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Three games in seven days has had an effect. Team looked ballbagged early on.

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Horrendous. Hard to single out anyone for being the most shite, but Blues and Crawford were anonymous again, just like they have been for months now yet seem absolutely immune from being dropped. Overhaul needed in the summer - we are utterly brutal to watch.

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Team looked knackered right from the start but FFS they make it hard for themselves.  That Baird fluffed passback for example.  We seemed unable to string two passes together and we didn't win any second balls.  The Quitongo incident looked a clear penalty and in fact the "dive" for which he was booked looked as if there was slight contact.  We looked a wee bit better when Bearne came on.  He needs to start against Arbroath to make us more creative and let us drop the hoofball tactics.  Apparently Strapp out for the rest of the season but Oakley's injury not too serious and might be back next week.  Hope that info is correct as BBC Scotland are strangers to truth as we all know.

Three point at Arbroath will keep us safe but FFS how did it ever come to this.  Anyway at the end of the day beating Dundee United was not really expected and it didn't turn into a real hammering as looked likely at one point.  Still, don't want to be going to Inverness on may 4th without at least a 4 point advantage.

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Whoever agreed to play the Ayr game on Tuesday should be sacked. It was obvious that the Dundee Utd game was probably going to be played in the Friday, so to schedule the Ayr game for Tuesday was negligent. The players looked tired tonight. They’ve hardly trained this week because of the three matches. Someone should be held to account.

Beyond that, the team selection was wrong, we lacked a plan B, and we showed (again) a total lack of discipline. 
 

Changes are needed in the summer.

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2 hours ago, Chesh said:

Tyler French is a fraud 

Absolutely rotten player. 

57 minutes ago, Chesh said:

The number 9 on our subs board must not be working.

Only reason how Muirhead hasn't come off and bearne hasn't come on.

Our motm. Terrible take. 

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18 minutes ago, Alibi said:

Team looked knackered right from the start but FFS they make it hard for themselves.  That Baird fluffed passback for example.  We seemed unable to string two passes together and we didn't win any second balls.  The Quitongo incident looked a clear penalty and in fact the "dive" for which he was booked looked as if there was slight contact.   

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

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3 minutes ago, irnbru said:

Our motm. Terrible take. 

What because he scored a goal, he doesn't work in this system without Oakley as evidenced by 1 win in 10 games since he got injured and the 1 game we won Oakley was back.

 

Scoring a goal from a break in the box doesn't make you motm infact picking out any morton player as  our MOTM tonight is the real terrible take.

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Im making perfect sense, your just not keeping up.

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7 minutes ago, irnbru said:

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

Quitongo was our only outball during his time on the park and should’ve won us a penalty. Nobody was good enough tonight but that’s a terrible take. 

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Like many others Quitongo was awful tonight. He was never an effective outball albeit he should have won us a penalty in the second half but if the ref was in doubt the earlier dive was possibly a consideration. Injury prone and ineffective sums up his latest spell at Morton. 

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18 minutes ago, Chesh said:

What because he scored a goal, he doesn't work in this system without Oakley as evidenced by 1 win in 10 games since he got injured and the 1 game we won Oakley was back.

 

Scoring a goal from a break in the box doesn't make you motm infact picking out any morton player as  our MOTM tonight is the real terrible take.

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. 

14 minutes ago, Chicken_Soup said:

Quitongo was our only outball during his time on the park and should’ve won us a penalty. Nobody was good enough tonight but that’s a terrible take. 

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. 

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Tonight was a fkn shambles. 3 games in a week is only part of the reason for that shite on show. 

To many players miles off it for weeks on end and not enough quality on the bench to change it has caught up with the squad. 

Get the points needed to avoid the bottom playoff spot and it's time for a clear out of sorts. With a smaller budget than most we can't afford any passengers unfortunately there's a few in the squad currently. 

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12 minutes ago, irnbru said:

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. 

There’s enough to criticise without plainly lying to bolster your claim. As bad as a dive, that.   

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44 minutes ago, irnbru said:

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

The penalty one was a stonewaller. The dive he gets slight contact on the arm and goes down expecting more. Crawford did that earlier in the game, and his was probably even more of a dive but he realised that on the way down and got up very quickly. 

Jai was disappointing overall tonight. It's frustrating because there's more in there, but it feels like a missed opportunity for him tonight. 

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2 minutes ago, SpoonTon said:

The penalty one was a stonewaller. The dive he gets slight contact on the arm and goes down expecting more. Crawford did that earlier in the game, and his was probably even more of a dive but he realised that on the way down and got up very quickly. 

Jai was disappointing overall tonight. It's frustrating because there's more in there, but it feels like a missed opportunity for him tonight. 

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. 

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Power's error at the first goal is such a basic one for a player of his experience. He tries to hand his player off to someone who already had someone to mark, and that second delay allowed Doherty to get away from him and score the goal. So frustrating to have experienced players making errors like that. Broadfoot at the 3rd and Baird at the 4th as well. Such avoidable goals from individual errors. 

We look spent, though. We have to remember that when fully fit we went on such a long unbeaten run. We've gone from Strapp at left back to French trying to cover at left back (and he's not even very good at right back), and some of our better players look out on their feet trying to carry the load recently. Poor ends to the season isn't down to some sort of curse, it's a reality of what can happen with small squads and a lack of quality depth. 

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42 minutes ago, HamCam said:

Like many others Quitongo was awful tonight. He was never an effective outball albeit he should have won us a penalty in the second half but if the ref was in doubt the earlier dive was possibly a consideration. Injury prone and ineffective sums up his latest spell at Morton. 

Quitongo was our best player tonight which says it all.

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Can only assume that Shug still isn't 100% fit and why he was subbed. Garrity and Bearne made a slight difference when they came on. Having Baird, Broadfoot and O'Connor on, I thought we'd use French and Waters as full backs but that clearly didn't happen. Hope other results go in our favour tomorrow.

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