Sh*teAndMuck

Well played Killie. Comfy win. From us that was absolutely fucking shite. Wholesale changes required.

Anybody got any good news?

Matt Smith the winger?

Absolutely not saying Cleland is the guy to save us or anything. More that Levein is doing the opposite of what he did for a couple of games which was playing the players in their natural positions rather than shoehorn them into a set formation which I think we’re unanimously in agreement that we’re sick of and hasn’t worked for a long time.

This is correct, however the short time he had, I’m sure he said Cleland had already been preparing them for the Motherwell game so I was giving him that one! It had a similar feel to the Killie one and we scored goals.

Mentioned this in the match thread. The games where Alec and co were in charge were like the shackles had been taken off them. Oh and we managed to score two goals in both games. Levein has put the shackles back on somehow. The media like to say Levein keeps things simple and organised. I couldn’t disagree more. Cleland had them organised immediately, back to basics with players in their natural positions and they looked comfortable playing. Nobody looks comfortable with the way Levein is trying to make us play. Whatever way that is.

Why have we made a sub and now have Nicky Clark playing in midfield when we’ve got an Israeli international midfielder on the bench?

When Cleland had the team for a couple of games we looked like the handcuffs were off and they played with a bit of freedom. Levein has put them back on and we’re playing exactly like Davidson’s team. Absolute shite.

Completely pathetic.

Diabolical from Saints. Buddies cruising by doing the simple things like passing and moving well. Where do we go from here? Probably the championship. Levein and numerous players can gtf.

In that it was a fairly tight game, yes and had it not been for VAR correcting the incompetent referee it might’ve stayed at 1-0 a while longer. But we have zero threat going forward and were never going to score.

Fed up with this negative shite football.

Was just thinking this. Snow followed by rain, coupled with the Dees inability to host a football match means this will most likely be off. Need to just wait for our chance to pip them for that sixth spot.

Something Levein said last week after Motherwell also rings bells with this kind of powder puff looking line up. He said we’re not a win the second ball type of team. So I’m thinking he’s not picking a combative player like Sven because it’s not the style he envisages. This is weird for us because since the Tommy years right through we have always been a second ball, battling type of team. Not sure if he’s implying we are a silky football type of team (which we’ve seen zero evidence of obviously) or if that’s what he’s aiming for but that could explain the lightweight team selections.

This is what I thought by the short and sharp statement. That there’s been a falling out. Maybe overthinking it though.