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  1. We're in must-win territory here to put fears of 9th to bed. Six games left after this, but the only two at home are Dundee United and Raith. You don't want to be going into that run of games already on a long losing streak and potentially needing 6 or 7 points to be sure of 8th, particularly with the easier on paper away games of that run being the third last and last games of the season. Of course the way this league has gone getting that win could put us 4th again, then all of a sudden with how streaky we are you've got a bit of confidence back in the team to build on it and you could end up more concerned with the good playoffs again in a week, but right now we just desperately need to stop the rot.
  2. There's a perfectly sound logic to following up a series of friendlies against quality sides with a game against a minnow to dish out a pumping and get the confidence from a winning feeling back, but if you then contrive to lose at home to that minnow you've turned a disappointing run of results against good teams which can be shrugged off as part of a learning curve into looking like a team in a rut with serious problems. Friendly or no, that is by a country mile our worst result under Clarke. The big change he'd made from so many of his failed predecessors was consistently putting obviously shite teams to bed, where the likes of Levein and Strachan would argue it was fine to draw against dross or even actively play for one. That's a game where an easy 2-0 win would have been a bit underwhelming and we never looked like scoring, while we were frequently carved open after going 1-0 down. A game with Gibraltar should obviously still deliver an effortless hammering, but that's such a laughable level of opposition that smashing six or seven past them won't really do much to restore confidence. We really need to be beating Finland to take some positivity into the tournament, but they're levels above the gang who comfortably did a number on us tonight and thumped them 4-0 four months ago.
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  4. Morton's three remaining home games are Queen's Park, Dundee United and Raith. While we've won at Tannadice already, we really need to be beating Queen's Park to feel safe: if we don't get an unexpected result against the top two then we'll go to Arbroath or Inverness needing to win.
  5. And not only soft, but I'm leaning about 70% to it being outside the box anyway. Irrelevant now of course.
  6. There have only been two occasions in the league this season we've gone behind and taken anything: Ayr on the first day and the draw at Tannadice. If we don't completely switch off at a set piece we probably get a draw that stops the rot today, but we conceded that shite goal and at that point you know the game is likely done, because even with Oakley we just can't open teams up when we're behind. You then get the bail out of a soft penalty award and still f**k it up, with the most predictable miss ever from Muirhead who hasn't had a good game in at least two months and desperately needs to be dropped for his own good. The placement of the penalty actually wasn't terrible but it might have been the most telegraphed penalty of all time, Mehmet dived halfway through the run up because it was so obvious where he was putting it.
  7. Season is now about scraping enough points to make 8th. The best way to get there is never picking French, Broadfoot or Muirhead again.
  8. What an absolutely disgraceful goal to concede. No one watching for the short corner, you get the warning when they delay the cross and somehow still leave someone with a free header. A Johansson era of a goal to concede.
  9. Because McLean was refusing to give a freekick for Jakubiak tugging his shirt as he tried to kick it. Then watched as he obstructed him trying to release it for another 15 seconds. If he was applying the rules properly Jakubiak could have been booked four times already. Crawford's tackle was a bit of a shocker. One of those where it's a genuine attempt to play the ball but late and high and wouldn't have been particularly shocked if it was red but yellow was probably fair. Welch-Hayes on Muirhead 10 minutes later was in the same category. We're not getting far here because we have a liability on each side. If we go down the left Muirhead is inevitably going to f**k it up, if we go down the right French is inevitably going to f**k it up. Could just put Garrity on and it would go some way to fixing things but if we must persist with these players on the park we could at least switch Muirhead to the right and then we might do something down the left.
  10. Wary of getting carried away about how much we'll improve with Oakley back when he's probably not fully fit and more to the point he's just one player, but more confident than I would have been without him. Results in upcoming weeks can obviously change things with how much form can swing in this league and especially with how streaky we are, but this game won't be far off defining if the rest of our season is spent looking at 4th or 9th.
  11. We should have been at least 3-1 up at the point we went 2-0 down, but very important to look at the reasons why you've ended up 4-0 down instead rather than clutching at straws about the performance. There are players who have contributed to the failure to take chances and conceding goals we shouldn't playing themselves out of starting XI contention against a side no better than our upcoming group opponents: it's a quality issue rather than luck.
  12. If your whole thing is being a clinical finisher so you have to be there as the guy who takes chances your other strikers won't, you really can't be missing chances a jobber Lowland League centre back would effortlessly bury.
  13. Scottish Parliament passed a bill yesterday officially titled the Wildlife Management & Muirburn Bill, which is effectively a grouse moor licensing scheme. Licences now required to allow grouse shooting, muirburn, the use of wildlife traps and snares are fully banned, while the SPCA now has greater investigatory powers. It may not go far enough, but it's a positive step.
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