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why are football clubs not taking advantage of the wealth o f expertise displayed on forums instead of hiring useless and incompetent ex players.

Seem irrational to blame Caldwell after six days in the job it's players that loose games , some of our team today didn't adapt to the ridiculously narrow pitch,Doolan had a poor game ,and Bannigan has this problem where he's not as good a player as he thinks he is and fails to do the simple things and consequently gets himself into troubles of his own making. Coulibaly looks the goods and it's a pity Quitongo wasn't used when Doolan went off. Christie Elliott is not a wing back and as he only seem to have a right foot but and he's unable to beat a defender on the outside consquently he goes inside but his crosses with his left foot are to say the least wayward. If we are going to persist with high balls into the we would require a forward who is tall and able time a jump.

Theres some amount of nonsense posted on this site, team did well. The arrival of Griffiths was the key, even though he is a numpty he can play a bit.

At the introduction there was considerable opposition particularly in Germany. The perfectly valid matter raised was in the event of a draw what happens to the third point?.The possibility of collusion between clubs where it might serve their interests to share the points is pertinent.

Watched the game on ALBA Thistle were ineffective up front poor Doolan got very little from the midfield. Hearts have spent well since they went down a league, mind you if Thistle had their gate income they would be more effective, on the whole the manager does well with what he has available. My main complaint would be about playing Amoo on the left it seems perverse, having seen him play right midfield he has excellent pace and can cross a ball better than O'Donnell. Gary Miller is competent at right back just a pity we need two to cover the loss of one. The Stevenson and Hearts fans issue is just so much mindless nonsense by some of the Thistle support,much more important is his general poor condition and inconsistency, in his defence he has been played as a striker on to many occasions which is not his best position which is not his fault.

Maybe teg5 should check the size of the home support at Tynecastle, to paraphrase it's the economics stupid.

As an elderly long time supporter I feel that we will always have the problems attracting and keeping support while we share Glasgow with the gruesome twosome with all their baggage, but short of carrying out a pogrom of mass sterilisation!!! we are stuck with the status quo forever more. When our younger supporters get married have family's, mortgages, and all the calls on their disposable income going to a football match can become hard to justify. Losing 10% of your support for the old firm is an inconvenience but for Thistle its a real problem. So many youngsters today have other interests that keep them away from football, t'internet as they say in't North, as well as endless meaningless football on TV. For me personally I don't give a shit about the English premier league, the only football outside Scotland worth watching is the Bundisliga highlights on a Monday night,lots of goals,flair, an apart from the bloody Bavarians very competitive. Sorry about my ramble I think on the whole Archie is doing an excellent job on a very limited budget, I do agree with those who think that he doesn't make best use of Stevenson he is really an attacking midfielder not by any stretch of the imagination a striker, hopefully Pogba will be fit soon.

I agree about first team players unbalancing the U20 games but when guys need game time their seem to be no other option and of course their own agenda.

I wasn't at the game but have been checking on the trialist Ronaldo Rudovic who plays for Waldhof Mannheim U19 team as a centre back he looks pretty component on a couple of you tube videos a good tackler, pretty mobile.is from the USA but has played for Montenegro at U18. Has played 21 games with them. Waldhof are pretty poor now this may be why he needs a new club. Waldhof U18s seem to be a poor team and as they have Bayern Munchen, Hoffenheim, 1860 Munchen, Stuttgart, Eintracht Frankfurt,& FcNurnberg in their league life will be difficult for them. I would think he would be worth another trial match.

Raising money to buy players is OK the problem is paying the wages + the agents cut.

Speculation! Speculation! Speculation! don't ye just love it, to use a couple of old football clichés the next game is the most important one, and your only as good as your last game.