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For some reason my wife gets notifications on here phone with the Aberdeen scores. When we got beat by Celtic she said to me that we must have played well as they only scored one goal... When she got the Hun game score she said to me it was good that we scored a few goals... Anyway, the divorce papers should be through soon.

Our style of play is utter garbage, a lot of the time it’s belt it long and hope or give it to duk and hope he creates something. While miovski could move more and get open, it’s no surprise that we’ve seen so little of him in three games. I didn’t see much of today but it tough to be harsh on him as what I have seen this week we give him little chance of success. Earlier in the season we seemed to pass more and create and he was more involved. goodwin said we were tired or tired against rangers. Only one change today? That doesn’t add up to me, freshness may have helped if we were tired. Or tired was a lame excuse/deflection. Roos is no better than Lewis. He’s better with his feet but it doesn’t seem like he is comfortable off his line, one of what I’d consider Lewis’s strengths. I think Lewis lost confidence last year and I don’t see a keeper change helping us at present, defense is honking and no confidence there. Our center mid is so weak and with Stewart now suspended mccrorie stays at the back. We don’t seem to play through midfield and it really hurts us. We aren’t strong in midfield defensively either and that only puts more pressure on the back 3/4/5. it almost seems like we changed to 3 at the back to accommodate duk and two up top but in the bigger picture I think it’s made us worse. don’t see personnel or formation changes making a significant difference right now based on our current squad. Think goodwin is rather fucked to be honest, he doesn’t have quality depth to make changes and if the squad isn’t happy or confident, it doesn’t look like much improvement can occur. We had a World Cup break where none of our squad were away, loads of time to work and improve, week back and we’re a total mess. Not good.

I've changed my Christmas list to ask for a centre back instead of a midfielder. I hadn't really thought it was possible for Stewart to be so bad that Goodwin might change his mind, but I'm hoping today's performance seals it. With the league's best right back in Matty Kennedy, we can push McRorie into midfield when required and we're sorted.

We have absolutely no style of play, little desire, no leadership, and no midfield. See nothing to suggest we’ll get anything here.

He signed the shocking defenders.

Anthony Stewart is going to cost Goodwin his job Absolute fucking bombscare. Could see this coming, he was getting ragdolled from kick off. We are a team completely devoid of any form of leadership on the park, never mind off it. Going to be a massive second half for Goodwin. Fortunately I only have a forty minute drive home. Seriously doubt I can put myself through this again v Killie on Wednesday evening. P.S Merry "fucking" Xmas everyone.

Apparently VAR might not actually be working properly (problem at the main hub), so the ref couldn't check it, which may explain why he gave a penalty, changed to a free-kick, then went back to a penalty. Let's look on the bright side guys, it's Christmas. We won't see Anthony Stewart for the rest of 2022.

Personally, I think he's amazing. Always have.

Richardson dropped and Kennedy back in.

We’re saying the same thing. Kennedy may be the best of a bad lot, and I’m not fussed if any or all of those guys leave. Just sad that kennedy couldn’t get a look in and now looks potentially the best option on the right for now.

Previously, I lived in Australia for years and used to go and watch the Newcastle Jets. I also once went and watch Australia v Turkey in Sydney. One of the most intimidating atmospheres I’ve ever seen in a football stadium. The Turks were properly nasty, over 50% of the crowd were Turkish fans and many of them were looking for a fight. The Aussies were well behaved, from what I saw, on that night. Now before I say any more, I’m not racist in any shape or form and it’s what I observed as a neutral during my time there. A huge issue that the A-League has, that is still there from the days of the old NSL, is that many of the teams in the league are supported by crowds from various countries and also countries that were previously one country and have now been split up. This, is mainly in reference to the Sydney and Melbourne teams and a large portion of their fans come from a origins of Greek, Turkish, Yugoslav backgrounds and like the Huns and Tims, there’s more than football rivalry fueling them. It’s why there was rioting at the tennis years ago. The A-League know this is an issue but they’ve refused to do anything about it for years, because it brings in money…sound familiar.