Arbroath Away Feb2024

[Satan]

Only one defender on bench. Need to sign some defensive cover...

[tm4tj]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Todays games

Alex Samuel & Bim Pepple starting with Billy Mckay & Austin Samuels on the bench. Nathan Shaw fit enough to start and just the four outfield substitutes.

Ujdur, Boyes, Mullen, Longstaff, MacGregor, Lodovica Injured and Max Anderson suspended.

What could possibly go wrong?

[Robert]

Looking at it with my glass half full, if we do our job and other results go our way today we can be sixth.

[+snorbens_caleyman]

Only five subs named.  Presumably no one else is fit?

[STFU]

I'd like to see us come out flying, run Arbroath ragged and then bring in Mckay, Doran and Samuels to exploit tired opposition.

We're almost at the nothing to lose stage, and I'd rather see us going down fighting than whimpering.

[+snorbens_caleyman]

7 minutes ago, STFU said:

then bring in Mckay, Doran and Samuels to exploit tired opposition.

All 90 years of them   And Samuels is only 23....

[Duke of Inverness]

23 minutes ago, STFU said:

I'd like to see us come out flying, run Arbroath ragged and then bring in Mckay, Doran and Samuels to exploit tired opposition.

We're almost at the nothing to lose stage, and I'd rather see us going down fighting than whimpering.

He'll take them on and put them in central defence. 

3 central defenders again.

No Plan B.  

[STFU]

39 minutes ago, snorbens_caleyman said:

All 90 years of them   And Samuels is only 23....

...and there's more creativity and ability in Mckay and Doran than the rest of the squad combined.

[STFU]

1 hour ago, Satan said:

Only one defender on bench. Need to sign some defensive cover...

On the plus side, Ferguson can't being on 3 extra defenders to sit in after we go a goal up.

[+snorbens_caleyman]

39 minutes ago, STFU said:

...and there's more creativity and ability in Mckay and Doran than the rest of the squad combined.

Now we'll see.  Hope you're right!

[Duke of Inverness]

1 hour ago, Duke of Inverness said:

He'll take them on and put them in central defence. 

3 central defenders again.

No Plan B.  

10 minutes at most left.

Take off a defender and throw Samuels on.

It's not rocket science!!

[RiG]

Massive questions should be getting asked of Ferguson now.

Edited February 24, 2024 by RiG

[ICTPaisley]

Just now, RiG said:

Massive questions should be getting asked of Ferguson now.

Absolutely not better than Dodds anyway. I genuinely feel we’d have been in a better position with him in charge, regardless of how poor he was at the start of the season.

[Robert]

2 hours ago, Robert said:

Looking at it with my glass half full, if we do our job and other results go our way today we can be sixth.

Other results are going our way.

Just one problem, we are not doing our job at all and we look like getting detached in 9th.

We’ve had 14 attempts so far but only 3 on target, which is just not good enough.

Tuesday’s match is massive now. We can’t afford any more slip ups.

[RiG]

1 minute ago, ICTPaisley said:

Absolutely not better than Dodds anyway. I genuinely feel we’d have been in a better position with him in charge, regardless of how poor he was at the start of the season.

For a long time I'd always said we'd be just as bad if not worse under Dodds. His recruitment in the summer was honking. However, the last couple of months and some truly bizarre recruitment in January makes it very, very hard to stick with the same opinion I had before.

[Duke of Inverness]

I got pelters for saying bin Ferguson recently. Thoughts now?

[+jagster]

We are in trouble apart from the initial surge. When he had Dodds players we haven’t done well. Since his own signings we have been really poor 

[+jagster]

1 minute ago, Duke of Inverness said:

I got pelters for saying bin Ferguson recently. Thoughts now?

There will be a few more thinking you are right 

[ICTPaisley]

1-1 isn’t good enough.

[IBM]

Harper gets us a point!

[Duke of Inverness]

2 minutes ago, ICTPaisley said:

1-1 isn’t good enough.

Yep, keeps us in the play off though. Wrong frigging play offs!! We are s##t. 

[jed5697]

A lot of games you come away saying we didn’t deserve to lose and today would have been the same but for late equaliser. So hanging in really. Another big game Tuesday. Squeaky bum time

[RednBlackComeback]

Never mind. We've got dunfermline at home next and our home form is fantastic ! 

[caley1]

So not good enough if we cannot pick up a win playing a part time bottom of the league team it says it all . Where are the points going to come from unless Ferguson changes tact. 

[Duke of Inverness]

26 minutes ago, caley1 said:

So not good enough if we cannot pick up a win playing a part time bottom of the league team it says it all . Where are the points going to come from unless Ferguson changes tact. 

He has no Plan B.

Plan A ain't much cope as it is.