Quote Originally Posted by the_arab View Post
It was the injuries to certain players that put us on our best run of form. Having them back as options started our poor run along with bringing in Powers.

Agreed we were always going to have a poor run, its just painful when it looks self inflicted by the manager


My recollection of what took place is

We were on good form August to Oct and Pawlett was playing a part in that including the 6-2 derby and the 6-0 v Morton, only real time we werent in form was the back to back away games at Alloa and Queens which had an international break in the middle and we weren't full strength either game just like now

Only thing you could say that may have saw our defence improve was Watson coming in and surprising everyone with how good and consistent he was (he had a total stinker vs east Fife at cb after which no one wanted to play him) after Neilson put him on in Inverness when Connolly got injured (it was more because troy brown got injured tbf as Connolly was injured in August until early November) , he kept his place for two months after Connolly returned... Only missing games after the injury at home to Hibs there in mid January so again doesn't fit the narrative

What disrupted our form was key players getting injured plus losing Stanton, powers coming in and the balance with that bit yet working, other little niggly injuries here and there seeing guys missing a couple games, it's a culmination of circumstances

One we will sort out and see us as runaway winners in 2-3 months