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  1. Was going to post last night but I couldn’t be arsed due to some of the absolute wankers who now post on our thread. I thoroughly enjoyed yesterday. It’s clear to see that our players have a brilliant relationship with themselves and the management team and are loving playing football. Just the little things I noticed in that every players celebrated every goal and Nesbitt’s little interaction with the photographer after he knocked him over - they are playing with smiles on their faces and this is getting through to the fans. Even 6 months ago if we’d been 0-0 with the team at the bottom at half time a lot of the fans would have been frustrated - not yesterday, collectively we knew if we were patient goals would come. The link up play between Morrison/McCann and Rowe/Kennedy is outstanding and great to watch. At times unplayable at this level. We also have competition for places due to having a strong squad. Max was brilliant when he came on and when was the last time we had a substitute who scored a hat-trick who won’t start the next game ? Now onto the hat-trick - well done Craig McGuffie. His first 2 goals were up with the best I’ve seen at TFS and the first in the top 3 I’ve seen from us ever. The penalty was calmness and confidence personified. Also, I noticed when the penalty was awarded, the players as a collective wanted to give the ball to McGuffie - that team spirit again. Finally, thanks to me to John McGlynn and Paul Smith. You’ve given me my team and my pride in my team back. Thank you both.
    23 points
  2. I hate watching Saints under Callum Davidson. I hate the way we play. I hate his back three without anyone capable of stepping out. I hate the way he makes the goalkeeper play it short to players who can't play out. I hate the way he waits until game is dead to try and influence it. I hate his treatment of David Wotherspoon. I hate the fact nothing will be done about any of the above. A charisma vacuum whose team is an embodiment of the man. Scunnered.
    15 points
  3. 15 points
  4. Maybe if you cry about it some more the league will award you some sympathy points.
    14 points
  5. Falkirk only offer about 1900 tickets to away fans. Why don’t they just build a fourth stand, like a proper club does?
    13 points
  6. It’s really embarrassing hearing Goodwin have to say ‘I did my best, don’t see why I deserve to be hit by a coin’ Fucking pathetic behaviour. Goodwin was a shit manager but he’s a good man and never said a bad word about the club or the fans since his sacking. Get a grip.
    13 points
  7. Something I think we can all agree on is there is more chance of Falkirk and Dunfermline amalgamating clubs and building a new stadium on golden pillars over the Forth Estuary than there is of BBC Scotland providing decent coverage of this game
    12 points
  8. 11 points
  9. Get our act together... how exactly? Morton started the season with almost certainly the lowest budget in the division (expanded now) - it is a fan-owned club with a necessity to break even this and every other financial year from now on. We've got our act together and will see where it might take us this season. And hopefully next season will further build on the highly encouraging foundations created this time round. By contrast, Queens Park are a Walter Mitty outfit throwing money around that you do not even remotely generate, squatting behind Syngenta at Stenny's ground with a handful of fans in attendance. Your club can't even complete the basic admin to stop yourselves being huckled out of the Scottish Cup, and treats its fanbase with open contempt. So your 'why don't you just bankrupt your own club to stop our Govanhill Gretna project' argument is by far the most stupid take on this thread. And that's really saying something.
    10 points
  10. Then perhaps those jobs should get their unions fighting for them. It's not a race to the bottom. Some jobs have people working 18 hours a day in sweatshops. It's not an excuse to settle for poor pay / conditions in other jobs.
    9 points
  11. The sad thing is - we are really practiced in it. Over the past few years a Fir Park, we've had way too many of these minutes applause before 25 mins (and usually a lot less) is gone in a game - and it gets to me every time. For a relatively small support to lose so many young guys in such a short period shows how bad it's become - and that's the reason that there is a lot of suicide awareness/prevention stuff going at the club (Alan Burrows work on that was beyond reproach).
