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  1. On 11/24/2025 at 10:45 PM, weeyin said:

    Not really.

    When you aren't getting a game, you need to be doing exactly what is asked by your manager and coaches to get into the first team. No other distractions.

    Once you're in the first team and playing regularly, you can start thinking about doing enough to get into the national squad.

     

    Id suggest when you are in the first team and playing regularly you still need to do exactly what you are asked by the manager and coaches, or you will be straight back on the bench.

    Lets just agree if Lennon Miller focuses on his club and is playing first team football by May, he is going to the world cup.

  2. 17 minutes ago, couttsy said:

    Has to be Maswanhise for the 2 first half goals. Mention for Fadinger who was good as usual and Ward who had a good save at 0-0 and dealt well with crosses. Shocked to see Said getting some votes here, thought he terrible and gave the ball away constantly.

    He did. But he generally gives it away in the opposition half after he has dragged us up the park. If we can coach the final ball into his game he could be some player. He is 23 though, so not sure how much more development is in there when really its decisikn making that is the problem.

  3. 23 minutes ago, weeyin said:

    I think the biggest testament to our current midfield is we never hear anyone say we miss Lennon Miller. (Of course he'd still be an asset in this team).

    The midfield we have assembled, with balance that Fadinger, Just, Slattery and Watt bring makes it one of the best I have see for years. And with options like Said we even have a little depth for the first time.

     

     

    Its mental that we sell a generational talent for £4.5m and end up with a better midfield than we had before.

    I would have loved to have seen how Miller might have thrived in this team, but alas, thats not the way the world works.

    I expect Slattery may well be the next one to be sold and there will undoubtedly be suitors for Watt and Fadinger.

    Just need to enjoy them while we can (no pun intended).

  4. Thought we controlled the game in the first half and had majority possession, albeit Kilmarnock still created some decent chances.

    Thankfully we were able to defend them properly for a change, and took our chances when they came along.

    Second half, Killie pressed us really hard and we lost control of the ball.

    The game became far more end to end and it was really disaapointing to lose the goal from a really encouraging position for us.

    The goal gave Killie a lot of encouragement and we were a bit fortunate to survive with one off the line and one off the bar.

    The penalty settled things a little and although we werent fully comfortable I think overall we deserved to win the game.

    Good 3 points. We have played much better and lost/drawn this season. 

  5. Big test against one of the form teams in the league.

    It would be a statement result if we could beat them and re-inforce the feeling that our league position should be better than it is (albeit still more than adequate).

    Might need to refresh a little given we are playing Sat/Tues/Sat so would expect to maybe see Stama, Just and RCC from the start. Maybe SOD featuring at some point.

    Thankfully the squad is in a decent place right now and some rotation is possible without necessarily weakening us.

  6. Id go with this today, and bring on the travellers late on if required......

                             Ward

    JonnyK  McGinn Welsh  Longelo

                     Watt Fadinger

         Slattery                       Said

                    Hendry  Stama

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  7. 35 minutes ago, wellon said:

    That used to be funny , the hare wore specs and ate carrots and there was a pig with a really strong brummie accent....I might have dreamt this tbf?? 

    Wasnt the pig just called Pig? 😆

    I remember Octavia the Ostrich and Topov the Monkey! 😆😆😆

    Hartley was a pain in the arse though!

  8. 7 hours ago, wellon said:

    Disagree, there's been plenty cutbacks and stam hasn't been there.

    Ive seen plenty hit the first man or go flying over his head. Not seen too many whizz across the 6 yard line waiting for the tap in. Its the very thing that was remarkable about Hendry's goal in the semi final. The fact that it was Sparrow that delivered it might say something.

  9. 16 hours ago, Yabba's Turd said:

    Hendry's goal is how I thought we would score the majority of our goals this season, finished with a tap in almost, something is just off with us, if we can get in behind the way we did against midden there's hope.

    It was the kinda ball that Stama must have been dreaming of all season.

    We just dont deliver enough of them.

    Hendry and Stama seem like similar types of striker to me, albeit Hendry seems a bit handier with the physical side of the game. 

    We could do with something different in January. Something Theo Bair shaped......

     

  10. 33 minutes ago, mio said:

    I don’t want to discuss St Midden any longer or any more than I have to but did you see the prices for the final? £46 for an adult!! £28 for a concession!! Fk me….. get it right up them!!!

    joking aside….. that is utterly scandalous 

    Even the cheaper tickets are £40 & £25 which is a significant jump from the semi finals (£30 & £15).

    Mum, Dad & 2 kids £40 more expensive.

    Pretty brutal.....

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  11. 40 minutes ago, wellfan said:

    It won’t be the first time some of us have questioned his game management. Giving Slattery the full 90 on Wednesday then benching him yesterday should haunt him for a while. He needs to learn these harsh lessons sooner rather than later.

    Absolutely.

    Slattery should have been hooked at 60 minutes on Wednesday in preparation for starting yesterday. Just didnt play at all and could easily have managed 30 minutes.

    Maswanhise was also absolutely burst with 20 to go on Wednesday and was invisible yesterday.

    To be fair, I do think the injuries to SOD and potentially Welsh on Wednesday night altered the gameplan for subs, but it definitely felt like there were different decisions that could have been made then, that look even worse now.

     

  12. Longelo was very frustrating yesterday. Never went by his man once. I did wonder whether he wasnt 100% fit or if he had been instructed not to leave any spaces in behind him (albeit that would seem to fly in the face of how we play).

    Similarly Maswanhise was very disappointing. He is such a frustrating player at times. Capable of lighting up a game and scoring from nowhere, but an empty jersey the rest of the time.

    I felt there were too many of our players just not at their level yesterday and wonder whether the exertions of Wednesday night took too much out of them.

    It does raise more questions of JBAs game management on Wednesday night now that we have seen yesterday play out.

  13. Really disappointing today.

    Didnt turn up first half and although St Mirren didnt cut us open we gifted them 2 goals and its a long way back from there.

    Second half we were better, but once again poor decisions in the final third cost us.

    Stama was very poor today and Im ready to accept Hendry should be starting until we can get someone better in.

    Maswanhise, Said and Longelo all seemed well off it today as well, although by no means the only ones.

    I thought once we got the goal we might get back into it, but instead we lost all discipline and composure and on the wrong end of a bad scoreline.

    You could argue that the starting line up was wrong, but none of us know what the injury/fitness levels of various players are/were, and I didnt have any real arguments with the lineup beforehand.

    We certainly improved with Welsh, Slattery and Hendry on the pitch, but could they have started/lasted 60 minutes?

    Just really disappointing to shit the nest in such an important game.

    Will take a few days to lick the wounds of this one.

     

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