Slipmat
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To be honest, I'm not sure that we have all that much to gain from finishing fourth this season. Even if we scrape into the play-offs we are looking like having a playing record not too dissimilar to that of Brechin in the season they got promoted into the Championship (ie more losses than wins over the regular season), then there's a likelihood that we'd likely have to get past either a Hamilton side that have already put nine goals past us in three games this season and an established Championship club to progress upwards.
If we miraculously won promotion, you look at the squad and realise that we have probably around 20 players who aren't of Championship standard so we then have to put trust in Bartley building a new squad that is able to compete - unlikely since he seems to see his main role as that of a developer of young players and is obsessed with performance over results.
That's before we even consider the ultra-defensive play-for-a-draw football that I expect he would favour which would be tortuous to watch and unlikely to deliver results in the Championship. We'd be relegation fodder from day one.
Another season down here, with a different manager, wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing.
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43 minutes ago, Dougie Mills said:
Don’t know if this has been asked before but did Hewitson actively support the club before he took charge?
He almost certainly wasn't attending matches until the early 2000s, as he played regularly for Dalbeattie Star and Blackwood Dynamos/Crichton in the South of Scotland League until then.
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34 minutes ago, bod said:
Congratulations to Dan Armstrong.
Just when you think things can't get much worse a club employee goes and gets his photo taken with a Tory minister and MP. Opposition fans will lap that up!
Seriously though, well done Dan. One of the good guys.
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Genuine question here. Does anyone know what's happened to Charlie "one game per season" Cowie? I can't recall him being involved with the first team squad since Stone arrived, in fact I'm not sure if he's even getting games with the reserves. Did he ever go back out on loan somewhere? He's always looked like being a decent back-up keeper to me, but he seems to have fallen off the radar.
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4 hours ago, Otis Blue said:
The trouble with post match club interviews is that we know what the manager's not going to say. For instance he'll not say: it's all down to me, it's my poor recruitment, it's building a squad on quantity not quality, it's my lack of tactical awareness, it's my inability to set the team up in a positive attacking manner (especially at home where we want to entertain/attract our own fans), it's my uber obsession with sports science stats and planning, it's my inability to read the game from the sidelines and to make changes to set up and to influence the course of the game via appropriate and timely substitutions, it's that I can't suitably motivate the team, it's that we should be ashamed that we are where we are in this league with a FT squad, I fully realise that it's the type of performance and lack of match ambition that's behind the dwindling attendances, it's that I don't know what I'm doing and that I'm amazed that the BOD haven't shown me the door yet.
So remove all of that from the script and ... we get the interviews that we get. To be fair, you can hardly expect the guy to say all or any of the above. So the interviews are a waste of time ... as is this season. Fair play to Sandra for doing them though, I'm sure she's a nice person. Like most on here, I really wanted Marvin to do well but it's just not working.
Now, a post match interview with the Chairman, that would be a tad more interesting to hear what he thinks of it all ...
That's a really good post, Otis.
I think what's most frustrating about Bartley's interviews is his tendency to say "the buck stops with me" or words to that effect before immediately launching into a detailed critique of individual errors made by players (usually the same ones) that have cost us, or how the team haven't played to "the gameplan" (although it is often hard to know what that is). Strangely, he rarely compliments any individual who has played particularly well, although to be fair that's a rare occurance. Also his growing references to good chances that we never had, or attacking football which never happened are becoming irksome.
To be honest, the only reason I've watched recent interviews is because he has given some injury updates, so I guess I should really just skip the first four minutes of waffle to save on cringe.
I suppose, in a scramble for positivity regarding the interviews, we've just got to be thankful he isn't Derek Adams.
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I've just been reading Matt Dawson's thoughts on the England rugby team scraping a win against Italy in the Six Nations yesterday. A couple of quotes stood out:
"you need to run the opposition off their feet so they have nowhere to go. England slowed it down and went through their kicking options and I was disappointed to see them revert back to type."
"you can tell what England have been doing throughout the week and they are just following that plan without feeling the opposition or the context of the game."
"it looked like they went straight to the training ground and did what the coaches had told them"
"England were not stretching Italy to tire them and score"
"you can understand why he did not want to make too many mistakes because he was trying too hard."
Starting to wonder if Dawson was actually talking about every Queens display this season!
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36 minutes ago, cloudysmoke8 said:
I think Gibson may have had cramp as shown in the post match photos.
Agree however, Marvin’s decisions are laughable sometimes. He is clueless
The sooner he’s out the better- he should stick to his stupid punditry career.
Fair enough if Gibson just couldn't continue. I suppose that's the risk you take playing a player who you never give the full 90 to as wingback.
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24 minutes ago, 19QOS19 said:
Not sure of the rules tbh but most clubs wont allow loan players to play against them so I didn't expect him to feature today. Going by the reviews I'm guessing we'll be hoping we played Accies every week...
Bartley saying in the post match interview that Mumbongo has the potential to be one of the best strikers in the whole of Scotland.
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First time back at the hole* of football since November today. Think I'll be taking another couple of months off after that showing. I've never seen as many so-called professional footballers who don't seem to possess the basic ability to pass the ball to a team-mate. I'm starting to question if they do any ball-work in training, or do they just watch endless videos of the previous match and the next opponents (even the latter is questionable), fall of a chair and be dragged kicking and screaming into an ice-bath? Bartley just can't resist not giving Gibson a full game. Today may not have been his best performance, but when you are two goals down going into the last 15 minutes Gibson for me is not the player who should be getting hooked. Last word: It may not be fashionable or in the modern day coaching manual, but could Bartley, maybe just once, for a laugh, start a game with two strikers on the pitch?
