Fuck sake

Take it

We don’t help ourselves

Arabdownsouth wrote:

Fatah will miss Falkirk game now, booked in both rounds so far.

 
😂 fs

Not a great watch but with 10 men just happy to get through.

Graham, Ferry, Sibbald and Dolcek all did fine.  Camara was very good.

Watters and Sapsford, dear oh dear

Stirton doesn’t look ready.

Not the best advertisement for Stirton, but thought Will Ferry getting in his face at full time was a bit much. Feels like the team is really quick to turn on each other whenever we have a wobble.

Snacks94 wrote:

Not a great watch but with 10 men just happy to get through.

Graham, Ferry, Sibbald and Dolcek all did fine.  Camara was very good.

Watters and Sapsford, dear oh dear

Stirton doesn’t look ready.

 
Looks to me like Sapsford is ill.

If Stirton isn't 'ready' what does that make Watters 😀

I'm also wondering if there isn't 100% cohesion in the dressing room which might be showing in performances.

Ref ruined game.
What's Iovu supposed to do, stand out of he's road. Was getting away with it all day against Falkirk. Big ham.
Pan Sibbs, Dolzec,SCH  good.  Any luck Jim'll go to 4 henceforward.

Relieved that we won and as such avoided another embarrassment to lower league opposition, but really quite dismayed with some aspects of tonight's performance.

Tonight was a huge chance to register a clean sheet and a morale boosting win with a few goals scored, but in the end we shoot ourselves in the foot far too often and we end up making things much harder for ourselves than they need to be constantly.

The red card was possibly harsh, but i also felt it was a ridiculously cynical body check by Iovu and after the Falkirk red on Saturday i don't think we can complain too much tbqh as both were in a way similar.

No-one has mentioned it, but i also felt we got a real break near the end when Sam Harding blatantly barged their player over and no penalty was given. Looked a bit of a stonewaller had VAR been there to intervene.

My player ratings -

AMB 6 - Didn't have much to do on the night other than a couple of routine saves. If i'm being ultra-critical i felt he could have moved his feet a bit quicker at their goal.

Strain 6 - Okay, but just 'ok', nothing more.

Sevelj 7 - Solid display. Great to have him back.

Iovu 2 - Last couple of matches just some braindead decision making and fouls right under the referee's nose. Never struck me as a clogger earlier in the season. Think he's taking Goodwin's words about being more 'aggressive' a little too literally. Will very quickly become an utter liability at this rate.

Graham 8 - The 'goal machine' with his 3rd goal in a row. Great to see and also him getting a run of games together without injury. Long may it continue.

Ferry 5 - Fairly subdued performance i thought.

Camara 8 - Great performance of running and passing and showed real leadership near the end trying to push the team on for the killer 3rd goal. Good to see him trying to get forward more.

Sibbald 6 - Quiet game by his standards. Slashed at his one decent chance in the match. Though the ball was at a rather awkward height.

Dolcek 7 - Impressed with him tonight. One great cross that Fatah should have buried and an absolutely sublime outside of the boot pass that led to our 2nd. We need to stop being so obsessed with what he can do off the ball and instead encourage him to get on the ball as often as possible and attempt to create magic, because he undoubtedly can provide moments of quality. A potential matchwinner, and we don't have many.

Watters 3 - Genuinely baffles me the drop-off in this guy. It's staggering. Genuinely awful once again. Looks like he does everything to avoid getting in the way of the ball, even when played through one on one he had zero conviction to burst through and score, instead shirks responsibility and elects to let Fatah do the hard part. His ridiculous effort in the first minute, he even winces in pain and starts feeling his knees etc. An utter waste of a jersey.

Fattah 7 - Not quite at his best, but still provided a couple of moments of good quality and scored yet another goal. Very, very disappointing to read he'll miss the Quarter Final.

Subs -

Sapsford 5 - Concerning the drop-off in Zac. Looking a shadow of the terrific little player he looked in the Summer and all the way up to Hogmanay. His 2026 form has fell-off a cliff and i can only surmise he is either injured or ill. In which case why the Hell is he playing. 

Stirton 7 - Seems to be getting a bit of stick tonight in some quarters. Baffling. He played Sapsford through one on one with a lovely weighted pass and put another one through for Camara (though ever so slightly over hit and wide). He is very raw but when he plays things seem to happen and the ball sticks up top. Need a proper chance as Striker with two wingers either side to see how he does, rather than just being the sacrificial lamb and coming on to plug holes or pointlessly run the channels at Parkhead etc. He deserves it, every other Striker has been afforded that chance. Some undeservedly, so.

Farrugia 6 - Done 'ok'. Couple of moments of good close skill. And can link-up fairly well. That said though, i don't see him as a game changer or a guy who can potentially provide a match winning moment.

SCH 5 - Silly challenge in the last minute, which he and we got away with. 

Stephenson 5 - Never seen much or anything from Luca in the time he was on. Disappointed we never seen Agyei on tbh.









 

nicolalove wrote:

Not the best advertisement for Stirton, but thought Will Ferry getting in his face at full time was a bit much. Feels like the team is really quick to turn on each other whenever we have a wobble.

Not at the game, so that is very disappointing to read.

Ferry isn't a good Vice Captain imo. Far too critical and often attributes blame to others very publicly.

Vicko for me would be the better VC.
 

Daft free-kick fir Iovu to gee away, but an even after decision fae the Ref. Was it a foul - Eh, was it a Yellow - probly, was it a Red - definitely no.
Trouble was the Spartans players surrounding the Ref and pointing to the goal. Probly ruined whatever gehm plan we had.

Enjoyed the result, but didna enjoy lots of the gehm. There was bits or the gehm ye'd think it was Sparta Prague we were playing. They had a good bit mare possession than we had. Ken we were doon to 10, but even so.

Esp. in the 2nd half, they were sitting we just 2 at the back, and we thir extra man, their No.2 had the whole of the right-wing to himsell. Unmarked, he had the freedom oe the George Fox.

It contributed to them having large spells in and around oor box, with some neat passing to their credit.

As other fowk have sayed, we shoulda had the gehm killed aff. But Sapsford never look right. Twa barrels into the ET when he shoulda passed to Stirton and Camara (he wasna happy). Did ye see him when was going to tak the corner. Looked knackered.

Twa brah goals tho.

MOTM for me Camara/Graham.

Worth remembering they went 4 up front in the last 10/15 mins. Threw a big CH up as well. And if not for some shite decision making, we could’ve won that 4 or 5-1.

Anyone looking at the stats would think it was a lot closer than it was, but that's not a true reflection of the game.

We were really comfortable the first half, deservedly took the lead, then extended it, then they threw caution into the wind at the same time we made a triple sub, taking off 2 of the players who'd given them most trouble.

Naturally they got a bit more of the ball, but were pretty clueless in how they attacked us, same balls all the time, and it's only the fact that our defence play on eggshells that made it a bit nervy. One bread and butter save from the keeper, then beaten by a wicked deflection, whereas we passed up so many opportunities to kill the game on the break.

Wasn't great viewing but after the sending off up to about the 80th minute I thought we managed it pretty well.
 

Zac Sapsford has looked genuinely unwell past couple of games. I know Goodwin said that he had a bug a while ago, but is he playing through illness?