wellsince75

Maguire, Lawless, Long should all be hooked off ,

disgraceful - no urgency and can't believe we've not pressed and brought subs on.

crying out for a 3-5-2 and getting down the wings. Come GA - change it - this is embarrassing.

he does "trying to figure out where a goal will come from' He should get stripped - he'd be better than this lot.

Agree - best signing by a distance., including the gaffer.

Person view we have 2 issues 1 ) formation doesn't work for us 2) 5 of our starting 11 aren't good enough for SPL. (McGinley, Lamie, Crawford, Maguire, Lawless )

this is what infuriates me as a fan - we can all see it what the F can't GA.

Last week StMirren tore us a new one in the first half - it took a serious injury to Roberts to change it. This week we've set up in the same way. Please take Lawless off and put Ohara on.

How can we (the average punter) see that a 3 man midfield doesn't work. That Long is wasted as part of a front three but the manager can't Same poor set up every week.

other than Kelly the full teams passing is poor.

We've been poor for many reasons. Playing a 3 man midfield that includes an attacking/non defence minded player has been the issue. This has impacted all midfield players (including Campbell). A 4 man midfield where 2 stay back and 2 push forward worked well for us last year - no idea why we dropped it this season .

I'm a big fan of O'Hara - personal view is he's our best midfielder (excluding Campbell) and much better than others are coming forward/passing etc. A modifield with Donnelly, Campbell, Ohara, Polworth) always meant that 2 stayed back and 2 moved forward. Personal view this is the balance that got us to 3rd in the league v's the off balance we've had this season.

Grimmie didn't come in as right back - he's a midfield player. A hard working player with limited ability. A bit like Crawford in that respect, prob decent people to have around the club but not first team players .

Fantastic news. Like others mentioned can't see how we could expect to sign anyone better. Personal view changing formation would see a significant difference in SOD. Being able to get forward/being paired with a right sided midfielder will make a difference. Being the only person to cover the right hand side of the pitch (other than a rotating forward) is something we should solve. Delighted with this signing.

Jurys out on the gaffer for me. The relentless 4-3-3 approach makes us a sitting duck. StM ran us ragged and we're lucky not to be 2 down at half time yesterday. It took an injury to force a 4-4-2. Appreciate he's got us to a relative safe position but his lack of adaptive approach concerns me.

great 3 points. Shouldn't take a serious injury to sort our formation but 4-4-2 and 5-4-1 really stopping stmirren pressing

since we shored up midfield we've been a far better team

Long is far better a part of a front 2 than 3

does look a bad one. wonder if we'll go 4-4-2

GA pisses me off with how he's set up the team. Every game StmIrren pack the midfield and out battle us - change the set up FFS !

were been completely out fought - bring on Foley or Ohara and firm up the midfield

why we play 3 in midfield v's their 5 baffles me. Makes it easy for StMirren

ooft Lamie was sold cheaply there - good save Kelly

completely with you. Ohara for me has proven to be spot on. If we're going to play with hard working battling midfields then we should play 3 at the back and push Carrol and S OD into wingbacks.

great point about some players don't work out a certain clubs. Personal view , I don't rate Crawford, he's no better than the likes of Grimmy. I'd rather we let those making up the numbers go and look to build a better starting 11.