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5 hours ago, bod said:
Sadly, I can see him wanting to bring McKay back in for defensive cover.
If that allows Cochrane to play further up the park that's not necessarily a bad thing.
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2 hours ago, Monkey Tennis said:
Is there much of a basis for believing this?
I'm not saying you're wrong, but it's seems to be assuming a lot.
No, all speculation on my part. Just thinking out loud and probably putting 2 and 2 together to make 5.
With Gibson, the BOD appointed him on an interim basis before giving him the job permanently. Yet they gave his successor (who albeit was widely thought of as having potential but no experience in the hotseat) a lengthy contract based on...?
Now I'm sure Gibson would have been on peanuts and inexpensive to dismiss, but even taking that into account it seems to me that the BOD had a major rethink of their methods of selecting a manager after a succession of internal promotions, bringing a previously successful manager back (Johnston), or in the case of Naysmith appointing someone who had recently been proven to be successful at East Fife (albeit his star was on the wane by the time he arrived at Palmerston).
My way of thinking is, I guess, based on a BOD adopting this radical change in direction after years of going down the supposed safe route, combined with the difficulty they seem to be having in ridding the club of Bartley - assuming (again!) that they want to do so.
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2 hours ago, Artemis said:
If a club can’t afford to sack a manager a year and a bit into a two and a half year contract, would they not be better off giving him a shorter contract in the first place? Appointing him isn’t the issue. The problem is giving an untried manager two and a half years. I suppose he might have insisted on it or else he wouldn’t have joined. If that was the case, they should just have said “Thanks for your time”. The risk of not being able to afford a sacking after a year should be factored into the decision to appoint.
Not just the length of contract. I'm starting to think that he either demanded or was offered a ridiculously high salary for a rookie manager at our level. One way or another, I expect that through his gift of the gab he has hoodwinked the board into awarding him a much better contract than they may have initially considered offering the successful candidate, so keen were they to get their man.
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19 hours ago, queenslad said:
I'm now looking forward to the match next Saturday evening. A chance to get back on winning ways after disappointment of last action of the match. A big crowd, a few beers and hopefully retain the Calcutta cup
Watching the rugby is similar to watching Queens. No forward passes allowed.
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34 minutes ago, overthetop said:
A grateful nation will be spellbound whilst Marvin redefines football
I'm hoping he's available to work as a pundit for this match.
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32 minutes ago, die hard doonhamer said:
Because the board don’t give a f**k
The opposite could be said given that the board allowed Bartley to sign Mumbongo and Kilsby.
I actually believe that rather than not giving a f**k, they are just f**king clueless.
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Hopefully Mr Hewitson remembers his words from December 2022:
He is a young manager who deserved the opportunity, but football is a results-based business, and we aren't happy with the season so far and we have to do what we feel is best for the club.
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5 minutes ago, Greenacres said:
Bartley... will run this club into the ground
At this rate he's going we'll be so deep into the ground we'll resurface in Australia.
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22 minutes ago, Monkey Tennis said:
I think the fact that Annan are no longer ahead might actually have more relevance for the fate of our season.
They're ahead again. Could it have something to do with them having had 11 shots on goal?
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6 minutes ago, 19QOS19 said:
You can't comment unless you're there remember.
4 minutes ago, HighlandQueen said:Correct. At last you have got it
Out of interest, roughly how many Queens fans are there today?
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So, it took until first half stoppage time for us to register a shot on target against a team that have conceded almost twice as many goals as every other club in the league*
In six and a half games this calendar year we have scored 3 goals.
I can only go by the match stats, but it seems like Bartley has forgotten to include scoring goals in his "game-plan" again.
* except Annan.
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Botterill, McClelland, Brydon, Kilsby, Logan, Ferguson, Cochrane, Connelly, McKechnie, Doherty, Reilly
bench: McKay, McGuffie, Mumbongo, Ambrose, Ross, Gibson, Burns, Walker, Green
So Efe makes way for Kilsby and Cochrane is back in place of McKay. Good to see Gibson back and Jay Burns on the bench for the first time. Have we signed Green or will this be the last time he can be named as a trialist?
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3 hours ago, die hard doonhamer said:
there is harm in looking. You could end up with a complete charlatan like this:
But despite all of that, deep down the supporters still loved him. Apparently.
He makes Hewitson seem like Tony Bloom in comparison.
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1 hour ago, HighlandQueen said:
Crowd and at 500 person fan event at the Roker hotel the night before. He was massively unlucky as they lost with a last minute goal to Portsmouth in the playoff final that year. Supporters lionised him and we kept getting stopped for selfies in the pub before the game.
Didn't he refer to some of the Sunderland supporters as "parasites" and say that northerners had no business acumen?
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2 minutes ago, MazzyStar said:
Was he the one in the Sunderland documentary?
Aye, that's your boy. I seem to recall he left Sunderland under a bit of a cloud and was as toxic to many Sunderland fans as Hewitson is to some Queens supporters.
Early days for him at Charlton, but they are presently languishing in their lowest league position - ever.
51 minutes ago, Nithsdale Wanderer said:Think we are doing quite well on that one are we not ?
Our community work is something that we are indeed doing well. You rarely hear news about anything happening on the commercial front though, as someone pointed out on here earlier this week.
