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A bloody good benefit that would be seen as some of them look like they are trying to control a kids balloon bouncing at them.
Can't see what difference where you train has much bearing on fitness levels or indeed skill levels.
It's what you do at training that's the crucial factor.
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2 hours is about the norm going by what I have read/seen on TV, most of the guys you see talking about it say around 2 hours organised training then maybe stuff on your own.
Can you realistically do more without fatigue?
"then maybe stuff on your own"
There should be no maybe about it - unless of course a player has no weaknesses in his game.
No one at Palmerston fits the no weaknesses description.
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I'm not saying ANY midfielder is better than McGuffie in that role. McGuffie played in midfield for many years and is not doing a bad job. However, he lacks a bit of pace and creativity for the role particularly at this stage of his career. I'm not hyping up Dzierzawski but am glad we've signed a player in that position. He might be an unmitigated disaster but I'll give Jim McIntyre the benefit of the doubt at this stage.
Most of the time McGuffie played in mid-field was as a wide mid-field player in a 4-4-2 formation which is a totally different ball-game from playing in the centre.
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Thirty five years too late.
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I'll be surprised if McPherson gets another significant managerial job.
Football has moved on a lot but I don't think he has.
I remember hearing stories allegedly coming from players a year past in December about a lot of unhappiness on the training ground and the dressing room.
I think I posted then that we were going down if the manager stayed.
That coincided with a rash of silly 'in Gus we trust' type posts.
All the excuses about lack of resources were trotted out but the bulk of the current squad were at Palmerston back then and properly managed they could have survived in Div 1.
When a manager however loses the dressing room (or a large part of it) a team is in real trouble. For that scenario there are only two solutions : a complete change of squad or the manager walks. The former was never a possibility and the latter unfortunately didn't happen.
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A couple of mates who were St Mirren fans couldn't wait to see the back of McPherson and had doubts about his ability to do the job at Palmerston.
In a league where 'everybody can beat everybody else' his philosophy of 'don't lose' was always going to be a disaster. With that approach you can't win games but you can still lose them.
His rating of players was fairly amazing. Players like Simmons and Potter he rated highly while players like Craig Reid and McKenna he didn't. No wonder he lost the dressing room.
I wonder if Davie Rae regrets keeping him in the job at the start of 2012. Had he been punted then I think we might at least have been in play-off position. All history now unfortunately.
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And Craig 4-6-0 Levein
But Levein played an attacking 4-6-0 formation unlike the McPherson 'park the bus' 4-6-0 formation.
In all seriousness I would rate McPherson as one of the worst managers at Palmerston in over 60 years of following Queens and there have been a lot of contenders for that title.
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Alan Preston's rating as a pundit has just become negative.
Quote " there are still good managers out there without a job , like Jimmy Calderwood and Gus McPherson".
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Hope I'm wrong, but I don't think we have a chance of keeping Clark for next season
For me keeping the management team in place is probably the most important job.
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On the subject of McKenna and Young, lets get them tied up for next season . This would be a strong central partnership that will do well in the First Division. Dare I say it , that McKenna is playing far more maturely at the moment and letting his football do the talking. He is a good player.
After a season of torture under 'park the bus' McPherson , everybody at Palmerston is playing better. No surprise there.
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I think a lot McKenna's good work has come about due to the fact that Derek Young has been playing alongside him. As previously said (jokingly) we have narrowed it down to 15 for the player of the season but to me Young has been outstanding in the vast majority of games he's played in. It was no coincidence that we lost when he was absent against Alloa. That was one of the few games where we never got to grips with the centre of the park. Young seems to be a real calming influence to all that are around him.
When we play with both Young and McKenna sitting in the middle we generally control games and the work McKenna was trying to do on his own last year is shared therefore he doesn't have the need to be chasing all over the park, diving into challenges.
Nothing against Mitchel or Burns, who's been a great servant to the club, but they look lost when asked to play in the middle. I also think we should keep to a basic 4-4-2 formation which suits us a team a lot better instead of these fancy continental ones where some of the guys don't seem to know weither to stick or twist. Yesterday for the first hour was another example of this.
McKenna and Young are far and away the best central mid-field pairing we have. They give us dominance in mid-field. So much so that against Arbroath in the second half Johnstone was able to switch to what was a very risky 4-2-3 formation and we blew the opposition away. I doubt we could have done that without either of them.
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Will Rangers still run out to 'Simply the Best'?
If so, that'd be just about as funny as anything so far.
Will Rangers run out at all ?
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Eh ?
They've just said they've been looking at reconstruction for the last TWO YEARS. There are 4 weeks or so till the start of the season. This shower have taken TWO WEEKS and still havent decided who is replacing Rangers in SPL1. There is precisely NO DANGER of an SPL 2 this season. Even if there was a possibility they could achieve it administratively, there is NO DANGER of getting a majority of the 42 club to vote in favour of it. An SPL2, under Doncaster's auspices ? NO CHANCE....and I mean NEVER.
In addition the SFL have to agree to release clubs to form an SPL 2.Either that or the clubs involved have to give 2 years notice.
