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Let's not forget that Boyes was apparently the root of our problems last season. It's almost as if a handful of high profile, visible howlers doesn't outweigh the ability to stroll through the majority of games and win 70% of your first ball challenges. Not one defender has stepped up to Boyes' level, never mind Baird, and so we cough up cheap goals from almost nothing.

No and yes respectively. He's a professional footballer strutting around the place with that stupid Lord Farquaad look, who then makes himself as narrow as an HB pencil in trying to block the second goal. I also don't feel sorry for Sonny Hart because unless there's some screaming injustice at Cappielow, he is clearly miles out of his depth to not break into the team ahead of that. Tbh I have zero sympathy for anyone at the club right now. Of course, Imrie is personally recovering from an unimaginable tragedy. But the first team squad he has been entrusted to build and our larger, Douglas Rae only more incompetent 'ambishun' project are thoroughly dislikable. There is little serious competition for places: it's one jobber in, one jobber out on a tombola system. The only player I think who has been harshly treated (slightly) in the current lot is Blues. Storer has been blameless over the piece too, but his starting place is guaranteed anyway.

Looking forward to our 'false position table' being updated, on account of the rest of the division cruising off into the distance.

Dunfermline at home/Broadfoot defending levels of embarrassment.

Garrity did nothing in our last home game, Moffat came on and was much better. Moffat started last week and was anonymous, so... Imrie talked about a lack of quality service from wide players to the front two, but this is hitting a head against a brick wall territory. All the wide players put together likely struggled to break much more than 10 assists last season and with fewer goals: this lack of quality was entirely foreseeable then. It doesn't ultimately matter which ones play and which don't - it is guaranteeing mediocrity at best. We need to change what type of service the forwards are relying on: Control the middle of the park and play the final ball from there, and it is not acceptable to just abandon this since Ali Crawford got injured while we have a glut of central midfielders on the books too.

You've undoubtedly earned your right to an opinion. One issue I'd raise however is the idea that Dalrada are pumping money into an underperforming club. At least since the Raes left, there has been no such underperformance: we scrapped our way from the play-off against Montrose and Airdrie to solid consolidation under Imrie, always with a flimsy squad at times and in certain areas. I don't think Championship football would have been sustainable in the long term without Dalrada, but there was no underperformance. The underperformance is now happening under Dalrada, and in my view is more risible given the refusal to accept any other purpose for capital investment than just paying yet another mediocre mercenary to pad out a midtable squad. The grand plan of finishing 4th and winning promotion off 3 play-off games was never credible. You are entirely right to flag the risk of the club being left with expensive commitments if the funding gets cut off for whatever reason. How can an auditor seriously sign off GMFC's next or subsequent set of accounts as a going concern, based on a pinky promise relationship? We need to be extremely careful about entangling the club in any expenses that its (almost non-existent) balance sheet can't cover from summer to summer. And if that means we lose the Adeloyes and Nathan Shaws of the world, then so be it.

"Apparent glee" just shows you embarrassing yourself now. Unlike yourself, I spent a large amount of money to watch that drivel today, like the other (diminishing IMO) three hundred odd away fans, none of whom were as enthralled by our performance as your distant hot takes would allow for. If I was so gleeful at expecting defeat, I'd have... err... went to the pub today instead and saved my money. Rancid take. Here's a sample slze for you: 1 league win in 11 games. It's garbage, and no amount of dancing around the facts and whataboutery regarding refereeing decisions changes that reality.

Would like to know what 'window dressing' is now on offer, when at least to public viewing we are still yet to appoint a Finance Director or clarify what replaces the Chief Executive position lost months ago too. A cynic might say it suits John Laird as the go-between from GMFC to Dalrada to keep responsibilities nice and vague. But given the increased scrutiny of both the SFA and SPFL over club governance (see Hamilton; Edinburgh City), the risk of us coming a cropper over some daft oversight issue are in my view too high. I think it's high time to see some evidence towards that. Because so far, it seems as if the mantra of banging heads together to work for the same purpose, seems to involve all of Dalrada's favoured sons remaining in the building because reasons, while nothing else changes. We should all have our say on the future direction of the club, but if the default option is to be a Dougie Rae level doped-up clownshow again then I want no part of it.

I mean you did say just yesterday that there was no reason to change from last week's lineup. There was such a reason and today's insipid performance was entirely in line with the first half display last week. Imrie's fault is in not addressing these problems while using refereeing decisions as cover, though changing Shaw, Garrity and Lyall for today at least suggests some dissatisfaction with the players. I'm not convinced that playing with two forwards is the issue (as we usually don't) - it's the fucking garbage 4-3-3 that needs binned. When we played Brophy and Adeloye with Crawford behind them at Firhill, we actually created more chances than any other game I've watched this season, by having a narrow team that could overrun the middle of the park. Our current 4-3-3 is dung because there is no area of the park that we can ever dominate using that shape. The wingers aren't good enough, the midfield (especially with a poor Wilson) aren't good enough, and the back line will cough up just enough chances to stop us winning. Adeloye and/or Brophy will have no service regardless of their work effort as the central striker, which is why we end up obsessing over the outcome of 1 shot on target or 1 disallowed 'goal' during our cycle of pish draws.

Ageing like milk in the Kalahari Desert, this take, as our results inevitably regress to the standard of performance actually demonstrated since August. Though a single shot on target today was an advance on our performance against Dunfermline on opening day.

We didn't concede right away though - there were about 5 or 6 different opportunities to either intercept, tackle or fucking leather the ball out of play between Storer's save and the ball into the box for the winner. Our failure to do that is an additional error on top of Delaney's.

