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  1. Not disputing the original post at all, but I went behind the goal for the Bo'ness cup game and thought the steward did a really good job being laid back around a bunch of annoying (not causing any trouble, just your standard annoyance-level) weans. So I'd say it's more of an individual steward issue in terms of interpretation and/or patience, although you could add a point about the lack of a consistent policy. Good on the young (young) team behind the goal at the end today though - seemed to enjoy the game more than a fair few of us today! We can't turn away the future fan base of the club.
  2. I agree with the tactical point but they shouldn't need any great composure to step forward with the ball in today's circumstances though. They're not going to be pressured because Arbroath want our extra man to be the centre back at all times. Any player worth their salt should be recognising that obvious tactical situation and driving forward 10-15 yards - then moving the ball to another defender - and simply repeating that until the opposition are pinned into their own penalty box after about 30 seconds. And then just keep doing it until Arbroath/assorted diddy change their approach. We make heavy weather of this exact situation so often - it used to take us 75 minutes until Greacen would have enough and drive forward when trying to get out of the seaside leagues.
  3. Same sloppy level of performance as last week so far. If Power makes a foul then the referee will be under pressure to even the game at ten men each - so I'd put Blues there for now and bring on an actual wide player. The defenders - especially Baird and O'Connor - need to drive forward with the ball when under Jo pressure, instead of just shelling it 50 yards up the park.
  4. Iron Man talked a good game to begin with as well - you don't get a job in that field if you can't. Delivering on the message is another matter - although at least the issue has been acknowledged to a greater degree than the initial reports suggested. The Motherwell cup tie is an acid test for the turnstile issue. I won't be buying a ticket until I see what the script is outside the ground, and if it's as bad as the Patrick game then I'll be taking that £18 to the pub and watch the entire game from there instead of paying to see 70 minutes inside the ground.
  5. Can't agree with this - we created about 5 good chances in ten minutes around the opening goal, so Montrose were really not set up to make it difficult. We made it difficult for ourselves by playing backward passes under no pressure with the opportunity to turn and drive forward (the issue that led to Blues' clash). I'd have no issue with us keeping the ball to control the game at 1-0 but we didn't actually do that either. After a few backward passes it inevitably went to O'Connor and a fairly aimless punt to Montrose. The team just played weirdly without confidence in their own ability at times - perhaps it was just an off-day.
  6. Positives were progression of course, no injuries to key players (with some rested towards the end) and an hour for some players short of match fitness. The performance was quite disjointed though when I think if we had started with a couple fewer changes, we'd have produced a really convincing performance and scoreline. When we got decent service into the final third we always looked threatening to score, but for large periods we didn't use the ball well or didn't win it back effectively. The clean sheet was fortuitous as even at 2-0 we seemed to be trying our best at times to convert a both teams to score coupon. Looking forward to the next round draw but we'll need to up our game significantly to get three points next week.
  7. Couple of changes too many here. I can account for players being a bit short of match sharpness, but our inability to defend from the front and play as a cohesive unit has made for a frustrating half. If we keep giving Montrose time and space to fire crosses into the box then we'll get punished.
  8. You address him by his proper title.
  9. No it is not 'very easy'. Most normal people do not actually spend their lives memorising how close is too close to use a QR scanner. Which is why at any area where QR scanners are used on a much more regular basis than a football ground - in train stations and supermarkets - they do not in fact operate seamlessly. When handling a thousand punters minimum in the space of an hour outside a football ground, regular hold ups and issues are inevitable. The reason why this becomes a problem is not down to the fans, nor the queue formation that the chief steward thinks will magically solve the problem. It's not even the fault of the QR technology either. The fault lies solely with club's 4 turnstile capacity being insufficient to cope with the slightest inefficiency without piling up everyone behind them. It was signed off as sufficient by a clownshoe based on crap, back of a fag packet sums - that is the issue that needs resolved here.
  10. I misread your post but the main reason for that is that your original post does not stand up your argument anyway. 1) That some people joined a queue after you did doesn't address the most significant issue yesterday - the ginormo-queue that was already present, by the time that you and others politely request customers turn up at. 2) At least a few of those fans will likely have been waiting for the queue to subside before actually joining it. Just because they're behind you doesn't mean that they didn't turn up at their mandated timeslot. 3) Your assertion on another thread that it's not difficult to scan tickets "as long as you don't hold it too close" is an obvious contradiction in terms. How close exactly is 'too close' - where is the instruction about this at the gate? Or better still, where is a rest fitted underneath the scanner that would allow customers to automatically place their ticket at a scannable distance? It's ridiculous to presume that the onus is on the customer to traipse to the ground half an hour before kick off - rain or shine - and to internalise the ins and outs of the club's white elephant infrastructure project, all before paying significant money to watch Championship football. They're not going to their place of work - they are spending their free time on a leisure activity. And with the eye-rolling mentality that persists among a minority of posters and club officials too (hopefully only a minority too), the chances are that they'll find something else to do with that time and money instead.
  11. No it doesn't because the queue was already beyond the ticket office at 2:40. What you in fact found was the tail end of a queue that people had been standing in like spare pricks for the previous 20 minutes if not more already.
