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  1. I totally agree that we are shot shy, and have been for the last few seasons. We seem to pass it along from player to player when a shot looked the best option. You hear the fans shouting 'shoot', but they never do, and more often than not we end up getting caught in possession and our opponents mount a counter attack. Any shot could result in a goal, a corner, a deflected goal or a penalty, but you have take the shot in the first place. Did we have a shot on target in the first half? I can't remember any.
  2. I really hope DF has a good scouting network, and that he has the names of good quality strikers in his mind for January, as we are sorely lacking in that department. Sheridan gives us nothing when he comes on, and having subbed possibly our best two players, we lost any chance of holding on to our one goal lead. Billy will chase and win lost causes all day and can make a goal out of nothing, while we have no threats on the bench now I'm afraid. We need to bring in players to challenge for the first team jerseys, as I cannot see any of the squad players having the quality to dislodge any of the current first eleven. We were never going to go through the rest of the season unbeaten, but that was a very sore one to take, being so close three points, and ending with nothing.
  3. If they were on the radio today, and they had multiple layers on, you could call them Sumoriseres, summarisers of the game! I'll get my coat!
  4. Adding another couple of layers to the amount I had on for the Cowdenbeath game. If you see someone who looks like the Michelin Man, that will be me, but hopefully I'll be warm!
  5. I disagree. One sliced shot or push at a corner resulting in a possible penalty, and we could have been looking at a different result. I think we all know we have a good first team, and the narrative that we would only sign players that could dislodge them has never worked out well, we have signed players that few others wanted, apart from Wotherspoon, and I think DF knows who his best players are. I realise that all players need game time, but win the game first, then give them their game time.
  6. That was a very hard watch on a very cold day, with very little for the supporters to get excited about. I couldn't believe how pedestrian we were for most of that game, I thought we would have come charging out of the blocks and the fringe players would all be up for impressing big Dunc. Instead we played slow safe passes across the back four and back again, unless the pass to the keeper was not on. If Ferguson was wanting to see what the squad players can do, he will have found out that they are not going to worry the guys currently in the first eleven, especially the front two, who were toothless all the time they were on. Sheridan had two great chances to score, but took far too long to try and get a shot off, and the chances were gone. It was only when the subs were introduced that we looked like we'd do something, and we did. In my humble opinion, I thought we could have started with our best team, try and score a couple of goals, and then take the fringe playes on. I know that Cowdenbeath didn't have a shot on goal, but it could have just taken a slip at a corner, before the subs, and we might have been chasing a goal to save embarrassment. The next round will be interesting. I am of the opinion that I would always want to lowest ranked team in the draw, while others might want one of the big hitters. Whoever we get, we will have to play our strongest team, to make sure we have the best chance of getting through.
  7. I think it must be on the request of Dundee, in case they recall him from the season long loan at ICT, and if he played for us in the cup he couldn't play for them in the cup.
  8. Here's an idea, how about coming up with a new project title? If it was now called the TESCO Battery Energy Storage Facility, it would sail through all the planning committee stages would it not?
  9. When you see the amount of times Dunfermline hit the woodwork, we can't complain about taking a point on the road. I only listened to the match on the radio, but it sounded like the classic 'game of two halfs'. It sounds like we played some nice passing entertaining football, but, just as in previous seasons, we seem to be shot shy, and pass when just maybe having a speculative punt might have been a better option, in a day when the weather made the ball slippy and difficult for keeper and defenders. It was nice to see Welsh named in the squad, and coming on late, but as DF said, if Sean is going to get back into the team, he is going to have to play well and try and dislodge Gilmore and Anderson, which will be no mean feat as both are playing so well together. And I can relate to DF saying he wears the same clothes that he did on his first game with us, and superstition keeps him wearing it as we are still undefeated. I did the same in Inverness Thistle's 1986/87 Highland League title win, and the only time I never wore the same shirt, it was in the wash, we lost our only game of the season, our last game against Peterhead! So long may we continue to see DF standing in his jumper and shirt, because it will mean we are still undefeated!
  10. Three first half goals! I can't remember when that happened last! We scored our goals at good times, and credit to Billy Mckay for his never give up attitude for starting the run for the first goal. He covers every blade of grass. My only criticism is why we never leave a player up on the centre line when we concede corners, it doesn't give us an out ball, and just invites our opponents to start another attack. So, hopefully a good weeks training and on to Dunfermline, and if we can get a win there, it will put us on the same points, which I couldn't even thought about not that long ago.
  11. That is a great point on the road against the league leaders, and keeps up our record of not losing in the league since DF took over. I said to my son this morning that I had a feeling that the Jaggies would take something from this game, and it moves us a point clear of bottom spot with a game in hand. Onwards and hopefully upwards.
  12. A terrific three points that we ground out in the end. It was squeaky but time in the second half when we retreated further and further back towards our eighteen yard box, it was probably in the players minds to protect their one goal lead, but it was hearts in mouths as we were under constant attack from Airdrie. What I couldn't fathom was we never left a player up at the halfway line when Airdrie had a corner, which meant we had no out ball when we cleared our lines, so the attacks kept coming. It's something the Duncan needs to address. It was a hard watch at times, with very little flowing football and our chances were few and far between. Wotherspoon took his goal well, after some good work from Shaw, after he had blown a great chance earlier. The subs certainly upset any rhythm that we had in the game, and it all seemed to happen after the ever improving Longstaff left the field. He is much more suited to the left side being very left footed. Harper continues to exasperate me with his continual back passes. I don't know if it's a confidence thing or that's just his game, but I just wish he would turn on the ball and run down the wing. I thought Anderson and Gilmore are looking better and better in the middle and Ujdur was solid at the back, with Ridgers in typically good form. Billy Mckay ran his socks off as per usual and Wotherspoon, playing just behind him seems a good addition to the team. Longstaff, Anderson, Shaw and Ujdur were the standouts for me. For our next game, we will have to get our tactics and work rate spot on to get any result at the league leaders.
  13. I really couldn't see what all the fuss was about, with some saying Partick were one of the favourites for the league. I thought they weren't as strong or as lethal in attack as they were last season. They certainly weren't the best team I have seen this season, in fact I thought they were quite average. So, hopefully as our confidence grows, and maybe if DF can find a quality player or two to complete the building process, we can start to pull ourselves nearer and nearer to the pack.
  14. My 43 year old son didn't even recognise it as that, he said he'll Google it!!!
  15. A far better team performance, we just need to find that killer pass in the final third. I thought we had the bulk of the second half without troubling their keeper too much. If we had 10 Billy Mckays, with the work rate he puts in, we'd be well up in the table, but I thought we had a few good performers, Longstaff, Carson, Anderson and Gilmour stood out for me as well. It's another point in the right direction, and carries on DF's unbeaten record. Talking of records, it was amusing to hear the team running out to the theme from Z cars, the same as Everton!
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