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Zanetti

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  1. We haven't gone at anyone all guns blazing in about a month unfortunately.
  2. Unlikely I'm afraid, they're not getting the trophy until 2 weeks after the men's final home league game of the season (and I'm not sure a relegation playoff would necessarily be the appropriate place for that!).
  3. Fully agree that the squad needs a major overhaul however Davidson could still use these players better, and doesn't seem to have learned anything over the last 3 weeks. Thomson needs to play in midfield, Turner has to be further up the park if he's adamant about using him at all, and Robson is still our best option at LCB as he allows Scott to push further forward with a bit more confidence in what's behind him. The game plan of passing it out from the back until we approach the halfway line then punting it forward needs to stop as well, it's totally ineffective.
  4. If it weren't a legitimate injury then I doubt they'd still interview him before games/make him the focal point of the matchdsy graphic on social media/including him in the training photos. I don't think there's any reason to doubt that he's genuinely hurt himself.
  5. The last 3 performances have been utterly pathetic given what's at stake. Davidson's reluctance to change things up when we're struggling badly is even worse than the players' inability to get even the basics right. Anybody who thinks we'd be favourites to win the relegation playoffs against good, confident League One teams may be in for a hell of a shock.
  6. No Dom Thomas in the squad again; think this could be a very long afternoon yet again, but I hope I'm proven wrong.
  7. Not sure Transfermarkt is the best source, it says Jack Thomson's contract is up this summer when his latest extension was until 2025 (as well as the other names which have already been mentioned!).
  8. Fox signed a 2 year deal last summer, Bannon and McLeish were extended until 2026 in the past couple of months. I heard recently that Scott is actually already signed up for next season, despite the announcement when he joined being quite vague. Hopefully that's true.
  9. The impressive thing about Morton's disciplinary record is that they've not had a single player sent off all season for getting a second yellow card. That to me suggests it's very much calculated, and they know when to turn it on or off as required. It's definitely part of the game plan and it clearly works for them.
  10. You're replying to an Airdrie fan. To be clear though, we'd be several points behind you without Welsh and Sheridan's contributions since they joined.
  11. Davidson has steadied the ship under incredibly difficult circumstances, and we'd absolutely have been relegated long before now had we stuck with the original plan, but I think to say we've been as good as any other side in the Championship is a bit of a stretch! We couldn't create any chances against Morton at Hampden, capitalise on massive amounts of pressure away to to Airdrie, or hold a 2-0 lead against Thistle; the core of a really solid Championship squad is clearly there, but a lot of work still needs to be done if we stay if and have any plans of being more competitive next season. Wish I shared your confidence ahead of the Inverness game though.
  12. Dundee didn't have Beuker making those decisions, to be fair. I still think we'd have gone into the Premiership with a bunch of kids, albeit they would have maybe been of a slightly higher calibre. Even if we were struggling badly (which we've done for the majority of this season anyway) it'd have been a good laugh.
  13. There's absolutely no justifying quite how terrible we were today. Far too many passengers in every area of the park; sloppy at the back, and every pass misplaced or over hit going forward, dreadful. I've got the absolute fear for the last few games, not sure how we bounce back from that to be honest, especially if Dom Thomas isn't back pretty much immediately.
  14. No such thing as a free hit at this stage, United have dropped points to a lot of teams this season including a poorer version of us. I don't expect anything necessarily but I'd be slightly disappointed if the players went into this with one eye on the Inverness game already.
  15. Had a wee flick back through this thread and the less said about my own predictions the better. Still, it's always interesting to see how things compare when everything is almost said and done; I particularly enjoyed this post: I take absolutely no joy from Arbroath getting relegated (actually, I would if we went down too for selfish reasons), but hopefully nobody who likes a wee gamble took this person's advice.
  16. We didn't win for 4 and a half months, I don't think despite recent improvements anybody would deny that it's been a fairly horrendous season overall.
  17. They are though. We've given away the same number of tickets this season for each home game as we did last year while at Ochilview (and we also stuck a bus on for them to get to Larbert), yet our average attendance has grown from 911 while challenging for the league to 1768, despite us having been mostly miserable to watch. Plenty to criticise the club for, something I'm not shy about doing myself, but that isn't one of them. It's just a shame we weren't back in the southside for the 22/23 season which was obviously a lot more exciting, and would've no doubt done more to get people through the door.
  18. The B team's draw at Lochinch today confirms they're reserve league champions. Although winning those games is obviously less of a priority than player development (especially since we primarily fielded youth players in the competition), it'll be exciting to see how they all progress. There's a lot of exciting young talent at the club right now.
  19. I don't think our season tickets went on sale until mid-June last year, I'd probably expect similar again. This doesn't justify the weird limbo we find ourselves in, of course. Not knowing where we're going to be playing going into every season is a ridiculous scenario, and one way or another something more permanent needs to be arranged. Regardless, I've heard through the grapevine that it'll be Hampden again. That's as good as you're going to get for now I'm afraid.
  20. Corbin Burnes pitched 6 innings with 11 strikeouts, a single hit (off Mike Trout), and no walks in his Orioles debut. Given he's a free agent after this season I could see him putting up ridiculous numbers for that big contract.
  21. I'd love to say this is our best opportunity of finally getting a win in this fixture but I've felt that way before; 2-0 up at half time last year at Ochilview, when Morton only had about 14 players because of the weather earlier this season, or when we had a man advantage and a got penalty at Cappielow but it never seems to click. Absolutely no predictions from me, but a win for either side could have a fairly significant impact on the outcome of the rest of their season.
  22. Aye there are some outrageously weathy suburbs, but even in the city itself you're fine as long as you don't do anything daft. The closer you are to the water the nicer it tends to be, generally speaking. Great scran, some fantastic pubs, interesting museums and a lot of history, at least by American standards. I'll be there again later on this year. I've never made it beyond the second series but it's probably about time I correct that, especially if you're saying it gets even better.
  23. Never been able to get into The Wire, but I'm tempted to give it another shot. I've spent some time in Baltimore though and it's a class city, some night out too. Never seen anything like what was depicted in the show, but I suppose I also wasn't slinging/buying heroin in the projects.
  24. Broony is a massive bampot, I'm afraid. You'll be desperate to get rid of him by December at the latest.
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