Spiders For Life

Agree he can be hot and cold, but have never got the impression he can’t be arsed. I think he just falls out of games sometimes which is pretty much the only reason he’s at this level.

Not convinced many experienced strikers would be interested in being second choice to Paton.

Signed James Crole on loan from Cardiff. Good luck to him and hope he does well obviously, but can’t begin to describe how little hope I have bringing in someone new to senior football into a relegation battle. Brutal.

Great win. Thought Raith looked decent enough going forward and caused problems firing it up to Hamilton who won everything in the first half, but overall seemed a bit toothless and more interested in trying to win fouls at every opportunity, and subsequently greetin’ about the ones they didn’t get. Actual result could have been anything. Ferrie had a wonder save, free kick off the bar, Paton had one sitter and another well blocked near the line. Just much happier watching how we tried to attack, it reduced the amount of self-inflicted disasters by getting it up the pitch quickly which allowed us to get out of Raith’s press that has done well against us (as has any team that pressed us) previously. Welsh had a cracking debut and with a few more signings seemingly to come we might be in for a less horrific second half of the season.

I like the principle but If there’s anyone that’s been digging deep over the last few years associated to the club it’s the supporters. From the shambles with Lesser to what we’ve witnessed this season, it’s wild many of us have made it this far before deciding to protect our sanity. I’m at the stage where I’m going out of sheer habit and sunk cost rather than any actual enjoyment. On the game, can’t see anything other than the inevitable. My main hope is by Tuesday we have a new manager in the stands ready to take over in the next few days.

Bowyer with 2/3 signings over the age of 25 in Jan and this season might not end up being the absolute bin fire it’s been so far. Until I see it happen I’m scared to get too optimistic about it.

Blown away by how awful that statement is, zero idea if that’s permanent or interim appointment.

We had a stab at working our way through the list of good>horrific managerial options in the latest podcast episode for anyone interested https://linktr.ee/spiderstalk

Pack it all in if we’re signing Mackay. Couldn’t be further away from what we should be aiming for from both a football and community perspective.

We need some clear comms about who will be making the next set of decisions. Beuker and Veldman gone leaves a gaping hole over the whole football side of the club. If we’re still aiming to ‘stick to the model’ then our first team manager has to be aligned to whatever the youth teams are doing, and whoever the DoF is (if we continue having that role?). Today was the correct decision but I’ve got so little confidence in the decision makers at the club that I’ve got the fear we go for someone horrific from the usual manager merry-go-round.

Experience does not equal competence.

Wildest one for me was not taking Bannon off when he couldn’t run, he visibly didn’t want the ball as the guys continued to fire it to him.

Tragic performance once again. Thomas has never worked in the centre and to no surprise it didn’t again, looked fine out wide. McCormick unfortunately not ready, Fox playing 15 mins as a striker. Total desperation. More individual errors than I can count - 2 howlers from Spong, Bannon for the pen. Finishing all over the place, zero ability to cross the ball. Only positive was Ferrie having one of his best performances, but frankly the fact he had to make 3/4 unbelievable saves is ridiculous and totally self-inflicted. Whatever this is meant to be is not working, the players are absolutely terrified trying to play the style of football they’re getting made to attempt. Something tangible has to shift in the next couple of weeks or we’re going to be dragged to the bottom of the league.

That was so bad. 2 teams who looked woeful in different ways but leads to the same result. My overriding feeling from that was just sheer boredom, nothing about what we do is exciting.

Risk and reward with McKenna, he creates a lot more for us than Gaston punting it aimlessly every time he got the ball.