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🤮🤮🤮 Why black? The trim looks more red & yellow than claret & amber especially on the socks. We could pass for Partick Thistle in this get-up! Sorry I’m a traditionalist and IMO our change strip should always be white with claret & amber trim.

It’s awful. I’m all for the main colour, but, don’t get the need for the tartan trim.

Well said sir. He's been dropped in at the deep end.

59 quid from Toffs

Think he's played a blinder considering he's been piggy in the middle between the 2 boards. Hopefully he can now get on with the job he signed up for.

Also: Jim McMahon, 16 July: "discussions around this proposal are creating significant divisions within the fanbase." Ballot (midway), 16 July: 80/20 against the proposal. Get him to fuck. He's been found out on multiple occasions now.

Suited to a golf course will be another selling point from a Macron perspective. The good thing about Bay City Rollers shirts is that if you don't like this one there will be a new one (Shang)a-lang soon.

More suited to a golf course or Bay City Rollers convention. Its orrible.

I bought into the home design but I can’t see me warming to the away effort. A subtle tartan trim can work lovely on a kit (previous Scotland top springs to mind) but our official tartan is far too garish imo. An issue that is compounded by the width of the sleeve trim. Carrying the tartan pattern through the grey is poorly thought out too, far too messy in the end.

Don't know if Clyde are a step up on either. They were lucky to stay in the league last season. Montrose are certainly a lot better, you can argue the case for Edinburgh I suppose but while they were a bit of a catastrophe club last term it was in a league up the pyramid.

Another stinker. Not even sure we could wear that against Hearts so probably only wear it against Dundee United and Aberdeen.

With you on that, same as the home kit another decent strip ruined by unnecessary embellishments, 2 simple claret and Amber strips on the sleeves would have been sufficient. All you see when you look at the strip are the in your face tartan armbands, very tacky.

That’s a smart kit.

Big fan of the away kit

Not a lot to add to the comments already made. I didnt think it was a shocking performance. But it had training session vibes for the most part and in truth Montrose didnt trouble our defence at all until about 80 minutes. The fact that we didnt press hard enough for the second goal and missed the couple of decent chances we did create was ultimately our downfall. Thought big Oxborough looked decent with the little he had to do. Took one cross ball very competently, made a good save for their first shot and saved a pen. He looks an absolute unit, which is a good start for a goalkeeper in my mind. I thought of all our players Casey had the poorest game. Just didnt look comfortable on the ball. Looks the centre half most at risk once SK settles on who his final 3 are. Halliday looked fitter to me than last season and did ok, but as others have said, neither he nor Paton have the legs to perform that role. Here's hoping this game doesnt come back to bite us. But we will need a different team selection and improved performance on Saturday.

I share the same concerns many posters have expressed about our start to this season, but the chances are that Edinburgh City didn't put 11 men behind the ball and park the bus from kick off last night.

25 and we can talk.

Realise that giving actual amounts might not be possible but it would be good publicity to even be told how much it's gone up in percentage terms. All adds to the feelgood factor.

I've tried to block out everything from the Alexander term, filed away beside M for Malpas.

Good posts Denny & StAndrew7. Thats my thoughts exactly. I think SK made a miscalculation. A lot of us saw Montrose equalising long before they did but obviously SK didn't. Some odd substitutions that turned the game, but not in a positive way. Would have liked to have seen Stupavaric appear long before he did.

This is exactly how I saw things. Playing Paton as the main support for a lone striker is insane. In fairness to the lad he ran himself into the ground trying to play a role he is just not suited to. I lost count of the number of times the ball fell to him in the box only for the move to end right there, or for him to be 'inches away' from getting a decisive touch. He does not have the natural instincts of a goalscorer or set up man. But 100% for effort. Regards Halliday. I don't think he did much wrong and he was certainly not our poorest player on the night. Noticeably we lost control of midfield when he went off. I would rather he had stayed on a bit longer with Stuparavic being introduced earlier for a shattered Paton. Ferry is just not ready and why he was brought on baffles me. That said Robinson and Moses both missed great chances to kill the game off. I think Kettlewell believed the game was won at one nil as Montrose had shown no sign of being able to test our defence. So rather than wait until the tie was sealed he decided to experiment. Why else start switching the defence around and change the shape of the midfield. Tinkering that went wrong, unsettled our defence and gave Montrose hope. Truth be told they should have....and maybe did.... score before they did. The referee, Colin Stephen?, was a joke. Sadly that is the standard we will have to suffer throughout the season. A game thrown away. And not just by the players. Steelboy has compared our approach to that of Clarke's Scotland set up. I can see what he is referring to. In so many ways. And I don't see it changing any time soon. Not a good ending to a day which started out so well with the Wild Sheep and Bair news.

