Tartan Army Par

17 minutes ago, kelty_par said:

Two more muscular injuries tonight too. Starting to think it’s not all down just to luck

Yep. I'm now questioning what the hell is going on with the conditioning of players and our training. This is not normal.

Looked like Comrie was a calf muscle. Went for a pee when Jakubiak got injured. What kind of injury did that look like?

Does seem a lot of muscle pulls or strains now. 

Now a relegation fight. Can't believe how things are panning out. I can't be too critical with what's happening to us. Genuinely think with a full team we would be nowhere near this. 

Give up man. We are cursed.

What the hell is going on. Two of our few fit players now injured? On top of the horrific injury list. Even Summers is injured but still playing.

We would've beaten this team easily with a full squad.

I'll be going easy on the guys if we get beat tonight. Never seen anything like it. Apart from when we lost all our players due to admin.

1 hour ago, kelty_par said:

Torn hamstring apparently 

That quite a few hamstrings we've had now.

1 hour ago, kelty_par said:

Worrying Todd going to be a long term one again

What's wrong with Todd?

Think we've had bad luck with injuries but that's a few hamstrings and recurring ones too.

2 hours ago, da_no_1 said:

Where the hell is Ben Summers?

Summers came on against Arbroath last week. Looked a bit rusty. Maybe a couple games to get back up to speed.

Nothing to do with sitting in stands. It's just another piece of bad goalkeeping from him. You you stick your head in the sand and sneer at folk all you like. Doesn't change the obvious.

Edwards was complicit in the first goal but any half decent keeper should be saving a that header. Straight at him. Slow reactions.

The core of young players on long deals are certainly progress from 18 months ago. I'm really happy with that side of things. 

I do think the next part of our development is to get better quality established players. Think there a few on 2 year deals that are not going to take us any further. Due to the length of these contracts, it may take us a bit of time to improve those options.

Tough game. I keep going on about our lack of defenders but the guys in those positions are doing a pretty good job at filling in.  Going for a 1-1 draw.

54 minutes ago, GG Riva said:

I may be in a minority of one, but I think some of you underestimate both Hungary and Switzerland. The Swiss are notoriously hard to beat and did Hungary not gub England both home and away in the Nations League? 

Absolutely, but people can underestimate Scotland at full strength too. 

Good draw. Germany first game will be all pressure on them. They are not that great at the moment. Hungary and Switzerland are 50/50 games if we keep our top players fit.

Agree Otoo was signed as a centre back but I don't think that's where he will be playing long term. His best qualities are getting forward and not defending. Think he's best in that midfield role. Very effective making bursting runs from a deep position.

I would quite like to play QP just now as they are struggling badly. 

The only thing that worries me is having no natural centre back available. Hamilton and Otoo have done a decent job filling in the but then adding Comrie in there really is a bit of a ask. 

8 minutes ago, Secure Par said:

Otto and Hamilton should be in midfield but we have 2 CB’s injured..Allen and Chalmers cannot play together in CM..Allen is way of the pace and Chalmers just likes moving the ball and can’t tackle.

 

This is the problem. Injuries will happen but our cover at CB is midfielders and a right back. We need to get a natural centre back in to give cover and keep the back three on their toes. The squad is too thin. 

Our midfield out of possession are dredful. Allan and Chalmers just don't like closing players down. They're both too soft and slow. We need Hamilton and O'too in there but due to our lack of options at CB we can't play them in their proper positions.

We play with 3 centre backs but only have three centre backs in the squad. We need more players in the door and not some kids to invest in. Proven top end championship players. Start showing some desire to compete for promotion. Guys like Wighton, Jakubiak,Chalmers, Deniz, Comrie and Allan are just not going to take this club further. 

Some good young players at Pars right now but the old heads is what's letting us down.

Thought it was good game overall. Both sides tried to play it on the deck.

We just don't get many breaks this season. Can't excuse everything down to bad luck though. We need to be taking more of the chances we're creating. Thought we were done after that belter of a shot from O'too came off the post for the 6th time but relieved McCann got th equalizer(had to be in off the post though eh)

Again showed that we can compete with anyone in this league. ICT were the in form team coming into that today, so great to see us keep fighting to the end to get something out of the game.

Looking forward to turning the Rovers over in the cup next week now.

Makeshift defence. Either goalkeeper not giving much confidence and toothless strikers are not giving me a lot to be confident about right now.

We do have some good players though and can compete with all the teams. With a we bit of luck we can maybe scrape a narrow win but I think a draw in this one.

Wighton is a clever player but just can't get involved enough.

I think he was good when he first arrived as he had a partner up top with him. He just doesn't suit our shape when we are in this league. Last season he got more time and space on the ball. Same issue with Chalmers. Good footballers who need time and space. They just don't get that at this level.

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/sport/football/4800793/james-mcpake-hopes-to-have-two-long-term-dunfermline-absentees-available/

KRH and Matty Todd might be back for Friday. Didn't realise they were that close to a return. Not very clear if Bene will be back though. He is cruical to that back 3. I would actually go back 4 if he's not available.

Next window we must focus on guys who can help our young players not sign even more 20 year olds.

We also need another centre back with experience. Breen is a perma crock. We have three natural centre backs and play with three. We are reliant on Bene holding it together too much. This shoe horning 5 foot 7 midfielders and right backs into the back three is fine for league 1 but not this league. 

The front line is painful to watch. No goal threat at all. Just hoping big McCann hits a 25 year thunder bolt is our only threat. None of our strikers carry a threat in the 18 yard box at this level.