Teuchter

It is incredible the similarities to last season. Good solid performances in the Betfred Cup, an encouraging start to the league at home, then it all falls apart- but worse this year.

Bottom of the league. Not good enough. Crawford should have, at most, 3 games to rectify this. If he had any sense his post match interview should be “there are no excuses now. It is my team and my responsibility to rectify it”.

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Fixed that for you. @GG Riva (I think) wrote an article in the Absolute Game over 20 years ago indexing football against the cost of other things. Maybe time for an update:

A huge slice of irony in this photo of Bury fans. Taken against Blackpool a few years back. The banner reads; ”Oysten in. **** your club” There are brainless ****s in every support.

Perhaps a reflection of the growing apathy that there had been no thread. Certainly the silence from the fans last night seemed to indicate apathy rather than anger. No real surprise last night against Belgium who looked like they cruised through the game. Russia game was the disappointing one, but not a shock. I think the loss at the start of the campaign, combined with the knowledge that there is a 2nd chance via the Nations League has taken a bit of the edge off the games for the players. I expect another defeat in Russia. Avoiding defeat against Cyprus would be an achievement. Maybe it is a good thing that expectations will be rock bottom for the Nations League. I will carry on watching the games, but rather than being a distraction, they are now a supplementary source of misery to supporting the Pars.

I don’t give a **** about this cup. The signs aren’t good, but it is the league form that needs turned around - and fast.

Cash prizes you say..... Why not.

Ooft, just had a quick look. If that forum was a bed it would be floating in a sea of **** this morning due to the amount of bed wetting underway.

6 points from the next 4 games is a minimum requirement. It was always going to be a rollercoaster ride of a season given the route that the club has taken with the young squad. I always felt that the pay offs would be a bonus and that patience will be required. Performances like yesterday cannot become the norm however. I think it is a bit disingenuous to drag up stats about this that or the other involving games from last season as this season was a clean break squad wise. If these stats are not reversed soon however, Crawford's position will become less and less tenable given he is the one constant throughout the poor results. He has been given a big second chance considering his record last season. I hope that he can take it.

The fact that we did not win can be accepted. The performance however cannot be. It is all very well to turn up at Celtic Park and turn in a stunning performance, but it is no ****ing use if we have a squad allowed just to swan up at Gayfield assuming that their full time status will be enough to take the points. Any points taken this season, anywhere,will need to be earned. A deserved victory for Arbroath and the bunnet. They merit their place in this league. Any team going up there with an Old Firm style superiority complex are likely to leave empty handed. Lets hope that this serves as a useful kick up the ar**.

Why in the name of **** are they continually launching long balls against a strong wind. They are either headed back by Arbroath or go out for a throw.

Definately a leveller - which in this case is to Arbroath's advantage, them being the inferior team. 0-0 HT with the Pars not having taking advantage of having the wind in their favour (not sure how much the swirling cancels this out). Will happily settle for a 1-0 smash and grab. To be fair to the team, it must be like playing a different sport when conditions are like this. Not pretty to watch.

Is Cochrane just coming back from injury? From the little I have seen of him - and the context, given he contributed to a thrashing of Celtic - exciting could be the word for it.

......said a Celtic fan two weeks ago. Ninety minutes later...... Arbroath are in this league on merit - as are the Pars, who haven't merited promotion yet. There is no massive gulf at the moment. An away defeat would not be the shock of the season. It would be very worrying however given the lack of points picked up so far.