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9 minutes ago, an86 said:
Time for punt or keep.
Ferrie- Zero presence. Has sold more goals in six months than Wullie Muir has in six years. Punt.
Muir- Good competition for the seven foot monster we need to sign. Keep.
Doyle- Good attitude. Horrific form dip. Can he play Championship football? No. Punt.
Robson- Decent going forward. Simply cannot defend. Incredibly average.
Fox- The only one with the attitude to match the ability. Sign and develop.
Kilday- Very subtly rubbish. Punt.
Grant- Great guy. His body has rejected him, though. Punt.Morrison- An album track of a player. Purely there to fill space. Punt.
Davidson- See Morrison.
Gillespie-Started the season like Scott Brown, ended it like Ian Brown. The wig hasn’t been discussed nearly enough. Punt.
Brown- Good player, but not quite as good as he thinks he is. Attitude needs sorted. Something there, though. Keep.
Lyon- Meh.
Thomson- Suppose we’ll have to trust that Beuker sees something.Longridge- Turn up three or four times a season to show the sort of player he’d be if he could be arsed. Punt.
Moore- Simply the worst professional footballer I’ve ever seen. Incredibly, on a two year deal.
Murray- Made of glass. Punt.
Quitongo- See Murray.
McHugh- Much maligned, but at least he doesn’t half arse it. Still probably punt. Not worth the big wages.
The loans are all either wee guys who think they’ve made it or absolutely terrible footballers. Both, in some cases. Not seen enough of the kids to form an opinion and their development must be being hindered by being surrounded by terrible professionals.
Would keep Lyon, Fox, Doyle, Robson, Grant, Brown and Muir - rest would not be missed.
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6 minutes ago, Bring Your Own Socks said:
Interesting you’ve highlighted central defenders there. Room too for John McGregor and Ross Caven? Maybe Big D. Do you still think Peter Grant’s return has been a positive factor? Two set pieces yesterday for Mo’s goals, second goal last week was a howler and generally some very poor defending in the box all season, especially from midfielders, has lost soft goals. The best combo was Morrison and Fox who can both defend on the ground and in the air. Can’t think of anyone who can match up to your list. I guess playing for the jersey isn’t a thing anymore.
Thought when he first came back from injury Grant had a significant impact on performances but he looks slower and more cumbersome as the weeks go on. Think he’d stroll it if we went 3 at the back, but god forbid we change the system…
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An embarrassing, gutless performance yesterday. Don’t think we strung 4 passes together the whole game.
Watched a lot of poor Queen’s Park teams in my time but never ever doubted the attitude or work ethic of a team like this.
They just don’t give a f**k about this club and it’s so depressing. Special mention for Luca Connell on the back of another pathetic display.
Leaders like Tony Quinn, Jonny Whelan, Ryan McGeever or Stevie Reilly just wouldn’t let it happen when they cross the white line.
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5 hours ago, CathcartSkins said:
Really.
A 31%-win ratio while hardly the stuff of champions, seems par for the course for teams who sit fourth in their leagues:
Hibs 30%, ICT 37% & Edin City 41% - of course I could pick the loss ratio and argue we are would beaters:
Hibs 36% ICT 27% Edin City 39% and the mighty QP 13%!
Hold on, just wait till I work out our Draw-Ratio........
We are nowhere near being rubbish.
The idea that anyone who watches football regularly, is happy with their team of (well paid) full time professionals winning NINE out of 29 league matches is fucking baffling to me.
Only managed to beat four teams in the league this season.
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14 hours ago, NathanQP said:
Aye, you’ve caught us. We had a half hour meeting on Thursday on how best to promote Bruce’s debut.
Sounds like a typical use of time and resource from full time Queen’s Park so far so wouldn’t be surprised.
Strange game of football. Relieved to get the point but thought we were very poor for an hour after a good start and prior to an okay finish.
Superb goal from Darcy but will never understand why we changed back to a failing system after the equaliser rather than going for the win. Absolutely bizarre attitude from Beuker and the couching staff.
Thought Grant and Robson were our standout players. Should be slapping the captains armband on PG until the end of the season. No slight on Doyle but he’s the leader of the team and foolish to pretend otherwise.
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Dylan Reid away back to St Mirren after two loan appearances. What a waste of a loan signing. This fucking club.
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Insipid stuff. A total disaster of a season that doesn’t look like it’s going to improve any time soon.
Don’t see why any coach worth their salt would want to work under Beuker (a guy who has proven in recent weeks that he can’t manage a team).