* not a typo
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52 minutes ago, HighlandQueen said:
My understanding was that if we didn’t get promoted last season he would seek a higher level of football. Miraculous about after being injured he signed for Morton and has pretty much been an ever present. He was at it in my opinion. He didn’t want to play for us, didn’t want to improve his fitness. Good player but good riddance. Nothing wrong with Bartley trying to get us to a professional level of fitness.
But he was still here in pre-season and played in the East Kilbride friendly. I doubt he was at it or he could have been gone a lot sooner.
If you ask any Pars or Morton fans about Wilson's injury history and availability during his times at those clubs I think they would confirm that we arguably saw more of Wilson on a game for game basis last season than they did during his spells with them before joining us. At Dunfermline for example, he managed 15 league starts in 18 months, at Morton, 11 starts in 6 months.
It could be that this season could be a blip regarding Wilson's avoidance of injury, or that Imrie recognises his value to the team even when not 100% fit and has given him a training programme which factors in allowances for his past record with injuries and fitness, or is just prepared to select him on ability ahead of fitness data.
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12 hours ago, HighlandQueen said:
For me the positives are: Kilsby looks like a quality signing and we got rid of bolshy Wilson and some dross.
I'm assuming that you have evidence of said bolshiness? I've never heard anyone suggest that Wilson was argumentative or a bad egg in the dressing room.
My understanding was that Bartley was pushing Wilson too hard to reach a level of fitness that he (Wilson) was struggling to meet and Bartley wasn't prepared to give him game-time until he met said demands.
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Happy as I am with the signing of Kilsby (a good one IMO), you really do have to wonder the thinking behind Bartley's recruitment strategy. With the welcome addition of Finlay Kennedy and Niall Rogerson to the first team squad I make it that we now have twelve defenders in the group. That's a ridiculous number for any club at this level. In fact we now must have perhaps the biggest squad we have ever had in the history of the club, certainly since the McCall days, and yet we are still lacking in options in midfield and up top.
The dial on the Bartley Bullshit Detector has also zoomed back into the red zone too, since one of his first utterings after being appointed to the job was that he felt he had inherited a squad that was too big. Well, he now seems to have assembled one which is approximately 5 players up on the one Gibson left him with. I think I'm going to stop listening to him for the sake of my own sanity.
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1 hour ago, Greenacres said:
It seems Marv tried to get him in the summer so he has surely seen something he can work with I hope so .
As I have said this is a re run of the Doherty signing
Wonder if that will be us for today in and out .We can still sign players on loan in February ?
Well, we have to keep our fingers crossed that he just wasn't the right fit at Hamilton. Or Tranmere. Or Accrington. Unfortunately to me he sounds like another Innes Cameron. Hopefully we'll be proved wrong, but I do have to say that on past evidence for a man who obsesses over individual mistakes, Bartley has made a hell of a lot himself in the recruitment market. I'm not sure this is a marked improvement.
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18 minutes ago, Priti priti priti Patel said:
Funnily enough he's played four times in the English Premier League! Obviously high hopes for the boy but not worked out. Wonder if we'll bill this like that time Morton signed a player with "Champions League pedigree".
He seems to have been at Burnley at the same time as Udoka Chima. Make of that what you will!
Incidentally, according to Wikipedia, Chima is now onto his 8th club, and in his career has featured in a grand total of 25 games. He doesn't seem to have made the bench yet at Worthing. Could he be injured again?
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I wonder what the delay is in announcing the signing if it has indeed happened? Lots of people saying it's a done deal but can't find any confirmation online.
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2 hours ago, Greenacres said:
Have to hope Marv agrees with us but who will take our deadwood heard even Gretna would not take Irving on loan .
I think Gretna lost interest in Irving after they signed Dan Carmichael.
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Just now, Otis Blue said:
Doherty scores ... and he's immediately hooked for Reilly ...
He probably hadn't been instructed to score a goal. by you know who.
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Just now, Alex Nesovic's Barmy Army said:
Megginson subbed too. Like ships in the night.
Yet according to the BBC, Megginson wins a free kick on the wing despite having been withdrawn. Some player.
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Stone injured now. FFS!
At least Megginson and Botterill can renew acquaintance.
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7 minutes ago, Artemis said:
Only 29 points behind the leaders as it stands.
#believeTo be fair, we lost some ground while the players were distracted by our epic Scottish Cup run.
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And we soar majestically into the play off positions in the live table.
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7 hours ago, Dougie Mills said:
I’m sorry but that’s not controversial…..it’s just nonsensical!
For example what would a team that required a bigger capacity do if their current location had no scope for expansion?
Not really applicable in our case!
In fact the way we are going if Palmerston were to crumble and we couldn't get a safety certificate (probably not as ridiculous as it first sounds judging by the condition of the main stand) we could probably play our home games at KGV and have still plenty of capacity to spare in the home fans section.
If only we had a chairman with some knowledge of the building trade...
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On 21/01/2024 at 10:14, Greenacres said:
Difficult away game but somehow we have to start and get results.
Results don't seem to matter to Bartley. If you offer him a 0-1 defeat with no shots on target but plenty of huff and puff he'll bite your hand off.
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Going by the strange discussion above regarding what qualifies someone as being a supporter, it sounds as though @Swarley must be a phoney fan because he doesn't make the effort to travel to and from Australia every second week to watch the Palmerston Galacticos in action and deprives the club of his £18 ticket money!
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The Queen of the South thread
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Posted · Edited by Slipmat
Ironically Wenger's philosophy around the time of the invicibles was that, if possible, every pass should be a forward pass. Unnecessary back or sideways passes were frowned upon. Maybe Marvin's been holding the book upside down when looking at the diagrams.