Falkirk v Livi - Tue 29th Dec '15

Feeling a bit more confident after Saturday's performance, although Falkirk will be much more of a challenge than St Mirren's woeful team.

Would be delighted with a draw from this, but think that Falkirk will nick it. 1-0 Falkirk for me.

First away game of the Season ...can it be my first win ? Probably not

Why was hippo at left back away at one of the best teams in the league? If Longridge was on the bench we have to assume he was fit..

All in all, not much in the game, they took the two chances that we made easy for them. Can only remember the Buchanan chance in the first half, and hippos in the second half. Poor performance all round in my opinion, albeit against a pretty good team. Although they weren't firing all cylinders they looked so much more comfortable in possession than us.

I'm very disappointed with Ben Gordon. Thoiught he'd be a good signing for us, but yet to see it. The amount of clearances and headers he misconnects with is ridiculous.

248 apparently.. Better than our usual meagre support.. Don't think a lot of them will be rushing to come back after tonights performance..

Ah well decent effort but no cigar.

Pretty even first half with Livi unlucky not to go in 1-0 up after hitting the post. 2nd half Falkirk upped their tempo and closed us down more, we gave them a bit too much room around our box and they punished us for it, slipping the ball into Miller for him to stick it away. 2nd goal followed shortly after that one with them doing to us what we had done to St Mirren, whipping a ball into our box for Miller to get his 2nd.

Mullen coming on made a difference to us but again unlucky hitting the post with his 2nd shot from rage, first one went narrowly wide, dear knows why Hopkin left him out of the starting line up after being in the starting 11 against St Mirren. Hippo also came close with his header cleared off the line, and White missed a good chance heading over when he was unmarked at the back post from a corner.

Wasn't to be though and Falkirk ran out comfortable winners.

Hopkin also dropped White to the bench and started Hippo at LB, some bizarre messing about with a team that won 4-1, think we need a fresh managerial team as Hopkin is part of the same problem Burchill was and we'll never get any consistency with the same chopping and changing going on every game.

Really? A forward being played as a full back & its about him? If it was about him he'd strop off somewhere & say "I'm a forward, play me there or not at all"

Agreed.  I think he has flashes of brilliance, but I get the impression that he thinks that he's far better than the team he's in.

He should never have been played at left back last night, he rarely performs his defensive duties when he's played in a more attacking role, so playing him in a defensive position was ludicrous.

Hippo bashing? Get real. 

He got himself booked last Sat for kicking the ball away. We were 4-1 up at the time. Terrible decision by a player. Another daft challenge (esp given the conditions) & he was off. 

last night he constantly tried to play the "silky" pass when the game was crying out for simple football. He was also yards off the pace last night & often out of position. 

Whenever i I watch him play he is always about himself never about the team. Time for him to pack his bags and depart back south again, where he struggled before. 

Yep, Glen wasn't coping with the windy conditions, was great against St Mirren with the balls he was putting in but it just wasn't working last night trying to cross balls into the box in that wind. Hippo was looking threatening when he pushed up, with Longridge on he'd have been abe to work overlaps with him and get in behind them hitting the bye line.

The decision to play Hippo at left back was nonsensical, especially with Longridge on the bench.

JS, we play a 5-3-2 (or 3-5-2, depending on how you look at it) with 2 wing backs.. Surely playing Mullen and Hippo as your wingers leaves us very exposed down the flanks as, whilst I rate their offensive capabilities, I don't see them as possessing great defensive qualities.  I agree with other posters, often Hippo tries to play the 'Hollywood Pass' or tries too many tricks and inevitably gives the ball away.  I think with the conditions on Tuesday night, the team needed to revert back to basics and didn't require the poncey flicks being exhibited..

I actually like Hippolyte going forward, but as I said, playing him at left back against a good Falkirk team was ludicrous and it was clear that he was out of his depth as both the goals came from that side of the pitch.  I'm not singling him out for criticism, in fact I'd lay the blame at Hopkin's feet for his ridiculous team changes.

Hippo is just a luxury player Livi FC can't afford sadly. They need football grafters players who will come in & play for the team.

question: when was Hippo's last performance that you can remember where he gave 100% for the team & you as a fan felt he had given 100% effort? I was trying to remember and I can't it's always fancy moves and all about Hippo.

we all agree on 1 thing Hippo is no left back!! 

Yeah I agree with you Longridge should've started at LB, however I wouldn't have taken Hippo off when Longridge came on, i'd have moved him up to an attacking left sided midfielder as I thought when Hippo had got up the wing he was causing them problems with his tenacious style of play, when he wrestles for the ball and then goes on a direct run at players. Defenders hate that kind of player as they're scared to jump in and he gets them on the back foot. It can get us into trouble when he tries that fancy stuff in defence though, if he loses the ball then we're the ones on the back foot.

Perhaps when Esposito's cleared for us to play we'll have him and Longridge on the wings in the 3-5-2/5-3-2 formation and have more balance to our team, he's meant to be quick so hopefully he's also got a bit of skill to get past players too, though if you've got pace to knock the ball past a player you usually get past them until they double up on you.