Billy_Hainey wrote:

If Eh'd come on right efter the gehm, and posted, think Eh woulda felloot we a lot oe fowk, because Eh was phuckin livid.

Canna believe we blew the chance oe pullin awa, just a wee bit fae Raith. efter Big Dunc did us a favour.

The Ref was shite, the shove on Docherty in the 1st half 2 yairds in front of him being ane oe the shitey examples. But thats no the raason we never scored
the day against an average side.

Our pace was woeful virtually throughout the gehm, except fir the last 10 mins.

On the few occasions that the Pars moved forrit we the ba, thir pace was as expected, quick.

When we had the ba it sat we the back 3. Looked like they were playing yoga we the ba mair than futba. (Ross Graham was the biggest t culprit)
Then it moved forward at 1/4 speed, allowing the Pars to get their whole outfield playerd behind the ba., and it made it hard fir us to play thru.
We made it harder fir wirselves than it ever needed to be against an average side.

6 coarners in the 1st half, 13 in total, and yet phuck-all to show fir it. 3 shots on target the hale gehm.

Dinna ken what JG is tellin them to play like,and what he's thinkin aboot this, but Ehd love to ask him.

Going awa to a Burns night oot If Rabbie Burns had written anythin aboot this gehm, it wid go somethin like:-
Come on United. get phuckin with it
And stop playin like this shit
You're only playin the phuckin Pars
Baet them and git it right up Raiths arse.
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Very poetic indeed Billy 🤣🤣

0 = > 90mins ....zzzzzz
90 => 95mins ..thriller

Walton - rarely gets a mention - 1 or 2 great stops, hate to think if we'd gone a goal behind.
Graham - MOTM solid at back, some lovely long raking balls.
Watt - lazy.
Wotherspoon - once he develops understandings he'll be  a good signing, difficulty being he's no got long to do it.
Grieve -- made a difference when he came on.
Tillson - wtf is that man even doing on the bench, far less bring him on at stage in game when you want to make some positive impact.
All up we look disjointed, we're never going to beat teams who put 10 behind the ball if we lack guile and the ability to string passes together.

... Oh aye, corners, 11 or 12 I counted result zippo, nada, no even a threat. Concentrate on the ball in the back o' the net instead o' this 2 men pissing around at corner flag - predictable not to say pointless if corners miscued and no even hitting danger areas. - Give up on it Jim.   - Get 'Spoon loitering with intent on 18 yard line.  

... Geez we make life hard for ourselves.     ....Broken record.

Last edited by Shakey Isles Arab (27/1/2024 8:49 pm)

CCX2 2010 wrote:

 Countless sideways passes with no intent, take a risk , we don't care how many completed passes and percentage of the ball we have.

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Blame the Manager for that.

Teams tend to mirror their Gaffer and Goodwin was a player who was stuffy and tried to frustrate the opposition, his game was never about making anything positive happen. It's no wonder he's infatuated with Tillson.

I've heard him say more than once this season that he wasn't happy how little we 'kept the ball', these on days btw when we won convincingly (4-1 v QP springs to mind).

I couldn't care less if our possession stats are 20% if we are clinical in the final 3rd and defend well. Too many modern Manager's obsessed with stats and possession and 'recycling the ball'. All bollocks.

Football's a simple game. Get the ball wide, get crosses into the box, hunt in packs and get men in and around the box when on the attack. We are far too passive and safe.

More concerned about retaining possession, 'keeping our shape' and all that bollocks.
 

Win our next 2 and we are 7 points ahead with 13 games left, mad.

More urgency in attack though ffs