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He deserves a fair crack of the whip, so it’s far too early to be making any resounding judgements on him. That said, it’s his team now, and I still think it’s fair to say a few alarm bells have started ringing for me and others. It’s now down to him to silence those concerns by getting a more coherent and improved performance out of the team on Saturday.

I’m voicing my concerns, yes.

Did you see the size of JBA's coaching manual? Diagonal exits were probably on page one.

We've won 5, drawn 4, lost 4 this season. Which of those games are blips?

but you're going to make bold statements about how poor you think him and the rest of the team are and predict a terrible season?

Unless the manager sorts out the XI and gets this team playing with some sort of coherent tactical plan, I expect more of what we saw against Rangers and Aberdeen. The plan seems to be to retain possession, which is fine and what we want, but beyond that I can see zero effective attacking plan, loads of possession with no end product, weakness in the turnovers, a pathetic press, and a complete lack of ability as a team to win and compete for second balls. The complete opposite of last season. It does make me wonder what he spent the 10 days between those two games drilling into them.

The players we have signed and retained are not proven yet, mostly. If they all already had high levals consistency and proven ability we wouldn't have been able to sign them. We do need work with the team to get to a higher leval.

I thought Alfred nailed it in his post match. Basically lost the plot, especially after the second goal, and abandoned the tactics in favour of desperate passes and hopeful long balls. That's when we miss an old head like a SOD or McGinn on the pitch to calm things down.

It’s early days yet, but I think there are some signs of this already from AJ. Particularly about the football lacking confidence and identity and him not showing leadership. Alarm bells are ringing for me.

That’s not what I said though, was it? For all that went wrong last night, I’ve said that the buck stops with the manager. I’ve also said that he needs to turn it around for the Dundee game, otherwise I think it could be the beginning of the end for him. That’s not me calling for him to be sacked, nor is it me suggesting we should revert to Kettleball.

If our players don't understand such a basic concept, we have a real problem.

For me the jury is still out whether "we have the players" other than Lowry I've not see the levels of consistency from the rest to categorically agree with that statement. Before the happy clappers get their knickers in an uproar I'm NOT saying we haven't I just need to see more before I can make that call.

My take is that the starting line up was wrong with three players up front who all play in a similar style, wanting the ball too feet and trying to lay it off. Unfortunately there was no one to lay it off to. In my opinion the three of them should never start together again. If we had three different styles up front it would give more options and problems for defenses. Said, Palmer-Houlden & Maswanhise for example. We have the players at the moment but not necessarily in the right places

In his post-match interview, Alfredsson said something about diagonal exits. I have never heard of this so I googled it to see what it meant. Here’s what I found: ”A diagonal exit is an explosive movement or pass used to escape tight spaces - such as the touchline or a corner - by shifting the ball at an angle across a defender's body. It breaks pressure and makes it harder for defenders to block the pass compared to a predictable vertical or horizontal pass. It creates passing angles by changing the axis of the attack and forcing defenders to turn and shift their weight.” Well!?! Sounds to me like somebody swallowed a coaching manual! If this is the type of thing Alfredsson is about we’ve got a problem because I doubt the players will have a clue what he’s on about, and it certainly looked that way last night. As far as last night goes it was a shit show from start to finish. The starting selection was all wrong. We have a defence that couldn’t keep hens out of a close. Our midfield is far too lightweight, too easily bullied and lacks a physicality and we possess absolutely no goal threat. Possession is fine but unlike last season, we’re far too slow and ponderous in building attacks which allows the opposition to easily get into position to nullify us. Last season we had players continuously making runs forward into dangerous areas but I don’t see too much of that this season. Possession stats are totally misleading. We have 70% while the opposition has 30% but we lose. How much of the 70% took place in and around the opposition penalty area, because that’s where it really counts. Alfredsson needs to work this out fast or we’re in for a long hard slog undoing all the good base we had built from last season.

3-0 home win. We are ineffective and the ball is burst. Last night was not a blip it was a sign of things to come.

Aye sack the manger, get someone who is used to hoofball kick and chase tactics back in charge and forget all the tippy tappy shite, were you in the pod south members area last night, as there was some daftie ranting the same at AJ all night. We had a very bad game, gifted a shite team 4 goals and got what we deserved ie feck all, shit happens, so onwards and upwards to Dundee.

He won't

I'm over it now, its history, no amount of racking over it changes anything. Based on what I've seen so far this season I'm 50/50 whether the we have what it takes to finish top 6. That can of course change in a heartbeat to being totally pish or excellent, time will tell. I'd like to think having invested more money in the squad than we've done for 25 years that its the latter. Two out of next three at home and a tough run of three games to come but we need something to steady the ship after 3 games where we've basically been effective for 25 minutes out of 270.

Hopefully MJC won't predict a win.

One thing I remembered from last night is that there seemed to be a lot of players slipping over, so was there any need to water the pitch at halftime?

Hardest choice yet this season, but not in a good way. Lowry showed some nice skills in the first half that didn't really make any difference but I can't think of anything else that stood out.

A big part of our problem last night was a dysfunctional midfield. Big gaps between it and the defence and attack. Fadinger playing a different role and Hodge being totally off it. I'm still baffled why Longelo, one of our better players, seems to be sidelined so often.

Dont think olly whyte would have looked out of place last night,could have done with a bit more physicality.

Apparently on toulouseonline.com there is a regular poster called TFC saying the exact same every game! 🤪🤪

It was obviously pre planned. Just too quick to be coincidental.