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Now this post I agree with 100%.

The one thing we’re not going to be this season Elvis is “in big trouble”. We’ve already seen to that. However we are going to be in a really disappointing place compared to where we thought we might be at one stage. Unless there is meaningful change in the January window, I’m predicting 8th or 9th.

I thought tonight Kiltie (who I’m generally a big fan of) was particularly wasteful.

It’s definitely the final ball supplier for me. It’s not like our strikers were missing sitters. We’re just not creating any clear cut chances.

I’m one of the few people on here who sticks up for you with some of your posts, but the second part of your post above is frankly utter bollocks. The first part is true. I never fancied us to score at any point tonight, but to say they were “easily the better team” is utter nonsense. They were absolutely terrible. We pretty much dominated any meaningful possession in the game but were infuriatingly powder puff in the final third. Killie had something we didn’t. A goal scorer. And more worryingly that is becoming a common theme.

I think the most notable thing about tonight’s result is that for me we’ve lost to the shitest team we’ve lost to this season (as in on the night). Killie were f**king shite and they still beat us. Another 3 defeats coming up without the slightest shadow of doubt. Beginning of Feb we’ll likely be 8th in the league. Robinson got his plaudits when we were doing well. He better get his finger out now. I predict he’ll revert to the Robbo that starts talking about finances and lack of quality.

Oh great. Here comes Mandron. That’ll be on the basis of him coming on the last two games and not touching the ball. f**kin brilliant.

No subs at HT is a joke! IT’S NOT WORKING ROBBO! Can’t you see that???

I agree with all of that except “we can’t buy a goal” which I’d extend to we can’t buy a chance. We completely dominated that first half and had the vast majority of what I’d call positive possession, but we’re back to the bad old days of getting to the final third and having no clue. And as used to happen, the team that has barely been in the game, goes up a scores with their only chance through a combo of them having something remotely resemble a goal scorer and our poor defending. Killie had a wee flurry after the goal while we gathered ourselves and then we were back to us dominating the ball but doing f**k all with it. It’s so frustrating and really feels like St. Mirren teams of old.

Can we please just agree Robbo that Olusanya isnae a player and bring on Nahmani now before we waste even more time.

O’Hara clearly undroppable..

Short thread this. Isn’t he the only one that fits the bill? Certainly no one can top him.

Just for absolutely clarity re my last paragraph, I mean “on the day”. Shankland was a difference maker on the day. We have no one that can do what he does on such a regular basis. That’s not to say Hearts are generally “better” than us. Shankland played and barely got a sniff when we beat them 1-0 at our place. But yesterday, in my humble opinion, Hearts were comfortably better than us and fully deserved to win the game. And re the “chances” we had, we can create as many chances as we like (we didn’t though), but without the type of composure shown by the likes of Shankland, we won’t score many goals. By the way, (and I’m honestly not being facetious), can you remind me what those two best chances were? I’m thinking the sclaffed shot by Small that was blocked by an defender and the speculative looping header by Gogic which Clark saved comfortably? I could name at least 4 great chances Hearts had in that second half (mainly due to defensive calamities) which would have more than cancelled out any half chances we had.

I normally agree with your fairly balanced post match assessments, but not this week. I thought we were terrible, particularly in the second half. For me, the stats belie the ease with which Hearts won the game. I held out very little hope of us getting back into the game at 1-0 and zero hope once it went to 2. the quality of our passing and particularly crossing was absolutely woeful. Someone said we lost due to a mistake and a moment of sheer quality. Are those not generally the types of things that separate two teams and mean that one is better than the other, with that team usually winning the game?

@elvis may be on negative repeat most weeks, but I’m afraid this post is bollocks. It suggests that in order to have an opinion, Elvis needs to be a football manager?? He is a paying customer and as such is entitled to a view. If you paid to go to a fancy restaurant and your food was shite, would you refuse to complain because you’re not a chef?

He’s a top player, especially by Scottish Premiership standards. He’s a c**t, but he’s a top player c**t. 🤣

Terrible second half. Really really poor. Thats 2 weeks running now that Mandron has come on as a sub and I have genuinely no recollection of him touching the ball. Some of the “football” in that second half was atrocious. We couldn’t even do the basics right. We are most definitely on the slide. We better get some points from Killie, because we’ll be getting none in the following 3 games.

I’d say with the exceptions of Small, O’Hara and Greive, everyone is playing reasonably well, but by f**k our crossing is truly woeful.

More O’Hara sloppiness costs us.

I’d sub Gogic now. Certain red card coming.

Disappointed that Nahmani has been dropped already. One really good performance followed by one not so good (when everyone else was shite too) and out he goes. Not really fair when you consider the chances other strikers have had.

Hmmm. I’m not sure he’d solve any problems for us. I see him as a Curtis Main type workhorse and tireless runner, but not going to get us goals. Could be wrong. If he’s a straight swap for someone who’s going then fair enough, but I don’t see him as a particularly positive “addition” to the squad.

Is that really true though pod? Prior to his injury we had only won 1 of the previous 7 games and that was a game Strain didn’t play in (4-0 v St. Johnstone). Neither Strain nor the team have really been very good since the home win v Hearts.

Ahhhh but did we?? Or did we all expect to lose it at some point? In other words, did we all really expect to lose our unexpectedly good early season form and resume with a more expected shite form? I expect so.

Sadly I believe this to be true. In fact, if we're only talking league games then I'd extend it to our next 5 games. Of course we can get 3 points at home Killie, but if we play as we have in all matches recently bar the RossCo home game, then I fear a point is more likely. Can't see us getting anything away at Hearts/Aberdeen, or at home to Celtic/Rangers. Unless of course we can unexpectedly return to our early season form.