PoohBear

Beale is continuing to lose my confidence. We are unable to break teams down.

Regarding our new forwards, it’s early days but still worrying that Lammers currently appears to be the best of them.

Just looked at the EL group stage, not easy these days is it….

Thank feck, we made it harder than it needed to be. Do we go into a group stage regardless of the result in the next tie?

What a misjudgement from Goldson, so lazy there.

Get in! I’ll always back Tav to make the difference.

I’m 45 mins away from asking myself if we should stick with Beale.

Imo Beale put all his cards on the table this summer. He got everything he wanted, and early. I have to admit that my faith in him is getting seriously dented. this tie should have been finished in the first 30mins of the last match, this is shocking.

Holy shit. How much did we pay for that miss?

It feels like this has already been written

Sure, but it seems like there are a number of subjective or problematic issues with the system. Has the player just beaten an opponent? That is subjective. Passage of play can be subjective. What about pitch size, number of defenders etc, these all would make a marked difference on Xg, wouldn’t they? I still have a blinding fever, covid is wank.

I'm not getting involved in the argument, particularly as I'm lying here with a blinding fever, but I've always wondered how xG can be considered objective? Does it not require the inputting of data and someone's subjective opinion of what is occurring on the pitch at the time?

Nice scoreline to see after touching down from my hols!

Not if we lose on penalties.

I guess so. I just think it is incredibly disappointing to have a slender one goal lead after playing against 10 men. We know have to go away from home and either draw or win against the same team with 11 men, it's going to be hard and the thing is there was no need for it to be.

Surprised people are content with this result. It shows to me that we haven't shaken off the "can't kill off games" label yet. These guys were down a man and we practically gave up. We are one goal away from an awful result in this tie and the result should have been put to bed easily. It's a huge concern for me.

Literally Europa league finalists 2 seasons ago.

We won 2-1 at home against a low-key Swiss side who were down to ten men. I don't think it can be dressed up as a satisfactory result.

I think that was shite. We could have scored more but we didn't. We let in a goal at home. Now we have to play them away, anxious about it to be honest.

Because Lammers couldn't score over 900 minutes, let alone 90.

It's your standard response to anyone questioning anything, "so you're just writing them off?". There is a whole range of opinions and most of them aren't all or nothing. The off season signings have been exciting, but also I have been concerned about the level of some players we have been spending significant money on. The pre-season was very poor and we have now failed our first test (and in our league that may well already be our death knell). Things do not look good at the moment and people are rightly frustrated and asking questions, because it's a shitshow that we brought in so many players and fucked that up.

It's only you talking about writing off a season mate.

Also, I'd just say that this was the least surprising result in ages. Which is depressing.

The players have had a very poor pre-season and have now failed at the very first hurdle. We are now trailing Celtic by 3 points. There is absolutely nothing wrong with asking valid questions of the players and the manager. We made very early signings so that we could be prepared for the first game of the season and we have fucked it mate, we fucked it.

People aren't always writing off the players. Valid questions are being asked. The off season has been very exciting, but again warnings have been said about the types of players we are signing. Some have really suspect histories and the idea they will simply turn it around at Ibrox does not convince me.