Being 'up' for a game

I know a week has passed but Falkirk is still pissing me off!

I had the pleasure (or otherwise) of watching on their stream and from before kick off you knew the whole club was up for it. The commentators were talking about high tempo, being in our faces, solid work rate and most disturbing was the talk of kicking our better players off the park in an organised rotation. Yes kicking individual players!

Now if the TV channel can be as pumped for a game it means a message is travelling through the club. Whether the one to kick players is right or not, it sure as hell worked.

Without a good work rate, strong midfield, end to end attitude it really doesn't matter how good a defence is it will leak, or how good strikers are as they won't get service.

The midfield is simply too small for the team, lacks work rate, physical presence and most of all heart.

The hardest thing about last week was the way at 0-1 up (yes we scored first) everyone stopped working, gave up and then didn't get up again. We have had a couple of good results recently and then sat on the lead. Yes we should be looking to try to score 5, 6, 7 or more every gave and work right up until the 93rd minute.

OK rant over, lets adopt a little of the Falkirk work ethic.

Wish I'd been in Cyprus last Saturday :)

You're maybe right tho, speaking to a couple of Arabs this week the S word is being used & it looks like the opposition is picking up on this.

We need to completely change our mind set when playing away from, set up to be more defensive and hit on the counter for as much as we look unbeatable at home we're the absolute opposite away. Have we ever won a game since being down here by being physically stronger or out fouling a team? or out yellow carding a team?

Playing games at Tannadice is looking after themselves but we really need to toughen up away from home or the only league we're winning is the fair play one:blue:

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Originally Posted by Whitfieldarab

We need to completely change our mind set when playing away from, set up to be more defensive and hit on the counter for as much as we look unbeatable at home we're the absolute opposite away. Have we ever won a game since being down here by being physically stronger or out fouling a team? or out yellow carding a team?

Playing games at Tannadice is looking after themselves but we really need to toughen up away from home or the only league we're winning is the fair play one:blue:

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We always out yellow card a team, usually through incompetent refereeing. Dunfermline kicked us off the park at Tannadice and yet we still amassed more bookings! Falkirk won the foul count last week, but again we got more bookings!

High yellow count is simple. When a wee gangly light player fouls a big hulking brute it looks much worse and therefore gets the yellow immediately, big guy on small guy looks like a simple brush off.

Our midfield is so lightweight in every term you can imagine that there is no real forward service and too much weight put on the back 4. The midfield should be finding spaces when the back 4 has the ball, but they dally around and let the marker win.

Our movement off the ball is second to everyone!