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Ah'll dae the jokes 🤣🤣

We have a set of players who are pretty decent for the most part but have that mistake in them. We seem to be recovering from most of the mistakes but did get punished against Hibs and St Mirren. SOD getting a much harder time of it than Gordon for their mistakes and Miller sparing Ox’s blushes against Hibs with the header off the line. Overall though we do look much better organized defensively and appear comfortable for long periods in games. However, I think it’s very obvious how much better we look from attacking sense when SK changes things up. I’m not a fan of the play conservative for 60 mins then go for the win but here we are sitting in 4th spot and in a semi final so can’t really argue with SK favoring that approach. We do have players coming off the bench that make a difference when they come on which was not always the case. So despite the doom and gloom throughout the close season looks like SK knows what he is doing after all, although it will be very interesting to see how things play out when he finally has 100% of players at his disposal. I’m hoping it means we can plan with full intensity for a full game, being able to bring players off the bench to replace tiring legs. Or being able to cover for suspensions and rest players so they stay fresh and injury free. I think the outlook is very optimistic just now and hoping we can deliver some blows to the OF as well as maintain our run of good results against the other teams.

For me Casey still has more defensive lapses than the rest of the back line. I appreciate his attitude and the problems he can cause in the opponent's box at set pieces, but I wouldn't be averse to trying out other options there.

Ah'll dae the jokes..part............🤣🤣

He’s never really started. 😉

Just let us know when you've started.

Miller's contracted until summer 2026, so I'm not sure how much further either party would be willing to extend. We have the luxury of ignoring all bids in January and opening a bidding war next summer when he still has a year left.

Is there an injury list somewhere with target return dates? I forget who we are waiting on. I’d like to see us go ahead and sign Watt in the January window. I’d also like to see what we can do to extend contracts for Wilson, Miller and Ox to help keep them playing here as long as possible and also to ensure we get decent money for them when they inevitably move on.

Regular 1st pick players like casey will always miss games for whatever reason injury, suspension etc. So it's up to the player who comes in to cover to show that they should be the 1st pick and Balmer made a case for that on Saturday so he probably deserves a run in the team to show he's up to it. It's a good position for a manager to be in to have a squad with cover for most positions.

I certainly prefer going into it off a run of wins than defeats! 😆😆😆 That and its another 2 weeks closer to players returning to fitness and getting the likes of Watt up to speed! I think we are in a good place.

The big difference this season is we arent shipping loads of goals. The only times we have lost more than 1 goal in a game were against Rangers and Aberdeen and those were the 2 games we have lost. Even then we were unlucky not to equalise late in both of those. If you only need to score once in a game to get some sort of positive result, you give yourself a much better chance of doing so. If you are having to score 2 or 3 it makes it much more difficult. Still be nice to get some midfielders back though and add a bit more creativity for our forward players to feed off!