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Hopefully anyone that goes enjoys the game. But season’s done as far as I’m concerned. This game means nothing to either team. Hope we give guys like Andrew Tod and Taylor Sutherland a run-out. Let Max Little make an appearance too, while we’re at it. Let him make his first and last appearance for us in the same game.

We all just want to forget about this season. Thankfully, most of the games have been so dull and uneventful, that won’t be hard. We clearly need to improve the squad. We’re too reliant on certain players and our depth/cover options just haven’t been good enough. I also no longer believe McPake’s nonsense about this system getting the best out of our players. KRH and Todd are our most creative players and they’re being played in positions that don’t suit them at all. KRH isn’t a defender. Get him in a more attacking role than wing back. Likewise, Todd seems to have been put wide in a front 3, whereas his best role is that 10 role. I’d even rather have him in central midfield than wherever he’s been playing lately. Its also concerning that we have good defenders, but none of them can play well on a consistent basis without Benedictus there, apparently. Also midfield completely collapses if we don’t have both Hamilton and Otoo there. Too many players on ‘goodwill’ type contracts as well, which is a concern. Got 2/3 year deals off the back of us dominating an awful league. Hopefully we can help them find new clubs and let them continue their career elsewhere.

Glad we can just put this season behind us now. That goal we conceded was awful. Inverness weren’t creating anything themselves, without us giving them a gift like that. But it’s over and we can focus on next season now.

Great ball by Allan, great header from Bene. Inverness are a weird bunch. Playing very physically, then going down and rolling around every time a Pars man gets near them. Inverness fans booing MFW is really weird behaviour too. They seem to get really upset that they don’t get a foul, when the boy Samuel has a fistful of MFW’s shirt every time the ball goes near them. Anyway, let’s see this out and put this season behind us.

To be fair, it’s very impressive to lose over 40% of your games, despite having the second best defence in the league.

This has to be a joke? Surely we haven’t got an award named this. Did they explain what this actually means?

If true about Otoo, that’s a massive loss. Our midfield is a lot worse without him in there. I think he’s been fantastic this season and it was between him and Hamilton for POTY for me. Hopefully he’s back for pre-season and nothing too serious.

I agree. I couldn’t understand the ref’s decision there at all. MFW gets to the ball, Queens Park defender immediately clatters into him, not getting the ball. Surely that’s an obvious foul? Ref gave a goal kick, so was obviously aware that the defender didn’t get the ball. Anywhere on the park, if two players go for the ball, when one gets there first and the other then clatters into them, it’s a foul. Really similar to the Aberdeen penalty that was given yesterday. Referee didn’t give it and it was decided it was a “clear and obvious” error.

Mehmet Fisher Benedictus MFW Welch-Hayes KRH Hamilton Edwards Todd McCann. Kane that would be my guess.

I agree. But he was also very honest after the United win, when he spoke to the BBC. Said that in hindsight, he had been too stubborn and stuck with our best shape when everyone’s fit, when we didn’t have the right players available. He’s still a young and inexperienced manager. He’s going to make mistakes and we’re going to have rough patches. The main thing is that he learns from them. We need to see progress from players and manager/coaching team next season. There’s no doubt about that.

Easy home win. 3-0 Pars, Todd with 2 and Kane with the other. Safety secured.

I just want to win this weekend, put this season behind us and trust that the club do what they can to avoid a repeat of what went wrong this season. Assuming we ensure our survival, I hope the club do what they can to add more experience to the squad for next season. I’d also hope that we can come to mutual agreements to end a few contracts early/allow players to move on for free and try to improve certain areas of the team. If we want to be challenging at the top of the championship, we need a new goalkeeper. If we can bring in MFW permanently, I think we’re ok defensively. But in midfield, we need to upgrade on both Allan and Chalmers. In games against teams in the top 4 in particular, the 2 of them have been overrun and have looked completely out of their depth. If we want to be at that standard, I don’t think they’re what we need. We also have other fringe/cover players that just haven’t produced the quality that we need. I just don’t know how realistic it is that we can offload these guys. It also goes without saying that signing Chris Kane, or another striker that will improve us, is a must.

Not quite. We’d be 6 ahead with 2 games left. If we then lost our last 2 games and Queens Park won theirs, they could still go above us. They’re up against Arbroath and then an Airdrie side who’ll be resting players in their last 2.

Airdrie the much better team today and last time we played. Thoroughly deserved both victories and their playoff spot. Credit to McCabe for the job he’s done there in the last 2 years. Regarding the Benedictus challenge, happened right in front of us and Bene got a solid foot onto the ball, was an absolutely fantastic challenge. But can see why it probably looked a pen from the other side.

Chris Kane - 50 championship games, 22 goals and 6 assists. Goal involvement every 1.78 games Brian Graham - 280 championship games, 98 goals, 30 assists. Goal involvement every 2.19 games Am I missing something? Worth noting, adding assists actually makes it closer. On game/mins per goal, Kane is much better.