texanwellfan

Agree, but sitting here watching and wondering when we will give StMirren their early Christmas gift.

Yes, need more from Spittal, Slattery and Paton. We also don’t appear to be trying to manufacture opportunities for Gent and Spencer to get forward and throw crosses in.

Not very many balls in from Spencer and gent

O’Donnell’s distribution is terrible

We need to get the ball on the ground and pass. We have given Beireth nothing to work with so far.

How long have you been on here? There’s never an occasion where we are all smiling. Always a moan or greetin in there somewhere, even if it’s about the pies. 😆

Yes, we need to get more crosses from Spencer. Gent seemed to have more room/success than Spencer did last week. The more crosses we get in the more chance of scoring. Also, having St Mirren have to deal with wide threats should leave more room in middle.

I’m pretty sure they know what to do we just have to do it. When we turn the ball over you need to apply pressure on the ball to slow down the opposition attack or preferably win the ball back, high up the park. So in essence you have to move up and down the field as a team otherwise it’s hard to put pressure on the opposition. We were doing a great job of that (playing as a unit) earlier in the season and it’s one of those basics that we need to re learn. It takes concentration and effort and I think for our players they just have trouble applying that concentration and effort every week. Hopefully we find the trigger to get them back in that mindset very soon.

Agree with that l, except weighted balls over the top for him to run onto are fine but yes, we do have to ditch the hit and hope long balls we have been seeing far too often.

Yep. Davor done enough to merit starting V St Mirren as did Gent. I’d also start Bair along side Mika based on his short performance yesterday.

I would start Davor and Gent again and probably Bair alongside Mika. SK must be thinking hard about dropping Kelly.

I think the ref left his cards at home. No cards at all today, right?

Bair looked surprisingly much better today for the few minutes he was on the field.

Kelly oh dear

lol I was typing at same time

Although he doesn’t give it away much. Win the ball and keep possession. I’ll take and let the other midfielders step up and do the “creative” work.

I’d take basic stuff like pass and move. If they just done that we would look 10 times better but the lack of movement off the ball, showing for passes is abysmal

That’s my worry. Almost got sucker punched right before the half but luckily Kane just couldn’t connect properly.

The way we play I think we need someone more mobile than Obika. I’d put Shaw in there for Obika. Haven’t used Spencer up the right as much as I’d like to see. To many long balls still.

lol it’s just adjectives but not in the same class as the mix up

Line up ????

Don’t see anything wrong with that. I use phrases like that all the time. If you don’t know the name it helps narrow it down.

Yea, basically Mika and one other

Probably line up per below since not too many options due to players out kelly O’Donnel Bevis Blaney Davour spencer Slattery Spittal Gent Mika Wilkinson

I forgot all about Blaney. Seems a decent starting line up. Obviously we need to tighten up defensive side of our play but we can make things so much easier for ourselves if we stop giving the ball way time after time, when we should be completing simple Passes with ease. Cut down on the long hopeless balls and play wide or through the midfield. Generally, execute on the basics and we stand a good chance of getting 3 points.