Rossmcno1

Proper belly laughed there - they are beyond parody at times. Saying all that, I remember a previous forum where a questioner was ridiculed for asking why there wasn’t a big “Dunfermline athletic” sign on the stadium, and was bold enough to further suggest that attendances would rise as people would know what the building was. Well, here we are with the stands all fully branded and attendances are up, maybe he wasn’t such a moonhowler after all. 😂😂😂

I agree GG. Otoo may have been signed as a centre back, but for me he has a brain fart per game ratio higher than average, and he’s not strong enough in the air (yet) to have CB as his strongest position in this team. I really enjoy watching him in midfield as he seems to bring physicality and has an eye for a good driving run or pass. That’s not to say eventually he will be stronger and more natural at CB, right now for me though his performances in midfield have been some of his best in a Pars jersey.

What defenders aren’t getting a game at Dundee just now? Asking for a friend 😂

Very good win. First half would get football stopped, second half we grew into the game massively and throttled Arbroath. Perversely the injuries meant we had to be more attacking and it made the difference. That all said, Arbroath were complete and utter dug meat. Can only beat what’s in front of you though, and we did.

Done, fingers crossed for you

Oh I wish I had your optimism. I think it’s going to be a very difficult night. We are devoid of confidence and cohesion throughout the spine of our team. Maybe the change of manager at Arbroath will lift us rather than them. We do need to win one of the next two games or things really start to feel a bit dark.

Well, that wasn’t lucky for Rovers tonight was it? Their recruitment in the summer far superior to ours. Bloody gutting that is. :(

That’s some ex Pars back 3 that 👀

It’s getting to the point now it’s beyond luck for them. They’re a decent side, are playing well, and right now look a better team than us - certainly more consistent and clinical. We need them to have an off day and for us to have a good 90+ minutes, and hopefully we can give them a result that knocks them for a bit, and gives us something to kick on with.

I’m away down south for this weekend anyways so bit annoyed won’t be there, however if I was home, I’d go. £20 isn’t that bad. Could have been a hell of a lot worse. Probably get around 5000 there. Wonder what kind of attendance it could have been with a £10/£5 entry point? Would it have got to the 10k mark? Certainly wouldn’t have been cost effective with the added policing and stewarding costs, so we are where we are.

I agree sadly. Mehmet has returned to type from where he was in Championship first time round with us, and Sharp no better. Last season we rarely saw any errors in goal. Already I can count 5 which have led to a goal. All because Bene not in the team? Nah. Striker wise we are found wanting. Wighton has games with little to no presence about him. Jakubiak looks like he struggles with endproduct, McCann I think suffers from lack of game intelligence to be in the right place often enough, then suffers from lack of composure when he does get there. MAYBE with Todd and KRH up and running some of these issues iron themselves out and it’s all been about service. I fear not however. We can be half decent but right now we are destined for 7th/8th. Sort those two issues out and we’ll make top end playoffs. easy enough eh? 🫣

Oh we’ll get well over that I think. if it was a non TV game I reckon we’d have seen 8000+ looking forward to it and hoping against hope we can get a win.

Very hard to disagree with any of that.

Bratwurst for dinner 🌭 🇩🇪 Also saw Sheffield United scouts in the stand possibly looking at Ewan Otoo, chequebook in hand. Premiership here we…. 🤫 🫣😉

Stick a £10 adult ticket entry price and fill the feckin place.

See this is what confused me too. Both at Tannadice and Dens, it’s the same security company who employ what I can only describe as the most stringent little Nazi gits ive ever had misfortune to encounter at football grounds. I presume they were all briefed to give their entitled friends from Ibrox a much easier time than the rest of us would get, probably because the Rangers fans would kick off a lot more than we mere diddy team supporters would do. For so many of these things to get past security at Dens demonstrates a total failure on their part.

A* Alliteration Amigo!!! 👏 although more chance me marrying Miss Brazil and having 5 kids with her, than either of the old firm getting points taken off them 😂

It’s also November, which is exactly when we thought both would be back at the time of their initial diagnosis.

What about the views of those who say all three? Disregard those too? 😉

Scenarios - Win and we are fourth. All will be rosy across the forums and social media, McPake will be heralded as the man to lead us to the promised land of the Premiership, meanwhile sales of bratwurst and other German related produce will soar. Talk will begin of who the next “Kevin Nisbet” sell on will be. Or- We lose 2-0 and we sink to the bottom, all forums will contain snivelling posts of derision and “told you so”, Wighton will be labelled lazy, Chalmers not good enough for this level, McPake “found out”, the Germans will be subject of a partial boycott of the local Lidl/Aldis and someone will report that a bid to the council has been made to flatten (KDM GROUP) East End Park and turn it into the UKs biggest German Donner Kebab outlet. Or, the most meh 0-0 draw ever. Nothing changes.

Glad to see all the doubting Thomas’s are out in force after a couple of defeats, been awfully quiet without them the last season and a bit. McPake said throughout the window, these are his players, that he was happy with, and that’s that. That in mind he has to be given the time to improve the run and entrust the players he signed. Or we could just roll our eyes and blame ze Germans (which is ironic considering only one of the active group is actually German), and wonder when we will see East End bulldozed to become a Lidl, and then all the naysayers can scream “told you so”. 💀

Fancy McPake to have sorted us out for an unexpected win.

I can see a few have said it was a back 3 but I watched the game from the stand, definitely looked like it started as a back 4, with O Halleron well advanced into an RM role. Even at the warm up when the defensive lines were going thru their warm up it was as a 4 Edwards Otoo Breen Comrie. Either way it didn’t work! 😂 Breen didn’t look comfortable until he switched to LCB and Comrie looked totally spooked. Fisher looked the most assured out of the lot when he came on. Otoo for me has to get into midfield, he’s much stronger there for us rather than from the back.

Speaking to one of the guys a while ago i got the impression every penny (plus more of their own tbf) gets spent on displays pretty much right away. This stuff isn’t cheap and they have to order from abroad etc.

And you can’t even get walk up tickets as the club refuses to sell them now. Was my stand for years, can’t get a season ticket as I’m away next year to the States so I’ve had to shuffle off to the main stand. Was pretty galling to see it half full yesterday! 😂