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Definitely an own goal. As said above, he played the cross for the goal. Got his first start last week and kept his place today. Looked good both games - kept clean sheets in both and he’s not really put a foot wrong. Looks comfortable on the ball and his defensive positioning/abilities have been fine so far. Playing on the right side of a back 3, with Benedictus in the middle, leading the line/barking instructions. I’d argue he’s not really been tested yet, but both Alloa and Edinburgh have decent attacking records and he’s not given anything away, or ever looked like he’s found it tough in either game. Genuinely strolled through both games so far - hopefully he can keep that up! Enjoyed his goal/assist today too - ran straight over to celebrate with the fans.

Poor game and not a great performance. But we deserved that luck, with the amount of balls we were playing into the box. McCann and Edwards both hit great balls across the 6 yard box not long before that. A decent striker would be turning them in. On the ref, he was just as poor as we should now expect at this level. Missed many really obvious fouls. Got several goal kick/corner decisions horrendously wrong, when there didn’t seem to be a decision to make. I thought it was fair to book Fontaine though, there seemed to be another defender coming across. Could be proved wrong on replay (and probably will be). Not booking Craigen for pulling Todd back for 10 yards was nuts. Missed several late challenges (for both teams) and I thought his game was summed up in the second half. Edinburgh number 23 kicked the ball away and started walking away. Ref then goes straight up to Handling and books him for it? Not even like the other guy ran away, he was still there.

Decent highlights package, thanks for sharing. Regarding comments above, regarding Mehmet’s saves, I do actually agree with McPake - I don’t think he made any saves that you shouldn’t be expecting a keeper to make. Don’t get me wrong, Mehmet played well, as I’ve said already. But, in my opinion, he played well as he didn’t make costly mistakes rather than because he did more than should be expected of a keeper. His only mistake was in the first half, when he almost spilled a cross into his own net! I’m delighted to see the turnaround from Mehmet, who I hoped would never play for us again this time last year.

At the game, I thought Breen won the ball in the challenge anyway and it would have gone behind for a corner? Obviously could be wrong though. Or I could be thinking about a different incident?

Just listened to this. Wonder what’s annoyed him? Certainly doesn’t like the criticism of Wighton. But even before Wighton came up, he was clearly pissed off.

Good first half. Deserved the lead. Second goal was a beauty from Matty. Second half, Alloa made changes and got into the game. Mehmet made some great saves, including a great double save. His quick throw to Edwards set up the attack that we won the throw in from, that led to the goal as well. Good to see Wighton score. He looked hungrier today. Playing in his correct position probably helped with that too. From a Pars perspective, I thought Fisher looked good and Comrie’s a better wing back than MacDonald. Think that’s our best back 5, if we stick with that system. Hamilton being back in the team added a lot to the midfield and thought Chalmers had a good game - cracking cross from him for the first goal! Todorov put in a great shift, held the ball up well and won a lot in the air. The 3-4-2-1 was an interesting set up. Looked good first half, with Mochrie and Todd getting into good areas. Both were quiet second half though. I’d have made more changes, but then we made too many last week so can understand that hesitancy.

I’m not usually a fan of footballers being branded lazy/disinterested. But Wighton’s body language has been awful for a while. He doesn’t fight for anything, he seems to give up if a pass isn’t straight to him. Backs out of every challenge. If he’s carrying an injury, get that injury sorted before he plays again. He’s not going to be an asset to any team, the way he’s been for the last year or so. MacDonald isn’t a great player, in terms of technical ability. But he fights for everything, chases every lost cause and can play some great balls into the box. He’s been useful at points this season and will be useful as the season goes on. In the second half, Wighton gave up on a lot of balls that I think MacDonald would have got on the end of. Bringing Wighton on our wife was just strange. When we switched to 4-3-3/4-2-3-1, we should have brought on at least one of the young wingers we brought in on Friday. McCann and Wighton out wide at the start of the second half, with 2 wingers on the bench, was just stupid. The fact that we then brought one of the young wingers on in the middle of midfield made it worse. He looked lost and that’s when we completely lost the midfield - and ultimately lost the lead. By the way, worth adding that I was impressed with Mahon when he came on. He certainly has something we’ve lacked so far this season. Hopefully the players and McPake learn from yesterday’s poor decisions late on and we don’t see a repeat of that complacency/slack play. At least McPake’s interview was honest. Acknowledged we weren’t good enough and didn’t deserve to win. Prefer that realism after a poor performance, than the rubbish Hughes/Grant would spout.

That was just ridiculous. Not what you’d expect of a team hoping to win the league. First half was horrendous. Only thing worse than either team was the ref. Second half, we started ok. Got a goal from nothing. Then we started playing some good football. Deservedly went 2-0 up. At that point, we should be seeing the game out. McPake then took off Todd, to play a winger, who only signed yesterday, in the middle of the park. Up to that point, Peterhead had been physical and it seemed obvious that wasn’t the game, or position, to play the lad in. We completely lost the midfield at that point. Peterhead get a goal from nothing. Defence seemed to completely switch off and just allow them to get an easy goal. From there, we just fell apart. Defence were all over the place and we basically didn’t have a midfield. Peterhead get a free kick. Was never a free kick, but that doesn’t matter. We have to defend it. In the end, they had 2/3 players queuing up to get that header - which was an excellent header by the way. We got exactly what we deserved. We got complacent, we switched off and threw 2 points away.

