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All that epitomizes our current failings were there to see in that last attack. Our ageing right-back in the middle heading the ball past the post. Not a striker, not an attacker ... No matter the bad goals given away by inept defending, this has been coming. Coming for months. There is no reason to believe that this is going to change, I simply see no will management-wise to change something. Project - once again - failed. Pass the bucket please.

How much luck can you have. The red trash has been out of it most of the half and then get such a gift ...

From that angle they can claim his whole body was ...

The three attackers get no service whatsoever and are easily crowded out. Playing out of defence is shocking, but gets repeated time and again. We make it pathetically easy for the opposition again, and so far this season, only the latter's lack in quality in Scotland let us off the hook. Leadership on the pitch amounts to zero as well.

Did they show the off-side at HT, not seen anything in the highlights?

I liked the what, 45 ° picture to prove that Robertson was correct?

And all this shyte only happens because Butland tried to play out of the back and for 4 mins we can't clear the lines. This pure lack of understanding the basics of the game by manager and professionals on the pitch is utterly shocking.

Surprise us ...

IMHO, it is not time for indecisive dancing in midfield. Raskin has roved that he's fit and ready again, thinks forward, so it would be either him or Barron for me. Next to him should be Sterling though. We need a tough tackling physical presence that can play football and is thinking forward too. Thus, no Diomande for me. To ruffle some feathers (and as we will sure stick to 4-2-3-1), it should be Bajrami through the middle, Cerny on the right and Igamane on the "left side of attack", Dessers through the middle. Do a hard press and have people up there to convert chances, not wannabe attackers. Once we pulled their teeth, it is perhaps time for Hagi, Diomande and/or Lawrence to pick them up on the counter with a precise pass. EDIT: Insert McCausland for Cerny, if the latter is unfit.

Referee - John Beaton 🤡 Assistants - David McGeachie and Jonathan Bell Video Assistant Referee - Don Robertson 🤡 Assistant Video Assistant Referee - Sean Carr ... the SFA surely trolls us. Missing - Ridvan Yilmaz (end of October), Rabbi Matondo (middle/end of November), Danilo Pereira (end of October), Oscar Cortés (December) Lawrence and Souttar might return, as does Hagi after his suspension.

... somehow, I had an instant reminder of 55, i.e. the season we played in front of empty stadiums. Anyway, I leave these numbers and projections to others. Mainly because I can't change anything about it, have at best a basic knowledge of what they "might" mean, and being too old to worry about other people (with probably not much more knowledge than me) going ballistic (one way or another). I do believe that those at the helm try to do their best for the club and won't go into any greater detail (for obvious reasons) about what is going on financially (e.g. litigation). Most of them, albeit business-men, are Bluenoses too, who will try to safeguard the club from any future harm. Idealistic maybe, but that's MHO. As pointed out before, we failed to cash in on our star-players (Kent, Morelos, Tavernier, Goldson etc.) at the height of their game, and IMHO, that's not due to us not wanting to sell, but there were simply no offers. Which begs the question: were they really that good? That's all past, though. In the here and now, the main way to get income is getting into the CL, whether we're getting hammered or not does not matter ... in regard to the business topic. Once we get our finances in order, we can look after European results again. And, truth be told, we'll be also-rans in the CL for years to come. Our biggest failure since the start of last season was not to capitalize on the Scum's bad run at the end of last season, but instead throwing the title away within 14 days. It cost us direct entrance to the CL (and its riches) ... and the way our transfer window went, getting there through the qualifiers was hopeless. For much of the latter, I still blame the management, as they - like this season - stubbornly play the "Plan A system" no matter what, toiling and failing time and again. The straits look pretty narrow these days ... (at least from the perspective of an average Bear)

Due to working commitments, I enjoyed "only" those 5 mins of highlights ... and the groans and moans of our German board's admin ... (wonder why they didn't rule out Diomande's goal, looked somewhat offside).

Bajrami is a playmaker that has been shoehorned into a left winger slot. Attacking MF - 136 games - 23 goals - 21 assists Central midfield - 48 - 6 - 4 Left winger - 21 - 3 - 5 Right winger - 21 - 1- 2 Lawrence ... Left winger - 191 - 37 - 25 Second striker - 67 - 9 - 12 Attacking midfield - 40 - 11 - 3 ... though they probably battle it out with one another once Cortes and/or Matondo return.

