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Topic Originator: PARrot
Date: Sat 9 Apr 16:56
Or the playoffs.
Ayr will take full points from their last 2 matches v QoS and Partick.
We simply must do 100% or it is the playoffs.
Post Edited (Sat 09 Apr 16:59)
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Topic Originator: dover par
Date: Sat 9 Apr 17:00
Ayr win next week and it will be the playoffs
"Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing."
Post Edited (Sat 09 Apr 17:00)
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Topic Originator: eastendalloapar
Date: Sat 9 Apr 17:35
I hope that we have a massive crowd next week. It would be great if we could have support in the North East as well as the North West. That way our support would be on top of Ayr for the whole game.
matt forsyth
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Topic Originator: Westies squint kicks
Date: Sat 9 Apr 17:51
Win next week, and the goal difference is likely to be incredibly similar which leaves a two-game shoot-out with Ayr ironically we have the same two teams. First things first a win next week.
Not consistent enough for me to win all 3, cannot string two good efforts together which is a worry for play-off ties.
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Topic Originator: Berkey
Date: Sat 9 Apr 18:08
ayr win next week and we then lose at Partick and we could be facing a winner takes all in the last game of the season. We’ll winner get a 2nd chance in the playoffs.
Will Partick rest players against us if they have secured playoffs? Got to hope so, we appear to have decided 2 home wins will somehow save us.
Things will be looking up……..now yogi is gone!
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Topic Originator: veteraneastender
Date: Sat 9 Apr 18:40
If we beat Ayr 1-0 next Saturday, or any victory by a single goal - then it’s equal points, goal difference and goals scored.
Unless my arithmetic is dodgy !!!
Whatever - we won’t be facing Falkirk in any playoffs.
Post Edited (Sat 09 Apr 18:45)
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Topic Originator: Rusty Shackleford
Date: Sat 9 Apr 18:46
Happy with the way this week has panned out overall. Great home win. Queens lose. Ayr didn`t win. We lost our toughest fixture by far with rubbish performance.
But the crowd will lift us next week and if we play the way we`ve played last two home games we win. Then it`s all to play for. Queens will be playing for their life at home to Ayr and we will hopefully match whatever Ayr do with our game at Partick.
I`m nervous but optimistic.
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Topic Originator: da_no_1
Date: Sat 9 Apr 18:48
Quote:
Rusty Shackleford, Sat 9 Apr 18:46
Happy with the way this week has panned out overall. Great home win. Queens lose. Ayr didn`t win. We lost our toughest fixture by far with rubbish performance.
But the crowd will lift us next week and if we play the way we`ve played last two home games we win. Then it`s all to play for. Queens will be playing for their life at home to Ayr and we will hopefully match whatever Ayr do with our game at Partick.
I`m nervous but optimistic.
Great post. I think/hope the 2 home games and our support can be the difference.
"Some days will stay a 1000 years, some pass like the flash of a spark"
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Topic Originator: Berkey
Date: Sat 9 Apr 19:26
Rusty if queens loose at arbroath then fail to beat ICT and we beat ayr they will already be down by the time they play ayr….
Ayr will also be playing a Partick team who will rest players for the playoffs. I just hope they start resting players as playoffs are confirmed by the time we play them.
Things will be looking up……..now yogi is gone!
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Topic Originator: PARrot
Date: Sat 9 Apr 19:46
Could come down to whoever scores most in the last game.
I can`t get too optimistic about our chances. Not because I doubt us as much as Ayr showed real desire to come back today. They will win against Partick and QoS.
We simply have to beat them by more than one goal and at least match them in the last two.
I see draws against Partick on their tattie field and Ayr at EEP.
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Topic Originator: da_no_1
Date: Sat 9 Apr 20:25
There`s no point predicting results in this league. Just focus on winning our games as that`s all we can control
"Some days will stay a 1000 years, some pass like the flash of a spark"
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Topic Originator: dafc-chris1
Date: Sat 9 Apr 20:28
Next week is a pressure game but i think we will win it
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Topic Originator: Raymie the Legend
Date: Sat 9 Apr 20:38
I wouldn’t be worried about the play offs. As long as we go into them in decent form, I wouldn’t fear a two legged tie
It's bloody tough being a legend
Ron Atkinson - 1983
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Topic Originator: desparado
Date: Sat 9 Apr 21:00
Reduce the entry to £5/10 next week and free buses to Patrick.
