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They are common names around the squad these days since administration. Obviously, Longstaff, Davidson, Bavidge, Nicolson would all be pretty much first choice, with MacLeod the promising newbie coming through this season but has been injured a few times. Cairns has floated in and out of illness, presumably this appendix op might take care of that. Jack, Shae and Ben Corner have all taken their place on the bench in our time of needs. Nicolson has carried that injury over from last season and would probably have been a shoe in at left back for this season. It's not their fault they have been thrust into the spotlight in our hours of need. These are the future of the club and have given us a bench this season. We have been running with a bare bones bench for a while now. Time to get behind them rather than knock them.

I don’t mean any disrespect to the players out injured. I just meant that we seem to be playing on the fact we have so many injuries when only a handful of these would even be getting game time if fit.

Good news it is the Battery Company being dissolved not the football club company!!

We need to remember that Billy is due a goal. Born goal scorers like him cant go on forever without scoring and now could not be better time.

Play Bray or Stewart up front. Drop Mckay to the bench, or move him into midfield if he insists on playing. There is zero point in continuing to play him as a striker, he offers no threat and all of our opponents know it!

Maybe a change of tactics is needed. For some time now since Administration began the philosophy was we must now start winning games. Admittedly the squad numbers have been depleted recently by injuries and a key player suspension but the need now is not to lose games. In days gone by eking out an extra point or two could have saved us - relegation both from the SPFL and Championship!! Starting this Saturday it needs a more cautious approach with regard to defence not that this means 11 behind the ball. However, charging off at speed in the first 25 minutes will not succeed. We played really well against Cove in the Scottish Cup so need to try and repeat the desire to stop losing.

Let's hope it was just "one of those days". That was my first away game for quite a while and it was so disappointing to see such a poor performance from the boys. Despite disappointing results in the last 2 home games, they played much better in those than in this dismal defeat. As Scott says, we weren't too bad to start out with and we got into a lead with a smartly worked goal from a quick free kick. Unfortunately, we conceded a soft goal soon after and from then on Queens seemed to be fired up and our heads went down. With Savage missing from the back line and Nolan taking a knock and having to be replaced early in the 2nd half, we needed the midfield and front players to step up and keep the ball at the other end. Instead it was pretty pedestrian stuff with nothing like enough movement or driving forward. Queens showed them often enough how to do it and were quicker and more positive than us all over the park. We can maybe moan about the disallowed goal and the failure of the ref to award a stonewall penalty, but the fact is that for the last 60 minutes of the match we were totally outplayed. I looked over to the technical area and I had this image of Big Dunc standing there in his pullover in the driving rain, hands by his side and making occasional gestures to a player to pass the ball backwards or not to encroach beyond the half way line. Yes, it really was that bad!

10 months of conditioning under the previous manager doesn't easily disappear.

Why can’t these players not do what Scotty wants! bc