Sorry @swaddon min, have too much to rant tonight to wait for the match thread to appear.

Just how significant is the Falkirk game now?

If we lose to Falkirk, they will leapfrog us and we'll fall to eighth. Since we'll be in January, that's sackable territory.

A reminder of Dave Cormack's statement on 31 January 2024 when he sacked Barry Robson: 

"There is a talented squad of players at the Club which makes our current league position unacceptable." We were eighth, after three wins in 11. Robson's final game was a draw.

Jim Goodwin was sacked on 28 January 2023 with the club in seventh, with two wins in 11.

Stephen Glass made it all the way to 13 February, with the club in ninth, with four wins from 11 (two from nine).

Unlike two of the above, Thelin is still in the Scottish Cup, and unlike all three has won a trophy within the last eight months. The sporting director's recent arrival also buys him time as he unlikely doesn't want a sacking on his record too soon. And, Thelin also hasn't had the January transfer window.

So all these things to me would suggest even defeat at Falkirk wouldn't mean Thelin is in any immediate danger.

However, fail to win on Saturday, and that would be three wins in his last 11 (four in 14). And a double header with Rangers is after that. Lose the cup game to Raith Rovers and you know what, that might be when the club did need to act to stave off angry fans.

 

Jimmy, I don't want to read in two years about your first league title at some Scandinavian club where everyone is raving about your 4-2-3-1 / 4-3-3 hybrid. For the love of fuck, FOUR AT THE BACK ON SATURDAY!

 

13 minutes ago, TheDonbytheDee said:

So the answer to our problems is a 34 year old who has hardly played in a year. Even more worrying Rico liked your post.

 

I didn’t say i liked it but I understand it. We have a bunch of fannies out there, need a bit of bite and leadership in the middle of the park. That’s not polvara or Clarkson, and probably not Kjarten yet.

8 minutes ago, TheDonbytheDee said:

Sorry min, Nilsen is a very bad option for us. Maybe if we signed him around five years ago, it might have worked, but for me the poorest signing of the Jimmy reign, as we actually paid decent money for him. 

Now I have said that, he will now pop up with the winner. 

I didn't say he was a good option, I said that in a 4-2-4, when the other midfielder is Armstrong, he's the best option. Which he is. Hence why Thelin has properly addressed it at half time by bringing on Polvara alongside him and pushing Armstrong further forward.

Of course, if he'd done that very obvious tactic in the first place, we wouldn't have had to bring on Nilsen at all. 

Fuck off

1-0

Good times

Fuck sake  

Mental amount of space. Never a foul. Good header.

The latest in a long long list of soft goals

Who goes first, Nancy or Thelin?

shocking goal to lose, we are a disorganized and uninspiring mess all over the park.

 
Thelin oot.

Absolutely pathetic at the back at a set piece yet again.

Seriously, Thelin just GTF. You have done nothing to address this stuff in over a year. Clueless…

Just now, RicoS321 said:

Mental amount of space. Never a foul. Good header.

Sorry Rico but disagree 

Lobban was late in my opinion and it was an obvious foul

Just now, OrlandoDon said:

Who goes first, Nancy or Thelin?

shocking goal to lose, we are a disorganized and uninspiring mess all over the park.

 
Thelin oot.

I don't think he is going anytime soon.  I honestly don't think he wants to be here either. 

 

Smelling blood

Another howler to add to the collection 

Calvin Miller running tings around us and making himself look like the best player on the park

2 minutes ago, BigAl said:

Calvin Miller running tings around us and making himself look like the best player on the park

You can say that about an opponent or two every week. We are so soft defensively, don’t get in their faces. With time and space plenty of players look good.

alternatively teams give us less space and we don’t know what to do and give the ball away.

2 minutes ago, BigAl said:

Calvin Miller running tings around us and making himself look like the best player on the park

To think, their fans were up in arms before the start of the season, as they didn't think they had brought in enough experience to cope in the league.  

They do have a half decent manager though,  that gets his team doing to basics correctly. 

Chants of Thelin Thelin GTF.

You can hear "Thelin get to fuck" being sang by the away support 😔 

Worrying times 

On a different note, I do think Nilsen has added some bite since coming on. Still might get sent off though 

1 minute ago, Panda said:

You can hear "Thelin get to fuck" being sang by the away support 😔 

Who can blame them. The effort to attend today and they get this - again.

Enough is enough…

Topi is dumb as rocks.

Keskinen- hud on til i tackle a few more players

Our team is so poor there is no player I would worry about losing. Not one. I would rather keep any one of them than the manager though.

That there sums up keskinen perfectly.

The footballing brain of a single cell amoeba…