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Pay your money at the gate and shout what you want for 90 mins. No need to be reasonable or rational about it. Then toddle off home and do what the wife tells you to do for a week until next Saturday when you can start shouting all over again. Aye some football supporters are crackers, maybe even most.

Also this was just after Falkirk beat us 2-1 at fir park. I will never forget the guy at that game going absolutely berserk at askou and the team....times changed quickly soon after

That was an important game for sure and a turning point. Celtic will prove to be a far sterner test and I won't judge AJ and his team too harshly if we don't win. I am looking for a good performance from us though and one which demonstrates progress over what we've seen so far. Probably the Kilmarnock game will be a better yardstick. The following Hearts game will also be a good indicator.

It will be a different kind of challenge to the ones we've faced recently. Celtic won't adopt a low block. However that means our team must show aggression, physicality and competitiveness. Are they capable of that? Also no free gifts please.

This isn't me picking on you MFC but just really for the forum. Check the date we played this fixture last season where defeat would have taken us to bottom of table. Season didnt turn out too bad. At this moment I doubt we will finish 4th but absolutely no reason we cant turn it round after 2 bad defeats. Players still settling in.

I think there could be a different manager in away dug out by then but this will still be a very tough ask. All we ask is AJ gets his line-up correct and there is a big improvement from the players and hopefully we can get a great result

Three weeks to discuss before the game in case anyone is upset with the team 😇 See this game is on sky will it affect our home crowd? Hopefully a return of our injured players and someone up front to score goals Will we win this one? MJC? COYW

No place for Lowry isn't even worth thinking about, been our best player

Is there maybe something going on in the background that is affecting the group? Don’t think lobby is far from reality with the senior player comment from Rosenberg emerging at Fir Park I don’t think he should be sacked just now and needs to be given time but he also needs to realise his approach isn’t working with the players he has and the players that are constantly under performing need dropped. Fadinger and said are the mainstay of us being able to perform and need played in their best positions. I won’t be popular with this but that means there is no place for Lowry. We got away with luxury players last season as Slats, Watt and Just were unbelievable and they had Fadi , Said and an in form massenahise around them . They’ve gone now and when we don’t have the quality we need a couple of leaders and battlers - masswahise , Cook, Hodge, Lowry, Kanga aren’t the players for that sadly We have enough quality to do ok when everyone is fit but the balance , fitness, shape and tactics need to be right. My biggest worry is our goalkeeper isn’t big enough or good enough and we have no real back up. Combine that we no real leader it could be a long and difficult few months

It wasn't a tough call for me. His priority was different to what it would have been for me. The Domestic Cups should ALWAYS be the priority, I know others think differently.

All i will say is Jens made huge errors in both cup competitions last season. AJ had a tough call to make in league cup and it didn't work, players culpable also

correct , for me the League Cup was a huge error by the manager

Different for everyone I suppose good experience but to me it’s only a success if u make the league stage ( we were up against it with the draw ) Come the end of the season it’ll be looked upon fondly, but ultimately league position & cup runs for me will determine if it was a good season get people have different expectations though

we weren't as bad as everyone makes out yesterday, we were alot worse against Aberdeen

The attendances will ultimately drop off at some point, if some folk dont want the tough times, thats their call. They were always fairweather fans, we aren't always going to be successful , they're will always be a core support and hopefully have maybe got another 1000 added onto it.

Were Rosenborg not in financial difficulty and had to sell a lot of players? Think crisis time is a bit off yet.

Europe wasnt irrelevant, made about 1 Million, nobody ever thought we were going to win it.

Yes, thats my fear too. If fans see a measure of progress both in terms of an entertaining playing style and results they'll stick with us. If they are more in line with last Tuesday and yesterday they'll drift away. Thats football though.

Spot on pal

Well said. I've been a bit taken aback by the reaction here to the last three games. A week is a long time in politics, it's said, and the same can be said for football. Things can change very quickly and we should wait and see how AJ uses the three week international break to remould his line-up. We are in a period of transition and i think we are missing the influence of SOD and Paul McGinn to steady the troops. They are great senior pros and the coach needs to draw on their experience, imo. Unfortunately, I don't know if Paul will be playing any time soon but Stephen is an obvious replacement for Tom Sparrow, who isn't an RB but has been pressed into service there. Our defence needs an organiser on the pitch. I feel P-H and Thor need a run out together. If AJ still has faith in Maswanhise, he should surely be employed as an OAO winger to augment Longelo on the left. Lots of work to do for the coaching staff in the next few weeks........

I do think we lack leadership on the pitch. A voice to coach the players through what the manager wants implementing. Last year we had McGinn, SOD & Watt all dictating things and driving standards. I had hoped Fadinger might be that guy this year as the continuity player, but he doesnt appear to be overly vocal, so maybe not his bag. McGinn is supposed to be back training soon, but having SOD in there meantime would help, probably at RCB, rather than RB, albeit you would either have to put Jake or JKL out there.

Missed the games since st Mirren tbf but sod got ripped apart by their winger ( maybe a level of fitness though ) it’s an area either way that should have been addressed

Agreed

Completely agree - SOD should have been in the rangers game. same for those who need subbed - people need to know they have to perform or someone else gets the start