MJC

We’d be as well deducting the price of these games from the season ticket as we don’t even look as though we can make a game of it anymore.

Firstly we must acknowledge that this is, in the main, a case of us being well beaten by a far superior side with players of a level of quality we could only dream of. However that does not excuse Donnelly yet again switching off at the crucial moment as he did for the first and the clueless set up overall. This could be a record defeat here.

What chance have we got

2-0. Humiliation incoming.

Cornelius in for Shaw, otherwise starting eleven unchanged from Tuesday. Tierney remains on the bench. Its going to be a long, long afternoon.

How the mighty have fallen eh? He actually looked a player when he first came to us but just didn’t show it nearly enough as time went on.

The thought of Donnelly up against McGregor, Hatate and O’Riley is utterly sobering. He’ll look like a junior player and he’ll be lucky to even touch the ball in a meaningful way. It’s embarrassing that we are starting players of the standard of him and McGinley on a regular basis.

Any chance we could forfeit this one? If Celtic turn up and are on their game they will tear us up for toilet paper and it’ll be anything from 3 to whatever they want - 0. Even if they aren’t on their game and are below par like they were when we played them at Parkhead then we still won’t have the quality or the bottle to take anything. We won’t lay a glove on them. 0-3 Tom Boyd is a wank.

Only because I forgot the password for the old one.

I’ve been back for nearly a year!

Our play in the final third is just so slow and it looks as though we have no idea what to do once in that area. We’ve been the same all season with Woolery, Roberts, Shields, even Tony Watt when he was here looking frustrated figures as they have little to no attacking support. We don’t appear to want to set up to be offensive and I don’t really get what GA’s approach actually is. We got away with so much in the first half of the season thanks to Watt getting goals and winning us points but now he’s gone we look absolutely lost. The transfer window was a disaster for us.

Nobody has actually said that they want/expect success though have they? It’s more a venting of frustration of continued poor and toothless performances every single week that is what has driven the “patter” on this thread tonight.

That seems be our objective week in week out - don’t lose goals as opposed to trying to score them ourselves. Like I said, if that is GA’s intention going forward then it’s going to be grim viewing for the remainder of the season.

Well overall another shit and toothless performance. However….context is everything with draws. Had that finished 0-0 then it would feel a lot less satisfying than it does given the way we snatched that point and with wee Tierney getting off the mark for us to come to the rescue. The credit tonight belongs to Ross Tierney

Ooooft Tierney buries it and levels!!!

Garbage. Another pathetic goal conceded in another pathetic performance.

Alexander is becoming more like a sane version of Jim Gannon with each passing week. His use of substitutions is utterly bonkers at times and his stubbornness is crippling us.

Woolery on for Slattery

I don’t necessarily disagree with your assessments of the players you mentioned, but it’s more that we as a team don’t appear to be aiming to ‘play football’ so to speak. We are most definitely a workmanlike side and that has it’s positive aspects in that we are certainly more effective at being so when we had that Carl McHugh, Connor Sammon, Andy Rose etc. However we are not a ‘footballing side’ and while we do have players who have the potential to offer that something a bit different individually, in our team and in the way we set up they are unable to do so.

Another 0-0 shitfest.

Absolutely, I hate pre-contracts for that very reason, especially when it’s a player who’s coming/leaving for another side in the same league. As for the remainder of the season you just have to wonder just what, if anything, we have to look forward too. There is zero football in that squad and therefore zero entertainment for the support. At best we can be described as a workmanlike side but it’s awful to watch. We won’t be anywhere near relegation which, if the sole ambition is to avoid, then we have met our target but I can confidently say here and now that we won’t be in the hunt for the European spots and we won’t be going any distance in the Cup. The best we can hope for is to manage to scrape our way to a top six finish, which I appreciate is commendable, but it’s going to be awful to watch.

Well with half an hour to go this is looking like a pretty shite transfer window for us. We lose Watt - our top goalscorer - and don’t replace him, unless you count the signing of yet another winger who has no track record of scoring goals. We bring in another defender, though why I don’t know and we bring in Tierney - who is probably the one big positive from this window as he looks like he can bring something. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, it’s going to be a long second half of the season.

I’ve no idea how he will try and dress that one up, though some of his recent post match interviews have been head scratching stuff. What I will say though is that questions should be being asked of the manager of why there is so little football being played by that team. It’s not just today, we were poor against Hibs and dismal against Morton and County. We create next to nothing, don’t look like scoring goals and are once again losing goals due to us surrendering possession cheaply. What’s our plan for the rest of the season? Because right now it looks like we intend to try and shitfest our way through matches and hope for the best.

My own miserable pre game prediction which turned out to be absolutely spot on? Right you are, if that is pathetic then so be it, but it’s also very sad at just how predictable we are just now.

Thank you. Another dismal and toothless performance. It’s going to be a long, long second half of the season and to be honest it’s difficult to see where our next win comes from. The only hope is that Aberdeen do their usual no show against us in the league because that is the only up and coming fixture I can see us winning.