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Gonna be a lot of sitting deep with miovski up to alone.

Pitch looking like it's cutting up already and the weather is horrendous tonight. All the makings of a battle tomorrow.

Did I just see Dean Campbell put villa out? It sure looked like him

Exactly what I've have picked too, though possible Hayes for Duncan and switch sides. That's a decent side with plenty of options too.

At ochilview today. Sad to miss Shinnie's return but having seen the lineup. Not expecting miracles today. The duk miovski debacle continues.

This surely means Barron is offski

His will to win is his outstanding quality. Accurately. I wouldn't say ramadani hasn't provided this fight though. Shinnie isn't going to have Ten assists a season or half a dozen goals as you'd maybe expect from Clarkston ( and possibly an in form Barron ) So I think it'll be really interesting to see how Jim decides to play him. Fair me I think Barron may go and shinnie will slot straight into his place with Clarkson at ten. That however means sticking with the current unsuccessful set up.

It means that he is a good ball winner but a poor distributor of the ball and offers little going forward. We finished second mainly because the rest were relegated on and off but you can only beat what's in front of you. He was a great left back before coming to us. I'd agree that mcrorie lacks the same quality in the middle of the park. Pure energy, little quality and that shinnie is better than him. Not really sure where Ross ends up. Like him marauding forward on he right but rarely delivers a telling ball. Wasnt a good centre half last year and can't see him in midfield ahead of ramadani or shinnie

Never much more than a journeyman as a midfielder IMO lacked guile but certainly will add fight and a bit of organisation which is badly lacking. Be interesting to see how he slots in. Clearly himself and ramadani will play. Probably both are holding midfielders. Is it 5/3/2 or 4/4/2 ( would lack creativity with this two), 4/5/1 or Diamond? Or do we bring back wingers? Right player of we intend to play two holding. If it's not to hold, he's no better than Clarkston or Barron going forward and it would make no sense to do ramadani who has been out best player of late I'm hoping he's coming in to let one of those two play at ten

These subs are fucking unreal. Why wouldn't you take miovski off and push Ramirez up with Vinnie linking play. We've now got duk through the middle against two monsters. No supply from Clarkson and I hate to say it but Hayes is past it.

Need to be a bit sharper. It's all heid down and running for the bye lines. Ramirez in particular taking up good positions in the inside and Kennedy needs to get his head up. Duk doing well again but delivery from that side had been poor. Stronger team, just need a break

If he plays the same set up. Is Ramirez being asked to play behind the other two? I genuinely can't believe that he sacrificed Barron to keep miovski in the side.

I expect a Jekyll and Hyde 3-0 today to paper over the cracks. He won't change anything. He'll play miovski, he'll score a penalty and everybody will say he's worth 10m again. Jim will put the last few weeks down to bad luck and well move on until the next poor run.

Sorry been busy. Happy new year. However Celtic were very much like Celtic in Europe minus the finishing. Look at Brighton for example. They play in a certain way without big names and punch above their weight. Whilst others want to give Jim a couple of windows. It's rather someone with a style of play came in. Hypothetically speaking. If Brendan ( for example) fancied a trip back to Scotland and came to the dons. Are you honestly telling me he couldn't improve the performances after a few weeks in the training ground because of our squad?

I'm not against the policy of bringing in youth with quality to move on. However inevitably you lose power in the team. This is why an Ajax don't launch the ball 70yds. We need a possession based style of play and Jim doesn't have the skills to introduce it. If you want to bring in technically good players, you need a technicality good coach. I totally believe that a big Ange For example would have us nipping at the heels of the ugly sisters with a team that play their parts in the grand plan. We don't have a plan full stop and as a result are making players worse than they were when they arrived. Turn as Stewart had been. I don't think we bought him to spend 80 minutes defending the six yard box. He is as decent ball winner and tries to pass out. This works a lot better when you're the team applying the pressure.

Just pish. This reminds me of the run at the end of Derek's era. Was never the right man for the job but he was the easy option. I've given him the benefit of the doubt but his stubbornness with the formation and playing miovski every game despite awful performances sure that he won't correct this.

Completely took the structure away and now he'll blame the strikers for not getting us back into it. Total clown. Well get caught out with no midfield.

IUnbelievable sub. Duncan did more in the first half than miovski has in a month. Very harsh on the boy and the team is still causing a passenger.

Whole system is a mess. They clearly aren't comfortable playing like this. We need to see Barron in the other half. We need players to get on the ball and take the game to Killie. I'd take glass back tomorrow with this squad. Remember when we were shite but had 70% possession and couldn't hit a barn door.

Thoroughly deserved. We're offering nothing. How many times had Matty run up to the defender, got 5 yards away and turned back. No belief in this team.

Is this guy commentating for real. Playing out from the back. Roos had been humping it for weeks. What's he been watching?

I know I say this regularly but how does miovski keep his place ahead of Ramirez? A proven goalscorer in a poor team last year whilst Ferguson took the penalties.

Cheers guys. I can see the Stewart comparison as he looked a bit off the pace at first but I thought that he improved the second time I seen him. Looked to have a bit of creativity that we're lacking. I'd like to see us go back to two attacking midfielders behind one striker and one holding midfielder behind them. Would let us utilise Barron, Clarkson, Roberts and Vinnie better whilst ramadani and mcrorie fought for the holding role. For me, the two strikers don't work and I'd rather we could control the game than punt it and expect a miracle from duk. Hopefully with more options available, we'll be more expansive and try to keep the ball.

Is he a mythical creature? Is he still injured? Or does Goodwin just not like him? Looked a decent player when he came in. Does anybody know if we'll see him again?

Funny you should say that. I feel that our focus isn't on winning games but on selling players. Barron being one who they clearly want to get as much game time as possible and also miovski who the board keep touting about as being worth a fortune despite his. Hopefully they're trying to put Morris in the shop window too. Only way to explain his recent inclusion.