stewarty

That is worrying for me, if indeed thats exactly what he said. Playing that sort of card isn't one you can play again. Last throw of the Caixinha dice?

Yes that was utterly baffling. And you know its bad when you agree with Chris Sutton!

I get what you mean now... To put it another way, the referee didn't fail to the various chances that we missed, nor did he fail to clear the corner that led to their first goal, nor did he lose the ball in midfield or fail to track Moult's run that led to their second. On the basis that they took their chances, they deserved to win.

To some extent, yes. The number of occasions where blatant foul play, often dangerous, is ignored or not dealt with has been shocking this season.

I'm not sure I said that, to be fair... Motherwell deserved to win because they took their chances having drawn us into a battle on their terms. We had no answer. I can though say that refereeing performances this season have been consistent in the way that overly physical play has gone unpunished. I'm not arguing that teams are not within their rights to play however they feel is best to get a result, but I am arguing that officials should be applying the laws of the game consistently. We should be pressuring them to do so, via whatever means available to us.

Unless the club acts - both in private with the SFA, and publicly via the media; we're pishing against the wind. I assume we've done the former already, to zero difference. So for me its time for the latter. Regardless of the referee though, we didn't deserve the win yesterday. so I'm wary about going too hard on this.

We had possibly 6/7 players in the starting line up last night who were 6ft plus. He's talking shite and grasping for excuses. Enough!

Sounds like he's trying to appease the Hearts support with those comments. Suspect the nod has been given that we'll either come back for him in January, possibly initial under a pre-contract, but possibly straight away once Hearts look at their cashflow to fund Levein's spending.

I'd echo the sentiments about pressing them and putting pressure on their back 4. I think there's mistakes in them, much like ours, which could lead to quite an open game . I'd go the exact same as Frankie's XI, although one option I'd also consider is Hodson at LB, with Elton John at LM. He looked like he had some pace and bite going forward, and the engine to get back and support Hodson in nullifying Roberts.

No offence but I'd prefer we didn't link to DR content.

Which is why I think its all the more weird. A club like Crystal Palace shouldn't be making what, on paper, is a pretty ambitious appointment from the point of view of the guy's background and the style of play he would bring to the club.if they're not prepared to give him the time to implement such a big set of changes from a player, tactical and set up point of view. Which points me back to there being something odd about it all. A clash of personalities in the boardoom, players not trusting him or taking to his style (or not getting it quick enough)... And yes, 4 games and 4 defeats is poor. And even a club like Palace would expect to get at least 2 or 3 points, but say they went on and won their next two games they'd likely be comfortably ahead of West Ham and Bournemouth who are also on nil points, and probably also the likes of Leicester who are on just 3. We've seen countless times that all it takes a goal or another spark for a team to suddenly click into gear.

His departure was also very odd. Like he agreed to leave quietly, kind of thing.

Results aside, something was obviously not working if the decision is taken so early. Coupled with the Inter sacking, what does this say for De Boer going forward?

Talks re: Walker allegedly back on. Also some chat that it could involve a player going the other way.

I thought Wallace had one of his better games of late, on Sunday. His running in the first half helped to stretch the RC defence and create options. And he even got a couple of shots on goal. We need more of that though.

Sadly I think they're both right (if the alleged discussions are true). Yes, MOH is not someone who easily fits into the style of play we typically adopt. And yes, its increasingly looking likely that PC might not be long in the job unless results improve rapidly.

Yes - at home especially I expect Ross County to want to try and impose a physical challenge... in the few games so far, teams have managed to knock us off our stride and break up our play and get a foothold. I really think we need to start imposing ourselves from the first minute to try and put this to bed. And thats where Herrera comes in for me.

Given the discussion point on Pena during the week I'd expect him to feature. I think Pedro will bring Herrera back in if fit, to give us the more physical presence.

Tickets now shifted

A mate of mine cant go so have a couple of spares...

Wee bump if anyone is interested in attending the live pod...

I know of a couple of spares for the live pod on Friday if anyone is interested...

Certainly seems to have the talent and technique, but can he apply it? Will be interesting to see how he goes.

I mainly see it when using Chrome - FYI

I've had that as well. I just click yes and it makes the post anyway.