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Expected more from Sutherland but also Storey both completely faded after the first 20 mins. Liked the look of Duffy could be a real find also Allardice. 

Dissapointed with the substitutions lost the shape totally in the end,hanging on a wee bit. Will take the point though.

Harper looking a wee bit isolated on the left ,needs more support in front of him.

Think Storey's woeful penalty sums us up. 

No leadership or direction .

ffs who decided he is the penalty taker anyway. Looked like school playground, players grabbing and holding onto the ball.

Absolutely pitiful we couldnt put away a part time team on our own patch. 

F***ing rank defending.

Keatings everyday on penalties 

Honestly, did anybody really anticipate any other outcome. Mediocre is being kind, management have been coasting for years.

On 2/4/2021 at 7:54 PM, Stirling Observer said:

Really annoyed again to have established control in the game and looking likely to win, only to throw it away for the 2nd game in a row. Not sure what the cause is. Fatigue/ motivation? Did the wind die off as they seemed to cope much better towards the end of the 2nd half and could have won the game. 

Ridgers was fine. Duffy and Harper were much improved from last week. Keatings was linking well and I think Robbo needs to recognise he made the wrong call bringing on Allardice. While I don't think Allardice, Welsh or Vincent had bad games, you can't play those 3 together. They are so similar and lateral. Vincent tried to play further forward but his natural instinct is to play deeper. Carson is another similar player. Robbo needs to pick 2 from the 4 not shoehorn them into other positions. Imo it should have been MacGregor on for Keatings. 

Sutherland was playing really well at the target man but then got moved out wide. Not sure why. We created very little after and didn't change back. 

McKay/Toddy did okay. Storey had a good first half. Mackay was okay. Doran looks disinterested.

 

There is potential there, but worryingly there are many more problems to iron out. 

 

Let's just hope the dimwits who run Scottish football do not decide to follow last years debacle, and can the season any time soon. With us in the bottom 2, we really need to get some points on the board.

Is it a possibility that he just cant  get the best out of the players he's got. 

Absolutely no probs with Brad McKay ,decent enough centre half and can count himself very unlucky not to be playing there instead of Devine. My issue is that we rely on him at full back when clearly that is not his preferred role.

Manager doing him no favours at all playing him constantly out of position. 

Needa right back desperately before anything 

That was absolutely garbage. Thank christ I didn't have to sit in the cold and watch that. Absolute scandal we never replaced Rooney if Robertson thinks that Brad Mackay is a full back he's a worse manager than I thought he was.

To be fair Sutherland at least looks interested,the rest by f*** are so poor.

A fully fit James Keatings is key to our promotion challenge. Excellent delivery at set pieces and  pivotal linking up the play when we resist playing the long/diagonal ball.

Good performance from Todorov at centre half although to be fair QoS offered very little. 

Slight change of approach with Storey through the middle and Keatings supporting ,worked quite well and a refreshing change from Plan A.

Surprised to see Harper starting in an advanced role ahead of Doran or Walsh but he did ok and looked pretty comfortable. 

Let's not f*** it up against Arbroath and Partick and start pushing on.

That's 9 conceded in the last 3 games, needs sorting and quickly.

1 hour ago, Polo Chick said:

We are crap there is no sugar coating it Robbo clearly cant change his tactics when things do not work but this is what happens when you dont strengthen the team in January to secure second place Toshney will probally be out for weeks now which leaves us Brad  I just get the feeling that so many players are away at end of season so dont give a S**T . One other thing has Shane Sutherland scored a goal for Elgin since signing his pre season contract ?  So many chances to  make up ground on DU not taken its really not good enough

Absolutely spot on, letting both your first choice centre halves leave half way through the season is totally bizarre. 

Wonder what JR pearls of wisdom will be this time. Usually  comes out with how we need to put a run together to pull clear in 2nd and invariably we never do.

5 minutes ago, MuirtownJaggy said:

Another disappointing result, just when we should be pushing to consolidate 2nd.

I should say ,cannot use the old and tired excuse of one of the smallest budgets in the league on this one. 

Not just the part timers we have struggled against nothing from nine against Dundee Utd is not good enough also.

Pity we cant seem to get the second goal when we are on top and dominating games. Would have made for a more comfortable watch last night.

Standout for me last night was Tremarco, get the contract extension on the table now and let's not risk the usual end of season cluster.

Easily one of our better players., Needs much  more support and effort from whoever plays in front of him, be it Walsh, Doran or Storey.

13 hours ago, RiG said:

I know life doesn't work this way but if, at the end of the season, we had been pumped by Hibs, lost the Challenge Cup final but somehow got promoted I would take that.

Great to see a vocal support at a game again. Wish they were there every week. Maybe the club could try and find out what is stopping these guys from going on a more regular basis. We need all the support we can get especially as our home grounds continue to dwindle.

Would take promotion every time over any Cup Final, but going to have to put together a consistent run of games between now and April.

Seems DUFC are not as unbeatable as JR would have us believe in his press conference's. 

Cup run surely should consist of more than two games, so cannot get exited by our cup run. Same as last year, first time we came up against better opposition we were well beaten.

Whenever we lose against so called better teams, the budget is the first thing that comes up. If that's the case previous managers should never had matched up against Celtic,  Hearts etc and we should never ever got a sniff of Europe.  Good tactics, organisation and well motivated players win football matches not bags of money.

Mate we just got tanked by an average Hibs team. FFS if it wasn't for Mark Ridgers it would have been double figures .