the saline hill puma

Tues 27^th Feb

Ayr Utd 1 v 2 Partick Th

Dundee Utd 3 v 1 Airdrie

Inverness CT 1 v 1 Dunfermline Ath (37/1856)

Queens Park 2 v 0 Arbroath

Raith Rovers 1 v 1 Morton

Great win. Massive result

Otoo my motm. Outstanding in the middle of the park 

1 minute ago, DeclanG said:

This ref is wild, Robinson for them should be off.

That was a dreadful tackle .....let the ref off for now though....kept us in front 

Yassssss what a header by benjamin 

2 minutes ago, Al k said:

Oooft how lucky was that. Onside easily.

About time we got some tbh

****

Infact the officials have got this massively wrong 

Yassssss 

Matty Todd, great finish 

Good to be level at HT

Need to be better at the back in 2nd half, look ok going forward. Think Holmes is struggling on the left. Think Moffat might come on for him 

Yaasss get in

Total shambles at the back just now

That's a shocking goal to lose....not shock though 

4-3-3

Hamilton and FW in the middle of defence 

10 minutes ago, livipar2 said:

Who is going to play on the right of the defence??

Benjamin if back 4 or Matty Todd if we play back 5

Several possibilities for how we libe up

Guess ohalloran injured as well 

1 hour ago, Digs said:

It really all depends on what Pars team turns up, the one that played Utd, or the one that played QP. 

I don't think they are miles ahead of us, IF we play to our full abilities. At home, we should've beat them and although they gubbed us 3-0 away, I don't think that necessarily tells the story of the game. Sharp chucked two in, and defensively we were rotten but on the ball, I thought we did OK and we missed some great chances at crucial times. 

I do think we will lose tonight, given recent form, but we are more than capable of a result too.

The big difference between now and the game at Dundee, is that we had Fisher available and that allowed Hamilton to move to midfield. Otoo and FW done well either side of Fisher. 

If we go with the same central pairing as last week, I do fear that Brian Graham will have a easy evening.

18 minutes ago, kelty_par said:

Hearing Comrie is now on crutches. Explains this signing as seems more of a RB

Got told that last night as well

Right ....3-0 Pars, Owen Moffat double and Chris Kane with the goals 

13 minutes ago, Dave said:

Good post Grant.  Getting to 4th, with that long injury list and players out of position, meant the football wasn’t great, and we’ve never looked or deserved to be a top 4 this season. 

With players coming back (slowly), and hopefully the signing of Kane will get us higher up the league.  Maybe all things considered, that’s consolidating our promotion from last season. 

I'm going to be honest and say, even last year for large parts of the season the football was pretty dire to watch so its not something new to this season, but we were winning then, so most fans didn't care that much about the style. 

Fri 23^rd Feb

Partick Th 3 v 0 Dunfermline Ath (40/4000)

Sat 14^th Feb

Arbroath 0 v 2 Inverness CT

Ayr Utd 1 v 1 Raith Rovers

Dundee Utd 2 v 1 Queens Park

Morton 1 v 0 Airdrie

3 minutes ago, GG Riva said:

Billy Dodds? Honestly? We're in Hughes/Grant territory with that suggestion. ICT looked bound for League 1 with him in charge. Big Dunc has at least given them a fighting chance of staying up. 

He also had several decent seasons with Inverness recently.

20 minutes ago, the saline hill puma said:

Id assume we'd maybe look at people like Mark Fotheringham, Lee Bullen, Billy Dodds....but then it depends who will apply for the job if it becomes available at the end of the day. 

But It's largely irrelevant until we do make a decision. One thing that I'm certain of is performance levels and results have been shocking recently and we are going backwards as a team with no signs of improvement. 

Can I just add to this, that if mcpake does turn it around, I'd be delighted, at the moment, I just can't see it happening though.

We've had glimpses of ok performances at times but it's just not good enough overall, especially in the last 9/10 games where we've fell well short.

21 minutes ago, Yorkiepar said:

You’ve nailed your colours SHP. So, apart from the usual sad list of available and often unavailable candidates that gets trotted out on such an occasion, who would you suggest could take on the job at this stage of the season and turn things around? 

Id assume we'd maybe look at people like Mark Fotheringham, Lee Bullen, Billy Dodds....but then it depends who will apply for the job if it becomes available at the end of the day. 

But It's largely irrelevant until we do make a decision. One thing that I'm certain of is performance levels and results have been shocking recently and we are going backwards as a team with no signs of improvement. 

We should be getting better results with the players he has available. Get him punted

5 minutes ago, Lochalsh Par said:

Perhaps optimism has got the better of my common sense but we may be surprised next week. The opportunity is there to be taken.

If we go with the same back 4 next week, Brian Graham will destroy them

5 minutes ago, kelty_par said:

Can’t disagree with this. If we can’t beat an absolute shocking side in Arbroath, then I’ve no idea where the next wins coming from

It's after we get a new manager imo