ShaggysBeard
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cols407 beats RBWatson by resignation.
4 consecutive wins, credit to the lads for turning the season round.
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6 hours ago, Trogdor said:
@ShaggysBeard Is that 3 league wins on the bounce now?
It is yeah. Slowly realising how to play the daily games, I think I just needed to stop giving in to the temptation of going for the cheap tricks to try and win early that I had picked up from YouTube.
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cols407 beats mackieboz by checkmate.
Managed to win the queen early on but was still a hard fight, the queen advantage eventually winning through. Good game.
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cols407 beats DieHardDoomhammer by resignation.
My attempt to fork the king and queen went unnoticed to gain the advantage and managed to keep control thereafter. Easily my best performance of a turgid season.
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6 slices is the correct answer. I use a pizza cutter but this scissors business intrigues me, will be trying this next time. I am concerned about my toppings falling off using scissors though.
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1 hour ago, Trogdor said:
Scottish Cup Round 1 Result
Dearyme beats cols407 by checkmate. A bit bizarre this game. I felt I was comfortable but ended up being a bit slack and if cols407 had one more move I could have been mated. As it was I had a mating attack myself.
Good game mate, surprised you're not having more success in Division C. Stick at it and it'll come good.
960 really is quite bizarre. Work to be done in this format for me. The boys will be back on the training ground tomorrow. Although we'll be back to league action and the league remains the club's priority.
Good game, enjoyed that format for a change, never knew it was a thing. Always a good learning experience playing the top guys.
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1 hour ago, Cardle is Magic said:
I don’t understand what a “coaching manager” is? I’d agree he’s clearly better suited to being on the training pitch than the dugout.
You get managers who will step away from the coaching and let their coaching staff take care of training sessions while managing from a distance and others who are very hands on in terms of the coaching.
Stevie Crawford seemed insistent on being head coach rather than manager at the start, different titles kind of defines style to effectively the same role.
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Some OTT responses to being linked with Peter Grant. His CV doesn't scream success but he's a coaching manager and I would be interested to see what he could do having players full time and not just a couple of nights a week. No-one realistic stands out over others for being either awful or overly successful, all a much of a muchness.
We're lucky to have a a lot of good players committed for next season already but hopefully someone in place soon, getting to important stage of the close season.
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11 minutes ago, GordonS said:
Division C Round 12, cols407 beats GordonS496.
I tried opening with the Sicilian, first time I've used it since I did the wee study thing on Lichess about it. I didn't like it at all, it just feels passive. Lots to learn.
It was pretty even until cols nicely outmanoeuvred me and I lost a bishop, but you inexplicably gave me it back. My positional play was rank after than but fair play to you, you executed it properly (though on move 23 you should have shifted that central knight to c5, forking my queen and rook, as I realised the second after I had made my move).
GG, you well deserved that.
Yeah, seen that fork in the analysis. I knew I was giving the bishop back straight away but valued opening up space around your king over it. Likely the wrong decision, tunnel vision.
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cols407 beats GordonS496 by resignation.
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9 minutes ago, Chubbychops said:
Disagree. Plenty players choose clubs over others due to sentiment. Look at Charlie Adam.
He didn't give up a good career to take a big risk to play for his boyhood club.
Fans are emotional, players and managers are and have to be professional.
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46 minutes ago, Chubbychops said:
Not sure if this a response is to my post. If you are, your response is taking my point out of context.
I was questioning where his desire for the Pars job was coming from, as he has been there and done it in terms of previous jobs. The Rovers comment was a side comment about sentiment not even being a factor in motivating him, because we're not his boyhood team. Not the fact he's a Rovers fan and doesn't like the Pars.
I don't think sentiment is really a thing once a person enters football professionally. Similarly I don't think Stewart Petrie will view the Dunfermline job much differently than any other full time vacancy of a club around the same stature or level, maybe slightly but only slightly.
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He certainly wouldn't be my first choice. He's definitely not the fashionable choice but it's undeniable that he still has something to offer a football club.
The fact he's a boyhood Raith supporter means absolutely nothing to anyone in the game professionally.
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1 hour ago, DA Baracus said:
What has he done in management in the last decade to suggest he'd be a good manager for us?
I'd prefer not appointing him but he's massively experienced. While rarely successful, he's also rarely a complete failure.
On the flip side, what's to suggest that Stewart Petrie is better placed to be successful at Dunfermline than Craig Levein?
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9 hours ago, JFPar said:
I really like GS, and I hope he stays in charge of youth/potential academy but I don’t want to see a sideways step with someone already at the club. I was underwhelmed when Stevie was appointed but like we all were I was willing to give it a go. What difference would Shields make, he was already heavily involved last season when things weren’t going well?
There's no telling what difference Shields would make. Just because he was part of the last management isn't to say having him as head coach wouldn't change things.
The board didn't dismiss SC and weren't looking for a change of management, I accept it is a good opportunity to go a different direction though.
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19 minutes ago, parsforlife said:
The Germans have mentioned us not having an independent academy being an issue, and there was talk of a link up with rosyth and have an academy run from there. Head of youth possibly? It would fit in with his experience in America.
Yeah, that makes absolute sense.
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2 hours ago, CallumPar said:
We’ve announced Dair’s away. Not a surprise, I can’t imagine any incoming manager would particularly want him in their management team.
Interesting that no mention of Shields yet. I must admit on Tuesday after the news broke I thought Greg Shields could be quite a strong candidate to move up to the head coach role but I have never seen it suggested anywhere else.
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8 minutes ago, Salvo Montalbano said:
A bit concerned that Neil McCannb didn't take the Inverness job as he had something else lined up.
I'm sure he's taken a consultancy job somewhere, football related but not directly in the game.
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12 minutes ago, Stellaboz said:
Gabby McGill on the bench!
Some sources have this. Guess it's some sort of out of date system they use with the number change. I'm sure BBC even did the other week.
Quite disappointed the team isn't pretty much unchanged.
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47 minutes ago, Stellaboz said:
Also Col I sent the game request from the app but I'm not sure we're the correct color. If it's wrong, apologies.
I didn't get a request. I'll set it up.
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I'm android and you can when you unselect rated.
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51 minutes ago, pleslie99 said:
Is there a list of all the chess user names? Seems some are missing from the OP?
The fixtures posted are using chess.com usernames.
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47 minutes ago, Frank Grimes said:
Division C
Round 1
GordonS496 v cols407
Just by chance I sent you an invite for a friendly last night. I'd put random white/black.
If it's set up with you as white then great if not just reject it and set one up one with you as white.
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13 minutes ago, Uncle Psychosis said:
As a thistle fan it's the only chance I'll get
Fair play, you can have that one.
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cols407 beats pleslie999 by resignation.
Very surprised by some of the moves played, very unlike the few times we've played in the past.