blueheaven

100% this. It seriously annoyed me the way winning a relegation play-off was suddenly treated as something we should all be celebrating, instead of recognised as the massive failure that it was. We'd gone from winning two cups and matching Galatasaray on their own pitch, to relegation candidates in less than a year. Davidson should have been firmly embarrassed by that, not running around in front of the fans like he thought he was some sort of hero. To me it's one of the cringiest things I've ever witnessed in my years watching Saints.
Davidson also should have looked upon that moment as his opportunity to walk away and let someone else have a go at the job, instead of clinging on and actively making us even worse (which we're still trying to recover from two years later).

I'd also like Kimpioka and Sidibeh to start, both have youth, energy and pace.
Couple that with a strategy of getting at the opposition from the off and I would imagine that could catch them off guard, so should work well.
After an hour or so of giving their all, the younger forwards could be replaced by the older, experienced and proven pairing of Clark and May.
They'd be fresh and have more than enough in the tank to get them through to full time.
The added benefit to this being by that time in the game, we might need experienced heads on the park to see us to the finish line.
This way in my opinion, everybody plays in their correct position, are played appropriately to their physical strengths and makes full use of their experience.
I realise it rarely ends up as simple as that, but I think it would be a good base to build from.

Whoever said that is a moron.

Future number one? AI knows the score

Let's All Laugh at Rangers
PLAY HERE >>> https://suno.com/song/95096132-10cd-445b-8f04-476123f86cda
Marching on the field
Ready for the cheer
The Rangers football team
But no victory here
They stumble on the grass
Like they're stuck in a trance
Their fans are zombies
Just looking for a chance
Hold your drumsticks high
Let the cymbals clash
We're here to mock the Rangers
It's gonna be a bash
They tried and they failed
It's just a sad sight
But we'll keep on marching
From day into the night
[Verse 2]
They wear the blue jersey
With hopes held high
But their performance on the field
Makes us all sigh
Their passes go haywire
Their shots miss the mark
The Rangers football team
Oh what a stark
 

B SIDE
Rubbish Rangers

PLAY HERE >>>  https://suno.com/song/cf40b4ca-7162-4fa6-b0e4-fd1ceb18a1a3
On the football field
They take the stage
But The Rangers team
Just can't engage
Their skills are lacking
It's plain to see
Zombie fans cheer half-heartedly
Fans in blue
Like walking dead
Following a team
With no spark
No thread
Their glory days have long since gone
Laughing at their failures
We all have fun
[Verse 2]
Marching along
In the army's beat
But The Rangers team
Can't find their feet
Their passes are errant
Their shots go wide
Zombie fans support with delusional pride
 
 

 

"We'll never catch Hamilton."
A great man once said on here.

Why would it be good for Ross County to pick up a point? I'd much rather see them lose. Livi aren't going to catch us. Even if Livi beat County and Hibs beat us, Livi are going to be 10 points behind us with four games left, so they'd effectively have to win every game and we'd have to lose every game for them to catch us. Realistically that's not going to happen.

That money's long gone. Frittered away on transfer fees and wages for the many, many players Callum Davidson signed and then decided he didn't actually want. Think it's a serious stretch to try to say he was working on a shoestring. 
 
Can't agree with that at all. Dodds was a cracking player for us at the time, and his transfer fee doubled when he left after just a few months. Missing one sitter didn't put us down. If it hadn't been for league reconstruction we'd have comfortably stayed up that season. Just take a look at the league table from that year. We finished 9 points clear of 11th place, and we were on the same points as the team who finished 8th and just two points behind the team that finished sixth. Ever since then it's been unheard of for a club to go down from that sort of position, and it'll probably never happen again.
Don't think it was a surprise to anyone that just a few years after that Dodds became a regular for Rangers and Scotland.

100% this. It seriously annoyed me the way winning a relegation play-off was suddenly treated as something we should all be celebrating, instead of recognised as the massive failure that it was. We'd gone from winning two cups and matching Galatasaray on their own pitch, to relegation candidates in less than a year. Davidson should have been firmly embarrassed by that, not running around in front of the fans like he thought he was some sort of hero. To me it's one of the cringiest things I've ever witnessed in my years watching Saints.
Davidson also should have looked upon that moment as his opportunity to walk away and let someone else have a go at the job, instead of clinging on and actively making us even worse (which we're still trying to recover from two years later).

