made.

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Just when you think an old bulb needs changed it fires into life.

Exactly!! Limited is a relative word. It could have been limited to e.g. the season

Daniel Mackay didn't stand a chance of getting game time with us bringing in Todorov, Keatings and Storey so in a way it makes sense to get it elsewhere. Remind me though why our management team repeatedly big up our youngsters stating how good they are only to repeatedly ignore them.

Wow don't mean to be big headed but I look fckin amazing in the new strip brings out my receding hairline and double chin a treat

Totally agree that Vincent does not deserve the criticism, he put in a great shift. The lack of quality in our crosses must be addressed, no wonder White was disappointed in being taken off not one decent cross to attack

Another point big shout out to Miles Storey getting the 1st of what will be many goals this season and to think it was a NO from most fans on here eh football authorities that they are!