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| 101. Author: Berkey Date: Sat 11th Jul 2026. 19:09 It’s all well and good signing these young Irish players but you need to give them at least a season to settle in as most look way of the level we need physically and that team is a league 1 team who have just dismantled us. Remain unconvinced my Morrison, high workrate and has chipped in with a few goals but very little quality on the ball and just too lightweight. Ideally john tod should be out on loan, most of today’s bench should be too. We look well short of what we need and yet again Lennon has set us up wrong. The post below replying to me is by one of .nets finest champions of mediocrity! Reply |
| 102. Author: thebear Date: Sat 11th Jul 2026. 19:10 Really poor, concern is we have been near the top, and it`s very easy to go downhill, and not recover, needs major revamp of existing and new players. It`s one thing letting in goals its even worse when we can`t score. Reply |
| 103. Author: wee eck Date: Sat 11th Jul 2026. 19:12 It`s only 7 weeks since we played in the SC Final so the close season was only 3-4 weeks. Is that long enough for full recovery from the highs of last season? Reply |
| 104. Author: GJS93 Date: Sat 11th Jul 2026. 19:19 get the cheque book out....they paid transfer fees for 3 of the 5 signings so far, all of whom started today, 7 of the starting 11 were paid for as well. Lennon talked last week about getting value for money in transfers, well the other clubs receiving the fee are and we definitely arent. 4 or 5 short? try at least double that, far too many in this squad are not at the level needed whether they are cooked or undercooked. maybe they arent ready in terms of fitness but even if they were, i wouldnt have been putting money on us winning with that line up, in that shape, with whatever "style" they were trying to play. regardless of the quality of player, we are far too easy to play against at both ends of the park "wasn’t too surprised to see us lose but the manner is disappointing." even the manner wasnt a surprise though, it was there last season in games when there were better players available. Post Edited (Sat 11 Jul 19:24) Reply |
| 105. Author: Geordiepar Date: Sat 11th Jul 2026. 19:34 I wasn’t at the game today, and didn’t watch it online so a lot of my observations are based on watching the Clyde match and last season. John Tod has always played better as part of a back three central defenders. Looks poor when we play a back 4. Robbie Fraser is a much better wing back than he is as a full back. Our teams lacks ‘identity’. With good teams you can see the style of football they play and recruit players to play that style. It’s hard to see what we are trying to do, and where the players recruited fit into that style. We lack central midfielders. We have Gilmour, and Amade and then nothing. Corbally looks a tidy footballer when he has the ball, but without the ball the game totally passes him by. When we don’t have the ball we are far too easy to play through. Our attacking play lacks any sort of cohesion and we seem totally unable to hold the ball up. The team lacks physicality. Whether due to being young, or the type of player we have recruited, we are lightweight. Reply |
| 106. Author: GJS93 Date: Sat 11th Jul 2026. 19:37 ^^ spot on, can add lack of pace to that all over the park too. Reply |
| 107. Author: Lucho_8 Date: Sat 11th Jul 2026. 19:46 J.Tod will never be a CB, waaaaaay too slow. Amade on the bench is a criminal offence. We need more players in the middle of the park and have done for ages! Reply |
| 108. Author: Ianoappar Date: Sat 11th Jul 2026. 19:48 Just watched the highlights EK goalie with two assists.defence nowhere. Reply |
| 109. Author: red-star-par Date: Sat 11th Jul 2026. 19:59 I was a bit worried when I saw the photo of the new goalie and his muffin top belly hanging over his waistband. I`m almost twice his age, do no exercise whatsoever, I`m at the heaviest weight I`ve ever been, and I`ve been gouging out on fish suppers and Chinese food and knocking back several beers every night during the World Cup, and I`m still in better shape than that big lump. I`d say we still are 5 or 6 players short. Need a goalkeeper, 2 centre backs, a centre midfield player and something on either wing. Probably an upgrade on Kearney too. I`ve said for years, we need a competitor like Raith`s Scott Brown and a couple more like him in the squad, guys that won`t sit back and accept sub standard performances Reply |
