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| 61. Author: shellypar Date: Sat 15th Feb 2025. 17:38 How was Mr Tashan when he came on? COYP Reply |
| 62. Author: RossF Date: Sat 15th Feb 2025. 17:39 PARrot, as much as I admire your optimism I feel my views are realistic of where we are at the moment. We have improved but we have only had one excellent result since Tidser has taken over. I hope the new players can improve things but we need many victories before I stop looking down and start looking up. Results improved under Yogi for a period but we still went down. The focus is to stay up and if we do, I think we can have a right good crack at the league next season. Lastly, we badly need cover at full back! Reply |
| 63. Author: kelty_par Date: Sat 15th Feb 2025. 17:48 Fairly even game in the end, with Wotherspoon having by far the best chance of the game (one he should be taking, but he hit it straight at the keeper) then Livi really turning the screw in the last 15 when we sat deeper and had to rely on some all-hands-on-deck desperate defending as we didn`t clear our lines quickly enough. Good things were the change to 4-3-3 and a more direct style in the second half, Stevens on the right, Comrie being Mr Dependable again, the new boys all contributing. The way we got the ball high and wide a lot quicker in the first 20 or 30 monies of the second half was very promising and we looked like we`d be the likely winner. Young was making some good runs in the first half but wasn`t getting found whereas in the second half his movement was giving McCann and Stevens room to run into and we caused a lot of problems. The only downsides were the overly slow passing in the first half, the way we let Livi press us high without an out ball and that we never used the space Young and Ngwenya were getting when we did beat the first press. We also created nothing in thst first half and retreated very deep and got very nervous when we got into the latter stages. Kane never got up to speed in the game and so nothing stuck when he came on. A good point ahead of three massive games that will really show where we are and where we deserve to be. Promising sighs again but games against the better sides haven`t been our biggest problem so far, it`s the games against teams around us. Reply |
| 64. Author: BlackLight Date: Sat 15th Feb 2025. 17:49 Oakley looked pretty good when he came on. It looks like about half of the starting eleven for the rest of the season will be players we didn`t have at the start of January. The signings/loans have definitely improved us. Once they`ve got some time playing together under their belts, I`m pretty optimistic that we`ll be safe by the end of the season. We could actually be quite good if they click. Reply |
| 65. Author: Berkey Date: Sat 15th Feb 2025. 17:54 36 points left to play for. We’ll need 17 to hit the magic 40 points that should be enough. Are we good enough to win 6 of the 12? That would be a big improvement on what we have been doing so far. Win the next 2 home games and no worse than draw the away game and we can defo do this. Need those new guys to come onto a game game tho. Post Edited (Sat 15 Feb 17:59) Reply |
| 66. Author: cammypar 1995 Date: Sat 15th Feb 2025. 17:59 PARrot, Sat 15 Feb 17:38 We have turned a corner yes, but we still haven`t managed to get a run together unfortunately we`re in the business end of the season and unless we go on a run nothing I`ve seen recently shows we can finish any higher than 8th we just don`t score enough goals or even covert enough chances. c'mon the pars Post Edited (Sat 15 Feb 18:28) Reply |
| 67. Author: neils Date: Sat 15th Feb 2025. 18:25 We absolutely have turned a corner, certainly not a blip. I`m generally a bit wary about loan signings with limited experience, but these guys really are good. I still think we will lose a few games, but we will win for sure, it`s possible we might be higher than 8th but I doubt it, just not enough games left, and the teams we could catch are probably too far ahead. Either way, 8th is good, we were miles behind when we sacked McPake. Reply |
| 68. Author: PARrot Date: Sat 15th Feb 2025. 18:41 neils, Sat 15 Feb 18:25 Not enough games? There are 36 points available. We are not that far behind. Head to heads will be crucial. Reply |
| 69. Author: adj27 Date: Sat 15th Feb 2025. 18:48 Back 4 were good and hardly gave Livi a look in. Otoo and Wotherspoon very solid in the middle and Stevens very good. Also liked the look of Young despite having little to play with. Not so sure about Yeboah but certainly can’t fault his effort. KRH also got well involved when he came on although his distribution let him down. I just feel though that we are a hard watch - we are so slow in building things up and there’s nothing for the fans to get excited about - even the SNW youngsters sounded bored today. Overall a decent point but a bit more entertainment wouldn’t go amiss. Andy Reply |
| 70. Author: Par Date: Sat 15th Feb 2025. 19:09 A good point looks like building a team that`s hard to beat, but we need to score some goals, maybe different tactics against teams round about us in games we need to win. Reply |
| 71. Author: Back_oh_the_net Date: Sat 15th Feb 2025. 19:13 shellypar, Sat 15 Feb 17:38 He’s an absolute unit oh a boy put it this way if you came home and found him in bed with the wife you’d tuck him in 😂 Reply |
