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8 hours ago, Muirton Saint said:
Contract extension announced on the 19th December. Since then he played:
55 minutes vs Rangers on December 20th (sub after DJ red)
74 minutes vs Kilmarnock on December 23rd (start)
10 minutes against Livingston on December 27th (sub)
2 bench appearances since them but no game time (Ross County and Hearts). Definitely a waste of time, perhaps they weren't confident of signing new strikers yet?
I think that is pretty much the case. Signed as at that time we had little other options, but now Levein has his players in, unlikely to get game time.
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1 hour ago, Derry Alli said:
Bitch, plz. That ain't even a starter to some of the shit I can supply.
I get it. Bigger team coming to town, you guys having best season in many living memory, but you guys need to calm down a bit. Exciting season away from the seaside league, enjoy it, relax.
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41 minutes ago, Derry Alli said:
I'm not expecting a big turnout from them. Whether they just can't convince themselves to pass it or if the Tayside Derby doesn't hold the same appeal as it, those Hector's and Humphries of Perth will not get past the ol' Errol booty.
Trying too hard
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That's a pretty solid loan signing for you guys. As above, he's not some flying wing back, but if you want just an out and our right back, he will be pretty decent.
When he first came in, he looked like he might develop into a decent enough premiership RB or RCB, but has stalled a bit and played in a position he clearly wasn't comfortable with. When confident and played in proper position, he is at a level somewhere between Championship and Premiership. If thst helps...
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25 minutes ago, Tony Wonder said:
The ref was quite clearly waiting to see what the offside decision was.
VAR never told him to give it ffs. He's realised it was off and he should've booked him.
I dint think he can book him after the VAR review though. He either needed to book him before and it is upgraded to a red or if it was offside the yellow would still stand.
He cannot wait until the VAR check is done to decide if it is yellow or red. I agree if the ref could, a yellow for essentially booting the player after the move had ended would be right, just that he couldn't do what he actually did. Ironically there was a clear offside in the first half, the linesman didn't flag, the game went on and the saints player got a yellow.
The fact no one has a clue really as to what was correct shows how much of a farce it is. VAR isn't the problem, it's how it's used.
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Thought 1-0 was probably a fair result over all. Hearts never really threatened much, but we're never threatened themselves much. That extra bit quality tells.
Big drop off in quality in Saints midfield when you remove Phillips and Smith.
VAR again being a joke. None of the checks were particularly obviously incorrect, yet took far too long and the booking for McGowan, was a joke. Fans in the ground for all teams are an afterthought so some power hungry guy watching a monitor in Glasgow can feel important.
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2 hours ago, Staggie52 said:
Focussing on his interviews misses the point, he recruited badly in the window and brought them in too soon, but over and above that he puts out a team that is disorganised and without any semblance of effective tactics. When things go wrong and he tries to change it, it is at best ineffective and as often makes it worse.
You could argue thst his interviews possibly made the recruitment more difficult as harder to persuade a player to up sticks to Highlands while telling them the team and league is a pile of Shite.
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4 hours ago, Derry Alli said:
@RandomGuy. is trying really, really hard to say Dundee can get into a relegation scrap.
After spending the vast majority of the season saying they'll be nowhere near it.
I suppose if Saints are in the scrap, then so are Dundee. Only 2 points apart. I'd go with the view that as it stands, Dundee down are currently at risk of 11th, but probably 3 wins for any team, coupled with County not picking up much and they are safe.
The curveball is if/when County get rid of Adams.
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Against the whole theme of the season up until now, I'm going into this one pretty confident of Saints coming away with at least a point. Compared to where we were, we look much more solid and for the first time in a long time, feels like we actually have options going forward, both in terms of personnel and formation.
Saints will likely start with one up top, probably Benji and get balls fired in behind the defence and let him run onto them and when he tires, bring Sidibeh on and let him do the same. Unless we go behind and Levein fires both on.
Odds on Shankland will score, so going for a 3-2 to Saints with Zander cocking up a standard cross to gift Saints a free header.
Hearts really seem to be clicking as a squad now and good for them for sticking with Naismith, starting to get the benefits now. Can't see anyone getting close to them in the table now, so in a little league of their own now for 3rd spot.
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3 hours ago, tree house tam said:
Turner Cooke and Costelloe out with Adama and Kimpioka in in forward areas looks at least the same, probably better for us as they're our players. Smith as an attacking midfielder looks okay and Keltjens is a definite upgrade on what we had. Kerr Smith is a decent player but I struggle to see when he gets a game if no one is injured. Levien says no but you can't help think he was a replacement for Robinson.
