dead_ball_specialist

What game were you watching????

Esson Didn't have much to do, a couple of good stops early in the second half. The hearts goal was a bit soft, he could have done better. 6/10 Tokely Best player on the pitch. Worked himself to exhaustion and kept going, great ball control and composure throughout, strong in the tackle at the back and probably our most dangerous attacking threat when Wilson came off. 9/10 Proctor Some crunching tackles, he floored Nade a few times despite probably being half of his weight. 8/10 Munro Composed, read the game well, strong in the tackle, great distribution. 8/10 Hastings Recovered well from his midweek mare, looked solid. Got into some good attacking positions on the overlap and put in some decent crosses (although I wish he would be a bit more daring and cut inside sometimes like tokely on the right, he's got the pace and body strength to be a more potent attacking threat) 7/10 Wilson Our most creative player by miles. Good going forward and equally good tracking back. We missed him when he came off. Brilliant dribble and cross early on to set up a sitter for barrowman who fluffed it. 9/10 Black Unlucky to get injured. 6/10 Duncan Solid 7/10 Imrie Was hacked off the park by hearts players throughout and looked very p*ssed off. Put himself about more than usual, didn't create a great deal in the final third. 7/10 Rooney Chased and harried for 90 minutes, held the ball well and usually picked out a pass. Missed a sitter just before half time. 7/10 Barrowman He didn't even get his shirt dirty. 3/10 McBain Looked a little rusty, not suited to the attacking midfield role but put in a shift. 7/10 Vigurs Not sure why he came on for Wilson (would have preferred a natural winger like sutherland) but used the ball well under pressure. 7/10 Wood Threw himself at everything, got stuck into the hearts defense and won almost every challenge, held the ball well. 8/10

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Can you enlighten me as to the positives, where we manage to scramble ONE goal, against a keeper who was there for the taking, against a team who hasnt won in its last 6 SPL games. Oh...and we were at home, starting with one up front. A positive would have been building on Saturdays performance, or at least showing the same appetite for the game Smee I think in the second half they did show some appetite for the game, it was like the players got a lift from the changes, 2 upfront and being positive, There was one time in the first half and they were taking a corner and there wasnt 1 ICT player in the Falkirk half, just not good enough at home. It was apparent to me in the second half that the players are happier when we are having a go at home. However I wonder if we hadnt gone in one down at half time whether the changes would have been made and the same drivel would have carried on in the second half There were two corners at Easter Road when we had all 11 players in the 18 yard box !! If we hadnt scored would the same drivel have carried on ? There's alot more boring drivel in this thread from the Brewster-haters than there was on the pitch tonight.

I felt we merited 3 points tonight, Falkirk were clinging on in the second half. We were virtually camped in their box for long spells but didn't get any breaks of the ball, the goal was perhaps fortunate but completely deserved. The substitutions turned the game in our favour, Rooney and Barrowman pressed hard, Barry Wilson was the best player on the pitch by a country mile. In the second half we really got stuck in, Falkirk floundered when we started pressing them. When we started charging, tackling hard, pushing men up the park etc we dominated the game. Why don't we play like this ALL THE TIME at home???? I'm suprised at the hysterical negativity on this thread, tonights performance was encouraging. If we play the same way on saturday (as we started the second half) then we have a great chance. One downer, Hastings was awful. He looked a nervous wreck, his confidence is shot. He needs some time on the bench. McBain should start at left back on saturday.

The frustrating thing is that whenever he's played for the first team (certainly at home) he's looked brilliant, yet he still gets overlooked.

He's not good enough for the SPL, end of story.

That's a lot of bullshlt. Aaron and Bens' parents are paying the price. Their sentence won't end in 7 years. His parents only know about the celebration because hate mongering tabloid journalists have turned the celebration into a media circus. It's amazing how easily people adopt a lynch-mob mentality.

