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https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=484132085042589&id=100003374055962&refsrc=http%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2FR88MUqs4Re&_rdr Leigh Griffiths pre match

Europe? Seriously?

Just watched the highlights. Not convinced at all about the red card for Meekings. I think that Shinnie has gained enough ground to cover the touch away from goal to mean that it isn't a clear goal scoring opportunity.

I note that Hughes said that he subbed Mckay because he was absolutely shattered. I'd wager that he was so exhausted because of the limited support he is now getting and all the extra work that he is having to do to chase aimless balls thumped over his head and hold the ball up before his team mates get anywhere near him to support him. It's no coincidence that as Hughes tinkered with the formation and style of play the goals for Mckay have dried up. Four goals in all competitions since January compared to seventeen before.

Vincent is being hung out to dry by Hughes continuing to try and play him wide on the left. The sooner this stops and he gets moved in to the middle the better. That's where we will see the best of him.

Works for me also.

#TeamRoberts # Swaggy #CrepeCheck

like Butcher ? If Butcher was bullying players then that should be condemned and I wouldn't want him back.

I think Esson got injured before the season started and Brill and the defence were so solid for a long time he just never got a look in. Not the case now though sadly!

I think Danny Williams is left footed.

I wouldn't want Calderwood anywhere near our club. He's a bully and a complete reptile.

The recent 0 - 0 draw against Hibs will live long in the memory.

Life size cardboard cut outs of Andrew Shinnie.

Can't say I enjoyed him having a go so publicly at Brill tonight. Not exactly going to do wonders for the keepers confidence.

I'll be there

He's been booked seven times. http://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=37206

Tremarco is suspended.

I hope John Hughes sticks with set up that ended the game against Partick and that we line up as follows: Brill Raven Warren Meekings Shinnie Draper Tansey Watkins Vincent Doran Mckay Foran appears to have gone on some kind of psychotic rage recently and seems to be trying to get himself sent off by flying needlessly into challenges. Wouldn't be adverse to seeing him dropped. Hopefully Doran is back in with a shout of playing and if so I would have him on the left with Shinnie and Watkins on the right. Keep Vincent in the middle please. If Foran does play I would move Tansey up behind Mckay and drop Vincent.

Lazy copy and paste from P & B. ----------------------- Great post from SLJ. Can't really argue with any of that. Partick definitely had the better of the first half. We struggled to get to grips with Erskine, Taylor and Higginbotham who all found space in behind our defence on a number of ocasions. Only some good goalkeeping from Brill kept us in it. We had actually started the game the better of the two sides but after about five minutes Partick dominated. Our best chance fell to Draper but his tame pass / shot was easily gathered by Gallacher. Partick had great chances for Taylor when he cut inside and left Warren on the floor before smashing it straight at Brill. He also forced Brill into a great save from a free kick and was denied a third time when Brill again was equal to another effort after he again cut in from the left. Tansey had a good chance when he hit a quick half volley but he pulled it wide. Up until this point we had been playing 4-1-4-1 with Foran appearing to be playing as the slightly deeper midfielder. At half time Hughes, thankfully, moved us back to the old 4-2-3-1 which saw Tansey move further up field and support Mckay who was an incredibly isolated player in the first half. At one point when he had the ball about 35 yards from the Partick goal there were no other ICT players in the same half as him. The formation chance quickly paid dividends as Tansey started to link well with Mckay and Williams was able to offer more width than he had done in the first half and although Vincent continued on the left side and was always cutting in Shinnnie got forward in support of the attack much more effectively than he had done previously. A neat one two between Mckay and Tansey played in the midfielder who lifted the ball over the onrushing Gallacher but sadly it landed on the roof of the net despite Mckay being convinced that it was going in. Soon after Mckay had his best chance of the game as some patient, probing passing eventually played in Mckay who found himself in behind the Partick defence but he sliced his shot well wide of goal with just Gallacher to beat. However Mckay finally grabbed our first goal in 19 years of football when a lofted free kick from Shinnie found Draper at the back post and he nodded the ball back across goal to Mckay who bundled the ball home. Partick were much reduced as an attacking force in the second half. I can't recall any real chances for them although Taylor was denied a goal again this time by the assistants flag as he had strayed offside. Despite the away side being somewhat more toothless it was stil a nervy end to the game for ICT. Hopefully now Hughes will persist with the more settled 4-2-3-1 style that the team are so used to. If he is desperate to change the style we play then I hope that he waits until the end of the season because the team just doesn't seem ready for it just now. It's really disrupted us recently and could, come the seasons end, be looked upon as a major reason for missing out on the League Cup and / or a place in Europe.

You missed out this:

I seem to recall that I wasn't too keen on the Home top from the last two seasons but I must admit that, having bought it and seen it "up close", that it's actually quite smart. Hope the new home top is as good. Away top is quite smart as well. Hope the new sponsor is Harry Gows.

One goal in the last six games is hardly something to be chuffed about.

I've crunched these numbers in a previous thread () and there is definitely a tailing off in terms of fans coming along to games but we aren't alone. Back in 98/99 Killie had an average attendance of 11,184. This season their average attendance is 4,199. Motherwell in the same year pulled in crowds of around 8,000 on average. Now they aren't even above 5,000.

He karate kicked Nessie in the face.