Any attempt to form SPL2 without the agreement of the SFL will result no doubt in protracted litigation and intervention by FIFA/EUFA which could result in severe sanctions for any associations complicit in the matter.
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Sorry, but if we`re being offered moving to a 16 team top league with the immediate introduction of play offs then they`ve come up with a deal I`d go for. I presume that other inducements involving the more equitable sharing of money would also be involved. To me the SFL will have achieved pretty much everything they`ve wanted. I`d also add that such a deal will almost certainly mean the end of cockwomble.
Sevco start in the 1st. I can live with it. I said months ago that league reconstruction was to me at least as important as dealing with TTFKAR
The SFL can get all of that by simply using the bargaining chip - Sevco in Div 3 or Sevco out of senior football.
The former depends on changes to the league set-up.
The latter would be a problem for the SPL and the SFA.
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When will a spokesman for the SPL predict that if Sevco are not put into Div 1 , the world will end on Friday 13th June.
That after all is the ultimate bogeyman.
I continue to be amazed how apparently sane chairmen in the SFL believe in all these bogeymen.
Most people grow out of that between 3 and 4 years of age.
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I still don't understand why Longmuir didn't take a strong stance akin to this, and hold Regan + Doncaster to ransom in order to get a better deal. This is the best opportunity he and the board will ever have to improve the SFL's circumstances, and he's ran away scared from it.
Too late now, though. Yet another disappointment.
It is frankly unbelievable that the SFL have not adopted the position that they will allow Newco into Div 3 , only if the SPL/SFA accept conditions they would propose.
The SFL hold all the aces yet seem incapable of using them.
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Because they are the peepul.
Were the peepul !!!
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An official of Erededivisie Live , who televise Dutch Football , describes the much vaunted Sky deal as "paltry".
Maybe instead of trying to gerrymander Newco into Div 1 to save Scottish Football , Messrs Doncaster,Regan and Longmuir might do better to enrol for a course offering an SVQ in negotiating proper TV deals.
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Iain King says "Scottish football will lose £80m if Rangers are in the 3rd'
It must be true because he also says "this is neither scaremongering or rumour" must've read p&b for that soundbite.
You couldn't make it up - unless of course you are the sports editor of a publication that has spent it's whole existence trying to publish something true - and failing abysmally in the process.
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Morton believe that Proposal ii) has not got a snowball's chance of going through unaltered.
I would love to believe that was the case.
It certainly should be.
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Longmuir quoted in one of today's papers saying the clubs, not the board, will decide on Division 1 or Division 3. John Yorkston has also said any other option would not be acceptable.
Voting proposals for Friday have been altered or removed then ?
Proposal (ii) is clear and uneqvivocal as it stands.
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I have a bit of an issue with the suggestion that the SPL clubs have passed the buck in this situation.
Had Newco decided not to apply for the share transfer, the SFL would still have had a decision to make. And let's be honest, any SFL chairman who didn't think they would have some sort of say in this must believe everything he reads in the Record.
The SPL clubs according to an article by the Morton chairman in todays Herald says the SPL were told by Regan that if Newco were admitted to the SPL the SFA would have applied a veto.
Integrity never came into the equation hence the 'principled' stance by the SPL - bullsh*t of the highest order.
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Has it? Where was this said?
Ah, that makes sense. It also makes the whole thing stink even worse
Remember, though, Green is playing with his own/his backers money
Could Stenhousemuir and Dumbarton afford to be sued for consequential to every SFL club if they left without 2 years notice.
Could be two wee newco's in the making.
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I don't think that's the case although it's certainly the case that you can't be a die-hard or be 'loyal' (remove any Ranjurs connotations if you can) if you're not at every one.
Some people are happy to go to every game and let that dictate their lives for them but I prefer to mix it up a bit more. I probably go to half the games (both home and away, possibly more away than home
) and spend the second weekend heading away somewhere, usually either caving up NW Scotland or Yorkshire or hillwalking somewhere out west, both of which are pretty tricky to cram into a Sunday. You know the guy at the start of sportscene who dances about the hills checking the scores on his mobile? That'll be me a lot of the time! Used to be the case that the perfect weekend would be a game on the Saturday and a walk somewhere relatively local on the Sunday but you soon run out of options before the same thing just becomes a bit boring. Some Brechin fans probably think that they're more of a fan than me but would they still go if they were in the same shoes as me? I've got an extra four hours travelling each match day, the extra £20 to get to Brechin in the first place (the same as their transport and match entry) while they can roll out of bed at 10:15 for an away day. Some who go to most games would, others wouldn't. Doesn't mean that matches mean more to them than me though.
I suspect for many clubs , especially SFL clubs , the problem is not predicting the number of 'my club right or wrong' and 'I'll never go there again' fans.
These are probably minority extremes.
The majority of fans I suspect will become more disillusioned at the open corruption flaunted day after day and will become floaters.
On a good day with nothing better to do they'll go to a game. On a cold dreich day , they'll find something better to do.
SFL clubs have to decide by Friday what poses the greater risk : a possible sharp short term drop in income or a certain long term drop in income when large numbers of fans become less committed.
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The Queen of the South thread
in Scottish League 1 General Chatter
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Possibly not much suppose about it.