Cardle is Magic

Otoo and McCann should be available on Saturday according to McPake which is a relief. Still likely means either Josh Edwards or Miller Fenton playing in the back three though, unless he finally relents and just moves to a back four.

Are you his agent?

Could he get more stick? Only Wighton even comes close in the average supporter scapegoat rankings. By no means should this be seen as a defence of Chalmers btw - I think he’s been mostly mince this season. It’s just I don’t think he’s been any worse than Allan.

Chalmers hasn’t been good either but he seems to get 10 x as much criticism as Allan for some reason. It’s not like Allan is some untested teenager trying his best either - lad will be 24 next month.

Let’s be honest; Paul Allan adds very little to our team. He’s not much of a threat going forward, he doesn’t get stuck into tackles, his passing is average at best. He seems to have a decent engine but I think if he was a signing rather than a player who came through the youth system then people would be more vocal about his performances. As @CallumPar says though, the issues at the back are far more pressing.

Turner is a good player but seems to cause problems in the dressing room everywhere he goes. If he performs on the park though I’m sure teammates and fans will be happy enough with him.

The urgency in which we need to add defenders to the squad means that even if the scenario you’ve given is spot on, we should have simply moved to our next top target. What if Dundee decide tomorrow that Ashcroft can go but he wants to go to Raith? I can’t accept that he is our first and only option. It’s not like we’re just missing that one guy who will change everything; we need multiple players to plug the gaping wounds in our squad. It can’t just be a case of sitting twiddling our thumbs waiting on another club deciding if they want to keep someone. The injury situation was significant before the QP game but with Comrie and Jak going down it became critical. Ending the game with Fenton, Hoggan and Sutherland on the pitch should have been a red alert sort of situation but almost a week later and we have added no one. Let’s hope we see some more movement over the next week or two because this is only going to get worse otherwise.

It’s not like our squad was sensational with everyone fit but I’d have at least been confident we certainly would not be getting relegated. Having Bene, Breen, Fisher, Todd, KRH and McCann out medium-long term is just brutal; they are all near enough certain starters.

Otoo has been good this season for us but not TOTS level stuff. Think he is destined for a higher standard though.

Each to their own I guess but Thistle isn’t an exciting away day in the slightest. Been there so many times over last few seasons, the stand is shite and we’ll likely lose. Best to just skip the game and have a night out in Glasgow instead. Not only does nobody think that, nobody has said that or anything like it. The injury situation is genuinely a disaster and has been for most of the campaign. Without additional recruits, all that’s going to happen is the few players who are left will be overworked and end up getting muscle injuries of their own. I don’t even think we need to be overly picky at the moment; anyone affordable and better than our youth players needs to at least be considered. We need warm bodies.

Edwards, Chalmers and Wighton might be the only players to start on Saturday who also started the Airdrie game on the opening day.

Yet also entirely predictable from the moment we chucked the 3-1 lead at Firhill the week before. You could see what was going to happen from a mile off.

Going to guess that a few people’s opinions on O’Reilly as a player would have been vastly different right now had he signed on at Raith. Suddenly a player you were really keen to keep becomes over-hyped.

Considering Dundee United conceded just seven goals in their first 18 games, I’m amazed that only one person so far has Walton in their team. I’m sure the defence deserve a lot of credit but seems logical that most Best XIs so far would have to overwhelmingly feature all those involved in building the league’s best defensive record? United, Rovers and Thistle should make up the bulk of any selection, with the odd honourable mention here and there. Although find it very difficult to make the case for a Dunfermline player; maybe Josh Edwards at LB/LWB just for consistent decent to good performances.

That is just utterly inexplicable.

Think it’s pretty safe to say Falkirk will be in the Championship next season. Not got much in the way of competition in League 1 but wouldn’t really matter when you’re going at over 2.5 points per game tbf.

I only just realised you lads still have the same manager who bottled it last season Staggering he wasn’t sacked on the spot, never mind still being in post over half a season later!

In fairness, I didn’t really give a shit about anything that happened in Scottish football during the pandemic tbh.

Can we please stop lauding managers for winning the Scottish Cup or League Cup? You need to win about 5 or 6 games tops and should absolutely not be confused with any guarantee of managerial talent. John Hughes, Peter Houston, Alan Stubbs, Jim McIntyre, Danny Lennon, Ronny Deila and Kenny Shiels have all won major cup competitions in Scotland in the last 15 years; just saying.

One of them would end up being allergic to the material and be ruled out for Saturday.

A rare treat.

Going to take a wild guess that very few - if any - disagree.

All together? As in they all together voted that you were the worst poster on P&B who supports Inverness? Did you understand what it means?

North-east construction group Stewart Milne goes bust This have any impact on the Dons at all?

He’s not corrupt but even if he was it’s certainly not up to an individual club to dictate which referees are in charge of which matches. Rangers should have long since been charged with bringing the game into disrepute over this nonsense.