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I'm merely reflecting the figures that have been reported online and in the media. I realise the accuracy may end up wide of the mark but we most certainly invested more money than we've done for years , even if it was £300,000 we aint getting value for money so far. However as you say the club accounts will confirm

Far too soon to say "We signed some decent players over the summer" I think the Jurys still out on that one. The only one who consistently convinces is Lowry.

To be fair, you've not really backed up your point, or answered the original question. All you done is turn it on the person who asked the question. All you've said is 'it's up to the decision makers' (which is an absolute cop-out) but have pushed another user to give a suitable answer. Well, one that's suitable to you. I know this is all about opinions, and how we're all free to voice them, but you could have given your opinion on who is a suitable replacement.

Fadinger and RCC possibly back for tomorrow but Lowry and JK out until after the next international break. Lowry has a knee injury apparently.

The manager has to settle on who he wants to play in defence. It's changes every game. That doesn't give them time to understand each other.

I think the way the game is played now, there seems to be a dearth of quality goalscorers at all levels. I dont think its too much of a problem if you get your midfield forward and support your facilitator. Last season we had JT, Just, Slattery and even Manny weighing in with goals. I think its something we have struggled to balance this season. I think Kanga on the left doubling up with Manny looks promising. But 30 minutes is a small sample size. Said started well, but has faded again. Lowry has picked up a few, but is now injured. I think there are goals in the team if Alfred can get it functioning properly. But, aye a proper goalscorer would be nice. Where to find one on our budget is another matter.

We're currently struggling to score goals and I think a major reason for that is our recruitment of strikers, which has been less than impressive even under JBA. Maybe its related to the way we play. Hendry, a permacrock, has never been a goalscorer, more of a facilitator. Thor looks to be the same type of player although he's never had a run of games. Palmer-Houlden again looks to be a facilitator rather than a goalscorer. Now this type of player is fine if you have others able to score from deeper positions but we currently don't. JT was scoring for fun early last season and covered up the cracks, but his goals have dried up. Now, you could justifiably attribute some of our goalscoring problems and form of our strikers down to lack of support from midfield and you'd be right. In fairness, goalscorers are hard to find and don't come cheap, but right now we don't even seem to have a 10 goal a season striker. A big questionmark hovers over our striker recruitment policy.

Yep afraid I cant see us getting anything , our defence is shocking and you'd be better with me up front. Our record of 9 defeats on the stoat is looming large. I only think it may turn around once we get Priestman and McGinn back , until then its "bombscare are us".

Great stuff, Well Well. Thanks for all your efforts.

Has Alfred been bad in a previous life? He has no luck at all 🤣🤣, sorry.....hold on.....'ehhh uno aperol spritz and uno sangria pour favor ' 😎

Usually like a run up to Perth ,but a midweek game, horrible weather and the run of results we have been getting means I'll probably be in the house heating on and watch the game on the telly 😎👍

The travelling fans, however small in number, need to be vocal in reminding him that he is a snivelling shitebag.

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Obviously “shite/pish” is subjective. The lack of intensity, movement, rotations and urgency isn’t. That’s the objective analysis behind my opinion. But I guess we see things differently.

What's the injury?

John Beaton the ref!

Again though Hibs & Falkirk were much better teams than they are this season ( Hibs have already acted on that ) we’d all prefer this manager to pull us out it ( contrary to what some think 😂 ) feels inevitable & hopefully we’re planning for January don’t think many people would look at us right now & say we’ll finish top 6 ( I know the leagues tight ) or have a good go at the Scottish cup

No, we didn't, and I take your point. The two Falkirk games, Dundee at Dens and Hibs at Fir Park were pretty poor performances, though, and there was a marked drop off from the middle third of the season, when we were flying in the league. There's a strong whiff of the morning after the night before around Fir Park just now (even the announcer sounds scunnered). Maybe this is the inevitable comedown, maybe Alfred and/or the new guys just don't have it. I'd prefer him to pull us out of this run, rather than having to look elsewhere again, but it surely has to happen in the next 3 games, if it's going to happen at all.

We never played st Mirren, Kilmarnock & Aberdeen in that run though & still felt like we were playing well during end of last season think the next 2 are fair to assess where he’s at, as mentioned performance was better yesterday but not convinced we ever looked like scoring no Norwegian football expert ( or some would say Scottish expert either ) but Rosenberg to me should be the Celtic / rangers or Norwegian football….yet he finished mid table last year maybe he needs time but Rosenberg would suggest he got gradually worse each season at a massively bigger club than us time will tell

Our stats yesterday were better than the last time Hearts visited in every respect, other than goals, obviously. If you measure the stats from our first 10 league games this season against those from our final 10 under Jens, they almost mirror each other. During both runs, we took 8 points from a possible 30 and lost 18 goals. We've scored 1 less goal this time around. There's clearly more too it than just the numbers, but maybe this was coming, and we chose not to see it.

If we were to take nothing from those 2 , then I think its safe to say it isn't working

Hopefully not sounding too much of a smart arse but surely " we are shite/ pish" is subjective....anyway I am hoping for at least 4 out of 6 points in next 2, masa on bench and sod out of squad.

Seeing highlights and also the injuries and alfred having no luck but granted the buck stops with him. I will take any victory on Wednesday, another defeat really worries me. SALUD

Any kind of win and any kind of goals, flukey or brilliant, needed in this one. If we kick on from there, fair enough.

What part of our passing out from the back, which we did effectively last season, is anything other than slow, ponderous, predictable pish this season? The tactic isn’t the problem. The coaching is. There’s zero intensity, zero rotations, zero urgency. It’s rinse and repeat, followed by a shite long ball that effectively surrenders possession. That’s my objective analysis. I have eyes. We’re shite.