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5 minutes ago, Chicken Soup said:
Dunfermline defender dangled a leg as Quitongo was dribbling away from goal and Quitongo was happy to go over it. Looked like slight contact around the knee, soft but very silly defending. Great save from Mehmet though, who I thought looked very shaky otherwise.
And not only soft, but I'm leaning about 70% to it being outside the box anyway. Irrelevant now of course.
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There have only been two occasions in the league this season we've gone behind and taken anything: Ayr on the first day and the draw at Tannadice. If we don't completely switch off at a set piece we probably get a draw that stops the rot today, but we conceded that shite goal and at that point you know the game is likely done, because even with Oakley we just can't open teams up when we're behind.
You then get the bail out of a soft penalty award and still f**k it up, with the most predictable miss ever from Muirhead who hasn't had a good game in at least two months and desperately needs to be dropped for his own good. The placement of the penalty actually wasn't terrible but it might have been the most telegraphed penalty of all time, Mehmet dived halfway through the run up because it was so obvious where he was putting it.
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Season is now about scraping enough points to make 8th. The best way to get there is never picking French, Broadfoot or Muirhead again.
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Robbie Muirhead's best Dunfermline performance here.
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What an absolutely disgraceful goal to concede. No one watching for the short corner, you get the warning when they delay the cross and somehow still leave someone with a free header. A Johansson era of a goal to concede.
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25 minutes ago, HoBNob said:
I get that it's a rule not often punished, but the Morton goalkeeper had a hold of the ball for 20 seconds there.
Absolutely dreadful challenge from Crawford there.
Because McLean was refusing to give a freekick for Jakubiak tugging his shirt as he tried to kick it. Then watched as he obstructed him trying to release it for another 15 seconds. If he was applying the rules properly Jakubiak could have been booked four times already.
Crawford's tackle was a bit of a shocker. One of those where it's a genuine attempt to play the ball but late and high and wouldn't have been particularly shocked if it was red but yellow was probably fair. Welch-Hayes on Muirhead 10 minutes later was in the same category.
We're not getting far here because we have a liability on each side. If we go down the left Muirhead is inevitably going to f**k it up, if we go down the right French is inevitably going to f**k it up. Could just put Garrity on and it would go some way to fixing things but if we must persist with these players on the park we could at least switch Muirhead to the right and then we might do something down the left.
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Wary of getting carried away about how much we'll improve with Oakley back when he's probably not fully fit and more to the point he's just one player, but more confident than I would have been without him.
Results in upcoming weeks can obviously change things with how much form can swing in this league and especially with how streaky we are, but this game won't be far off defining if the rest of our season is spent looking at 4th or 9th.
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We should have been at least 3-1 up at the point we went 2-0 down, but very important to look at the reasons why you've ended up 4-0 down instead rather than clutching at straws about the performance. There are players who have contributed to the failure to take chances and conceding goals we shouldn't playing themselves out of starting XI contention against a side no better than our upcoming group opponents: it's a quality issue rather than luck.
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If your whole thing is being a clinical finisher so you have to be there as the guy who takes chances your other strikers won't, you really can't be missing chances a jobber Lowland League centre back would effortlessly bury.
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Scottish Parliament passed a bill yesterday officially titled the Wildlife Management & Muirburn Bill, which is effectively a grouse moor licensing scheme. Licences now required to allow grouse shooting, muirburn, the use of wildlife traps and snares are fully banned, while the SPCA now has greater investigatory powers. It may not go far enough, but it's a positive step.
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Those murdering b*****ds will accuse Albert Gudmundsson of being Hamas any moment now.
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Al-Jazeera have published footage taken from an Israeli drone, which I won't be linking here because it's absolutely horrible and I'm never going to forget looking at it. Obviously unarmed civilians walking down roads being blown to pieces, just because they can. It's simply indiscriminate slaughter, and it's happening hundreds of times a day.
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1 hour ago, oneteaminglasgow said:
A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of Slaney.
Podcasters of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but Paul Slane.
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8 hours ago, D Angelo Barksdale said:
Didn't realise Open Goal was the front line of the class war.
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1 hour ago, Arab_R_us said:
The average Terrace listener loved " The Marvels " and is a big advocate for the " Message "
and has He/Him on his twitter BIO
Stunned that this thread has ended up with some casual bigotry.
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We're into must not lose territory now. With only four home games remaining and two of them against Dundee United and Raith, we really need to be coming away from Dunfermline and Queen's Park with at least four points. Any less and we're in freefall rather than being able to look back on the last four games as an injury induced blip, while we'd then be reliant on away wins to get to the mid-40s total that might be necessary for 8th this season.
Of course, getting those points on the board wouldn't just banish any fear of being dragged back in but put us back in the top four.
