Our performances against Raith this season really have been baffling to me, I've been to all four fixtures between the sides and I reckon in 360 minutes of football we've only performed anywhere near our level for about 90 minutes. I cannot figure for the life of me why that's been the case.
We were really gash on Saturday and I can only remember us really troubling the Raith keeper in the final seconds where he made a top save from Prunty's header.
Our midfield was crap, Andreoni had one of his better games, which really isn't saying anything at all as hes still too lightweight and always just seems like he wants to get rid of the ball. Ricky Waddell tends to beat a man and put in a good cross in around 2 out of 10 attempts which isn't good enough. If he's playing, it has to be at left back. Darren Smith doesn't seem to know how to play wide right either, fairly useless really. Stephen McKenna was also unusually bollocks at the back and made a couple of daft errors including the one for the goal.
I thought young Stephen Campbell looked alright at right back, Bobby Donnelly and Robbo once again had good games (both have been very consistent of late) and although he was clearly out of his depth at times, Lovers put in a decent shift.
Now I don't believe all this crap for a second that we are a one man team, I genuinely believe that Noble and Prunty should be capable of leading our line but not when we punt high balls up to them. Big Russell is good at bringing the ball down and holding it up which is why that tactic works when hes playing but if we don't adapt when hes not there then we wont get anywhere.
Credit to Raith for playing pretty well and taking advantage of our very sloppy performance, a very well deserved victory on Saturday. I still believe that over 2 legs we are more than capable of disposing of you guys but we're gonna have to up our game from our league games against you.
Didn't help that Russell, Smyth, McDougall and Holmes are out (as KB said, 4 of our regular 11) but thats no excuse. We should have players capable of covering and those players need to get their arses in gear soon as we can't afford to blow our own promotions hopes this year.
This post has been edited by thediamonddude: 17 March 2008 - 17:09