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I forgot O'Halloran existed. Feeling optimistic about this one. The tide will turn for us at some point and I can't see Arbroath sustaining their early season form for much longer.

I'm not convinced that touchline instructions really achieve very much, especially over and above what the manager is already doing. Any improvements to this rabble are going to come from the training pitch, a more aggressive defensive approach and Imrie (presumably) being given more money to chuck at the problem in January.

Some of the recent criticism of the players has been unreasonable, but this is a different level of headloss.

Well worth reading through the threads on P&B and Reddit on Hamilton's latest shenanigans for a look at how bad things can get under incompetent backroom staff. It's also pretty amazing to see that there's still a core group of apologists and bootlickers defending the club despite the mess they're in.

Shaw either needs to be dropped or we need to sacrifice the other winger for a narrower midfield. Having Shaw and one of Adeloye/Brophy plodding around makes our press laughably easy to play through. We made Partick look like a top 6 Premiership side in the second half last week.

The development idea has been canned for the time being and Arnold Clark are renting the plot for parking.

I get that the end of last season was a shambles, but its still hard to tell what is to be achieved with this plan. Will it address a hard stop to the ~£750k p/a Dalrada funding? Generate more revenue so Dalrada can reduce their funding by an equivalent amount? Brian Bonar's sponsorship is certainly welcome, but it's hard to see him pulling out as anything other than a cliff face scenario, even if our staff manage to turn us into the commercial equivalent of a small-scale Man Utd.

Beating that rancid rabble will never get old. Great result to hopefully build a bit of confidence in the squad.

The recent run of refereeing decisions have been ridiculous, but that doesn't change the fact that our last 4 results have been poor. We underestimated Raith and didnt create anywhere near enough clear-cut chances to convert midfield dominance to wins in the others. Airdrie are hard working relegation battle fodder, so any team with aspirations of promotion should be taking 3 points from them.

MacPherson, Blues, Wilson, Lyall and Crawford is a really strong pool of central players to call on at this level. A big upgrade on what we're used to seeing. Not sure where the rest of them fit in though.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/live/cvg324w0vmwt#GreenockMorton From the corresponding fixture last season. I wouldn't say the quality has decreased. Boyes and Crawford are missed, but JET, McGinn and Broadfoot would've struggled in League 2.

I know they're only young lads, but our wee contingent of tracksuit VLs are tragic. They spent most of the game looking for ways to wind up the stewards, shouting abuse at our players and getting right into the tired knockoff rangers songs.

Not much more to be said about Moffat, Adeloye and Shaw, but the most concerning point for me is how much Wilson has regressed so far this season. He looks like a league 1 plodder. Gillespie also looked miles off it when he came on. On the plus side, we look well organised and MacPherson had some really nice moments. Looks like a big upgrade on Robertson.

Narrow 4 and one of Garrity/McKay/Moffat/Shaw tight to Brophy. Press them into mistakes if they're still trying to play "passing football".

A weird mix of pointless bluster and too much info being shared at the same time. Dalrada chucking nearly £800k at the playing budget is very welcome, but not something we want to advertise too much surely? We're no clearer on what the future looks like beyond this season or what the club intends to do to return season ticket and hospitality sales to their previous levels and shore up the creaking stadium. That's not even considering the need to sort out obvious failures to secure additional sponsors and fix our basic player registration admin issues.