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This baffles me too. If he's under instruction to do that, then I can't imagine why. Also G-R was rather slow in passing out of defence on Saturday. Meanwhile Mr Supercool on the left is often ignored and we have no quick movement of the ball.

Yes, cynical hod-carriers and a team lacking any creativity: they look far more like candidates for the drop than we do, yet they beat Aberdeen last time out. They too look vulnerable, as long as they keep Robinson. With Oscar back in CM we can only improve and if McGinn stays fit to bring some calm and organisation to the defence and Williams returns to LB to release Longelo into midfield, I'm sure we'll climb the table. Pity Thor didn't score with his weird header because I think that that would have done a lot for his confidence. He needs a run at CF imo because he seemed to rummle up the Fuddies' plough-boys nicely at the back after he came on, while Seb P-H simply didn't. He's still young though and might toughen up. The referee looked like a clone of Craig Thomson: a dreadful display from him which culminated in a ludicrous booking of Hodge (whom I thought looked good yesterday). He also amazingly ignored a kick on Maswanhise while he lay on the ground. SM stole yards at every opportunity and dived all afternoon and yet he was apparently oblivious to it all. And yet this guy gets the big games like OF ones regularly............ As Bugs B. used to say, "What a maroon!"

I agree. Also, unless I mis-heard, Manny said in his last presser that he loved the manager. My problem is that I can't understand how poor our defence is. A simple old-fashioned head on the ball on Wednesday and we would be two points better off already. Why can't our defence take responsibility and simply cleat their lines? I think Paul McGinn would make a huge difference in organising and stiffening the defence but worry how resilient he can be at his age.

Yeah, it would be terrible if there were a Celtic-obsessed moonhowling element in our support, wouldn't it?

Great stuff, Well Well. Thanks for all your efforts.

EK Squad got tae stick thegither 😂.

Glad you enjoyed it, me old haricot. Willie (Billy to his family, apparently) was my hero too. Pity I missed Pat Quinn by a year; my brother and all his pals thought he was a genius. They say you should never meet your hero but I did meet Willie and his wife by chance in Glasgow before Covid IIRC, and he was a complete gentleman and his wife graceful, explaining that the 'Well forwards and HBs would work on routines in training and Bobby Ancell would generally leave them to it, once he's picked the team. He had faith in their ability. Some very talented players in that squad, evoking happy memories from a very different era.

This is a squad photograph after Ian St John in 1961, and before Pat Quinn (the pre-Iniesta Iniesta) left us for Blackpool, who were an excellent side in those days. Our creaking main stand looks rather fresh in them days.

Yes, I thought Peter Martin's questions were fair enough but the other churnalists and presstitutes lived down to my expectations.

Yes, I noticed that.......... Thanks for the liquid amber. Let's keep ingesting them together to avoid a glitch in the space-time continuum. "Claret , amber, colours true: far ahead of green and blue", after all. Ahoo! Werewolves of London!

And this is why I would love AJ to succeed. He has a lot on his plate at the moment and Saturday is an important game to try to reverse our setbacks. Let's hope he can reflect on what hasn't worked and make the necessary changes. Fortunately Rugby Park has reverted to grass so we have no excuses in that regard.

Thanks for the tip(ple)!

If things get bad, I'll have a claret and amber™, a glass of red wine plus malt of my choice. Love those colours.........

I think there was a lot of resistance amongst the dinosaurs of our Scottish football world, who resented an outsider showing that our SPL payers could actually play attractive, attacking, pass-based football beyond traditional Scottish kick-and-rush. It put them to shame basically, so they (e.g. Ian McCall) confected grievances like their pearl-clutching reaction to Askou's comments on Handley or MFC's 140 years of relative failure. Not necessarily a huge fan of M. Stewart but he played straight with us, as did Andy Halliday, who was frozen out instantly by JBA but could see his methods worked and were quite visionary (for Scotland). Hats off to him. Don't know what Alfred will achieve here frankly but he's not JBA so will have to model the team given his resources and in line with his own beliefs. He needs until the window to see if he can improve our performances as he adjusts to our league, one which his predecessor couldn't wait to get away from, and for good reason. He's in a foreign country with a wife and young child so I think he needs some slack cut for him at the moment. Like many MFC fans, I suspect, I'm dismayed but not but not reaching for the malt whisky cabinet yet.

Or all three, even 🤩.

Jens' Death Stare was impressive, I must admit. Even those clueless "journalists" got the message. Ruthlessness is necessary in a manager, as are good man-management and tactical nous. I hope AJ turns out to have both.

Still laugh when every Celtic fan I know told me he wasn't "Celtic class". We miss his passing from the back badly: with Watt and Just ahead, he could unlock defences in an instant.

Did you have to?

Won't detain you all for long. Basically, AJ needs until Christmas to organise the squad imho. After that, the board need to re-assess. I hear comments about players not listening to him/"buying into" his instructions. Most of my working life was spent under managers who a) couldn't do my job or b) hadn't done my job, but I still went into work and did my best. I expect them to do their best The club needs to pull together to get us out of our mini-slump, and by "the club" I mean the supporters too.

Meant Hendry. Apologies.

Thought it was just me. The manager must have seen Welsh’s ability yet he plays Henry and McKenna (whom Welsh had to baby-sit in Slovenia already). Let’s hope Pocoglioni learns quickly where the duds are.

They never rated him, incredibly: doesn't say much for their coaching staff or management. Swansea fans seem very happy with him, especially since he was a free transfer.

An excellent point, but the ordinary fan seems to be the last person The Powers think about.

The curse of Sky?

Well said. I've been a bit taken aback by the reaction here to the last three games. A week is a long time in politics, it's said, and the same can be said for football. Things can change very quickly and we should wait and see how AJ uses the three week international break to remould his line-up. We are in a period of transition and i think we are missing the influence of SOD and Paul McGinn to steady the troops. They are great senior pros and the coach needs to draw on their experience, imo. Unfortunately, I don't know if Paul will be playing any time soon but Stephen is an obvious replacement for Tom Sparrow, who isn't an RB but has been pressed into service there. Our defence needs an organiser on the pitch. I feel P-H and Thor need a run out together. If AJ still has faith in Maswanhise, he should surely be employed as an OAO winger to augment Longelo on the left. Lots of work to do for the coaching staff in the next few weeks........