wellsince75

no-one is happy about 1 win in 18 league games but half those games we got points from hence 9th in the league, which is about right for where we'd expect to be. If we finish this season 9th or better I'd be pretty happy in giving SK a 12 month rolling contract. SK has been given a tougher remit that other recent Well Managers. Reduce the squad and reduce the budget. He's made mistakes for sure, he's also remedied the mistakes by moving others on. I really dislike the position we as a club are in. After several decades in the SPL we're not progressing, the pipeline of young talent hasn't been as consistent, I'd like to give SK or someone similar a chance to prove out the long game. Scottish football overall is in a pretty sorry state, I don't think the clubs of similar size and stature are pulling away from us. I'm up for giving him time to rebuild.

It was certainly tight. What's less for debate is the initial ball in, I'd like to have seen Mugabi or Butcher go and attack the ball. Im not sold on 3 centre halves approach as we continue to get caught like this. Appreciate we may just need better central defenders. Cheap goals need to stop. We've conceded 35 goals in 22 games.

In terms of on or offside - Spittal who was out of shot as outside the post was playing everyone on. I agree Kellys view was obscured

McGinn was quality as was Davor - both went about their business and didn’t put a foot wrong .

I thought we deserved to win today and overall played well , particularly in the second half. It's not the win we'd have deserved but it's another point nudging us further away from Livingston. Appreciate the 1 league win in XX games comments. My thoughts are in the last 10 games played we've won 2. drawn 6 and lost 2. I don't think we should be jumping over the manager for this. We're 9th in the league which is probably about right for the size of our club. Of course I want to see us winning and with a bit more quality about us I think we will. With players coming back from injury and some reasonable new boys in we may just kick on and win a few games.

Nicholson looks like a player with decent quality

We’re by far the better team - just lacking quality in final third .

Neither keeper has had much to do . Two evenly matched teams who offer very little quality moving forward

Sorry to say that I think Butcher is done . Last season he made a massive difference but he’s a shadow of that player . whether it’s the injury or missing a pre season hard to say but he’s so far off the pace , take him off at half time

Well done Theo - great header

Your observations are always spot on Mio gent is only player with any creative outlook on the game . last season we went back to 3 centre halves to shore up defence and it worked - this season it hasnt be happy to go back to 2 centre halves and put something , anything into midfield /attack

Frustrating that we can’t do basic things such as attack the first ball from set pieces 3 centre halves for their goal and not one of them attacked the first ball. Another poor start

It was a reasonable expectation for mugabi to run on to the ball - he wasn’t paying attention .

Team pretty much picked itself - no other real options given where players are at with fitness and time with club. Fingers crossed Lady Luck smiles on us today.

The Scottish Championship feels an obvious place to look and would think affordable (appreciate Utd may pay more) Likes of Watt & Moult have 17 goals between them this year with Utd. Both would be good enough to walk straight into our team. Similarly for this season I'd be happy with Kai Fotheringham Utd, Rauri Paton of Raith, the aging Bryan Graham Partick Thistle. A modest fee for likes of Rauri Paton who's scored 35 goals in last couple of years and is 23 years old looks like a decent type of player to go for and much better than Shields who was the last player we went for who'd only scored 8 goals for QOS.

I don't think we need 2 strikers - more players who can attack. Spittal moving forward is decent and get the wingbacks pushed up and we can be a reasonable attacking force. Im sure at some point over the next week strikers will arrive.

if CB I'd like us to bring in someone like Jamie McCart - thought he always played well against us and hasn't got many games in the club he's been loaned out to. The way we're set up we need a young energetic RWB who can get up and ping crosses in. Also a playmaker of sorts in midfield , someone with some skill who can hold the ball, pass. Finally at least one striker but not the aging +28 year old who've never scored goals at the dozen or so clubs. All in all that's 4 players and all need to be better than what we have or we shouldn't bother.

Nouble is not the answer to remaining in the SPL. Suspect no better than Bair in terms of goal return and lack of form convinces me not better than Bair.

agree with a lot of that - other than Bair - a good squad player but not convinced he should start. Great shout about Lucas Ross - certainly worth giving him a few games to see what he can do.

Pleased today to see Butcher and more so Miller back . miller looked a cut above others . Also pleasing to have some decent options on left hand side of pack with Montgomery and Gent

learnings from today We need to find 1) creative midfielder , 2)someone with pace up the right 3) min of 2 strikers

Can we stop allowing spittal take corners and free kicks . Gent can ping a ball - just let him take the corners on the left

Poor penalty - gave the keeper too much of a chance

This is horrific to watch - I’d rather accept watching and losing with some of the youth players we have too many first team regulars who won’t look out of place in the first division

you're waiting til tonight ? need something to get through the next 45 mins