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Laid-back Accie

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  1. This game comes down to if McGowan plays or not. With him coming off injuried and revealing it's a calf injury that he's been carrying for weeks is a huge worry. Would be surprised if he played, and after what happened to our defence when he went off, it only spells disaster. I dont know how fit Easton is these days but we need someone to try and fill the gap. Dan just can't cope if it's him and the likes of Shiels.
  2. Was day dreaming in work and I randomly remembered this tune where it was like a round up of all the Scottish football clubs, basically the lyrics were just naming all of the clubs and the video would show a picture of all the grounds. Anyone know what I'm talking about and if so have a link? was trying to find it but no joy, been stuck in my head all day. I'm sure I seen it on twitter.
  3. If we lose this, then I really can't see anyway back. So the best result would be a postponement, and let us enjoy our Christmas.
  4. Our Defence is an absolute shambles, It's so laughable. It was like playing 12 v 10 tonight, O'Reilly was committed to sabotage any chance we had at getting anything. I'd love to see how many of our conceded goals are due to blatant defensive errors. Oh well at least Rankin has the disallowed goal to build a sob story.
  5. Really can't see us getting anything here, we struggle at Starks Park at the best of times never mind the worst. Zanatta has been really poor so far, I dont think he's done anything of note yet and obviously didn't play against Cove. However I can actually see him starting this one, as Smith and Ngandu were absolutely rank rotten, so can see Rankin wanting to try him again.
  6. I just felt he look more assured and composed on the ball than most of the others, which admittedly certainly isn't hard. The penalty just looked to me like the sort of standard ball gets fired at you, your arm is slightly out and it unfortunately hits it.
  7. What a mental game, very much a rollercoaster ride. In those types of games it's always better to be the team that comes from behind rather than the team that was ahead. But it certainly wasn't a game of any quality, just a lot of shambolic performances mostly in defence, you'll see better defending in tier 10. Oh and the Ref was also a joke, completely lost control in the 2nd half. Definitely credit to the players that kept fighting, it certainly wasn't everyone, but enough to create chances. Very unimpressed by Ngandu today, didn't look interested in the slightest, and was rightfully hooked at HT. I really hate to keep on the boys back, but Smith just gets worse every game, this is a physical league so you need everyone to get stuck in and make challenges, but he just simply refuses too. Thought Virtanen did quite well starting in midfield and then moving to centre back. Chucky always trys and you can see he cares as much as the fans, so pleased he got a couple goals today. Thought McGinn was a bright spark, was surprised to see the change at 4-2, but he showed pace and fight, felt sorry for him when he went on a great run, but no one seemed to want to go and help by giving him an option. Overall its pleasing to get a point after going 4-1 down, but we won't progress until this shambles of a defence is sorted out. He needs to go to a 5 at the back for me, cleansheets need to be the number aim.
  8. Aye at this point, any faith I had in Rankin or the team vanished after Arbroath. Previously there's always been at least one player you could look to, that would put in a shift and give at least a half decent performance. Currently I'd say every player is more likely to have a shocker than anything that resembles confidence.
  9. Dreading this, feel like I'm signing up to be guaranteed miserable. I could not go of course, but feel like I've committed to much to going at this point. God only knows what team will start, but tbh I don't think it really matters, the same issues will still be there regardless who plays.
  10. Well done to those that made the long trip, glad the result rewarded the effort. I watched the game through other means, and it certainly was improvement, you could clearly see a bit more urgency closing down the opposition on the ball. Ngandu was definitely a shining light, and actually looks comfortable on the ball and can create things. Tbf I think most fans could see these qualities and were asking for him start long before the Partick game, but Rankin didn't seem to fancy him, hopefully he's learned from that. Still need to find that killer instinct to get the 2nd goal, the last 15 minutes as they have been this season were nail biting stuff. Huge 2 games coming up now, with a chance to go on a run and get some points on the board.
  11. Thankfully I missed the Morton game, feel sorry for the poor souls that travelled. Can really see myself finding an excuse to miss this as well. What I've witnessed so far and heard from the morton game is that, we are very badly exposed the break. When we lose the ball and the opposition has any bit of sharpness about them to move the ball quickly, we are likely to concede (not saying we do anything else well). For me it's a domino effect of, our forward wide players don't want to get back to help the full backs, the full backs can't get back quickly enough, and our 2 centre backs are left scrambling. Basically whatever form of defending Rankin wants to do, we have no where near the capable personnel to do it. So because we have absolutely no depth at all in these postions, he'll need to find something that fits better for the back 4 we have. The main focus for this game should be to try and keep a clean sheet, we need to restart and try something different.
