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Yesterday just wasn’t our day. Yes, we could have been better; nonetheless, they were well organised and surprisingly fit and the goalie made some outstanding saves. And yes we’ve had some poor performances/results recently, but this management team and players have also provided us with many great performances/results so please hold off on excoriating them.

On another day after another poor result every other comment includes the line 'we need to take more shots' As illustrated yesterday, this tactic serves only to enhance the keepers reputation, along with giving up possession. It's a fine balance between keeping the ball for possessions sake or shooting on sight. It's the tempo of the play which dictates the good shooting chances, moving it quickly, creating space for a pass or a shot. When we're faced with packed defences we need to play the guys who can operate at speed, move& think fast. This is the case in nearly every game now and will be for the rest of the season, we should be getting to grips with this by now.

Ha! sorry to take this off topic, but as far as Palace are concerned, we can almost map the start of this debacle from the 'multi-club' ownership nonsense, when we were supposed to have got one of the American part owners to have sold his shares in Palace back in March, just in case we won the FA Cup, and his other team qualified for the Europa league. Also we have started building a new stand which will cost us £150million, so I guess that is a big factor in what we can spend on the squad. Sorry again for slightly hijacking the topic... Caley are now like Palace, we have a bit of breathing space to catch up on our fixtures!

At least Spartans were only one league below us! It's weird how a high scoring team suddenly stops scoring, but we just have to keep working at it In terms of whether Kells knows our best team ... what do people consider to be our best team? I will kick it off, the starting 11 Goalie...obvious Back four? Macleod, Savage, Devine, MacIntyre Midfield McKinnon, Wotherspoon, Stewart, Allan Upfront Zimba, Longstaff I've lit the blue touch paper! Meanwhile back at the Palace! [for heavens sake, don't mention them!]

Literally the man for the job!!

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