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What a terrible game. No one able to keep the ball on the deck but conditions look horrendous. 

We’re against wind second half. 

Bloody hell this has been brutal. Wind is horrendous so what’s the point of lofting any ball in the air? 

Couldn’t make the game today but we couldn’t have been getting overrun in midfield that much if the game ran according to BBC match stats? 

Watched online. We hit the post twice and crossbar once. It was pretty much one way traffic first half without too many clear cut chances. Opened up a bit in second half great free kick from (Ethan?). Penalty was very soft. 

Pretty good stuff. Thought the second half might lull after going 6-0 at half time but the youngsters who came on brought new pace and enthusiasm. Some real talent in there. Trialist  looked decent - Zak Delaney (?). Thought the boy from Alloa looked pretty sharp as well. McKay looked good as well. Couple of big lads there too! Great to see the possession the young lads kept. 
just good to be back out again!

On 6/23/2022 at 8:36 AM, Jockdoonsouth said:

That's not what the Alloa fans are saying but then it's a Rice quote so we can take that with a pinch of salt. He has hardly lit his Managerial roles up since leaving us. Proof of the pudding is in the eating as they say ... a Rice pudding! Sorry couldn't help myself.

He looked pretty sharp tonight, admittedly against a poor Clach team but he’s got decent feet and looks to have a bit of pace. 

I think it’s pretty simple.
Look at the start of the season - great team spirit and winning matches

then the the Gardyne effect - this absolutely ruins everything built up in the squad and things start going awry 

This is compounded by injuries to Allardice, MacGregor, Walsh and the bad run gets worse 

Turn of the year and the loanees take a bit of time to bed in and we’re still not winning 

Dodds says team spirit is there….and he is proved to be right because the results suddenly come and they dig wins out of losing situations (Raith being the main one) 

If….we can start next season with that same determination and spirit …add a couple of experienced players (to replace Broadfoot in particular) and take a few risks then we look like we’ve got a great squad. I really like the look of Samuels and I really hope we don’t go for a target man to continue hoof ball - it’s not entertaining and it’s not making the best use of the talent we have. Whoever has been looking at the loans has done a good job this last year because they were all great additions. Let’s hope we can continue with that - let’s face it, there’s a load of young talent sitting about in U23 football in England never getting the chance. 

I’ve seen a lot of folk saying we need a target man for the long balls. I really hope we don’t go down this route. When we play it on the deck we’ve got the players to win this league and it’s much better to watch. 
just a personal preference but what’s the point of having creative midfielders if our defence just misses them out. Hope we can find a good replacement for Kirk broadfoot. He’s been a bit of a rock this season. 

Feel so sorry for the guys. They do t deserve that score line 

Still grinning inanely today! Half time I really thought we’d blown it. We looked smaller, slower and devoid of any idea of what to do. Welsh at centre half was used at beginning of season and there is some sense in having there for his range of passing….but not last night. He looked so much more effective in midfield. The big change came with getting the width to the team and putting StJ on the back foot. Allardice made a huge difference as did Chalmers and Samuels looked electric.

there’s no way we’ll play that badly again and with devine back we will have our usual shape back. 
 

There must be some real belief in that squad that they can do this now. 
 

off to watch the highlights….again!  
 

can you imagine a midfield with MCAleer, Allardice and MacGregor next season!

Ok that’s the ruling. WTF is the team now?! 

Great spirit, determination and organisation from the team and management. Horrible conditions and pitch limited any football so was delighted to see the penalties which were taken with aplomb. Well done young Cammy with his spot kick - big pressure on such a young lad and as for Kirk! balls of steel! 

Is Davy Carson moonlighting in a rock band?! 

Incredible goals to chose from! 

Buffering is bloody awful! As was the first 10 but big improvement since the.  

Great game and fantastic atmosphere. First half totally in control without carving them open. Bit nervy after we scored but brilliant to see the attitude to defending our goal -  ‘thou shalt not pass’ style. Two top quality goals. Think I got sunburnt! 

Quite superb result from a bizarre game! Very interesting run in

23 hours ago, Jaggernaut said:

I said on here before that it was a number 10 we needed to bring in, someone in the mould of a Scott Allan, to link the midfield to the strikers, to thread balls through and create chances. Instead, we are now reduced to lumping balls up to our small strikers, and you can see during games how frustrated Billy Mckay gets. Surely we must have some young players who can pass a ball? Where are all these fantastic young players that Robbo was enthusing about a couple of years ago? We probably released them all.