  12. Need a favour from our mate Dougie again, very much a must win. It's just a matter of praying that the current players and manager somehow get themselves together, as it looks like all our injured players are a long way off returning.
  13. Bit of a weird one, came away very frustrated, mostly due to the amount of times we got into great positions, where any capable forward player would have scored, but we wasted it with either a tame effort or over passing it. Feel a bit sorry for Rankin, I dont think there's a lot he can do with the team selection, but he really doesn't help himself with the subs, no way Smith should have stayed on as long as he did. On the plus side, De Bolle looked very good when he came, looked very comfortable on the ball and great first touch, hopefully we can see a lot more of him soon. I was over by section J, and very certain Queens first goal was over the line by a good bit before Fulton hooked it out after the first rebound, easy call for the linesman.
  14. We picked up some vital points against Inverness last season, hoping we can muster up those results again. We'll definitely need to step it up a gear from our last few performances, or it will be a long afternoon. Can see Rankin going with the same line up again, as I don't think anyone on our long list of injuries/low fitness will be ready to come in yet. I think another draw would frustrate our fans further, but right now if it was offered I'd take it
  15. Looking forward to this, probably purely based on the fact it will be a new ground for me. After getting that much needed first win on Saturday, we need to be looking to kick on and make some distance from the bottom. I'd probably stick with the same team, but with the talk of possibly some new signings (not holding my breath) we might have some new faces that could come straight in. No idea what to expect from Cove. I thought they would have had a better start, which looked like a good prediction after the opening day, but things seem to have tailed off rather quickly. Tbh that probably scares me more, as usually we love to give teams on a losing streak some hope. Accies tweeted out about the away tickets being on sale, and stated it would be a standing section. But I've seen posts from other fans suggesting that Cove put up some temp stands, can any Cove fan confirm?
  16. Great to get that first win, hopefully kick on from here. Thought it was a good performance overall, got into some nice positions, but lacked that clinical edge. Best performance from Smith so far, still not brilliant was certainly an improvement over recent weeks. Thought Zanatta looked ok, seemed like he wanted to get forward, definitely some positive direction that we have been lacking. One was very good when he came on, definitely a talent there, will be exciting to see what he can develop into, if we can manage to keep him. So hard to believe he's only 16. Surprised to hear about the throwing incidents, as ive never heard or witnessed anything like that before, home or away. Won't say too much on it, as I didn't see much sitting close to section J. But from I heard it was the Arbroath fans that initiated it, definitely no excuse, as throwing coins etc is definitely unacceptable.
  17. That was a strange one. I thought it was an Ayr corner, but other fans around me said it had came back off the Ayr player, which I assume is what Doyle saw, as he shielded it out of play, rather than clearing it up field.
  18. Very open game, which pretty much had everything, was a good watch, even if the quality wasn't always there. It was a funny performance from our side, as I thought about half the players had good games, and the other half had absolute stinkers. On the good side I thought Winter, Martin and Shiels were excellent, ran themselves into ground, and winter showed that he has quality and could turn into a really good finisher. Also want to mention Fulton, think he's been decent so far and looking more like a proper number 1. On the bad side, it's really sad to see how far Lewis Smith has regressed, looked absolutely lost and scared of the ball. Couldn't believe the penalty decision, will need to see it again, but to me it looked like a great challenge, even the Ayr players weren't protesting and just wanted to get on with it. Definitely looks like 2 awful penalty decisions against us in the space of 14 days, least justice was done this time around. Overall the draw was a fair result, Ayr love a cracker of goal against us.
  19. Looking forward to the away trip, but as for the result, not so optimistic. Never remember an easy game against Ayr, struggling even at the best of times. Would be great if Chucky is back, as I feel we really missed him last week, Winter up top on his own was to the surprise of no one, not effective. Think it will be a hat-trick of 1-1 Draws for us.
  20. Have to say its deserved, Ayr have completely dominated this half.
  21. Good to see a scottish club stepping into the 21st century, Fair play. Thanks.
  22. Terrible call for the penalty, but the red card was spot on, seeing it again, such a stupid challenge. Also it might be just because it's Mortons highlights focusing on their attacks, but our defending is worse than I remember it. Morton players had acres of space just outside our box. Do that against Partick and we'll get hammered.
  23. This will definitely be a much more difficult test, hopefully we do get some bodies in early this week. Our defence is less than convincing which, after seeing that Partick went 3-0 up yesterday has me very worried. We won't have Want, which I think most will agree is probably a good thing with how he's playing atm. So I'd expect Owens or if the rumours are true, Hamilton to start. Really not expecting much for us here, so would be happy with a draw and another point on the board.
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