    9 points
  12. Warning: I've read it back and this is a bit rambling, so forgive me I understand why Goodwin fielded the team that he did last night because if he wanted everyone to have a fresh start then he had to play his captain and his player/coach. That's fair enough, but the measure of him will be if he learns from what they delivered. You can't play Edwards and Mulgrew together ever again. In a two, they both get exposed and in a three, the man out to the side - Edwards - gets exposed. Neither can cope with anyone running at them and it results in goals conceded. If Edwards had been the man in the middle, his performance would probably have been ok because he wouldn't have been exposed like that. Mulgrew can play in a back 4 - he did ok with Ayina against Saints other than his part in that goal - but Edwards can't. Edwards can only play if he's the central man in a back three. So for me, that's the end of the road for Edwards barring any injury crisis. The other major tactical change that's required - and Goodwin hinted at this in his post match interview - is that someone with legs needs to play alongside Fletcher. I thought Fletcher gave everything last night, and though he should have scored, I can understand why he didn't, considering how rare it is that he's been given opportunities in front of goal recently. People seem angry that a guy who has largely stuck to a 1 goal in 4 games scoring record throughout his career has scored pretty much 1 goal every 4 games for us. If United signed him to score goals then it shows how incompetent our recruitment team is. Oh...wait He's up there to win headers and to flick it on to someone else. That's what he brings. We need Anuka playing off him. Barring individual errors, I was impressed with the team last night in as much as they worked hard, closed Aberdeen players down and gave as much as they could. As Goodwin said, giving everything is the bare minimum you should expect out of the team though, so maybe I shouldn't be impressed? It's just night and day compared to what we got under Fox. The other thing that impressed me was that we showed some urgency and directness. Instead of stopping and passing sideways or backwards, crosses went into the box and passes went in front of the receiver to run on to. Again, basic stuff, but an improvement. But it'll count for nothing if we ship goals at one end and spurn opportunities at the other.# Is there a magic formula of players on our books that will do that? I'm just not sure. It all comes down to what a horrendous job Revolution GSC and in particular Tony Asghar and Sean McGee have done with recruitment. Fair enough, individually, most of the players we've signed are good players and if we're honest, most of us prior to mid-August looked at the signings individually and thought "ok, fair enough". As individuals, each of them - barring the goalkeeper - would be welcomed into most other Premiership squads. Even the worst ones like Liam Smith are being touted for moves to St. Johnstone etc. But together, they amount to one of the worst teams/squads ever assembled. Bad Goalkeeper x2 Slow centre backs x3 Fullbacks who can't stop crosses x2 Wingbacks who are not natural defenders x3 Moderately skillful attacking midfielders with little to no pace who would ideally be played just behind the striker x12 Established forward - was x3, now x1 Attributes missing Pace (in any position) Willingness to run at players (Only Pawlett, Niskanen and Behic) Tackling in midfield Centre back with any acceleration (maybe Ayina?) Wingers Look at how many of the same player we have in midfield, and that includes players we've put out on loan. Harkes, Djoum, Levitt, Pawlett, Sibbald, Meekison, Fotheringham, Chalmers, Mochrie, Glass, McGrath and Middleton are, by and large, the same player in terms of profile. They don't have much pace, they would be best played centrally in a 4-2-3-1, they can't tackle or break up play effectively and with the exception of Pawlett, they aren't comfortable running at players. None of them are wingers, none of them are strikers and none of them can play that anchor role in midfield. How we have ended up with so many of the same player astounds me, especially considering we've had to put so many of these guys out on loan at various points. Next season, relegated or not, we'll still have 9 of them on the books (although Fotheringam will get a new contract) as well. So how do you make a team out of that? Is it that you go... GK: Hamid (when he gets here) DC: Ayina DC: Mulgrew DC: McMann WBL: Behic WBR: Niskanen MC: Pawlett MC: Harkes MC: Sibbald ST: Fletcher ST: Anaku/Middleton I'm not sure where certain players like McGrath or Levitt fit into that, but I'm at the point where Harkes and Pawlett seem the better options, and they were guys who we needed to replace and improve upon this time last year. I'm struggling to see how we get out of the mess we're in with the players we have, and whether we stay up or go down, the fact that so few of our players are out of contract (Edwards, Smith, McGrath and Harkes I think are the only full 1st team squad members who are coming to the end of their deals) it's going to be a very costly process making it any better for next season either. And yet all eyes are on Jim Goodwin to sort it...
    9 points
  13. No that’s PSG but easy mistake to make.
    8 points
  14. Fernandes just pushing the linesman like that with not even so much as a yellow card is maybe a pointer as to why referees take dog's abuse all over the country, including at grassroots level: folk see stuff like that happening with zero repercussions.
