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You don’t have to tell me anything. We’ve both made our minds up.

I can only assume that some on here won’t accept or can’t see that we’re stagnating under Kettlewell until we go on another awful winless run and/or have another shit transfer window and/or have another glorious cup failure as a result of his tactical genius. We flopped yesterday because of him, which was sadly not in the least bit surprising. The players (and he) got us there, but he alone messed up our chances at the penultimate hurdle. He set us up to fail because he’s tactically limited, made bad decisions during the game because he’s clearly an idiot, and had limited options to change things due to more previous bad decisions. See any patterns yet?! I’m extremely disappointed by what happened yesterday. We all are. It was auch a predictable let down and without even a whimper. If people can’t see, or refuse to acknowledge, that the overwhelming body of evidence before them already presents a generally crap picture and outlook, then so be it. As I said before, and for the reasons outlined here and elsewhere, my view is that we’re going nowhere under Kettlewell. The odd semi-final and Theo Bair story won’t change that view. We should expect and aspire to something better. An identity at least.

Did he get us to a final or win us a domestic trophy? No. Is the season over yet? No.

I don’t have a visceral dislike for him. You could probably say I had that towards Alexander. With Kettlewell, I just think he’s an over-promoted harebrained donkey. His tenure has been marked by wild swings in form, strange recruitment, and a complete inability to show that he’s capable of learning from his continual mistakes. We’re going nowhere under him. It’s turgid and unexciting and he’s willing to accept playing for 30% possession and winning via the odd break of the ball or set piece. That’s not for me. I want bravery. I want an identity. I want to enjoy watching us.

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.