Rossmcno1

I don’t think you can really assess McPake fairly this season as it’s been such a season of things genuinely out his hand. His three best players have not been available for almost the entire campaign.

Fair dos. think it’s a fair shout that there are concerns about how we are being run, the costs involved, and lack of communication. Again compared to Raith, sadly lacking.

Not sure if you meant to attach an image but nothing showing if you had.

Now that I understand. Just seemed a strange leap. Been saying for a while that the Raith changes highlight how lacking we have been on a number of fronts for a while. Typically Dunfermline to get a huge investment from a consortium yet go backwards.

Honeymoon period over because bits of the pitch are frozen? Same bits that have been problematic since the main stand was built? 😂

No, you might remember Zak Rudden better from his on loan at thistle days - when we had Peter Grant as manager. He was also at Falkirk on loan the season they went down to League 1, but that was some time ago. Mcpake somewhere said previously that his top rated young strikers at a point of time in Scotland was Shankland, Nisbet and Rudden.

In these days of 9 on the bench and 5 subs, who’s to say that Cardle even at this stage would be an option for an injury ravaged team? I’m not totally against it.

Yeh been reported in the press. Sensible move.

Oh you big tease

Ex Dundee eh? 😜

Exactly this. None of the issues we have faced last few years are unique to ANY club in Europe.

The whole “what if they get ****ed off and leave” thing was floated around the Grant/Hughes era, and it’s not helpful at all. If they are that flakey that they would walk out over something like that then football frankly isn’t for them. In no way is that condoning what happened, however unfortunately similar things happen all the time with football clubs these days as every club has their element of fuddery. I don’t want them to have that sword hanging over us all the time as it leads to the wrong kind of messaging, almost that we’d be frightened to challenge them in case they walked away. Similar comments were made about investors apparently at a game under Grant, where a fan had made their unhappiness known, and there were comments about how much that had put off potential investment. It just feels a bit like it gives me the ick. Said it before and happy to stand by it, so far it could be argued we’ve not moved forward since they came on board. I see lots of encouraging signs and indeed a big ploughed field with diggers on it round the corner from my house, but also see and hear of lots of operating losses and a thin squad right now where we’ve yet to fill our bench this season. Im all for positivity, indeed in my own coaching and management work in the past (in and out of football) always strive to have a positive environment with great success - however people aren’t stupid, and reality/honesty are far more valued than blinkered optimism.

He’ll fit right in there

Sorry Digs, always enjoy reading your posts but disagree with you here. Right now with our list of long term injuries, form, and current win total and points tally v the rest of the teams below us, its hard to understand how anyone can say it’s knee jerk nonsense to have a fear of being in a relegation battle. Especially with some of our performances on the park recently, we’ve been pretty awful. Some would say it’s a dose of reality that our team after a fairly decent start, has been found wanting by not scoring enough goals and losing too many. Hardly fantasy land right now to look at all the factors of this season right now and think…..may be trouble ahead.

Social media I find much more poisonous than anything face to face. I refuse to engage with the numpties or let them even be dignified by a response. Surprised you get such behaviour at your local pub and work.

Here a top tip for you. Dont read fans comments on social media. Facebook and Twitter. Honestly - complete cesspits the pair of them.

Heads gone from the manager in that. The Jakubiak comment is bizarre. “Not sure if that’s an injury or not”. What the feck else is it?

It’s beyond a joke now. We’ve been caught out by having such a tight squad. We’ve now overloaded almost every player. Let’s be serious here, that Queens Park team was utter pish, and are bottom of the league for a reason - the reason being, they’re utter pish. We deserved to get beat tonight. I’m not angry at the players who tried their best, but someone/collectively, is culpable for us being in the position where we cannot field a fit 11 at championship level. Wighton/Summers/O Halleron not fit, we should have enough players to be able to not risk them when they clearly aren’t right. The current situation is now disheartening the entire club. If we don’t sign some bodies in this winter, of the right quality, then we are absolutely in a relegation battle. And right now, smart money would be on us finishing bottom 2. We don’t look like scoring much, and we can’t keep clean sheets. it’s thoroughly depressing watching us right now, and time for the board to get their finger out and act. Sign some ****ing players ffs, or we’ll be opening our training academy the same week we host Stirling Albion at home. Dont sleepwalk into another relegation.

