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Apart from one slack pass wee Luca Ross has done ok since coming on, really busy, wanting the ball, making good runs.

It’s rotten isn’t it. Really miserable stuff.

Looking forward to see the formation. Looks interesting

It is a “sort of” project as we’ve not played this way before. I do think it can work, Guardiola has showed that but he does have the world’s best defenders at his disposal. This style would work easily in womens football as it’s incredibly slower than men’s football. for me, I can’t help but think it’d be quite easy to play against at our level. You’ll have 2 opposing players shutting our defenders (who aren’t great on the ball) down immediately, and ….. it may come as a surprise to some folk …. But we don’t have the worlds best defenders at our disposal. lets see how it goes today again, let’s hope for an improvement on the past two games, that’s all we can ask for. still think we’ll win 3-0

👍 I think the vast majority of us are onboard with that tbh.

I wasn’t moaning at all and what I was saying youve just said. I gave my thoughts on it and am willing to give this time as I said, and genuinely interested and sort of excited on what’s to come. I wasn’t being negative at all.

How do we know though? There won’t be a comparison? Unless he plays half the season one way and the other half the other way. we just need to see how it goes.

🤣🤣 hands up, I did feel myself transitioning into Enfield. “transitioning”…… jeezus, I am swallowing all this new football jargon 🤦‍♂️

I do agree, I think these goals are inevitable and when we lose them the frustration will be apparent. I’m willing to give this an acceptable amount of time and as long as we remain safe from relegation then I’ll accept the style of play, but if we are sitting bottom or 2nd bottom of the league 3/4 of the way through the season, shipping ridiculous goals due to our limited defenders , due to a “project” by our manager, with what awaits the future of the club/staff/support, in the lower leagues then I doubt I’ll be as patient. I’m not entirely convinced this defensive set up / style, is necessary and there is an element of vanity project about it but I do like the attacking winger element of what I think he’s doing? anyway, it’s something different so we’ll see how it goes.

He’s all about load management. I hear him as when I sit watching TV at night over the weekend and I’m half way through a family bag of Doritos and large bag of minstrels, I too consider my load management. Sometimes I transition to the floor to enable me to use a quality counter press to complete the job in the final third.

Ok Motherwell, as patient as I am 🤣 Nothing more than a good win is acceptable. We are playing a mid table league 1 team. weve had a few games, we’ve seen a steady improvement, JBA should know what is working and what players have something about them. We “should” be miles ahead of stenny in fitness and ability, (and player numbers by all account) forget the plastic park, ability really should be the determining factor here. 3-0

Get in faddy!! I’ve been quite impressed by him tonight, he’s a bit of a Harry Paton upgrade with much better hair.

Well….. that was p1sh!! I only want to see a steady improvement each game and that first half wasn’t any better than Saturday’s. anyway, we’ll see how the 2nd half goes, wee need many more goal shoots!!

What height is connelly? Watching this he looks like a midfielder who’s replaced an injured goalie.

To be fair, he’s looked pretty good going forward the Longelo lad.

That’s been the only positive so far

Im just hoping the Peterhead players tire in the second half. Half of their team will have been working all day so I’m hoping they’ll wilt soon.

Jesus, that should have been 2-0

I will give this defensive situation and how the manager wants to play a bit of slack and try and be patient but that was a shocker of a goal to lose. It looked like u/12 defending.

I’ll miss tonight but it looks a really interesting team, gutted to miss it. really pleased to see connelly get a chance, I just hope to god he takes it and does well. We badly need a goalie who’s not a crock. mcghee long term injury? Thanks Kettlewell

I think that is a player who would fit reasonably well at us. I suppose it just depends if he wants to go from earning circa £10k a week to £2k a week. he may get some club in league 1 offering £5k plus. We just can’t compete with these teams unfortunately.

Big Cedric signs for Ipswich. Oh to have him in our defence again.

I agree completely. The stuff he gets is embarrassing. He’s been a target from day 1 of a certain element of our fans. Even when he was playing well. In 50yrs of going to games I’ve seen it all before unfortunately.

As much as i struggle to warm to Halliday, I have no doubts that he’s a good football player. I actually think he’d be excellent as an old style sweeper behind a good centre half. The issue is, we need to find a good centre half.

Yip, I went there today expecting exactly this. And boy was that delivered. Should be good to see the next game though as it should hopefully show us as fans, how the manager saw that game and what changes he makes. As long as I can see a steady improvement in each of these league cup games, I’ll be ok with that. But yes today was a tough watch. I don’t want to now comment on who I thought was rotten (there were a few) as I’ll be accused of being a panty wetter. lol