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lady-isobel-barnett

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  1. That's the most sensible thing to do. Maybe tho' an asterisk required for some of those league games up at Dingwall? 😀
  2. Agree with Fawlty their 3rd goal was a real sickener. Rangers never let us back in the game after that. Still a great achievement getting to the final.
  3. Oops! Knew we'd been there twice already but forgot one game was league cup
  4. If in fact 2 more wins were to suffice it could mean our games away to Raith and home to Dundee Utd become less meaningful to us but extremely meaningful to both opponents. A more likely scenario is our final game against Dundee Utd will be largely academic to us and the complete opposite to Utd. A bumper away crowd that day.
  5. I don't think the whole ball crossed the line. Robinson looked clearly offside for our second chalked off goal. The way things are these days we may have had a decent shout for a handball penalty. Hope your health quickly improves.
  6. Positives- 3 points & a clean sheet Negatives- Having to drive home into the sun for 60 odd miles. Considering the blustery conditions a good enough match. I still feel we don't see a game out that well. We start to play longer and concede possession too much. However our defending, both individually and collectively was very good today. Arbroath also defended well otherwise we'd have won more convincingly.
  7. As long as it doesn't go to his head. Don't want to hear the lad blowing his own trumpet. Good news about Neilson.
  8. We really need a win to get the momentum going again. I doubt I've ever left to go to Arbroath not expecting a win. But it is Gayfield and many a time I've been a lot less confident come kick off. Even tho' they're bottom of the league they've only had three home games since we last played them. Two creditable draws and a win over Raith hardly suggests it'll be a stroll in the park today.
  9. Losing Joe McBride yon season was a serious blow. Great goal scorer for us. He wasn't even at his peak when he left.
  10. Does also that mean Neilson available? If not I'd reluctantly put McBeth back into midfield. Really having Luke playing alongside Aero in defence could be the way to go on the longer run.
  11. Whilst I agree that he wasn't the most combative player for us, I think he's more aggressive these days. Certainly he's having a good season with Motherwell, who would be really struggling without him. 7 league goals and 8 league assists this season kinda backs that up.
  12. I see now that Brighton are reported also interested in Loney. Brighton are arguably the top club in Britain regarding recruitment.
  13. I know for a fact the empty tins themselves were exported, often at great profit. Possibly still do.
  14. I'm just guessing but his recurrent injury (knee?) may have made Gary difficult for a club to insure.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. Same starting XI but looks like McBeth playing centre back. Neilson in midfield
  18. 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.
  19. 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".
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. Hampden pitch is 1 metre wider than Firhill. Same length.
  23. 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.
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