Widge
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11 hours ago, RandomGuy. said:
Sold on Sprangler, hefty Liam Craig vibes off him.
Get your chart out for the lads!
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When you’re trying to reduce numbers and the squad size it’s important to know that every player can contribute and is good enough to play when required. For me that leaves you looking to move Ballantyne, Booth, Crawford, McPherson on I’d say with Parker and Max out on loan. It’s maybe harsh, but the guys we’ve brought in arguably look better and it shows that we most certainly can do better if we’d put our minds to it the last few seasons.
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My Celtic supporting boss isn’t happy, so therefore I’m fucking chuffed
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Well well well, maybe MacLean can organise a team and shitfest games! Excellent result and hopefully let’s us push on now.
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9 minutes ago, Waspie said:
Is he a good prospect? We are in desperate need of an attacker with a bit of pace and intelligent movement.
He’s predominantly played out wide for us, not the biggest, but is a tenacious little b*****d who packs a decent turn of pace. He won’t stop chasing and hassling and is a sure fire bet to get booked every game. Don’t know how good he really is ultimately but he’s arguably been one of the only players to look decent for us this season so far.
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Aye I get the sentiment, but he’s not played a competitive match in almost 2 whole seasons for us whilst picking up a wage that could have been spent elsewhere. It’s time for him to go as he’s not reliable in the slightest and I acknowledge that’ll be the end of the season, but he should never have gotten an extension when he did.
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Robinson sounds similar to Montgomery in the respects he’s not played a lot of football, but has been rated at youth levels. I suspect he might turn out to be a decent signing actually and the Wigan fans seem to think he’s a decent player who’s unlucky he got injured. Time will tell, but I’d say he’s a better standard than Costelloe and probably needed as it appears Booth is broken for good.
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2 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:
McCart likely one who happens late in this window? Doubt he rejoins us next Summer though.
Zero chance of Mitchell.
I mean I didn’t say anything about either of them actually joining or whether they were feasible, only I’d take them over what we’ve got currently?
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Note that both Alex Mitchell and Jamie McCart are nowhere near their respective squads and out of contract next season, I’d take either back over what we’ve got to be honest.
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Callum Hendry was a good player for us at times who you’d be delighted to have kept, as he scored goals. However, I’m agreeing with Tam here, he had plenty of opportunities where he didn’t take his chances and was reckless in tackles leading to red cards. Would he improve our squad, yeah he would for sure, was he worth breaking the bank to keep, don’t think so. I say this as someone who was a Hendry fan and enjoyed watching him play, but the move down south was right for him and I’m really glad to see him to well down there now.
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I’ve seen a few comments on twitter, etc. saying that we’re clearly panicking now and just bringing in loans. I see it differently, we’re bringing in loans to cover for positions where we have long term injuries or doubts about players fitness ever returning. I don’t mind that at all, I can’t imagine we’ll be paying all the wages for the guys so far. I’ll admit the winger on loan from Burnley is slight different since that’s a position we need quality in, so if he’s all we get then we’ve got an issue.
MacLean may get a lot of flack and stick this season from fans for a variety of reasons, but transfer wise he’s done the right thing for me. Age profile down, mostly experienced guys with previous history of being good. They won’t all work out, but as I say he’s done the right thing for me. I think we all know in an ideal world he’d be able to get rid of Crawford, Considine, McPherson, Booth etc. but there ain’t nobody taking these guys at all, especially when they’re not fit.
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1 minute ago, Pens_Dark said:
Is this really as bad as everyone is making out or is it just St Johnstone going through a moment in time? For example I don't know much about your team but I know you have a lot of injuries?
It all seems pretty shite right now but surely the manager will be given funds to bring new people in, or will he?
Don't even touch that can of worms.....
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I'm at the stage where MacLean now needs to act on what he's said. For me that means dropping the likes of May, Carey and Gordon, I'm going to throw in Ballantyne into that pile as well. All of them need a boot up the arse and take a look at their attitudes and application. It's not just them, but for me they're the worst offenders. May in particular needs reminded he's droppable, I'd hope that another week and some intense fitness work, Jephcott can get himself fitter. I know he didn't have a pre-season and it's tough, but he'll have been with us 4/5 weeks by the end of the Celtic game and that's enough time to at least get a half yard quicker.