We still have about 6 first team contenders that haven't kicked a ball yet and some that aren't at a fitness level to start matches. I don't agree with the notion that you should treat these games as pre-season friendlies but you have to take into consideration that it is July. Players simply won't be anywhere near match day levels until August. We need players in but there is loads of time to do that and I'd rather wait and bring in the right person than rush a signing in to play against Clyde.

Quick summary from me. Starting XI: Ox didn't do much wrong and made a good save onto the post and took some crosses well. SODs was alright but was barely given the ball in behind when he made runs to try and give us some width. Casey was laborious in possession and when he did have it, his passing was pretty haphazard, or sideways. I lost count of how many times SODs made a run to give Casey the option to chip/dink it in behind and he didn't take it once. Blaney was fine up until the goal; he absolutely shouldn't be getting turned in that position. He was better than Casey on the ball and looked more composed with it at his feet, to me. Gordon impressed me; his communication was excellent and definitely feels like what was missing last season. I expect him to start in the middle of the three with Balmer and McGinn and Blaney as first back-up. Wilson hasn't convinced me that he's got the pace or desire to get beyond a man in the last two games, which worries me given we're so reliant on our wing backs to provide the width and pace in our team. He's the definition of a full back playing as a wing back. Davor did his job; it's not eye catching, but it's effective. Miller did well but his frustration at the lack of anything happening in front of him became clear; he had a go from 25 yards when he could've slid SODs in to get in behind in the second half. Paton continues to baffle me; I've no idea how Kettlewell thinks he's a 10. He's at best a 6 or an 8 but even then he's not got all the attributes you need to play either role. He seems to always get on the ball but also simultaneously be hiding from it. When he does get it, everything slows down, to the point where the opposition can regroup and defend as a unit again. This happened loads last season, too. Halliday was busy and did OK at times but he's absolutely not a 10. He does look to be fitter and slightly quicker than last season but he's more of a sitting midfielder these days, I would say. Robinson did well with very little service and put himself about; looks like he's got a good bit of pace as well and he drove forward with the ball when he could. Similar to Miller in that you could see his frustration building with lack of support/options around him. He played some good balls over the back only for Paton (that man again) to have checked his run or not made what was a fairly obvious 1-2 type move happen. Subs: In general, they were all made too late to make any kind of impact, but: Moses is the definition of chaos and I'm here for it. He did have some nice touches and took the ball into feet a few times, which was encouraging. Ferrie didn't do anything to impress me; he was far too eager to go down for the penalty when he could've easily gotten a shot away. He definitely needs time away on loan where he can "learn" what he needs to be doing in those situations. Stuparevic had some nice touches and looked to drive forwards with the ball at their back line which we'd missed all night; 2 minutes of action though? Really? Assuming it was for penalties more than anything. Big man loves oversize shorts, too.

I think we're all roughly saying the same thing. He's signed a lot of players but there are still some very obvious deficiencies. His downfall is his one-dimensional approach, meaning he rarely has the players required to adapt to an opposition manager who is able to chop and change their formation against us. It's so predictable and easy to play against that type of set up. See Steve Clarke's Scotland in the Euro group stage. I know he doesn't like wingers, and it's bloody annoying, but he can get away with it when he has pacy wingbacks, which he doesn't currently have. Maybe Seddon and Marvellous are pacy, but one is broken and the other is an unknown. I think the he'll probably use the loan market again to address this issue, if necessary, but it would nice to have a capable squad before we're 1.5 months into competitive games. Stuparvević may just be the number 10 we need, I hope, so that's why I think an attacking midfielder and Bair-type striker should be top of his list, especially if he want's to stick with one up top. We can't afford to wait for Slattery to come back and hope he's the messiah. The early positive is that he seems to have addressed our central defensive issues with Gordon and Balmer coming in, not to mention that all our centre backs also seem dangerous at set pieces.

Yes, we definitely need an imposing main striker, creative No 10 and a pacy wing back. All of these deficiencies were known months ago. As Steelboy ( I think) said, we have a lot of midfielders most of them mediocre and most playing the same role. If anyone wasn't aware of that fact then they most certainly will be now.