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1 hour ago, DA Baracus said:
Absolutely this. I think Hearts were totally taken aback by the aggression and very high energy we showed. We were always in their face and weren't giving them a chance to have time on the ball. McManus was a massive nippy b*****d in that regard last night, and was also fighting for every ball anywhere near him. He had a great game and must have been absolutely knackered when he went off.
Think we're aiming for late January. Certainly no later than mid February.
He did have a good game, though it's a fine line with aggression as he would have had no complaints if he'd been sent off in the first half and you'd be cursing him.
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The problem Neilson has got this season compared to last time we were in the championship is there's zero credit to be gained from winning the league, which is taken as a given. So how we win it and the style of play is all important and poor performances aren't going to be given any tolerance as we saw last night.
We were very poor moving the ball and when we were called on to defend we looked shambolic. We've got possibly the worst winger I've ever seen who won't run at players, a central midfield who want to play like we're already 3 up and Naismith hindering Boyce because they both want to drop into the same areas.
Our individual quality will win us almost every game (and indeed could have done last night with better finishing) but he needs to add more pace into our play and stop trying to shoehorn players into the team/find a formation that accommodates them
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We'll look back on this and laugh when we win the league by 15 points.
Not really, it'll still be mildly annoying
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If you defend like idiots and miss half a dozen sitters, you're probably going to lose. Dunfermline deserved the win, because we were shite and the two in midfield ran over the top of Lee and Halliday, who were both godawful
Has that boy ever refereed before?
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9 minutes ago, Stellaboz said:
Fucking intae um Pars! Revenge for Fuller, Juanjo etc.
My favourite Pars Hearts game is still the 1997 League Cup game where Allan Moore scored in extra time. Ian Westwater had the best single match display of any keeper for us since. Neil McCann ripped us a new one but nobody found a way past Westie.
We missed about 6000 chances that night, Westwater was outrageous
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3 minutes ago, NJ2 said:
If we started 11 professional footballers it’d be a bit unfair on ye olde parsShould have just gone with 10, would have strengthened us
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9 minutes ago, NJ2 said:
Close to full strength, or as full strength as possible the now. Dunfermline jobbers 0, gorgie juggernaught a number above 0. Easy.
No with Elliott Frear playing
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6 hours ago, Stellaboz said:
Our major problem is that we don't win all our games against lower seeded teams. We simply have to win all those games and at least 2nd seed at home to give ourselves a chance. No more 3-0 away defeats to shite like Kazahkstan, or pathetic 1-0's in Georgia. Fucking go there, take control and win those games. No bollocks excuses about travel, how there are no easy games or any other utter bullshit.
Indeed. If anything i'd take harder (on paper) pot 1 and 2 sides in favour of getting the absolute dregs of 4, 5,and 6 which is almost always the bit that busts us.
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30 minutes ago, Lurkst said:
Absolutely this.
As mentioned above the Sweden game at Ibrox was probably the best performance ever by a Scotland goalie.
We had the tightest defence in Europe in the mid 90s, and Jim was an integral part in achieving that.
His performance in Iceland in 85 was absolutely incredible, no way we'd have qualified for Mexico 86 without it
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20 minutes ago, smpar said:
I do love a rubber duck
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Preference would be.
1.Croatia - probably the worst of the top seeds at this point and we seem to do far better against them than is logical. Denmark 2nd choice even if they always beat us.
2. Romania - sneaked into pot 2 after Russia collapsed and a very average outfit. Would fancy us strongly against them at home.
3.Scotland
4. Luxembourg. Not complete mugs and have had some decent results lately but they're still a team we should beat home and away.
5. Andorra. By a mile the weakest team in pot 5 and given we almost routinely drop points to a pot 5 squad, the easiest game possible is good.
6. San Marino.
Diddy cannon fodder and if travel is back on a great place to go.
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Good news for Dunfermline is that Smith and Boyce both started last night for North Ireland, so expect both to be on the bench, possibly exposing us to Jamie Brandon.
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14 minutes ago, Andrew Driver said:
It really really wasn't. He ran in straight lines, created absolutely nothing, held the ball up terribly, and squandered the chances that were created FOR him.
Critics of McBurnie were repeatedly told that we weren't playing to his strengths so in the 2nd half he was partnered up in a 2, and we bombarded their box with cross balls from the likes of Tierney and Christie. Yet, McBurnie, as he's done in every single one of his caps looked like a prize-winner who's won the chance to play with professional footballers.
