Ya Bezzer!

Like I pointed out we have failed to score in 5 out of 7. I think we can take the risk at this point and find out. Maybe 2 or 3 months from now we won't be able to, or, if we are forced to, it's a bigger risk.

I'm not into scapegoating Sammon but let the facts speak for themselves. Last season Sammon scored 7 league goals for Partick and 3 of them were penalties. So while he may have scored more than Main I still don't think Sammon is the answer to our problems.

I said about a week ago, half in jest, that when he signed Sammon it was based on height stats rather than anything else. But he's completely unsuitable for the type of football we play under Robinson. He wants the ball on the ground, he's not a guy that wants to go into aerial battles, he needs the ball played in to him, not launched at him. Unless we radically change our style of football Sammon is a non starter. And if we want to change our style we need a completely different set up and at least a couple of new players.

Scott should have been given the last two games before the split to show what he could do. Main can't score, Sammon's on loan, Bowman is clearly leaving....it's common sense but our manager consistently makes these 'safe' decisions to the detriment of the team. As it stands we've failed to score in 5 out of the last 7. We could have a player in Scott but you'll never know unless you give him a chance.

So if a pay in fan comes in and asks where to sit. Do you tell them to wait until every person with a ticket is in the stadium and in their correct seat?

Well apparently there are going to be pay gates at the Hamilton which means it will probably be the same again. Neither pay in fans or stewards can have an encyclopedic knowledge of who is sitting in what seat. Confusion could easily be solved by printing tickets without a seat number. Why they don't do that you'll have to ask someone else but it's not the stewards fault. Under those circumstances they have an impossible job.

Tait.

He's an absolute bog standard Bottom 6, fringe level wide player but he IS a wide player. Playing him at least gives you an option we don't normally have. Not that I think Frear is a great player, see above, but I have said at various times I think we play better as a team with him starting matches. If we can bring in more/better wide players during the window, great, but at present, if you want to give us some width he's really the only option.

Kilmarnock could have scored 3, 4, 5 today while our first meaningful effort on goal was in the 87th minute. Was far from our worst performance recently but Kilmarnock showed us how far we are behind teams with good coaching and organisation. Curtis Main - we cannot continue to have players behave like that. Manager needs to get serious with these players who, it looks to me, are just chucking it.

Looked like a 4-1-3-2 to me.

Perhaps telling that while we've been comprehensively outplayed by Kilmarnock and barely had an effort on goal we've not been as bad as most of the recent matches. I think Frear has given a little bit of something but Kilmarnock are dominating possession. Bit unlucky with the goal (surely it was meant as a cross) and the injuries. If Kilmarnock get the next goal we can all go home but at 0-1 you are always still in the match.

Tried to get a formation out of that line up and then gave up.

True but we probably have a few more options at centre half than most other areas.

Going with the whole counter intuitive thing since I really don't like the look of that line up I'm going to say we are going to get something out of this match. And I'll keep thinking that while I walk up to Fir Park and try and convince myself!

Kilmarnock has probably been the best performance from an opposition team I've seen this season. I'm having disastrous premonitions about our upcoming visit to NDP so I think we really need to take at least something from this match. Kilmarnock tend not to lose these sort of games but they have drawn a few. Forget about results 6 out of the last 8 performances have been no where near good enough and about half of those have been completely unacceptable. We need to up our performances big time.

Really slow, injury prone and not really been in good form.

Stewards aren't great but probably about half the support turns up with 5 - 10 minutes to kick off.

James Scott is sitting there. Put him in for two matches. See how he does. We have wide players - give Hastie a shot, give Watson a shot. Or just go out and spend more money on more players and then justify failure on having a small budget.

