It would be wouldn’t it! Rangers, in the driving seat for the League title, are turned over by a relegation battler, at Castle Greyskull of all places! And so who do McLeish’s vengeful players come up against next?...have a guess!!
Its always been said that when teams, or players, are in need of a confidence booster to get their season back on track the Pars, more often than not, tamely oblige. Beaten by a resurgent Dundee Utd side at Ibrox on Tuesday night you can assume that the Rangers players can smell blood. Celtic have eaten away at their goal difference and you can be sure that ‘Big Eck’ will want his team to hand out a real hiding to someone sooner rather than later. And that someone, unsurprisingly, will be a Pars team that look like they are struggling to gain the confidence enough to stand up straight let alone piece together a SPL status-securing run of wins. Despite looking competent for the majority of the first-half at
With fans favourite and, in essence, the Pars Player of the Year Andy Tod looking extremely doubtful ahead of tomorrow’s fixture it looks increasingly likely that Georgi Hristov will be handed the chance to try and do what he was bought to do, i.e. score goals! Although with the commitment and fighting spirits of Andy Tod missing you would have to wonder just where the Pars fighting qualities will come from. With Greg Shields, Barry Nicholson and Aaron Labonte all sure to miss out, any further changes to the starting eleven will depend on the tactics of Larry, Curly and Moe on the sidelines. With Noel Hunt mysteriously substituted at half-time last week – this despite having no injury and being one of the Pars’ better players in the first-half – it would probably be safe to assume that the Irishman will not start on Sunday, no doubt replaced by Danish ‘wonder’ striker Jesper Christiansen – surely a contender for the Dunfermline Press’ Worst Pars XI, that is of course if you could include current player.
It may sound bordering on lunacy, but if the Pars players want to remain in the SPL beyond this season then they need to take three points tomorrow from, what is after all, a home fixture. After all, Dundee Utd managed it! But you just get that feeling that come 3:45 tomorrow (2:00pm kick-off remember) another weekend will have passed where the Pars have failed to pick up any points and the goal difference has, once again, taken a monumental battering. I’d love them to prove me right of course but I fear that a Pars win tomorrow will be about as likely as seeing a
Surely the fact we are even mentioning relegation, let alone being almost consigned to it, indicates just what a shambles this club has become under Tom, Dick and Harry – Dick, of course, if you hadn’t guessed already, is Kirkwood!! Can you imagine that?! One year after qualifying for
In fact…come to think of it…relegation all of a sudden doesn’t seem that bad!