stuart_adam

I have no doubt Liam Lindsay was a big loss at a small fee however... this season we are going down to lack of goals. We have only scored 30 goals in 37 games. That is utterly shocking. Sammon has 7, Doolan and Erskine 5 each, Edwards and Spittal 4 each - thats 25 of our 30 goals. I believe the others are Storey (2) Keown (2) Lawless. Also to put goals into perspective. 5 vs St J took 7 pts in 4 games 4 vs Motherwell took 4 pts in 4 games 4 vs Ross County took 5 pts in 4 games 4 vs Hamilton 7 pts in 4 games 3 vs Aberdeen took 1pt from 3 games 3 goals vs Dundee 3 pts in 3 games 2 goals vs Rangers 1pt in 3 games 2 goals vs Hearts 2pts in 3 games 1 goal vs Celtic 0pt in 3 games 1 goal vs Hibs 0pt in 3 games 1 goal vs Killie 0 pt in 3 games So against top 6 sides we scored 10 goals in 18 games whilst conceeding 36 (an average of 2 per game). And 3 of those 10 came in a 4-3 defeat, and 2 in a 2-2 draw. So that means in the other 16 games we scored just 5 goals and conceeded 30 in those 16. Against the top 6 we took home 4 points out of a possible 54. against the bottom 6 we have scored 20 goals conceeding 25 in 19 games. Taking home 26 pts out of a possible 57. lets not kid ourselves our biggest failure has been against the top 6. 4 points from 54 is an abomination - and 10 goals in 18 games whilst conceeding 36...

The game was called off Friday was it not?

Have to say fast losing confidence in our midfield... Edwards and Erskine cant defend Osman and Woods look unfit Bannigan and Fraser are taking up two wages and providing nothing in return. Spittal looks burnt out and could do with a rest. Lawless isn’t getting enough game time McCarthy isn’t getting enough game time Barton is better at sweeper Mind you the defence isn’t exactly covering themselves in glory at the moment. Cargill - looks good but prone to errors, too slow at times Devine & Keown - Both have been awful all season Booth - im not sure offers anything more than Penrice... id maybe give young James a chance. Dumbuya - unfit, should be playing 60mins max then replaced by McGinn or vice versa truthfully, I think Paul would be an ideal signing, purely for his attitude and his dig. He can also pass a ball 5 yards much unlike the current team

Draw (although hope im wrong - want a win!)

Now we are in the position to choose, who is our best 11? personally I think we are strongest with Barton at sweeper. GK: Cerny RB: Elliot DCR: Devine SW: Barton DCL: Cargil LB: Booth RCM: Spittal CM:Osman LCM: Woods AM: Edwards ST: Sammon Harsh on Doolan but Sammon is on a run. Toss up between Keown and Devine. Dumbuya and McGinn unfortunately not as good as Elliot Edwards just gets nod ahead of Lawless. Based on previous performances behind Striker

In & Win

Talking about trimming the squad whats the overall opinion on both Bannigan and Fraser if they both play less than 5 games between now and end of season? Personally as good as Bannigan has been for us; we simply cant afford to carry any injured players. We have been caught out this season by doing exactly that, and id rather we have a fit squad player than a 5/10 game a year Bannigan. As for Fraser, he has talent but the same applies as above. Time to go. You could possibly even put Dumbuya in the same bracket...

I think Edwards splits opinions. Honestly I don’t doubt the guys work rate but his ability to tackle, pass, or even shoot have to come into question. Dont get me wrong his pressing is great; but he’s going to be found out if he continually fails to put a foot in. His passing has been shocking all season no matter what position hes in. He’s had about 3/4 good shots all season - not good enough as could argue McGinn has had this from Right Back. But for me Ryan is a squad player, he’s an impact sub. He works like this because the last thing guys want to play against when they are tired is someone with Edwards pace and work rate.

Should be in place of Edwards who got a goal and assist id imagine

Maybe just me, but the club doesn't actually own Firhill, propco does. I'm not saying they would take the money and run with the sale of Firhill but its been done before. Its no longer down to the club but down to prop co.

Have to say if the article is correct and we only have a 10% sell on clause thats poor. We were led to believe the fee was low because of an substantial sell on clause. He was far better than some of the players been banded about fot millions in our league. Undersold.

Have to say, lads were unlucky tonight. If we took our chances particularly the Edwards chance at 1-1 it would have been a different game. Hard when your up against 12 men. We stopped tackling Celtic cos any time we tackled they got a foul. Edwards ran past the lad when he had the ball at second goal. Plenty of positives tonight Nice to have a squad to rotate.

https://ptfc.co.uk/ptfc-news/baily-cargill-joins-on-loan-until-the-end-of-the-season/ hes back!

https://www.afcb.co.uk/news/club-news/cargill-recalled-from-fleetwood Seems the important part has been done!

I was wrong... And I have to say I am loving every minute of it. I said after Killie home game that Archie should go as he ran out of ideas, but my god,he sure has showed me and a lot of other people. Archie deserves the credit and the recognition for the turnaround in form, hopefully he can sort out our away form now as one league win in 2017 isn't good enough. I will say it, I now believe, and I genuinely think he can keep us up. I was wrong. And I am more than happy to admit that. Also have to say, credit where credit is due to the players too.

Hearts do, think they have 8 or 9 out but they aren't afraid of bleeding through youth.

Fair play to Hamilton; appears they have shown Sarris the door after his behaviour with Storey. Madden could have sent him off, and probably would have saved his Hamilton career if he had. Well done to Hamilton for showing no player is bigger than the club

Barton has a cheek blaming others, hes been one of our worst players this year. Dallies on the ball far too long, too many touches and is slow as a week in the jail when trying to get back

Archie also confirmed Osman and Dumbuya are back to full training not expected back to after Jan break.

Only a knock should only be out a week or so

Archie has confirmed Fraser is out, jarred his good knee on astroturf at side of park at Parkhead after Griffiths fouled him

Why not? We are an established premiership team that finished top 6 last year, yes we are in danger, but at the moment we are a bigger club than St Mirren, even if we go down theres no guarantee they will come up... that league is so tight at the moment. I just feel given our situation we should be looking at Ross as a successor especially if we are sacking Archie.

Give Archie the Motherwell and Dundee games. If anything less than 3 pts, we should turn our attention to Jack Ross. Yes it would be a gamble, but look what he’s achieved last season and so far this season, they looked dead and buried last season, yet he kept them up and now has them 2nd in League. Honestly can’t believe we aren’t looking at him as an option. Archie is a club legend, has done great for us since he took over. But 2 league wins out of 16 is a sackable offence.

Yeah have to agree actually I do now remember Simon Murrays first half dive. What’s more frustrating is most of free kicks against us there was minimal if any contact

This man is an absolute disaster of a ref. I don’t care how bad we were today, he had by far the worst performance of anyone! First of all Hibs hit the deck mentality was responded to with a free kick every single time. Then to add insult to injury that foul shy, that has to be the most horrific decision I have seen at senior football level; what made it worse was he knew it was a foul shy and he knows the rules but he just lets him take it again... even the hibs players looked bemused! Personally feel like he needs to be dropped from this level until he learns the rules.