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13 hours ago, Spider1975 said:
You'd need Scott and AN Other as the wide players in the 4, most likely Savoury would play in that central 10 role, so the two in the middle would be from Thomson, Thomas, Welsh, Turner. A brave man it'd be to drop Thomas, so if he and Savoury become the creatives it leaves no place for Tino. You're then left picking from Thomson's dynamism or Welsh's experience.....and I can't see either being overly happy on the bench. Probably my main bug-bear about the system is that the extra CB means that we can't really field our strongest 11....unless Thomson is content with being one of the 3 at the back.
It’s a tough one, your middle two could be
Thomson - Welsh/Other
(Other if Welsh is Injured)
Thomas
Savoury - Paton
I don’t see Thomas being played as a CM, he’d be very ineffective there. Given Savoury’s goal scoring form last season however, could we play him as a second striker almost, although we’re sacrificing Sheridan’s aerial threat.
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7 hours ago, starshot131 said:
They really should have had that at lesser...
I think the game they played there was a very good turnout for the standard of the league, would be very disappointed if they don't try it at least a couple of times next season. Different atmosphere to the usual qp games definitely but absolutely worth the £5 or whatever it was
You’re absolutely right. The women have often been treated as an afterthought this season and next season they should categorically be at lesser.
I may be chatting out my arse, but am I right in saying the pitch at Lesser has been dug up & relaid?
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3 hours ago, Mediocre Pundit said:
Sorry if mentioned before - don’t want to read through the past 50 pages - but any new stadium news? Any plans for further work at lesser and to play there in the future?
No immediate plans re: Lesser. Davidson gave out significant hints that the plan is to be at Hampden next year in a post-match interview.
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Hopefully it’s a real positive that Davidson’s had 6 months to get to know the team & players.
A chance for some momentum to hopefully build through pre-season which I don’t think we’ve had for a while.
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15 hours ago, qpfc said:
Read an article on Twitter re tweeted by Scott burns today which mentioned that we’re apparently trying to sign Danny Imray from Crystal Palace. Right back 20 years old. Says he’s been scouted and watched by Davidson. Desperately need that right back position sorted. Been an issue for a couple seasons now.
I’m glad to see we’re strengthening the RB position. I like the look of Mauchin, but I do think he’s still in the ‘one for the future’ category. He’s had a steep learning curve this season and I don’t think he’s quite ready to hold down the starting position.
Longridge did an admirable job covering but he isn’t the solution imo. Both Boateng’s from Palace looked decent, so hopefully this is another good player. Palace’s account seem to be claiming him as an attacking full-back also, as a converted no.10. In his recent game v Liverpool U-21’s he also had three shots. Could be promising if we’re sticking with the wing-backs.
Agreed on needing another CB: Reid, Fox, Bannon & Wilson are solid, but if we’re playing with 3 CB’s, I think we need at least another for cover.
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Hopefully it’s a busy transfer window this summer. Squad depth was grim by the end of the season.
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….. and breathe……
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2 minutes ago, EaglesandSpiders said:
Our chances of staying up are in the hands of the gods of the championship where every game of football is a coin toss from now on.
Nonsense. That implies QP will win another game. They’re playing as 11 men who’ve chucked it. Pathetic.
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That was an absolute disgrace from a Queen’s Park perspective. Turner’s clearly chucked it. Carse looked like a lost boy. Tizzard over Robson or Bannon? Was he serious?
Tactics were all wrong, deciding to pioneer a new style of football where we don’t tackle was a random one. Failing to press anything was an interesting one too. Also, why are we chucking long balls at McLeish/Williamson, two slight guys?
Inverness deserved the victory, I’m only amazed it wasn’t by more. I’m starting to really understand the warnings of St Johnstone fans when Davidson was first appointed.
On the plus side, at least we still get away days to Arbroath.
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Apologies if this has been addressed, but does anyone know why we’ve signed this massive lease on Lochinch, yet we’re training at the moment at Toryglen?
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Have to agree with it being a good thing to have Heraghty out on loan. At that age experience can only be a good thing. Ferrie has been injury free TOUCH WOOD, so it makes sense for Jacques to be getting competitive minutes while trying with us during the week too. Win win.
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14 hours ago, lavvyheid said:
Stephen Fletcher
Unfortunately Fletcher seems to start most weeks for Wrexham. Cillian Sheridan it is, given he’s a free agent having been released by Inverness, two months into his contract
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2 hours ago, Zanetti said:
Makes sense that Kane has ended up at Dunfermline if he's just looking to play football. I can't imagine he fancied being an option off the bench for us, but he should start for them.
If he’s based around Perth, it’s probably a more communicable gig to end up at Dunfermline rather than Glasgow.
From QP’s perspective, it’d also have made Crole’s signing a bit odder too. No matter, fingers crossed Paton can stay fit.
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8 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:
You're apparently competing against Dunfermline for Chris Kane on loan.
Id think he'd join you as the best (top flight) spell of his career came under Davidson.
Hard to know where hes at as hes effectively not played for the past 2 years thanks to injuries and struggling for fitness after that, but before the injuries he was comfortably a top flight centre forward.
If it’s an experienced guy, we’re never going to have someone that hasn’t had his problems or something to prove. Hopefully he’d look at that Dunfermline team that are really struggling and choose us. Especially if he’s linking up with Davidson.
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2 minutes ago, Adam Rendall said:
Best of luck to Callan.
