Kmcalpin

A game where character will be required, if we are to take anything from it. Changes need to be made to the starting line up.

Agreed. but I think many did. Maybe Tuesday lulled many of us into a false sense of security. Before the match many would have anticipated it'd be a real battle and it was. Morton have a big strong physical team and they played to those strengths. A good few thought SK would rotate the squad more giving more gametime to some newer players and rest regulars ie when we were 3-0 up on Tuesday and cruising - that didn't happen. We looked jaded tonight. A few questioned the inclusion of Miller and O'Donnell for different reasons and they both started. The team may have been more talented than Morton but lacked their will to win and character. Many mistakes made before kick off and also afterwards. Yes, we have no right to beat a Championship team in the cup, but thats now 2 years in succession we've lost. We do have the right to expect the team, if they are going to lose, to go down fighting but they didn't - they went down without a whimper.

Agree with Smiddy and Villageman. SK is going nowhere for the time being but should/will be replaced at the end of his contract in a few months time.

We should have taken the opportunity, when 3 0 up and cruising, to make more changes. This would have given fringe/ new players more game time and given others more of a rest. A few of us said this at the time. An opportunity spurned.

That's it for me. The team lacks character, especially in midfield. Talent alone will only get you so far. For starters, a keeper, any keeper, should not be captain. We lack an Ally Mauchlen or Colin O'Neill type in the middle. Any big physical striker, however agricultural can upset our rearguard.

Correct. Wrong judgement call.

He's a Championship jobber; thats his level. Physical enough to make our backline look poor. He'll get found out.

Physical honest endeavour and aggression will only get them so far. That was good enough to beat us though.

Ah Vale again.

Very much so. A lot of bad decisions off the pitch and we look to have been ill prepared. We were beaten at 7.15 tonight.

A good summing up.

Ah some changes!

Starks Park II Well that's it for another year. Pathetic.

Yes, that's causing us all kinds of problems and Morton are taking advantage with a high press.

He is what he is . We knew, when we signed him that he was weak in the air.

We knew they are a big physical team, good in air. So we keep the ball on the deck going forward and minimise crosses. Team probably needed freshened up for tonight. As far as I can tell, the wind isn't hampering Morton

We look ill prepared for this game and Morton have taken us by surprise.

We look rattled and simply not up for it.

Well that was coming. Really no surprise. Someone has forgotten to tell the team this is a cup tie.

Losing too many 50/50s. Getting beaten in air.

As I feared our midfield is struggling.

Let that be a warning to us.

I've just turned off the commentary.

On paper we're too strong for Morton, but we'll have to earn the win tonight. I don't think we're good enough to sit back for the first 20 minutes or so, give them the glass jaw, and let them run out of steam. Whilst not being overly physical we need to compete with them in midfield and get wellied in. Guys like Power and Broadfooot are no spring chickens being 36 and 39 respectively. Whilst they may have experience, Have they got the legs?

Exactly. Beating Dunfermline 5-0 is no mean feat but beating Ross County 5-0 is an even bigger achievement. Let them worry about us.