Stevie Kirk

Did Morton not get Hearts ?

Until we can stop the habit of losing avoidable first half goals, we are going to struggle no matter who we are playing. You could see after a few minutes that they were going to press us high up the pitch and we just did not handle it at all. On a bumpy pitch with a heavy wind our players just got dragged into trading long ball hopeful punts. Second half we tried for a bit to get the ball down the sides but we were too slow and predictable. Nothing we did looked polished and we made everything look difficult. Like a few others have said I would take the win on Tuesday over winning tonight. Even if we had somehow fluked a win we would have got papped out in the next round because we are so easy to score against . This is not a team that would take us on a run to Hampden . I have been a big fan of Kelly over the years and I think some of the criticism coming his way has been unjustified at times. However that was pathetic tonight and he needs to be dropped . Also I think I preferred Obika when he was injured.

Ferrie is only 17 and I don’t think his loan at Stenny was up to much. He certainly has the potential to come good in a few years time but right now he is miles off 1st team quality .

Yes . I heard a rumour his maw is a mattress .

I could not believe how high a line County played, suicidal stuff and once you are getting pumped you can’t change it to a low block because you are chasing the game .

I wish I had spent more time watching the guy when he was here but I was snowed under with work. I think the extension thing is because I have a corner sofa against the window wall where the first phone point comes in. The extension cable goes under the carpet and pops up behind the tv where my router is. He was outside most of the time so yes he did run fibre into the house as we didn’t have it before. Yes I won’t bother swopping providers until it’s sorted - don’t want to give Vodafone an excuse to leave me floundering. I will get hold of another router this week and see if it makes any difference and will post the results! As a plan B - If I can get decent 5G signal would a mobile router/ SIM card combo give me enough “ bandwidth” to run a couple of laptops during the day? cheers for all replies thanks .

Cheers I’ve been working on the basis that it isn’t the router because when I log onto the Vodafone outage checker and stick my postcode in it comes up Alert - there is a known outage in my area- am I right to assume not the router then? cheers

Cheers mate as I say I’m using an old IPad on 4g tonight I will get my daughter to check her 5g speed on her phone tomorrow as it could be much better than what I’m getting. I wasn’t given a new router so it’s still the original one I will have a fiddle around tomorrow and try to replicate how it was set up before. Aye I might have to go nuclear on twitter or something- not my usual style at all but the effects at home is we are all knackered and crabbit with having to commute again and I don’t know if Costa will tell me to f*ck off shortly and stop stealing their WiFi . Cheers for listening meantime

Cheers for the prompt reply mate, I’m at the old man yelling at cloud stage ! So yeah I’ve lived here 20 odd years and never had an issue before. I wasn’t given a choice Vodafone just told me everyone is getting fibre broadband and the guy was here for a couple of hours about 3 weeks ago. And presumably f*cked something up. My neighbour’s broadbands are all ok , none of them have had fibre fitted recently mind , so it’s just our house I think so will be very low on the priority list. Vodafone not great tbh, no mechanism for speaking to a human it’s all automated calls and circular dialogue with chat bots so I ended up raising a complaint. They say I’m due £9.33 per day so £130 compo due so far. The replies I get are one- liners and they haven’t suggested any workarounds which is why I’m left to work it out myself. They give the impression that it’s not their problem and that they have no influence over Openreach. I tried the speed test thingy on my iPad which is on 4g and I got download at 12.65 and upload at 2.86 - doesn’t look impressive at all but as I say I know very little about the subject. How would I find out how to connect or revert back to the copper wires? The Openreach guy seems to have run an extension off the original incoming phone connection socket then added a wee white box with three green lights behind the telly which is then cabled into the back of the router. Outside there is a new grey box exactly where the old one was. Hope that makes sense! Cheers

So First World problem but here goes. I had fibre broadband installed by Openreach on behalf of my network provider Vodafone who I have been with for a number of years. It worked for about a week then went down so I have had no WiFi for two weeks. Its becoming a real pain - aside from being stuck with council telly at night both myself and my missus work from home . We are having to commute over an hour each way or login at coffee shops - fine for a few days but I’m at the end of my tether. Have of course reported this to Vodafone two weeks ago. They say they are aware of the outage in my area and have asked Openreach to investigate. I was told it would be fixed by last Friday but nothing was done. I’ve seen horror stories online of people being left with no broadband for weeks or even months so I’m getting a bit worried. So I’m trying to solve the problem myself rather than wait for Openreach so have had a couple of ideas. 1. change broadband provider to Sky ( they have some good deals currently) on the basis that they might have an engineer who could fix it on/ around date of switchover. 2. Buy a cellular router and stick a SIM card in it. Im a bit of a Luddite but my thinking around option 1 is that maybe Sky can’t do anything without Openreach sorting the broadband . On the second option I have no idea how/ if a cellular router would work. We would be running two laptops during the day and one smart TV at night . We don’t do any gaming so we are hardly Cape Canaveral. If there is anyone on here that could offer any advice or other ideas as to a temporary fix I would be much obliged cheers!

Like Slattery before him I’m not sure Miller has the pace to play an 8 . There was a phase of play second half on Saturday where he could have scurried into the box but he pulled the ball back as he didn’t back himself to get away from his marker. The boy is quality though, just further back pinging balls about like a Lambert or McGregor type.

I enjoyed that today, plenty of needle in the match which boiled over at times. We shaded it over the 90 minutes and I’m glad we’ve got the KVV panto out the way unscathed. The players are still fighting for the manager which is heartening to see . Love wee Davor in the middle he is a ringer for Simo Valikari and plays like him as well . Huge two games coming up but if we see the same commitment as today we can get the victories we need to give us some breathing space.

After every goal he scored they were on here like he was the second coming of Drogba - which thankfully wasn’t often and was a while ago.

St Mirren fans couldn’t wait but thankfully they got pied. Almost a relief Kev went to Killie as the Saint fans on here are largely insufferable twats.

I guess I’m at the “ old man yells at cloud “ stage but yes we just need to wait and see how the lack of signing an experienced striker plays out. My very short term take was a one-off “ throw £100k at a decent striker “ in an effort to get us to safety . Time will tell if we made the right move keeping our hands in our pockets. Stating the obvious but the wage structure will be about half of what it is now if we go down.

Strap yourself in for a play-off defeat to Raith Rovers .

Looks like we’ve fucked it.

I’m waiting on the Welcome back Oli Shaw announcement .

“ We exist to supply endless disappointment to our support “

Cheers mate

Has yon Ozbolt guy signed for anybody yet? Can’t see anything online.

All that sweet overtime dough , yum yum

Maybe we will get a reveal tomorrow that he has signed a 2 year extension.

If we don’t then it’s an act of self sabotage.