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That's us now lost our last ELEVEN straight games against both halves of the Old Firm. When was the last time that happened? We usually manage a least a draw here or there against one or both of them but since we drew 1-1 with Celtic in December 2018 we have lost every single one!

Our approach to these games is getting worse by the year and we are beaten before a ball is even kicked. Truly pathetic!

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Just now, MJC said:

That's us now lost our last ELEVEN straight games against both halves of the Old Firm. When was the last time that happened? Our approach to these games is getting worse by the year and we are beaten before a ball is even kicked. Truly pathetic!

I kind of take your point here but I'm not sure what Liam Polworth playing a defence splitting ball past our own defenders has to do with our overall approach. Game was done at that point.

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2 minutes ago, thisGRAEME said:

I kind of take your point here but I'm not sure what Liam Polworth playing a defence splitting ball past our own defenders has to do with our overall approach. Game was done at that point.

Yes but we see these sort of unforced errors in these games more and more now. We saw it a couple of months ago when we bent over against Rangers, two daft penalties conceded etc. We look terrified from the off in games against both of them and that leads to stupid, costly mistakes. That for me points to a mentality issue.

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I'm beyond giving a shit when it comes to games against Celtic and Rangers. It was an effort to even watch it today. Our mentality against them is awful, even Allan Campbell produced one of his worst performances of the season today. 

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3 minutes ago, well fan for life said:

I think Chapman will do a cracking job at warming the bench tbh.

Are you lot expecting Archer to be any better?...

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13 minutes ago, ropy said:

Didn’t lose any league position over the course of the week.  Good platform to build on.

 

12 minutes ago, ropy said:

I always used to mark these down as 3-0 defeats in any predictions, technically 4-1 is a better result.

This is pretty much my takeaway. I have no strong opinions beyond that.

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At least we had a go after HT. 

Hard to be harsh on the players after that. They were clinical with 4 goals from 6 on target. 

Felt the big goalie could have done better for 1st and 3rd goals. But I guess there is a reason why he was available on a free. Would give Archer a go v St Johnstone. See who is better of the two whilst we wait for Carson to return in the New Year. 

 

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1 hour ago, welldaft said:

Felt the big goalie could have done better for 1st and 3rd goals. But I guess there is a reason why he was available on a free. Would give Archer a go v St Johnstone. See who is better of the two whilst we wait for Carson to return in the New Year. 

Based on his CV I'd have thought Archer has been brought in as 1st choice of the two but he's not played since 4th January so it'd have been a bit harsh to bounce the Pieman after he kept a couple of clean sheets and chucking Archer in against Celtic would have seemed to have the potential to be a bit counter productive given the time since he last played.

As it stands he's had a chance to get in the building and presumably we'll have a couple of bounce games through the international break.

It seems a natural point to give Archer a run now though rather than chucking him in 5 mins after he's through the door though. 

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