For the second time this season we need to review our objectives/goals/hopes. Time to go to where they were on day 1, it was great whilst it lasted and yes teams will be respecting us more but also it was clear that the quality we have wasn't that much better than that of the teams at the bottom to justify the gap that was there.
Arguably having more of the squad available is causing Alex problems and he is perhaps tempted to tinkering more than required at times? After last week how Scotland starts is beyond me and Gills is in the same bracket; how we start with Routledge AND Gills in the same team takes a wee bit of explaining to me - perhaps my theory that Alex would play Gills in goals is justified
. Last week we seemed to want to crowd the middle and perhaps we were doing the same today, but it sounds like the second half today is the doin that Aberdeen could have given us in the cup game. Even when playing great we didn't have great discipline and the manager's example is lacking in this regard today.
So a few defeats and the form of a team at the bottom and losing a number of goals as well. We need to dig in now an get back to the grounded way we were, the manager needs to decide his best 11 and maybe he will need to stick with it even when things don't go great rather than changing. From now we can look to target games at home and any draw away will be fine.