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CallumPar replied to Mr Gandosaur's topic in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
Any chance you guys can get a new manager and persuade him to recall El Bakhtaoui/Vincent? Feel like that’s the only way they’ll get taken out of our team. -
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CallumPar replied to Parscelona's topic in Scottish Championship General Chatter
Ah yes, that central midfielder that has spent the majority of his career playing CB? Beadling played CB on loan at Bury and at CB in the majority of games for Sunderland U23’s, who he captained last season. It’s only when he came here that he was turned into a central midfielder. But I get the feeling you’re not actually interested in facts. -
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CallumPar replied to Parscelona's topic in Scottish Championship General Chatter
Or maybe we were offered these players on loan for nothing, as Hearts want them to get game time and they weren’t in a position to offer it to them themselves? In that position, we really couldn’t turn round and say “actually, I know you’re struggling for defenders yourselves but can you give us some of them for nothing?” Not surprised at people moaning and hitting the panic button, without knowing the facts. Not pretending to be ‘in the know’ but we have a good relationship with Hearts and they regularly loan players out for free, or very small percentages of their wages. Therefore, there’s every chance that these 2 players are costing us significantly less than any defenders that were available. Unless any of you are aware of some that we could get, without having to pay them a decent wage? -
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CallumPar replied to Parscelona's topic in Scottish Championship General Chatter
No, we finished 4th. If you read the initial post, he was talking about how we were in danger of the relegation play-offs last year [emoji23] he also spoke about McMullan and Clark as if they were signed late in the season 2 years ago - McMullan was signed during pre-season and Clark in August, after the El Bakhtaoui deal fell through. Don’t know why people are even responding to his nonsense. As has been mentioned, he’s making things up, to try and justify his meltdown. -
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CallumPar replied to Parscelona's topic in Scottish Championship General Chatter
Because both of our other kits would clash with Ayr’s Home kit? -
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CallumPar replied to Parscelona's topic in Scottish Championship General Chatter
New third kit, surely? We don’t have a red kit, like that one... -
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CallumPar replied to Parscelona's topic in Scottish Championship General Chatter
Thought Craigen was outstanding today, as a wing back. I wasn’t sure how he would cope, but that was a great performance. Hopefully Devine’s injury isn’t too bad. -
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CallumPar replied to Parscelona's topic in Scottish Championship General Chatter
Hopefully not, is Robinson injured? Thought he was just being rested/Gill was being given game time. If Martin’s fit, I’d expect Craigen to be back in midfield as well. -
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CallumPar replied to Parscelona's topic in Scottish Championship General Chatter
No better time to try something a bit different. Even a draw tomorrow sees us top the group. Would like to see Ryan and El Bakhtaoui start together. Would be good to see Vincent, Martin and Connolly start too, to get some sharpness. -
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CallumPar replied to Parscelona's topic in Scottish Championship General Chatter
Nah, it’s Brechin who, until tonight, were unbeaten this season and were 2nd in the group. -
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CallumPar replied to Parscelona's topic in Scottish Championship General Chatter
El Bakhtaoui starting tonight - wears number 9. Vincent on the bench. -
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CallumPar replied to Parscelona's topic in Scottish Championship General Chatter
Think Faiss will be on the bench tonight. Save his first start for Saturday. Wonder when we’ll take Williamson and Higgy out the team, to get their replacements used to the roles they’ll need to play at Tannadice? For that game, I’d expect Martin to play on the right and Faiss up top with Hippolyte, L Longridge dropping back to play off the front 2. -
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CallumPar replied to Parscelona's topic in Scottish Championship General Chatter
The incident yesterday was just bizarre. First of all, it was a brilliant challenge from the Dundee player and never a penalty. However, I also didn’t see what he gave Dundee a free kick for. I’ll be honest, I laughed at Madden standing next to the injured player, just grinning at the away fans and looking round, loving the attention he was getting. I couldn’t believe how outraged people were, that we didn’t get a penalty for a challenge where the defender won the ball so cleanly. I’ve never seen a referee do something like that. It does seem a bit unprofessional to intentionally wind the crowd up, but he was getting abuse, having made very few mistakes. But did he actually do much wrong? He wasn’t making gestures to the crowd or anything, just laughing off the ridiculous claims of our support. It just so happened that the incident and the injured player were right in front of our fans and he could hear all of the shouts quite clearly, from where he was standing. -
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CallumPar replied to MeadowArab's topic in Scottish Championship General Chatter
Nice trolling from Pars’ twitter... -
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CallumPar replied to Parscelona's topic in Scottish Championship General Chatter
I didn’t hear one person boo Hippolyte or express displeasure about him last night, at any point. Everyone around me seemed pleased that he’s playing for us and pleased with his performance. I doubt it was ‘sore to take’ for the people in question, as most of them are now banned from East End - probably doesn’t bother them too much. They probably wouldn’t have bothered anyway, since they only ever turned up for the games against the likes of Raith & Falkirk anyway. It’s always funny how the guys that cause trouble, are always ones that I only ever see at the ‘bigger’ games. -