He, and the whole ‘project’, have been hung out to dry by Dempster and the committee.
Lord Haughey isn’t the kind of man who wastes money. Penny for his thoughts.
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4 hours ago, NathanQP said:
The Griffiths stuff is a total non-starter and is just pure paper talk. Not the kind of player we will be signing.
Nathan denying something means we can get the printing presses at Lesser going eh?
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Honestly wouldn’t be surprised if Beuker is on the phone to AZ Alkmaar begging to be taken back.
I really am struggling to see the plan. 5 loanees under 21 (6 including Darcy) - what does this say about our ‘incredible youth system’.
Squad is chalk full of players who don’t seem to care (Gillespie, McHugh prime culprits) and we are drifting towards mid table or worse at an alarming rate.
Should have been a great season for us but turning into an absolute mess now.
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5 hours ago, NathanQP said:
He certainly talks the talk.I hope he isn’t going to post pictures of himself on the sidelines after every game. Bit of a riddy. As is not getting Partick Thistle’s name right.
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59 minutes ago, Spider Rico said:
We can file sharing a dodgy grass pitch for the season in the ever growing terrible decisions folder
Our highly paid Chief Executive and legions of hangers on will get one big decision right at some point. Just you wait. We might have went bust by then mind.
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10 minutes ago, Bring Your Own Socks said:
Really. Our standout player that year suddenly dropped by McKinnon in favour of Grant Jnr. Grant Snr was part of the Burns era when Fergus McCann revived Celtic and was gave Grant a testimonial in 1997. The guy who organised it all was Willie Haughey, then Celtic Director and trusted lieutenant to McCann.
This is batshit conspiracy theory lunacy. It was well documented at the time that Jamieson had no interest in signing a full time contract hence why he was replaced by Grant (who is also a better defender).
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21 minutes ago, Bring Your Own Socks said:
Either the club’s integrity has gone for good or someone at the top needs to go. Sacking a manager after six months in the job, especially one they knew, is hellish poor decision-making. Peter Grant as assistant coach is shameful. Still of the belief he got his dad to get Nicky Jamieson away from the club.
That Nicky Jamieson patter is absolutely insane.
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28 minutes ago, AndyDD said:
A hearty 'you're welcome' to all the QP fans who've wanted Ellis punted for a wee while now.
'Twas our pleasure. Happy to help.
A genuine and heartfelt thanks from The Big Badger.
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Can we stop pretending this was a team of young boys we had out please?
Fox, Kilday, Robson, Morrison, McHugh, Connell, Thomson, Gillespie and Davidson have all been first team regulars this season.
Only Longstaff, Gillies (played 30 minutes) and Heraghty (our best performer) can be described as fringe players.
As insipid a performance as you’ll likely see from any team this season. Ellis isn’t the man - think it’s obvious at this stage.
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The two worst full time teams in world football locking horns on a freezing cold December’s afternoon. What is not to love?
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20 minutes ago, qpfc said:
Today is the day I’ve came to the full conclusion that Laurie Ellis is quite simply not up for the job and is out his depth. This isn’t a rash opinion after watching today’s monstrosity but it’s slowly been building up over a couple of months where we’ve won 3 games out of 13 which is nothing short embarrassing considering the resources we have at our disposal.
Laurie Ellis initially appeared to me as an intelligent coach, who implemented a style of football that contrasted massively from Mckinnon’s cautious brand of football. Throughout August, it appeared that we made a masterstroke of an appointment. However, it’s not the poor form in isolation which has now formed a negative opinion of Ellis as a manager, there’s quite simply numerous factors. He seems tactically inept as he continues to pursue a brand of football which has now became totally predictable for every team. Lineups are a complete lottery, playing players that aren’t up to scratch, dropping players that should be walking in to the team. He also seems to have little personality based on his post match interviews, always providing the Cliche and safe answers. Im not asking for some mad eccentric personality, im just wanting to see more passion from the guy
There’s generally no direction with this team and it seems abundantly clear that he’s just throwing 11 players on the pitch in the hope they just do something rather than have a plan of action on how to beat the specific opposition. This is the reality now and looking in hindsight, it was daft to think that appointing someone with zero managerial experience for a project like this would work effectively. Of course teams go on slumps of form, that’s football, however at the rate we’re going we could easily become 6th or 7th by Christmas. We have enough about the squad to be challenging at the top but today just solidified how lost the management team are with managing the high expectations expected of the squad
Every word is spot on to be honest. We have the biggest budget in the league and are a point ahead of Falkirk (who everyone howls in laughter at). Can’t have it both ways - a hugely distressing first few months of the season.
