6 down, 30 to go, next up Morton at home

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Originally Posted by stokearab

But he was fit enough to come on and change the game.
We have no idea how fit or unfit he was.
Anyway it's academic because no poster will ever convince you or Shedka regarding our manager (being stubborn and fallible) so I won't waste my time

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Please don't, you revert to that when quite clearly I have said I didn't agree with a couple selections recently, however they were mostly forced... Outwith that absolutely delighted he is our manager, still young and still learning no doubt but already experienced at a club like ours in the pathway we want to take

Just thankful we sacked Csaba when we did and didn't miss out RN by a week or two like dundee AND partick did being left with mugs like mcintyre and caldwell, had we held off and dundee got him they would not have went doon for example, very pleasing

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Originally Posted by shedka

Please don't, you revert to that when quite clearly I have said I didn't agree with a couple selections recently, however they were mostly forced... Outwith that absolutely delighted he is our manager, still young and still learning no doubt but already experienced at a club like ours in the pathway we want to take

Just thankful we sacked Csaba when we did and didn't miss out RN by a week or two like dundee AND partick did being left with mugs like mcintyre and caldwell, had we held off and dundee got him they would not have went doon for example, very pleasing

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Not really forced at Ayr Shedka, he could’ve put Butcher CH, and Harkes in midfield as WAS forced against Dundee, BUT then blew them away. Why throw Brown in for his debut? Madness.

Arbroath, Brown didn’t get a look in, says it all really.

Totally agree with your last paragraph!!

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Originally Posted by ballumbie_arab

Not really forced at Ayr Shedka, he could’ve put Butcher CH, and Harkes in midfield as WAS forced against Dundee, BUT then blew them away. Why throw Brown in for his debut? Madness.

Arbroath, Brown didn’t get a look in, says it all really.

Totally agree with your last paragraph!!

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Brown was given the weekend off to go home for the birth of his child. Expect him to start tomorrow.

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Originally Posted by JamesMcClean

Brown was given the weekend off to go home for the birth of his child. Expect him to start tomorrow.

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Regardless, shouldn’t have been thrown in the previous week, against a team directly challenging for too spot.
Robbie has done a good job since coming in, and was happy as feck how positive he setup and started the season, I just don’t understand why he felt the need to tinker at Ayr, then again against Arbroath. Really hope he reverts to his tactics in the first four games tomorrow, as Morton are no mugs, and handing them the initiative would be absolute madness.

Hoping for two up front; Appere & Shankland. McMullan on the right, with licence to come inside if it's on, and Sporle on the left mid to give us the option of getting the ball into the 'danger' (aka 'Shankland') area from either side.

Harkes/Stanton with Butch in midfield.

Smith Brown Reynolds Robson back 4.

That should really do it shouldn't it?

Pawlett and either Stanton or Harkes off the bench if need be.

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Hang on a second here. I disagreed with chucking in Brown against Ayr. I also disagreed with Appere suddenly becoming a left winger from having been up front alongside Shankland. But your insinuation in your previous post was that Brown was dropped for Arbroath as he was not good enough against Ayr. Brown was alright against Ayr and the defeat had nothing to do with his individual performance.

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Originally Posted by ballumbie_arab

Arbroath, Brown didn’t get a look in, says it all really.

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Post above specifically referring to this. The boy’s just joined. Give him a chance FFS.

Morton will set up the same as they always do with us. Foul, defend and hit us on the counter attack. They would be happy with a nil-nil game and turn the fans on our players to try and make a mistake and start hoofing the ball up to our lone striker. We need to be stÃ*rting with a high tempo and get an early goal...you can't give these teams something to hold onto. Pace, width and attacking football please...or we will find ourselves 1-nil down and trying to break down a team with 11 men behind the ball.
Any win will do...but I want to see a massive improvement from last week.

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Originally Posted by weegiearab

Morton will set up the same as they always do with us. Foul, defend and hit us on the counter attack. They would be happy with a nil-nil game and turn the fans on our players to try and make a mistake and start hoofing the ball up to our lone striker. We need to be stÃ*rting with a high tempo and get an early goal...you can't give these teams something to hold onto. Pace, width and attacking football please...or we will find ourselves 1-nil down and trying to break down a team with 11 men behind the ball.
Any win will do...but I want to see a massive improvement from last week.

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This is going to be every team outwith Dundee imo so we as fans better get used to it.

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Hang on a second here. I disagreed with chucking in Brown against Ayr. I also disagreed with Appere suddenly becoming a left winger from having been up front alongside Shankland. But your insinuation in your previous post was that Brown was dropped for Arbroath as he was not good enough against Ayr. Brown was alright against Ayr and the defeat had nothing to do with his individual performance.

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I didn’t say the boy had a bad game, but why throw a new boy into such an important game and disrupt things? Even more so, having seen the damage done previously against the fun, with Butcher at CH and Harkes in midfield, surely that was the starting point at Ayr? He reverted to that against Arbroath, but tinkered elsewhere (e.g. Apperre).