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renton

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  1. If we aren't we are rapidly getting there. Lose tonight and we are an effective 5 points behind them with 9 to play. That'd leave us needing to match our first quarter total and hope their 4th quarter is like their third quarter.
  2. I think the Courier is probably more obsessed with our social media than the Pars players or staff tbh
  3. I don't think you need worry. Pretty sure this is where we turn into Pumpkins.
  4. Aye, realistically anything less than 6 points in the next 2 finishes us. Beyond that,I can only repeat what others have said: league winners don't blow games like we did last Friday. We'll limp into the play offs in all probability. Get our jotters off of Morton in all likliehood, then spend the summer grinding our gears over Centre Backs (again).
  5. If they werent gonna sit in and defend their 18 yard line before, then they are now. Happily take any number more positive than they have.
  6. I didnt say it was fine, at the same time I don't think we have played, on the whole, poorly. We've played to a restrictive game plan and it isnt one that is exactly going to get a crowd buzzing (the flatness of a crowd at Starks tells you f**k all useful btw) On the other hand 2 goals conceded in 3 weeks is as good a shut out as we've had this this season. I don't think it's tenable over the rest of the season but has to be seen in the context of where we were after the Dunfermline game in terms of results. The formation Murray chooses to use isnt built on controlling midfield and therefore possession, and it's a fairly delicate balancing act to get it to work, relying on having Stanton to drop in when we don't have it, and a centre back to step up into midfield when we do. It's about fast attacking play (and a willingness to gamble at the back) and at some point you have to concede that winning games as often as we have can't simply be down to fortune.
  7. This feels a tad harsh. No doubt we arent playing to dominate sides with the ball now, on the other hand we arent playing nearly as open. The last three games we've sat a lot deeper without the ball and been content to hit teams on the break, and to sit in on leads. Confidence is obviously a bit brittle but we are also 7/9 and level on points at the top of the table. I'd hope we'd be able to build on that, to try and take more control in games again but at the same time I wouldn't say we were technically poor against United or Ayr where we played to a tight, limited plan.
  8. Having said that, I'd still only rate our chances as about 1 in 5 tbh.
  9. Two weeks ago we were in danger of going 7 points behind them, and are level now. Granted, our head to head with them has kept it more competitive than it might otherwise have been, and that's cancelled out our massive bed wetting in January.
  10. Nah, agreed probably needed a change of shape to go 4-2-3-1 from the start to get some purchase in midfield, as Morton worked hard to press high up the park.
  11. We never really got going. Morton really good at closing down the space in midfield - particularly the first and third quarters of the game. Got hard working forwards as well. You can see why they maybe struggled a bit before Strapp came back. He does offer such a singular talent with that throw in. Turns any throw in over the halfway line into a half decent chance in the box, or at the very least into good territory. Murray's line up didn't work. Connolly had one or two good moments but was mostly outdone physically as Rovers tried to pick up loose second balls in midfield. Smith did nothing of note and hasn't now since the Thistle game. Wpuld love to have seen Hamilton and Rudden together as by that point we'd resorted to trying the ball over the top anyway. Credit to the back 4 for keeping a rare clean sheet though.
  12. Aye, I get the notion of squad rotation and was obvious that Smith and Connolly were being saved for this on Saturday, at the same time I'm not sure Hamilton and Smith is going to work that well. Hoping I'm just ignorant tbqfhwy
  13. That's... interesting. Can only hope that Murray is fit, and back to his middling best. Presume it's Smith up front with Hamilton, Easton and Connolly out wide. Extremely nervous about this now, not exactly sold on the wisdom of benching a partnership that has yielded 3 goals in two games....
  14. Any win will do. At least match Dundee United, don't really care how.
  15. I'm guessing for us, a lot will depend on the relative fitness of one out of two of Shaun Byrne and Euan Murray, and how that impacts where Brown plays. Given neither Callum Smith or Aidan Connolly played any minutes on Saturday, I'd expect at least one to start tonight, probably to save Josh Mullin's legs. Pretty sure he'll start Rudden and Vaughan up front. Can't not play that partnership just now.
  16. Does he though? He doesn't come across as someone who has a particularly high bar set for what constitutes needle. I recall Murray after the game at Starks talking about Morton having a definite game plan, and not wanting to get sucked into how the play as it stopped Rovers playing their game. Not sure it was particularly disrespectful. Was their any handbags at the Cappielow game?
  17. Flyers had the same coach for 20 odd years and have played more than a decade in a closed shop league with no relegation. FFP probably just had 3 stock report types they recycled.
  18. I swear we are *this* close to the age old "the board got them to blow it deliberately because we can't afford to go up"...
  19. So, to clear we've escalated from: signed a right back>Millen had massive falling out with Murray> half the squad "found out" that they aren't being kept on and morale is shot? Is that right?
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