Kmcalpin

A very hard game in prospect and we can't afford to field the same personnel or play the tactics as we did last weekend, if we want to take anything from the game. As it is, our striking options give me the fear. However, its not all gloom and doom. Killie may have an off day / we may strike it lucky etc etc. Its all to play for.

Hopefully this news isn't true but if it is, you're right. In this very tight league every little advantage helps.

A lot is going to depend on whether Biereth is fit or not as well as if we are able to bring in a new face. As things stand we are sterile up front.

A no from me. Early to form opinions about new players, but the alarm bells are starting to tinkle, not yet ring, for me about our strike options if Biereth has a long term injury or isn't available. The side badly lacks pace.

A hugely disappointing result and performance yesterday. A chance to go on a money spinning cup run spurned. That said it was always going to be a tough ask to beat St Mirren on their own ground and the draw wasn't kind to us. Since 1976-77, we've played the Buddies 3 times in the League Cup, all away from home and won once and lost twice. Since then we've played them 7 times in the Scottish Cup, 4 times away and 3 times at home (including a replay). We've won once, drawn twice and lost 4 times. A very poor record against a similarly sized club. I get our injury situation and Biereth's loan conditions but I think we chose the wrong team yesterday. By dropping Miller (I get the reasoning behind it) SK clearly prioritised the league over the League Cup. I don't get the logic of changing the defence by switching McGinn to LWB. Clearly McGinley and Wilson weren't trusted. What does that say about them? That being the case we're a LWB down. SK has a great record with us but mistakes were made yesterday and lessons need to be learned.

Good post Greg. I quite get the need to reduce squad size and thats fine, but to bring in players with questionable injury and or playing records seems to be counterproductive and contradictory. Yes, of course we can't go out and sign dead certs we all know that. As things stand we need to ship out another 2, possibly, 4 players. In my view, we need 2 wing backs, another midfielder and another striker. We clearly don't have a preferred back up LWB.

I'm as far from being a tech expert as you'll get Allan but these explanations seem perfectly reasonable. In general I think that in the rush to implement new technology solutions for general use in society, the actual application isn't quite there yet, or if it is, isn't being applied in practice. It would appear that scanners, in widespread use, aren't all they could be. These sort of problems simply shouldn't occur.

Being another old dinosaur does anyone know why this would happen.

BBC has our formation as 3-4-3 with Spittal up front. That must be a reporting error surely?

We've got 45 minutes to turn this around but big changes are required if we are to do so.

In theory you're right, but maybe its to do with handling online queries over the phone or they want to know final numbers before close of play. Yes, it coud be to do with the Police. In any event, the paying customer comes last.

Add to that, one is currently injured and yes, we are light.

There is a reason for it; its just that we don't know what it is and haven't been told. Whether we agree with it is an entirely different matter. Edit: On second thoughts, I suspect that it's to do with opening hours of the office, which the club will not change.

Good luck to Barry Maguire, but it was obvious even to me quite some time ago, that he wasn't going to make it with us. Apparently he didn't cut the mustard on loan with Dundee either.

Good points Grizzly. We are heading for a cashless society but we're not there just yet. Some older folk do struggle with modern technology and as we've seen over the past few months some websites are far from user friendly. We need all the support we can muster and older fans, many of whom have been to Fir Park for donkey's years shouldn't be sidelined impatiently.

Only 2 games into the League season, but a promising start. Yesterday was a yardstick against a potential top 6 side and we came through it well. It also allowed us to measure ourselves against close rivals St Mirren in an indirect way. So far so good, but early doors. A promising start from Biereth; lets hope he continues in that seame vein. I watched the highlights and was impresssed with his physicality and ability. He fought off two pretty robust/illegal challenges in setting up a goal and scoring one. He can give as good as he gets.

A classic comment, Tam. I like it. Your analysis is correct of course.

Sorry Steelboy but there was a lot more wrong with Hammell's reign than that and I mean a lot more. A catastrophic appointment and I don't use those words lightly.

Hibs have done well in Europe so far, but before we get too pessimistic about our chances we'd do well to remember that St Mirren beat them on their own patch. A very tough clash in prospect but winnable.

Whatever you've been offered in India, we'll top it. No surprise

Just watched the TV highlights from yesterday and have 3 takeaways. Bair took his goal very well indeed and first time - impressed. There's a player there somewhere. Its concerning just how easily Dundee seemed to be able to cut our midffield and defence apart. On a couple of highlighted occasions, including their goal, a Dundee player managed to thread through several defenders without any tackle whatsoever being made. Too easy blame Souare and central defenders - a bit more to it than that. Dundee's second hitting the woodwork effort - one of their players was about half a metre offside. Just glad it hit the woodwork as I wouldn't trust VAR.

I wasn't at the game but a Dundee supporting friend was of the same opinion. He thought we were reasonably good and fully deserved our point but were vulnerable down the flanks and our centre midfield a bit soft or disorganised. A better team would have punished us. Early days and some changes and improvements to come no doubt but we'll see how good our point was in a few weeks time, when Dundee has met other teams.

Pretty much my view. Certainly not the fixture you'd pick for an opener but a draw is decent enough. One of the worst piches we'll play on this season but that was the same for both sides. Given his recent comments, SK will not be happy at the goal we lost. Wing back positions do need to be strengthened. Good to see McGinley and Efford get some game time, but maybe the condions wouldn't have suited the latter. Finally well done Theo Bair/Blair/Bear - great to score on your debut especially away from home.

In those conditions? Maybe if their pitch had been in better shape.

I was greatly encouarged by SK's recent press interview. He stressed the importnace of getting the basics right; being solid, reliable, hard working and organised. Once we achieve that we start to "add layers" in his view. 100% agree with that. Any team that achieves that basic stanadard will stay up. The fancy stuff comes after that.