100% this. It seriously annoyed me the way winning a relegation play-off was suddenly treated as something we should all be celebrating, instead of recognised as the massive failure that it was. We'd gone from winning two cups and matching Galatasaray on their own pitch, to relegation candidates in less than a year. Davidson should have been firmly embarrassed by that, not running around in front of the fans like he thought he was some sort of hero. To me it's one of the cringiest things I've ever witnessed in my years watching Saints.
Davidson also should have looked upon that moment as his opportunity to walk away and let someone else have a go at the job, instead of clinging on and actively making us even worse (which we're still trying to recover from two years later).

100% this. It seriously annoyed me the way winning a relegation play-off was suddenly treated as something we should all be celebrating, instead of recognised as the massive failure that it was. We'd gone from winning two cups and matching Galatasaray on their own pitch, to relegation candidates in less than a year. Davidson should have been firmly embarrassed by that, not running around in front of the fans like he thought he was some sort of hero. To me it's one of the cringiest things I've ever witnessed in my years watching Saints.
Davidson also should have looked upon that moment as his opportunity to walk away and let someone else have a go at the job, instead of clinging on and actively making us even worse (which we're still trying to recover from two years later).

100% this. It seriously annoyed me the way winning a relegation play-off was suddenly treated as something we should all be celebrating, instead of recognised as the massive failure that it was. We'd gone from winning two cups and matching Galatasaray on their own pitch, to relegation candidates in less than a year. Davidson should have been firmly embarrassed by that, not running around in front of the fans like he thought he was some sort of hero. To me it's one of the cringiest things I've ever witnessed in my years watching Saints.
Davidson also should have looked upon that moment as his opportunity to walk away and let someone else have a go at the job, instead of clinging on and actively making us even worse (which we're still trying to recover from two years later).

100% this. It seriously annoyed me the way winning a relegation play-off was suddenly treated as something we should all be celebrating, instead of recognised as the massive failure that it was. We'd gone from winning two cups and matching Galatasaray on their own pitch, to relegation candidates in less than a year. Davidson should have been firmly embarrassed by that, not running around in front of the fans like he thought he was some sort of hero. To me it's one of the cringiest things I've ever witnessed in my years watching Saints.
Davidson also should have looked upon that moment as his opportunity to walk away and let someone else have a go at the job, instead of clinging on and actively making us even worse (which we're still trying to recover from two years later).

100% this. It seriously annoyed me the way winning a relegation play-off was suddenly treated as something we should all be celebrating, instead of recognised as the massive failure that it was. We'd gone from winning two cups and matching Galatasaray on their own pitch, to relegation candidates in less than a year. Davidson should have been firmly embarrassed by that, not running around in front of the fans like he thought he was some sort of hero. To me it's one of the cringiest things I've ever witnessed in my years watching Saints.
Davidson also should have looked upon that moment as his opportunity to walk away and let someone else have a go at the job, instead of clinging on and actively making us even worse (which we're still trying to recover from two years later).

100% this. It seriously annoyed me the way winning a relegation play-off was suddenly treated as something we should all be celebrating, instead of recognised as the massive failure that it was. We'd gone from winning two cups and matching Galatasaray on their own pitch, to relegation candidates in less than a year. Davidson should have been firmly embarrassed by that, not running around in front of the fans like he thought he was some sort of hero. To me it's one of the cringiest things I've ever witnessed in my years watching Saints.
Davidson also should have looked upon that moment as his opportunity to walk away and let someone else have a go at the job, instead of clinging on and actively making us even worse (which we're still trying to recover from two years later).

100% this. It seriously annoyed me the way winning a relegation play-off was suddenly treated as something we should all be celebrating, instead of recognised as the massive failure that it was. We'd gone from winning two cups and matching Galatasaray on their own pitch, to relegation candidates in less than a year. Davidson should have been firmly embarrassed by that, not running around in front of the fans like he thought he was some sort of hero. To me it's one of the cringiest things I've ever witnessed in my years watching Saints.
Davidson also should have looked upon that moment as his opportunity to walk away and let someone else have a go at the job, instead of clinging on and actively making us even worse (which we're still trying to recover from two years later).