I've been saying Taylor Steven needs played for a while now. Like I've said, he's maybe not the most technical player, but he's at least direct and will fight for everything. The fact he gets booked every time he's on the pitch shows he's at least getting close to players. I'm also willing to forgive McClelland for the error on Saturday, the guys only played 22 senior games in his career and for the most part has looked solid next to much more experienced guys who're doing him no favours at all. I think he'll end up being a good signing for us. Equally I'm not going to judge Smith based on him being asked to play wide, same with Max, it's not their position and has been forced through having no other options. If it's me and I'm picking the team for Celtic, then I'm playing the below on the basis we're not getting any other players in and a few get back from injury -
Mitov
Brown - McClelland - Considine
Olufunwa----------------------Gallacher
McGowan - Phillips
Smith
Steven - Jephcott
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Given some of the things I’ve heard behind the scenes, the whole club is still an absolute mess. Boardroom and exec level are still trying to salvage the failings of the previous regime, but there’s still worrying things at every turn. Let’s not pretend this isn’t a 3/4 year fix, cause it definitely is if we’re to get back on the right track.
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10 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:
This was all the completed passes i got on Saturday.
That graphic shows you in a nutshell what Cammy Ballantyne doesn't bring to the team. How can a professional midfielder complete 3 passes in virtually 90 minutes, that's criminal!
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Just me who’s beginning to think that Sinclair gets an awful lot of injuries for a goalkeeper? Which is never a good thing. I know it’s hardly his fault he keeps breaking things in matches, but it seems he’s got a lot of bad luck.
I don’t think there was ever a question about who was number one this season, but it’s annoying we’ve now got to spend more budget on a player we didn’t need 2 days ago. I guess it’ll be someone on loan from down south who’ll hopefully be cheap as chips until January.
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I see MacLean is saying both McPherson and Kane are getting injections to try and speed up their issues and that Clark is another 10 days away from coming back to training. It’s going to be end of September by the time we see any of these guys by the looks of it! Plus with Drey Wright taking a knock on Saturday, we literally have no pace up front. Whoever he’s trying to bring in better be an Olympic grade sprinter at this rate, or we just unleash Dare further forward for the fun of it.
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2 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:
Thats just as close as i can get to McGowan headering it.
Wright is out the picture miles offside but doesnt go near the play at all.
Aye that’s what I thought, I’m literally right in line with it in that photo. I might be going mad, but I’ve not fully lost it yet
Also loving Dare’s positional play in that phase, the f**k defending attitude I’m here for!
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Just now, DC92 said:
Watched on a stream. If it's the one where he had an effort saved by Clark then the replays showed Carey was offside.
Really? Thats mad and shows we watch different things live. As I said he looked well behind play, but fair enough if he was I stand corrected.
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Just now, Jamie_Beatson said:
That's at the other end from me but again Carey looked miles on - and if he wasn't he needs shot because he was in miles of space and looking right along the line.
Ohh he was on by about 3 yards he was well behind the line of the defenders when the ball broke his way. No issues with what he did, I just don’t understand why it was offside!
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The one I didn’t get was the offside given for Carey’s chance. He was inside by a mile and it was Drey Wright who was offside, who stood with his hands up and didn’t affect play. Yet it got pulled back for offside, both the linesmen and the referee were abysmal yesterday and if that’s a sign of the standards to come then we’re looking at worse than last season which didn’t seem possible.
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I think Hearts and Aberdeen are both a level about the other 8 teams in the league and will be 10/15 points clear of 5th this year. Depending on how Aberdeens new guys are and the rest of their recruitment, Hearts look a very good bet for third. It’s the depth that made a difference yesterday and there’s still players to come back. I think there’s a serious chance you give Rosenborg a proper good game and have a really good chance of going through which is great to see.
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9 minutes ago, SJFCtheTeamForMe said:
Scotland 7's international brother?
Aye Ross is the eldest of the 4 and played Rugby over football, think he made the Olympics 7s team a few years ago. Probably just as well, he wasn’t very good compared to the younger siblings.
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The more I watch him, the more I’m coming around to Ballantyne being the new Gary MacDonald. He literally doesn’t add anything to the team unfortunately if he plays as he did today and has a really unfortunate habit of tackling his man and never actually winning the ball. He needs to add presence and drive, but I’m not sure he’s got the build for it, Alex Ferguson is 4 years younger and already stronger.
Dare and McLelland were solid on their debuts, especially given they’ve had no game time and thrown in at the deep end. You can see Dare hasn’t played senior football and needs talked through the game constantly right now, but he’s got the raw attributes potentially. The fact Forrest made an immediate drive to target him in the first 2 minutes and he swatted him aside easily shows he’s quick enough. McLelland didn’t look like a guy who’d played 20 senior games either and was really vocal which was great to see. Think he might help get Gordon back to acceptable standards.
We didn’t deserve anything from the game today, but on another day we don’t concede the silly goals and take one of the half chances we created. So there’s definitely been a reaction and there are positives to take. Fundamentally we were beaten by a better team who has a much stronger bench to bail them out of trouble when needed.
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St Johnstone vs Dundee FC - 02/09/23
in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
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Close this fucking thread down and start again!