    8 points
  15. Drumchapel Utd 3 Vale of Clyde 1 in the last 16 of the South Challenge Cup at the Donald Dewar Centre. Had to be home at a reasonable time so opted for this 2pm kickoff and missed out on ICT's win at Ayr. Nae pies - was absolutely Hank Marvin, had nothing since my breakfast and a couple of pints in Glasgow, so after paying in, went back up the road to the shop for something to eat. Vale gave a good account of themselves and equalised with a good strike but the Div1 side were reasonably comfortable. Friendly people as always but an uninspiring place to watch a game and they'll probably be in the prem next season. That's me been at all the WOSL grounds in tier 6&7.
    8 points
  16. We've GOT to stop getting so many men sent off. I can't remember ever having had so many red cards in a season before. Giving ourselves so much to do in so many games.
    8 points
  17. Can we all agree we’re sitting anywhere on Tuesday and not in our allocated seats?
    8 points
  18. Not having a go at you personally but this is terrible patter. Let the bastirt be forgotten instead of making light of his crimes.
    8 points
  19. The Ref was just plain hopeless. Three penalty calls. He doesn't give the two that are penalties but does give one that isn't. Jota and Mooy diving about the pitch like Tom Daley and pretty much a free kick every time. Jota plays the ball past Strain but instead of following the ball he veers of and just runs straight into Strain, gets a free kick. Main jumps for the ball gets clattered so hard in the back of the head that you heard the yelp around the stadium. Free kick Celtic. Did it affect the result? Probably not, but it did affect the scoreline. The thing that infuriates all non-OF fans is that if we had competent referees, who actually officiated fairly, Celtic and Rangers would still be the top two teams anyway. But instead we get a bunch of incompetents with (you hope) an unconscious bias towards the OF that gives them an edge they probably don't need and definitely don't deserve.
    7 points
  20. No point boasting about having four stands if some bits aren't usable .
    7 points
  21. I am now of the mindset that this season is what it is and I am not investing any more joy or heartache where we finish in the table. However, if next season is the start of the promotion push, then this Falkirk game is MASSIVE, HUGE!!! The revenue could mean the difference of 2 or 3 players that COULD make the difference next season. That, and the real prospect that we could have Killie in with us. I started to believe when we flirted with top position, but hey, that is just how it goes sometimes. Bullen - just beat Falkirk please - just get the job done!!
    7 points
  22. At least we took the lead against Liverpool before conceding 7
    7 points
  23. I see St Mirren, who qualified for Europe on 1st February at Pittodrie, have fallen behind us in the table.
    7 points
  24. Week 9 update This should be fun. First is an obituary for Walter Mirisch: Walter Mirisch obituary | Film | The Guardian Not a bad return. Mirisch was 101 when he died so he's worth 24 Base Points for @JustOneCornetto with a Solo Shot taking that to 74 points. =============== Up next this week was pole vaulter turned minister, Bob Richards: Two-time Olympic pole vault champion Bob Richards dies at 97 (espn.co.uk) He was a Solo Shot for @LoonsYouthTeam but as yet there aren't any UK sources. ESPN doesn't count. I'll keep looking. =============== Up next this week was former Speaker of the House, Betty Boothroyd: Lady Boothroyd obituary | Betty Boothroyd | The Guardian I also enjoyed this: She brought a pizzazz to the speaker’s role, declining to wear the traditional full-bottomed wig, thus appearing attractively stylish and modern, in contrast to her predecessors. I also enjoyed this: After her election as an MP, Boothroyd made a feisty maiden speech, ignoring what had previously been the convention to avoid controversy when first contributing to a parliamentary debate. She claimed to be able to speak for “ordinary working people” and attacked the then Conservative government for its failure to alleviate the injustice of the two-tier society that existed in the UK. I also enjoyed this: She was judicious