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Good to see Danzaki and Aitchison in there, should hopefully bring some freshness. A little surprised McKinstry is on the bench but I suppose Crankshaw came on and did well on Sat. Hopefully Aitchison gets a bit closer to Van Veen than others have this season. Would give Van Veen until half time and if he looks as disinterested as he has in recent weeks get him off an Obeka on.

My thoughts exactly. With Penny and Sol gone, I think we need a left back, centre half and battling midfielder by the end of the night or we're in big trouble! You can add a striker to that as well if Mandron is out for any length of time.

Finally plucked up the courage to watch the highlights. A few observations: McGinn and Goss horrific for the goal and Kelly not to clever either. What is the point of having a VAR that doesn’t give that foul on Lamie, it’s so bloody obviously a penalty. We just can’t start on Wednesday night with a midfield of Slattery, Goss and Spittal, something HAS to change in there. Wish I shared Faddys confidence that we’ll be ok. Although the bookies share his view, remarkably we’re 12/1 to finish bottom, really not sure what they’re seeing that I’m not!!

What a frustrating afternoon (again). We were really poor (again), but we passed the ball better than them and to be honest, remarkably created more chances, despite how poor we were. Not sure who was at fault for the goal but a few on the left side of our defence seemed to switch off A few things need to happen (not happen) after today. McGinn should not play left back, did well last week but was very poor today. Shields shouldn’t be seen again as he’s just not good enough, despite the effort he puts in. The midfield 3 of Slattery, Goss and Spittal just does not work in this league! Finally Van Veen needs a rocket up his arse, no doubt when he’s on his game he’s our best player, but my god watching him would make you want to put your fist through a wall!!

Played very well, particularly impressive given he was playing right sided centre half.

Poor game on a poor pitch, but we were professional and got the job done. Kelly very little to do, whilst we scored twice, had one (rightly) disallowed and forced their keeper into a couple of saves. Good to get a win and to see Mandron get off the mark, should do his/our confidence a world of good. Avoid defeat in Paisley and beat the other Saints at home and we’ll be back on track…..(even I don’t believe that) Taking over 2k to Arbroath in the middle of Jan when we’re on such a bad run is mightily impressive. Was great to be on the terraces again!

McGinn, and he played pretty well.

Must signal the end for O’Donnell, unless he’s injured.

McGinn in midfield or three centre half’s? Look light on midfielders….very surprised Cornelius isn’t starting when Slattery is suspended.

Not in this lifetime!

Must win today and as long as we get enough support to KVV I think we will. Thankfully County don’t have a striker anywhere near the level of Nisbet! Expecting to see Cornelius & Shields out, McKinstry and Crankshaw in, with Spital playing in midfield.

Tough one to take. Really poor for the first 20 mins, gave away another soft goal, then managed to get on top for most of the rest of the game but just didn’t take our chances until the subs came on. Nisbet the difference between the teams, looked really sharp and took pretty well every chance he got, although defending from us looked terrible for all 3. No doubt Hammell’s struggling but the biggest issue we have is that we just don’t have the personal. Van Veen terrible again today, looks uninterested but he knows he’ll start next week anyway as there’s no competition for places. As a few others have said we need to stick by Hammell and back him in the transfer window.

Yeh agree with that! Avoid defeat today and then hopefully get at least 4 points from the next 2 home games and we’ll be heading back in the right direction!

Both appeals were unsuccessful, so both Pittman and Holt are out. Every little helps at this stage!

That clued up manager has already lost against us under Hammell this season! We’ll just ignore the soft red card and dodgy penalty that contributed to that win 😉

I bought 2 yesterday for the East Stand and they say Away fan on them 🙂

That’s my point, some of the players are just not good enough (majority Alexander signings), yet you expect Hammell to have us sitting pretty in the league.

I hear you but had we appointed an experienced manager I suspect he’d be dealing with the same issues. None of these issues are new since Hammell took charge, all of them have been happening since Jan 2022 if not before. We need to back Hammell in the window (if we have any cash to manoeuvre) and give him a fair crack at it.

“No threat, can’t defend, can’t keep clean sheets”, maybe take a guess and why that might be the case? Maybe the players (or some of them at least) are just not good enough and need replaced. Remind me how long Hammell has had in charge to replace players he doesn’t fancy?

Worried like the rest of you but can we give Hammell a bloody chance?! Any manager would have struggled with the state Alexander left us in. I get that we need to start picking up points asap, but a pile on the manager is just not going to help. We need some bodies in quickly but surely Hammell deserves at least one full transfer window to see what he can do with the mess left to him. We’re still outside the bottom 2 (just) and we have a game in hand against a good few of the teams around us, so all is not lost yet.

Haven’t seen any of tonight’s game but if Kelly and Lamie are the biggest culprits then god help us, two of our better performers normally.

Must have imagined McKinstry out there tonight! In all seriousness you have a point, we’ve struggled badly since the days of Turnbull, Campbell and Hastie coming through. How much of that is down to Hammell I’m not sure to be honest.

The only say Hammell potentially had was at the backend of the window, last minute panic mode after being beaten twice by an Irish League team. We were woefully under prepared for the start of the season and that’s in no way Hammell fault. Let’s at least give him one proper transfer window in January to try and bring in a couple of players that can make a difference. 4 players is possible in Jan but not a chance we’re signing 4 players that walk into the first 11, just don’t see us having the budget for that.

Hammell’s had a bad night tonight but Alexander is 100% to blame for the ridiculously poor squad we have. Need at least 2 players in during Jan that’ll improve the first 11 or we could be on our way down.

Van Veen is frustrating but we create so little without him. Scored one and made the other tonight!