We've had some really poor strikers: Kyle, Dobie, McNulty, Brophy all spring to mind but McBurnie is easy the worst played to play for Scotland. That's him on to 15 caps, 0 goals, 0 assists.The last paragraph is absolute drivel. I saw fucking Andy Gray and Mark McNulty get games for us
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19 minutes ago, HibeeJibee said:
Unfortunately there are 3 games in 1 week (and 1 day) at the Euros, and 3 games in 1 week in March + September for first 60% of WC 2022 qualifying, so we really need to get a handle on it.
I suppose the difference in both those is everyone will be in the same boat.
Israel played us last night having had one game when we'd had 210 minutes plus penalties.
We were one of few teams who had 3 competitive games on the bounce both times round this autumn, andvthe first time we won all 3
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22 minutes ago, TheScarf said:
Israel look miles better than Slovakia. Not sure what their ranking is about. They're clearly a lot better than 88th.
They finished 5th in their 2020 qualifying group and 2 of their 3 wins were against Latvia
I'm not saying they're terrible, but they don't really get results
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3 hours ago, AberdeenHibee said:
It is a genuine shame that Hearts and the BBC have decided to give us this watered-down, infantile "series" which does everything it can to swerve the utter car-crash that has been HOMFC for the past 3 years. The story of HOMFC has been an implosion of cosmic proportions as far as Scottish Football goes and they have just completely brushed the best bits for 99% of the population out of the program.
Filed under "utterly forgettable" unfortunately.
You seem needlessly upset that the telly isn't catering to your wishes
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Was Gallagher injured, because subbing him off for McKenna was bizarre if not.
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11 minutes ago, Gordopolis said:
Probably get slaughtered for this, and I'm backtracking on previous opinions... but given our fragility in the final 3rd, a fit and firing Naismith might be an astute inclusion in this 23.
Bags of experience, good linkup and strong on the ground and in the air. Has dug the national team out of a hole more than once in the past.
Obviously I'd prefer a shit hot 20 year old McLewandowski, but I'm not sure such a creature is going to emerge before next summer.Unless Griffiths gets himself in a condition better than prime Mark Yardley, Naismith is our best available striker after Dykes
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7 hours ago, Dunning1874 said:
This stopped being the case about four years ago. He was consistently good in 2018 qualifying and was an important part of the team that went six unbeaten in that campaign. His good performances recently comfortably outweigh the bad.
I disagree. He was at best ok in 2018 qualifying (and gash at Wembley). He missed 2 of the 6 games unbeaten and did nothing against Malta and Slovakia. Played OK in Lithuania and well at home to Slovenia.
He's had ten caps since his 2 game purple patch and veered between ineffective and absolutely godawful.
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We've created probably 10 great chances over the last two games and a host of half chances.
I don't think Clarke's job description includes running on the pitch and putting them away himself
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3 hours ago, Detournement said:
That's every u21 squad for every country. You need the shirt fillers to get the better players too the tournament.
Hickey was pish regularly in the Premiership, he's not a saviour. He might become international standard with 4-6 years of hard work. It's the same for Gilmour.
I disagree entirely on your first point. Most of the best countries have their elite youngsters at 18-20 in the 21s, where they haven't already been put into the first team.
As for Hickey being 'pish regularly' in the Premier League, absolute nonsense tbh. Playing in a pish team regularly, certainly. He's got loads of things to learn and very good players blocking his path in the first team squad (as has Gilmour), but he's certainly more than ready to play u21 internationals
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18 minutes ago, Detournement said:
I don't think anyone fitted that description in this u21 squad.
Lewis Fiori's cameo yesterday showed the problem with putting players in too early.
I think there's plenty in that squad that will never get near full level and at ages that make their selection baffling tbh.
Look at the two 22 yo left backs when we've got two top class players not much older in the top squad. Pointless. George Johnston - 22 and barely played first team. Barry Maguire - not a bad player but now never to be seen again at international level I'd put money on.
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I thinlk even with a win Russia are toiling to stay above Romania in pot 2, assuming they get the 3 points from Norway game
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All the youth teams should be about getting players out of them and up to the next level as fast as humanly possible. Results are a bonus.
Players that are clearly never young to be good enough to play in the first team should be filler only. No building a team round them cause they're more physically developed
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I watched the game, he was very solid and got forward nicely. The goal they conceded was from a corner, and generally he handled Candreva very well.