Rossmcno1

And don’t get me started about Australia in Eurovision....

Aye good point. It’s an approach which has been needed for a wee while, build young, 2 year contracts so we get a full season of development then can push on. I don’t buy into the theory about our fans being any worse than others about giving youth a chance or backing our players. Our fans get antsy if players don’t apply themselves- that’s the key thing. Christ it’s not as if we’re all about the quality. Tam McManus was adored by our fans because he did put a shift in when he first arrived. He wasn’t very good but because he made an effort he was forgiven many shortcomings. looking forward to the new season starting, if only to wipe my memory of that horror show last season!

You could actually see the confidence drain out the guy this season. He definitely needed a move to be able to make any kind of progress. The fact that he was kept out the team by a decent bit not great centre midfielder says it all. All the best to him, BUT we can do better ourselves.

Let’s hope there never is one like it...! 😂 i do prefer the thicker black and white stripes to be honest, the pinstripe never quite sits right with me, but that is definitely an age/era thing. I grew up with the pars in the mid to late 80’s so fond memories of thicker black and white stripes. Be interesting to see what is tried for this year.

Official site and twitter say no. Just checked forecast and it’s changed to rain for next few hours. Should be fine. should.

Livingston finished 2nd last season. Hence why we played United in the playoff. I still maintain that had we beat United, we’d have gone all the way. AJ had Livingstons number and Partick were laughingly bad. There’s yer “luck”.

Unfortunately I think it’s just society as a whole. With social media and the internet, that dude you’d hear about in the pub with their fantasy theories on the world and life who you’d previously just ignored, now has a platform with literally thousands of others. Football and indeed DAFC are not unique for having zoomers following them and spouting ****. Just way of the world nowadays. Back on topic it’s a tremendous achievement and is a good endorsement of the boards actions this year, long may it continue.

Irony.... that and your absence from that post for several weeks until we started this winning run. 😉

Our gameplan so far seems to be as follows:- 1st half, be incredibly turgid, but just don’t concede. We’ll work out what to do at half time. 2nd half, all the learnings from 1st half into action, get a goal and shut it down, if the opposition leave gaps, torment them. its not the prettiest to watch but so far it’s frighteningly effective. That 1st half today was as bad as the last two games 1st half, but it’s three wins. Whats so welcome is that the obvious stuff that we saw under AJ is acted upon much quicker, so if a gap appears it’s plugged, shapes are changed, subs are used, there’s no fear on making decisions and changing things. AJ was open about saying that he felt he’d find his best 11 and leave them on as long as possible. We now seem much more adaptable to the opposition.

Not obvious to me and I’m sure a few others. Who you on about?

Haven’t we moved to a 4-3-3 last few games? Which ironically would be AJs third formation this year.

What’s the stuff about dressing room and certain practices...? excellent performance (from 5 mins in to 70!) from all involved and a good way to end the year.

15 point deduction would be fair in my opinion.

It’s excellent. Aiden McGeady comes across as a right little snake. As I expected.

I really enjoyed Saturday and it answered my worry that the players weren’t behind AJ, they certainly are if performance is anything to go by. The second half we pulled down the shutters and stopped Morton playing. They weren’t very good but you can only beat what’s in front of you. Couple of winnable away games coming up and unbelievably we could be in a playoff position. this league is so wide open.