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951 ! In all seriousness I'm enjoying watching us again, it's been really entertaining and expect us to win.

Most folks were happy we signed Biereth on loan, knowing we'd never make money from when his parent club cashed in.

Re Bailey Rice- if he was a youngster from England suspect we'll be pretty happy. Complimenting our squad with players better than we can afford works for us. The debate appears more around proximity to developing players from teams in the same league as ours. I can understand that agree with Mio's point re not being able to play against Rangers. We do need to bolster the midfiled options, if we have some young guns coming through then great, if not players I'm someone like Rice with similar potential to Miller can have positive outcomes for us both short and longer term.

Think we’ve had lots of very good managers . Like manny have mentioned McLean & what he did for the club over a long period is in my lifetime our best manager . I liked the football under McGhee v1 , same with McCall , Craig brown but overall wee Tommy was my fav .

Nothing to apologies for - good for the all Scottish football for our clubs to do well . similarly good to see so many Scottish players progress in Europe .

Anyone know how mcghees recovery is coming along ? Be good to have him slot into our defence . as much as I dislike Gogic yesterday I can’t help but think we’d benefit from this type of player at the back and going McGhee can do this

First half was the better of the two . We didn’t create many chances and the word ‘powderpuff ‘ is fair . thought we were poor second half and don’t have any bench strength to change it . fadinger in the defensive mid role gives the protection that’s been missing for some time . Thought he was excellent

Midfield have gone missing this half - need to swap one of them out

Yes but last season was 30% possession and equally toothless 😊. Sparrow will get us a goal today

decent first half - like that we're trying to play , some decent passages of play. Need to create some clear cut chances though.

Love this thread. Will focus more on the attack minded players the likes of Ian St John , Bobby Graham , Willie P must all be there albeit ahead of my time . I just started going when Mclair , McAllister were showing their talent . Cooper , Russell then likes coyne . more recently Faddy , Turnbull and now Miller . we’ve been treated to many quality players over the years - my cult hero will always be Stevie Kirk . The 16 year old me knew we’d win the cup and at 3-3 I was cool as a cucumber as Kirky hadn’t scored yet . What a day that was.

Killie players turned up on Wednesday afternoon for the pre match talk - they’re prob still in dressing room from post match talk 😉

Honestly no idea where we’ll end up but as long as we keep playing football like many have said there’s reasons to be optimistic . We have a fabulous pitch , a very decent squad and a good manager . Looking forward to something different

I’m pleased to see us having players in midfield who can pass . Overall lots to be happy with . Slattery for me is key to pulling the strings . The new style of play will take time to bed in but against the majority of the league can see us having a fair amount of success .

Well men can’t jump - not one player attacked the ball . Too easy .

That’s got to be the hope , at the moment we’re not showing any obvious level above the opposition . Ideally we can step up a level and continue to beat Morton and then step up again as we progress towards spl . Still to settle into our new way of playing , establish best formation and personnel and hopefully add quality into defence .

Thats a fair assessment based on performances thus far -be interesting to see if we can step up our own game.

SODS fault it's raining. See , started already Seriously hope we play so much in the opposition half we don't bemoan our defenders and to be fair to SOD his passing is generally decent.

Patience is required. It will be interesting to see us holding our nerve when we ship goals getting caught in 18 yard box. Those goals are obvious but not in my mind any worse than booting up the park only for the opposition run straight through us and score. There's a few similarities to York who last year moved to this style of play. At the start of their season it was very similar to what we're seeing but by the end of the season the ended up scoring 2x and conceded less. They lost the play offs due to a howler in their box inbounds the final game and many fans still felt the style was wrong. I'll be delighted if we can follow in their footsteps , increasing goals scored and moving us far further up the league. There will be massive moments of embarrassment but overall should see much better football being played.

Agree . I do love us having some local lads who’ve grown up with the club . Be great to see him progress .

This is where I'm at. There's a difference of being frustrated v's downright abusive. Appreciate not in the same ballpark but was chatting to my friend who supports York City - Salford team walked off the part following racial abuse last week and the match was abandoned. Someone has since been arrested. The more the game has a hard line about behaviour the better behaved people are likely to become.

Completely agree - you'd think SOD was some form of evil who some how has convinced several managers to play him in a whole bunch of positions simply to sabotage and ensure we lose. He's a local guy who like us all has flaws and clearly gives his best. It's about time the modern game exits anyone from the crowd for being abusive .

Not hugely surprised at how things panned out . manager has been in for a few weeks Still got several players to sign . Fitness and sharpness is that of pre season - because it is preseason . several plays getting to know one another . new formation, new ways of playing . All of this takes time . Protected a few players by not risking them on that awful pitch . Think it was mcgarrys article a couple of weeks ago the spelled out the need for patience . He was spot on , it’s going to take time to settle in after this significant overhaul of players , manager, change in approach .

Was interesting to read. Very quickly brought back the memories of Mugabi pi55ing about under GA. Be great to see us having the ability to make the 10-15 yard passes and build out properly . Equally it will be hard to watch as we go through a learning curve . hopefully it will attract guys who have the technical skills to pull it off.

Im really concerned with the change of signing strategy 😉. Whatever happened to signing aging players or those with a history of injuries ? Whats going to happen to our poor physios this season ? In all seriousness , overall ticks a lot of boxes . next step please bring back Alan Campbell . Could do with a bit of steel in the middle of the team .