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Cup tie against a team who offered feck all, Connoly had 1 save to make near the end, apart from that they were never a threat. 

1st half team selection was dreadful, too many changes no Just in midfield and stamatelopolous is like starting with a man down. We created chances and a shout out to Laccoviti for a brilliant block to deny TJ the opener.

When Just and Fadinger came on we were a different team, and we got the goal we deserved.

So another win and clean sheet at fortress Fir park, into the next round draw so all in all a good day.

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A win, another clean sheet, and that is the most disappointed I've felt leaving Fir Park this season.

Funny old game, as someone once said.

Still, we are in the hat for the next round so that is all that matters.

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We played OK today but everything was a little bit flat.  

The team line up, the engagement of the crowd, the overall performance, there was definately a sense that we'd just breeze through this tie without trying.  

Maybe 'complacency' is too strong a word because we dominated the match but at the same time we weren't at our true levels and then when you take out the amount of quality we were missing today it was verging on being a bit laboured.

We'll have to go up a few levels if we want to win a trophy but we are through and that's the main thing.

 

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52 minutes ago, wellsince75 said:

That for me was pretty poor , a team who did just enough and no more to win . 
 

I appreciate it’s the cup against a stuffy team etc etc but that’s not how we’ve gone about our business this season . 
 

glad to be through , just not a great amount to shout about for those paying hard earned cash . 

Some folk are just never happy. 

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1 hour ago, weeyin said:

I see we did pass the 5,000 mark for crowd.

5,547 the official attendance and I think they said 147 away fans.

The crowds across all the games were surprisingly low for the Scottish cup. 1800 at Livingston and, surely a BBC misprint, 4373 at Tannadice, 4501 at Kilmarnock so makes ours look very respectable.

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Results are all that matters in the cup, and we got what we needed without having to give up much. 

The lineup wasn't very inspiring, but it was good to see Connelly pretty much slot right in. He played a little deeper than Ward, but still looked more than capable of starting more games if needed. 

Ross didnt do much but it seems that the instructions are very clear to our full backs not to try and bomb past their man and get crosses in. Which is good, because we're still pretty had at them.

When we brought JBA in, a big deal was made about how many minutes he gives young players, so it's good so see him start doing that for us. It was easy for the club to gloat about academy player minutes when we had Lennon Miller available to us, but hopefully this is the start of a new crop coming through. 

I think if we had got the goal earlier we'd have scored a bunch, but they were ultra defensive, and didn't even commit much in attack when we did score. I liked how patient we were, giving them very few counter attack opportunities, which is essentially all SKs teams do. 

Good to see that Cornelius still likes running around. 

How nice was it to celebrate a goal and not immediately have to worry about VAR. 

Also, are folk trying to make TJ a thing despite the players and multiple managers calling him JT sonce day one? 

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2 minutes ago, fizoxy said:

Results are all that matters in the cup, and we got what we needed without having to give up much. 

The lineup wasn't very inspiring, but it was good to see Connelly pretty much slot right in. He played a little deeper than Ward, but still looked more than capable of starting more games if needed. 

Ross didnt do much but it seems that the instructions are very clear to our full backs not to try and bomb past their man and get crosses in. Which is good, because we're still pretty had at them.

I think if we had got the goal earlier we'd have scored a bunch, but they were ultra defensive, and didn't even commit much in attack when we did score. I liked how patient we were, giving them very few counter attack opportunities, which is essentially all SKs teams do. 

Good to see that Cornelius still likes running around. 

How nice was it to celebrate a goal and not immediately have to worry about VAR. 

Also, are folk trying to make TJ a thing despite the players and multiple managers calling him JT sonce day one? 

I thought Ross had beating of his man and should've ran at him more often

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3 hours ago, weeyin said:

I see we did pass the 5,000 mark for crowd.

5,547 the official attendance and I think they said 147 away fans.

147 fans for a Scottish cup tie = The Kettlewell effect.

 

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7 minutes ago, wellfan said:

Unremarkable game with a much-changed starting eleven, but job done. Why was Luca Ross at left-back? He’s an attacking winger.

Well we played v Celtic with no strikers and beat them 2-0.  With JBA, anything is possible :D

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Kettlewell brought 4 buses today to park plus we look for perfect goal too often but we got the win.   Fadinger and just made a difference ( jeez if only Just could finish), slatts frustrating again and young Luca looked nervy but a successful day

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