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It was a soft penalty but the defending is so poor, Mugabi is wrong side and he does put a hand on him so I'm afraid we just have to deal with it cos we can't defend properly and to be honest Coleraine deserved an equaliser for their 2nd half performance. 1st half wasn't great but we are 2-0 up and instead of building we get much, much worse.

We don't deserve anything on this second half performance.

Defending from that free kick was atrocious.

They should have scored right before we did. They have had other opportunities to get shots on target but fortunately they learned their shooting technique from limbo dancers.

2-0 up but not a very impressive performance. Our defending has been garbage and the way a team like Coleraine, essentially a Scottish League 1 level side, can carry the ball from the half way line to our box with not very much opposition just isn't good enough. There was a point when one of the Coleraine players took a two yard touch 35 yards out and still managed to get on the ball, run at us and shoot. At 2-0 up I want to see us play some decent football with the pressure off but it doesn't really look like coming cos basically we are not very good.

Looking already like The Battle of Pish Defences.

Missed the first 5 minutes or so but the pitch looks pretty bobbley. If that's how you spell it!

My view is if you can beat Maribor away, then you can beat us at home. Doesn't mean we are doomed to defeat but we cannot afford to be complacent especially since our general level of performance hasn't been good over an extended period of time. We might have scored 5 against Glentoran but we are still miles off from being consistent scorers so we need to make sure we are more secure at the back than we were in the last EL match. Conceding once could cause us a lot of problems.

There's only two Stephen O'Donnell's. Apparently Coleraine have one as well.

I'd agree there isn't much between most of the teams and even while Hibs and Aberdeen might be a bit better I don't even think on a game by game basis they're is anything to fear from either. Our issue though is we can't score, which unfortunately pretty much negates any other qualities as it's impossible to win without a goal. The number of goals scored this term just goes to highlight that the standard of the league is very poor but you'd imagine teams like Dundee Utd, Hamilton and Aberdeen will get more goals when their main strikers are back and fit and others have brought new guys in and are getting them up to speed - Livingston, St Mirren etc. We, on the other hand, look like we'll be relying on the guys we have currently.

Motherwell 1 St Johnstone 0 We stay bottom, St Johnstone go up a place into the Top 6.

Game we had to win. And we did. Other than that? Every problem is still there. Still a hell of a lot of paddling to be done to get out of shit creek.

You need to follow this bold claim up with a list of ginger full backs who have played for us since Rab McKinnon.

So no centre half can play defensive midfield? He had 5 starts last season and played most of one match. Out of those 6 we beat St Mirren twice (remember when we could beat St Mirren?) lost away to Hibs and Celtic (where he got praise for his performance), and at home to Aberdeen and then came on in the 18th minute against Hearts where we drew 1-1. So that's P6 W2 D1 L3 with most of the matches against city clubs, and mostly away from home. Overall Maguire has played 12 league matches for the club over 3 seasons. 3 of those appearances amount to, literally, a few minutes of football, so in the 9 matches where he has started or got any amount of game time how exactly have you come to such a firm conclusion that he is 'doomed to failure'? Look at our form recent form and I'd be looking to maybe give other players a chance, just a chance, to show they can do better.

I don't think you can sort it out that's why you can't have people sitting next to one another. The rules are too complex and subject to change at any time, either at local or national level. So I think that basically the only way it works is if everyone attending has to be socially distanced. I believe Under 12's don't count in terms of social distancing (might be wrong about that) so you'd be able to have young children next to an adult but you'd have to have seats set aside for family groups.

I was thinking more like Robertson, McGregor, Forrest, McTominay, Armstrong, McBurnie etc. We've been utter drivel for about 5 years so we need to start looking at the players instead of the manager. Way, way too many players given 30% of their club form to Scotland. There comes a time when poorer players putting more effort in, gives you better results than good players doing fuck all time and time again. If you go back as far as the terrible defeat to Georgia, we pick big club players and they just don' t look interested.

If you need 1m social distancing that means most people in the stand will need at least one empty seat in every direction between them and others. So unless you sit on an aisle I make that 1 behind, 1 in front, 1 right, 1 left, 1 front right, 1 front left, 1 behind left, 1 behind right. So a 'box' of 8 empty seats around every spectator. There is no way you get 1,500 people into the East Stand. Nothing even close. At most you are getting maybe 350 fans in there.

Maguire should be playing that DM role, or at least getting a chance, but I just don't see Robinson picking him. He's not had a single second of game time this term. Big, big game for us. Only Rangers have pumped St Johnstone this season so you can see it being a pretty grim struggle with one goal settling it. Between them the teams have played 540 minutes of football and scored 1 goal. And Motherwell and St Johnstone have conceded 36% of the penalties so far awarded in the league so perhaps, if there is a goal, it will come from the spot. I think it'll be tight but St Johnstone have wins under their belt, scored more goals and conceded less so you have to have the old claret and amber lenses on to not have them as favourites.

Or maybe they are accountably for public health in the era of a previously unknown, highly infectious and potentially deadly virus. Football, far from being strung along, has been given significant exemptions.

Ross County chairman was on the radio the other day and the way he was talking it was unlikely in the near term that anything other than very small groups of supporters will attend games and he basically dismissed any chance of away supporters attending this season. Personally I don't think we will get back to anywhere near normality until there is an available vaccine and that is still some time off, that's looking like Feb/Mar 21 at the earliest. For me I'm considering this season as a complete write off in terms of actually attending matches.

Gallagher would have had a better claim if he'd been in last seasons form this season but I agree that he's not been anywhere near good enough this term. As for McTominay, like a number of other players, he's trading off his club sides reputation rather than his form in a Scotland shirt.

Seems like a decent draw until you remember they just posted a result against Maribor which if we had done, would have been our greatest ever European result.

I think there is a kind of middle ground here. It is a new season so the end of last season's poor form doesn't directly effect what we do this season but at the same time it does indicate long standing issues under Robinson. Issues around creating and scoring have been around since James Scott left the club so you have to put your hand up and say that Robinson has failed to deal with these in the second half of last season, during the break and so far this season. We've scored 15 goals in our last 20 league matches, obviously averaging less than 1 goal per game. We've failed to score 10 times in that time, 50% of matches, and only scored more than 1 goal 3 times from 20. When you take out the clear anomaly of scoring 4 against Ross County it takes it to 11 goals in 19 matches which is very poor. And of course using only this seasons stats show the problem has got worse. Goal scoring is the reason we are currently bottom of the league so I do think casting an eye back is warranted if you want to really analyse our form but at the same time I do think last seasons defeats don't have the same currency in 20-21. They have some currency (ask Barraclough) but not the same currency. If we are going into October without a win then critics won't have to cite last season any more because I think failure to win in our next three will constitute a real serious issue, especially if some of the other strugglers pick up points.

Well this summer told us you can be relegated after any amount of games! I hope we improve but it's a bold claim to say we won't be 'anywhere near it' with our current numbers. The thing that really concerns me is goalscoring. Failing to score in 5 out of 6 is pretty bad but it goes beyond that. We've failed to score in 10 of our last 20 league matches and we've only scored more than 1 goal twice in that time. Teams that don't score always struggle.

We didn't do too badly all things considered today although I think Robinson has changed the system too early in the match. We were looking fine and then within minutes of going to four at the back we go 2-0. Felt he should have just kept it as it was until the last 10 minutes or so. Overall though 6 matches, 2 goals, 1 clean sheet and 2 points isn't good enough. Need to see a big improvement in the second half of this quarter.