| Topic: Match thread ~ Airdrie 1-1 DAFC FT |
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| 121. Author: NMCmassive Date: Sat 5th Oct 2024. 19:16 LEGEND85, Sat 5 Oct 19:08 ☝🏻 I think he’s correct. As soon as I seen us I said we’ve got relegation written all over us. A couple of new signings, 2 decent performances had me thinking we were at least back on track but now it’s all heading the way it was. If we don’t finish bottom it’ll only be for the sake of Airdrie being worse. COYP Reply |
| 122. Author: cammypar 1995 Date: Sat 5th Oct 2024. 19:17 At least grant got us out of the league cup group. This bunch got 2 pumpings at home against lower league teams,mcpake couldn`t run a bath. And the players better start bucking their ideas up as most of them will be lucky to even get close to this sort of level again in their careers. c'mon the pars Reply |
| 123. Author: summeragent Date: Sat 5th Oct 2024. 19:22 Football is a disaster this year, yesterday we keep seeing glimpses of positivity eg v Dun Utd last year, 1st half v Ayr, v Raith. I honestly think if Tobi was playing every week we would be so much better. He gets the team further up the park and hence we are more attacking. He also commands his box, Mehmet doesn’t and I don’t think the defence have confidence in him. Mehmet makes us play from the back and we are quickly closed down by the opposition and then put under pressure. We played a good first half against Ayr with arguably our best starting 11 and then made 3-4 substitutions and then fell out of the game. Why make substitutions for the sake of it? Surely these players can play 90mins. JMcP really has to do better. I hope he turns things around but I can’t see it. I do think the biggest issue is with the keeper and I hope we get Tobi back asap (does anyone know when he is likely to be back) and then see some improvement in performances. Reply |
| 124. Author: pacifist Date: Sat 5th Oct 2024. 19:25 Really lack lustre stuff from us. The keeper was not at fault for the goal - it could have gone anywhere. It`s hard to think of a group of passes we strung together. It`s hard to think of too many successful throw ins. We put in some very poor cross balls. Some reasonably simple things we get wrong. When we went in front they and their fans were down and out. But at no point did we dominate. If anything the longer the game went on the more confident Airdrie became - I wasnt expecting us to survive. Confidence is seriously lacking but we do seem to lack a real leader on the pitch. It has to get better soon. Reply |
| 125. Author: Dave_1885 Date: Sat 5th Oct 2024. 19:31 Again wasn’t there today but another disappointing result in the long run. His record is just as bad as Grant and Yogi who were (rightly) hounded out of the club - how long does he have left realistically? Reply |
| 126. Author: wee eck Date: Sat 5th Oct 2024. 19:37 I like to come on here to see folks thoughts on the game and compare them with my own but now I realise the majority of contributors weren`t at the game and post comments based on other games they`ve seen (or maybe not seen). Suggesting that Mehmet makes us play from the back is a new one though. I presume that is laid down by the manager but today he mostly hit it long. Hammy was excellent today playing at CB and he saved our bacon near the end when he appeared to be outpaced by an Airdrie attacker who broke into our box but somehow he managed to legally ease him off the ball so Mehmet could come and claim it. Wighton was also very effective dinking balls behind the defence and one of these led to the penalty. I also thought Matty Todd was sharper than last week and Mebude could cause defences trouble. I think he was fouled every time he got the ball. Reply |
| 127. Author: alwaysaPar Date: Sat 5th Oct 2024. 19:52 wee eck, Sat 5 Oct 19:37 To be fair, Mehmet doesn`t want to be here, he`s not happy.... Reply |
| 128. Author: Socks Date: Sat 5th Oct 2024. 20:06 Pretty poor stuff from us again. I think our only serious chance in the whole game was the penalty and the decision to award that looked an absolute joke to me. I`d have been furious if that decision had gone against us. It was a poor game and nobody would be surprised that both sides are at the bottom. There wasn`t much in it early on, we got the penalty out of nothing then we really struggled from then until half-time. Just not on it as a team as the gaps seemed to open up everywhere, though Airdrie didn`t look very good either. You hoped that having made it to half-time we might get back into the game in the second half but it always had a feeling of holding on, even though we weren`t really under any heavy pressure. The draw was fair enough, but frustrating we couldn`t hold on to win. My initial thought was that Mehmet didn`t do much wrong at the goal, but it was a shocking goal to lose for other reasons. How we can be pulled apart by a simple routine from a shy is ridiculous, and how we can have a man completely