I think its one goal in 4 games(Kelty) and two wins in our last 10.In saying that two draws against teams who normally finish top 6 is better than expected.
The Accies against the same two teams conceded 9,scored 4 and got no points.
The performances are dire and the amount of chances we gave St J through poor first touch from what I saw on the highlights was unforgivable; from professional footballers. I don’t buy this we are only just a championship side. Peterhead and Kelly are leagues apart from us, yet one beats us the other restricts us to one goal! We should be easily be able to compete with lower echelons of this league.
The defence was not solid, they just hadn’t got there sights zeroed. Connolly love him or hate him too much concentration on wrestling the opponent. 442 as suggested above and for me
Seigrist
Smith Edwards(Butcher) Reynolds Robson
Bolton Fuchs Harkes ( needs a kick) Sporle
McNulty Shankland
Deniz
McMullan (Bolton)
Charmers (Sporle)
Appeared (McNulty)
Clark (Shankland)
As Luggy says in the video there is no substitute for positive play!
I think its one goal in 4 games(Kelty) and two wins in our last 10.In saying that two draws against teams who normally finish top 6 is better than expected.
The Accies against the same two teams conceded 9,scored 4 and got no points.
Not overly concerned. Yeah, disappointing that we couldnt build on the flashes of good interplay from the first 10 minutes or so. At the same time, they had an extra man in middle of midfield and as such were always likely to wrestle more possession. They did nothing with it. Hopeful shots from distance that were no good. Similar to us. Two headers from corners is concerning we let that happen. I dont think Benji had a difficult save to make. The late header was good reactions but at the same time would be disappointed if he didnt save it. They created almost zero in terms of clear cut chances from open play, same as us, and that is a marker of where the two teams are. Not likely to challenge the top of the league. Not pretty, not free flowing but is where we were always likely to be.
Agree with that but we better start showing a bit more creativity in our next 4 league games which we should be looking at winning, after that we have some difficult festive fixtures. Shanks also needs a couple of goals in his next 2 games or he may lose his place in the Scotland squad fir the upcoming Serbia game. So we better start creating some chances for our strikers.
It's a bit of both IMO.
Creativity and width is a problem but we don't have players good enough at this level to cover these options.
MM doesn't seem to rate Mcmullan and because of the system he is using to stop teams scoring against us he is also stifling the forward play of Robson and Bolton.
I'm not blaming MM as it was blatantly obvious that we had to shut up shop at the back but the set up been to the detriment of our attacking options and is clearly frustrating the hell out of Shankland. Hopefully Fuchs will give us that bit more impetus to get forward and get the best out of our forwards.