Brilliant move for him, wish him all the best.
Nice wee pay day for us also, hope a good few adds on and a potential sell on feeSelfishly, I thought Bournemouth may have ‘loaned’ him back to us until the end of the season. Who does that leave our backup GK as given Heraghty is now away at Annan? Sam Kane?
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1 hour ago, williebraveheart said:
How long is Fox out for? His injury was initially described as a "slight knock".
I walked by him at the Ayr game in a big moonboot.
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7 minutes ago, qpfc said:
Absolutely not
He was terrible at Morton last season
Maybe, but Crawford is capable of playing in that #10 role, giving Thomas/Turner some real competition. I always remember Crawford being the difference between Hamilton being dugmeat and being able to Nick a result.
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30 minutes ago, EaglesandSpiders said:
Releasing Spong is just mad. He's got huge potential. Possibly our best player so far in this nightmare of a season. I'm very disappointed. That's a terrible terrible piece of business.
I can’t say I disagree. I felt that Spong had the confidence and tenacity to succeed in the Championship and he did well to control the play at times. If the talk of him failing to settle are true it’s a shame, life in the South of England & Glasgow aren’t half different. I wouldn’t be completely surprised to see Tizzard away at the end of the season too- although if he gets a run playing as a normal CB without the need to play defence splitting passes he may yet come good.
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I’m happy with that. An ‘older’ head that’s been around the block and played abroad also. I always felt he was solid-enough for the Scottish leagues when at Hearts. Transfer Scotland reporting he’s signed an 18-month deal.
I don’t see us bringing in another striker. That said if Davidson’s been referring to ‘experience’ again, I wonder whether we might be in for Ali Crawford. Seen it lots of places he’s leaving this window, but I imagine he has many more attractive propositions. We’d be having to push the boat out, as weve done with Danny Wilson I imagine.
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1 hour ago, EaglesandSpiders said:
I'm sorry, I don't claim to be an expert in reading team formations on the pitch but why do people seem to think that we've played with a back three in variations of 3-5-2 or 5-3-2? I thought we were using a 4-4-1-1 formation with Dom playing behind Paton.
You had Bannon and Thomson with Robson usually playing a bit wider (almost like a LB) Mauchin and Bruce were notably more advanced, although Bruce for some reason was very reluctant to move forward or make a run.
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4 hours ago, EaglesandSpiders said:You can easily see his class & technique every time he touches the ball but once he's got the ball he doesn't know what to do with it
The problem is often we don’t play with a striker in the box still, with Paton coming deep to link play. As an out and out winger, that’s going to make your life very difficult. I particularly enjoyed the time where he elected to dribble into a pool of three Ayr players, despite the bye-line beckoning about the 87th minute.
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There’s no denying that was a really disappointing game, especially given they’ve had a fortnight to prepare and that Ayr didn’t look all that brilliant themselves. Stinking refereeing aside, I don’t think we did enough to win that. That said, there’s positives to be taken.
Paton’s finish was top class. We don’t look as much of a bombscare at the back (Thomson and Bannon incidents aside). Our build-up play is a bit better also now we’ve abandoned the instance on not passing it further than 10 yds. I also didn’t realise Welsh had been sent off (must’ve been in the bog) until after the match also, so that either says something about our character or how crap Ayr were.
I thought our defensive formation & positioning was really good throughout. The 2nd Ayr goal came as soon as we stepped off and began dropping deeper into our own box however. The reason why that formation works for Scotland is because there’s constantly someone pressing the ball (Usually McGinn, Adams or Dykes).
Understandably, our ‘QP B Graduates’ like Bruce and Mauchin need to find consistency. Both played very well v Dunfermline & Raith, but Mauchin especially was ripped apart in that first half before improving a little. I also felt despite his ‘Wing Back’ position, Bruce didn’t get forward anywhere near as much as he should’ve- although there was a constant lack of runners for him. These guys are still learning, but given our position we don’t have the luxury of a deep well of patience. I’d be looking at playing McPherson for now as he edges it defensively for me.
I felt Thomas was pretty ineffective as a 10. When he broke through, he either dribbled into bother or was marked out the game. I fear though we don’t have another option to fit Thomas in given Davidson’s preferred 3-5-2 however. Same goes for Turner. He didn’t have anywhere near his usual influence.
The need for experience and quality is blatantly obvious if we’re to make any go of a relegation battle. At very least Davidson’s said he’s working on bringing two experienced heads in. A Striker (Williamson/McLeish at the moment isn’t good enough be our backup) and CB to pair Bannon are essential. As said above, Celtic B prospects aren’t the ‘experience’ we need.
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Thought Mauchin had been very poor. Looking a bit short of confidence & Chalmers/Dempsey have given him a bit of a run around.
Overall the comforting thing from a QP perspective is Davidson’s been going off his nut all half, he knows it’s not good enough.
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I know that it’s very tough to do good business in the January window. Welsh could be a very shrewd acquisition. If we’re signing untried & untested guys like Haspell and Carse however though, I have my fears.
Davidson’s mentioned in the pre-match video he hopes to bring in another couple; hopefully he can get these over the line asap. It’d have been very nice to have had these in for tomorrow, given it’s the literal definition of a 6-pointer.
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I absolutely agree with you on this. But 5k? That’d be f***in right!
Space limitations aside, I genuinely don’t think the club has the money.