Livingston .V. Accies - Sat, Sept 14th

[Admin]

Your comments please...

[Billybamz]

Think we can beat this lot,,a draw at the worst.

[accie]

Won't be easy as they are doing better than I expected and Stevie May will be a threat. Hopefully a 2-1 win for Accies and 3 points for my birthday.

[AccieDownUnder]

Pittman and Kelly are two of the best centre midfielders in the league imo. Add in Yengi, May, McGowan and Montano and you have the basis of a very strong championship team. I reckon they will be playoffs minimum so this will be a good test for Accies.

[Gav]

Fairly confident the highlight will be the spicy chicken pakora pie.

[Beckford]

Gutless and pathetic!. Rankin has been well backed yet his teams are consistently weak and easily outfought. If he stays as manager we will be in real relegation danger again. There can surely be few fans left that think he is capable?

[Stevie Clarke]

I wasn't there so can't comment on the performance or managing of the game. However, I'm loathe to call for the manager's head after every poor performance. There will be plenty of defeats this season. It's how we respond to them. I can't see Livi finishing below third. Other results went our way so let's see what Kirkcaldy brings. Two teams looking to bounce back.

[Beckford]

Oh there is no doubt whatsoever that there will be plenty of defeats this season with Rankin in Charge! That's kind of the point and why many believe Rankin is way out of his depth in this league. The total collapse against Airdrie in our previous game, our second half performance at Ayr, our home game against Ayr, the fact we were lucky not to have taken an absolute pasting away at Morton........

[Red and white hoops]

We were rotten. A full ninety minutes without even a shot.

A terrible first half with neither team creating much until McGinty had a brain fart right before half time leaving the Livi player with an open goal where he managed to put it over the bar. Stevie May hitting the post from a cracking free kick too.

Usual poor start to the second half from us ending with Pitman scoring ten minutes in.

Livi make subs that influence the game bringing on Robbie Muirhead who goes on to score two where we bring on players to accommodate some ridiculous formation with four strikers on the pitch again. Talk about learning from your mistakes!

One win from six league games is nowhere near good enough for a team who’s board openly said they wanted promotion this year.

Big game next week away at Raith. Only three points will do.

[Nike01]

It was torture in the 2nd half. Sorry, but already reminiscent of the season he got us relegated. This time the owners must act swiftly. He isn’t getting the best out of the players, individually or collectively. Ollie Shaw needs to do much more. O’Hara must NOT be played on the wing. Felt sorry for that former Liverpool player - benign thrown in like that. He didn’t look ready for it. Then I questioned how much Rankin had seen of him, and thought another kick in the teeth for Newbury. Williamson - please please no. One of Maguire’s beret games until subbed. Need to go to 5 at the back and get those wing backs forward. We were too narrow. We were also too shite (excuse the French)

[AccieDownUnder]

First game of the season for me as I planned my visit this time to take in two away games to ensure no money hits the pocket of the monorail salesman.

I’ve said it for months but our transfer strategy is so scatter gun that we’ve ended up with such an unbalanced overinflated squad. Rankin then plays his favourites regardless of position leaving a lot of gaps throughout the side. I really like O’Hara but he’s not a wide forward in a million years. I also think Smith is better back one as an 8, I thought he struggled to get involved today minus a few nice touches. Maguire looked a centre half playing in the middle. Really wasn’t convinced in my first viewing of him in the flesh.

I did say I expected Livi to be up there so a defeat isn’t the end of the world but the manner of the defeat was so frustrating. Just didn’t lay a glove on them which has been a re-occurring theme under Rankin against anyone with a better side than us. Huge game now next week through in Kirkcaldy against a RR side in a horrendous place at the minute.

[AccieDownUnder]

On a side note, did anyone see Winter celebrate one of livis goals as if they were winning the champions league? A bit of a get it right fucking up you worded towards our fans as well. Such a bang average player who I didn’t even think got that that tight from the fans. Also seen a fan arguing with Tumilty which seems like a weekly occurrence when I go

[smc4761]

I have been saying this for a while Rankrotten is not the man to take us forward and needs to go before the rot really set in.

This is is squad which is wrongly balanced, so there can be no more of his pathetic excuses that we hear most weeks. He is out of his depth as is assistant, who has the complete lack of experience in management.

We seem to be getting players we cannot afford and we are still full time, we must be going through money like shit on a shovel. What is happening to our so called wonderful academy. Some good players simply not being given a chance, something that we are generally good at

Where is all the money coming from.

Ticket sales, no chance.
Merchandise. You are having a laugh
Sponsorship. Looks to be minimal to me

Cash flow wise I would imagine we should be a Leaugue 1 part time club

Worrying times ahead

[Bertiejoejoe]

Rankin has had plenty of chances to prove himself, if it wasn’t for the really poor Inverness we would still be in league one. Can’t really fathom where all the money is coming from, certainly not ticket sales, merchandise or the sale of promising academy players as he fails to give any a chance of showing their ability. Think the main problem within the club is Gerry Patrick Strain who is seemingly the man who dictates money situations within the club, he will bring our club down to its knees, 100 per cent guaranteed. Don’t think seref has much to do with running of the club, left in the hands of the fat controller. Sad days ahead!

[Stevie Clarke]

Money in the short term could possibly have come from Gabe Forsyth add ons. He's started twice already this season and came on after 71 minutes yesterday. Still no word on a big sponsor. Still no word on buying the ground. But I expect come the next fans forum it'll be "imminent".

[AccieDownUnder]

And we will get fans lapping it up. Seref said he’s going to buy the stadium, get a huge sponsor and play friendlies on the moon to celebrate the 150th anniversary. In reality you can’t even buy the top My sons uni team are genuinely run more professionally.