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My comment was more blind hope. I agree that there’s no chance he’ll deviate from his crap approach to games.

Given the injury list, the lack of attacking midfielders, and zero players to lead the line, I’d like to see us move to a 433 or something similar.

How many times has this been written? There has to come a point where people accept that he’s just not that capable a manager. A good coach, maybe, but nothing more.

It was pretty clear to me that the team was instructed to stand off them and let them use the width of the park in front of us. The freedom given to Cerny (their best player) on that wing was always going to hurt us, and it did. We deserved to lose and they deserved their win.

You can pick and choose individual players all you like to suit your narrative. We all can. But you’re also talking about the guy who thinks Robinson is a good target man, that Casey can play anything other than CB, and that Tavares merited an appearance in a cup semi ahead of others. Etc. We let them win yesterday because our donkey manager is (a) hamstrung by his own poor recruitment and (b) a shitebag who set us up to fail. Yesterday was a huge opportunity that won’t come around often in Kettlewell’s career, or for us fans, and he completely fucked it. The sooner he’s gone, the better.

Perhaps. But we still lost because the manager set us up to lose.

Really? That’s not why we lost the game today.

It’s almost like we still haven’t replaced Spittal.

I’d admire your optimism pal. However, he set us up to contain them, not beat them. He replaced Stama and Maswanhise with two more donkeys. He put Casey to RWB then CF. We don’t get to many semis, and he’ll be remembered for that today, unfortunately.

Pull your nose out of his hole. Kettlewell wouldn’t know a good idea if it landed on his knee.

Hopefully today is the last meaningful game we go into with that donkey in charge.

I’ve tried to calm myself down, but I can’t. Today’s loss is on Kettlewell. He’s a clown. He’s clueless. His approach and his subs. Uggh.

Is today the day we put the final nail in Baldemort’s coffin? If so, I think the zombies would probably thank us.

Kings Park Avenue and all the wee streets off it.

Tony Watt 😂 Please never change!

I’d start Maswanhise and task him with constantly running at and through their defence from kick-off. Rattle them early and hope our striker(s) can feed off scraps. If we let them start well and take control, we’ve got no chance. That’s why we need to start fast and aggressive to not let them dominate possession. This will get their fans on their backs early, which is exactly what we need. It’s in our hands to take the initiative and win this game. But, if we start with Robinson up top alone, we might as well all go home early.

Brilliant result and just what we needed in advance of Sunday.

That should be the case, but I fear Kettlewell will start with Robinson up top alone again.

Scottish football refereeing is the last place you’ll find consistency.

Not signing a fit and able Spittal replacement to service our mixed bag of strikers continues to be an issue. However, we don’t need attacking midfielders when teams gift us goals like that.

If Kettlewell sets us up to take the game to Rangers and attack, I'll eat my hat, but the guy suffers from the problems of every other over promoted donkey manager in this league and will likely try to set us up to not lose, and then lose. Fair play to Aberdeen for sourcing and securing a manager with some talent, who's not afraid to take it to the Old Firm. It's refreshing to see that in this league.

Based on my opinion which I further explained. Does that satisfy you?

Going into the semi-final following 3 defeats on the bounce won’t be helpful, so that’s why I think tonight is a must-not-lose game.

Tonight is a must-not-lose game.

I think that whatever harebrained formation he sets out tonight against Dundee United will give us a likely indication of how he plans to approach the Rangers game. With that said, I can forgive whatever he tries tonight (if it fails) so long as it helps him figure out what’s needed for Sunday. Although I would suggest that the Celtic game gave him that information.