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70 minutes of that game the ball was "dead" for. Livingston are time wasting champions of Scotland.

Be happy if we dont play Livingston again for a while.

Aye. They played together in the 2-0 loss at Ibrox too.

Same team as Wednesday

Hes in the papers saying Keltjens and Clarks injury issues this season might make them risks, so theres an opening for Carey or Max.

FWIW, looks like i was slavering shite again. Livingston and Countys missing, but nareystoepoker in twitter looked through all clubs accounts and created this. Our was bill higher than St Mirren and Kilmarnock, but below Motherwell and Dundee United. Suspect Livingston would be below us too but who knows abour County. https://x.com/Nareystoepoker/status/1763562450035618276?s=20

I was the same tbh, every time id seen him he looked soft and unsure. See how he gets on v Livingston but maybe we're now just seeing him starting to settle now? Next few weeks should tell us what he is, as he'll both have confidence and should get a run in the team.

Same again is probably best? Mitts Kelts - Gowser - Gordy - Robbo Matty - The Sprangler - Dan the man - DJ Clarky - Kimpy

7 shots, 2 goals, outperforming his xG (opta), and more than half his shots hit the target. Ive been critical of him but he was exactly what we need from a striker last night and the stats, while still to early to show anything, are starting to hint hes a threat too. Hes like what we've attempted with folk like O'Halloran and Middleton up front, except he actually knows how to play the role and how to finish.

This is it. Davidson had a brief upturn after changing the shape, then went to a back 5 v Motherwell, thumped them, and returned back to normal thinking a point had been proved. Levein hopefully doesnt make the same mistake.

Still to triple check this is right once i can deal with a laptop screen again, but think its right. Wonder if Gordons better performances would tie up with him not doing a lot on then ball? Only 3+ passes are shown as arrows, so seemed like he wasnt really passed to, and didnt waste time passing to McGowan either. Just focused on defending really.

To me, yes. Hes added physicality in there so it doesnt entirely rest on Phillips to win those types of battles. Dont think this shape works as well with one of then other, smaller/weaker, CMs in there.

Yeah a very good performance and deserved lead. Key is how they keep it going and not going defensive too quick, if at all. Aberdeen offering nothing but Miovski just needs a half chance, so surely you try and keep the ball up the other end.

Looks like a 4-4-2 so far Mitov Keltjens - McGowan - Gordon - Robinson Smith - Sprangler - Phillips - Jaiyesimi Clark - Kimpioka

Looks like 4-3-3 Mitov Keltjens - McGowan - Gordon - Robinson Smith - Sprangler - Phillips Jaiyesimi - Clark - Kimpioka Did @Aitchy not pretty much suggest that on this site a few days ago?

Think with everything going on behind the scenes, the massive churn of the squad (and lack of experience of this league bar a few players) completed and likely coming again this Summer, and the lack of structure that survives longer than managers, they had a pretty specific criteria. - Experience of the league - Experience running the football department of a club - Experience building a squad And even at this stage youre already low on potential candidates. Might be wrong but Martindale and Levein both tick all those boxes.

Levein said after the match it was "low blood pressure" related, and i think thats all we've had. Sidibeh has generally been ****ed by ~75 minutes in every game ive seen him start, so maybe this is just a culmination of running himself into the ground too often. Presumably a plan will be put in place, helped by doctors, to help him understand how it feels before he reaches that stage and how to help avoid it getting that bad again.

Sure the papers are reporting Sidibeh wont play any part in this game.

Theres an argument the rot set in after the first Scottish Cup win. The club acted horrendously that Summer in terms of helping TW and without him as manager we'd have been far closer to relegation. They took it for granted we'd just forever be bailed out and when it came to a struggle without TW, its fallen apart. The accounts talk about setting up a proper scouting system to support the manager from now on, which hopefully reduces the risk of them struggling to find any players to sign and just going for stragglers.

Where did i compare him to any of the other CBs? Ypu really need to calm down about how much you seem to hate some of the squad, for your own good as much as anything. Its not a good place to be mentally.

I think Kerr Smiths been poor tbh, but if the back 3 is here and McGowan is out, its better than Gordon or Olufunwa playing there. There feels like little point thinking of any set up for this thats not a back 3/5, and i think Kucheriavyi will start simply because he hasnt for a while. Same for Kimpioka.

Its not really though is it? Hes literally frozen Stevie May out, decided straight off Sprangler isnt up to starting, spoken openly about his CBs being too weak to play a back 4 as they need "protected as much as possible", and has sent at least 3 players to train with the youths to squeeze them out. When things are going wrong on the pitch, the players will start second guessing these things.

VAR needs binned whether it goes for us or against us. Acting like its some conspiracy against us is pointless, its just luck of the draw what way theyll get it wrong and us camping in our own box and never getting near our opponents encourages it to work against us.

Nah the lack of spend isnt an excuse over the past few years. Our accounts show we spent over £500k on players in the past 2 seasons (with a further fee spent in January on Sidibeh), and our wage bill last year was over £4.5m. Based on previous figures that would have us closer to Hibs than Livingston. Combine the fees in and we've comfortably been one of the top 6 in terms of money spent over the past 2 seasons. We've just done absolutely **** all with that spending.

Theres enough players in there technically good enough to stay up. Theres too many players in there who are too weak mentally to drag us out a poor run of form. When its all going well they'll be fine, they hit a wee bump in the road then it just collapses. Worst bit is when its going too well they got arrogant and let standards drop. Theyll probably play well on Wednesday and fight like ****, get all the plaudits and pat themselves on the back, then revert to shitebags the next game. We'd be better with worse footballers with better mentalities, and it makes me appreciate ones id probably criticised in the past. People like Anderson, Muzz, and Kane himself, got pelters at different times for not being good enough technically, but you could rely on them more often than not to set standards in terms of effort/fight.