Lobey_Dosser

Watching the highlights, I love the away top with the white shorts. Great combination. Skippy's first goal pleased me, poachers instinct still intact.

Really bold decision tonight and it's paid off. Fair play, delivered when the pressure was being cranked up.

I'm the first to criticise McGhee so credit to him tonight. The 352 gave me the fear but a very bold decision that has paid dividends. Sounds like the experienced pros done a good job in guiding us through with an unfamiliar position. We are far from out the woods but hopefully tonight settles us down a little and we can return to a settled style of play that suits our strengths. Having said that, do whatever it takes to get a result at Perth on Saturday.

Fucking love skippy!

Skippy, yaas!

Anytime I hear pundits talk about United, the heads tend to drop when the go a goal down. Right in about them at the start of the 2nd half please. This back three still gives me the fear though.

So we don't have our own playing style anymore? Just match up with the opposition? Hope I'm a mile out but we could get battered if we don't settle into a back 3 with no defensive minded wing backs.

No inside info. McGhee says Lasley will be given every chance to make it. If he doesn't, then I suspect Chalmers will be one of the very few options considered. Laing would be about the only other choice.

Sounds like Lasley is touch and go. Chalmers on standby.

. I agree entirely. Unfortunately the easiest way to get fans back in side is with a result or two. If that fails to materialise by the time we leave Perth on Saturday then it's something the club has to address.

Granted, the unwelcome volume of abuse coming from the stands is escalated due to him being a very unlikable man that burned his bridges 7 years ago. However, the reason for the current criticism is for poor decisions and failure to take responsibility for such poor decisions on the majority of occasions. Not dissimilar to his poor spells at Aberdeen and Bristol. I personally wouldn't give him abuse at the game (afterall he is not to blame for the appointment) but criticising his managerial ability on here is fair game IMO.

Probably unfair to draw attention to the Bois. I was a little taken aback by the number of old loyal faces that walked out the cooper when we went 2 down. Think that speaks volumes for the predicament the club is in.

Is he that much of a different player? Maybe lost a little pace but he was never the fastest. I'd struggle to say whether he was better now or then. He got pelters from some of our support first time round too iirc but much of that is forgotten.

Favourite is probably the wrong word but he seems to be one of the trusted ones. He plays week in week out despite being at fault for numerous goals. Agree that it's not just McGhee that's played him regularly, although that maybe says more about our recent managers and the inability to find a competent right back since the much maligned Tom Hateley moved on.

Scott McDonald has been awful? I don't get that at all. He was the best player on the park for 5/6 games on the trot at the turn of year. While his form has dipped, primarily due to being left upfront on his own, he continues to run himself into the ground. McManus signed for Motherwell because it was convenient to where he stays. Those who employ him take the blame there. Pearson has been poor last few weeks but iirc played through an injury at Dundee or Thistle and it looks to still be the case. The main issue I have with players revolves around the selection policy at times whereby your likelihood of getting dropped depends on whether you are a McGhee favourite. The out of depth Josh Law being the prime example.

Recent weeks would suggest we need to go back to basics. Over time a 433 could work but I think we have to go back to getting the best out of Moult and McDonald by playing 442. Gomes had a nightmare against Killie but I like the idea of him and Lasley forging a partnership, with Cadden and Johnson either side. The defence seems a shambles whatever the personnel but I think an opportunity for Luke Watt is long overdue. Huge game.

Has to be Ripley. Of the others, only Johnson, Skippy, Cadden and Thomas approached pass marks.

So nobody should take responsibility for a terrible appointment?

In terms of finances, momentum and leadership, the club is in bother. Has been for a couple of years now.

The prospect of McGhee returning to the club should never have entered the minds of the clowns that recommended him to Les. As a club we were well versed in his flaws and should have stayed well clear. We are in real bother now as we are left in the lurch with a manager that few people like, a manager that is tactically inferior to Lee McCulloch and a manager that has visibly drained the confidence out of some of our players. I can't see us winning for the foreseeable future yet I suspect it will be some time until we part company with McGhee. When he does go however, he shouldn't be the only one.

Whoever recommended McGhee to the owner should be getting the bullet. This was never going to work.

Like the look of the team today, just need to get the right shape.

I enjoyed that McManus interview.

Boy that set up the Peterborough goal then missed the pen is a relation of Zaine's.

Would love to see Simo get a chance in Scottish football but like us, it would be helluva risk for Killie to take him on in their current predicament.