We need 2k at Firhill .
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Topic Originator: DrumRoad
Date: Sat 9 Apr 22:31
opic Originator: Raymie the Legend
Date: Sat 9 Apr 20:38
I wouldn’t be worried about the play offs. As long as we go into them in decent form, I wouldn’t fear a two legged tie
And that’s based on what form exactly?
2022/23 League one Winners
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Topic Originator: da_no_1
Date: Sat 9 Apr 22:52
Quote:
DrumRoad, Sat 9 Apr 22:31
opic Originator: Raymie the Legend
Date: Sat 9 Apr 20:38
I wouldn’t be worried about the play offs. As long as we go into them in decent form, I wouldn’t fear a two legged tie
And that’s based on what form exactly?
I`m assuming he means keep away leg tight and take them apart at EEP
"Some days will stay a 1000 years, some pass like the flash of a spark"
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Topic Originator: Berkey
Date: Sun 10 Apr 07:47
Not sure raymie, we’ll be up against a team in good form who have had a good season.
Things will be looking up……..now yogi is gone!
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Topic Originator: GG Riva
Date: Sun 10 Apr 07:56
Quote:
Berkey, Sat 9 Apr 19:26
Rusty if queens loose at arbroath then fail to beat ICT and we beat ayr they will already be down by the time they play ayr….
Ayr will also be playing a Partick team who will rest players for the playoffs. I just hope they start resting players as playoffs are confirmed by the time we play them.
Oh Berkey, Berkey - you have turned negativity into an art form. I suppose the positive side of that is that you`re never gutted when we lose because you were expecting it.
I hope we can scrape 8th, but like Raymie, I wouldn`t be overly apprehensive about the play offs. Not suggesting we should be complacent, but we should be confident of beating 2 teams from a lower league over 2 legs, with the 2nd leg at home...
Not your average Sunday League player.
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Topic Originator: JnrB
Date: Sun 10 Apr 10:00
Our form isn’t that bad either in truth, too many draws but in the last 13 games we’ve only lost 4 games which have all been away from home against the top 3 teams. Killie away twice, Arbroath away and callie away. We shouldn’t be defeatist going into the playoffs if we end up in them
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Topic Originator: da_no_1
Date: Sun 10 Apr 10:47
IF we end up in the play offs then so be it. I dont think Airdrie, Montrose or Queens Park would be particularly enamoured with coming to a rocking EEP to be honest. Not the way we`ve been playing the last few home games. They much rather be facing Ayr or Queens
£5 entry and get the place bouncing.
"Some days will stay a 1000 years, some pass like the flash of a spark"
Post Edited (Sun 10 Apr 10:48)
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Topic Originator: Parfect69
Date: Sun 10 Apr 12:08
To start off I think we will be playing championship football next year. However my worst moment in football was going into that home tie play off with Cowdenbeath. A massive high and confidence to the utter depths of misery in the matter of minutes. I don’t want to experience that again. I still hope and pray we can squeak 8th.
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Topic Originator: Westies squint kicks
Date: Sun 10 Apr 13:46
Parfect69 wrote:
> To start off I think we will be playing championship football
> next year. However my worst moment in football was going into
> that home tie play off with Cowdenbeath. A massive high and
> confidence to the utter depths of misery in the matter of
> minutes. I don’t want to experience that again. I still hope
> and pray we can squeak 8th.
Exactly how I remember it, going thinking this was a winnable tie and having the wind taken out my sails in the very first minute. 8000 there that day, Greg Stewart and Kane Hemmings leading the line for Cowden and Lewis Martin starting for the Pars in 2014.
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Topic Originator: PARrot
Date: Sun 10 Apr 16:10
We need Raith to beat Partick on Saturday to keep them needing to win v Ayr.
Assuming we take something from them and beat Ayr.
Jings we are the most likely fir 9th but anything could happen.
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Topic Originator: LochgellyAlbert
Date: Sun 10 Apr 16:59
A needless foul from Josh Falkingham started the decline that day!🤔🤬🤬🤬
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Topic Originator: wee eck
Date: Sun 10 Apr 17:02
That`s what I remember most about that day, LA!
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Topic Originator: Jeffery
Date: Sun 10 Apr 18:40
That game against cowden was one of our worst days. So much optimism shattered right from the off. It`s why I`d like to avoid a playoff.