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We already knew the accounts showed a £70K profit for last season. Comment here is that we're heading for a £200K profit for this season too and that's based on budgeting for 8th so could still turn out better, and the plan is for some of that profit to be put back towards the playing budget for next season rather than it all being kept back for a rainy day.
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When there are no shortage of valid criticisms to be made of Yousaf on policy and competence, it's genuinely baffling that people are attempting to make this non-story an issue.
It's no different from Douglas Ross saying he wants to "get rid of the SNP" and "kick the nationalists out" or Anas Sarwar saying he wants to "boot the Tories out". Those are all actual quotes: just because they didn't clarify "that means their MPs and MSPs" at the end doesn't mean they're actually going to round up everyone who doesn't vote how they like and deport them.
This is entirely normal political rhetoric which every party in Holyrood has used and everyone knows this, including the people claiming to be bothered by it here. It's hardly a parallel with calling for someone to be shot, which may explain why the Tories are so desperate for this to become a story when that sort of extreme statement has actually happened.
Everyone claiming this bothers them should grow up, frankly.
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Labour are being investigated by the Police over their candidate selection in Croydon East, which they had to suspend in November after it was found that several members in the constituency who were eligible to vote didn't get access to the online ballot. It transpired that somehow members' email addresses had been changed without their knowledge.
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Looking back to the 10 game unbeaten run last season before Oakley signed where we had Muirhead at centre forward, we were very reliant on natural width with Quitongo on the right and McGrattan or Kabia on the left, with the long balls primarily aimed at finding the feet of wingers rather than going for Muirhead's head and trying to play off flick ons.
I can understand why Imrie has stuck with things like Blues on the right when he was in fantastic form there until a few games ago, but in Oakley's absence we need that natural width back to give us an outball. Having naturally central players there is fine when we're scrapping for second balls in a congested middle of the park and you want whoever's playing out wide to be comfortable stepping inside, but with no target man to aim at we need players who are comfortable opening up space by hugging the touchline, linking up with Strapp and French and carrying us up the park by running at full backs.
Garrity has to start next week.
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44 minutes ago, yoda said:
The Second Division was great. Barrowman, Petrie, Shields, Higgins, and Gardyne as the forward options. Mark McCulloch being Mark McCulloch. Paul Lawson, Scott Boyd, and Gary Miller all making their first County appearances. Derek Adams starting his management career. Allan Creer too!
I really hope The Caley get to experience the highs County did.
It's a feasible scenario from here that Gardyne could score the goal to relegate them in the playoffs. That'd be quite the turn of events.
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All the rules stipulate is one metre, there was nothing against the rules in bringing them that close in and nothing against the rules in Strapp moving them when they were in his way.
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25 minutes ago, Ocelot1877 said:
The fan that spat on him caused the issue. If he hadn’t of done that and took his medicine after giving it tight to scullion during the game nothing would have happened .
Unless you are saying what Scullion done means he deserves to be spat on by a fan, in which case I ask you what level of abuse or what would have to be said by a player to a fan to warrant being spat on by an opposing fan?
We have all shouted stuff sure, but expecting players not to react to any abuse is how these problems exist. There are some football fans that expect to be able to shout abuse and never have any consequences, they then go back and feel like a hard nut and tell there pals about it all in the pub it’s embarrassing.
It’s something I have experienced working in retail years ago where folk would just give cheek, be rude and abusive and expect to get away with it because I’m at my work, it’s how these cretins exist and keep doing it. Clyde fans are also absolutely chronic for this behaviour at times also btw.
Spitting on someone is absolutely manky, degrading and potentially dangerous considering what diseases can be passed by doing it. This is why laws exist that classify this as assault. The fact I have to yet again explain all this on a football forum with adults is utterly embarrassing
Also btw the behaviour you point out about Clyde fans in Forfar was rightfully called out on here as them being morons and sore losers, yet in this situation you have made it the players fault for some reason
Right, the fan spitting at him is a vile thing to do and there's no justification for it. That doesn’t justify Scullion also spitting back, because if spitting at someone is a horrible thing to do then it's not justified even if it's retaliatory and someone else has spat first.
You use the example of working in retail: if a retail worker gets spat at, they're still going to be in serious bother with their employer if their response is to spit back.
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We're probably only a couple of wins from safety, but vital that we stop the rot next week. It's been a bit unfortunate that Oakley & Wilson being out has coincided with a tough run of fixtures in playing Raith, Dundee United and Partick, but you've got to adapt to injuries and we've failed to do so. With two home games in a row coming up we've a chance to fully remove ourselves from this conversation, but lose again v Dunfermline and it'll be looking like freefall.
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Relegation thread - who's going down?
in Scottish Championship General Chatter
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Morton's three remaining home games are Queen's Park, Dundee United and Raith. While we've won at Tannadice already, we really need to be beating Queen's Park to feel safe: if we don't get an unexpected result against the top two then we'll go to Arbroath or Inverness needing to win.