Good point about them being our players. I don't think they are downgrades in anyway on the loan players, but we get the benefit that if they come good, we either get them for longer and/or we get a fee.
Phillips is the example we should be selling to some of these guys. Young age, but career stalled a bit. A good run in the team and he looks like he is moving upwards in his career.
What is good, is that none of these signings are older and expensive
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1 hour ago, Dick Van Dyke said:
What’s peoples opinion then? Is the squad stronger that it was at the start of the window?
I think it is marginally stronger. No one who has left will be missed and ideally a couple more out the door I'd what the club would have wanted.
In terms of incoming, there is a risk with the strikers brought in. The Israeli seems an upgrade on Brown and haven't seen enough of the Smiths to make a call.
I'd say all the signings aside from the Israeli are lacking in terms of experience and so might make for some unpredictability in performances.
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Can't figure out whether this signing will be genius in terms of getting a hungry player who is on a sharp upwards curve in his career or whether jumping so many levels in one go is going to be too big a step up. At least it is something different.
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Difference here to other 'throw money at it' attempts is that this guy actually has a track record on owning football teams.
I take the view that a stronger Hibs, probably makes the likes of Hearts and Aberdeen up their game. Not great for my team as could lead to a bit of a gap, but probably makes for a more exciting league overall.
I don't see him throwing stupid money at it re players, but for me, how serious he takes it will be shown on investment in other infrastructures.
Maybe a slight concern for Hibs over his age and what happens when he is no longer around?
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1 hour ago, The Real Saints said:
Enough is enough. Which EPL club should we link up with? Thankfully, there are plenty of decent options remaining as Dundee and Hibs have taken two of the shittest ones.
Everton. Right colours, decent, but not one of the arsey big clubs and given they are leaving Goddison, might get some of their blue seats to get rid of the rainbow ones at McDiarmid.
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1 hour ago, SJFCtheTeamForMe said:
Levein wants 1 more.
Names?
Gervane Kastaneer
Armand Gnanduillet
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On 28/01/2024 at 09:37, ropy said:
I was driving back from the game in Perth and it was 5:30 before they got to the match report from the 3rd of 5 top league matches. They just waffle on instead of getting the relevant info out. Inform the fans then do your waffling and fawning afterwards.
100% this. Most fans (especially now with lengthy injury time for VAR) are only getting back to cars as the show is essentially wrapping up the summary. I couldn't give a toss who likes what music and can only assume it is dome kind of quota thing due to the volume of sports output?
What equally annoys me is the fawning over every detail of certain games. Example is the last midweek games. Almost whole journey home from St Johnstone vs Aberdeen game (c20 mins) was talk of Rangers, Butland, Manager, pretty much everything and Willie Miller at McDiarmid chipped in on Rangers and gave maybe 20/30 seconds on the game he was at, followed by v short interviews with managers before back to Rangers chat. In total maybe 2/3 mins on one game and 17/18 on the one they had just had live commentary on.
Obviously, some games and teams are more relevant to title races etc, but at least pretend to give a monkeys about the others.
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Very good transfer window from Dundee. Signing/resigning the right players for the right positions and while a few are loans, that in itself is very sensible. In the first season back up, ot would be foolish for Dundee to go and sign 11/12 players all on permanent deals and then be financially hit if relegated.
I assume the approach is to get the players to stay up (or even top 6) and then steadily build over the next few years from there. St Mirren are the template in that respect.
Equally, Hearts signing of Dhanda is very good. Sign the better players from other teams in the league. The likely Dan Phillips signing is another sign of this.
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19 minutes ago, The Marly said:
I agree that the standard of the league has dropped dramatically.
I disagree that this shower can achieve top six. It's easy to say it's only five points, we need to get them though. Unless we make two more very good signings.
If we take Levein at his word that he needs 2 more, then provided that they are not worse than we have, then I don't see why we cannot push for top 6. Coming out of the window, we will be stronger squad wise than we went into it. Those around us are probably going to be no stronger, (or weaker) than the start of the window.
What we really do need brought in is someone with genuine creativity and attacking intent.
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2 hours ago, The Marly said:
I've seen folk on here and other platforms prattling on about getting tip six. It's time to get fucking real, we should be absolutely delighted if we finish 10th. This squad needs some serious reshaping in the summer. The Kane thing is a mystery. If he's fit and they don't want him in the team, why wasn't he allowed to go when his contract finished in January?
