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That was a stonewall penalty

Keep the pressure on Rangers, get a 4th, get Roofe and Itten on and rest Morelos legs

Aribo !!!!!

Identical goal to the one at Parkhead last season. 1. Fantastic vertical ball breaking the lines from Aribo 2. Fantastic cutback for Barišić 3. Fine finish from Kent

2 0 Kent !!!!

Depends on what source you believe as some are saying it was a club car that picked him up at the airport.

I’d say the skill of a Gascoigne and the cynicism of Souness ?

Heard the rumour at the weekend from an ITK Hibs fan but it was for a loan. i wouldn’t look to sell McCrorie just yet

That Team of the Week is from the prior week Bill.

We had been linked with the young lad Charlie Allan from Linfield but he has signed for Leeds on a 3 yr deal.

Swept over - Poor Leigh has mental health issues, don't you know

Gerrard said in his presser earlier that there are some teams in England interested in Docherty.

And, hopefully, we will pick up 6 points from our next two games leaving us a full 8 points ahead of them - that catch up whilst is technically only 2 points becomes a mental hurdle for them to overcome. Get the job done Rangers !

It's a good point actually. One that no doubt the SPFL will simply ignore.

I’d hardly say a point behind at the break was HUGE pressure. And, unless I’m mistaken, we played ahead of them in the first game after the break and dropped points, reducing the pressure on them right away.

Indeed. My point wasn’t so much that they BOTH get high at the same time (although yesterday they did with Borna’s cross being challenged at the back post by Tav which resulted in a. Corner and our 2nd or 3rd goal). But if one of them is generally consistently playing higher up the pitch - Barišić was higher up the pitch against Aberdeen than the midfield 3 and the same applied for large swathes of the match yesterday..... then IMHO you cannot legitimately claim we are playing with 4 defenders and 2 DM’s. in name they may be as those are their “natural” positions but Borna in particular has been more a left winger than a left back domestically this season. That’s NOT a back 4. and completely agree regarding having the 2 DM’s.... they, or at least one of them, pivots and drops allowing either Tav or Borna to bomb on. Again this makes sense to me because Barišić can be lethal with his crossing. Also agree we seem to be learning in that Tav gets forward but is better through the defensive to offensive transition... so let Borna be the constant attacking danger and Tav does it when the ball is in transition. i think it’s very smart of the management team.

So long as we do OUR job we will be fine. at this very early stage they are under pressure, even when playing first, to not drop points. If they drop points in either of their next two games and we dont then we are already 4 points clear which puts huge pressure on them which they haven’t really been under for a decade.

I’d be very surprised if pinging towers is happening in Scotland mate. They can claim they are doing track and trace buts it’s always only going to be as good as those who collect details... and the maturity of those providing them. as I said, I’ve witnessed two pubs within 200 yards of each other - one taking details and one not. And the funny thing is the one NOT taking details is doing a FAR better job at enforcing social distancing.

Ideally we would be pumping teams 3 or 4 nil by half time. Because that then allows us to get fringe players, and youth players, game time - which is much easier to do this season, if winning comfortably, given the substitutes rule.

I endured the highlights of their game last night. Their goal was a keeping mistake - Christie scores direct from a free kick from 40 meters ? Had Kabamba been a bit more pacy he would have been through 1-on-1 in the first half before either side had scored. Jullien looked like a Sunday pub player. Killie deserved AT LEAST a point. But they will also get better - we need to maintain that 2 point gap so that the first OF game heaps pressure on them to get a win to stay in it....

For those interested.... KT has been asked to do Co-comms on ALL of this season’s home games.

You can call them defenders all you like but if they are playing on the opposition 18 yard line they most certainly are NOT defending. Saying “we have 4 defenders and 2DM’s” makes it sound Uber defensive when the REALITY is far from it when the full backs are playing very, very high. But you should know that. and you should know better than to simply say “we could have played a winger and had more success”. Playing an out and out winger would have seen them get virtually zero space as St Mirren played so deep. Instead what we did, and it worked, was used a narrow front 3 where there was tons of fluidity.

This post is exactly that which you bemoan in the same post JFK ? track and trace is very far from perfect in Scotland. In my small wee village one pub is taking details of people (and as Gonzo says some of the details provided are illegible) and another isn’t taking details at all.

There’s a whole lot more to come from this team.

De facto 4 defenders when Barišić and Tavernier are on the opposing team’s byeline ? ???