Our German admin put the highlights out, dunno whether you can watch them in Britain ... https://streamable.com/0bktm4

... and that is what teams in Scotland do against us bar the Scum and teams in half a handful of games per season, if they think they can do it. And that is the case since Warburton ... They say: Never change a running system! But never change a broken system?

Great games from Barron (MOTM) and Cerny. One might say a word or two about the others, but it's a team game and we win and lose as a team. Tonight, we won ... and it was good for the soul.

We bring on a right-back, but not for the Old Man, but to allow the latter to become a right-winger ... ... while McCausland must be wondering what he's done wrong.

Alas, some open game of football. Not high class, but entertaining. The ref's on his way to be a killjoy though

The lass on the left needed that door to keep her vertical, it seems.

Wee sidenote ... Kasanwirjo - 166 games (listed) - 92 centre-half - 60 right-back - 8 defensive midfield - left-back 5 - left midfield 1 ... not as left back-please. Unless Tavernier wrecks himself somehow, he is as likely to play on forever as we stick with this terrible line-up. Diomande and Raskin in DM means - like on Sunday - a neat lack of physicality where it matters. Sterling should have played vs Killie, and I would also like to see him tonight. You can bet your bottom penny that the line-up tonight will be exactly the same that we saw at Rugby Park, with the only possible change being amongst our DM trio, Raskin, Diomande, and/or Barron.

Wee sidenote ... I don't know whether you only use Microsoft Word, there is the option of Open Office or Libre Office, who open these xlsx files too. But you can also save them as ods files, which reduces the file-size somewhat, but also makes sure that these documents open much quicker than the xlsx files (in said alternative programmes).

Neither SG, nor Beale, nor Gio did anything different. Over on our German board, our admin said: it really doesn't matter whom we sign, almost all managers go with this one-striker thing. Which is probably true. Yet, only a dozen or so managers have to manage games in Scotland against the anti-football that is being played here. And even worse ... over the last decade or so, these hard Scotsmen and Britishmen adopted the "Don't touch me, or I'll fall" attitude that you "hated" the Iberians for. Remember when Sutton was falling down around the box in his Green-Grey days? It says a lot about the game in Britain that he's one of the main talking mouths in Scotland these days ...

... sorry, but no. Gio's away days were as dire as Clement's and SG's too. SG had one really good season, i.e. 55. And our system and the players clicked in Europe. I have since banished all thoughts of those dire seasons from memory - remember, we are back for 9 (NINE) years now. Almost any Scottish team had sussed our tactics and any new players out (since the days of Warburton) after a couple of months in the season. We never learned or changed tactics, only players. People may want to "see" a difference once the game have started, with this or that player takes up a different role, but such a system only works if you have the players. Which we don't. Neither have we high-scoring centre forwards, nor do we have high-scoring fellow attackers or midfielders contributing enough. Trying one failing thing over and over again, hoping for the better, is basically idiocy. BTW, last season started ... 0-1 away Kilmarnock (ooops) - Beale 2-1 home Servette (dito) CLQ 4-0 home Livingston (dito) 1-1 away Servette (dito) CLQ) 2-1 home Morton (dito) LC 2-2 home PSV (dito) CLQ 2-0 away Ross (dito) 1-5 away PSV (dito) CLQ 0-1 home Scum (dito) 2-0 away St Johnstone (dito) 1-0 home Betis (dito) EL 1-0 home Motherwell (dito) 4-0 Hampden Livingston (dito) LC 1-3 home Aberdeen (dito) Beale sacked after 7 match days, 12 points on the board 1-2 away Aris - Davis 3-0 away St Mirren - Davis 4-0 home Hibs - Clement

As long as we don't get someone willing to move away from Plan A, we are going nowhere. Alas, Igamane was doing quite well. He needs Dessers alongside him, Bajrami behind him. BTW, that pass by Dowell, Igamane's take and shot were sublime. Speaking of sublime ... Jermaine Defoe!

Can you un-follow a team and still be fan of the club?