about the use of her considerable political authority as a member of the Lords, but campaigned against Brexit. She also deplored the Labour party’s lurch towards the left under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn and despaired of the subsequent loss of the party’s former “Red Wall” northern seats. Boothroyd died at 93 so she's worth 32 Base Points for @Bodie, @Melanius Mullarkay and @Suspect Device. =============== Up next this week was French footballer, Just Fontaine: Just Fontaine obituary | Football | The Guardian Not a bad return, really. Fontaine died at 89 so he's worth 36 Base Points for @LoonsYouthTeam with a Solo Shot taking that to 86 points. =============== And finally this week we have cartoonist and clarinetist Wally Fawkes: Wally Fawkes, jazz musician and artist who drew the ‘Flook’ comic strip for more than three decades – obituary (telegraph.co.uk) Fawkes died at 98, so he's worth 27 Base Points for @tamthebam with a Solo Shot taking that to 77 points. After all of that, the standings look like this: 1. JustOneCornetto 255 2. The Naitch 208 3. buddiepaul 194 4. LoonsYouthTeam 187 5. psv_killie 185 6. peasy23 165 7. The DA 153 8. Desp, Ned Nederlander 151 10. Karpaty Lviv 145 11. Sweaty Morph 140 12. get_the_subbies_on 138 13. Arabdownunder, Bully Wee Villa, cdhafc1874, D.V.T., Frosty, HK Hibee, Mark Connolly, microdave, qos_75, throbber, weirdcal 134 24. Arbroathlegend36-0 110 25. Arch Stanton, Ludo*1, mozam76 101 28. alta-pete, Billy Jean King, Indale Winton, sparky88 84 32. tamthebam 77 33. ICTJohnboy 69 34. paulathame 68 35. atfccfc, chomp my root, DG.Roma, Donathan, Fuctifano, gkneil, HI HAT, lichtgilphead, Lofarl, lolls, Michael W, pub car king, The_Craig, thistledo 67 49. sleazy 55 50. Aim Here 43 51. Bodie, Melanius Mullarkay, Suspect Device 32 54. amnarab, choirbairn, Derry Alli, expatowner, Oystercatcher, stanton 31 60. Everyone else 0 The spreadsheet has also been updated with these scores: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RxCIfczRUmrRrW79tUQ0vJ5KaHZpYENsTKmDqW4X3W4/edit?usp=sharing
    7 points
  25. Anybody attempting this patter on Tuesday will be getting a Stephens to the puss
    7 points
  26. I had hoped a Morton fan might have mentioned it but well done to the QP support for the warm applause extended to the memory of Allan McGraw. It’s alway impressive when a well-loved player returns to do an even bigger and better job as the manager. RIP Allan.
    7 points
  27. Had a very odd feeling coming away from that game yesterday, in that we got beat but I actually felt weirdly positive? Decisions (rightfully) went against us and ultimately we were punished. That being said, that’s now two games this season where we have been very much on top (yesterday and St J at home) that Baldwin has been sent off and it’s turned the game around. For me, that result was on him yesterday and he should be questioned. I thought we looked pretty decent up until the red card to be honest. It was just one of those days where nothing would really go for us. The addition of Kenneh and Brophy really has turned the team around. We have a proper enforcer in the middle of the park for the first time since, what, Draper? Brophy also gives us something really different and whilst he didn’t get the rub of the green yesterday I’m confident he’ll add to his tally before the end of the season. I didn’t think Motherwell were great in all honesty. It seemed to me like they were happy with the point before the goals. The two goals were very much sucker punches. That being said, I don’t know how many times they’ve done that to us in Dingwall so I should definitely be used to it by now. I think adding a few proper b*****ds to their team in Butcher and Casey will see them through and I think that’s them out trouble now. Finally, massive respect to the travelling Well fans for taking part in the minutes applause yesterday. In a week where we’ve seen a set of scum bags disrespect the dead in Scottish football, it was heartening to see the Well fans join in and show their appreciation. Real good eggs, nice one lads.
    7 points
  28. The Rangers game is a free hit but if we punch above our weight and they have an off day we'll never have a better chance of beating them.
