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If you take our squad photo from the start of the season and remove those unavailable for Tomorrow, we're left with 12 players. Edited to add, Greg Hurst wasn't in it so thats 13 players.

Thats worrying.



Two injuries and a red card. That leaves us with 10.
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17 shots on target according to the SPFL website. Poor finishing or heroic goalkeeping? 

Undoubtedly a missed opportunity for 3 points but on the bright side we would've probably lost a game like that 1-0 in the past. 

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Reasonably happy to take a point from the game. Clyde were the better team for long spells and created a lot of chances. We could have taken the lead but on going down to 10 men it's about holding-out.

Radio saying that's McKenna's third red card already in 2016-17?

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Another incredibly frustrating 90 minutes today. A contrast from last week in that the referee was excellent, whilst we also edged ourselves in front in a first half that we completely dominated, without ever really looking like we'd score more than a couple. In addition to the goal, a scrambled effort by Higgins, Flynn had a shot from distance comfortably saved, and MacDonald had a weakly hit shot go past the goalkeeper but be cleared off the line. 

The equaliser was pretty much Berwick's only venture into our half. Gibson came for a long ball into the box and punched clear. Plenty of debate that he should have caught it but  he had a couple of players in his way so I think a punch was correct. It wasn't the worst punch in the world but fell to Thomson who fired in a volley that swerved around Gibson and into the net. It really was well taken but BF seems to be blaming Gibson in his post-match interview and it's hard to argue.

That gave the home team a lift and they had the better of the start of the second half, with Gibson making a fairly routine save to keep the scores level. We worked our way back into a dominant position and spurned a number of good chances; Flynn hit the post after a trademark run from deep, MacDonald twice tried to round the 'keeper when clean through but didn't get a shot away either time, Higgins had time and space in the box but shot straight at the sub goalie. Plenty of other wild shots off target, and a number of set pieces that didn't drop for us in the box. Berwick arguably had the best chance late on but Gibson made a great save to keep out a player who was clean through; possibly Lavery? Red card was for a couple of pieces of dissent in the space of a few seconds.

Hard to be overly critical of most of the team; I thought there were plenty of decent performances, with Linton probably our best again along with Perry. We mixed things up throughout the game and created a number of chances in a number of different ways. Biggest disappointment was Phil Johnston, who given the chance to play further forward, was especially wasteful with his final ball (exactly what we expected when he was signed in the summer), so much so that we swapped him with McNeil eventually in the hope of a better cross or two. 

Like last year we're getting into the position constantly where we have must win matches rather than getting some breathing space. 17 points wouldn't be the worst first quarter, 14 would be a huge disappointment. Need to win next time out.

Finally, I hope Divine Shanganya can put on a bit of weight as he's the tallest player I think we've ever had in our youth system! A full head and neck above Linton.

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Why has the league gone? If we play like that every week no one will beat us.Unfortunately MacDonald has gone off the boil but he'll be back.Perry has given us some stability at the back and the goal we lost yesterday was a bit of a fluke.We'll be there or thereabouts come the end of the season.

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