Still find it crazy to think they had Greg Stewart and Kane Hemmings up front. What a front line that is.
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Topic Originator: JTH123
Date: Sun 10 Apr 20:23
My 8 year lad was hugely excited for that game. But it totally scunnered him and I don`t think he`s been back since.
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Topic Originator: parsmad68
Date: Sun 10 Apr 21:01
Not looking beyond Ayr. Didn’t think we would get anything at Kilmarnock. Bring on Ayr and a nice wee 4-0 for us would definitely help.
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Topic Originator: GG Riva
Date: Mon 11 Apr 08:31
Quote:
LochgellyAlbert, Sun 10 Apr 16:59
A needless foul from Josh Falkingham started the decline that day!🤔🤬🤬🤬
Dropping Callum Morris and playing two kids in central defence didn`t help matters either, LA. Still haven`t forgiven JJ for that. 🙁
Not your average Sunday League player.
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Topic Originator: PARrot
Date: Mon 11 Apr 09:14
Ayr have developed a habit of coming back. We could be 3-0 up with 15 to go and I`ll still be bricking it.
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Topic Originator: LochgellyAlbert
Date: Mon 11 Apr 11:01
Quote:
GG Riva, Mon 11 Apr 08:31
Quote:
LochgellyAlbert, Sun 10 Apr 16:59
A needless foul from Josh Falkingham started the decline that day!🤔🤬🤬🤬
Dropping Callum Morris and playing two kids in central defence didn`t help matters either, LA. Still haven`t forgiven JJ for that. 🙁
How much of a commitment was he going to get from Callum Morris, already signed up by another club, would likely duck out every tackle to prevent injury. Along with his mental state, he wouldn`t care a jot!
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Topic Originator: GG Riva
Date: Mon 11 Apr 16:12
Quote:
LochgellyAlbert, Mon 11 Apr 11:01
Quote:
GG Riva, Mon 11 Apr 08:31
Quote:
LochgellyAlbert, Sun 10 Apr 16:59
A needless foul from Josh Falkingham started the decline that day!🤔🤬🤬🤬
Dropping Callum Morris and playing two kids in central defence didn`t help matters either, LA. Still haven`t forgiven JJ for that. 🙁
How much of a commitment was he going to get from Callum Morris, already signed up by another club, would likely duck out every tackle to prevent injury. Along with his mental state, he wouldn`t care a jot!
Well that`s one way of looking it, L.A. We`ll never know how the game would have panned out with Morris at centre half. I know he was very disappointed to be left out - he told me himself. It certainly couldnt have been any worse than it finished with the kids in central defence. Most managers go with their most experienced players in crunch games......
Not your average Sunday League player.
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Topic Originator: Ben,D.A
Date: Mon 11 Apr 18:01
That Cowden game I`m afraid to say, was lost by one of our legends. The hype, buzz, atmosphere of a full crowd giving it all for both teams before kick off reminded not only me, but others of the big times.
Then Jim got hold of a mike and shrank many expectations away, I Felt my heart and our chance sink. That might have effected also, who knows.
only 11 make the team,the rest can just but dream.
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Topic Originator: red-star-par
Date: Mon 11 Apr 19:01
Quote:
Ben,D.A, Mon 11 Apr 18:01
That Cowden game I`m afraid to say, was lost by one of our legends. The hype, buzz, atmosphere of a full crowd giving it all for both teams before kick off reminded not only me, but others of the big times.
Then Jim got hold of a mike and shrank many expectations away, I Felt my heart and our chance sink. That might have effected also, who knows.
What did Jim say, I mind him seemingly doing the aeroplane before, but couldn`t make out anything over the P. A.
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Topic Originator: DA-go Par Adonis
Date: Mon 11 Apr 20:03
Morris, Page, Husband and Forbes all left on the bench - and Lewis Martin and Kerr Young in the centre of defence.
I think there was only one Jim to blame, and it wasn`t Leishman.
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I love it when we go sell Kevin Nisbet,
He's gonna pay for everyone this season.
Post Edited (Mon 11 Apr 20:03)
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Topic Originator: Grant
Date: Tue 12 Apr 14:57
Kerr Young was awful, no idea why or how we persisted with him for so long, his performance the year before at Alloa? In the playoffs will go down as one of the worst centre back performances I`ve seen, 73 year old John Potter was cutting about all over the place trying to cover him.
