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Overall, a massive wasted opportunity. If the club had invested the Dalrada sponsorship in improvements to Cappielow and competent commercial staff, we'd be in a much better position overall. Unfortunately, we're back to square one again after a period of well-intentioned overspending by a supposedly astute businessman. Thankfully, Dalrada will part on better financial terms than the Raes and leave us in a slightly more stable position.

An outbreak of actual football. We looked much better with Blues sitting a bit deeper and Wilson being protected enough to build from the back. It's great to see some consistent support for Brophy, rather than whatever it is Shaw usually does when he doesn't have a hollywood pass lined up. Ross County still look limp. I keep expecting them to improve, but they were lifeless today. Relegation scrap confirmed for them.

"There's an element of our fanbase that sum up everything I hate about the UK right now. Better suited to following Celtic, their kind are of a similar ilk."

Agree with this. Its a weird combination of an imbalanced squad, injuries and players leaving. We only had one option at RB, LB, CF, -1 at CB and one (presumably less than 100% fit) midfielder on the bench. It also wouldn't be surprising if there's a few in the starting XI playing on with injections etc given the circumstances.

I'd say the combination of Moore, Robertson, Taylor and Crawford along with Adeloye and Corr leaving (plus an excess of wingers) has left us a bit short of options for this particular game. That would be more manageable if the standard of the squad in general wasn't slightly below that required for comfortable mid-table safety. Hopefully a couple of signings this week can make a difference.

Very good point considering the injuries, the conditions and last week's result. Hopefully that'll give them a bit of confidence.

All true, but Arbroath have been better on the ball and we seem to have decided that playing the ball on the deck is too obvious an approach.

The sandancers finally bailing out another poor performance from our much-regressed midfield.

Big upgrade on Corr then...

Lots of hyperbole and speculation here. The suggestion that criticising the squad = free pass for the manager is a silly one. Murray is now the manager and the buck stops with him. No one would seriously suggest otherwise. I think the Stenny performance was a dramatic drop off which needs to be addressed by the new manager, but it's a particularly bad day at the office amongst a general trend of decline since October and woe-is-me hard luck stories before that.

We have been this bad. I was tearing my hair out on Saturday but the draws against L1 and L2 opposition, getting slapped about by St Johnstone and the loss to Airdrie at home were all terrible results and disorganised performances. Ignoring this and piling into the newest manager for this latest shambles is to ignore the more obvious issue - the squad is rubbish and not currently good enough to stay out of a relegation battle.

I'd argue that Longridge has been our best player despite being played at centre back. He knows what he's doing but really struggles with a physical presence or route one football.

Pointing fingers at Murray is a weird one for me. He's been in the door 2 weeks, working with a poorly assembled rabble which has been on a downward slide under both Imrie and Davies. Longridge isn't a centre back, our fullbacks are poor, Gillespie is done and we don't have a reliable championship-standard forward. Signings are required, not a handful of training sessions.

Callummnnmn Morrison signs for Dunfermline. Imrie wanted him in the summer, but it would be a big gamble for us at the moment given our lack of a reliably fit striker.

Hopefully, if Dalrada are still interested, the money can be better invested on long-term targets this time. i.e. not on a bloated squad and slimy chancers like Laird and Davies.