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Europa Conference League - Quarter Final - April 2122

Airdrieonians 0 - 3 Dundee United Arbroath 1 - 1 Queen’s Park Dunfermline Athletic 0 - 1 Inverness Caledonian Thistle Greenock Morton 2 - 1 Raith Rovers Partick Thistle 3 - 0 Ayr United

Aye, I vaguely recall their chairman was trying to get the playoffs scrapped again the season they actually went down too.

I don’t think we’re likely to get anything bigger than 12 team leagues, but would prefer that all four national divisions were 12 teams with a split. Bottom 2 down and top 2 up across the board, with a further playoff containing third bottom and 3rd-5th. Bottom division would have 2 down automatically, with both HL and LL champions up, and a playoff between the two runners up to face third bottom.

I think him and Cairney who we signed around the same time had been in the second division with QP for a season before we brought them in, so not quite as big a jump there. It’s a shame that Paton turned out to be such an absolute p***k, because he was a good player for us.

Only one automatically down from a 16 team league would be absolutely shite.

We have a fucking good laugh and pray that someone else goes into administration.

Only other one (well, it’s a different pyramid) I can think of is Christie Elliott who was playing at some dogshit level in England when we signed him and did at least a serviceable job for a long time. I’m with you that we have a decent enough record with these sorts of signings, although obviously there’s ones that haven’t worked (I’m looking at you Blair Lyons) it’s worth a shot given it’ll be relatively cheap.

I have genuinely no idea who Rhys Armstrong is, but Luke McBeth made a far bigger step up and looks great so f**k it.

Was it not Montrose who were basically always in the bottom tier until fairly recently?

I would be tempted to give Muirhead a rest and get O’Reilly a bit more match sharpness for the playoffs. It’s going to be a gruelling schedule, and we need as many players up to speed as possible. He also looked pretty good when he came on yesterday. Only other question mark is the extent of Stanway’s knock that forced him off yesterday. If he’s out for this, then the question is either Bannigan in a straight swap or move McInroy back and put MacKenzie in.

Right, firstly he’s a Dundee United fan. And secondly, we were 3-0 up with 20 minutes to go and lost - we absolutely did shit the bed.

March 2122 A poor month, and one that will almost certainly cost us in the title race. Other than the first game, and the European exploits, we just didn't do enough in any of these games. And we drop back to four points behind. Could've been worse if Slavia had taken full advantage.

Europa Conference League - Second Knockout Round - March 2122

All in all, a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon. We stepped it up a notch in the second half, and Airdrie couldn’t live with it. If we could play like that from now until the end of the season, we’ll be in the Premiership next year. Graham’s second goal was absolutely glorious and I genuinely cannot wait to watch it again. Fitzpatrick did really well at the first goal too - hopefully that gives him a confidence boost as he’s been slightly off it the last wee while. But he did really well rounding the keeper. Hard to be critical after a 4-0 win, but here goes. McInroy seems to have a crippling phobia of the ball touching his right foot. Which isn’t ideal when he’s on the right of midfield. He did fine today, I thought, but there was a few times that he could’ve gone onto his right but just point blank refused to do it. i don’t think Airdrie played especially badly - the keeper made a hash of it for the second goal and they were caught out after that.

This thread is going to make Thistle’s 36-0 win on the final day so much sweeter…

BOING BOING c***s.

A decent first half despite the lack of goals. Both teams had decent chances, although I think we’ve had slightly more.

Megwa possibly has potential to be a better player than McMillan, but as of right now he isn’t.

Still better attacking play anything Pepple done, tbf.

Is Pepple an actual real footballer, or has someone just brought along their wee brother for numbers?

Did I just hear that “get battered everywhere they go” song?

Weird that there’s no Morton players in there. Must be a mistake surely?

I think he really needs to work on his consistency, but that’s to be expected of a young player. When he’s been good, he’s looked comfortably good enough for this level - as he did on Saturday - but he simply hasn’t been good often enough. But at the same time, I think everyone, including him, is surprised at how often he’s played this season for a 19 year old. I would really like MacKenzie to head out on loan at the start of next season and get a solid chunk of playing time in his actual position - which I assume is supposed to be as an attacking midfielder.

There’ll be guys playing at absolutely every level of football carrying knocks or injuries. I distinctly remember Aymeric Laporte talking about playing through injury a couple of years ago because Man City had a few other centre halves out at the time, so it seems it’s just part of the game. I don’t think you can, therefore, criticise us for it. I honestly don’t think I’ve seen a game where I’ve thought this team is noticeably fitter than we are. That’s not to say that there aren’t improvements that could be made - of course there are - but i don’t think it’s an area where we’re particularly lagging behind. On O’Reilly, I was also under the impression that we just offered a longer deal than Raith. We may also have offered him more money, I don’t know, but I also believe that if Raith wanted to match our offer, they could have.