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We were well off it last night, passing was woeful and lumping the ball up the park from our MOM (obviously folk were drinking when they voted for that) didn't work either, fair play to Queens they worked there socks off to close us down and we couldn't cope, much deserved win for them and our players need a boot up the arse.

I wonder if what others have said is true once teams have played us were too easy too work out??, not looking forward to the pars game but I live in (lots and lots of) hope!!     

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1 minute ago, Ro Sham Bo said:

That first 30 seconds was literally the only decent passage of play in the entire match from us.

 

Young Cowie looked to make a good stop in that period,  you score then and our game plan would have been oot the windae. 

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1 minute ago, Fae_the_'briggs said:

Young Cowie looked to make a good stop in that period,  you score then and our game plan would have been oot the windae. 

Yeah it can be fine margins. It sounds daft considering how the game unfolded but if that had gone in it's likely we would have kicked on and won comfortably.

As it was Queens were right at it for the next 20-30 minutes especially and we just lost our way completely.

 

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2 hours ago, Fae_the_'briggs said:

Young Cowie looked to make a good stop in that period,  you score then and our game plan would have been oot the windae. 

You're probably right, but Queens can probably point to a few 'what ifs' in the game at Palmerston at 1-3 and 2-3.

Fair play to the Rovers that day, they were clinical and that bit sharper in the middle of the park, just as Queens were last night. 

 

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So comes the first game of the second round of fixtures and Rovers turn in a typical clocks gone back performance. Not believing that it's solely down to AJ and Queens having  us sussed after the previous games though, this was massively self inflicted.

This looked a classic example of a team on a decent run thinking the points were in the bag even before kick off, the smooth flowing midfield of previous games just didn't materialise and we rolled the clock back to hoofball tactics.

Prior to Alloa we (fans) had concerns and it felt as if all focus was on the two away games,  the hard yards were won at Alloa leaving us with the feeling the hard part was over, and it should have been too! But no the guys (many if not most of them) who took the pitch looked like they were only there to make up the numbers.

Rovers passing was rank rotten all over the park but a special word has to go to the midfield 3 who generally looked like they had never played football in their lives, Hendry had his worse game in a Rovers shirt managing to look even worse than he was at Inverness (no mean feat btw), Tait was awful and and Matthews never really got started. The passing and movement that has been the hallmark of all victories never materialised and both Ross & Armstrong were starved of quality balls as was Duku who was feeding on scraps and high balls which were easily mopped up by Buchanan and Obileye both of whom struggle with the ball on the deck and much prefer arial contests, we played into their hands.

If I could be sure we will only play 1 bad game per round of fixtures I'd be happy, but this came a tad early for my liking, hope they get it out of their system and back to business. Doing just that on Saturday would be ideal.

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