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Annoying, frustrating, embarrassing absolutely sick of it. 4 years since Promotion to build a team and failed each time. No way we can survive this year.

So are we allowed to be negative yet? Just checking before I go off on a rant about this garbage we are being inflicted to.

We will gift you guy's one, maybe 2 goals so depends how you defend.

Agree with both recent posts above, the inability to sign even a basic competent fullback is baffling.. Essentially wasted wages on Lyon, Rudden and on evidence of last week Thicot. I think Nymasi is amateur, hopefully! Other issue is we don’t defend well as a team and part of that is the lack of a solid proper midfield player which allow Ray Grant to do what is is good at ie protect back line and not have to try to be creative as well, because he can’t. We also need much more from Roberts. Up front we definitely need more presence and a way of getting Cunningham directly up front and not deep at all, again he is totally anonymous on the pitch if he is played anywhere else. Carry on with current set up and in particular the fullback situation we will be a relegation battle, whether folk want to admit it or not!

Fantastic player, underrated by most who didn’t see him every week and actually should have had more Scotland caps but for Strachan’s stubbornness.

What evidence did you see today (and previous 2 weeks) leads you to think defending like that, gifting goals like that will result in anything other than fighting relegation?

We have gifted every single goal given away this season, totally embarrassing. Fullback situation is astonishingly bad, Thicot is obviously finished, terrible performance and looks a mile off being good enough. Parry, my God what’s going on? Zero creativity in midfield and so naive defensively, can’t hold the ball up top. Forwards can’t finish their dinner, at least 3 sitters today again. in conclusion, poor side, manager seems to have lost his way.. relegation material no doubt about it, can’t leak goals like that and expect anything else. Finally.. as usual Referee was atrocious, not why we lost but the standard of Official is getting worse each year?

Honestly pathetic. Gifts one after the other. Thicot is a mile off, awful player

Bad feeling about today, although I usually do about most games these days.

Bigger issue is gifting goals.. teams don’t need to work hard to score against us, been like that for years. Clean sheet yesterday and it’s a point. Defend better week before… another point.

It was plain to see and many supporters have all warned where we were obviously short, it’s no surprise! Not saying we should be changing manager, far from it, but Lennon really does baffle and frustrate me at times; Why does he tinker with the selection particularly in away games? Overthinks things far to often! Why does he think every so often that one up front ever worked for us? Wasn’t even successful when we had one of the top strikers in the game FFS! Why can he never spot or sign a fullback? Why does he never seem to think we need a creative player in midfield? Yesterday was proof of all of the above in one game and has to be sorted. Edinburgh are mile off what most teams will be this season so no reason to suspect we will be ok this year unless we have a reality check… seen it all before!

Honestly scunnered again with this lot, Lennon really rips my knitting so much more every season, baffles me how such an experienced manager can be so inconsistent with selection and tactics. Massive wake-up call as if it’s needed, was obvious we still needed quality in key positions but won’t / can’t seem to do it.

Which makes me wonder was signing Barry Cudihay wise given his injury issues in last couple of years?It’s unfortunate I know, but harsh reality of playing at our level, can we afford the risk?

Didn’t see game so can’t comment too much; not getting too downbeat about the result but will wait to see goals. On face of it disappointing to lose headed goals, thought we might have sorted that with the 3 central defenders. What I will say is that we are evidently still lacking quality in key positions which is frustrating as we have massively improved since last year. 2-3 players would make a world of difference but I suppose every team will say that.

I agree, full backs will kill is today.

Starting 11 is ok given the injury situation but bench severely lacking numbers. Cudihay really is made of chocolate nowadays, when did he last play 5 games on the trot?

This is pretty much acid test of where we are this season. We have improved in many areas and it possible we can improve again from last week by Allan returning and perhaps Duthie. Montrose are the target of the sort of side we want up be. We have been miles off them in recent years so again we will see what the gap is this season. Our defence is night and day from previous years which is encouraging and on evidence of last couple of seasons McAllister is long way off what he one was, again we will see. (Kiss of death there obviously). If we can nick a goal then who knows, should be a decent match and hopefully we can remain as competitive as we have been so far this season. Certainly we are much better to watch.

What also is big improvement is the communication and organisation that McLean and P. Grant do constantly. When the crowd are quiet you can hear clearly what hey are saying. One incident yesterday where Grant having a real go at Barry Cudihay about his positioning defending a throw in, actually telling him where he should be initially them blasting him for not actually doing it. Great to see!

Really enjoyable game today, nice to get a wee shandy before the game, first visit to Fanzone and pleased to see it so busy. McLean, Grant and Sula were tremendous today as was Ray Grant. Front 2 worked so hard especially in that heat. Well done to everyone today, no failures. Keep it going and great to have another good Saturday night.

Not surprised, looked really composed on the ball and pretty creative.. what we don’t have, in that area.

Cheers, might head in next week for a pint

Quick question on the fanzone, do they accept debit cards? My 2 boys wanted a pie at the stall yesterday and it was cash only, which they didn’t have.. (obviously old man had to bail them out as usual).

100% correct, although I think? Kennedy was holding his hamstring after he hit bye line late in first half. Hence the substitution l.. Rodden is an absolute bomb-scare. As you say the fullbacks are nowhere near good enough and at this level it makes a huge difference even if they are mealie competent. A decent midfield addition would allow Cudihy to move to FB as I still don’t think he is creative enough in MF but is a decent FB at this level. Two issues possibly solved at once it it could happen.. doubt it will though.

As I said on match thread full back will kill us this year, particularly LB desperately need a quality midfield player to compliment Grant’s tidy football which is improvement on last year but no real creativity. We do look much better when we break forward, just need that quality in the pocket 20 yards either side of the halfway line, ironically like their wee no 7 today. Still it does seem we are much stronger side than last season not that it’s a high bar to clear.

Aye, trying not to be too disappointed, I think the word for today is frustrating! Frustrating Offiials Frustrating chances were missed plus penalty obviously Frustrating that we are 2-3 players away from a very decent side. Full back position, particularly LB will kill us this year. Another proper midfield player would make all the difference. The young boy they had as trialist today, no 7, was a cracking player. The creativity we don’t have in that area which would compliment the other decent stuff we do with this side. Officials today were awful, Linesman who both have absurd offside decisions at times.