Tekel Towers » Utd v Pars

PatReilly · 23/9/2015 12:19 am

Back in the hoose now. Robson too looked a find in that position.

Agreed about the Pars CH, (R-E), and although El Bakhtaoui was annoying, you'd love a player in our club who annoys the opposition like that. Overall, though, Dunfermline were average, in my view. Some folk were saying there are worse top league sides, but I thought not.

Fraser, while being good, needs to avoid overplaying the ball. Spittal is our best player presently, and on the night, we went through because of Rankin.

Finally, thank fuck the zombies are out: hopefully that doesn't give the Perth Sts a boost on Saturday though.

ComfyOnTheBall · 23/9/2015 12:37 am

In the next round of the cup, all the matters in the end!
Really impressed by The Pars tonight though and in particular the lad Byrne in midfield, miles better than Kuhl, reckon we should be going for him in January and cut out the loan signings!

Foo Kin Twat · 23/9/2015 12:43 am

Welcome mate. Your user name is everything we were not in that first half!

lifesanocean · 23/9/2015 6:54 am

Bodul is clearly technically a good player, but doesn't appear to offer any end product. Khul was dreadful 1st half but a bit better second half. The laddie Robson never hid even after getting a roasting first 20-25 minutes and ended up being a good outball. Some of the chances we missed were unreal as well.

Everytime Ryan McGowan gets the ball with time to think about things a little bit of me dies. Taggart looked decent when he came on. Murray is not a wide player, plenty pace but no skill. Cracks papered over for another week.

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Foo Kin Twat · 23/9/2015 7:19 am

One more thing about that first half.

The players on the pitch need to be much more responsible. When Dunfermline got yon corner at the Dode/ET, our players were so out of it, no-one was alert enough (apart from maybe Rankin) to cover their short corner. FFS amateur teams wouldn't allow that to happen!

Saturday will determine if we have indeed turned a corner or THE corner!!!

Morphman · 23/9/2015 8:40 am

Have to say I actually agreed with one of Jackie's usual excuses while watching the first half, and some of the second to be honest.

Our players, particularly centre half's and centre mids, have to start "being braver on the ball". Lost track of the amount of times Dunfermline sat deep in their half last night and we didn't have the bravery to step up with the ball in to space they left. Instead Morris, Durnan, Kuhl in particularly took the ball down and lumped it, or attempted to lump it, up to Mckay who was never going to win anything against their centre half's.

The most annoying bit about it was the players seemed to be scared to be the one to lose possession, I'd rather see a player getting the ball down and, if the opposition are sitting deep, stepping out with the ball. If you lose possession then so what, at least you tried to open things up. The midfield, and possibly even defenders, need to do this then carry on their run to give the opposition more to think about. We can't continue lumping balls 40 yards+ hoping for knockdowns, it's not going to work.

It wasn't until we got a bit braver and started to commit to runs beyond their back line that we looked like scoring, last 20 minutes we hit the byline more than we have in the last 6 months combined and were very unfortunate not to score.

Don't think Eh'm letting Jackie off the hook yet though, his decision to take off Telfer, who was running the show 2nd half IMO, was fucking mental and totally disrupted the rhythm in the team for a good 10 minute spell until we managed to get grips of possession again. Genuinely believe we would've scored before the 90 if Telfer remained on the pitch.

Huge plaudits to Jamie Robson by the way, after getting roasted for 30 minutes he didn't let his head drop and was excellent after that, here's hoping that's the first of many decent performances in tangerine.

Tangerine_Ultra · 23/9/2015 10:02 am

The result papers over the cracks

RogerTheAlien · 23/9/2015 11:51 am

Beating a divison 2 team would never fix anything, but It had to be done.

SuperMario · 23/9/2015 12:24 pm

No what I'm honestly one of mcnamaras biggest critics right, but he is totally right we've had absolutely no luck in front of goal!

Bilate miss v Aberdeen
Murrays one that hit the bar against Dundee!
Dows two one on ones against ross county!
Dows miss against killie, if that goes in we win the game no doubt about it
Rankins miss and the offside goal what wasn't offside against Inverness!

It's easy to say but even if half of them go in the back of the net we would certainly no be second bottom of the league! I'm going to give Jackie until Christmas for our league form to change if it doesn't he has to go, we should get behind him and the team and TRY and move of from the January onwards fiasco!

RogerTheAlien · 23/9/2015 12:44 pm

SuperMario,

imo its down to shyte finishes and not luck.

SuperMario · 23/9/2015 1:04 pm

I think it is down to luck, 99 times out of a hundred Dow would have scored the one against killie and the the one that was offside was a terrible decision from the linesmen

SuperMario · 23/9/2015 1:05 pm

And I'm no Being funny but how is it the managers fault that players are missing sitters

SlatefordArab · 23/9/2015 2:21 pm

SuperMario wrote:
And I'm no Being funny but how is it the managers fault that players are missing sitters

Correct. He does need to take responsibility for lack of motivation and more importantly, organization. Both of which we lack in spades.

Creme Tangerine · 23/9/2015 4:30 pm

Although the manager can't take the blame for players missing sitters, overall performances make it harder to cut him any slack

Billy_Hainey · 23/9/2015 5:16 pm

The day after. Out the town early this morning so straight home to bed after the match. Jackie looks safe till Saturday.

Positives
McKay was excellent once again, but he was isolated too often.

Great header from Morris for the equaliser.

Durnan better than last time, but still worries me a bit.

Thought Fraser was top notch last night. Needs a bit more confidence to have a boot toward the goal (as do a few of our players). Goal should buck-up his confidence a bit.

Darko looked good on the ball, but again wish he would have a go.

Robson did very well. True he lost the ball a few times when challenged, but good show from him all the same. Game changed for the better when Spit came on. Him and Robson complemented each other well. Great move by Spit, and great goal.

Pace upped when Murray and Taggart came on. Murray made a crackin clearance in extra time from the corner area.

Dont know what to make about Telfer last night. He overkicked a couple of crosses. I would have had Connelly on instead.

MacGowan played OK, but takes too much time to make his mind up about he what he wants to do with the ball.
Remember where he won the ball after a briliant tackle in our box, he immmediately passed the ball straight to a Dunfermline player.

Probably partly owe our win to fitness. Pars seemed to come to a stop in extra time.

Negatives
Zwick was a bit unlucky to lose the ball and us to lose the goal.

Pars came out guns blazing, and it took us till the half-hour mark to wake-up.

Took us 4 times as long to get from our box to theirs, as it did for the Pars to get from their box to ours.

Our passing was woeful for a lot of the game. Kuhl looked average. Lost possession a few times with some bad passes, but fought for the ball a lot.

Murray and McKay misses.

We shouldnt need extra time to beat a 3rd tier team.

PatReilly · 23/9/2015 7:49 pm

Highlights: see Zwick just before half time when the boy misses the sitter.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/scotland/34342378

Billy_Hainey · 23/9/2015 9:18 pm

I could feel the dread Pat, as that ball was rolling into the goal, then it didn't.

PatReilly · 23/9/2015 10:04 pm

I'm talking about his gestures after the boy missed: were they towards the linesman or the Par?

Billy_Hainey · 23/9/2015 10:51 pm

See what ye mean Pat. Looks like he's looking toward the player, waving his hand, and shaking his head saying no no no.

arabugsy · 24/9/2015 7:58 pm

Or he could be suggesting the Lino should've put his flag up and down and up and down...............................

But aimed at the Par. 😉

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