06 Mar 2026 08:08:47
I appreciate that the league is our priority but I genuinely believe that our best chance of silverware is the Scottish Cup. Our team just isn't consistent enough to challenge for the league but I would love to be proven wrong.
The draws are killing us. Hopefully we can get through on Sunday. The teams left in the cup shouldn't be strong enough to compete with us.
06 Mar 2026 10:59:50
Our mentality is also killing us.
06 Mar 2026 11:18:37
I couldn't agree more on the mentality comment, winners win and losers find excuses.
Our squad is good enough.
06 Mar 2026 11:30:41
The squad is good enough, ability-wise, but it is our mentality letting us down over and over. I feel like a convincing victory on Sunday can give us more belief in ourselves going forward and help us be successful.
06 Mar 2026 11:57:30
Winners have learned to win over the years; most aren't born with it despite the saying 'born winner'. We still are at that learning stage with most in this team who will be here next season.
This is part of the next development in the team, and why we bought a couple of players in January who had been in winning teams before.
More will come, I expect, but this season will, however it ends up, help the players by being in such a close league battle. It will be the first time for a lot of them.
06 Mar 2026 11:57:47
Some will call it excuses, and others will call it genuine reasons due to incompetence or corrupt officials.
But it is what it is.
06 Mar 2026 12:50:04
Totally disagree that the squad is good enough. We have 3 right backs, none of whom are reliable, 3 shaky centre backs, almost no creativity or goals from midfield, 3 out of 4 wingers who rarely show up (Moore does occasionally) and 2 strikers who don't score many goals (we know Chermiti has scored 8 against Celtic and Hearts, but he has only 1 against the rest and that was a howler by the keeper).
We have spent a fortune in the last 4 years since we last won the league, and now that we only have one of SG's team left, the dearth of talent at the club is astonishing. Name me one player in this squad who would have got in Gerrard's team?
06 Mar 2026 14:03:34
I think the squad is good enough, but they haven't been playing to their full potential.
I think Danny Rohl is good enough, but I think he's got some things wrong too, especially v Motherwell.
06 Mar 2026 14:26:55
Players who are the complete package and don't make mistakes are unlikely to play in the SPL unless they are injury-prone, very young, or very old. The league we did win had a lot to do with COVID and no crowds.
06 Mar 2026 14:49:05
Don't think it is strong enough, ability-wise.
Defence is still the major issue that we need to improve on, and some other areas.
We have made improvements, and I generally liked the business done in January, but it's a work in progress.
I would also agree we lack a bit of experience that helps mentality.
06 Mar 2026 15:01:14
Hating to lose coins the phrase "Born Winner", but I feel many of our team are not too fussed when they lose, which probably comes hand in hand with the vast pay-check which happens win, lose or draw (to a certain degree).
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Other point, WSL - doesn't matter how many of this team would get in SG team - fact is the squad assembled should be good enough to beat the current teams who are above us and win something this season - the past is in the past, imo.
06 Mar 2026 15:15:06
Blue Floyd, I wonder, though, how Man City players and Real Madrid players turn up and win with their even larger salary cheques. I imagine the team will be on win bonuses, so there is an additional financial incentive.
However, I do agree there is something that happens which causes us to fall at the last hurdle.
It is not just down to ability, because since 2016 we have had so many players and we have only won once. As someone else says, it was the COVID year with no fans, so I suspect it is a mentality thing.
06 Mar 2026 18:23:17
In comparison to Celtic and Hearts, our squad is 100% good enough in my opinion. Celtic had Scales and Murray as centre halves last week, so defensively we're stronger than that. Big Souttar wet the bed, that's down to his mentality, not ability. Our strikers are better (Jesus, I can't even name a forward other than Maeda who has had an awful season).
Celtic's midfield is probably stronger. We rely on Raskin too much, who tends to have 1 good game in 5.
It's all about opinions, and I respect yours, Wsl, I just don't agree with you on this one.
06 Mar 2026 18:42:31
Celtic have at least 8 points or so from officials this season that they maybe shouldn't, while Rangers have maybe dropped 3 or 4 points that shouldn't have.
06 Mar 2026 19:42:55
Blue Floyd, I was using the last team we had that actually won the title as a comparison to this current extremely limited squad. That is the level we need, and this squad is light years away. What makes it worse is that we have spent millions to downgrade the squad to a level that can't keep up with Hearts, never mind Celtic. Out with the top 2 have drawn with Livingston, St Mirren, Hibs, Motherwell twice, Dundee United twice and Falkirk twice, and while no team wins every game, that record is completely unacceptable for a team hoping to win a title. We have defenders who make schoolboy mistakes that cost us points, and forwards who miss glorious chances that also cost us points, and that's in games before the real pressure was on.
Comparisons with Celtic actually also reflect badly. They played us last week with two average centre backs, and we had our two first choices playing, and both teams scored twice. Nygren, a new signing, has scored double our centre forward and for a fifth of the price, and even Maeda, who is having a nightmare season, has equalled all but Tav, who is our top scorer (he's the one remaining from SG's team).
06 Mar 2026 22:30:46
But then the next season, and the season after that, the squad were roundly criticised by the fan base, as we never won the title either year and managers were sacked. We drew with Motherwell twice the first year, and Aberdeen twice, and even Ross County.
So, comparing squads across managers tends to be viewed with some form of rose-coloured glasses.
07 Mar 2026 00:37:21
Forever, I pretty much guarantee you that Celtic fans will say the exact opposite of your statement about officials and points.
07 Mar 2026 13:52:24
Angus, the year after, with two additions, the same players won the Scottish Cup and got to the final of the Europa. Gio and Wilson then sold Bassey and Aribo for huge money, and wasted the money on sub-standard replacements, and that was the start of the downward spiral which was carried on by Beale.
It's not rose tinted glasses, anybody who can't see that these players are miles away from that title winning team should be wearing glasses, but not rose tinted ones.