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No I'm with you. I think its good and exciting , that's why i'm so against changing leagues cos it changes fuck all. However any product can be improved . Excitement, increase investment and keeping it affordable are what we should be looking at. However there are plenty things we could do to enhance an already decent product.

It baffles me the amount of Blazers and fans who think changing the leagues changes anything. All it would do is spread limited income even thinner. Not one league reconstruction in the last 50 years delivered any of the promised benefits It didn't increase attendances It didn't result in more young players It didn't improve the quality. It didn't make the games more exciting It didn't remove the fear factor. Its actually a sad state of affairs that it is all anyone can come up with and they think its radical thinking. Probably explains why fuck all ever changes in the Scottish game. For me to be radical we should try and get more excitement and generate more money rather than shuffling who the teams are (off the top of my head) Move to summer football, stop trying to be a cheap version of the English Leagues. Secure better TV deals based on Summer Football If a game ends in a draw it goes to a penalty shoot out. If you lose the shoot out you get 1 point , if you win it you get 3 points. If you win in normal time you get 4 points. Stop seeding in the League Cup. End the League Cup sections (Another thing that was done 50 years ago and was binned because it was boring and fans didn't turn out). Away tickets capped at £25 (most clubs home tickets can be obtained for less than that) Every teams games able to be streamed live on an SPFL TV reliable platform (lets look at it realistically many folk already get it illegally anyway, so get the money to the clubs not the IPTV providers) Create one ticketing platform where fans can also buy away season tickets (Having to get a physical tickets that gets scanned anyway at the grounds is a pain in the arse ) Stop allocating a seat number on visiting fans tickets. Print "Sit Anywhere" on every ticket. All grounds to have QR codes at the gates so folk can buy at the gate on the day of the game. Stop Sending offs (it generally ruins a game) a 10 or 15 min sin bin to replace sending off. All referees wired to stadium speakers as they have in Rugby to explain VAR decisions . All top League grounds to have Large TV Screens where the VAR pictures are replayed as the decisions are being reviewed (as they do in international rugby) Strict limit of 2 mins on VAR reviews. If they cant decide in 2 mins its not clear and obvious and on field decision stands. Points deductions enforced if fans destroy away ground facilities. Points deductions if fans enter the field of play. End the Rangers / Celtic strangle hold on the voting structure but ALL the authorities will ever do is change the number of teams in a league cos we are "all bored watching us play the same teams". Not once in 50 years have I ever gone to a game thinking "aw fuck Hearts for the 4th time I wish it was Dunfermline" Scottish football is so utterly pathetic because they couldn't have a radical thought if their life depended on it.

The problem is some of our fans are believing the hype. Against Dundee United we played well but we were against 10 men for 75 minutes. To listen to the media and some of our fans you'd think we were world beaters and we weren't, just as today we were poor but we weren't as bad as some are making out. We are 3 points better off after same games as last year. . It also took us until 25/10/2025 to win two league games. We also lost to Falkirk at home in round 8 and the second half performance in that game was worse than today. So lets take a deep breath of reality.

Bang On.

Correct.

As I said we played poorly and even at that Rangers only got 6 shots on target and would have scored with none of them had it not been a keeper gift. They still only got one goal that we gifted as poorly as we played. Folk need to get some perspective. I said before the game I thought too many Motherwell fans were thinking we'd turn them over comfortably that was never going to happen at Ibrox.

What I take from today is to play as poorly and but for a poor error from the keeper we could have got a point. Its alright everyone saying Rangers should have had 4 or 5 goals but they didn't. We pay a defence and goalkeeper to stop goals and but for one lapse wed have played poorly and got a point. Everyone saying they had 27 shots but yeah only 6 on target. Thats nearly 4 in 5 shots didn't require the keeper to save. Its not all gloomy. Ill be more worried if we are as slow and pedestrian against Aberdeen.

The important part is his general touch and control are invariably poor and have been for months. Two simple lays offs don.t change that fact. If we are going to evidence two simple instances in a game that hes playing welI. I'll counter with him missing the penalty on Saturday, lost the ball for St Mirrens 2nd goal. Last night he lost an easy ball the nearly resulted in a goal for Dundee Utd and sent a shocking ball for SOD who'd burst a gut to get into a great position. See its easy to cherry pick. For me He loses the ball far too often and fluffs it far two often.

I could have laid on the balls for the 2nd and 3rd goal. I don't doubt his effort but his touch and control are poor and have been for months..

I noticed that last night , he looked like he was trying to lift his spirits.

Some lovely football and great goals, thought we were wasteful from some great moves in the first half. Sure we were up against 10 men but you can only beat whats in front of you and we did. Lowry was outstanding. I'm done with Manwanhise. He does not merit being an automatic fist choice. Windows closed so hes not going anywhere time to let him know his performances are deserving of his arse being on the subs bench.

LOL I watched Maswanhise at Paisley taking shots form teed up lay offs. He had 10 efforts, scored one keeper saved two and the rest either went wide or high but he still scored in the game so maybe doesn't tell us too much. Although I think his shooting is piss poor when he has time to think about it.

Poor so far, don't think it will break 6000 tonight.

They'd get him for 800 pies now.

i just think because the general feeling among the fans is high and everyone thinks we've had a good transfer window that something will bite us on the arse. I've been watching us far too long that it fucks up rational thinking. 🤨