Pars v Morton

[Secure Par]

Honestly I fear a 3-0 drubbing by Falkirk next week…the football is just brutal to watch but there was glimpses of KRH taking players on ets…just do this more! The team has to play the ball faster moving up the pitch. If McPake sets out like that next week we will lose easily against an attacking Falkirk side. It’s just so frustrating watching that team and as many have said our win record is brutal especially at EEP where teams hated to come to as they knew they would be up for a hard game… Something has to change as we are relegation fodder already😩

[the saline hill puma]

1 hour ago, Eastendtales said:

Decent performance, poor result. 

Disagree. Half a game with lots of pressure and created little 

Edited Saturday at 18:45 by the saline hill puma

[Secure Par]

So here is the question….. do we have a team that all of us supporters believe if coached correctly can perform in this league?

Is McPake like Dundee fans still state… out of his depth and just play the slow,boring football that got him sacked..

 

[scottyboy]

3 hours ago, Deutsch Par said:

Looking at the stats on Flash score it seems like it is the type of game that would get football stopped.

I believe its called anti-football. If you're a neutral and you looking for a bit of entertainment, you'd probably be better watching "Bargain Hunt" or, "Homes Under The Hammer"

[SanguinePar]

2 hours ago, kelty_par said:

So chasing a win and we have 1 striker on the pitch? Sutherland should’ve been on 100%.

Chasing a win, and we made changes which meant we went from having no pressure and no real chances to pushing hard for a long period and very nearly scoring. 

Ok we didn't score, and maybe Sutherland puts a chance away if it comes - but you have to create the chances first. 

If you'd have had Sutherland on, who would you have not brought on? Cooper, who skipped past defenders and played an excellent cut back? Ngwenya, who both gave us pace and width on the left, and also allowed Otoo to move into the midfield role where he's best utilised? Or Wotherspoon, who helped open up the space on the left for Ngwenya and added significantly more quality than Clay had been providing?

The idea that you can tell how attacking a team is being by just counting the number of strikers is absurd.

[SanguinePar]

1 hour ago, Grant said:

There's more to football management than just making subs,

Indeed, and that's kind of the point I'm making - there was a huge change in attitude and momentum after the changes. 

1 hour ago, Grant said:

either McPake is incapable of coaching and setting a team up to attack,

Were you not watching the second half? That's exactly what he did do.

Where I think he can and should be criticised is in not being more attacking from the start of matches. I think we have a squad, thin though it is, capable of a lot more than they've produced so far this season. That's on McPake, no argument.

But the initial point I was replying to was that only having 1 striker on the pitch somehow sums up all that's wrong at the moment. Which is nonsense.

[da_no_1]

2 hours ago, kelty_par said:

Couldn’t believe he didn’t come on and we went to 1 up front in a game we needed a win. Sums it all up tbh

Nightmare of a post. Unlike you, seriously. 

[kelty_par]

So what was the point in actually keeping Sutherland here? He’s never going to get experience sat on a bench and manager clearly doesn’t rate him enough to give him game time.

Personally didn’t think wotherspoon was great when he came on apart from 1 bit of skill he done… gave away the ball numerous times. All about opinions at the end of the day I won’t start slagging people off if they think differently to me.

 

Unfortunately we are in a results business and quite simply it’s not acceptable whatsoever. Sooner mcpake goes the better 

[kelty_par]

16 minutes ago, da_no_1 said:

Nightmare of a post. Unlike you, seriously. 

Not unlike you to be sarcastic towards someone cause they see something differently to you however 

[Secure Par]

We just need to play more attacking footbal.. get the ball up the pitch and make more chances…. This slow play utter nonsense from the back is brutal so get the ball up and wide?? 

[kelty_par]

Ngenwya sub was fine as otoo is our best CM and has to play there. cooper should be starting games it’s a mystery to me why he doesn’t 

[da_no_1]

39 minutes ago, kelty_par said:

Not unlike you to be sarcastic towards someone cause they see something differently to you however 

I wasn't being sarcastic. Your posts are usually quite sensible. To say we didn't go for it 2nd half as we only had 1 out and out striker on is crazy.

[the saline hill puma]

2 hours ago, Secure Par said:

So here is the question….. do we have a team that all of us supporters believe if coached correctly can perform in this league

 

No...our players aren't good enough. We need better 

[da_no_1]

3 minutes ago, the saline hill puma said:

No...our players aren't good enough. We need better 

I think a better manager can get more out of these players. 

[the saline hill puma]

8 minutes ago, da_no_1 said:

I think a better manager can get more out of these players. 

I'm not convinced. For quite a few of them this is the third manager.

We weren't terrible today but imo most of the poor decisions were made by players on the park, too slow, wrong pass etc

Edited Saturday at 21:39 by the saline hill puma