But let's not stop with the first team: the entire club is hopelessly adrift at the moment. We used to be punching slightly above our weight, which made the occasional stinking display somewhat tolerable. We are now just a standard, bloated mess of a Championship club, chucking money at mercenaries without any strategy or long-term vision. Why should fans pay over and above their season ticket for this?

The key performance indicator now, as judged by Imrie a few weeks ago in the Tele, is that "we're playing the ball through the thirds". The facts that we do so at a glacial pace, with no reliable precision around the defence and create nothing if the ball reaches the final third are all irrelevant. I strongly suspect that Imrie is once again taking being overlooked for a bigger job as a sign to try and overhaul our playing style. Once again, it is a failure. And once again, this obsession with playing any two completely garbage sand-dancers out wide is a failure. We scored with our only shot and serious attempt on target today, and there are poorer results incoming before we get all the dross at Cappielow in December.

Moore should be in for Corr when fit and the team shape needs to be changed to stop us being unable to press without the ball. Our luck on both counts is going to run out soon.

Alternative facts like those produced from the Trump White House, sure. In reality, none of that so-called strengthening has produced a team that matches our direct competitors (indeed, we were more competitive at Partick in August than yesterday's attempt at daylight robbery), and it is quite likely that our first home league win of the season won't be delivered until December. You can fool some of the people some of the time with this repetitive gurning about refereeing decisions, but the reality of our objectively mediocre performances and results every week speak for themselves.

Yeah, beneath Partick, Ayr and Raith, having been outplayed at Cappielow for large parts of each game and taking 2 points from 9 against them. And also being outplayed at home by Dunfermline as well, who will soon take their complimentary 3 points from Airdrie to briefly re-enter the mix too. So when our Dalrada overlords are setting a promotion play-off spot as the ambition and chucking all available money at the first team - rather than the decrepit business side - it becomes a problem when zero evidence points in the direction of us being seriously involved in the mix. Yesterday was not just one bad day at the office: it has been the norm all season. To be clear, we are also in no serious danger of relegation either, unless the wheels come off spectacularly behind the scenes. But we are a seriously mediocre team playing to the exact sum of our parts. You can write in a 6th or 7th place finish right now, and waiting for Wick away in the cup to inject something of note to this campaign.

If only there was some sort of statistical record by now of our ability to play up and then immediately down to the rest of the division on a weekly basis.

We didn't defend well as a team - you don't get overrun and have to massively ride your luck just to keep the score down to 1 if you did that. The players did put their bodies on the line at times and the subs did a lot of selfless running, that almost produced a second goal too. But as a team we coughed up enough chances to concede 3 or even 4 goals today. The issue was partly tactical - they had an extra man with Watt occupying two centre backs, so they knocked the ball around easily. As soon as Lyall got drawn to the ball, they just knocked it to their number 8 who he was supposed to be tracking and he had the freedom of the park to attack from there. It created a 3 v 2 in the middle of the park and happened so often that they should have scored at least once from that. Ironically we improved our shape both with our subs and then Samuel going up front for them. I'm not blaming him for a goal here, but Corr is simply not good enough to be a starting centre back. And we will still get nowhere in this division by persisting with two wide players (never mind 2ith Adeloye) and then wondering why we are too easy to play against to actually win games.

This line-up is ludicrous because we cannot afford to carry Adeloye, Shaw and Garrity when we don’t have the ball. And the defensive/midfield side need to learn how to clear balls properly to take pressure off too.

Creag Little and Logan O'Boy turned out for Largs Thistle as they CRASHED to defeat in *insert pointless, junior cup 3 here* at home to battling minnows 'Greenock Juniors' (Ed: check this please). O'Boy left the park after a completely anonymous hour playing in an attacking midfield role against a team two levels beneath his current club, which suggests that yet again the cruel and heartless decision to release a promising Morton youth starlet will be fully vindicated.

I'm pretty certain that the first team squad weren't planning to get off at Drumgelloch station and walk to that dump today.

The buses (and by extension, the roads), are fine m8.

The booing at the end of the first half (though I wasnt involved) really wasn't about the officials - it was about the combined performance/result. Moffat can be 'disgusted' about that all he wants, but the reality is that any team winless in two months and with barely a single shot on target in open play (1st half) is not going to be given a free pass. Can you explain how that would work exactly in the Cowshed on a Saturday afternoon?

NB: It should be stressed how randomly distorted the fixture list we're dealing with actually is: In 16 league games through November, we play everyone (9) away, with only Arbroath on November 8 being an on-paper, home favourite match from the Cappielow games (7). Then we get the two best possible chances to win back to back at Cappielow in early December. Our final 3 home games in March-May 2026 are identically at home to Arbroath, Queens Park and Airdrie. While we've been streaky in form under Imrie in previous seasons, this fixture list is almost purpose built to produce such streaks of results. The strong runs of form - if they come - will likely arrive only at the very end of each half of the league campaign though.

Unless you're at McDairmid Park and just looking for another point - no you couldn't. Five central midfielders and a lone striker is mental. And you can play Adeloye and Brophy together against all of Queens' Park, Airdrie and Arbroath at home in the second quarter. Our run of draws has in part been brought about by a weirdo fixture list where none of those home games to beat similarly weak opponents have actually happened yet. And there are a couple of further stings from the fixture list to come (October - very difficult after Airdrie next week; November - 3 away games from 4) that will likely pile on further pressure before we finally get a straightforward run of games.