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  1. 1 hour ago, YoungWarrior said:

    OMG what the hell is happening, is the performance as bad as the result?

    Terrible performance from beginning to end. Cowdenbeath  were not  much better but they took their chances. We can't defend and missed a few good chances.

    No Smith,Munro and Hopkirk and it showed. There will have to be wholesale changes in January starting with all 4 loanees who are all as weak as water but they are not alone. In a perfect world we could do with about 8 new players.

    The manager will have to come up with something special to get us up the league. The only consolation is that apart from the top 2 the rest of the teams are nothing special.

     

  2. 1 hour ago, Francesc Fabregas said:

    No doubt about it, this is a must-win game for both sides if they have any aspirations of moving away from the wrong end of League 2. Before the weekend's game against Cowdenbeath, I reckoned Stenhousemuir could have taken seven points from their meetings with the Blue Brazil, Brechin City and Stirling Albion; after our deserved 3-0 pumping, I'm now very worried about our ability to get something from Saturday's game and I'm concerned about where our season is going.

    On paper, a home match with Brechin is probably the most straightforward assignment of the season - a team we didn't lose to at all last season, even when we were reduced to 10 men on two occasions - but I'm not so sure now. We've been rubbish at home in the league this season. We looked sprightly enough when we came back into it against Albion Rovers (before chucking it away), we were largely poor against Edinburgh City and even worse against Cowden. Why is this? I can't explain it. We haven't won a home match since beating Montrose on 9 February!

    If we don't win this match, I worry for Colin McMenamin. The crowd were rightly angry at the end of Saturday's match and I don't think they'll have the stomach for something similar for a second week running. It's easier said than done but we have to encourage our defenders to play through the midfield rather than launching big punts up towards Mark McGuigan, they need to get Alan Cook more involved, and they need to get Thomas Halleran on the ball whenever possible. Whenever we go behind, we seem to lose our composure and try to get rid of the ball as quickly as possible. The second-half performance against Cowden really wasn't acceptable and the manner in which we lost the second and third goals was embarrassing.

    That said, I honestly can't think of any changes I'd make on Saturday. I don't think we've got the options from the bench, David Hopkirk aside:

    - Kieran Anderson - Mark McGuigan -

    - Alan Cook - Thomas Halleran - Wullie Gibson - Jamie McKernon - Chris O'Neil -

    - Scott McLaughlin - David Marsh - Andy Munro -

    - Graeme Smith -

    The pressure is on! Home win.

    As you say there aren't many options off the bench but I would start with Hopkirk instead of Anderson. Hopkirk provides some movement and will track back but Anderson just wants to stand and wait for the ball to land at his feet so that he can have a swing at it.

  3. 1 hour ago, Francesc Fabregas said:

    I think it's a bit unfair to call him "hopeless" - there's a decent enough player in there somewhere, provided he's allowed to forgo all defensive duties and concentrate on linking play further up the park. He can pass the ball around well enough but that's about it. I don't think he's quite what we need at the moment and that's reflected in his demotion to the bench in recent weeks. Thomas Halleran is a far better option in the middle of the park.

    Dykes can pass the ball around but usually passes it to the opposition.

  4. 6 minutes ago, Francesc Fabregas said:

    Kieran Gibbons is quite bad for that, I'll grant you that, but Dylan Dykes, Jamie McKernon and Thomas Halleran are all handy enough on the ball.

    Regardless, I hope Gibson does us a good turn.

    Halleran is decent on the ball but the manager seems to want him to sit on the bench. Dylan Dykes is 6'2" but plays like he is 3'2" and is mostly anonymous.

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