The keeper made a good save down to his right and it was from the resultant corner the Queens Park goal came from a back post header.

I’m sure everyone has thought similar at some point because whatever it was hanging over us felt like it would never ever disappear - today is a start but every week we need to be at it because it looks like this leagues going to be about who takes their chances on the day. Need to get back to getting league wins relatively regularly again    Not the start we wanted but it has been an absolute nightmare  - opening day defeat to a team that didn’t have to do too much to beat us - home fans booing the team (well manager) with 15 minutes left in first home match of the season then an absolute capitulation to Kelty the week after losing 3 goals in 7 minutes - unforgivable really considering we are back in L1 with a decent group of players which is why McIntyre got the bullet - overall record under Jim: Played 7 Won 1 Drew 2   Lost 4  Goals Scored - 2  Goals Conceded - 10      5 games in to Goldie and Hamiltons reign - two well deserved wins to nil at Gayfield - a defeat away to a decent QoTs team that maybe could’ve went our way - a draw with Dumbarton and a draw with Alloa in a game we probably should have won - overall record with Gold and Hammy:   Played 5  Won 2 Drew 2 Lost 1  Goals Scored 8  Goals Conceded 4    3 clean sheets from 5 games too - 4 points off play offs, 6 off second and 7 off top spot - we are in a far from ideal position but there’s positives there. Touched on McAdams / ToB and Watson before. Stewart / Spaulding and Coulson have really shone. Dow has been excellent in his new role and scored goals. 2 capable strikers on the books - also 1200 at game today too which is encouraging    Think there is definitely a bit of work to do with the squad still and I’m intrigued to as what that will look like this week as it is the final week of the window - not bringing anyone in would be a big mistake for me 

Whats the record for most draws in this league through a whole season? I'd be disappointed if Dunc doesn't better it by Xmas.   

Cannot believe we lost that today! Montrose we’re the better team for the first 10 minutes and then we we’re absolutely dominated for the remainder of the game - it wasn’t like possession without chances either. We could have scored 5 on another day.      Lots of good performances today. Niang was absolutely dominant, really impressed with him so far. Though Gray, Hilton and McGuffie were all dangerous in spells. Brown was really impressed imo. Looked very good on the ball, physical and vocal. A big step up on Miller bar maybe 1 stray pass. Pignateillo had an uncharacteristic it bad first half with multiple wayward passes and Shields should have scored whilst also blocking a goal-bound Hilton shot.

Took this in as a neutral, working in morning so no chance of making it to Dumbarton today. Overall impression : lots of endeavour but very very little quality. These two are nailed on for the bottom 4 this season and will be hoping that Edinburgh’s potless Lowland League-level squad will falter and fall away, stopping grinding out the occasional unexpected, oddball win. Two of the three goals were just laughable for a senior league. Stranraer’s opener was a hare-brained pass across the edge of the penalty area which visiting forward Guthrie gleefully latched onto, firing past a helpless McCallum. Stranraer looked the better team in the first half whilst Forfar gave a good impression of a disjointed group that don’t like one another very much. Mark Whatley is a shadow of the player he was, twice rolling simple ten yard passes out of play. I felt a bit sorry for Skelly, a Dundee double decker entered into a Formula 2 race. He lumbers about willingly enough but never looks likely to score. Next stop Kirriemuir Thistle, ding ding. Forfar do have a potentially good spine to the team in McCallum, Matty Allan, Blair Malcolm. But there’s not a lot up top. Cannon’s equaliser was set up by a fortunate ricochet off a defender which he was able to covert from close range. Attempts were made to attack from the wing but the passing was pretty poor and the wee guy playing on the Forfar right got nothing at all from his marker. Second half Forfar were better and Stranraer faded badly. Their centre half made an amazing saving tackle- the moment of the game- just before Forfar’s eventual winner went in. Again some absurd Laurel & Hardy defending in the six yard box and someone brushed the ball in under the keeper. Stranraer clearly are low in confidence with a lot of passes going sideways or backwards which just allowed the hosts to get organised. There were a couple of close shaves- McCallum, at full stretch high to his right, probably saved Ray McKinnon, clawing out a powerful rising drive from distance. The big keeper also had to beat away a skimming cross ball on the edge of the box with several yellow shirts lurking. Forfar held on more or less for a win. It may have bought McKinnon some more time and scrappy wins like this can be important- let’s see. I’m not sure at all that he’s overseeing a positive culture or environment for the players however and bits of the first half were really alarming from the home point of view. Stranraer fans will probably claim that they were worthy of a point and came off slightly the worse from a fussy referee, but having got themselves in front against the league’s bottom team they should have had a plan of how to go on and win. That their interim coach appears not to hardly makes his case for the Blues job on a permanent basis. Better than I was expecting but a long season lies ahead for both sides without new leadership & some canny recruitment.