I don't see what the fuss is about. Just another silly media-manufactured 'outrage'. Nothing wrong with showing support to your friend in hard times. You don't write a man off because he makes a mistake. He got in his car when he'd had a drink, foolish and irresponsible - but he doesn't deserve to be ostracised like he's some kind of monster. He's paying the price for what he did and will no doubt be haunted by guilt for the rest of his life.

Inverness City, only a matter of time until they'e in the SFL IMHO.

He's one of the poorest goalkeepers in the SPL, we can do better.

Metallica are coming to the SECC on March 26th.

"Van Zanten and Makalambe made to look silly there" lol

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Paterson was the best we've ever had and if he got his house in order I'd welcome him back.

Wow! What a sensible, reasoned contribution. Did you go to law school? You've completely convinced me.

"Really sorry - but I have now listened to that five times and, from a psychological perspective - I am DISGUSTED." IHE What planet are you on mate? This entire thread is exactly the same as one last year after we lost 3-0 to Kilmarnock. Total hysteria. Fantacists claiming to have 'inside information' that Brewster is going to walk away. Political conspiracies behind the scenes. Robbo is coming back blah blah blah. The sky didn't fall in back then, and it isn't about to fall in now. The current ICT team is NOT the worst ever, in fact it has the makings of the BEST ICT team ever (Imrie, Munro, Duff, Proctor, Cowie, Vigurs, Rooney, Barrowman, Wood, Black etc have not yet reached their peak) There are no mickey mouse teams in the SPL anymore, standards have risen since we first arrived. We have lost key players to rival SPL teams with bigger cheque books. Right now we are 5 points off the top 6 despite not having the rub of the green at all. We are a better side than Falkirk, St Mirren and Hamilton. We held our own against the champions and should have beaten them. Only one team has gubbed us, helped in large part by a goalkeeping disaster. Sacking the manager would be a very big mistake indeed IMHO. Why take such a big gamble? In completely exaggerating how bad we are, some of the more excitable posters on this board seem to have lost sight of the fact that things could be MUCH MUCH WORSE.

Exactly. We are on a bad run but we certainly AREN'T a bad team. Results will come with patience. Spitting the dummy after a defeat against a strong rangers team at Ibrox is just ridiculous. The game was beyond us early on thanks to Mikey blunder boy, sh"t happens. Esson will finally be between the sticks next week, so I guess every cloud has a silver lining. It isn't a hard luck story to say we deserved more from most of our games this season, it's just stating the facts. We could easily have taken 12 points from our home games against Hamilton, St Mirren, Celtic and Motherwell but for a single break of the ball or refereeing decision either way. There's far too much knee-jerk emotion and not enough logic going on in this thread. Brewster has signed good young players, we are fit and usually well organized. Yesterday apart, we have never lost by more than a single goal this season. The problem is that we aren't putting the ball in the back of the net. Sacking the manager is not the solution.

Better the devil you know.

Far too many soft goals, time for a change.

Was it time for Brew to go when we lost 5-0 at celtic park last season? Get a grip.

We have more points than we did at this point last season under Charlie Christie. And any reasonable observer would accept that we deserve to have far more points. Most of our defeats this season have been knife-edge. I can't comment on away games, but we certainly deserved to beat Hamilton, St Mirren and Motherwell. And we also deserved at least a point against Celtic. Brewster has tried to give youth a chance, surely he deserves credit for that? He could easily have stuck with the old guard, but I applaud him for giving Duff, Vigurs, Wood, Rooney and Imrie a push. We have a young side that will only get better with time, coaching and experience. This is a time for patience not hysteria. Under Brewster we are also a fit, professional, organized, workmanlike side - this certainly wasn't the case when he departed. People forget how sh"t we were under Christie / Park. We aren't exactly a shambles at the moment. We aren't the finished article by any means but I think we certainly have the foundations of a good side in the making.

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I don't rate Fraser at all, he's young but that means nothing. Some goalkeepers don't peak until their mid thirties! From what I've seen of Esson he reads the game better both in positioning himself in anticipating opponents efforts and in his distribution of the ball.