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This is a defeat to a team with little or no European track record. This is down to the quality of the players available. The summer signings have been poor. We are missing a few good players through injury. The exact player that I think we need is on loan somewhere. When a new manager arrives there will be very little that he can do before getting players back or signing new players. Two recent highlights were winning the league and reaching a European final. We have built on neither one.

Bit early for the sherry, Compo.

No idea why people are suggesting other players would have been better, its a moot point, we've no system, no style, you could put Messi in there, no one running off him would see him useless as well. The only positive, it's clear there's not going to be a 'bounce', hopefully this will focus the board.

4-2-3-1 i thought

150 GBP, or thereby, for a standard bottle (70cl). Therefore, I cannot comment on its quality. Aimed, mostly, for China and the Far East market, I believe. Your brother isn't Chinese is he? (I read in The Guardian, some years ago, that every fourth child born in the world was Chinese. I don't know how you would explain that to the in-laws.)

I will send him Lucozade and some nice toffees

As much as we scoff at the likes of Warnock and Allardyce, these 'old school' managers would probably do not too badly against the types of opposition we face and might also be good at kicking a few arses. Have any foreign tippy tippy Xg coaches actually done a job in Scotland?

I dont think you can coach pace and our team has none. Our players are for the most part, shit.

Both Lammers & Dessers are just passengers. Waste of a jersey each

Same as I always expect.....................effort

Tav is finished. Been clear for a while.

Fancy being the next manager?

I’ve got a good idea. We should give the ball to our fullbacks so they can cross it in to two of our players in the box v 6 defenders. They will never expect that.

Call me out for calling out our full backs like but it's actually brutal to watch them try to reach the byline. There's a reason we swing in crosses from deep, it's because they can't fucking move.

Fair enough, however the players should be ashamed of themselves! 100& effort is all that is asked of them! shameful

Bad enough watching this without Kevin Thomson commentary.

Who else could he play? Roofe probably isn't fit enough to start, everyone else is injured. Cifuentes has been poor recently, Jack must be injured again, then we're into untried boys.

This will put @Rousseauin hospital for six months if he reads it.

I agree entirely, Europe is a nice to have. However, never in their history have Allardyce and Warnock scudded every team in their league. Big Sam plays Martin O'Neill style football, if that's what you like, go for it. Warnock is about the right age to be POTUS.

It's slightly depressing, but there is an argument for getting in a manager who can set up the team to, first and foremost, reliably scud the 10 SPL diddies, and not worry too much about European performances.

Also, whatever Davis has done for us in the past, he wasn't the right man to bring in even temporarily. The blame lies squarely on the board for doing this, but you can't expect someone who has been friends with these players and played through similar periods with them to be able to give the harsh words that are required.

It's just the stock response. Meaningless.

Listen up! We have lost, narrowly, away from home, on an inconvenient night, to the Champions of Cyprus. I know what you are going to say: no-one has ever heard of them, and I scarcely remember their name, myself, but now, and, especially, tomorrow, their name will be known across the globe... well, more widely than it has ever been, before. We have contributed to that, and our name will forever be in the annals of our adversary: no mean thing, i m h o. Perhaps more importantly, we know, now, that, beyond any reasonable doubt, our team, in the generality, is composed of two kinds of player: - the done, and, - the dud. I'd keep the goalkeeper.

You're all a bunch of negative nellies! Take a page out of my book: appoint a good manager and all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.

I know people will hate me for saying this, but Beale shouldn't have been sacked before a European game. He should of course have been sacked, but there was a period in the break to do it.

I hear you, but I massively disagree. Put better players on the pitch and there is a far higher chance we would succeed. A major part of the problem is that Beale has replaced players with poorer ones.

Worst possible time for Europe. Aris scored two good goals and that was all they did. Bang average trash on par with Killie or Hibs. We just don't get our feet on the ground right now, and most players are well below form. Pass marks for Sima and Wright, the rest tried but essentially failed. Whoever decided to get rid of Colak and Sakala needs to get skelped to the Clyde and back.

Well if the potential new managerial candidates had any doubts about how big this job is, tonight has shown our glaring deficiencies. Club is rank rotten from top to bottom and full or absolute losers. Changing manager is an urgent requirement but so much more wrong with our club.

It's always the hope that kills you. Expected a reaction from the team, Sima only player who's looked interested.

Seamless transition

The board's covert operation to install Davis as manager is imploding and their pupils are dilating as we watch this. I await the panic appointment.

We've got an actual decent team this season at the weekend...

I've watched a lot of bad performances over the last 30 years but that has to be up there with the worst. The lack of effort and quality is simply unacceptable. Yes, the pitch looks crap and it must be hot but we have player after player walking about. Very few get pass marks. Goldson and Davies prefer to put each other pressure. Our full backs are neither defensive or attacking. Our midfield can't pass. Our attacking three have no idea where to play and our striker lumbers about aimlessly. Only Sima carries a threat. Tav, Lundstram and Lammers are laughably bad and should be taken off immediately. Now, Michael Beale absolutely had to go but, make no mistake here, some of these players are all about themselves and certainly no longer part of a team. The disrespect shown to Steven Davis and the travelling support is infuriating. I dread to think what awaits us. Chancers.

It’s remarkable in itself that a professional sportsman can be shite at absolutely everything he does but Sam Lammers is the proof that it’s indeed possible

The ghost of Pedro is hovering all over this game.

Lammers is rubbish.

Being serious when I say this group of players would get Guardiola the can within a couple of months. Shitebag mentality from back to front bar the keeper.

The lesson: never buy a striker with feet bigger than size 8 (42)

We're not Messiahs. Right now we are very naughty boys.

Utterly shambolic so far. And Aris are a poor side. 11 men thrown together, relying on individual ability.

Therein, leaving aside the obvious vulgarity, lies the problem. Our players are untested. Edgar Davids was bossing the Ajax midfield at 16. (Think about that: Ajax; 16yo.) Our young players are anything up to21, even older. Either use them, or loose them.

I agree with that. Warnock always seems to get a reaction and in our league would probably almost guarantee a winning run and I'd have been fine with him coming in for a few months with Davis working with him. What he did with Huddersfield last season was another miracle.

We know the script, Brendan was parroting it at the weekend last, 'we never stop, we go right to the end'. Motherwell fans suffered a 98th minute defeat on Saturday and, they must have enjoyed the schadenfreude of last evening where the Italian fascists defeated the Irish-Palestinian fascists with a 96th minute.

At least Sam would keep us safe from relegation.

City and the magpies kept up the English end whilst the all conquering hoops lost again in the champions league, the Newcastle performance was a sight to behold Howay the lads

Good luck to Steve and the lads tomorrow. After all that's happened, hoping for some sort of response from team / players tomorrow.