I'm not suggesting for one moment that anything underhand took place but it strikes me as being a trifle unfortunate that the shirt sponsorship draw has been won by businesses owned by club directors three times in the last 20 years. The shirt draw has served us well in it's time, but maybe actively seeking a shirt sponsor directly rather than asking businesses to participate in an annual lottery in the current economic climate may be a better option?
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With us having played at least a game more than every other club in the division and a small gap opening up between the top 5 and the rest, I think it's now essential that we win our next four games if we are to entertain any thoughts of a top 4 finish. With less than two thirds of the league season having been completed by all clubs other than ourselves, that's a shocking state of affairs and for me completely sums up just what a shambles this season has been.
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I wonder if consideration should be given to selling the naming rights to Palmerston? It may not be a popular course of action, and we could risk ending up with something as tacky as the Cheaper Direct Insurance Stadium, but at least it would help in dragging us out of a financial hole.
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Montrose and Alloa winning. Time to bring on a defender.
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Just now, Otis Blue said:
... and hits the post!
From over 40 yards out at that! Maybe it was a misplaced pass!
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8 minutes ago, Otis Blue said:
Mumbongo the leg-end and Kilsby both on the bench. "Trialist" also listed on the bench ... anyone know who?
I guess the trialist may be "Green", the keeper* who was on the bench last week?
But... he's starting with two forwards and Connelly?! Is this the same Marvin Bartley we've come to know
and love?* (ie "the GreenKeeper" - I'll get my coat)
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1 hour ago, ALOREBURNE said:
The final paragraph (apart from the AGM) is so defeatist and negative... and annoying. Relying on a freak cup draw or unearthing another Lyndon Dykes every season and blaming losses on those factors suggests incompetent business management to me. Plenty said about pinning hopes on what unexpected income we might have acquired through luck, and a resignation that losses are inevitable, but not a single word on what the board have been or will be doing to attract investment. It's all very "this is where we are and there's nothing we can do about it".
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9 hours ago, Greenacres said:
5 at the back again boring football try and steal a draw .
Why not have a go 4-3-3 take the game to Kelty not the other way round .
This or 4-4-2. The problem with the way we play is a 4-3-3 rapidly becomes a 4-5-1 due to Bartley's ultra-negative tactics, which is why I'd rather go with 4-4-2.
Of course neither will happen. Bartley, as usual, pissed me off in the Hamilton post-match interview when he said he wants to play Kilsby as the left CB in a back three because "that's where he plays for Carlisle in training". Thing is, he's played all season for Annan as a left back in a four in matches and by all accounts is quite good at it. So once again Bartley focusses on training over matches, and persists with a formation that isn't working.
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1 hour ago, MazzyStar said:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68006183
Look at this fucking shite. It gives the options of Airdrie, Arbroath, Hamilton and even the fake queens, and yet not a thing about qos. Of course, I don’t think queens are even close to being one of the “top 10 clubs in Scotland”, but they’ve got more reason to be included than a number of the absolute nothing clubs the BBC have included in the poll.I'm confused. A club formed in 2012 is the second most successful in Scottish top-flight history?!
To use the BBC's condescending quote, "even League 2 East Fife" have spent more seasons in the top flight than that lot.
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10 hours ago, Otis Blue said:
Just watched Neil Warnock's post match interview this morning. Now Warnock has plenty of critics for very well published reasons, dinosaur etc etc so I'm not advocating that he's by any means an "ideal manager" but I couldn't help noticing the "night and day" difference between Warnock's interview and Marvin's standard interview fare. From Marvin we get the downbeat "so what", seemingly couldn't care less, what was the Arsenal score, need to execute the plan better and on to the next game mantra, whereas from Warnock it was all about being totally invested in what he was doing at Aberdeen, the importance of the fans and being passionate about it. I sat there trying to imagine how the players in our dressing room and in Aberdeen's would react to hearing their respective managers talking ... I didn't like the answer in my head.
Warnock could clearly learn a lot from Bartley. Probably one of the main reasons he came to Scotland. At least that's what Bartley probably thinks.
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Queens v Montrose
in Scottish League 1 General Chatter
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Not often that I leave before the final whistle, but today I was away after the second penaly.
Absolutely atrocious - again. Even the generosity of the officials was no help to this lot. Must be one of the most blatant penalties/reds I've seen at Palmerston for some time yet they all managed to miss it and Kilsby stayed on.
The back three were totally devoid of options to get the ball forward thanks to McKay being totally stationary (other than pointing at nothing in particular) when he should have been offering himself. As a result Cochrane got dragged further and further back to become a second sitting midfielder so with two defenders as wing backs, three centrebacks and two deep midfielders we resorted to long balls and misplaced hit and hopes.
Ferguson was a total waste of space when actually took his invisibility cloak off. Why Bartley persisted with him and hooked Connelly, our only midfielder to look busy and try to be creative and probably our MOM, is another howler to add to the catalogue of mystifying decisions he continually makes. Reilly looked isolated at first and seemed to continually get the ball stuck under his feet, and just as I thought Bartley was going to go two up front when Mumbongo came on Reilly was moved back into more of a number 10 role as he persisted with the same formation shambles.
At the back, Brydon was good, Ambrose had his usual fair share of brainfarts and McClelland cannot play in a back three for me as he drifts into no man's land and leaves acres of spaces around him too often.
No atmosphere in the ground, and it was bloody cold, I'm hungry due to the stupid o'clock kick off time and have now had enough for this season. See you in 2024/25, unless Bartley has been sent packing before then.