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At least you didn't have to sit through it

We've never played well under Robson but we had the rub of the green last season with duk hitting a purple patch and roos stopping everything. That was never going to last and our inability to control a game is brutal. Midfield doesn't work. Shinnie is limited as fuck on the ball. Just have him breaking it up and passing it on. There is clearly no game plan other than trying to defend and then chase it up the pitch. Just not good enough

Clueless going forward. Duk had been woeful. Bojan always seems to need one touch too many to get a shot away. Because we seem to take forever to get up the pitch there isn't time for that touch or space for dribbling. We really need to start getting in behind and putting crosses in front of our strikers. Surely that's the whole point of playing with wingbacks?

Why do we play Clarkson/Barron deep. Surely both are more effective going forward than shinnie?

It'll be six at the back this weekend

Had the chances, never took them. Duk really isn't on it this season and Clarkson looks to have lost a bit of shine. Shame as I think with them in form we win that. Bright spots mcgarry looks like the left side player we need. Hansen was fairly solid again and McGrath put in a good shift. Midfield need to learn to drop the shoulder and shoot from 20yds. It all slowed down in the final third. Whilst conference may be better suited. Make no mistake, we just lost to a team with 30 away fans.

Has duk been kidnapped and replaced in the summer?

Oh FFS. Far too slow getting out there.

For the record I thought Jensen was the only bright spot today. I liked the cut of his Jib. By the back three I didn't mean the players I meant the set up. Why not play higher up the pitch against the smaller teams. We shouldn't need three centre halves in Paisley , livi or Stirling. Let's go and play football to score goals. We're still trying to be hard to beat rather than a team to be feared.

Easy target? He's picking the same players. He's playing the back 3 that had us on the back foot. Our game plan seems to be sideways passing them back to the centre half and a punt to miovski who wins nothing in the air. It's reminiscent of dels latter days. We've got footballers but we're not set up to play football through the lines. On the shinnie front. We've only won at Stirling this season. I'll praise him when we change that

He's not been great but the team all have to look at themselves today. Needed to stand up. We need a winner in midfield and the start of this season tells you that shinnie isn't a big enough presence to boss a game. Team has a soft mentality unless we're playing the old firm. Barry needs a big result on Thursday because he's spent a lot of money and the team has got worse.

Clarkson would be as well sitting on my couch today and despite Thursdays second half miovski still doesn't convince me. He's a bit of a coward not a leader when you need the ball to stick

Have to say saints deserved that. Maybe we'll wake up now.

Turgid half hour. Shinnie running about chasing shadows. Not getting the ball out. Robsons strategy has always been defend for your lives and hope duk or miovski had a blinder. Really got away with it at the end of last season but it was never going to work long term. Needs to improve the play because we're nothing more than a counter attack team currently.

The penalty kicked us into life. Now gutted we never won it. Makes for a big one next week. That has to have dented hacken.

Mcgarry looking the part since he came on..

Fuck sake. Defending like Hibs there.

I'm not one to moan about a plastic pitch because players train on it all the time. However this one looks shiny, green and straight out the 90s. Let's get the first goal and it's our tie.,

Utter baws. Firing it sixty years to a striker that hasn't won a ball all night. Doubt hacken are shitting themselves. Created nothing against Stirling.

Would be gutting if he went before the season starts. I did think that his TV performance on Sunday might raise this issue though.

He was always having to check back as the box was empty. By the time we got up and put it wife to deliver he was 2v1 hard to get a good ball in. On that note I personally think that the noble cross is a dead art now. Percentage football produces ugly low cutbacks. I'd love to see balls fitted across the six yard box but it's very rare at the top level.

Been a cracking half to be fair. Celtic don't look as good as last season and I think there are more goals in the next half. Hopefully for us ,

I'll give him that. Though duk did the work.

Gonna be a long game Miovski being nudged off the ball like a 12 year old. Honestly still don't think he's anywhere near good enough to be leading our line. Never gets his shot away. Flat track bully.