DoofersDad

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ICT. Samuels

Opp. Rooney

Crowd 7931

Yellow. Broadfoot

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ICT. Billy Mckay

ST J. Rooney

Crowd. 3872

Yellow. Carson

It appears that Willie Collum also reports for the BBC.  This is what the BBC report said about Devine's red card.  "The visitors were reduced to 10 men when Devine contested a high ball with Jack Hamilton and the defender pulled the Arbroath frontman to the ground as he looked to race clear."  

Brilliant spirit from the lads winning in such difficult circumstances.  My thoughts are with Shane who was obviously in a lot of pain and looks to have sustained a pretty serious injury.  

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ICT. Samuels

Opp.  Jack Hamilton

Crowd. 4811

Yellow.   Little

As RiG says in his excellent summary, Arbroath's pressing in the first half was relentless.  They did it well but rarely made much of the opportunity when they won the ball.  But it is not something they can keep up for 90 minutes hence all the time wasting and other antics.  Arbroath's tactics suggest to me that they know we have the beating of them, but we do need to exploit our strengths better than we did last night.  We need to press them as hard as they pressed us last night.  We need to move the ball a bit quicker, use the width of the pitch better to make them work even harder and generally make our pace and fitness count.  It won't be easy though. and an enthusiastic home crowd will be  helping them find their reserves of energy.  It's a game I believe we should win but we need everyone to be on their game.  

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FT. 3-1

ICT. Samuels

Opp. Jack Hamilton

Crowd 2877

1st yellow. McKenna

Looked about right to me from the TV pictures.  I was expecting more away fans, but also it was pretty patchy in the Main and North stands.  Remember too that the league attendances are always boosted by counting ST holders whether they attend or not because they are deemed to have bought a ticket for the game.  Hopefully over the 3000 tonight.

2 hours ago, Robert said:

Did he not also get relegated with Hartlepool?

His spell here is really his managerial highlight, although I know there are many who give a lot of the credit to Terry Butcher (I’m not trying to spark that debate off again though). 

Yes he did, but to be fair to him, they actually improved under his tenure but not enough to avoid the drop.  I won't get involved in the debate either, but suffice it to say that one would assume Dunfermline will part company with Yogi  now and that he will find it difficult to get a job other than in a cycle shop.

HT. 2-1

FT. 2-2

ICT. Sutherland 

Opp. Graham

Crowd

3021

Yellow -Carson 

Excellent result with a superb 2nd goal.  It was a great pass from Hardy for Sutherland to run onto in space and his cross was inch perfect.  Samuels then did really well to get on the end of it. 

Hope we don't carry too many injuries into Friday's game.  For a while in the first half I thought Dougal Sim might end up as MOTM.

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FT. 2-2

ICT. Sutherland

Opp. Graham

Crowd. 3301

Yellow. Crawford

2 hours ago, Kingsmills said:

It appears that Hamilton were not quite as concerned about maintaining the gap over Morton as you were.

The point I was making was that as this was not a dead rubber from Hamilton's perspective, we had a responsibility to field a competitive side.  Earlier in this thread you disagreed with me stating "Our only obligation is to field a team and fulfil the fixture."   I'm glad to say the manager selected a highly competitive team and ignored your advice and that of others who would have had us fielding a team of youth and squad players.  Funnily enough, on the other thread you congratulate the manager on getting his team selection spot on!

Also contrary to your post, Hamilton were clearly very concerned to try and get something out of the game and maintain the gap over Morton.  They fielded a strong side and were out to win it.  Unfortunately for them, we also took the game very seriously, were clinical and blew them away in the first half hour.  To give Hamilton their due, they never gave up and in the second half worked very hard right to the end to get something out of the game.  They won several corners, had a goal disallowed and we needed some pretty last ditch defending to keep them out.

I hope the failure to use a capital "C" when referring to the leagues sponsors does not result in a points deduction 

Also, amused by the wording of seats in the away end being "currently available".  It makes it sound that if you don't get your quickly, they will have sold out.  

HT. 2-0. 

