Cup semi final - can we do it?

[neilthedon]

Glass half full view.

Its getting better !!

Still sick to lose yet another game to them .But , we are now starting to have a go. Team was picked to attack , and fromthe start we were pressing them. Even enough into them making mistakes and losing the ball.

Sure it's stil early days and this team needs to evolve. A couple of better central defenders would be niceWatkins was invisible first half when Cosgrove was on. Hedges was wasted out wide .Nice ti see Kennedy back , Leigh looked fairly good when he came on too ?

McCrorie was his usual good self. Etc etc.

I'm going to take the view of when I trekked all the way down to watch us play Liverpool back in tye 80s , when we (eventualy) got thumped. But it was the start of something.

Cormack , keep driving us onwith the demand for attractive attacking football. Start telling Deek we must qualify for the euro group stages from this season onwards.

We'll get there. ?


(Slowly !!)


(Cue the negative vibes from the usual " realists" ? Me , I need to hold onto some hope to get me through this bladdy lockdown !!! )

[BogBrush1903]

I'm surprised with how easy a ride the players and management are getting on this thread.

If that's how we are going to play in Scottish Cup semi-finals then it will be another 30 years plus before we lift the trophy again even if Sevco and Celtic swan off to the European league.

That type of insipid performance wasn't good enough to beat anyone let alone a team that's won the last x amount of cup ties consecutively. I thought Cosgrove was a mistake when I heard the team news. I thought a Cosgrove searching for match fitness would be ideal to throw on in the second half as their legs started to tire from European exertions. I was also surprised that Kennedy went straight in too.

I disagree with the above and would say that I thought McCrorie and Ferguson were both poor yesterday. The goals were preventable. Christie was given all the time he required to pick a spot, and if we're not blocking the Rogic cross then Considine shouldn't be waiting for the ball to drop onto the line. Schoolboy stuff.

However, I don't think we would have won that game whichever team we put out from our current squad in whatever formation. The players don't seem to fear losing to Celtic. It's accepted by the club, players and most of the fans that it's unlikely we'll beat them. We lose the match in the dressing room before the match.

We're stuck in a rut. We can't get rid of McInnes because we fear returning to the pish that we saw under his predecessors. However, we're incapable of getting any further under McInnes. We can't even reach the 4th round of the Europa League qualifiers. We seem destined to lose everytime we play Celtic in a big cup match (Scottish Cup win against Delia's side at half full Porkheid aside and even then we didn't reach even the final). And now a good season in the league means we finish 3rd and a bad season is 4th.

I'm afraid we're going nowhere. Groundhog Day was on Dave ja vu channel after the match last night, and that's how it feels. We're doing the same thing and getting the same results.

And what the f@ck is happening with Herendez???? If Cormack is saying we paid £800k for this player then questions need to be asked why he isn't deemed worthy of even for the bench in a cup semi final. I suppose we'll hear the usually, "oh he's injured" pish