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He's clearly got very strong points but tonight summed him up. No brain, lazy and generally doesn't add anything but gives a wee bit of hope from time to time. It's time to part ways.

Actually winning balls and trying to get in about it and doing a job he doesn't normally do does. He was good tonight. Your take on most things is rotten so probably adds to the argument he was. He was lazy and done tbe minimum. He's obviously got power and pace but his decision making and football brain isn't good enough and it showed tonight. Diving when there's options ahead is a good example, as is being lazy in the lead up to a goal.

That was a dive. He was rotten and shouldn't play for us again.

Absolutely rotten player. Our motm. Terrible take.

I'd definitely keep Crawford from that list. He's obviously dropped in form but the work rate and pressing her offers is really important to how we play. He does need a bit of support though with other options in the squad to do what he does.. I'm not that surprised he seems to have tapered off towards the end of a long season.

Aye, agreed. We can do much better than him.

Win on Tuesday and Airdrie lose to Raith and we're only 2 points behind. I can't see us picking up many points tbh though.

Don't think there is one today. Seems to be for every other game in the league. Looks like it might be a good thing.

Their keeper diving about a minute after the challenge was only made more ridiculous by the foul throw that was taken exactly where the ref said then the next one taken in the same place. Terrible.

Aye he was horribly wrong.

Wot?

I do have some sympathy here. A small squad is obviously impacted more by injuries like we seen at the start of the season but it also leaves options limited for when players aren't in form so more difficult to shake things up a bit. There's players that know they'll start regardless because no one else is pushing them for a place in the team. That said, we can only spend what we've got and a couple of signings haven't paid off but you can't get them all right. I know the baird budgeted for 8th but I think Imrie has done enough to add a bit more to the budget for a higher league place - I'd like to think it's low risk and Imrie would get more consistency across the season if he had more money to spend.

I think Garrity has been a threat when he's come on and the others haven't been. Quitongo gives us a bit more energy and makes defenders worry about him so it keeps us a bit higher up the park. Don't really disagree with the last paragraph - it's what we're best at - but the players who have been starting haven't really been great so our options are limited.

To be fair if it was one game in isolation we could say there was a missed penalty and a couple of cracking saves/ bad misses and we would have had 3 or 4 on another day. The problem is the overall performance wasn't great and it's been the same for a few weeks. Think we need to get Garrity and Quitongo in for Muirhead and McGratten and get down the wings a bit more next week.

We could maybe do something like bringing back the unemployed discounts. Lots of people in that position in the area and better getting some more than mine.

Agreed. We are good when the full squad plays but pressure on the wings and runners central and out there causes problems. We are pretty flat without it.

I don't think it's just Oakley. Wilson out means we can't play Crawford high up and we lose out in the middle too. I think we'd have been fine with one or the other but not both so it's a bit unlucky. We do need a bigger squad but Imrie is right when he says its very fine margins. I'd love us to have a bigger squad with cover for every position but, if we're realistic, we need to accept injuries to key players will hit us harder than other teams and the budget only goes so far. There's an argument that we should be able to adjust and use the squad but a more flexible squad more often than not means poorer quality in a player's best positions. I think I'd rather see better players that aren't as adaptable than players with less ability that are but that's basically what the choice is. The highs will be higher and the lows will be lower with what we have but the alternative is probably a bit boring.

I feel a bit for him. It's not his game to get balls launched up to him and the little he did win he was basically flicking it on to himself. Also feel a bit for Power. Obviously could have done a lot better but our choice of passes was terrible and was constantly putting other players under pressure. Not an excuse but the pitch didn't help - hopefully the last we hear about Cappielow after seeing that.

We need Crawford as high up the park as possible to pressure defences. That's been one of the big parts of our success this season.

Thought Gordon was the difference. Hopefully makes the euros squad.

Not seen it mentioned but the loss of Broadfoot playing it from the back probably hasn't helped us either. Baird and O'Connor are probably more solid defensively but he's more likely to play it out from defence and into the forwards feet so is better especially when we don't have someone like Oakley up top.

Was right in front of me and looked like his foot was caught.

Apparently he booked Muirhead for speaking back to him but it did look like it and he should have been booked twice for timewasting.

Don't disagree that we didn't have any and could have been better. The point was more that the ref's performance didn't really give us the opportunity to either because he was so bad. There's no getting away from the fact we had too many players who weren't good enough on the day though.

I think MacDonald is carrying an injury but he was poor. Particularly at the free kick. I thought Bearne looked out his depth again.