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Loving the heads gone stuff when fans question the manager or club (again). Its reminiscent of when criticism wasnt welcomed of Dodds or the last regime - see how that all panned out!!! Certainly IMO entitled to question whether the manager is a strong enough character to drop his AM as clearly Billy is not playing based on contribution or ability anymore its clearly nepotism. I stand by my point that BIlly should be nowhere near starting in that team - this season he has systematically demonstrated an inability to lead the line, hold up play, turn a man or even score any goals. Why SK is not seeing this, its unclear and before anyone states 'we have no other options' - give Cairns 90 mins and see what he does while Alfie is out, he cant be any less dynamic. If we never brought in Bavidge we would be fighting Dumbarton for the drop its clear we now revert back to pre-xmas with dominating games, creating a bucket load of chances and seeing our central striker spurn great opportunities. Having scored 100+ goals for the club, its not just a dip in form, he's fallen off a cliff!! Without Alfie if the midfield dont score, we wont get goals - and dont start me on our corners and set piece play - lets try some variation rather than 8 players in the 6 yard box standing still!!!

Any club needs minimum of 3 international call ups to request to postpone. Unfortunately none of our young lads are selected so it's just Musa this time.

Imagine selling the investors the prospect of a League 2 club and then being challenged as to WHY the club never used the loan markets which were available to at least try establish us at L1 level. Some folks think we have a class of '92 sitting there being kept out of the squad by other youngsters taken on loan as a conspiracy to destroy their careers. Ignoring the pedigree of those coming in are all key youth players at parent clubs, have international experience at many levels and have shown that only Bray from our stable is remotely near the level of these guys. I'd expect Bavidge & Brannan to be in the Scotland U21s very soon - who from our club can we say that about?

Hardly a shock given his pedigree as captain of youth teams at all ages, plays for Scotland and had a trial at Spurs. Yet didnt stop fans questioning why he was signed ahead of our own youngsters who have and are nowhere near this level. Hopefully some of those critics have been attending games and seen Brannan play.

It's clear we need to score more goals. Since the demise of Duncball and his ultra caution which for its credit did yield a strong defence we are conceding a lot more. Therefore although we are more creative and forward thinking its putting new pressures on the team to require more goals. Bavidge has been a great bit of business and God knows where we'd be without him but it's getting harder for him to get space and play with the opposition aware of his threat. Several disagreed when I stated Billy was done before the season so now is the time for him to show otherwise and consolidate our push up the table. We've a teenager come in and score more in a month than our seasoned pro all campaign.

This is the business model of most of Scottish football (not just the lower leagues TBF) only most fans are too blinded to see it. Majority of clubs are in debt and its wiped out or covered by soft loans from director(s) - plenty clubs are one death or external business collapse from plunging into admin. Biggest shock is that so many are literally hanging on by the smallest margins every year.

We are producing some and have in the past but not the quantity we like and for many them seem unable to kick on from schoolboy or youth to adult football. The idea we have a significant number all ready for professional level football like some kind of Busby babes or class of 92 is deluded. The best of what we have is getting game time and supplemented with better quality within the realms of our limitations right now which can only help their development training and playing with those guys while showing where the bar is - noting they are closer to first team gametime than any equivalents over the last 20 years!!! Too many want this utopian highland team which they would turn on when the current youngsters who struggled at HL level get taken apart weekly but our opposition.

I'm sure if our youngsters were captain of their teams, played for Scotland and had Spurs taking them on trail too then we wouldn't be looking for reinforcements & improved quality within the constraints we have.

Great to see the benefits of having a confident and capable goal scorer in the team. Unfortunately unless we are in the Championship next season it's unlikely he will be back on loan with us.

His name suggests he may be the wrong flavour

Stop card payments and do cash only, too often they don't process and slows everything down Bigger and more signs as too many get to the front with no idea what they are ordering and take ages 'dithering' to decide Fully agree service pre game today was horrifically slow, took me 15mins and there was probably less than 10 people infront when I got there

Billy will not be our top scorer this season and I doubt he will even reach the number Danny sets

Everyone of them questionable decisions (including billy last season) except Brooks who never got a chance and cairns who's still young. If Dodds had actually played him in the right position and kept Oakley he'd have given better return than all of them.

Is that based on your view of what he used to do and faint hopes going fowards of recapturing that or what you have actually seen this season?

