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Some brief highlights including the goals towards the end of this vid

A few players do. Others look at Twitter, Snapchat, read what newspapers say, hear fans during the games, etc. Some purposefully and others just happen to see it. They are not superheroes, they are just young lads who happen to be good at kicking a ball around and chasing after it. Let's be clear that all I and others are saying is that unnecessary negativity can't achieve anything good and may well affect individual performances negatively, and vice versa for optimism. Not that everything being typed on here should be done with the idea we are talking to players, which is obviously not true.

Appreciate you have your views but I don't think they are grounded in reality. As for the bit in bold: no, but that's about performances across a whole season not two games, and my comments don't just apply to this forum.

And now the challenge, 3-1 up against a lower league team. Can we hold onto it this time?

My partner is a singer. It's not the same as football but both are performance professions. When she gets bad reviews, or her directors are negative, or a crowd is unwelcoming, she has to actively make sure that doesn't affect her performance. Naturally, that is a part of the job, and she is fine almost all of the time, but she and our squad are all humans and capable of being affected by these things. When it has been rough for her and no-one has said anything too critical and she gets space to grow, she always turns it around. When she gets good reviews, it makes her glow and her singing even better! Bit of a random thing to say on a football forum, and she is probably at a higher level than Queens in their respective disciplines, but I think the principle is the same. Gotta trust people a little bit to get it right and then offer praise when it's due. The likes of Mercer, Murray and Dobbie (first time) have all stuck in an improved in their time with us, and the likes of Pybus and McRorie (sp) have said they want to do that.

Yeah but all those other teams with shite results didn't perform amazing and just be unlucky. They also would have put in dodgy performances, so the point we're not alone still stands. There can be many reasons for shit performances. We don't know the reasons. But potential things like fitness, asked to play a different way they're not sure of, poorer communication, nerves etc can all be easily attributed to having a new team, so I agree with those who say there's no reason to panic. Edit: and what would panicking achieve anyway? We're not gonna get a new manager, bigger budget, fewer seagulls. So panicking won't achieve much good, but optimism might actually.

Sadly not true. Trillions of pounds forecast for investment in oil production globally up to 2050. Separately, this is a serious issue. Actual experts haven't worked out how to solve it. Nae c**t on here is going to know. Stop acting like you do.

Ah, so you're... anti climate change then, are you? ... but foaming that the wrong sort of people are protesting it in the wrong sort of way... is that it?

Good luck to them. It is going to be difficult to change a global socio-economic system built up and buttressed over hundreds of years, but good luck to them. It needs done. Not just happening in Scotland btw. All over the UK today and I saw them at a music festival in Germany last week.

Agree with this. I guess some people are just easily led. The OP started out by saying Leighfield, Mercer and Oliver are decent. Then someone pointed out the "lack of gash" as a reason to be optimistic, and OP - rather than just accept that the second poster had a valid point about being optimistic - decided it was better to tear down a handful of young players in our squad. Understandable that the players look at this website even if they shouldn't. A lot of their careers and ability to perform is based on what people think of them. Of course they are going to look. Fair enough criticise players throughout the season if it's deserved but calling young players gash when they are actually doing alright, just for the sake of not being wrong on a football forum, is the definition of talking shite.

And every pre-season.

A striker recently released by Carlisle United after loan spells at Kendal and Workington. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Brown_(footballer)

Official twitter says we will use a different starting 11 in each half. The second 11 for the latter part of the game will be 1. Trialist 22. D Irving 16. Trialist 15. Gourlay 12. Semple 17. Trialist 2. R Irving 19. Trialist 18. Murray 14. Hamilton 21. Trialist.

Live blog of the East Fife friendly here from a local newspaper, who, unlike the official sources, don't need to call every trialist A Trialist. Michael Paton with an assist. Three trialists in the squad. I am assuming one is McRorie. Not sure who the other one is. Semple and Hamilton on the bench. For a still very incomplete squad, it's not a bad lineup. QoS - Trialist, Mercer, Holt, Brownlie, Kilday, Kidd, Trialist, Oliver, Trialist, Dobbie, Murray. Subs - Irving, E Gourlay, D Gourlay, Semple, Hamilton. https://www.fifetoday.co.uk/sport/football/east-fife-v-queen-of-the-south-updates-and-reaction-1-4957918

Aye but on that basis it must have been a collaboration between the parents, Robert Murat, every paedophile in the area, etc, etc - as they were all suspected at some point. Bit of critical thinking please?

Google would disagree https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=whelmed

Always look forward to pre-season discussions about how to use the words under and overwhelming. Think it would help if FIFA could issue a clear definition of "whelming" tbh, but I guess that's just too obvious!!!1!

UEFA piping chants of "Chelsea" through the intercom

Azpilicueta rolls one along the ground from 30 yards, commentator makes out it's justified because "he did score his first goal against Arsenal a few years ago in a League Cup tie"

This guy is chatting complete fucking shite. "Chelsea came in later than Arsenal." "He's never quite won them over at Stamford Bridge." "Well done mate we got the job done together." "Chelsea had a game in Boston last week, fulfilling their contractual duties" SHUT THE f**k UP MAN.

Free BTSport stream here if you want the pleasure of listening to Robbie Savage and some other guy chat mundane shite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw8wJvn6_sk

Commentator sounds like when you are stuck in the lift with a bloke you don't really know from work. "How was your weekend?" "Didn't do much" "Sometimes it's nice not to do much" "Chelsea are the top scorers with 32 goals" "You get used to the bank holidays don't you" "Eintracht Frankfurt nearly put paid to that".

Imagine traveling 62,000 miles for a front row seat in Baku and you're still two miles from the pitch.