Alloa v Livi (Saturday 10th September)

Hopefully the gate price doesn't put too many people off, Alloa still think they're playing in the Championship.

Also hope Longridge has recovered from his injury last week, we need our best starting eleven for this game. I think Mullin is deserving of another start, Cadden's form has dipped a bit since the Stranraer game but Mullin has looked good, Buchanan will be right up for it too after scoring his first Livi hattrick, and he scored against Alloa last season in our first away game against them.

Really looking forward to this game, I've a good feeling about it.

Alloa have a 100% record in all competitive games this season, including some notable higher divsion scalps. We will do well to get a draw. But should not be frightened of having a go at them.

Looking forward to this top of table challenge

Piece of pish, bring on Brechin.

It should have been a clean sheet but for an atrocious piece of refereeing... If he thought it was a pen, why did he wait until Goodwin & co boxed him in before giving it? He didn't blow the whistle or point to the spot before then. If the lineo gave it he would have signalled with his flag across his chest, he didn't. All very strange.

I don't care if they are mic'd up, he has a flag for a reason and if he thinks it is a pen he should hold his flag across his chest, he didn't do that at any time. Then if the ref didn't hear anything then he can't fail to see the visual signal. So it's still an atrocious piece of officiating, even if it was a correct decision, which I doubt.

Great performance yesterday, although we were very wasteful in the second half. Luckily our first half performance meant that wasn't too much of an issue. Think we got a little lucky for the second goal, how that wasn't a foul on their full back I'll never know. However, the first thing kids are told about football is play to the whistle, so I've little sympathy on that front. Third goal was as good a goal as I can remember seeing live.

Thought Danny Mullen was superb yesterday - MOTM for me. He's certainly bulked up over the summer and likes to throw himself about a lot more (and to the ground..). The defence was excellent yesterday, too. They won just about every aerial challenge in the whole game.

Agree on what's been said about the referee, though. He missed a lot of clear fouls, especially from Goodwin who seems to coast through games getting away with murder.

All in all, pleasing to put the breaks on Alloa's winning streak. On to next week now!

Really? I actually thought it was a foul on Cadden, their player ran into him obstructing Cadden to stop him getting to the ball and thought it would run out of play, some may say he was shielding the ball but how far from the ball do you have to be before it is obstruction and not shielding, he made no attempt to play the ball and even go anywhere near it. Cadden broke free of him and ran around him onto the ball to keep it in play. I agree with you on the next bit, he should've played to the whistle instead of standing there having a tantrum about not getting his way.

Best game Cadden has had for a while, maybe because Mullin was on the other wing helped him, I prefer having both Mullin and Cadden play. Thought the 3 at the back with 2 wingers worked really well. Crighton made surging runs and put in a lot of crosses too, and the back 3 were immense, though Alloa made it easy for them playing so many high balls over the top, meat and potatoes for our 3 CB's to deal with.

Best game I've seen Mullen have this season, ran himself into the ground and showed real strength holding off players, must give Goodwin sleepless nights knowing he's got Mullen to mark. If the ref was half decent Goodwin would've been sent off the amount of fouls he committed. Also thought Pittman was outstanding, him and Mullen are huge players for us this season. Buchanan, Mullen and Pittman all on 4 league goals and equal 2nd league one top goal scorers.

I think it was 6 of the defender and half a dozen of Cadden, essentially a battle of strength which Cadden won, the defender's strop was hilarious.

One of the reasons I think Goodwin would have been a good signing for us is his ability to avoid bookings and getting penalised. That said, I think we have recruited well and he wouldn't fit in. I disagree that he has sleepless nights before coming up against Mullen because he always gets away with it, largely because Mullen goes to ground too easily. When he stays on his feet he is much more of a problem, Goodwin knows he just has to touch him lightly, he'll go down and the ref will wave at Mullen to get up.

Still not sure what Lewis Allan brings to the party as we have yet to utilise his height.

I thought our three centre backs were excellent yesterday, Crighton, Halkett and Lithgow stood up to anything they could offer aerially and were strong throughout. Camden and Mullin tried to fill in from wide areas and did so, most of the time. Pittman is always impressive and yesterday was no different. Adding goals to his game is making him one of our most valuable players.
Goodwin should have been booked, at least once, in the first half. Had he been, we'd have taken even more advantage. But I'm happy to focus on our positives. Lots of them. Onwards to the Brechin game next week.
We look as though we can score from all over the park. Such a contrast from last season when we relied entirely on White and Buchanan. I hope those who were calling for Hopkins' head would at least congratulate him on transforming the squad and the style of play. It's attacking, with pace and width, and we look like scoring every week. The Queens Park game aside, we've scored freely. Enjoying the season so far.

We almost agree but Mullen did actually get awarded fouls the odd time from the ref when Goodwin rugby tackled him to the ground, but for some reason the ref didn't see that as a booking, had we seen a stronger ref that would hand Goodwin a card then he'd be a certainty to be taken off by his manager or sent off for a 2nd booking because he just couldn't cope with Mullen's pace and skill without fouling him.