Ding Dang Doo

There's more to the Ross Matthews situation and it's nothing to do with any supposed "fall out". Think more Michael Miller.

Definitely the atmosphere to blame again. If only the fans sung more then we'd have won 5-1 tonight.

I've not read all the posts today but can see that at last a few folk have finally started questioning Euan Murray. He's been awful for months now and not really sure what he does. He's not commanding, he doesn't win strength battles (as shown today by getting absolutely bullied again) and he's not a ball player....so what are we actually getting from him?!? Watson would come back in and sort it. He will talk at least which is something nobody else in the team seems to do. We seem to have "leaders" in the squad but nobody who actually wants to shout and command the rest during the 90. After the 3rd goal today everyone just put their heads down and nobody wanted to take ownership. Murray at least acknowledging that 3 at the back was poor but I disagree what others said. For me that wasn't the issue today. Murray on the first, Byrne on 2nd and the 3rd was a complete failure to compete by the team.

Cammy Kerr should be nowhere near us. Only reason he was kept for countless managers was because he was considered a "diehard" fan. Would suspect he'll be on the move to the west of Fife instead.

Oh agree a 1-0 scoreline every week would be uncomfortable unless you are in complete control of the games. The tactics are risky and if we scored with Vaughan in the 1st half yesterday then I don't think we lose that. Or if we go 2-1 up in the 2nd half. We've got an issue at the moment whereby we're suddenly not as clinical up top with a few players out of form coupled with a massive weakness at the back. Just got to hope that Murray can sort it out and we get some sort of additional cover at the back for next Saturday and beyond.

Exactly this. It's also been interesting that the last few games when we were trying to get the equaliser that the players seemed to lack energy. It's only so long you can do what we were doing during the first half of the season. I'm not saying that this means it's all doom and gloom and we can't recover. There are definitely reasons behind the drop off, not least the loss of Stanton who's drive and energy in the middle of the pack cannot be matched by anyone else in the squad. But we need to find a way to be tighten up at the back and we massively need someone to be a commanding and leading presence. Yesterday we had a defence and keeper whereby only Millen wanted to shout commands at anyone.

We're literally going up against a team who've only conceded 10 goals all season and 3 of them were in 1 game. Being solid at the back is the foundation for any successful team long term and unfortunately for us right now we are very soft.

Folk need to calm down about Stanton. He's absolutely fine and will be back for either the Caley match or semi final against Airdrie.

He's out for 4 weeks so will be back for early February. No but I really like the Verve. Ashcroft is some singer...

Really poor today and Airdrie fully deserved the win. Could have played for another 90 and we still wouldn't have had a proper shot on goal far less actually scoring a goal. Players need to take this as a proper wake up call and forget the hype as this result has been coming the way we've been playing recently. As for Millen, for me that's an automatic fine. Unacceptable and puts us in a difficult position now next week.

Shame that Brad is away but wasn't unexpected. He's from the west coast and suspect he'll have something lined up over there. Always tried for the club so goes with my best wishes. With Matthews coming back we have a midfielder we didn't have last season plus Arnott, albeit he needs to show he can step up to this level still. Given we tried to keep him Spencer we'll be in for another midfielder now.

Hearing Lang has rejected a new deal and is either going down south or to Premiership

Lucky to get away with that point in the end. Murray again far far too late with his changes that the whole south stand could see were needed. We needed to stop their momentum but instead invited sustained pressure onto us. It'll probably turn out to be a good point in the end but tonight is probably the first time I've really started to question Murray.

Connell offers absolutely nothing. I'm hoping he's only playing due to Gullan not being fit to start yet cause if not we're in trouble. He's simply not at this level. Today was exactly as expected. Good goals from Ayr's point of view but basic defensive errors again. More powderpuff stuff up front. We'll not go down but we are way off being able to challenge so will finish 6th, 7th or 8th. When do the clocks go forward???

The difference I'd say between last season and this is that at this point last season although we were picking up 1 or 3 points a game and not losing we were not playing great. Each game felt like a hard watch and you almost knew that as soon as we lost we might go on a bad run which eventually happened with the Patrick match. This season we look to be stronger mentally, now picking up form just at a crucial time of the season and getting players back from injury.