AllyMax

So you fully believe we can give opposition teams 70% possession and 15-20 attempts on goal on a weekly basis and come out on top more often than not ??

Big plate of words and hats for dinner tonight. Yum :-)

Another 90 mins of having the penalty box peppered.

So, persisting with the crap formation, taking the only footballer out of midfield and leaving a badly underperforming centre half at left back..... I'm not a sack the manager type normally, but this guy is a fucking idiot. (Will happily eat my words/hat if required).

I don't think they have generally, just being used badly.

Exactly, we've run out of luck. We didn't 'dominate' any of the teams we've beaten this season and pretty much everyone has dominated us in terms of possession and chances. We were just lucky enough to have taken the couple of chances we had, while they didn't. If you spend 70% of every game frantically defending in and around your own box, then it's going to back fire more often than not. The better footballers in the side like Watt must be frustrated as fuck with being asked to get on the end of long balls and draw fouls and a centre forward like KVV must wonder why the fuck he's being asked to collect ball on the halfway line and the touchline constantly. It makes no sense.

For 42 mins they were still all over us, the difference was they didn't take any of their chances, so if 'how you wanted it to go' was camped in your own penalty box and breaking up the park 3 times in 42 mins, then he's right. It was going well.

I said on another thread, I heard a pre-match interview where he said that 'Even although the last couple of results hadn't gone our way our stats were amazing and that gives us confidence for today'. That is just delusion, plain and simple.

I agree with this, we have a better quality of player than last year (although we don't have a working mid like Campbell) but Alexander's dogmatic approach to formation and surrendering of possession and only defending inside the penalty area is sheer madness. Players like KVV , Watt and Roberts will score goals if you deliver them the ball in areas they can score from, not when they get it on the half way line or out on the touchline, that's not where a centre forward should be. Starting every week with a heavily outnumbered midfield is also madness. If Alexander thinks he can mould these players to do what he seems to want to do is fantasy. This is not a reaction to this game, it's more a reaction to the last few, where teams like St Midden have played us off the park. Even the games we won this season, we've been out played for long periods in them and scored one or two on the break.

We don't have the players to play 4-3-3 and that was even exposed in the early part of the season in the league cup games when we were outplayed by lower division opposition. Persisiting with it is madness.

Absolutely fucking pathetic

Agreed. At least the cunt won't be playing next week now.

Why in the name of fuck would a player (Goss) turn side on when supposedly defending a shot ????

On a side note, heard Alexander interview on the radio before the game and he actually said "The last couple of results didn't go our way but our stats from these games were amazing and gives us positivity to take into the game today". What the actual fuck ??

If you take our goal out of the equation, where we scored with one of what, two or three at the most forays forward, we've just basically let them shit all over us the way we did against St Mirren. Wave after wave of passing all the way through us that always end up in our box. 90% of time we win possession, we've lost it within 2 or 3 passes.

So thats it fucked now then.

Van Veen is a big rough arse centre forward (albiet with slightly more foot skills than some). He's scored two goals from good crosses into the box where he's got on the end of them in the six yard box. He won't score goals when he's receiving the ball out on the wing or on the half way line. No striker will.

I think Alexander has lost the plot (happy to eat my words if required at 1.50 pm). I think the sign of a shit manager is one who tries to shoehorn players into his formation and style rather than try to find the most effective formation that plays to the strengths of his available players.

A pitch inspection has already taken place and the ref has declared a penalty to Rangers...

Correct, outside the few mins around our goals, we were utter crap. Couldn't pass, midfield that neither defended or attacked, pumping balls up into spaces where we had no one, ending breaks trough midfield with backwards passes and even they were inaccurate. Absolute dross. If Alexander finds a way to defend that or keeps going with the same shite formation, we'll drop down the league as time goes on as teams realise they can play right through us.

No he wasn't, he was left one on one with the entire defence at least 10 yds up the park and staring at the linesman. The left back, who's channel the ball was played into was nowhere to be seen.

I swear to christ, if alexander talks about how well we played, i'll end up harming myself.....

That was some unreal refereeing right there for that foul against O'Donnell

Two saves by Kelly keep us in it. We really are proper shite.