Exactly this. Mind all the hate they got when the Rovers signed Goodwillie, but now they’re everyone’s favourite cuddly wee team. It’ll pass soon enough and some other club will be getting the ire of the offended. What happened was ghastly and utterly reprehensible- but not much better was some of the petty point scoring and glorification in victimhood that was all over social media. Back to trying to make the right headlines on the pitch, hopefully characterised by “depleted Pars crush Queens Park”…!

I watched Wilson play centre back for Colorado against my new home team Austin back in March. I would be very very (pleasantly) surprised if he’d entertain us. Salary wise we’d be lucky to offer a fifth of what he’s been earning.

I think if everyone was fit, you could make a case for the squad being MARGINALLY stronger than last season. I agreed with those that we let go at the time when the club were talking about quality replacements, I’m still waiting in that regard. It would be churlish for anyone to say that had the following three players been kept on there would be no difference at all. There have been games where Macdonalds different approach at wing back could have made a difference, games crying out for a change of attacking style up top whether it be Todorov or OHara. With us being so threadbare with injuries each one of those absolutely could have contributed at some point over the last few months. I still maintain that it was right that they went, but we have risked it again this season being so tight on numbers. Last year we got away with it big time, this year - caught out. Club needs to make additions in January, and work out what is going wrong to cause so many injuries. Medical care? Rehab? Overload? Whatever it is, needs fixed fast because this is now beyond a joke. We were promised that the club would sign quality in the previous window, that when fans saw the calibre of player we would be targeting, we’d understand the patience. My patience is running thin now. Has been for some time already this season and I’m getting serious deja vu about certain aspects of our club activity. I get the impression from many forums that lots of fans are behaving like “doing well to be 4th/5th” with our 6 wins so far this season and a hideous record against 3 teams above us. No we’re not. Sorry but a lot of this season has been bloody awful to watch. I want positivity about our club, but let’s have some reality checks in place, other than an occasional fisting of Morton, Airdrie and Queens Park, it’s been pretty turgid. Injuries have had a big effect on the club, but whether it’s the manager or the board, someone is culpable for running at such a tight squad that we have no depth to change games, something that McPake was brilliant at last season. I get more concerned when I hear unverified reports of near to seven figure losses for last season, despite what has to be the most commercialised operation at the club for years, and we certainly aren’t blowing money on loads of players. We are the second highest supported club in the division, I just think we are right to expect a bit more.

Cheap season cards for that age group brings this risk. They’ve been nowhere the last few weeks, but today all there. More pyro despite the warnings. They’ve had leaflets statements chats …. Clearly not taking effect Shame because the tifo looked excellent but wee fuds behaving with no belief in consequences ruin it.

So frustrating to watch us right now. Mehmet yet again costs us with a goal. 3 year deal. Wighton anonymous. You can be the clever ghost all you want but with zero presence in the game then it’s not clever, it’s a waste of a jersey. Another year and a half on his deal? The injury situation is ridiculous but what else can we do other than sign more players? Both Breen and Fisher injuries today were contact. Would like to see the Fisher one again because I thought Vaughan was naughty leading with an elbow/forearm to the neck, but maybe I didn’t see it right. They were totally for the taking there today, but we are so weak, toothless, and played like wee Boys half the time. so frustrating.

😂 at your first sentence. Giving hope to professional footballers all over the world 😂 And agreed re second sentence, with the right players around them, a good centre back sweeper type could go well into mid 30’s and do a job if they can stay fit.

Getting quite a few messages from pals in west coast way saying conditions for the drive look horrendous with heavy snow, safe travels all.