ShineOnYouCrazyDiamonds
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I have a feeling there may be a managerial change in our league soon - Billy Dodds is having a terrible time at Inverness. Hopefully whoever replaces him is equally as hopeless because I’d feel a lot more comfortable with a poor team sitting well adrift at the bottom. -
Cassidy is a defender yes? I’m assuming that lineup means a back 4 of him, Hancock, McCabe and Aiken?
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ATS would appear to be on international duty
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Don’t really care about Saturday’s game much, but if we got to the latter stages of the Challenge Cup I’d start caring, so a win would certainly be nice. If McCabe and Telfer are ready to return it’s a good chance for them to get minutes. Good chance to give McMaster and potentially others a rest too. Think Gabby could do with the minutes as I think he’s been struggling. And I think others that haven’t played as much or are newer to the squad like Todorov, O’Connor, Hancock, McStravick could do with the minutes as well. Maybe could have some of the academy boys involved as well if they’re ready for a run out in the seniors but no rush for that. Fellows probably the closest to senior level given his involvement in pre-season.
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https://x.com/official_hufc/status/1698040359610155118?s=46&t=a3HsMdkWU2Xzezsbrhi19A Appears to have revived his Hartlepool career.
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The addition of McStravick definitely seems to give us plenty of options in midfield when everyone is fit. Three starting places between McCabe, McMaster, Frizzell, McStravick, Telfer, Aiken is good cover, and that’s obviously not including Gavin Gallagher or Dunlop who will probably feature more sporadically. Defensive cover is reasonably fine too. You’d expect the defenders to play the full 90 without much issue and wouldn’t want to rotate that area as much, and between the 5 we have plus the option of McCabe dropping to centre back I don’t expect many issues in that area. I think if we’re adding another player on a free or before the loan window closes it should be at the other end. Gallagher will start most games and that’s fine, with Todorov an option off the bench. McGill will have games like today where he doesn’t do that much, but we know he can be very good when he gets going. Both McGregor and O’Connor are still very raw with their pace being their main attribute. I think both are better suited to coming off the bench to make an impact but at the moment we’re quite reliant on starting at least one of them. I’d like to see us try to bring in someone who can play that wide forward role. And before anyone says anything, yes I’m well aware that McGregor played a massive part in both goals against Inverness last week and has had a few decent games so far this season, but he’s still very obviously a downgrade on Smith.
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Wasn’t expecting a result today so not disappointed but I’d say we were good enough to have earned a draw. A fairly even match with not too many clear cut chances for either team. Really exciting debut from McStravick. Looks a very tidy player and I’m looking forward to seeing more of him. Assume he’ll keep a place in the team so I expect he’ll either be out wide next time or Frizz will be a bit deeper.
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And Owen Moffat to Dunfermline!
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Three in the same area is quite a lot to be fair. I do think we could do with a couple of signings but when you have three midfielders out and you usually play three midfielders, you would expect to be down to the bare bones. This isn’t even considering McStravick who should be a midfield option going forward as well, or Gavin Gallagher who might be nowhere near the required ability for all I know but can still be another midfield option. Like everyone else I’m hopeful for a signing or two before the Dundee United game but our three most experienced midfielders being unavailable isn’t “nothing”.
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Had a think about it after posing the question the other day of who replaces Frizz in the midfield if Telfer and McCabe aren’t fit and I actually wouldn’t be surprised to see Hancock come in and a switch to 3-4-3. Rae Fordyce ATS Hancock Watson McMaster Aiken Ballantyne McGill Gal McGregor
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Obviously Frizzell is suspended for Saturday. New signing Gavin Gallagher was sent off for the reserves today which I think (correct me if I’m wrong) means he is also suspended for Saturday, despite the red card happening in a reserves match. Obviously Telfer and McCabe might not be fully fit as both have missed recent games due to injury. McStravick isn’t registered yet as far as I know and we’re still waiting on paperwork to be processed. Who joins McMaster and Aiken in midfield at Tannadice on Saturday if neither McCabe or Telfer are ready to return? Dunlop?
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U16 and U18 playing today and reserves on Tuesday. Be interesting to see the names on the teamsheet for the reserves team, would imagine it would be a few guys from last year’s U18 team plus guys like Dunlop, GavGal, maybe Telfer and McCabe returning to fitness and McStravick.
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Massive 3 points and if not for the red I think we would’ve kicked on and won by more against a very poor Caley Thistle side. Think the confidence from the playoff success, and in particular how we held out after Rae’s red card in the first leg against Falkirk, has turned us into a far more confident and resilient side. We’ll miss Frizz at Tannadice next week but I’m not really going into that game expecting much so I can’t be disappointed and anything we do get is a bonus.
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Can’t imagine the lad chose 28 as a squad number with a much cooler 17 available. I’m expecting more signings.
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Since a couple of people have mentioned O’Reilly and East - both are left-footed centre backs is that correct? While I agree we could do with another defender I feel a right-footed player might be better to provide cover for Fordyce. I’ve came to the conclusion that Ballantyne is at his best at left back and pressing high into midfield on attack, and I think Hancock has addressed the need to provide cover for ATS. Would still be fairly happy to sign either, particularly East since he’s quite versatile.
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Wotherspoon, Connor Smith and a mystery third player would do me
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Even if he moved down the way to a Championship team in England a 20% cut could be substantial to us with the fees thrown about down there.
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Time to spend the Devenny dollars
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Ultimately disappointing but a good showing nonetheless. Impressed with McMaster again and Gallagher had a good game too. Nice to see O'Connor come on and have an impact after being a bit off it last week. Hancock looked very tidy when he came on so I'm looking forward to seeing more of him.
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Don’t want to get ahead of myself but I’d be delighted to draw Rangers in the next round if we win today. Big payday that we could do with and they’re also absolutely shite into the bargain.
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For me that was one of the best performances we’ve had under McCabe. Easy to look at the playoff game where we ripped Falkirk apart, or the games against Clyde or Peterhead where we scored for fun, but to come back from a goal down to win in a game against a strong side that almost got promoted to the Premiership last season and after losing a player as important as McCabe to injury is excellent, and to do it while dominating possession is very impressive. Worth mentioning as well that of the starting 11 only O’Connor wasn’t with us last season and the performance still was elevated to a higher level. It’s still early but Watson, Ballantyne, McGregor, and especially McMaster all look greatly improved this season.
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McMaster was outstanding. MOTM for me but also impressed with McGregor and Ballantyne, and despite missing a couple of sitters in the first half, Gallagher had an excellent second half.
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McCabe and McMaster together in midfield seems like an attempt to go a bit more solid in the middle of the park. More of a 4231 rather than 433 or do we think McMaster will be more advanced than usual?
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Would like to see Hancock start today as I don’t see the point in him being another Lachie Byrd that sits on the bench all season. I’d like to see us go for four in midfield and a front two of Gallagher and O’Connor since Todorov and McGill are unlikely to start. Not convinced McGregor and O’Connor both starting out wide is good enough at the moment.
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I think Dunfermline were expecting to have signed Wotherspoon by now so it does seem that he is weighing up his options. Whether or not we are a serious option to him is up for debate but considering he was training with us and shares an agent with half our squad I’d definitely believe that we’re trying to sign him. For the record I think the Consilium guy replying on twitter was probably annoyed that it had been implied Jackie McNamara (presumably his boss) is pulling the strings behind these transfers. That doesn’t mean I trust that twitter page to have inside info, as I think the guy is basically just compiling what he reads on P&B and the Daily Record etc.