I'll play. Carson----Poorish this season after last seasons excellent performances. May have been down to his medical condition. Gillespie---Performed relatively well so far Aldred-----He's surrounded by poor players so it's difficult to judge him. Starting to have my doubts. Mc Hugh---If any player represents the current side it's him. Occasional decent performances but more likely stupid decisions, mistakes, daft bookings, poor technical ability, slow as fuck etc... Hartley----Growls a lot to cover up the fact he's injured/slow/done Grimmy-----Gives you maybe 4 good performances a year. Just not good enough. Campbell----Well down on last year when he was our best outfield player. Like Aldred he is surrounded by poor players. Burn out or is it a morale issue? Bigi------One of the better ball players but he flatters to deceive, consistently doesn't track back. Like McHugh someone that never seems to learn from repeated mistakes. Turnbull---By miles our most gifted player and yet was ignored by the manager up until recently. Out of contract, if he gets an offer from elsewhere he'd be mad not to take it. Tait---Another player that's hard to judge due to him being played in the wrong position. Have witnessed him being ripped apart on a few occasions recently. Main----Very frustrating player. Does some things well but as a striker he couldn't hit the side of a barn. His shooting is terrible, like guy on the street in a pair of oxfords terrible. Johnson---Has proved he will score goals if you create chances. Maybe doesn't give you much else though. Ferguson---All I know is Airdrie fans didn't rate him. Maguire----I rate him. Maybe too much football in him to get a game in our team. Mbulu---Has been a bit shaky to be honest but he's learning the game. No blame can be put on guys like Mbulu, they should be getting mentored by more experienced players. Gorrin----Sportscene star. Hasn't had many chances but if you take someone like Turnbull he came in and made an impression. Gorrin hasn't done that for me. Rose----Was never very good but has got worse and worse. Be gone! Bowman---Hard worker but I'm afraid he just isn't good enough for this level of football. Sammon---Has been a scapegoat for some. The signing was baffling as his game is not suited to the style of football we play. Do we bring players in on height stats? Dunne---Was poor at first, came on to a bit of a game but I think he's been atrocious since he came back from his injury. His distribution is shocking - a big problem with the team in general. Frear---When Frear played well the team played much better with the width he gave us. However I think his confidence has been shattered under Robinson. Time to move on. Cadden-----Like so many a player who has gone backwards. Lots of goodwill towards him but does anyone know what to do with him? Needs to find a position and add goals to his game. Tanner----I like him a lot, for a spell last season he was one of the few positives. However with the extent of his injury it's going to be tough for him to get back to that any time soon. Donnelly/ATS------Poor and injury prone. Newall---See above. Hastie---Would give us some width. From what I've seen he's not as consistent as Turnbull but I think it's worth giving him a shot. Maclean---A player we failed to develop when he had excellent potential. Will leave soon. Under 20`s ---- James Scott should be stepping up. Adam Livingstone has been excellent, one difficult appearance against Celtic shouldn't rule him out. Would like to see guys like Broque Watson given a chance off the bench (under the right circumstances) to see if they are ready for first team football. A few others, say, Akeal Rehman, look like they have a basic level of ability that many of our first team players don't.

This. 7 recent games, check out these shots on target stats. St. Mirren - 2 shots on target Celtic away - 0 shots on target Livingston - 1 shot on target Hearts - 4 shots on target Celtic home - 2 shots on target Dundee - 4 shots on target Rangers - 1 shot on target

You could do a lot worse than fine players £50 every time they play an aimless high ball. Of course it would increase local bankruptcies by roughly about 20 but these are desperate times.

There are multiple examples of us trying to sign a player in one window and then actually signing him in a different window under a different manager. From that you have to conclude that our managers aren't working off their own short lists.....at least all of the time. I think it's something to consider and to look at. With the complete lack of quality in the current squad our recruitment has to be something that's looked into.

Danny Johnson is one of the few in this squad I'd keep and Moult is one of my favourite ever players. There might well be talent in lower and non league football in England but our strategy of hoovering up 3 quarters of a squad from that level of football and then crossing our fingers and hoping one or two of them might be good enough to sell on while the team toils and the standards on display collapses ever downwards....that's not a strategy I can get behind. We have decent goalkeepers, one outfield player who can control a ball and two who might score and the rest are a waste of time. Otherwise the squad is dire. There has never been less talent. Even the team that went into the play offs a couple of seasons ago had Scott McDonald, Marvin Johnson, Lionel Ainsworth, Iain Vigurs, Lee Erwin, Henrik Ojamaa, Conor Grant, Stephen Pearson. Now some of those players might have been highly inconsistent, huffy, lazy, inexperienced or have other faults but at least they had some footballing ability. Every single one of those players is better than 95% of our present squad. There is virtually no technical or footballing ability in that squad of 20+ players. The club has been run down over 5 years or so and we are now reaching a critical mass in terms of lack of talent.

We had one player we signed from an English non league team that started. But they are non league standard and play in the style of a non league team. The fact that we signed them from League Two or League One reserves doesn't really come into it. Out of 198 first team starts (before today) only 69 of them were by Scottish players and that's if you include Tom Aldred. Overwhelmingly our team is composed of English lower league standard players that just aren't good enough.

Totally agree.