Looking ahead positively

[shedka]

Which is what we should be doing

For me I've always thought it would have been a (very welcome) bonus had we got up this time, I'm not going to dwell on today or the tie, was very even over both games and it wasn't meant to be

Compared to this time last year it's night and day with how I feel about next season and the future as I did a year ago

This time I feel confident about our future, think as a club we are going to kick on from here, we have a foundation this time to build on with a summer window to improve where it's required but without the same kind of rebuild before, we have a manager who is more than capable of leading us to the title given the chance of a full season with his own team, we have the owner who will back it, we have the fan base back onside who were staying away due to previous owner and his mess, a fan base which blows anything else out the water in the league next season

When the fixtures come out we will all be raring to go and we should look forward to it and the journey it will be, it's not where we wanted to be but a year from now we will look back and say it was a necessity to fix the mess of the previous owner and the previous manager, was never going to be the quick fix we hoped.

[JamesMcClean]

Which is what we should be doing

For me I've always thought it would have been a (very welcome) bonus had we got up this time, I'm not going to dwell on today or the tie, was very even over both games and it wasn't meant to be

Compared to this time last year it's night and day with how I feel about next season and the future as I did a year ago

This time I feel confident about our future, think as a club we are going to kick on from here, we have a foundation this time to build on with a summer window to improve where it's required but without the same kind of rebuild before, we have a manager who is more than capable of leading us to the title given the chance of a full season with his own team, we have the owner who will back it, we have the fan base back onside who were staying away due to previous owner and his mess, a fan base which blows anything else out the water in the league next season

When the fixtures come out we will all be raring to go and we should look forward to it and the journey it will be, it's not where we wanted to be but a year from now we will look back and say it was a necessity to fix the mess of the previous owner and the previous manager, was never going to be the quick fix we hoped.

Bang on.

[Eamons_lost_wig_04]

good post and I agree....however the pressure really is on next year to get the team we need to get us up!

[spikeontheright]

we have a manager who is more than capable of leading us to the title given the chance of a full season with his own team.

Any evidence of this?

[darrenshedtastic]

Agree with the post.

Theres always an overreaction when we lose any game.

Neilson's took us to 2nd and had he been given the full season then he could easily had got us automatic promotion.

Pressure is on sure but we're in a MUCH better position now than we have been in previous years since being down.

[GUNBOAT]

I have been involved in football for over 50 years and if we keep the same partnership in central defence and our manager who i originally backed persists with his negative tactics we will still be a Championship club at the end of next season. ST Mirren were a very poor side but their manager at least spent plenty of time on the training ground to teach them how to play out from the back.
What the phuck has our manager done with our central defenders?,their distribution is the worst i have ever witnessed,the goal we conceded was the fault of both centre halves and both of them came close to scoring but were brilliantly thwarted by their own much maligned keeper,FACT.

[TerryTheTerror]

I have been involved in football for over 50 years and if we keep the same partnership in central defence and our manager who i originally backed persists with his negative tactics we will still be a Championship club at the end of next season.

We've conceded just 2 goals in the last 7 games, the defence isn't the problem IMHO.

[stokearab]

We've conceded just 2 goals in the last 7 games, the defence isn't the problem IMHO.

I think its fair to say that Robbie has improved the defence. Whether it's good enough for next season is a debate all of its own. Terry is right it's not the defence that has cost us it's our inability to play cohesive football as a team that has cost us.
Too many times our back 4 launch it long.
When our midfield do get the ball they're panicked and wasteful. They either punt it long as well or end up losing possession. Our front players don't bring the midfield into play then make runs. Even if they did by and large our midfield aren't good enough to pick the right pass.
There's no patience, no pattern to our play, no composure on the ball. I think it's pretty bleak as things stand and anyone saying this squad can be tweaked to win the championship is making a very bold prediction.
Either the combination of 14 players can't play football or our coach is unable to get them playing football and no amount of look on the bright side threads can gloss over than imo

[Chick A Saw]

We've conceded just 2 goals in the last 7 games, the defence isn't the problem IMHO.

Championship level, i agree with you. For the step up, see todays result.

[stokearab]

Championship level, i agree with you. For the step up, see todays result.

1-1 it was in 120 minutes. This focus solely on cb is a wee bit of a red herring surely