Next week is fucking huge. We really need to win, but we absolutely must not lose.
Nonsense. Had VAR not shafted us vs Aberdeen, we'd have been 3 points off top 6, in what world is that a sign that top 6 is unachievable? As it stands, we are 5 points only off top 6.
I agree that 10th as a minimum would represent success vs where we were when Levein came in. If we thought Levein was defensive minded in last 2 games, it will seem nothing vs what we will see vs County. We will be set up solely not to conceed.
We are a poor poor side compared to where we have been, but being saved by a poor poor league where the standard of our league has dropped remarkably in the last 2 years.
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1 hour ago, Dons_1988 said:
A lot of VAR decisions can be defended by saying ‘aye but there was some contact’ and/or ‘there’s something in it’ which actually misses the entire point of what it’s meant to be there for.
Also completely misses the whole purpose of having penalties and offside in the first place. Way back, when these rules were brought it, it was to stop serious fouling in the box, that would probably have lead to a goal or to make sure teams didn't stick a striker up the pitch in front of the goal and lump it up to them. They were not for minimal contact or millimeters of someone being offside.
I am not against VAR as such, but it's use is killing the game. As a fan in the ground, 3/4/5 minutes of sitting around waiting on a decision is killing me and if I'm honest, I don't celebrate a goal in the way I used to as you have in the back of mind it might get chopped off.
Another few years of this sanitisation and I'm not sure how many fans will bother gping to games any more tbh.
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Thought saints deserved at least a point there, but two pretty poor sides overall. Would need to see the VAR incidents back, but in real time there wasn't really any shouts against the goal and nor really for penalty and the players are closest and will usually claim everything.
Ignoring VAR, something really needs to be done about the standards of refs. Beaton was utterly woeful. Small decisions here and there but you never feel that he has a real handle on things.
I was (in principle still am) for VAR, but they way it is bring used is killing the game. Check for the obvious, but if you need 4/5 mins to check, it's not obvious and even if you might get to an arguably correct decision, if you cannot call it after 30 seconds, default to the on pitch decision.
As for Aberdeen, it's as toothless and Aberdeen side as I have seen in a while. Robson eventually getting the boot is inevitable, so why keeping on going when nothing suggests he will improve that team is beyond be. Bonus for the other sides, but seems pretty obvious it isn't working.
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27 minutes ago, Kyle said:
Not being funny, but who in their right mind are going to take Jephcott or Brown? They're just nothing footballers.
If Ballantyne is willing to drop a level or two - he'd be well advised to now I think as that's what awaits in the summer anyway - then he might go.
The previous two dumpling managers really have built up a massive stack of shite that we're just completely stuck under.
Jephcott just hasn't worked. Ballantyne simply isn't good enough for this level, but I could see him.at a league 1 side. Falkirk would be a good home for him. Brown I think gets a bit unfair stick. No, he's not fantastic, but he was/is never going to be a wing back. He's just an out and out right back and probably 15/20 years ago would have been a decent enough one, but he just isn't suited to the formations we play.
By going public, Levein is sending messages all over the place, but unlike MacLean throwing buys under the bus, all 3 would have been expecting it tbf.
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While I think May will probably be off, if he wasn't I'd be happy for him to stay. Still gives the team something and if nothing else, usually has a wee scoring streak at some point in the season.
Of the rest, can't see anyone losing sleep over any of them going.
If we could get Jephcott away for free fantastic. Any nominal fee would be incredible.
That Crawford still gets a wage from the club and Wotherspoon does not is criminal.
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14 minutes ago, Highlandmagar said:
Of course the BbC is biased. Always has been. Should be privatised ASAP.
On the presumption you are being sarcastic, that these nut jobs genuinely believe the massively regulated and hugely transparent BBC are somehow biased against them, shows how far from reality they have become.
I'm sure all of could point to something in the BBC that irks us or seems a little too right or left, but institutionally it is certainly not biased.
It's more the case that these people do not like being called out or just hearing the truth. Social media has allowed folk to live in a world of mainly people with the same views and anything that is different to that must therefore be wrong and biased.
For a general member of the public to believe that is bad enough, but a sucession of sitting ministers is nothing short of terrifying.
They should (and do) know better and it all plays to the lowest common denominator.
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Dees vs. The Rubbers, Sunday 11th Feb, 2pm
in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
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Nothing contentious in what I said. Just stating facts.