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Even Alan Stubbs knew Reilly wasn't a decent striker. That speaks volumes.

He's definitely a sitter and actually has a good amount of energy and pace for a man of his age. Until the 50/60th minute when he's used up all his reserves and dives into late tackles giving away sloppy freekicks. Our issue with him last season was he was the only one in the midfield with a bit of legs so he had to do extra and then come the second half he was buggered.

That would be a fine point if Wilson was mobile or quick, he is neither.

I think the only reason he doesn't agree with you is due to the fact he made the decision to sign Wilson. So can't exactly try punt Wilson out right now so Dowds has to take the hit. Dowds hasn't been great with us but he's not half as bad as some on here make out and he's a mile better than Wilson in all aspects of the game.

Maybe Dunipace will take him? Inevitable that he'll be gone in January.

Dowds off to Arbroath on loan. Should mean we're planning on bringing in another striker. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/sport/football/2458669/arbroath-anton-dowds/amp/

He's a 19 year old who's only played around 20 first team games bit harsh to call his striking rate abysmal. Especially give most of those 20 games he wouldn't have been playing upfront and he wouldn't have started all 20 either.

Also thought I'd add the u16's were set up the same way our first team play. 4-2-3-1 with a high press. Ian Fergus constantly barking at them coaching them through the game.

Couple of good prospects in that team. Our centre back gifted them the first goal and looked really shakey to start off with but then grew into the game. Young winger Honeyman was the brightest spark for us and scored our goal.

Ross can only really play as the ten as his strengths are stretching the game and making runs in behind the opposition. He can't really play in the Telfer role which is why in the Cove game Nesbitt was the one that dropped deep to take the ball all game. Krasniqi will keep the ball ticking over nicely and spread the play but we definitely need another option in there as if Telfer was to get injured a midfield two of Hetherington and Krasniqi wouldn't work as neither of them will carry the ball forwards.

Having seen Ompreon's chance back on the highlights it's definitely harsh to criticise him on that header as it's behind him. Miller's agility plain for all to see on the Airdrie goal, turns like an artic lorry. I hope Williamson and Dixon are back for the Queens Park game in two weeks time. Also hopefully we've signed another striker and midfielder by then so we're fully ready for the season ahead. Reilly isn't the answer so I don't understand why people keep pedalling his name every transfer window. If we get another bit of quality upfront and in the centre of the park for cover we should be fine this season.

Brilliant to see us actually managing to hold onto a lead especially when we were down to 10 men. There's absolutely no way an m&m team would have done that. As someone has mentioned hopefully Dixon's not out for long but great to see young Lemon putting in an excellent performance in his absence. Still need another bit of quality upfront and hopefully another centre mid.

Don't think Scumferline fans are enjoying him very much. Long live Sheerin!

It'll be a case of Mutch is there until he makes a mistake or has a bad day can't really drop him until that happens.

I think Lemon will spend the season learning off of Dixon and filling in for Dixon in certain games being left sided. I doubt we'll see the two of them play in the same centre back pairing given they are both left sided. He was excellent on Wednesday though.

Sheerin reporting in the Herald that Williamson and Mckay are still out for tomorrow. I'd go with the below. Mutch C.Williamson Hall Dixon Mccann Telfer Hetherington Nesbitt Morrison Keena Mcguffie

Gavin Reilly's rotten.

We finished 5th last season and have money ball Cove & Queens Park to compete with this year. Everyone here obviously expects us to be favourites and hopes we romp the league but actually competing as a starting point will do me as opposed to what we've had to witness the last two years. It's not accepting mediocrity it's accepting where we are as a club right now as opposed to kidding ourselves year in year out that the league will be tied up by Christmas.

I always said I didn't think Holt was the right man for the role but I'd give him this transfer window to obviously prove that assumption wrong. We've signed the below 15 players so far with hopefully another couple to come in. It's early stages but the majority of them look to be improvements on what we had last year with the exception of Wilson and Holt clearly being a favour to his old man. Resigning Ben Hall was a mistake given he's always liable to a clanger and the fact we've not yet signed a starting striker is a worry but on the whole I don't think we're too far off a good squad capable of competiting for the league title. Especially helps that Sheerin seems to have an idea what he's doing as that has translated into our performances on the park. The football has been night and day compared to what we've had to put up with the last few years and even as Marshmallo said the fact we've clearly been working on different set piece routines in training is a massive positive. Just the final few pieces of the squad to improve then we'll be set up for a very promising looking season. Goalkeeper Paddy Martin Luke Holt - loaned out to Gretna Defenders Ryan Williamson Brad Mckay Leon McCann Cammy Williamson Mackenzie Lemon Midfielders Steven Hetherington Aidan Nesbitt Craig Mcguffie Seb Ross Ben Weekes Ernaldo Krasniqi - On loan from Huddersfield till January 2022 Strikers Jaime Wilson Samuel Ompreon

Wilson's not up to it but thankfully it looks like Sheerin's identified his error early on and hence why he's brought in another striker and is hopefully still looking to add one more as well. Dowds not even coming on last night looks to be the end of him so he'll be up for grabs on loan if we do bring in another striker I'd imagine. After Lemon's performance last night if it's just the two more players we'll be bringing in i'm hoping it's another centre midfielder and a striker. With Dowds then going out on loan we'd have a squad of 23. Difficult to see where Krasniqi is going to get games in our system as Telfer's our best player and Hetherington's the club captain. Unless the plan is to move Telfer on one and Nesbitt out wide left. With Krasniqi and Hetherington sitting.

He signed a 3 year deal with a Dundee United team who had just finished 4th in the Premiership and were in the Europa league qualifying. He then turned up overweight to his first preseason what other conclusion would you draw from that other than in his mind he'd made it and let himself go that summer?

To be fair the ref evened that out by not giving Lemon anything either but it was a shocking decision at the time.

Read my message again mate I was talking about them all being much more comfortable on the ball than Ompreon.

Yeah well you look at Weekes, Lemon, Williamson and Krasniqi who are all younger than him but were all much more composed on the ball tonight.