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Ouch. We look so inept and error prone at the back. Would be nice to think we were getting all the mistakes out of our system before the league season starts!

https://www.scottishfa.co.uk/media/1849/suspensions-for-players-in-mens-football-annex-c-section-4.pdf Looks like Remi misses the nest League Cup match based on my understanding from this i.e. it was a gesture!!! See '2. Serving of Suspensions in relation to offences committed in a Specified Cup Competition' Remi attempted to loft the ball to the referee but as luck would have it similar to the game he missed and the referee took offence.

A score to forget, but a performance to learn from. Raith entirely worthy of the win, but it wasn't a 5-1 performance from either side. We were quick out of the blocks and Alonge could have opened the scoring. The double from Raith knocked the stuffing out of the defence and they looked lacking in confidence and were making silly mistakes from there on. This seemed to spread throughout the team and everything just felt a bit disjointed. We had chances and 'on another day' might have lessened the pain. Honestly think after losing the two quick goals we panicked and any game plan suffered from that. A painful lesson, but not ine I'm overly concerned with. Lot of new players, not as much experience as we might like, and a lot of pressure with our new owner building expectations of promotion this season.

This may turn out to be a timely reality check and ensure we are focussed on hitting the ground running next Saturday at Kelty. Better to lose today, when our chances of qualifying were slim, than in a league game. But I agree, we do need to get a striker in or that could be our achilles heel again.

A big wake up call this score line. I know Hamilton have their troubles and we are odds on favourites but we’ll need to improve drastically to have any chance of winning this league. I know the youth players are doing well but I can’t help but look at the bench during these games and think there isn’t much experience there to change it up.

Scroll to the end of the match highlights, ref blows whistle for end of game, ball appears at savage, he punts it up the park, closely missing the ref and he produces the red card and points to the tunnel.