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CallumPar replied to Parscelona's topic in Scottish Championship General Chatter
His contract is up at the end of the season, Dundee can’t ‘cash in’ on him at all. Unless you think we ‘cashed in’ on him, when he similarly left for nothing? Come January, Dunfermline (or any other club) can offer him a contract to sign permanently, come the end of the season and there’s nothing Dundee can do to stop it. They have no more right to sign him, than anyone else. It’s the same scenario as guys like McManus, Morris, Clark and Aird signing elsewhere, for nothing, despite the fact we offered them deals... I would also suspect that we are not paying his full wages, same with Vincent. Dundee were reportedly happy to let them both go, but with a year left on their deals, its unlikely the players were willing to take a wage cut, so we may be paying say 70% of their wages, with Dundee happy to only be paying 30% and free up that money to spend elsewhere. I would guess that’s why the negotiations were so lengthy, working out a package that worked for everyone. These are totally made up figures, just used as an example of the kind of common agreements that are made in these scenarios. -
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CallumPar replied to Parscelona's topic in Scottish Championship General Chatter
I agree that our squad looks decent on paper. However, I’m not sure it looks stronger than United, Ross County, Partick or Inverness. Falkirk, I have no idea, they’ve signed a lot of unknown quantities, so could be strong, could be poor. No idea. Morton and Queens are no pushovers and Ayr’s squad isn’t looking terrible. There will be a lot of tough games and no easy ones. That’s why I’m glad that we’ve improved our strength in depth. It’s important to make sure that, unlike last season, we are able to make changes without weakening the team. -
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CallumPar replied to Parscelona's topic in Scottish Championship General Chatter
Not convinced by Martin at CB. For me, I’d go 4-3-3: Robinson Williamson Durnan Ashcroft J Longridge Thomson Craigen Vincent Hippolyte Faiss L Longridge Subs Gill Martin Devine Connolly Higginbotham Ryan Smith -
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CallumPar replied to Parscelona's topic in Scottish Championship General Chatter
Don’t forget about the Moff! But yeah, it’s going to be hard watching Geggan play against us. -
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CallumPar replied to Parscelona's topic in Scottish Championship General Chatter
Got a lot of time for Paton. 3 goals and 13 assists in our league 1 winning season. Great player, with great distribution. Of course, he seemed to have a telepathic relationship with the Moroccan Prince at times, which helped. He was able to deliver pinpoint crosses onto El Bakhtaoui’s head or foot. I genuinely hope he does well for you. Seems like a really decent guy and was unfortunate with injuries, in his time in the championship. Maybe the move to part-time is what he needs just now. As has been mentioned above, he’s not going to race past defenders, or go on many runs, but he’ll have the best distribution in that league. Perhaps a very similar player to Ross Forbes, who I also think is a brilliant player for that level, which could leave you with a very immobile midfield. We know all about that having played Wedderburn and Paton together at times last season, and been completely overrun by everyone. -
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CallumPar replied to Parscelona's topic in Scottish Championship General Chatter
This is more positive than Falkirk fans’ assessment of Aird, who did very well for us. Think this means he’ll fire us to the title... In all seriousness though, pleased with this bit of business. Fans don’t tend to dislike opposition players, unless they’ve played well against them. Ok, he dived and won a penalty. Cardle, McMullan and Falkingham have been terrible for doing that for us, in the last few years. Unfortunately, it’s part of the game these days. After the way our club ‘grassed him up’, it’s maybe a surprise he was happy to sign for us. If he can put that behind him, there’s absolutely no reason our fans shouldn’t. -
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CallumPar replied to Parscelona's topic in Scottish Championship General Chatter
Been playing more of a 3-4-1-2 or 3-4-3 lately, with J Longridge and Williamson as wing backs. Hippolyte signing is in line with our signings so far. It seems clear that the biggest problem we had last year, was an inability to hangs things. He’s made sure that our different options in each position aren’t like-for-like replacements and actually offer something different. For example if Beadling and Thomson aren’t working in a particular game, Craigen can offer a more attacking threat. If El Bak and Longridge aren’t able to break a team down, Hippolyte might make a difference. We’re a lot more flexible than we were last season. I think that makes us a better team overall. -
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CallumPar replied to Parscelona's topic in Scottish Championship General Chatter
Yes, Todd got the first v Arbroath. -
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CallumPar replied to Parscelona's topic in Scottish Championship General Chatter
Evidently, it was nonsense all along. We got Vincent in January. It’s more likely that McCann is a bit wary of letting FEB go, as he invested a lot of time into his development and is disappointed that the club are likely to be making no money from the sale (even a loan would see him out of contract and leave for nothing next summer). It also wouldn’t surprise me, if they were holding onto him until they got another striker, or to see if anyone can offer them a better deal than us. That’s fairly standard procedure. They won’t be in any hurry to offload him, particularly given we’re very unlikely to offer any sort of substantial fee or, in the case of a loan deal, cover his full wages.