Although I believe the 9 - 0 was a freak result and unlikely to be repeated we still have a soft defensive underbelly that has not been fixed fully.  You only need to look at the goals conceded against St Mirren and Motherwell to see that.

That indicates the manager doesnt see it as a problem or we dont have the players at the club to fully address the issue.

We go three at the back tomorrow we will get overrun down the sides and it could be whatever Celtic want it to be.

We need to play 4-5-1 and defend for our lives.

We really can't be doing with another hammering but sadly I can't see us avoiding it.

Confidence must be really low at the minute after three defeats in a row to really shite teams so a change in formation and try something else is required.

I think 5 or 6-0

I think 4 - 0 to them. There is little expectation of the players. I think Fox should focus on collective improvement rather than the result. What he should avoid is putting the players under additional pressure.

Raging.

How the fuck can we not deal with crosses, it’s a complete and utter fucking shambles, virtually every goal we concede is from a cross, sort it out fox FFS

Why is Ross Graham sitting on the bench? Bin the 5 at the back it’s fucking rank

The goalies are pish

Levitt should never have been dropped, only player who can keep the ball for us

Doomed.

Thought we were good in spells today.

But our inability to defend cross balls and these Goalkeepers (both of them) are gonna resign us to relegation, unless there is a dramatic turnaround post-World Cup. Which will only come about if we have a good January window. As we simply don't have the players to dig us out of this hole.

We've only won about 5 league games this entire calendar year. It's just nowhere near good enough.

The character is fragile too. Grabbing a (rather fortutious) equaliser in the 88th minute should have given everyone the impetus to really dig in and earn a huge point away from home or even go on and try and register our first away win all season (and first there in 30 years).

But, as per, we pathetically succumb to defeat. Without hardly touching the ball post equaliser.

That's a character failure. We badly need a leader or two in that side.

dufcrule wrote:

That 3rd celtic goal, 2 utd players pointing at the goalscorer before he makes his run, both expecting the other to mark him. Unbelievable!

Spotted the danger but did nothing to stop it....

I noticed that as well , who were the two players ?
 

United Arab Emarite wrote:

Billy_Hainey wrote:

Wisna at the gehm, just saw bits oe it on hesgoal, so just afterthoughts.

Considering what we thought they score might be.......

Looked like for a few minutes we were getting a point there, for which Eh woulda bit my wife's erse. But no. They lucky b@stards get a break.

Can we no defend crosses? The keeper looks like he flumped it. We'd be better aff we a Koala bear.

However, how is it we canna score against the Well at hame, but can get twa against the minks at Parkdaed.

Every gehm is must phuckin win fae now on.

Most goals in football come from crosses do they not Billy, we are not unique?
 

We are unique. We're sitting at the bottom we 9 points fae 14 gehms. And that's partly coz we canna defend crosses.

Had a glimmer of hope at 2 each but then our soft under belly exposed again.

WTF do we work on at the so called 'High Performance Centre' if not trying to strengthen the weaknesses that every team sees in us.

I didnt expect us to take anything from the game but it is really starting to frustrate that there seems to be no change, no increase in effort.

I dont like singling player out for my vitriol but if i never see Ian Harkes in a united Jersey again i wont be upset 
- He wont tackle - not saying he cant but seems to never want to challenge or stick a foot in even a 50-50,
- Cant jump to win a header and shits it when challenged by another player
- Never takes ownership - will happily play a ball to an a team mate who is surrounded than take ownership
- seems to play the ball backwards about 90% of the time
- Never closes a player down - happy to stand off and let them play
- Rarely seems to break into a sprint even after losing the ball, always seems to jog
hate laying into one of our own players but he is just pi$$ing me off everytime i see him play

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Rick Dagless wrote:

The goalkeeper situation needs addressed urgently. Both our goalkeepers are gifting at least a goal a game and clearly give no confidence to the players in front of them. Neither of them are the required standard. International Caps or not

The club need to have plans in place to get a keeper with experience in this league or England at the beginning of the window, not pissing about until deadline day but coming in at the start of January because we can't continue to lose goals through keeper errors every week.

 When Edwards and the keeper got in a mix up and Birghtti went down injured, Edwards didna even check to see if he was ok at first. That speaks volumes to me about how valued the keeper is. If possible then he needs binned, Ericsson benched and a new experienced keeper brought in. A hard bastard in midfield desperately needed too.