Rossmcno1

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.

It’s a vision, and it’s very different to other clubs. When we’re doing well it’ll be lauded and examples sought of random folk from far flung parts of the world being fans, because of our club “culture” that’s been created, and credit in bank with media outlets for being a wee bit cuddly. When we’ve just had our latest unexpected bad run of results or a fisting from Spartans (*or another random side two divisions below us) in another early cup exit, it’ll be used as a stick to beat the board/team/manager with. “Aye no much fair play today when XXX got sent off for stickin the nut on that boy” “Never mind all this woke birthday card pish, get a ****in striker signed you useless German c****” I mean the truth is probably right in the middle of those two, and fair enough. Don’t think it’ll do us any harm, and if they believe in it, the manager buys into it, and ultimately we all buy into it, who knows, it might just work. my concern is too many of our support default to type and can’t help themselves just being negative dour bastards 😂

Which to be fair to Mehmet, he didn’t make many blunders at all last season with Benedictus in front of him.

Depends how you measure “progress”, what metrics and timescales. On pitch, from when McPake took over to now, very different in terms of results. At the very least I know that the players he puts on the park are well drilled and are committed to doing their best. At worst we look a mid table championship team with a few issues that we’re working on. So that’s progress in comparison to where he started. But is it progress compared to Crawfords last season? Up for debate. Progress compared to AJs 2nd last season? Again debatable. Where McPake may have the edge is there are more players with potential to grow. What May restrict him is his loyalty to a couple of those who aren’t producing right now. Off the pitch though the saline hill puma has a point. We now have more paid staff (non playing) than we’ve had since administration and we have a building site of a training facility. Otherwise in terms of measuring output, we are indeed exactly where we were when they came in with regard to league standing, having spent time going backwards. The plans all sound good but right now you can see why the detractors are so minded. Nisbet money has come and gone into cash flow so that’s no longer a “nest egg” as revealed at last supporters forum. “Significant losses” were incurred by our time in league 1. Conclusions could include that we haven’t in fact progressed at all since the new owners came in. If anything taking into account losses and erosion of cash flow, potentially gone backwards? Once the training facility is complete and the changes to the professionalism of the commercial operation come through with increased revenue, we could then argue for progression. It’s certainly not a “black and white science”. sorry 🤣

I absolutely blamed Mehmet for the first goal at the time, as did my sister who was at the game with me today, her first time watching the Pars for a couple of years. She couldn’t believe how bad he was for both goals. Suppose we will see soon when the goals are shown on X. But teams are definitely targeting Mehmets inability to command his box, Morton did it couple of weeks ago, and Partick did it today. As for your other point, if people who have paid for a ticket want to leave 5 mins into a game or 50 minutes or be the last one there, then good on all of them. Personally I’ve left a few games early when it’s clear we’re simply not going to get anything out of it. Why not? I’ve paid my money, I give plenty of support when I’m there.

lol, don’t… onto the game - two gifts from our keeper, we played the majority of that game with zero aggression. I was surprised we scored. Partick had the game won in the first half with the simple stuff done well. To progress we need, a goalie and a striker. But then we all knew that already.

To be fair to the Airdrie left back, he was the only one out of their team that looked to take the initiative and drive forward - though a pretty damning indictment on the rest of their players. Thought they were dreadful on Saturday. Onto tomorrow, the big question - if all 3 centre backs are indeed fit, which do you bring back and for who? I reckon there’s a solid argument for all three to return, but how in the hell do you drop Hamilton or Otoo? If shuffling either or both into midfield, does Allan make way despite having probably the longest run of games in his career? Surely Chalmers doesn’t drop out after being one of the best on the park on Saturday? Depending on how this virus thing has affected the team, could be a very interesting selection headache for the manager!

Drop Comrie to the bench is more likely based on recent decisions.

You serious? 😂