I think that's where mcGregor played for the youth team and he's played there a few times but Dodds prefered playing Shane there and moving Roddy to the right, then defensive mid, then the left...anywhere but 10...Jack Brown has been moved to a ten at his club and doing really well. wish we had kept him - I see Peterhead have signed him from Rothes. Hopefully we can get him back - he was a terrier with skills

4 hours ago, IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER said:

Well here is more of a fecking Pishedaffmometer. Feel like catharsis is necessitated !! 

I will start off with the McGregor question as to where the feck is he ? If he has been sidelined and not injured that in itself is diabolical. Next we move to the suggested preference to McKay rather than Ridgers. To me that is a no-brainer. Ridgers is by far the first choice keeper and is way ahead of McKay - especially in regard to such a tie. Carson has never been a full back to me. He is a combative holding midfielder. He is wasted at full back. As fer the usual rest of the back line it is a cacophany of central defending "stackers". Perhaps somebody should advise Dodds that central defenders dont like chopping and changing, especially to full back. I suspect in training they have competitions on the furthest they can launch headers and the furthest they can aimlessly hoof, preferably first time. I also suspect that lately they are also perfecting smashing balls on the ground like missiles towards strikers and missing out any midfelders in their way. And who are they aiming at ? I suspect in training that Billy has Hardy on his shoulders to provide a better feckin target. And what has happened to our "spying" prowess. Pearson, Samuels and Chalmers are costing us spondoolachs. Playing BOTH Pearson and Samuels last night as feckin "wingers" was ludicrous. Do either have the build, strength or guile to fly past defenders. And then get in a position to put crosses into our two midgets up front ? That means that we have two players doing next to feck all. Surely we have better in the waiting Academy. And Doran is back in favour and given a bit of a Number 10 role. Love the guy but he was adept at such a role TEN feckin years ago. And now for what I view as being more of a positive. I feel so sorry for Walsh who is the only player who tries to control a ball and play an easy pass. McAlear has a great engine and a good touch but gets a bollicking for playing an easy ball. I can just hear the guidance from the bench - "Fer fecks sake hoof the bloody thing". I even feel sorry for Shane who has done more out wide than our three loanees put together. At least he has the club at heart. And finally our two minions up front. I really like the look of Hardy and feel that he and Billy could be am effective partnership if there was more structure behind them. I would put Billy in the Walsh bracket and you can see how cheesed off that he is with the ammunition that he is being fed. Unfortunately he also appears to have given up to a degree and confidence is waning.

Thank you all. I feel better now.

From what I’ve heard about MacGregor he went from having Covid to then tearing something in his thigh before Dunfermline game. He wasn’t given a scan and came back too early, injuring it again. 

I actually felt sick watching that last night. There was no lack of effort, particularly in second half but it does seem that we’ve given up trying to control the ball and keep possession and instead seem content to punt and try not to make mistakes. It’s the fear factor. The one thing that having only eight games left means there’s only one option and that is to attack…..just having a system that allows that would be good…..

Looking at the formation of the team when we had our best run it was Allardice and MacGregor in the centre of midfield - two technical ball players with loads of energy who helped our defence. Once that pairing was split up and adding the Gardyne fiasco into the mix - thats where things started to go wrong. How they recover from this is a more difficult question to answer. 

5 hours ago, kenneth thomson said:

We need more than one player.if Mackay gets injured which is very likely who is going to score the goals,I don’t think this squad will give us promotion.How many of our present squad could play in SPL.? if we are lucky to get promoted we would require 7 or 8 players and this would take half the  season to gel Just my thoughts

 

 

That’s great if you’ve got the resources to not win the league and keep those players on. We make a few bad signings and we’re screwed. For all Kilmarnock are throwing the cash at it, it doesn’t mean they’re going to win. 

we need to take Sutherland out of the 10 position and put Young Roddy in there. The number of times he was free and waving his arms for the ball to be igonored for a sideways:back pass was ridiculous. Poor Davie Carson should have been subbed at half time, his crossing passing was awful The pace of the attack is awful. We need to get someone in that midfield who can see a pass - Dodds has to give Roddy that chance, he’s a total waste out wide

Good to hear Radio Scotland pundits writing off everyone else now Kilmarnock have won a game…..they’ll be fine when the old firm are back 
that was a very defensive minded midfield we started with including a left back.  We had three excellent midfielders who have either been injured, had covid or been in isolation. I’d love to see Roddy upfront with Mcckay to see what might happen. With Allardice and welsh holding things…but then Reece made a big impact on coming on. Good thing was that Billy changed things quickly. He picked the wrong team today but realised quickly. 

Jeez this is hard going. I’m not buying into this Dick Campbell love fest. It’s like watching Wimbledon in the 90s.