    7 points
  29. I had Sportsound on the car radio on the way to and back from Firhill today. The first half-hour was a fascinating insight into the merits of one team's entire playing squad, several of whom I've never heard of. On the way home there was a quick read through of all the results between more comments from Ibrox. Just as well Celtic weren't playing today otherwise we would have heard even less about the rest of Scottish Football. Richard Gordon used to always give a summary of results, scorers and league positions for all the Leagues and you would have at least some idea of how the season was going for every team. Now I scroll through P & B to find out what's happening with the other clubs. I stopped buying newspapers after flicking past the first six pages of the Herald Saturday Sports Supplement devoted to Old Firm stories despite neither team playing that day and with a full League programme and a Scotland Rugby International. Listening to Sportsound might go the same way - I don't want to tune into McIntyre's tabloid fake controversy and Old Firm centred viewpoint.
    7 points
  30. FC Funpee Ushited, you just got Cormacked.
    7 points
  31. Bit strange that Queens Park fans get pissy over everyone “assuming their financial position” before then make assumptions of their own.
    6 points
  32. You won't and the whole of Scottish football will rejoice at this failing financial experiment.
    6 points
  33. Not a penalty and the disallowed goal should have stood. Poor refereeing in the case of the latter but that's become the norm in the Championship, presumably because they have to double up in the top flight to accommodate VAR. The standard of refereeing this season has been atrocious. We've been the subject of a number of terrible penalty awards, one famously from VAR.
    6 points
  34. Congratulations on your one point against us this season which is still one point more than your pointless post.
    6 points
  35. Ive been pretty clear for a while i dont want McLennan permanently, im just a bit surprised hes being singled out after yesterday. We've seen O'Hallorans Saints career stifled and killed, with him barely ever seeing the ball, because the manager tried to turn a winger into a striker. We saw Glenn Middleton slowly degrade from a player willing to take men on to a player who couldnt look bothered and barely touched the ball because the managers tried to turn a winger into a striker. Now McLennan is also being accused of not looking bothered and barely touching the ball because the manager is trying to turn a winger into a striker. The fact hes back to trying it, while simultaneously back to wedging Brown into awkward positions to play a back 5 instead of a back 4, is yet again a massive flashing red beacon that hes not learned a fucking thing over the past 6 months and has yet again lied that hes willing to be more flexible simply to get fans onside. Ive already seen people suggesting hes justified because yesterdays set up "worked for an hour". I hate that argument completely. Just because we looked decent doesnt mean we wouldn't have with a back four. It was the same after the Utd game. We won so apparently you cant say the set up was wrong and didnt make the most of what we have.
    6 points
  36. The frustrating thing for me, apart from the system and playing players out of position to suit that system, is the substitutions or lack of them. Callum waits far too long to use them, the game is often irretrievable by the time he gets round to making them. Frustrates the life out of me. The obvious one for me was #shagsquad for Maclennan at 1-0 yesterday. Connors tracking of runners is woeful and he wasn't impacting the game, change it and give the baldy shagger an extended run out, he's a striker with a point to prove.
    5 points
  37. Completely. @Merkland Red should really be called Paddock Red imo. I'm sure other old b*****ds would agree.
    5 points
  38. Nice to see you're still livid, Owen. Get it up you.
    5 points
  39. He saw a big guy scoring a goal and thought he hadn't quite been bad enough already so disallowed the goal. Surely there can't be any other explanation?
    5 points
  40. Have we considered that the key to all of this is Tommo?
    5 points
  41. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that Eze goal. Farcical refereeing. And the penalty shout for Morton, I thought it looked like a stonewaller live, but slowed down you can clearly see Boateng does get a touch on the ball and knocks it out for the corner
    5 points
  42. Anyone complaining about the size of the home crowd is more than welcome to buy their black & white hoops shirt and get behind the team that invented the game of football as we know it in Scotland. That's what I did 8 years ago when I moved here and when QP were still an amateur club and I haven't regretted it for even a second. I understand if you don't, but at least have the decency to respect the loyal fans who haven't been to a single proper "home" game in the last two years and have been forced to follow their team literally all over the country.
    5 points
  43. he said, and then proceeded to get into the crowd wanking chat.
    5 points
  44. Dut that post down and blow the cobwebs off it for its 60th appearance.
    5 points
  45. Kenny McIntyre after the games have finished: “Incredible afternoon. So many talking points” Kenny McIntyre halfway through the first half: “What do you make of Peter Grant’s point that Celtic have tougher games in training than they do in the league?”
    5 points
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