El Grew
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16 minutes ago, Orinoco said:
anyone seen our midfield??
Been AWOL for months now!!
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On 11/8/2023 at 1:43 AM, joewarkfanclub said:
Kelly
Spencer Casey Butcher Blaney Gent
Paton
Slattery Spittal
Bair Biereth
Can’t disagree with your defensive set-up but putting those 3 in midfield is just asking for more of what we’ve been getting lately. When we lose the ball, none of these 3 is capable of providing any cover to the defence. Maybe consider scrapping the 3 centre-backs + 2 wing-backs set-up and move to a back 4 and move Butcher forward as the defensive midfield cover in front of them.
Kelly
Spencer, Casey, Blaney, Gent
Butcher
Slattery, Spittal, Paton
Bair, Biereth
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On 11/7/2023 at 9:49 PM, stv said:
Or Stevie Cowan
Stevie Cowan, Stevie Cowan! He’s fat, he’s round, he’s worth a million pounds.😂 😂😂
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On 11/5/2023 at 12:11 PM, Ya Bezzer! said:
Back in the days mobs formed on Fir Park street screaming for McLean to get fired. We had a chairman that actually supported the manager back then. Nowadays they are weaklings that cave to any pressure.
I’m old enough to remember when mobs formed in Fir Park Street demanding that Bobby Howitt be sacked. 😂
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1 minute ago, AllyMax said:
SOD should be hunted out the toon after this performance.
Why? He was only on the pitch for about 10 minutes as a sub. He’s certainly well past his best but there were others much more culpable than him today.
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Takes two strikers off and puts one striker and a full-back on?????
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I’m afraid a few players seem to have reverted back to how they were under Hammell - McGinn, O’Donnell, Slattery, Paton and Spittal. Also Bevis Mugabi is a whole-hearted honest big guy but he is most certainly not a footballer. Kelly’s mind seems to be elsewhere at the moment as he seems to have been absorbing all the media pish about how we might struggle to keep him following his 45 minutes for Scotland v France.
Its a statement of the bleeding obvious, but the major problem is our inability to defend properly and stop leaking poor goals. Kettlewell had better wise up to some of his non-performers and fast or he’ll find himself in the dole queue.
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Criminal!
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Our All time Home League Record v Kilmarnock
P121; W62; D22; L37
GF 204; GA 138Win 51%; Draw 18%; Lose 31%.
Last 5 home games against them: W3; D2; L1.
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On 8/19/2023 at 5:36 PM, fizoxy said:
And we also don't have enough of a fan base to attract some rich weirdo to buy us.
I doubt the size of fanbase has any bearing on whether or not some “rich weirdo” as you put it, would be attracted to buy any club. Anyone with a large financial surplus would be wise to steer clear of football clubs because they are simply black holes for money.
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4 minutes ago, MJC said:
I’m not necessarily disagreeing with anything you have said there and I too think it will be a long hard season. But going as far back to administration 20 years ago now all we have heard from the club is “we are skint, we have no money”. Even when we had Dempster as CEO and were regularly qualifying for Europe after high league finishes that’s all you got out of the club! The same was the case when Burrows was at the helm. Just constant poverty pleading.
Hoary old chestnut I know, but fan ownership for a club with a small hard core support of around 4,000 is at the heart of the “we’re skint” mantra. It was commendably idealistic and laudable but more a reaction (inevitable?) to our administration. I think as time has moved on it’s become increasingly clear that we simply don’t have a large enough fanbase to support our ownership model.
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11 minutes ago, MJC said:
Same old, same old with us in Cup ties. All we ever get is let down.
For those saying “I’d rather lose in the league cup than in the league”, the League Cup is one of only two competitions that we have a realistic albeit outside chance of winning. So for us to continually perform so badly in cup competitions is absolutely pathetic and something that should be a great source of concern to the club.
That’s a very important point because the further you go in the cup competitions the more income is generated both for progressing and from potential TV revenues. Another missed opportunity.
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It will come as no surprise that our overall home league results against Rangers stinks but here are the bare stats:
P136 W27 L80 D29 F148 A282
Win: 20%
Lose: 59%
Draw: 21%
Our last home League win was 1-0 on 26th December 2002.
