Diamond8

Greeny for comedy value.

100% penalty.

I was really worried about our defence coming up against the likes of Hamilton and Easton but I thought we limited them really well. The game as I expected was really close but I thought the difference in the teams up until the goal was the Raith were taking more shots or creating more passages of play ending in shots than us but thankfully we managed to see that out and take our chance when it came. I had a bit of a heads gone after last week's game and looking back I stand by some of what was said but credit where credit is due that was a great result today and backs up the idea that we will be a really tough nut to crack at home. Happy Saturday.

That's pathetic. Had to watch on stream today due to illness. I'm afraid I'm about to go scatter gun in the heat of the moment. Today we were up against a well drilled, solid and established championship team with players that are able to mix it physically as well as skillfully. Our squad in the other hand just doesn't have those attributes, to start with two lightweight wingers who offer little to f**k all other than pace is criminal. Dropping Aiken for the manager himself seemed a 50/50 call at the time. The goals we lost were awful, so fucking soft. It's been well stated our recruitment has been bang average at best with a severe lack of proven championship players. The club may well have their reasons for this and the recruitment strategy but they must understand that a lack of investment could well see us straight back where we fought so hard for so long to get away from. A dangerous game to play. As for McCabe, I love the guy and think he will have a cracking career as a manager but the arrogance has to drop. There's more than one way to play and I fear our way could see us on the end of a few pumpings this season given our current squad choices. Fair fucks to Arbroath though, a team widely tipped for the drop that didn't even need to get put or 2nd gear to sweep us aside today. Solid team on that and previous weeks showings.

That's pathetic. Had to watch on stream today due to illness. I'm afraid I'm about to go scatter gun in the heat of the moment. Today we were up against a well drilled, solid and established championship team with players that are able to mix it physically as well as skillfully. Our squad in the other hand just doesn't have those attributes, to start with two lightweight wingers who offer little to f**k all other than pace is criminal. Dropping Aiken for the manager himself seemed a 50/50 call at the time. The goals we lost were awful, so fucking soft. It's been well stated our recruitment has been bang average at best with a severe lack of proven championship players. The club may well have their reasons for this and the recruitment strategy but they must understand that a lack of investment could well see us straight back where we fought so hard for so long to get away from. A dangerous game to play. As for McCabe, I love the guy and think he will have a cracking career as a manager but the arrogance has to drop. There's more than one way to play and I fear our way could see us on the end of a few pumpings this season given our current squad choices. Fair fucks to Arbroath though, a team widely tipped for the drop that didn't even need to get put or 2nd gear to sweep us aside today. Solid team on that and previous weeks showings.

Week 5- Dundee United

Something so satisfying about seeing someone getting sat down to watch the calmest of finishes. Poetry.

No one is saying we should sign am extra 3 or 4 midfielders but anyone looking at our squad and sees anything but a slight lack of depth is mental imo. For what it's worth we didn't disgrace ourselves today and keeping United to 2 after the start we had might be vital come the end of the season.

4th game in and our squad depth or lack of it is already showing signs in stretching, but what do we know?

Week 4- Falkirk

Best place to park at Tannadice?

Hahahaha

That's some finish

Firstly, it was an excellent win today and might prove to be really important come May. Frizzells sending off now highlights further way was being said in last the few pages. Our squad depth is awful but strangely we seem covered in midfield. Who do we reckon steps in next week? Telfer seems the obvious choice.

What kind of fee we talking here? Shame he's not coming back on loan for the season as well.

Week 3- Hamilton

We were excellent today after the first 10 minutes, gave as good as we got. Another thing that today showed us was a few solid additions and we should be more than OK.

Week 2- Queens Park

I'll be in hospitality in this one which means I'll need to temper my inevitable frustration at the overplaying from the back when it's not on and our wingers inability to impose some physicality on the game as we struggle to put them in behind where their real strengths are. If we want to be staying up then home games need to be our bread and butter. Heart says home win but head says best we can hope for here is a score draw.

The experienced players in the team should be able to understand when and when not to play from the back but they all conform to the high risk style of play, beyond frustrating as we handed most of Dunfermlines chances and their goal to them in the first half through sloppiness and over playing. The most worrying thing for me was that even if we wanted to mix up it we couldn't today because O'connor and McGregor have absolutely no strength and are so easily out battled that we lost the ball just as quick going long to them. I'm not overly worried yet but that was a great opportunity to get some ground between ourselves and the bottom of the table. 3 or 4 solid additions required on top of what we have already and we should be om though.

Which 3 defenders are coming in? Radio silence on the signing front for weeks now. Really need solid addictions for the start of the season, not 4 or 5 weeks in like last year. I'm fairly confident we have enough to stay up but not so confident in McCabes transfer policy.

Week 1- Stirling Albion

Got to fancy our chances against County at home

This and our current squad depth are what's probably coming into people's thinking. Our first 11 would compete with no issues but after that we drop like a stone. Still time to add so I'm pretty confident we can stay up.

McCabe on a sportsound interview at some point today. I expect he'll continue to keep his cards close to his chest. We are in a bit of a tricky position due to lack of squad depth but I don't actually think we are too far away to be honest. We need a decent CB with a bit of pace, another real experienced head in the middle of the pitch and probably a left back at a minimum. Ballantyne has been really solid in at left back and looked really comfortable but how long can we expect that to last? Another thing I'd like to see us work on with the front line/wingers in particular is strength and conditioning, no doubt there's some ability in those areas but O'connor and McGregor especially look very easy to push off the ball, hopefully that improves in time. ETA- I hope that all extra funds we get from cup runs (hopefully not budgeted for) goes straight into the playing squad.