OrlandoDon

Belter of a second half, unfortunate not to win. Lots of heart and desire but if we go the intern route please not leven. Then he goes on a run and it’s a repeat of Robson.

Red card? Penalty? goal disallowed. We’re not allowed to win this…

Stick that in yer chips!!!

Pretty shit first half, lucky not to be one or more down. Looks like men against boys, checked the clock when it happened, 42 mins before we played 3 consecutive passes. Barron not involved, shinnie on a booking, and Phillips runs a marathon and will be physical, but can he play football? Polvara seems to be settling more with every game, and McGrath is McGrath. 5 central midfielders who if we are being honest, one maybe two should be starting for us next season. read today we may get the intern until summer and are doing a structural review, given the squad we have someone seriously fucked up somewhere.

Yes and no. I’d prefer polvara over morris, particularly given it’s Celtic, but the problem is we don’t have quality width in the squad.

Maybe if we need a defender we can loan Rhys Williams?

Will he at least change his name to Mikey Johnson?

I’ll be wearing a black armband tomorrow. Although if it’s a loan I won’t totally give up on him.

I’ll add Alex Neil to that list. Bounced around a little but that has gained experience. Comment before said he’d not be interested, think he’s said no to coming back north in the past, but has been out of work for a couple of months and I don’t see his stock that high at present?? Available now and not totally foreign to our league and expectation. Young enough to be successful with us and move on to better things eventually. Don’t mean thy as a negative, still a young guy with plenty to prove.

Given the day I assume we bit the bullet and didn’t bring anyone else in?? disgraceful if that’s the case and no more wide players. Or is it save the pennies for the new gaffer in summer? seems like we’ve spent money on some real shit in the last couple of windows, Richardson, morris, gueye, hope the new guy has some eye for talent.

Looking at the names out there, whats everyone’s take on Stephen Kenny? Him, Michael O’Neill and the jimmy Thelin bloke are the only names that don’t cause me to vomit in my mouth so far.

Can’t we just hire donstalk as next manager? We’ll clearly do a great job and have all the answers. Rico as spokesman though, we’ll need a fall guy.

This and what KGB said. He continues to do the same thing, arguably make the same mistakes, and we get the same negative outcome. St Johnstone and tonight, we had to get 6 points for certain there but we were really poor, you have to blame Robson. 5 at the back and 2 up top, you knew it would be shit. Worried about top 6, never mind European qualification. i don’t understand the lineup tonight and the thinking behind it. As I said before, I assume Barron and polvara were ill…….but they were on the bench??

What’s frustrating when you look at our team I don’t think we have many bad players. I dont rate duncan, gueye, or morris, haven’t seen enough of Milne, and can’t judge Philips, but the rest can play. It’s the manager. And McGrath has been one of our best players of late so let’s play him at right wing back when we need a goal??? i assume polvara and Barron were ill so didn’t play? As for the formation, back to the shit that results in shit. What a surprise.

Saw about a hour and what I saw was fucking horrible. Dundee moved the ball well at times. As usual we did not. Don’t recall their keeper making a save. thought gueye looked like a guy from the park, got the ball, fucked around, and didnt know what to do. Made duk look like a smart player. Philips played like he was desperate to impress, worked hard but saw nothing to suggest he can play. tactics horrible and rotten performance. Consistent:

Going for 3-1 us, maybe 4. Something makes me think we’ll play really well. miovski 2, shinnie, and clarkson. Time for a lie down…

I understand what you are saying but you certainly have a glass is half full approach. I tend to be that way but I’m passed that with Robson. I said to give him time but I’ve done that. We are also 5 point off second bottom. i don’t see enough to suggest he’s our long term manager. Glass is getting mentioned quite a bit these days, I think he was a forward thinking modern manager who had a decent tactical approach. He wanted us playing football. He did play players out of position but you rectify that with new additions over time. theres nothing appealing to our play, Robson admits he’s made many mistakes. We’re not getting acceptable results and really haven’t all year. I dont think we’re the size of club, or in a situation, where we can wait for Robson to find his feet. I said when Goodwin was canned as manager that we’re a bigger club who need experience, we need a squad overhaul and we’re still at that point. Mcinnes to an extent walked into a good situation, the current situation to me requires more experience, building a squad, a style of play etc. I think it’s just too much for Robson, and we are talking about group stage euro football as an annual goal, almost mandatory, top 6 is questionable right now. No euro football has significant money and transfer consequences.

Has to be the latter, although someone with a resume like mcinnes when he came to us is certainly acceptable. Been crying out for experience since glass, surely we can’t go young and mostly unproven for a fourth time in a row!

Think it was a toss up between this bloke and recalling Richardson, but richardson’s car broke down. Inspiring loanee!!

Are we sure it’s not kalvin phillips and this is an error on the medias part? He’d fit what we need.

Perhaps, Dundee is no gimmie, we’ll lose both old firm games and we’re now three more games closer to the end of the season. I’d argue get a new guy in asap, the longer we wait the harder qualifying for Europe becomes. Money matters, it’s costing us keeping Robson, no Europe and recruitment becomes harder too.

So how much does var cost clubs and the governing body? Radical thinking but what if we put that money into referee development and training instead? Are we able to cancel bar much like we added it during a season? var has created a different sport, this week alone without var we’d lose to st Johnstone and arguably we beat hearts today. The hearts fan noise on every play in our box immediately after var rules our goal out was obvious, trying to get var to play for them. Players hounding refs on calls to get var involved, that didn’t happen as much or in certain situations before var. the game delays don’t make the game better. Good goals are ruled out, and var creates goals that never should happen. Didn’t see the penalty today but sounds harsh on devlin, var has created var goals that don’t occur without var. it’s not good for the sport. poor calls were made by human error, in hindsight I can accept that I suppose. Var is are creating goals and changing games, and after every goal scored and conceded we stare at the ref and wonder/hope will var change things. It’s not good for the game.

Ha! The start of a conversation! So who would you suggest? We have to give life to this thread, I’d say Robson has us worse than Goodwin or glass.

So we have 6 league wins in six months. How can our leadership justify keeping Robson? What is he doing right? What is he doing that gives us hope? What is he doing to tell cormack and co he’s clearly man for the job?? Glass had a style of play and wasn’t overly backed financially, Goodwin to an extent had one bad month, we’ve been gash most of the season. Being plucky losers in Europe isn’t that tag I want, cup runners up masked some shit league cup performances, can we please end this shit? throwing it back out there, who is next in the hot seat? What’s John Collins doing these days? Was ahead of his time when he started coaching, fitness, nutrition, bringing a European approach that Scottish players struggled with.

I don’t see it that way. Go on a run like last year and fourth very realistic. Third is tough but you never know. Hearts have been shit of late, we should have taken them today, var fucked us. the sooner we punt Robson the better. Today we showed we’re capable, Robson gets in the way. Doing more harm than good based on what we’ve seen this year. We’re not the kind of club that we can allow a rookie manager to make so many mistakes to learn and grow. get two wide players in, Campbell or baccus, and give a new guy the chance to salvage a season. good cup run is also not unrealistic, rangers and Celtic aren’t world beaters this year. New guy, new energy, and salvage a season, much like last year.