100% this. It seriously annoyed me the way winning a relegation play-off was suddenly treated as something we should all be celebrating, instead of recognised as the massive failure that it was. We'd gone from winning two cups and matching Galatasaray on their own pitch, to relegation candidates in less than a year. Davidson should have been firmly embarrassed by that, not running around in front of the fans like he thought he was some sort of hero. To me it's one of the cringiest things I've ever witnessed in my years watching Saints.
Davidson also should have looked upon that moment as his opportunity to walk away and let someone else have a go at the job, instead of clinging on and actively making us even worse (which we're still trying to recover from two years later).

100% this. It seriously annoyed me the way winning a relegation play-off was suddenly treated as something we should all be celebrating, instead of recognised as the massive failure that it was. We'd gone from winning two cups and matching Galatasaray on their own pitch, to relegation candidates in less than a year. Davidson should have been firmly embarrassed by that, not running around in front of the fans like he thought he was some sort of hero. To me it's one of the cringiest things I've ever witnessed in my years watching Saints.
Davidson also should have looked upon that moment as his opportunity to walk away and let someone else have a go at the job, instead of clinging on and actively making us even worse (which we're still trying to recover from two years later).

That County game is going to be massive if we aren't safe by that point.
Absolutely certainty Bair puts us in 11th in that final game though.

Is this not a bit of a myth about that group of players? They were absolutely rotten for most of that season, and deservedly in the relegation play-off. They weren't good enough to drag us out of finishing second bottom of the league, or to drag us through a cup tie against Kelty. At the point of the split, they had fewer points, fewer goals and a lower league position than our current team does now. 
I'm just not sure why people seem to have this view that that team somehow had a better chance of getting through a play-off than the current team would.

And I'll give you the same response that I gave you when you said it before. I know it's conjecture. I'm not claiming otherwise. I'm giving my opinion based on what I'm seeing, which is the whole point of the forum. I'm not claiming to be a news source.
I literally caveated what I said in my post with "I have no idea what kind of work he's putting in behind the scenes so this may be unfair of me, but my impression of Levein from the outside looking in ..."
 

Just to add a bit to the discussion above, I can't comment or provide any details on perceived poor tactics or the work that goes in behind the scenes to address that but with regards the team looking unfit and not being worked hard enough.  I've actually heard from a very good source that the problem we currently have is the complete opposite of this.  There is far far too much emphasis on running and fitness training done at training to the point the players are at points absolutely exhausted by the end of the week.  This has also been pointed out as a potential to the numerous niggling injuries we seem to keep picking up to key players. 

Whether this is Levein's doing or whether this is Kirk's work ethic coming through I don't know.  But players being knackered by the end of a weeks training doesn't seem to be ideal prep going into a game at the weekend.

And I'll give you the same response that I gave you when you said it before. I know it's conjecture. I'm not claiming otherwise. I'm giving my opinion based on what I'm seeing, which is the whole point of the forum. I'm not claiming to be a news source.
I literally caveated what I said in my post with "I have no idea what kind of work he's putting in behind the scenes so this may be unfair of me, but my impression of Levein from the outside looking in ..."
 

Wee example of the show:
 

I find the reluctance to introduce Kimpioka earlier in games just baffling. He's practically a like-for-like replacement for Sidibeh so even if Levein didn't want to change our system he could make that swap and have another fast striker in the team without us skipping a beat. Surely he must see that Sidibeh is always dead on his feet after an hour?
I have no idea what kind of work he's putting in behind the scenes so this may be unfair of me, but my impression of Levein from the outside looking in is that he's a bit lazy. His teams seem unprepared, his tactics poorly thought through with very little adaptation to our opponent, he doesn't want to take training, and his players don't look fit enough which suggests they're not being worked hard enough during the week.
At least Macca cared. And his results weren't all that much worse, either.
 

It's safe to say that Killie are managed by someone who still gives a **** and not someone who was just getting a bit bored in their "retirement".