| 110. Author: Westies squint kicks Date: Sat 11th Jul 2026. 20:25 Lennon`s "Undercooked" is to deflect the criticism. I wouldn`t expect him to throw them under the bus in the opening cup match. Nothing wrong with the physical preparation but plenty wrong with a possibly enforced team selection with only 2 CB`s capable of playing 90 minutes, one midfielder offering any sort of protection and two full backs who are arguably better going forward than they are defensively. Poor organisation in terms of the press, EK gamble a fair bit in punishable areas (A.Tod ought to have scored the one time they lost it centrally in their own half, he has to hit the target from 35 yards with no keeper) but we had a half-hearted approach to pressuring them around their own box, once through that there`s so much space. Ironically the times we did cut off any build up football they went long and scored twice,nothing to do with being undercooked just poor organisation. Reply |
| 111. Author: wetherby Date: Sat 11th Jul 2026. 21:18 We have just made around £1m from cup run yet we are showing zero ambition . Reply |
| 112. Author: wee eck Date: Sat 11th Jul 2026. 21:35 As someone pointed out on an earlier thread we lost £1.2m last year. You can be ambitious without spending money like it was going out of fashion. Reply |
| 113. Author: ipswichpar Date: Sat 11th Jul 2026. 21:44 £1.7m wasn`t it? Reply |
| 114. Author: wee eck Date: Sat 11th Jul 2026. 21:45 Just emphasises the point then! Reply |
| 115. Author: Buster_Brown Date: Sat 11th Jul 2026. 21:54 Geordiepar, Sat 11 Jul 19:34 I said this a few times on here last season and was absolutely shot down for it. However I standby it, I don’t know what type of team we are. As I said earlier, I wasn’t there today but I have just seen the 3 goals….we would never score that EK first goals Not panicking just yet but I do feel we are short of some real quality and pace. Loving You, Is In My DNA 🇾🇪 Reply |
| 116. Author: NMCmassive Date: Sat 11th Jul 2026. 22:26 It’s disappointing but I’m not worried by it either. It’s the first game back, the squad seems incomplete and it’s very early doors. I know it’s easy to say after the fact but I really don’t care about the league cup thing. We’ve got to be all about the league this season. Abdulai will make a difference when he’s back but it does look like we need a No 1. Matty Todd will be missed at RWB unless we get a replacement, Kearney although good off the bench doesn’t seem like a starter to me. I think Morrison should be offering more quality than he has but he’s quick and works hard so I think it’ll come. I agree about the pace though, we could do with more. I’m not sure about the lack of identity. Last season we didn’t give away a lot and had decent width in attack. I think it’s going to be similar going forward, simple but hopefully effective COYP Reply |
| 117. Author: Raymie the Legend Date: Sat 11th Jul 2026. 22:56 Paralex, Sat 11 Jul 17:21 Also EK’s first competitive game and we will have had the better prep by far.  It`s bloody tough being a legend Ron Atkinson - 1983 Reply |
| 118. Author: thebear Date: Sat 11th Jul 2026. 23:02 Not convinced by morrison, runs around a lot, but rarely gets a chance and when he does he fluffs it. Reply |
| 119. Author: Raymie the Legend Date: Sat 11th Jul 2026. 23:06 thebear, Sat 11 Jul 23:02 He’s had a full pre-season and plenty game time last season. He really needs to step up and start justifying his fee. It`s bloody tough being a legend Ron Atkinson - 1983 Reply |
| 120. Author: AdamAntsParsStripe Date: Sat 11th Jul 2026. 23:36 I agree with the earlier comment that despite being effectively out of the running to get out the group, it will be an awakening to NL and the team that we need to get it right before the season starts. The friendly at Kelty was a warning sign we are very weak in defence and that must be a priority. Zwei Pints Bier und ein Päckchen Chips bitte  Reply |
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