  12. None of the above will have any measurable impact at all. The number of turnstiles (4) are simply not sufficient to meet demand - even for a normal game at peak time never mind a somewhat larger crowd today. Iron Man produced a back of a fag packet estimate of processing a ticket every 10 seconds, which doesn't match up to any real world understanding of the technology, crowd dynamics or indeed primary school level logic and reason. This was all pointed out at the time. Cappielow needs at least 6 if not 8 turnstiles to cover the two home terraced sections - some of the manual turnstiles should have been preserved for spare capacity when required. Instead we have a white elephant entry system that is only going to strangle the club going forward. It's not the current board or ownership's fault, but ultimately they have to resolve the problem left to them.
  13. Good to see an original white knight for Iron Man provide such an obvious ridiculous response, befitting of the nonsense produced at that time between the club and the Trust's relationship: 1) A blatantly false misrepresentation of an already enormous queue at 2:40 as the fault of 'folk turning up 5 minutes before kick-off'. 2) Arguing under the premise that it is the job of paying customers to turn up long in advance of the event they've paid for, because the organisation running it is too incompetent to handle demand. Meanwhile, back in the land of reality, Cappielow following its gubbins 'upgrade' should not actually have a safety certificate for more than 5,000 people - because if we get a genuinely big crowd either in the cup or a promotion game, then there's an accident waiting to happen outside on Sinclair Street.
  14. It's days like today that will cost the club huge amounts of money in the long term compared to undoing the mess left by that charlatan Hawke - and cheerleaded by not a few hangers-on at the time. An opportunity to build goodwill and wider interest being undermined by the complete inadequacy of our facilities to do its fundamental job - which will happen every single time until they fix the problem.
  15. If we'd only arrive 15 minutes before kickoff then Iron Man's turnstiles would work and there wouldn't be a queue.
  16. Our right hand side needs to not give anywhere near as much space as it did to Ayr in the last home game. If it does, then Fitzpatrick will cause us real problems. We're obviously capable of causing problems ourselves too but I'm not overwhelmingly confident for this one. It seems to be a bad matchup between this season's results and last. Rather than 3 points tomorrow I'd be looking at 4 points from our last two games of the month and progression in the cup as the next target.
  17. MCT members are already contributing to the scheme. The onus should be on recruiting new subscriptions; each of which will, if maintained, will yield a multiple higher new revenue than maximising existing subscriptions. I don't disagree that subs should ultimately track costs/inflation to some degree, but your approach of a general appeal to do so risks turning people off the scheme and resulting in a net loss. Not for me, not right now at least. And any campaign to increase subs in the future needs to have a clear time bar to avoid a tempting but ruinous guilt-trip shakedown exercise taking place every other year.
  18. I don't think that would give the club meaningfully more money - we need more subscriptions for that. But it is something that needs to be considered for the near future anyway - as inflation will continue to reduce the real term value of subscriptions. Even since the scheme started there has probably been an increase in basic costs and wages of 15% at the club - possibly significantly more as a business paying energy rates.
  19. Stated without even an ounce of self-awareness about the previous Supporters/Community Trust phalanx of organisations, that did, err, nothing of value to prevent Dougie and his family building up a completely unsustainable mountain of debt - to be paid for by flogging the ground - while maneuvering at least one of its officeholders onto the GMFC board. It's like reading Gerry McCann's guide to baby-sitting.
  20. It doesn't play into our hands whenever a clownshoes referee buys into their narrative and awards a straight red card to Oakley.
  21. Good to hear but we'll need to have a sound financial footing to achieve that, realistically speaking. It's high time that MCT made another push to try and convert more supporters into owners of the club too. Don't get me wrong, having around 1000 subscriptions is already a huge success, but we're still missing a trick by not trying to get even 50 more folk added to the scheme right now. Finances are tight at this time of the year, but if we're not going to capitalise on the goodwill right now then we'll regret that opportunity missed. It's an investment in obtaining more results like today instead of circling the drain in the seaside leagues like Queen of the South.
  22. Your opinion is not supported by any evidence then.
  23. So when will you start correcting all the failings in your crock of shit posts on here?
  24. Nice try, but the non-leagues are stacked with absolute jobbers who could put 'Celtic youth', 'Burnley youth' or any other meaningless tag on to their CV. Kaziah Sterling, Tottenham under-21 starlet anyone? And then we move on to your next piece of bluster. Apparently Lyon's current career trajectory is a sure sign that he's not got what it takes. Well what does the exact same argument say about your boy wonder Deane, whose career trajectory will involve taking kick-off eight times per game en route to certain relegation to League Two? You're in absolutely no position to try and slate Lyon or indeed Kelty Hearts after that utter shite take on affairs.
  25. Before I consider throwing shade at Reece Lyon, being a barber (as opposed to what other semi-professional career?) and Kelty Hearts as a club to play for, I would probably make sure that I hadn't recently been touting a far more ridiculous diddy character, who has just signed for the very worst team in the same division. Frankie 'Frankie' Deane: Safe to say that your views can be safely filed in the bin where they belong then.
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