williebraveheart

No excuses. Both teams will be used to the surface. Silky football throughout.

Correct. You are not much of a club.

Alloa signed a striker from Motherwell today. Were we even looking?

Did they also authorise permission to sign a new coach?

Not unless you are planning on playing! In that case I would claim to be injured. It is an absolute muck heap.

I really do not know what he is doing there. I can only think he was being used as bait for Jack Ross. Total waste of time.

Season ticket or not there is no way I am returning to Firhill to watch football attempted to be played on that dungheap. What a disgrace.

Shocking and very rude but at least he got a reply. Of course she would be busy_________________doing nothing.

Dempster's management and the recruitment during Jan/Feb has ruined our season. I really think Dempster is a fraud.

Will the pitch cope with this weather?

I thought his goal was typical Salim style. Nice to know we have a striker who can't play for the first team.

You have given us the result of the issue quite correctly. You have not addressed the cause. Why have we not got a striker? Why are we not scoring goals? Where is the direction coming from?

That at least would have been a plan. At the moment we are drifting along aimlessly.

I am mildly surprised this has not happened by now.

The Firhill surface does not suit anybody's game!

Airdrie 3 Clyde 1 Alloa 1 Cove 2 Falkirk 3 East Fife 0 Peterhead 1 Dumbarton 0 Queen's Park 1 Montrose 1

Tough one to call. They will be without Lyons after his sending off? That helps the balance. We really need a win both for confidence and league position but the way we are playing just now it is difficult to see it happening. 1-1 best result I can see.

I have not really enjoyed this season either. On reflection, though, I think that considering we have had a trainee manager/coach for the first half and nothing in management since Christmas along with no striker at all, to be in contention for the play offs is quite a feat. I think it also demonstrates that professional or not players need management and direction. We are not giving them this. I understand and have the same frustrations as everyone on here but with a rudderless ship is it any wonder that players' performances have regressed? They are only human. This applies in any workplace, not just football. The root cause is at the top of the tree. Where is the CEO, President, etc. When will they explain their seemingly lack of interest in interacting with the support?

Correct. It is not the players we should be shouting at but Dempster and those who are responsible for the astonishingly poor recruitment during the transfer window.

Great find. That does seem to be what we are about.

I agree with you about the booing and constant criticism. Not helpful. Your point about sameness and availability is puzzling. Who chose the sameness? If that was all who were available why did we bring them in if they were just the same? The point I think you illuminate most brightly is that we have had no manager/coach worth his salt for months. Nobody in control. I disagree that the squad was not good enough at the beginning of the season. We were five points clear at the top at one point for goodness sake. We had horrific injury problems that most teams would struggle with but were still in contention at the end of November. We sacked our coach and now have a Director of Football whose forte is youth development seemingly taking charge along with a coach who was an assistant and is only interim. Where is his incentive to give his all even if he has ability? Whilst I am as disappointed as the next fan on the way we are playing I agree that there is no way that the players are not trying. Somebody is coaching them this way in the name of teaching a new style or whatever. The blame lies with those who are running this club quite incompetently in my opinion.

We have what appears to be a genuine striker playing for Cambuslang Rangers. We are supposed to be about development. Bring him in and help him develop.

Quite so. As I said, nothing has changed.

I remember an Elgin goalkeeper doing something similar at Hampden about six or seven years ago. It is a one off and can happen. I think it also fair to say that the outfield players had several opportunities to get the ball forward before this rather than tip tap backwards and pass the ball to players who were well covered.

I do not believe we would be any worse off if Laurie Ellis had still been in charge. That is not to say that I think he was brilliant but just that nothing seems to have changed. He could not possibly have handled a worse transfer window. That was a disgrace.