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  1. I'm just guessing but his recurrent injury (knee?) may have made Gary difficult for a club to insure.
  2. In no way do I disagree. I would tho' like to know how potentially effective our current scouting system is likely to be. Dools has mentioned it on at least a couple of occasions. Ideally I'd like to see a squad comprising of more ex academy players and others sourced out of leftfield such as the Juniors and lower leagues down south. Players brought in on loan with an option to sign, as opposed to the usual wannabees at the OF.
  3. As others have said Robinson was a deserved MotM but I thought both McBeth & Muirhead (won so many headers) ran him close. What's extra pleasing was the centreback pairing worked well. Surprised we only scored the two goals but i suppose Morton are a stuffy side.
  4. Same starting XI but looks like McBeth playing centre back. Neilson in midfield
  5. Tho' it's got that six pointer look about it I don't think tomorrow's result will prove to be too pivotal. Put another way I'd neither get that ecstatic over a win nor feel it's all over if we lose. Just want to see us fight for a result and demonstrate some proper joiney up form.
  6. Morton are just the sort of outfit to rub salt into our wounds. I'd be tempted to take a draw. Changing my tune somewhat. I'd be happy now if we stumbled into the play offs and found ourselves with a fit squad that went on to play to their true potential. And, yes, I'm being optimistic with "true potential".
  7. Not sure if this is addressing your point but Doolan tried to get a defensive midfielder during the closed season but couldn't. He dropped back more advanced mids to play alongside Bannigan (in effect to replace Docherty). That as we know never worked out. Even so he still had to persist as he couldn't play Banzo as a ball winning midfielder. In turn that more or less dictated our formation. A line up that depended heavily on Lawless & Fitzpatrick in wide position. One option he had was to play Neilson as the defensive mid. Doolan said moving Neilson out of defence wasn't ideal as he was competent at centreback. I'm speculating here but I think bringing in McGinley (a left centreback) may have been primarily to explore the option of moving Neilson forward. Perhaps an interim measure till we signed O'Reilly. I imagine most would agree that the two positions we had to fill in January were defensive mid and left sided centreback. In effect McBeth & O'Reilly have now replaced Docherty & Holt. A third position we haven't filled is a back up for Wee Stevie and Fitz. We had of course a poor signing in McDonald for that very purpose. So not having wide cover means either a forced change of formation or playing one of our multitude of spare midfielders out of position. None of the above is meant as defence of Doolan's management. Just pointing out a few factors. Some mitigating.
  8. Rare game when we don't score. Thought just about everyone played poorly tonight. Don't know whether to make an exception for McBeth as he played for over an hour carrying a yellow. Thought he might have been hooked at half time. Looked a poor goal to lose even tho' we know how effective Turner can be. But it was at the other end of the pitch where we were more culpable. The starting formation was looking promising but was rightfully changed after Raith scored and sat back. Thereafter we were both lacklustre and too predictable going forward. Can't honestly say I'm too confident about Saturday.
  9. Hampden pitch is 1 metre wider than Firhill. Same length.
  10. Thought the two goals QP scored were well worked and not blatant defensive errors as we're used to. Ferrie's first two saves were impressive. Even the two you'd expect him to make were either parried away strongly or quickly dealt with. Feel we're in a glass half full/half empty situation at the moment. Maybe we should be satisfied with both our league position and current form. Back in June before a ball was kicked this season I'd have been chuffed enough with where we are. Draws at home to the league leaders and away to QP seem fair enough. The other side of the coin is we're showing form that's at a scraping into the play offs standard. Certainly well below potential play off winners level. I'm torn between those two viewpoints. Tuesday night could well help me pick one.
  11. Everything's relative. If Lesser Hampden was up an ready 40% of yesterday's crowd would've been locked out. 😃
  12. Often critical but I thought Doolan managed the game well today. Reacted quickly to their 2nd goal. Maybe if Adeloye had stayed on we might have scrambled a winner. Big question I ask is once we scored we won just about every first ball on the ground, made countless interceptions in midfield and were picking up more than our share of second balls. But why couldn't we play like that for more of the game? Regardless who you support I reckon you'd feel cheated by yon ref today. He should've booked himself for time wasting. Didn't think his decisions were that controversial. Just the time taken before restarts was ridiculous. Reckon we were cheated out of about 10 minutes of actual play. I hope he's very proud of his new whistle.
  13. Bit of a shame no Williams. Not sure if Ngwenya will play at back or midfield. May even drop to a back three but a bit negative for a game we should be going all out for a win. Only plus, and a minor one, is Muirhead will be played on his preferred side.
  14. A wee mention from Neilson in his 60 second interview. He says "Get the ball wide". Don't disagree. I think our best scoring options come from cross balls. Just slightly off kilter with a strengthened central midfield. Just hope he and McBeth can supply the ammo.
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