Jefferies didn`t seem to treat anyone well who didn`t immediately sign an extension, did he not freeze out Geggan and Falkingham at other points due to it? Massive respect for how he conducted himself during admin, but he made a bit of a horlicks of the football side a few times.
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Topic Originator: DA-go Par Adonis
Date: Tue 12 Apr 16:06
"How much of a commitment was he going to get from Callum Morris, already signed up by another club, would likely duck out every tackle to prevent injury. Along with his mental state, he wouldn`t care a jot!"
Probably we`d have got the same commitment as Cowden got from Hemmings & Steward - both of whom were 100% certain to be playing their last game for them.
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I love it when we go sell Kevin Nisbet,
He's gonna pay for everyone this season.
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Topic Originator: eastendalloapar
Date: Tue 12 Apr 18:39
I remember Jim Jeffries hitting Kerr Young at the end of the 5-4 game at Stenhousemuir.
matt forsyth
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Topic Originator: Socks
Date: Tue 12 Apr 18:52
As is often the case, it wasn`t quite as simple as folk make out after the event.
Morris had an absolute stinker in an away game at Airdrie near the end of the season, and was justifiably dropped after it. Not too many people would have seen it, but you`d have to see it to believe just how bad he was. Jonathon Page was everywhere trying to cover the many mistakes Morris was making. Lawrence Shankland and Ross Forbes also had terrible games that day too, and both were also dropped for the next game. From then on, we didn`t have too much stability at the back, and also rested players in the last game of the season against Rangers who might have got a costly boiking.
In the play-offs, Page was sent off for a second yellow late in the first game at Stranraer, and obviously missed the second game. I can`t remember who played at the back for us in that second leg, but I don`t remember them playing badly. I assume one of them was Kerr Young, because he played in the game at Central Park and had a very good game.
One thing led to another, and the combination of circumstances meant we didn`t have a settled pairing at the end of the season. People also forget that Morris himself wasn`t greatly experienced either.
I`d probably have played him, but there were most certainly valid reasons why he didn`t play that day. In looking to have a go at the manager, it`s usually made out that Morris was good, Kerr Young wasn`t, and the manager was obviously being a stubborn idiot by making the selection he did. As I say, it just wasn`t as simple as that.
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Topic Originator: RossF
Date: Tue 12 Apr 20:49
`That Cowden game I`m afraid to say, was lost by one of our legends. The hype, buzz, atmosphere of a full crowd giving it all for both teams before kick off reminded not only me, but others of the big times.
Then Jim got hold of a mike and shrank many expectations away, I Felt my heart and our chance sink. That might have effected also, who knows.`
I remember that. We had a great atmosphere then Leish made it all about him by constantly sushing the fans so he could say a few words. Really sapped away the atmosphere and was absolutely needless. Didn`t put that down to the defeat though! That game was the mother of all sucker punches. I was so convinced we`d breeze that but Cowden swept us aside that day.
I do agree we need all 9 points to avoid the playoffs. Can`t see Ayr bottling it but if we play like we did against Raith and Partick we should win on Saturday quite comfortably. Can`t wait for this season to be over though, it`s been awful. Can`t believe we have been in this position most of the season with the squad we have.
Post Edited (Tue 12 Apr 20:50)
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Topic Originator: DA-go Par Adonis
Date: Tue 12 Apr 21:13
The game against Airdrie wasn`t quite a dead rubber but it was clear from a long way out that we were finishing 2nd in the league.
The Cowden game was a cup final. Morris and Page were our best centre back pairing and best equipped to deal with 8,000+ at East End - so that`s who you play.
In midfield, the two best passers and most creative players, by a distance, were Husband and Forbes. Both are left on the bench and Ryan Thompson starts instead.
Jeffries had to pick a side to win one game and got it badly wrong - in my opinion anyway.
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I love it when we go sell Kevin Nisbet,
He's gonna pay for everyone this season.
Post Edited (Tue 12 Apr 22:38)
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Topic Originator: Parsfangaz
Date: Wed 13 Apr 13:17
Quote:
eastendalloapar, Tue 12 Apr 18:39
I remember Jim Jeffries hitting Kerr Young at the end of the 5-4 game at Stenhousemuir.
And what did you see him do to Kerr exactly ?
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