wellsince75

great to see us continue to have majority of possession and get a goal. Just is a touch of class but the whole team deserve credit. I love that we're playing well and the natives have been booing their own team. Another goal from us will send them apoplectic - what a shame that would be.

A squad of 28 is getting too big to be manageable and that's before we bring in what I hope to be defensive minded additions. There are 11 forward players in our squad, would expect that to reduce to 7 over time. Can't be good odds for Nicholson, Robinson, Stuprevec , Sule (even when they are fit).

For me Stamma is a 6 yard box player and who'll tuck chances away when he's playing with confidence. I don't think he's strong enough to hold up play and at the moment doesn't look like he's brimming with confidence, all too often taking an extra touch. Equally I don't think our final ball into the box is helping, if we counter attack and get decent balls in he'll get on the end of it. Watching the game yesterday my basic thought was we should take £800k if that was offered.

Agree on style of play , I don’t remember ever having a team that can retain the ball , find one another . Some of the midfield play has been superb . we need to learn to be ruthless , up front the final ball and decisions haven’t been great . The exception was the goal , we did the simple thing and took the goal well . With a bit more confidence and composure we could have many handsome wins. final point is the ball retention has made us damn hard to score against . Can’t see many teams thumping us

nor me - tried finding perm sports but not working either

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 .