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  1. To add balance to my last post. I don’t think SR is purposely getting every decision wrong…. He just… is

     

    He needs to look at the players we have - the nucleus of the team we had last year, look at what they done well and use that as a template coz whatever he’s trying just now is not working and will see us rooted bottom early doors and struggling from there on. I hope he can make the right calls and soon - otherwise it’s curtains for him and most likely, our stay in the top league. 

  2. If we got someone in who could revert back to the formation we used to play - and sought out a Ronan/McGrath type, we could be ok. 
     

    but we need to have the balls to just cut ties. The guy is an imposter. He’s taken everything no bad about us and made it a shit show. Now going into season heads will be down and defeated. What an utter failure and worse. He doesn’t know when to admit he’s wrong and play the best way for the team and not his one and only way! 
     

    im baffled at the whole thing. I can’t understand how someone can consistently get every decision wrong…

  3. 3 hours ago, TopCat said:

    I don't think it's unreasonable to say we should not be losing at home to part time teams. It has happened before, but it doesn't happen often, it tends to occur when the club is at a real low point. The last time we plunged such depths was a 0-1 loss against Dumbarton in 2017 when we were in the midst of a relegation battle in the second tier. The result and performance on Saturday was a return to those dark days.

    Don't see anyone realistically saying he should be sacked now - that would be ridiculous. However his record since arriving in February has been atrocious. 14 games, nine defeats, two draws, three wins. Two of those wins came against Mark McGhee's joke Dundee team. 

    Given how terrible our end of season form was under him, he really needs to get a good start this season. That would be getting us out the league cup group (ideally as a seed) and getting three or four wins on the board from the opening set of 11 fixtures. If he fails to do either of those then his position will rightly come under threat. The league cup situation is out of our hands now, nine points might not be enough to get us through - it wasn't in 2017 - we will simply need to win our remaining three games and hope results elsewhere go our way.  If we play in the league like we did on Saturday we will just lose every week, like we mostly have since he arrived.  

    He's been backed in the window and he's been backed early, I don't remember us before having six new signings announced by this stage in the season before. Isn't he on record saying there might be one more, budget dependent? There's not going to be a huge amount of new arrivals, the vast majority of our summer business started the game on Saturday, and i thought all five of them played terribly.

    Since you brought up Jim Goodwin, we hadn't lost in any of the previous nine league cup group stage matches under him, up till Saturday. He never lost once in eight games against non full time opposition. And that lump it long to Ayunga - who didn't win a header all day - strategy we employed on Saturday was some of the most turgid football i've ever seen at St Mirren Park. Our only chances of note were headers from crosses into the box, we offered nothing else at all. It was a truly terrible watch.

     

    Sadly, this is very  accurate. 
     

    SR fills me with 0 confidence that he knows how to build a squad. Given how poor we’ve been since he took over - I don’t hold out much hope for the season ahead. 

  4. Based on yesterday, I’d say we’ve got worse again and it’s easy to see why we are favourite to go down. 
     

    big no7 was honking! We are short of a right winger, a central ball winner to take charge and probably a creative ‘Ronan’ type. 
     

    Season hasn’t even started & already I can see it being a struggle. Hope to god I’m wrong 

  5. Have google this but haven’t found the answer… 

    will this game be able to be viewed/streamed on Sons tv? Their site is like an Earl 00s nightmare to navigate and can’t see how to buy (if you can). 
     

    any help would be great….

    EDIT - found the answer, link here for anyone looking to buy game; 

    https://dumbartonfc.univtec.com/event/60e2fd07bb5ab510a4323121

     

  6. 2 minutes ago, God of war said:

    Think he has the ability McAllister but no confidence and has no heart whatsoever. Absolute pussy of a player..

    He has the ability but confidence as you say is an issue and doesn’t always seem to give it 100%. In truth, I don’t see him becoming a regular starter for us due to the above. 

  7. 29 minutes ago, Slash said:

    And delivered very little. He was signed on a 3 year deal. I’d imagine he is one of our highest earners. Disappointing return on investment. 

    From what I understand, he’s amongst the highest earners. At least he was when he signed. I base this on him and his family being friends of a friend. 
     

    I still think he offers something - just not consistent enough, which is the issue. 
     

    Nice to see the young lad getting a start. The academy system has delivered a few gems over the years. Let’s hope he’s another... 

  8. 12 hours ago, turrabuddie said:


    Erwin to be a (very) unlikely match winner on Wednesday ?

    Stranger things have happened ...

    I don’t rate him but his performance at Well was his best for us. Even with a depleted squad I reckon we can win this. 
     

    I agree with most, an ugly and tasty affair. Just hope to leave with points and Importantly - no more injuries. 

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