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Originally Posted by ballumbie_arab

As usual, you are papering over the cracks!!

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Nah just being balanced as usual and telling the truth, that is what's happened

There is no big crisis, we will come out of this run and improve, I've no doubts, the covid outbreak has delayed that

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Originally Posted by shedka

We aren't though, if it was a run of 8/9 games with our strongest xi not winning, then it would be a concern, it's been anything but, we've missed key players consistently through injurys, suspension and the like, before we managed to get back to something like our best team the covid outbreak hits, we have barely had one first choice centre mid at times from our earlier good run of form

A run of games with your strongest line up and you get results and momentum, you do better than a stuttering period with injuries suspensions and mixed with loss of form

One positive today is Glass scoring what sounds like a cracker, he impressed me in a recent home game, maybe Livi... Can see him becoming a regular higher up the park if he maintains that

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So you didnt even watch that game! WOW!

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Originally Posted by pertharab

We are sh!te end of story. Thank **** we put points on the board early or I would be sh!tting myself thinking relegation was on the cards. Think we will scrape 9th or 10th to be honest.

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You are right but so is shedka. There are mitigating circumstances and there is no point ignoring that. However, the recent games have been soul destroying to watch for us all. Absolute pish.

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Originally Posted by shedka

We aren't though, if it was a run of 8/9 games with our strongest xi not winning, then it would be a concern, it's been anything but, we've missed key players consistently through injurys, suspension and the like, before we managed to get back to something like our best team the covid outbreak hits, we have barely had one first choice centre mid at times from our earlier good run of form

A run of games with your strongest line up and you get results and momentum, you do better than a stuttering period with injuries suspensions and mixed with loss of form

One positive today is Glass scoring what sounds like a cracker, he impressed me in a recent home game, maybe Livi... Can see him becoming a regular higher up the park if he maintains that

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Tbf there was four games with our strongest eleven that started this run. We've then had six without, so it's not all to be blamed on not having our strongest eleven on the park. It hasn't helped recover that loss of form, no, but the early season good run had gone before injuries and covid took hold.

I'm obviously disappointed, as with any defeat. But there was indeed a lot of mitigating circumstances.

Wih the upcoming break, we can hopefully clear up our injury list and bring in a couple of players in Jan.

Buy when we come back in Jan, we need to be fighting for every decision and point to be had.

Break has come at the right time but that was really poor today.

We miss Fuchs and Levitt in midfield. There is also a worrying lack of urgency to try and get a result or win games.

Run we have been on since about hearts has been bad. Aberdeen we were lucky the fan had them riled and player sent off etc though we did well at end to win it as with Mulgrew v Motherwell.

Hopefully by time we play again will have proper striker and Levitt Fuch Edwards Mulgrew and Benji all on the park

We have been very unlucky with our squad availability and im willing to cut a bit of slack. The club were massively short sighted and nieve in our striker recruitment though. For having one of the best defences in my lifetime we have by far the worst bunch of strikers/fowards ive seen.

We were very poor today. Prepared to cut TC a bit of slack however giving the injury and COVID issues. That’s said I think we shld have played glass from the start. Also Ican see why he played clark today giving the shortage of senior players, but as soon as we have someone else to play up top he needs to be benched. He gives nothing to the team and shld only be used as an impact player.

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Originally Posted by bannon_ftd_83

We have been very unlucky with our squad availability and im willing to cut a bit of slack. The club were massively short sighted and nieve in our striker recruitment though. For having one of the best defences in my lifetime we have by far the worst bunch of strikers/fowards ive seen.

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Agree with this. I’m interested to see what we can do after the break with an actual striker on the park

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Originally Posted by bannon_ftd_83

we have by far the worst bunch of strikers/fowards ive seen.

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Certainly one of the worst if not the worst collective bunch iv seen as well. Even our first choice front 3 would be one of the worst.