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I don't think we will see Campbell starting. If McHugh is unavailable I reckon he'll use Rose and Bigirimana as the central midfield and the shuffle will come somewhere else, depending on who's fit.

For me Robinson has everytrhing to do to justify his appointment but I'm looking squarely at players today and in the other matches I've seen this season; unlike a few around here I actually go to games and today was my 6th of the 2017/18 season so I've seen more than most. But anyway, the players have an individual responsibility when they are on the field that's beyond team selection, tactics or even performance level. They have to behave on the field as professionals and currently we just aren't doing that. Lee McCulloch described St Johnstone as 'street smart' last week. They draw fouls where there is none and get away with them when there is. The problem is if St Johnstone are 'street smart' our guys are complete dopes. All those red cards, all those goals conceded today were completely avoidable. They fell hook, line and sinker for everyone of them. It's brainless football we are playing right now with brainless footballers. We need to shape up and stop using excuses. If we need a good referee to win a match we'll go down on a record low points tally. Players need to start engaging their brains and start making smart decisions and not put themselves into the kind of positions they put themselves into today. Today was easy for St. Johnstone to defend, easy for them to score. We are just easy to play against and easy to take points off. Instead of bemoaning the referee or quoting possession stats people should be asking why a poor Rangers team last week can beat us at home or a St. Johnstone team that barely got out of second gear can put four past us with ease. Now we can go on further into the season with heads in the sand or we can go on and try and address some fairly major issues that have been exposed this early into the season. I know what I want Robinson to do.

Partick went up there and won 3-0. But the Partick are team capable of getting 0. We are easy points because we gift atrocious goals every week. 8 in three games against top level opponents. Could have been 10 if Kenny Miller hadn't missed a sitter after Dunne's 'Zak' moment and the penalty save today. It's not good enough and if people accept this now we are only going one place. Now add in that we've given away three penalties in three matches and 4 red cards in three matches with Moult lucky to stay on against Rangers and you have an unsustainable problem. Already we are going into a hugely important home match (lets face it we are getting nothing off Hibs at Easter Road) with completely unnecessary suspensions on top of the injuries. It's like professions suicide. How can people accept this lack of professionalism?

I saw the game with my own eyes, did you? You'd have to be dead in the soul or totally deluded not to be angry with that performance. I made more effort getting here than most of the players did on the park. Totally unprofessional performance that was not even non league, it was juniors level. But yeah, keeping blaming the referees all the way to May. No surprise newly promoted Hibs turned over Rangers at Ibrox when we made excuses for not beating a rotten team at home.

A disgraceful display. And clowns in our support clap them off the pitch. You might say mediocrity was the acceptable norm at this club but that would make us better than we are.

Melt down.

Have you paid £23 to see your goalkeeper sent off for picking the ball up outside the box?

Unbelievable. If Samson had done that there would be a lynch mob on the pitch.

Even the 5 yard passes are going in the air.

Perked up a bit since the goal. Still think we look dodgy at the back though.

2 against Rangers, 2 against Ross County, 2 against St Johnstone (so far). Joke defence. The goals we have given away in this match have been pathetic and St Johnstone look they will score every time they come forward.

St. Johnstone will play 5 in midfield so I'd be surprised if we didn't match up.

Blyth was inept while jogging. Truly awful and good riddance. Look forward to his selfies from the bench at upcoming Airbus vs Connah's Quay matches.

This. Rangers haven't had an away draw this season or last season but the season before (2015/16) that they had 3 - Airdrie, Ayr United and Hibernian. Presumably then the conspiracy started sometime between 2015/16 season and 2016/17 season. Also, noticed a full moon last night. Stay indoors and watch out for lycanthropes.

We had 3 out of 11 perform today. If that's good enough for you fine. Most likely St. Johnstone will be no worse and probably better than Rangers today so we are going to have to improve in all the areas I've mentioned if we want any points on the board in Week 2. Our passing, crossing and finishing aren't good enough and the fact that a poor Rangers team were a bit lucky to beat us doesn't change that. Standards have to be raised if we want to get better than scrambling around at the foot of the table every year. As for balance, I gave a thumbs up to Heneghan today, a player I've been fairly critical of, while being fairly scathing of McHugh, a player I've mostly praised. You can't really accuse me of agendas or ploughing the same old furrow. All I do is say what I see. We lost at home to a very average side today and if we had shown even just a little bit more quality when it mattered we would have got something out of the game. Dropped points are dropped points whether its the first day of the season or the last.

Kipre, Heneghan and Cadden were the three players that could say they had a good game today. Going for Cadden.

A few people have said that recently while cutting out the praise I've given from their quote.

Thought it was quite exciting but low quality match. The ball was given away more often than not and the final ball from both teams was shite. Finishing was poor. Besides the first 20 minutes or so I felt we were always in the match, despite most players not playing that well, that maybe tells you something about Rangers. I said last week the gap between Kipre and Tait was going to be a weak spot and so it proved to be. Middle of the park was poor, Rose was fairly anonymous and McHugh gave the ball away just about every time he played a pass. Dunne/Frear on the left just wasn't working. Sometimes feel like Frear is tied to our post with an elastic band. He just doesn't make the runs and when he does he usually makes the wrong decision. Dunne's balls forward were howling and he needs to concentrate more when defending. On the up side Heneghan and Kipre did well at the back and I thought Cadden was excellent today. We should have scored more goals but so should Rangers so in that sense the result could have varied wildly, we could have won, we could have got a pasting. Overall though I felt we competed reasonably well but our quality needs to improve - crossing, passing, finishing. Ultimately a little bit unlucky not helped by a shocking display from Madden but we just looked like we lacked that little bit extra quality that in the end gets you the points.

Quite bizarre that they chose to go full time after being relegated from the Championship. Looks like they are going to romp that league based on early form so it might not be his last hat trick of the season.

Generally, I think if you go toe to toe with a team that's on a different level of quality you are likely to come off the worst, whereas if you try to tactically nullify a teams advantages you have a fighting chance. The thing is we are going into a game tomorrow and we don't really know how good or bad either team is.

BIGIRIMANA, Gael BLYTH, Jacob BOWMAN, Ryan CADDEN, Chris CAMPBELL, Allan CARSON, Trevor CLAY, Craig DUNNE, Charles FISHER, Alex FREAR, Elliott GORDON, Shea GRIFFITHS, Russell HAMMELL, Steven HASTIE, Jake HENEGHAN, Ben KIPRE, Cedric LIVINGSTONE, Adam MacLEAN, Ross McHUGH, Carl McMANUS, Stephen McMILLAN, Jack MOULT, Louis NEWELL, George ROSE, Andy TAIT, Richard TANNER, Craig THOMAS, Dom WATT, Luke Of course Dom Thomas and Craig Clay have left and Ellis Plummer has come in. I mistakenly included Craig Clay but that still gives you 27 players.

Loans can be used as a form of player development. Unfortunately in recent times we've used loans to simply move youth players out of the way and sideline them until their contracts run down. See - Dom Thomas, Dylan Mackin, Craig Moore, Tom Fry, David Ferguson, Luke Watt.

I've voiced similar concerns many times and I won't repeat them but on top of what you are saying above I think it's worth noting that we now have a first team squad of 28 players. That doesn't seem like a sensible number on a whole number of levels.

Funnily enough although I'm not Heneghan's biggest fan I think he's been decent in the recent matches against Rangers.

Great analysis comparing Berwick Rangers, Edinburgh City and Queens Park to Dunfermline. Add in Morton and the Dunfermline still have about 2,000 more supporters than the average of all of them.