palmy_cammy

If When we make an arse of it against Queens Park tonight, I would fully expect opposition fans to jump into our threads for a bit of a laugh at our expense. That would be completely in the spirit of P&B and football fan culture generally. It's completely different to repeatedly posting "Queens r shit lol" over multiple threads with no context behind it. It would be equally annoying if they were posting "Queens are the greatest team to ever play the game" on every thread. We're not a bunch of softies offended by the insults, it's the tedious, repetitive trolling that's the issue.

There are other considerations if he makes the changes suggested by die hard doonhamer as well. Nortey was signed to play right back, so if he plays him in midfield it only adds to the suggestion that he is a square peg in a round hole, which makes him look daft. Also Goss wasn't his signing so he has no real incentive to develop him, particularly as he won't be around to really reap the rewards should he turn out to be a player. I think it's more likely we will play what Johnston considers to be his strongest XI to try and get the monkey off our back. Understandable really.

Like when Johnston replaced MacPherson... Yeah a bit like that. In the same way McLeish was a good Scotland manager first time round as well, to carry on that example. It doesn't hold much relevance to the present day though.

Scotland were a disorganised and disinterested rabble under Alex McLeish. Under Steve Clark they are now a well drilled unit, playing for each other, in a system that gets the best out of them, and where each player knows what their job is. The players are still mostly mediocre, but it shows the importance of good management and coaching. Or you could draw on the literally thousands of other examples where replacing a shit manager with a good one has brought an upturn in fortunes.

There really isn’t a single argument that can be made for keeping him. The only possible reason is that we simply can’t afford the outlay of paying him off and hiring someone else. But if finances really are so tight that makes it even more galling that a large chunk of our income is going into the pockets of Johnston and Clark. One a complete dud, the other a complete arsehole. My interest in the club dwindles with every day they remain in charge.

Arbroath bettering their famous 36-0 result genuinely doesn’t seem like as ridiculous a possibility as it should. Certainly the chances of it happening are as likely as a Queens clean-sheet. I’ll predict a 3-1 win for the home side with a “perfect hattrick” of goals scored from a corner, a freekick, and a penalty. Dobbie will score our customary penalty.

Buchanan is more interested in trying to get involved in a wrestling match than attack the ball, and our goalkeeper is more interested in hiding behind people than attacking the ball. Shitebags the lot of them.

Sounds like I was wrong about Gibson but the rest was pretty much bang on.

I didn’t watch yesterday but against Raith Rovers our midfield was absolutely non existent and our “full-backs” were all over the place. So whilst Ayo and Buchanan didn’t cover themselves in glory, in their defence they were having to try and deal with 4 or 5 opposition attackers by themselves. This sort of generosity will lead to more shots on goal from the opposition. Ayo and Buchanan look to be a worse pairing than the Brownlie/Kilday partnership we started last season with, and unfortunately anyone was likely to be worse than McCrorie, although so far Ferguson doesn’t look to be Stewart levels of shit so there is a bit of hope there. A repeating theme over both Johnston seasons though has been his inability to sort the midfield. We haven’t really replaced Jacobs, and even he wasn’t that great a player. We at least have some natural width this year but until the middle of the park tighten up we are always going to be up against it.

He is a serial failure at any level above League 1. Which we knew when we hired him and gave him a 2 year contract. We were too slow in sacking Naysmith which meant Johnston basically had the club over a barrel when he answered their SOS call. The position we find ourselves in all all stems back to then.

He’ll probably get the Arbroath and Alloa games to try and salvage things. You’d think his position would be untenable by then. The worrying things is the board have clearly been grooming Gibson to step into his shoes but due to Johnston’s bizarre transfer business Gibson appears to be integral to the starting XI.

Dom Thomas up against Gibson, what could go wrong? Looks like we’re setup to try and shitfest it. This cunning plan falls apart when you realise we seem to concede at least 2 goals every match. We’ll throw some attacking players on when the game is already gone and Johnston will make some generic comments about not being able to fault the players’ effort but individual errors are killing us.

Absolutely reckless management to have ended up with a defence consisting of 2 CBs, an 18 year old left back, a RB who by his own admission prefers to play in midfield, and Wullie Gibson. With no real midfield enforcers on the books either I fully expect scorelines like last week to be a regular occurrence. You might as well relegate us now.

Well yes but that’s not the sort of mature and logical thinking you associate with football fans!

I’m actually surprised more isn’t being said about Buchanan’s wild swipe that crocked the Raith player. If that had happened to one of our players I’d be calling him all the names under the sun. It was absolutely reckless. I suppose they are going easy on him as he was one of their best players yesterday!

The early part of the game you missed is the part where Raith looked like scoring every time they entered our half. Gibson and Nortey looked exactly like what they are which is square pegs in round holes. Buchanan was an immobile rabbit in headlights, and Ayo was all over the place except for being where he should be. It was as shambolic a half of football as you will see from a team. They played exactly like how you’d expect a team with no manager to play, just an absolute rabble. But I’m not sure if that excuse stands up to much scrutiny, yes the management team were absent, and yes both temporary managers were on the park, but they had all week to pick the team and formulate a plan. The way that first half went it was as if the team had never met before.

I think it’s basically a case that our midfield are shit and our defence are shite. And our goalkeeper is questionable.

We’re still on the same run despite replacing all the players. It’s almost as if they aren’t the problem.

Nothing to worry about then as we are notorious for turning up for important games, and always do well against so called "lesser teams", particularly the part timers.

I’m really not seeing where the Gibson love-in comes from either. I hope it’s the last time we ever see him lining up in defence.

Probably deserved on the balance of the second half.

Even our attacking set plays are half hearted attempts. It’s not sent in with any purpose it’s just hopefully swung into an area. This rabble need someone absolutely going through them at half time, but there’s no-one to do that.

There’s hoofball where you just launch the ball forward, and there is the hoofball we are playing here which is to just launch it in whatever direction they happen to be facing.

We are fucking shite.