Two is the maximum we can get, unless we’re going for guys who have been without a club for (at least) a month. On that basis, I’d accept 2 younger players, that are more ready than the 16/17 year olds we currently have as cover. Even a young winger, to give us another option, would be good. I do think clubs being allowed to make 5 subs and name a 9 man bench is making a difference. Players will be less desperate to leave and clubs will be more reluctant to let them leave, if they’re going to be needed to fill a 9 man bench. You’re only 2 players off having another full 11 on the bench, so bigger clubs will want to ensure they have plenty cover for every position. I think it seems wild that you can now change 50% of your outfield players during a match. Great for bigger clubs, with large squads. Not so great for smaller clubs, with tighter budgets. Most clubs at this level seem to be in a similar position.

Yep. I feel like “it will not be a disaster if we don’t” is kind of his way of preparing us for the inevitable.

Could try and get Josh Falkingham, to talk about when everyone in the Peterhead team wanted to kill him? Always wondered if there was something he had done to instigate things/wind them up. Anyone talking about the cup run in 2007 would be interesting too. Particularly given the poor league form, would be interesting hearing about it from a player’s perspective. The 5-4 Stenny game was obviously a good one. There was a game in 2015-16 when we came from 2 down (I think?) to beat Ayr 3-2 at East End. I’d also say anyone from the Calderwood era/the 2003/04 season would be interesting. Sure there would be loads of memorable games to pick from in that era. Obviously no idea how easy (or not) it will be, to find guests that were involved in games you want to discuss. Just thought I’d throw some suggestions out there.

Yep, if any of those guys that started for Livi are available on loan, any of them would improve our squad. They would, at the very least, add more than adequate cover/competition.

Reserves won 2-1. Fair play to the young lads - I’d have expected our starting 11 to struggle against a team as strong as Livi’s.

There’s one on the bench apparently. No idea who. Pars 1-0 up, Taylor Sutherland. Very very strong Livi team, so will be a good test for the younger guys out there. Livi starting 11 is Jack Hamilton, Philip Cancar, Jackson Longridge, Morgan Boyes, Jack Fitzwater, Jamie Brandon, James Penrice, Andrew Shinnie, Bruce Anderson, Stephen Kelly and Esma Goncalves.

Todays reserve team is: Little Comrie, Fisher, Young, Fenton Sutherland, Hamilton, Chalmers, Tod McCann, Wighton That’s according to Craig Cairns (courier reporter) on Twitter. Mental that we have guys that played 90 mins on Saturday making up the numbers for the reserves. We definitely need more bodies in the squad.

MacDonald I think, who had tried to chase down the number 19. Think he was about 6 yards from the bye line. At the time, I certainly thought he had kept Morrison onside. Even when the ball’s played, it looks like Morrison might be in line with Mochrie - hard to tell from camera angle though. Mochrie’s moving away from the goal as Morrison is moving towards the goal.

This is about as deluded as it gets. If we’d scored, of course it wouldn’t be brought back for a penalty. The referee would obviously have considered that an advantage. Are you seriously this stupid that you even asked that question? Probably sums up how stupid/deluded your entire argument is. Man sliding through an opponent after the ball has gone is a foul all day long. It’s quite baffling that anyone claiming to be a football fan can’t understand that. Yes, we got lucky. But the lucky part was that your defender is so stupid to slide in there. Not lucky that the referee gave an obvious penalty.

He did. Benedictus should have been off, I’ve acknowledged that. But the referee let a lot of yellow card offences go for both teams. Benedictus got lucky though, there is absolutely no doubt about that. I thought he was about to go a few minutes before that very late challenge. Never mind at that one.

Let me get this straight. Falkirk fans want Benedictus to get a second booking for sliding through a Falkirk player well after the ball had gone (which he did, and should have got a second booking for). But you think it’s ‘soft’ that we got a penalty for your defender sliding through Todorov with a challenge that was just as late? Todorov plays it across the goal and gets wiped out after playing the ball. The ball’s still in play. It’s a clear foul and should be a yellow card. If someone slides in like that and goes through the man after the ball has gone, I really don’t understand anyone trying to argue that’s not a foul.

Very needless. Todorov was near the bye line and cut it back across the box. The defender seemed to slide through him ridiculously late. Was sheer stupidity from him. A professional footballer shouldn’t even be thinking about diving in there. He seemed to have Todorov right where he wanted him, then just went through him anyway once the ball had gone.

Out of interest, where was the inconsistency today? He consistently missed a lot and let players away with ‘taking one for the team’ and going in hard and late - Falkirk did on several occasions and didn’t get a booking for it. Benedictus foul was just as late/rash as the challenge for the penalty, which didn’t result in a yellow card. Can’t disagree with the blind, stupid and incompetent. But for me, they seem to be consistently blind, stupid and incompetent. Should Benedictus have been shown a second yellow? Absolutely. But that would have been inconsistent with his decisions and lack of bookings for similar challenges up to that point.

To be fair, I’m sure they do want to be better and progress. I don’t think they’re deliberately being incompetent/useless. Surely it’s more down to their training/guidance than them not wanting to do well.

First half was one of our poorer performances. But thought we were the better team second half. We’ve certainly played much worse over 90 minutes than we did today. Given the chances created, I don’t think either team will be happy with the draw. Both managers will certainly be saying their team should have won. I certainly feel like it’s a chance missed. But it’s probably a fair result, on the balance of play.

That was a proper game of football. Two teams having a go, plenty chances at both ends. Falkirk dominated first half, but we were in control second half. We hit both posts and Falkirk had near misses too. Referee was awful. Can understand Falkirk’s complaints about Benedictus at the end, but the referee had let several Falkirk players away with similar challenges without a yellow. He was just incompetent.

Mochrie’s cup tied anyway. Played for United B in the first round.