free at the back post is mad. I don`t blame Aaron Comrie for it, as my memory of it is that he was left 2 on 1 and had to take the man inside, which obvioulsy left the other free. In that situation, like the two goals we lost last week, it`s on the whole team to defend, not just those playing at the back. The repeated failure to do that can only be a failure of coaching. Two poor teams on the day, and a refereeing performance enitrely in keeping with the standard of the teams. We`re just not a coherent team and when you make so many basic mistakes on top of that, it`s hard to win. We did little in the second half, but had 4 chances to put balls in the box from corners or free kicks quite close together late in the game. Every one of the balls in was terrible which stops you getting pressure on. Chris Hamilton had a decent game at the back, Maty Todd had a few runs that made me thing there might be more to come, Aaron Comrie was steady enough and Chris Kane had a few moments where he nipped into cause some panic, but that really was it. I`m glad we managed a point, but it`s got to be better than that. Reply |
| 129. Author: wee eck Date: Sat 5th Oct 2024. 20:11 `To be fair, Mehmet doesn`t want to be here, he`s not happy....` That`s funny. I thought he was delighted to be on a three-year contract and one of our top earners. I`ll have to stop believing everything I read on here. Reply |
| 130. Author: veteraneastender Date: Sat 5th Oct 2024. 20:12 "To be fair, Mehmet doesn`t want to be here, he`s not happy...." In which case nothing to stop him asking to be released from contract by mutual consent. Reply |
| 131. Author: Indiapar Date: Sat 5th Oct 2024. 20:12 I think the poor performance last week cost us. On another day a point against Airdrie would have been a good result. The teams up to 5th in the league have only won 2 games. Ayr and Falkirk are obviously running away with it this season but every other spot is still up for grabs at the moment. Reply |
| 132. Author: Alter Ego Date: Sat 5th Oct 2024. 20:20 That team is utter dreadful in what McPake wants them to play…..how many more months can fans go on watching this🤷 Jesus just someone come in and set up the team to play attacking football and defend when we have to…Surely someone in the club can say to James”stop all the utter **** and get the ball forward and attack” or just get out as myself and many others have had enough. Mon the Pars! Reply |
| 133. Author: weemike Date: Sat 5th Oct 2024. 20:22 wee eck, Sat 5 Oct 19:37 Fixed that for you. 👍 Reply |
| 134. Author: summeragent Date: Sat 5th Oct 2024. 20:23 wee eck, Sat 05 Oct 19:37 When Mehmet plays he passes the ball to the nearest defender. When Tobi plays everyone goes forward and he comes out 25 yards or so and punts the ball. The team are all further forward. No immediate pressure on the defence and no tedious trying to pass up the field and inevitably losing possession. Have you not noticed this? Reply |
| 135. Author: Alter Ego Date: Sat 5th Oct 2024. 20:33 As above and surely McPake and his assistant can see this? Wee Eck just likes to play devils advocate all the time… Mon the Pars! Reply |
| 136. Author: wee eck Date: Sat 5th Oct 2024. 20:40 Were either of you at today`s game? On quite a few occasions Mehmet waved the team up the field before releasing the ball. Do you know what `acting devil`s advocate` means, Alter Ego? I don`t think so. Reply |
| 137. Author: Alter Ego Date: Sat 5th Oct 2024. 20:49 Wee Eck I don’t give a flying ***** but you seem to follow me and make remarks like a wee smart erse.. I don’t know if you are an admin but hey ho do what you want as I couldn’t care what you say! Anyway as I will probably get a card from the power happy people…. We play far too defensive with the squad we have?? Just attack and get the team up the pitch? Is what I said ok for you admin guys? Is wee Eck part of here? Iv taken screenshots so you don’t have the admin hunger of banning me as I’m sure you want to…just don’t answer to my posts if you feel that angry? Mon the Pars! Reply |
| 138. Author: NMCmassive Date: Sat 5th Oct 2024. 20:53 There’s no question in my mind that Deniz Mehmet’s overall game is not good enough for the Scottish Championship but he can’t be scapegoated for the performances of the 10 in front of him. Tobi is the 1st time we’ve seen a modern goalkeeper playing for us and the difference it made to us as a team was immense. He pushed the game forward and then it gave us more time and space at the back when we needed it. Only time will tell how successful he’ll be with us tho COYP Reply |
| 139. Author: Rigger Al Date: Sat 5th Oct 2024. 20:54 Alter Ego, Sat 5 Oct 20:49 alter ego ,I agree with you .We have good players in that squad to put out an attacking team ,but we always set up not to loose rather to win . Reply |
| 140. Author: weemike Date: Sat 5th Oct 2024. 20:58 NMCmassive, Sat 5 Oct 20:53 Funny how an on loan player can change the way a whole back line plays! Reply |