Kmcalpin

Haven't seen any of the game. Was he up against huge 6-9 defenders and was he given good service by those supporting him?

Agree 100%. We now have a week to make final adjustments to the squad. AJ will now know his squad pretty well and should be well aware of where the shortcomings are. Falkirk, Stenny and Freiburg have been kind enough to help us in that regard. Some fine tuning required, not wholesale upheaval.

I don't believe it does count. Was the foul that serious?

Before kick off I would have taken anything better than 5-0. We accomplished that and with 10 men for half an hour.

Another player getting an enforced rest for Sunday. No problem if Freiburg have scored with another set piece, as long as we learn from it. Lets get ourselves organised at the back for the domestic campaign ahead.

So far so good. A decent result at half time.

Yes, copycats in many ways.

Hopefully Adam Livingstone is going to be ok. Get well soon!

I don't know but you may have a point. Do we know for sure that it was only the Bois who were involved in these events? 74k euros seems a heck of a lot for repairs does it not?

Neither have I.

I've heard of us arranging non contact training for injured players in the past 5 years, but can't recall exact details.

If this comes to pass, he'd be some signing.

This. I've seen flashes of real class from him and am confident that he has ability. Whether or not he comes good only time will tell. Perhaps, given his background, he's just taking time to settle. Just to be clear he was a "JBA" signing.

I received an email from the Society to say that they had passed on my complaint to Brian Caldwell.

A lot of it is down to fitness, gym work and sports science. When Lennon Miller went to Udinese, they had to work on his physicality. I suppose genetics also play a part. You can't turn a 5'6 player into one who is 6'3.

That will be one of my abiding memories of the game. They treated us with total respect as if we were prime Barcelona. Their movement on the ball was terrific and a joy to watch. Off the ball they worked tirelessly to close us down and possessed the physicality and athleticism to regain possession. We simply couldn't match them. That was no slight on us. I hope our younger players, and there were a lot of them, were watching and learnt lessons and also that our backroom staff took cognisance of their levels of athleticism and conditioning.

JGR gets my vote although Hodge wasn't far behind. Moormann was a contender until his red card. I thought about Paulsen as he had some very good saves and distribution was excellent but his aerial ability, or rather lack of, let him down a bit.

Time will tell but AJ will assume it was down to poor defending; he has to. We have a new defence which will take time to settle in so thats an important factor. Our defence will not be the biggest in the Premiership and will be tested aerially and we certainly can't rely on Paulsen in that regard. Still we can take hope from the manner of the defeat last night and from Freiburg's goals. In some situations, a Borgolfsson / Palmer Houlden partnership would cause our rivals some headaches. Whilst I really like our "new" style of play, good old fashioned physicality still has its place as Julian Schuster showed last night. One thing that has concerned me this season so far in the 4 games that I've seen, is our inability to close down attacks and crosses from the flanks. Now, that could be attributed to several factors including not having a settled midfield nor 2 fit proper full backs. Again, time will tell.

A wonderful night of European football and one I'll remember and cherish for years to come. Freiburg were the best team I've seen at Fir Park since the 1960s (I wasn't at the Dortmund game). Although clearly well off their normal standards, they were a joy to watch. They had technical ability in spades, and were much faster, fitter and stronger than us. It was men against boys. Even if they are well below their normal standard, like tonight, they'd easily beat any team in Scotland. I would have taken a 3-0 defeat at 7.30 and was overjoyed to see us score an early, well worked goal. What a moment that was. A 3-1 reverse was a decent outcome in the end. I thought they were so good, and completely dominated the game. Given that its very difficult to assess just how good or bad we were. I thought the referee was very poor and inconsistent and said to my cousin early in the first half that he had a red card in him. Fortunately it was only one. Freiburg were lucky to win the penalty as there was a clear handball in the build up just in front of us. But thats neither here nor there in the great scheme of things. I thought our most impressive spell was after Moormann was sent off. We dug in and limited Freiburg's clear cut chances. I do like the look of Hodge and Palmer-Houlden. It was also great to see SOD on the pitch again. My main worry was just how poor we were at defending set pieces for example at 2 of the goals. Domestic opponents will have been taking notes of that. AJ commented on that and it needs some soul searching in various quarters to address. A final word about our fans. There's been much criticism of the Bois behaviour but I was proud that a few of those around me tonight showed a sporting side when they applauded Freiburg players off the pitch.

Yes, very much so. Whilst we'll never be at Freiburg's level, there are valuable lessons to be learnt tonight by the players and management including Nick Daws. It was notable that despite our opponents superior technical ability, 2 of their goals came from brute force and superior physicality. You simply can't beat a big physical defence, when push comes to shove. We don't have a big team height wise and that needs to be recognised and acted upon. Yes, the new boy up front looked good despite working on scraps.

Ah yes, so he is.

No Vogt in squad?

He's in the official squad, so I'd think so.

Do we?

Irrespective of who we eventually sign it appears that we're in the market for an "Elijah Just replacement"/attacking midfielder.