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"Burton", obvs!

Watt made absolutely no progress at St Johnstone either (or at Salford or Burtion A.to be honest) yet look at him now (badly missed at the moment but I think Oscar can fill the void on his return to fitness). I was relieved there were no boos for Vogt when he came on because his confidence looks fragile but his two crosses were excellent. We need players like Thor and P-H to be getting on the end of them.

"Naw, Alfie, jist hoof it up the pairk!" That'll do the trick..........

Sums it up for me. Judging the manager so soon after a summer of turmoil, both personal and professional, is misguided. The new players need time to gel to produce something like the kind of football we saw last year. Aberdeen had nothing but the long ball for the first half hour, kicked and niggled all the time and got a goal with their first shot on target. The second, a deflected one from a simple mistake was the killer. They could pick us off then when we went for broke and it worked. The much-criticised Vogt produced two excellent crosses which should have been more productive and Thor a couple of flick-ons and hold-up play which was an improvement on the performance of the front three which started, who offered little/nothing as a unit. The Dundee game is a test for the new manager and players to show a big reaction.

Had a quick look and this looks like an enormous amount of work. Will look furrit to digesting it at leisure and full marks for finding the true origin of our beautiful C&A: Lord Hamilton of Dalzell's racing colours were red and white.

If you want MFC to play out from the back, which is the basis of our possession play, then the odd mistake is inevitable. Paulsen has been excellent this year but simply made a misjudgement today. Donnarumma of Man City committed a howler that escaped a goal by about three cms today so it can happen to the best of GKs. Even then I thought we could have scored but three reasonable chances went a-begging in the first half and we looked out of it in the second: knackered. The international break for once has come at the right time for us. I'm pretty sure we'll come back strongly against The Mutton Molesters. Alfred was honest in his post-match comments and I'm sure we'll make amends.

Downward spiral......

Sadly, true. And I have little confidence about the refereeing tomorrow. i meant centre circle btw: sausage fingers.

We’ll both get into trouble from the site Puritans……..

Apparently 6-1 to win at some bookies. Seems disrespectful given we've beaten them three times in four at The Place but if I were a betting man..........

Yes, they have smoked us a couple of times in my experience........ Sorry, I'll leave the building.

That was ridiculous given the conditions (even an Aberdeen player asked the ref. not to send Oscar off and fair play to him) but the referee surpassed himself by sending off Gordon for denying an obvious goal-scoring opportunity on the central circle with two covering 'Well players plus GK between the Dons player and the goal. Unbelievable, but that's Scottish refereeing for you.

Ha! Ha! Fairy Nuff. I will thrash myself with birch twigs 🤣 😁😆.

Have to say, when I saw it on the pitch I thought it was a bit harsh. A yellow, certainly, but I would have been disappointed had it happened to a 'Well player in those circumstances. Am I being too fair? 🤣

My small brane can't really cope with this but I hope to learn:

Even I could teach him a few things, me old haricot!

I certainly hope so. I still marvel at his command of English as a second language: puts some of the churnalists to shame.

A very balanced assessment, as a PODite with back pain (and awaiting Bovril-scalded head/knees). I have to say the management recruitment by the Board in the last two seasons has been exceptional and visionary. Also, its criticism of Celtic's supporters has been well-timed to avoid accusations of sour grapes. The scenes at FP in our last home game almost made me wonder what was the point of watching football any more when the entire Celtic entourage broke onto the field to celebrate their tarnished "victory" after the dreadful refereeing/VAR decisions. I think we could have a very exciting and productive season this year because our squad seems strong and committed. Both of The Cheeks are under pressure. Hearts may be on the up now their manager has had a chance to put his feet under the table and we need more competition to put the OF under pressure. Hibs might recover from their derby disappointment and St Mirren also seem to have turned away from the Dark Path of kick and rush.

Exactly my thoughts at the time. Although they're not my favourite team, St Mirren under McLeish seem to be trying to reverse the Robinson hoofball tactics too.

That is a remarkable statistic which shows the importance of possession instead of coughing up the ball after a few passes/punts forward. I was disappointed to hear Peter Martin say on PLZ's football show that no-one in Scotland plays the way the rest of the continent do, when it was pretty obvious that's how JBA had got us playing from just about day one of last season.

Every accusation is a confession, as they say. I don't complain about some of your weird and wonderful contributions (or about those from a few others). It's a fan opinion forum so I'll post what I like until the moderator says otherwise, thanks. Maswanhise's form has nose-dived since about February and I'm not sure his head is really with us. If we had received a reasonable offer before the end of the window, I would have happily jumped at the money. Perhaps there is a reason why his suitors seem not to be so keen on him. I would have been more concerned had Longelo left us. The new squad looks stronger than last season to me and potentially even more exciting so I'm really looking forward to them gelling now that the manager has more coaching time in the international break. If Alfred can work his magic on Maswanhise and restore him to his old form then that will be fine by me but ultimately that's up to the player. Let's wait and see what happens now he's with us until January at least.....

Or rather don't do that exactly but inflict the Motherwell Vice on them, like we did so often last season on many clubs. If we have possession and maintain the initiative, then we are at a huge advantage. As always at Ibrox, a lot depends on the standard of refereeing........

Really? That's interesting. I didn't notice that. This is hardly definitive but the taxi-driver who took us to the airport a fortnight ago said that he quite often picked him up at FP after training and found him cocky and rather unpleasant. One of JT's comments was, "The manager won't be there next season and neither will I." By contrast, Paulsen, whom he also picks up quite often, sounds a great guy, happy to be here and very modest and positive about the club. I don't really feel Maswhanise is a team player and his niggling annoys me too: it's going to cost us one day. It will be interesting to see what Alfred does with this recalcitrant member of the squad. I actually was hoping he'd bog off to Anderlecht and the club could bank a wad for him. Or perhaps there will be some Turkish delight for us before their window closes tomorrow.

Yes, the couple next to me complained immediately about their seats and were told they could move somewhere else if they weren't happy, and he had a business advert/sponsorship with the club! The club is coming across as insensitive and dismissive over this issue.

Surely both could be true? 🤣 Surprised we haven't torn up his contract but then we spent quite a wedge on him, I suppose , and would like some of it back..