Do you think maybe one could play up front - cant be worse than what we have!!! Billy & Scott should get criticism, nobody at the club should be immune from it. 23/24 - 36 games - 8 goals (6 games under Dodds - Zero goals) 24/25 - 18 games - 1 goal (8 games as AM with Kells - Zero goals) Too many stating Billy never scored because Duncball, well clearly there has been opportunity to change that and what are we seeing? The return is awful and now its jointly sits as responsibility towards Billy & Scott. So either Kells is too scared to drop his AM or Billy too egotistical to see he's not performing - or both . If they wish to persist then the team tactics & formations need to develop to provide Billy a role which after the performances (even in games we win) its clearly not happening. And to anticipate the inevitable 'but there's more to his game' - the hold up play is poor, through balls are non-existant and I'm not sure where the on-field leadership & organisation is as our set pieces are too often honking and we look devoid of ideas. So yes, criticism is fair.

Cannot criticise Kells or Billy, must know that by now, just the same as for years nothing negative was to be said about Robbo or the board. Last year we know the big bad man came in and made it all go wrong, cant expect any of the professionals doing the job on the park to be held accountable too!!! Slowly the tide of opinions will turn, just takes longer in some quarters than others.

Quite a lot owed to hotel & catering (circa £40k) - wonder how much were necessary & justified business costs and not just directors running up expenses taking advantage of the position.

which games though this season he has been 'on it' as hes been poor in all ive seen. Return of 1 goal in 22 is a poor and if this was another player we had like Brooks or Ferguson they would be calls to be dropped. Billy can only have a limited 'credit in the bank' Overall we are lowest scoring team in the league, it's making hard work for our defence so there is need to do something

We are loosing games because we are so wasteful infront of goal and not taking the opportunities. Admittedly I didnt at the start of this season attend as many Dunc games (home or away) because truthfully there wasnt the motivation to travel to watch that turgid ***** every wk, under Kells there is a clear change in approach being much more direct and wanting to create rather than just possession based with focus 'not to loose;' rather than 'try to win'. Last 3 games we should have been out of sight by half time, but too often either shooting way of target of not making the right choices. Last year I had concerns and early this season, however put it down to Duncball, BUT Billy is done, his ability to hold up the ball, run behind is gone. When through his touch is heavy and looks completely devoid of any confidence which given his experience and role is not good enough - his single goal all season is testament to this (and he is our 'star' striker in many fans eyes and thought he was going to Golden Boot this diddy league). Given of lack of depth and experience he wont be dropped but we need to look at alternative formations and position for him - even if its sitting deeper to allow Cairns to play (may not be any better but give him a chance). Could we transition Billy into a holding mid, anchor role then push forwards likes of Bray or Longstaff - one for him & Kells to fix.

Hamilton 3-0. Foran punted that day and we would have stayed up that season I'm pretty sure

Tbf we could use the Dunc logic for his games where artificial pitches don't count, games we conceded don't matter and defeats are only considered if if they are against teams we don't play ........so technically dunc has a much higher record than many fans are giving credit

that not correct, however we wont be signing anyone for a fee or otherwise until the club exits administration To answer the question a mix of experience (journeymen), youth and either developing or early-mid career players is the only way we can proceed. However we have the challenge of contract duration to consider - too long and we carry burdens we possibly cannot afford if declines continue but not long enough and good talent leaves for free. The bigger decision (when) around players is whether we retain FT status or otherwise, however I suspect that moving forwards regardless of L1 or L2 it'll be hybrid at best

Imperative that decisions on players contracts and who will be remaining is made incredibly swiftly to allow preparations for the wknd and allow focus of mind. Cant allow this to drag at all and players (and staff) need to know if they be still be there on matchday or not - lingering uncertainty will do us no favours. Early days but genuinely see this Sat game at Dumbarton as huge. We win and its back to zero points and only 9 behind - physiologically I think that will be massive around the club to know we will be gaining positive points going forwards (this early) rather than fighting back from the negative state and feeling hard done by. Not withstanding the increased gap to the other teams a loss brings as well. After a win last wknd we need to build momentum and get a good feeling around the squad but feel that with the uncertainty many at the club will be focused on what this means for their careers or employment rather than playing a game. Big week in many ways and one for strong heads and maturity to take control - I'm not sure Dunc is the guy that can galvanise a squad but fingers crossed likes of Billy & Devine can (if they are still around)

You may be right and given some of what I'm reading there will be those that look back with sympathy for some of the complicit individuals all because the 'bug bad man' (SG) did it all. Scapegoating at its finest.