| 72. Author: Socks Date: Sat 15th Feb 2025. 19:27 We deserved the point from what was a very even game. Livingston had the bettter of an utterly dire first half before we were the better side in a second half that wasn`t as awful as the first. I think each side only had one serious chance - our one early in the second half that the keeper saved to his right, then theirs right at the end. In the first half we were pretty dreadful with the ball. It looked a bad sign when we lost the ball straight from kick-off after trying to pass immediately through the middle and the first half continued that way. Generally just slow and boring when we had the ball, which we almost always gave away before we came close to doing anything. However, without the ball we did OK as we defended pretty well, preventing them from seriously threatening despite all the ball we gave them. Aaron Comrie in particular did very well. We also did well to cover a few breaks when we looked short at the back but covered the space well. Looked like 4-2-3-1 in the first half with Young up front, changing to 4-3-3 at the start of the second half with Stevens dropping back into a deeper position. He was better there, but the whole team was better. We were a bit more direct in the second half and mixed up our play more. I don`t know how many times I`ve said in recent years that we look better when a bit more direct, but this was another example. I didn`t mind some of the short stuff in the second half because it worked quite well at taking one of their players (May) totally out of the game as he pressed on his own without ever feeling too risky. We were well in the game and most of it was in their half of the park, though after the early chance we didn`t really look like scoring. Last few minutes it turned round and we were pushed back, but managed to see it out for a deserved point. I thought Wetherspoon had a decent game in a deep midfield position, and thankfully he got away with the mistake that led to Livingston`s late chance. A dull game but a pretty good point, and would have taken that before the game. Reply |
| 73. Author: jake89 Date: Sat 15th Feb 2025. 19:57 Back_oh_the_net, Sat 15 Feb 19:13 😂 Reply |
| 74. Author: coventrypar Date: Sat 15th Feb 2025. 23:08 Tidser has more than enough experience of playing in this league to know that you have to be physically strong. The joy is that he playing that with people who have skill on the ball too. We will stay ahead of Airdrie. If we are in a play off we will safely out muscle/skill the team in league 1. I’m possibly getting ahead of myself - next season will be fun,fun, fun. "If you have no kind words to say you should say nothing more at all" Reply |
| 75. Author: wee eck Date: Sat 15th Feb 2025. 23:30 If any of the new guys had any doubts about the physicality of Scottish Championship football they`ll know about it now. Livingston are probably the toughest side to play against in that respect but we refused to be bullied and were worth our point. Reply |
| 76. Author: McCaig`s Tower Date: Sun 16th Feb 2025. 14:44 First things first – are those steps from the town centre down to the ground the most badly designed in Scottish football? At least there was plenty of parking, although the crowd was a bit sparse, unsurprisingly – steep prices, a poor pitch and a lack of entertainment expected despite the presence of half a new team. The food was over-priced and can no-one do mental arithmetic these days? Anyway – onto the game. A 4-2-3-1 to begin with – it seems to be the fashion. Like Socks I was a bit concerned that the injunction to be braver on the ball would lead to hospital passes as we saw direct from the kick-off. Tobi was the busier of the two keepers – mostly due to our insistence on playing short by-kicks and passing the ball backwards. We seemed to be at our most vulnerable from our own corners on the right as we lost possession and Livi hit us on the break. I don’t think their keeper had a save to make in the first half and maybe just the one in the second half? It’s asking a lot to take the only chance you get and Wotherspoon didn’t (he had a couple of other opportunities and failed to come close). He had a better game but struggled in his new role – booked for persistent fouling, possibly because he was trying to make challenges his older body isn’t quick enough to make any more. The game opened up for a period in the second half (Yeboah had moved to the right) but we were painfully slow to get the ball forward at times. It looked like we were trying not to lose the game in the first half, with the idea of maybe sneaking a goal later on. To be fair, that worked insofar we got a point, but it’s clear that all the changes are more a work in progress, rather than being instantly transformational. Of the new players, Chilukoah-Mullen looks class, Stevens also looks good, Young didn’t see a lot of the ball, and I’m not sure about Yeboah who seems to be the one to move about to accommodate different shapes or personnel. Oakley-Booth wasn’t really on for long enough. With Kane largely being spared and McCann going off injured we seemed a bit light on forward options. Is the referee relatively new? He seems quite card-happy. I wondered if there was a degree of mutual unfamiliarity – a bit like pupils seeing how far they could go with a new teacher. Perhaps Livi games are always a bit niggly. Other than the point and not conceding any daft goals, the most positive thing may have been MT’s interview – at least he sounds like he has a plan and a vision. Bringing them to fruition is the hard bit. Queen’s Park having a post cup shock hangover is not a surprise – they will be up for it next week. Reply |
| 77. Author: LochgellyAlbert Date: Sun 16th Feb 2025. 15:30 Heard the crowd announced at just over 1500, looks more than that on highlights, any spectators camera side? How can they survive on those kind of figures, especially when they are pushing for promotion?🤔 Reply |
| 78. Author: kelty_par Date: Sun 16th Feb 2025. 16:36 Reckon there was maybe 1100 home fans opposite the camera and maybe 600 on the same side as the camera position? Remember this season they have parachute payments and also UEFA solidarity payments for the Euros. Be a different story if they don`t go up this season you`d think. Reply |
| 79. Author: wee eck Date: Sun 16th Feb 2025. 17:03 The official attendance was 1,798. Reply |
| 80. Author: Par Dan Date: Sun 16th Feb 2025. 18:54 That Attendance is an utter disgrace. Restructure the league and anyone that can’t sell at least 3000 tickets should play in the lower leagues. Sick of these tiny little clubs. Reply |