Spiders For Life

Agree he can be hot and cold, but have never got the impression he can’t be arsed. I think he just falls out of games sometimes which is pretty much the only reason he’s at this level.

Not convinced many experienced strikers would be interested in being second choice to Paton.

Signed James Crole on loan from Cardiff. Good luck to him and hope he does well obviously, but can’t begin to describe how little hope I have bringing in someone new to senior football into a relegation battle. Brutal.

Great win. Thought Raith looked decent enough going forward and caused problems firing it up to Hamilton who won everything in the first half, but overall seemed a bit toothless and more interested in trying to win fouls at every opportunity, and subsequently greetin’ about the ones they didn’t get. Actual result could have been anything. Ferrie had a wonder save, free kick off the bar, Paton had one sitter and another well blocked near the line. Just much happier watching how we tried to attack, it reduced the amount of self-inflicted disasters by getting it up the pitch quickly which allowed us to get out of Raith’s press that has done well against us (as has any team that pressed us) previously. Welsh had a cracking debut and with a few more signings seemingly to come we might be in for a less horrific second half of the season.

I like the principle but If there’s anyone that’s been digging deep over the last few years associated to the club it’s the supporters. From the shambles with Lesser to what we’ve witnessed this season, it’s wild many of us have made it this far before deciding to protect our sanity. I’m at the stage where I’m going out of sheer habit and sunk cost rather than any actual enjoyment. On the game, can’t see anything other than the inevitable. My main hope is by Tuesday we have a new manager in the stands ready to take over in the next few days.

Bowyer with 2/3 signings over the age of 25 in Jan and this season might not end up being the absolute bin fire it’s been so far. Until I see it happen I’m scared to get too optimistic about it.

Blown away by how awful that statement is, zero idea if that’s permanent or interim appointment.

We had a stab at working our way through the list of good>horrific managerial options in the latest podcast episode for anyone interested https://linktr.ee/spiderstalk

Pack it all in if we’re signing Mackay. Couldn’t be further away from what we should be aiming for from both a football and community perspective.

We need some clear comms about who will be making the next set of decisions. Beuker and Veldman gone leaves a gaping hole over the whole football side of the club. If we’re still aiming to ‘stick to the model’ then our first team manager has to be aligned to whatever the youth teams are doing, and whoever the DoF is (if we continue having that role?). Today was the correct decision but I’ve got so little confidence in the decision makers at the club that I’ve got the fear we go for someone horrific from the usual manager merry-go-round.

Experience does not equal competence.

Wildest one for me was not taking Bannon off when he couldn’t run, he visibly didn’t want the ball as the guys continued to fire it to him.

Tragic performance once again. Thomas has never worked in the centre and to no surprise it didn’t again, looked fine out wide. McCormick unfortunately not ready, Fox playing 15 mins as a striker. Total desperation. More individual errors than I can count - 2 howlers from Spong, Bannon for the pen. Finishing all over the place, zero ability to cross the ball. Only positive was Ferrie having one of his best performances, but frankly the fact he had to make 3/4 unbelievable saves is ridiculous and totally self-inflicted. Whatever this is meant to be is not working, the players are absolutely terrified trying to play the style of football they’re getting made to attempt. Something tangible has to shift in the next couple of weeks or we’re going to be dragged to the bottom of the league.

That was so bad. 2 teams who looked woeful in different ways but leads to the same result. My overriding feeling from that was just sheer boredom, nothing about what we do is exciting.

Risk and reward with McKenna, he creates a lot more for us than Gaston punting it aimlessly every time he got the ball.

Not the best but can’t complain with 9/9. 2 goals 2 assists for Paton in the league so far, excellent start from him.

Very very didn’t though.

Unless he’s agreed terms and about to go, I’d imagine every game we choose to start McKenna would be increasing the number the club are hoping to get for him.

This is going to be a fun year, conscious tougher games await but a great start. Starting to understand what Paton offers a bit more now. Thought he’d be similar to Murray but his link up play and passing look excellent. Same as last week I couldn’t be more impressed with Jack Spong, the way we play is perfect for him and hasn’t put a foot wrong yet. The team is playing way ahead of what I expected this early into the season.

That was way better than I was expecting. Shame about the goal but McKenna was tremendous, bold from Veldman to play him ahead of Ferrie but for 16 his composure was wild. Spong looks like the real deal, him and Turner bossed the midfield. On Inverness, very unimpressive. Longstaff unsurprisingly looking poor. Maybe this mildly terrifying style of football might actually work.

I think it will be a strange start to the season. Beuker seems very confident that when the players learn the new systems it will serve us much better than whatever Coyle was trying to do last year. I don’t think (clearly) that it will result in us being great straight away this year. I thought it was interesting when Fox said the young guys are a year or so ahead of the first team in learning the new style of football because they were under the control of Beuker and his team. Long term if they get the kids and the first team playing the same way, it should become relatively interchangeable when players leave, get injured etc. I don’t think it’s a surprise Bruce, McLeish and McKenna have looked good since they came in and arguably more comfortable than the senior players (I’m giving McKenna a pass for his error, he’s looked great otherwise) with this style of football. So long as we can see continual progress over the first few games that’s where my expectations are at.

I mean you definitely referenced our ‘owner’ twice but that’s irrelevant as we already know what you said is wrong. It is interesting the amount of other teams fans who are so passionate about our sustainability from 2030 onwards. Plenty of work to be done to get us to that point but the intent is there. I have numerous issues about what’s happened to date, but I’m glad Queen’s are trying to do something different with Beuker’s approach. Whether this all works in a decade who knows but I’d argue there’s very few clubs in Scotland doing more thinking about how the club will be operating in 10 years than we are.

Teams opening parts of the ground they rent to suit the size of the crowd is hardly a new concept.

Only 1 so far. I’m not convinced Beuker and Veldman see lots of experience as a necessary asset to be honest. Lack of players who had competed in a title race clearly let us down last season IMO, but I think squad wise this will be the first year we see a group more representative of what the ‘new model’ is supposed be.

Lesser will make a fine ground for everything other than the first team in its current form. I’ve shifted my assumptions and now guessing the only goal has been, and will continue to be, getting us back into Hampden long term with this coming year being the start of it. How that might translate into a favourable agreement for us I’m not sure, but at least with Lesser we have an asset to bargain with. Plenty to be frustrated about but on the positives, liked what I heard from Veldman. Coyle always talked the talk in interviews about youth development etc but Veldman does seem like he’s on exactly the same page as Beuker which can only be a good thing.