FT. 3-1

ICT. Samuels

Opp.  L. Smith

Crowd 1711

Joker 

Thanks for the reminder. I'd forgotten all about it!  I've now purchased a couple of tickets but somewhat shocked to see that only 100 tickets have been sold so far.  One only has to see the heartbreaking images on TV everyday to understand what a worthy cause this is and what a great gesture it is from Paul to offer up his medal to support this cause.  It closes on Saturday so, buy your tickets NOW before it is too late.             

7 hours ago, bdu98196 said:

All senior players should be rested and do PR duties with kids & fans.

Club should be giving tickets away for free to schools/community groups etc since its a total dead rubber and place will be dead otherwise.

It's not a totally dead rubber.  If we beat Hamilton and Morton win at Arbroath, then Morton will overtake Hamilton.  We therefore have a responsibility to field a competitive side.  We shouldn't be risking players carrying knocks though, but any players coning into the side should be told they are playing for a place in the side.  We should be looking to win this.

Could even be a play-off against Aberdeen

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FT 1-3

ICT. Sutherland

Opp Ugwu

Crowd.  1651

The pressure is all on Kilmarnock.  Many would have expected them to have clinched the title by now and for Arbroath to have dropped off the pace.  But Arbroath have continued to surprise displaying astonishing fitness levels for a part time team and a team spirit that few can match.  On paper Kilmarnock have the better players, but Arbroath will not allow them time on the ball and have demonstrated time and again that they have good attacking options too.  I think Kilmarnock will need to show patience and composure tonight if their quality is to win through, and I'm not sure they will manage that.  I've a feeling Arbroath are going to edge this and take it to the final day.

As for the play offs, similar arguments apply.  Were we to play Kilmarnock, the pressure would be on them whereas we would maybe feel we ought to beat Arbroath.  However, anything can happen on the night so I'm really not bothered which of the 2 we play as long as we get to play one of them.  Having said that, I will certainly be rooting for Arbroath tonight because they deserve to win.  Their story this season is a quite extraordinary one and it would be a real shame if they were unable to see it through to a happy end.

CaleyTennis, if you start a thread you can expect people to pass comment or ask you to clarify what you are saying.  If you carefully read what you have written, you might understand why people are responding as they are.  You start by saying that the issue is "with a small number of players who just aren't good enough to play for us", but later say that part of the solution "means selling our best players".  Presumably players who are not good enough to play for us need to be off-loaded, so that would leave us with a middling group of players who, in your opinion are good enough to play for us but are not the best players.  In that context, it is perfectly reasonable to expect you to clarify who you feel we should keep and who you think we should off-load.

Personally, I think it is a good idea to try to keep our best players.  I also don't think there is an "issue".  Given where we were financially pre-Covid, the management team and the players have done a great job to get us where we are.  Of course there have been games where we have underperformed, but on balance, we've done pretty well to sit 3rd in the table with just a couple of games to go.  We may not be where we want to be, but we are heading in the right direction.  If some people started supporting the club rather than constantly criticising it, we might be a little closer to where we want to be.

That's what happens when we don't play in pink.

2 for Duku today. Helps when 3 of the opps players have been sent off first!

37 minutes ago, Kingsmills said:

Such a shame that we have no interest in tonight's live match on the BBC Scotland channel with Kilmarnock being out of our reach in first place.

They're not out of reach.  If they lose their remaining 5 games and we win ours, we will end the season 5 points ahead of them.  It's not likely to happen I grant you, but they are not out of reach - yet.  They could win one and draw two and we could still pip them on goal difference.  I am very interested in watching them lose tonight!

Sounds like a fantastic vision. It is one of those things that needs a lot of things to come together before it can be achieved, so understandable that those involved with the idea don't want to say too much at this stage.  The danger is always that too, much publicity raises expectations and if the complete vision can't be delivered, people feel let down when in reality what is delivered represents a real achievement.  It does sound really promising though.  Even a scaled down version would be a huge boost for the wider football community in the city and the women's game in particular.

HT. 0-2

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ICT. McAlear

Opp. Adeloye

Crowd 1794