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4 hours ago, FirParkCornerExile said:
Kettlewell has binned SH tactic of playing from the back. The slow side to side movement where we hardly progress 20 feet was hard watching. You need a quality midfield to do that and we don't have that. We mix our play up a bit more than we did under SH. I can see what SH was trying to do you just need better players than we have to be good at it. We go long when we need to , we have a couple of guys who can hold it up when we do. That said the standard in the last two games is still awful but in our position that doesn't matter a fcuk . We need to get points playing ugly and the last two games we've done that.
Agreed.
As an old industrial works phrase went “you can only pee with the c*ck you’ve got.”
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1 hour ago, mio said:
We’ve won the VAR comp today. Not convinced with that red. Van veens touch was a shocker, and I’m pretty sure the other big centre half was getting there.
VAR Today:
Ross County pen claim in 1st half. Ref denied it but failed to consult to confirm. It was the right decision as the replay showed our player got a touch first.
Gave pen to Ross County at start of 2nd half. Asked by VAR to review then rightly reversed his decision as the Ross County player fouled Butcher first.
Yellow-carded Ross County player for foul on KVV then changed to a red card after being asked to review by VAR. If it was for last man decision IMO it was wrong and if it was for high tackle on Van Veen IMO it was dubious at best.
Still nice 3 points to have so onwards at upwards. COYW.
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51 minutes ago, Robbos boy said:
Big lazy KEV again, shame on you all the doubters, take away his goals and then where would we be. King Kev!!!!!!!
Spot on. I’ve been posting about that all season.
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Credit to Dean Cornelius there. Took a pass, laid a pass, ran on took the return and slid a lovely pass for Spittal to cross. That’s what midfield players do. Well played young man.
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2 minutes ago, Mad Dog said:
County probably should have had a penalty there.
Certainly looked like it. No VAR at Dingwall! Strange.
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2 minutes ago, steelboy said:
We need to get shot of Spittal asap.
Not only Spittall. Slattery and Goss have reverted back to what they were like under Hammell - no protection to defence and no support to front two.
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Our league record against Ross County at Dingwall:
P17; W8; D3; L6; GF25; GA23
Win 47%; Draw 18%; Loss 35%
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2 hours ago, Spiderpig said:
I guess you don't like him then, even by this forum's standards of slaughtering and writing guys off before they've kicked a ball or started work that's a feckin ridiculous post 🤦♂️
I have no feelings towards the guy either way. I merely stated publicly available facts that show he has been a trouble maker in his past. Whether or not that occurs here at FP, time will tell.
As my post being a “feckin ridiculous post” this is a public fans forum where everyone is free to air their views, opinions comments, remarks etc. Constructive criticism and disagreement with is part of that but there’s no need to ridicule. So in the interests of balance I’d like to state that your’s is a “feckin ridiculous post” and that we agree to disagree.
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3 hours ago, Robbos boy said:
Good god George, you must have done a lot of research and have a major dislike for the chap to post this. Perhaps the guys just passionate about his football, you of course will have been a model employee!!!!!.
Information easily accessible via internet. Time will tell.
My employment record has got nothing to do with it and is my business but for the record, I was an exemplary employee.
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Can’t understand why we’ve made this appointment. The guy is a troublemaker.
April 2017
Brought St Johnstone in to disrepute after an on-pitch brawl with teammate Danny Swanson. Both suspended and subsequently fined four weeks' wages.August 2019
Involved in incident with manager Tommy Wright on training pitch. Dropped from first team.25 May 2020
Released from contract for criticising the club chairman for not taking advantage of government's furlough scheme calling it "morally shocking".Boy can our board pick them!
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We now have only 6 games left before the split:
Ross County (A)
Rangers (H)
Hibs (A)
Livingston (H)
Dundee Utd (H)
Celtic (A)
Motherwell v Hearts 11/11/2023
in Club Chat
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For me, today’s starting team selection, starting formation and the substitution of the 3 forwards who started that game demonstrate this manager hasn’t got a clue.
Oh and O’Donnell, Slattery and Paton are nothing mire than passengers..