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Back 3 was a clown show today. Sam CH never kicked he ball cleanly once, Iovu for the goal was pathetic, him and Graham communication off all game. We need a strong no nonsense leader at the back. An organiser.
I like SCH but today was not his best game. I'd still give him a run till end of season though. Graham aint a captain. Should have been a comfortable win but the back 3 let us down again. Dave Richards looked like he wanted to do a Kuch once or twice too.
Ferry is class and its his determination to speed us up and get us up the pitch that gets us level again and then wins us the game. He will be a huge loss if he goes.
Sort out the defence and we have a team that would be top 6 easy.
Richards gives me the fear tbh. That defence is honestly shocking though, brainfart after brainfart after brainfart regardless of who the personnel are. Iovu today, wtaf are you doing lad? Junior level mistakes happening week after week, and Jim has solved nothing. But I'll take the win that virtually assures us of league safety and move on. Jim won't be going anywhere in the summer so I can only hope that he gets some experience into that backline and a keeper that doesn't double as a keystone cop.
Start with the positives
A win and 3 pts - when you think we got 1 at Dens for an excellent performance
Came from behind to win against a team that has drawn most of their recent games 2-2 (plus a 0-0 at Easter rd)
3 home wins in a row and 5 unbeaten at home since the Hearts game in January
2nd in form table with 15 Pts since mid February
Ferry was excellent
Farrugia was really good today
Sevelj was decent while on
Keresztes scoring after coming on
Sapsford cool pen
Ferry putting Cammy Kerr on his backside then scoring with his weak foot
Negatives
The injury luck again (no Luca, Sibbald or Russell beforehand), we really miss Luca in this system in particular
Fatah going off with what could mean his last appearance for us, could be him and Luca miss the last 5, not good with the derby looming
Ferry picking up an injury late on too
Strain was poor
Iovu poor second half
Camara not great when he came on
Watters was rubbish
Naamo didn't offer much
Being comfortable and Iovu making a mess of things to gift them a goal when we started second half week coming down slope and were comfortable in the game, just a terrible few minutes
For most of that second half after Livi took the lead and with Killie winning I thought we were about to sucked back into the playoff picture.
Thankfully it ended as it did and we are now pretty much safe. Bit it was hard viewing and all too familiar a story a times.
We have to get two new GKs and Id keep iovu and kereztes around as impact subs/cover but really we need a new first choice defence.
Plus do what we can to keep Amar Fatah and identify a Stephenson replacement.
That plus new recruits coming in from Australia to replace Watters and we have the semblance of a top 6 side. Hopefully Ferry stays too.