Rossmcno1

Aye, Recruitment has been an ongoing issue in hospitality industry for a while now. It’s a tough one for irregular event staffing.

Maybe they’ve done some work on how much having that area open would bring in, accounted for the costs associated and just decided not to bother. It’s not so easy nowadays to make money in the bar game. Sometimes it’s simply not worth it, see the amount of pubs etc shutting down across the country. Sad times but if (and that’s the operative word, if) the club have done analysis and deemed it not worthwhile then fair enough? In all of this, communication continues to seem to be a big problem despite the continued growth in our commercial and non footballing departments. Why?

In my tours of the States, have managed to get some nice shots (just using iPhone) in most of the states/cities we’ve been to, but Colorado just blew me away. Garden of the Gods, Estes Park and Bear lake. Incredible contrasts in climate and colour within a 3 hour drive. Enjoy these, can post more from different states if folk want - feedback welcome. 🙂

Yes Grant, alls well that ends well and all that 🫣

Done

Said it so often about McCann, he needs a loan spell to see if he will make it for us. Complete confidence player. He has all the attributes but when it comes to a Saturday, it just isn’t happening right now.

That was the very game that came to my mind. I wasn’t even there, was working down in Plymouth - heart in my mouth when I saw the half time score.

I think he has been exposed without Bene in front of him, but he’s not all bad like you say. I just don’t think he’s good enough for us to be challenging at the top end of the table. If we finish 6th - he’s probably at the right level. But I do think we need better to be challenging at the top.

You mean the “Set Fare Arena” as it will be next season? Or as some witty wags have already named it - the Cab Neu. Either way, enjoy!

Ah, the optimists take DA 😂 a worry free weekend when the Pars are involved is a rare thing indeed. Apart from last season 🤣

Not sure that 1% stacks up anymore. Fixtures on Saturday for teams below us include, Queens Park away at Arbroath, (could see Queens winning by 2 or 3). Ayr away at Thistle, they could easily get a draw. Who’d completely bet against Inverness popping a couple past us and us failing to score? That means we go into the last game, Ayr even on points with us, ICT just 2 points behind, and QP 3 points behind with the goal swing down to say 3 or 4? Queens Park have Airdrie at home, ICT have Morton at home. Both of those are dead rubbers for the home sides. QP and ICT wins there and us losing by 2 v Ayr - that sees us 9th due to QP having scored more goals than us. That does NOT feel like 1% chance to me! 🫣

Some great posts here. We miss width of any kind. KRH for me is the only player we have that is good enough and natural enough in a wide position. I’m excluding Edwards as I firmly expect him to move on. There would have to be a concerted effort to address this in the new preseason, and it’s a big task. One I don’t think mcpake would do. It would mean a complete abandonment of the main formation he has used over the last 2 seasons. an alternative (and I think much more likely) is him doubling down on his formation and looking to develop/bring in more players to play it. I can hear the howls of derision already - that’s not my preferred way, but I just think that’s what he will do. For me, regardless what he decides re formation, there are huge gaps in the team in terms of quality versus most of the league. This means we need to make some player disposals. Whether that’s making them available for transfer or what, it needs doing. Mehmet, OHalleron, Chalmers - all for me in that first wave of most goes, not good enough for the level we should be looking to achieve (title challenge for me). Second wave would include McCann (prefer to loan out at first), Wighton, Comrie. I wouldn’t renew Jakubiaks contract. Much prefer we went for the likes of Burrell at Cove than keep persisting with Wighton and his several underperforming games and recurring injuries. Either way it should be an exciting summer, but I do fear that we have a recruitment system that is too flat footed and worry we’ll end up scrambling again in both windows, which completely kiboshed our season.

Aye this is a very brief but completely true description of how I feel about it all.

Mediocrity.

Unfortunately this could well be how the players see it sometimes ⬆️⬇️➡️⤵️↘️⬅️↙️↖️ 😂

That’s bloody excellent. Well on road to a sellout?

Sounds so simple!!!! 😂

Useless ****ebags. Credit to that Airdrie team. There’s something about them that reminds me of that Livingston team that went from league 1 to the Premier via playoffs. We need to beat them on Saturday for any chance of 4th.

Great pics!

In Austin we were in the pathway for the total eclipse. Unfortunately plagued by cloud today in a city that’s almost always blue skies 😆 still managed to get a decent enough sight of the event, camera photos and videos weren’t great but here’s a couple.

It’s really good that the club are trying new things, and this has potential to be an excellent event for local people, many of whom may not be pars fans.

Reality is Livingstons core support is around the 1000-1500 mark. Even when they were “flying high” they’d never do much more than 2000 home season tickets. The stadium is far too big for what they need, so they are where they are. Much rather folk from there support their local team than either of the two Edinburgh ones, or worse the Glasgow ones.

Not too worried about Airdrie, that’ll be them on the slide similar to Morton. A win tomorrow for us and it really does show momentum on our side and suggests we are coming into form at just the right time.

That is a superb win. Absolutely gold stuff. Well done boys.

Kind of game we need to win if any ambition to be in playoffs at right end of the league. Probably our strongest line up and bench this season…?