Ya Bezzer!

This obviously should have been communicated but lets not make out that it's some great scandal. At the end of the day manager contracts don't mean a whole lot, it's not even on par with a player contract when you are dealing with a potential asset or a squad position opening up.

Would rather watch us in the Championship (or lower) than give up the 51% stake. We are what we are and we need to cut our cloth accordingly. If that means we can't be a Premiership club every season, so be it. Having said that I suspect we have squandered massive amounts of money on ridiculous player turn over and managers and that needs to end. Also we can't afford to subsidy a women's team so they need to find their own level just like we do.

They are 3.3/3.4 Maybe you round up 0.4 but the rest of the world doesn't. In any case the point is you don't need an elite level striker to have that sort of conversion rate. And the deeper point is that players need to be judged on longer spells of form rather than 5 or 6 match purple patches.

If the players carried out Kettlewell's instructions then he should be sacked but somehow I don't think playing ineffective head tennis on the half way line for 5 minutes at a time was the game plan. Players need to take responsibility for being gutless, garbage and showing no quality whatsoever.

Club's been stressing cup runs are important for the financial health of the club. Players looked like they couldn't care less.

Only sliver of hope was Adam Devine Terrible in every area of the pitch. Players didn't even have a touch most of the time. No intensity either. No physical or mental toughness. Why we insisted on playing long balls against a team that won every physical contest I'm not sure.

We have a 6 footer on the front post we'd be going in 0-0.

Mikael Mandron and Marley Watkins have 1 in 3 records this season, to name but two. Biereth was better than 1 in 3. Actually so does Theo Bair over the season but I'd still urge caution on Bair after a 5 or 6 match spell and the fact that he missed so many chances midweek says to me he's still got a lot to learn in the art of the striker. Bair has made progress but let's not get ahead of ourself.

Shakey at the back, no control in the middle and blunt upfront. Only one team looking like winning this after 45 minutes. Not creating one chance is not really good enough.

I don't think County were that bad on the ball last night, it's just off the ball they were stinking. They are basically playing with a new keeper, two out of three centre halves and two sitting midfielders and I think that lack of cohesion and familiarity was probably a big problem for them. Getting two early goals is going to sink most teams and certainly teams with County's away form, last away win was in September.

And yet it's basically the same team, both back line and midfield that we had last season with a pretty good defensive record. Just shows you how much things like a bit of bad luck, confidence and the ball bouncing a certain way can influence a season. We only conceded 5 in 7 before THAT Celtic match and the confidence of the team took a massive dive and that's when the flood gates opened.

Bair had a good game last night in terms of general play but....he's a striker that missed, what, 5-6 really good chances in the match? Going forward he's probably not going to get a third of those chances in a game. It's important for the team that his finishing improves because having a striker that can put the ball in the net makes all the difference in this league. You really need to be putting away at least 1 in 3. He's made big strides forward and it's not my intention to slate the guy, I'm glad he's looking more confident, but it's one of those one's where if a different player had missed those chances they'd probably be getting a harder time about it.

Good team performance but it can't be anyone other than Spittal.

How often do you come home from Fir Park disappointed you didn't win 15-0. 🤣 I think Bair could have got 6 just on his own. We seemed to cut through Ross County every time we went forward. At times we were profligate but we also had some very well taken goals , especially Spittal's efforts. That's him on 9 for the season with two excellent assists in the last two matches. Still not 100% convinced by us defensively but that's a rare clean sheet tonight and hopefully we can build on that.

I'm happier to win on a shit pitch than lose on a great pitch. I wasn't there on Saturday but it looked OK on the highlights. I mean it's not going to look the same in January than it is in August.

Missed my first home game in ages on Saturday so I'm actually really looking forward to this. Ross County losing at home to St Johnstone puts them under a bit more pressure with three away games coming up. They have only won away once all season way back in September. For me this is pretty much a must win if we want to put distance between us and the relegation places. We've only lost twice in 10 league matches but we need to start getting 3 points and with the upcoming fixtures this is probably our best chance.

Livingston looked absolutely gubbed, the club is a shambles behind the scenes. Hard to see them finishing anywhere outside of bottom place. Dundee and Kilmarnock will be fine. St. Mirren will probably be fine, their recent form isn't great so they might get dragged into things but I think they have enough points on the board. That leaves us, St Johnstone and Ross County fighting to stay out the play off spot. Honestly all three are much of a muchness. Under Levein St Johnstone have shored up at the back but they still struggle to score. On the other hand we've scored goals but are absolutely shocking at the back. And Ross County are probably somewhere in the middle, not great at either but not desperate. They also have basically a new team and it remains to be seen how that turns out. No one is really posting great form out all these teams, so it's hard to really pick one out that's looking like they might improve. Personally I think the 2nd bottom spot might go to St Johnstone as you just can't win games without scoring. Probably going to be a bit of a nail bitter though.

Even if we could match Killie and St Mirren it doesn't mean we should. Making the smart decision doesn't necessarily mean throwing cash at players. Seems to me paying the wages for Van Veen would have been a big gamble and probably not worth it. By the way Steven Robinson was on the radio on Saturday saying St Mirren had no money. Turns out they didn't bring anyone in last night which might well confirm that.

The clubs on a 'fire the manager cycle' - Aberdeen, Hibs, ourselves haven't really solved any of their issues. It's almost as if it's done to appease the fans rather than address the real issues.

Looks like we scouted Jack Vale but looking at his height on Wikipedia. 🤣

Our transfer policy has been a shambles going back to the Robinson era. I've said it before but it seems to be 'who can we get' rather than 'what do we need'. It's been youth development that has consistently saved our ass whether it be Turnbull, Campbell, Scott, Johnston and hopefully Miller.

Not including signings since the weekend we've had 37 first team players on our books to Kilmarnock's 28. Obviously a lot of ours have been moved on but still.

Kilmarnock have had over 27,000 more fans through their turnstiles this season than we have. At 25 quid a head that's well over half a million pounds and more than enough to pay twice our wage cap.

3 defeats in 11 with draws away to Celtic, St. Mirren, Hibs, St Johnstone twice. If we win our next two home games we are on a pretty good run. Of course we have to win them but now is hardly the time to get rid of the manager.

I think what need to do is realise season long loans are not a viable option when players can be called back on the whim of their parent club. In future we should only have 6 month loans with contingency plans for the second half of the season, whether that is a re-negotiation or bringing someone else in/promoting a youth player or whatever. But it's obvious ourselves and other clubs in Scotland had deals that were not met and have not expected to lose players when they did.