Ellis isn’t up to it. Put him out of his misery and get someone competent in before the season goes completely Pete Tong.
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McHugh’s inclusion (as one of two strikers) completely changed the way that we play; that was the biggest issue for me.
Brown was extremely effective as the highest in a midfield three in previous games and didn’t have the same impact deeper in a two - McHugh isn’t good enough to change the team around.
As for the overall performance - thought we we were poor over the piece. Couldn’t have complained if Annan were a few goals up at half time. Ferrie was excellent.
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9 minutes ago, Dave said:
A few of the boorish adolescents (thanks for that compliment Spidersmad) heading down tonight to support the team. Hope Annan have beefed up their security detail accordingly to deal with us rapscallions and our horrendous sweary words.
Boors on tour.
What an absolute load of nonsense being spouted about the use of an extremely common swear word at a football match. If people are really that sensitive I suggest that live sport maybe isn’t for them.
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2 hours ago, an86 said:
The club is now going to be forced to communicate with members. A letter is going to land in the coming days from the required number of members requesting an EGM.
It’s a shame it has come to that, but the current situation is intolerable. This is not just a small group of rabble rousers trying to create bother. There are genuine and legitimate concerns across a broad church of the membership/support that cannot go ignored any longer.
Glad to hear this. Hopefully the members involved can successfully hold the committee to account and get answers (and an apology) to recent complaints and questions.
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4 hours ago, Reclusespider said:
So you voted for players to get paid. We brought in paid players and won the league by 16 clear points. Didn't hear too much complaining then.
I agree the communication is appalling but this has nothing to do with the vote.
With regard to LeeAnn, based on previous experience with the Office, we needed to bring in someone with experience of professional football and I suspect it takes time to set up a professional club from near enough nothing. Now that we have removed the 'trap door' drop from league two I'm willing to give her time to set up an established club which is going to be self sustainable.
It does have something to do with the vote in my opinion. It was the first big 'lie of omission' that the Club chose to perpetuate.
Now I'm not a member, and I would've voted for a change in the articles if I was, but I attended supporters meetings at the Social Club and it was very clear that the structure being suggested by Gerry Crawley and David Hunter was for a self sustainable part time professional football club; playing in a 1700 seat stadium with a thriving youth development system. The club would then be partly funded by the sale of highly talented young players to bigger clubs. As another poster mentioned above - the models being looked at were those at Arbroath and Alloa (both part time teams who overachieve on the pitch).
Fast forward to May 2020 - and without any further announcement - the club are offering full time contracts to established Championship players. If this is what was suggested to members at the time of the vote, I think they would have backed it in the same manner they backed the original proposal, but it wasn't. Why would a side looking to challenge for a place in the Premiership (as stated in media interviews by our CEO and Club President) build a ground with only 1700 seats? The goal posts were clearly shifted between the vote and the beginning of the next season - and it's hard not to link this with the major investment made towards the playing squad by Willie Haughey.
Since then we've had the failure to acknowledge the last game at Hampden Park; the appointment (and subsequent departure) of staff such as Stuart Garden and Darren Taylor; the mysterious disappearance of Tony Quinn; the establishment of a 'Charitable Trust - completely out of the blue; failure to acknowledge the end of building work at Lesser Hampden; the announcement of the wrong temporary home for the end of season 2020/21; committee members breaching COVID rules to celebrate with players while fans need to watch on a stream filmed by students; the sacking of a Championship winning manager; a delay in announcing Firhill for season 2021/22; failure to arrange an AGM and the inexplicable decision not to sell season tickets in June. Should I go on? Because I can.
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It is actually disgraceful that here we are; six days away from our first competitive home game; and we have no idea what the situation is re ticket sales for the fixture (made even worse by the fact fans have not seen the team play for upwards of 15 months). The club has an army of volunteers willing to help them; 15 (?) committee members who get to enjoy a multitude of perks for very little work; at least two full time office staff and a CEO - and yet can't communicate basic information to the lifeblood of the club - the supporters.
We know for a fact there are committee members (and prospective committee men - one of whom posted on this very thread last week) who read and contribute to this forum. Your continued silence on any issues of substance is further proof of your collective incompetence. Either sort this shitshow out or do the honourable thing and resign en masse.
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1 minute ago, an86 said:
Take no pleasure in saying it, but David Hunter should resign. To appear with this after months of silence is completely tone deaf.
He’s either an arsehole who doesn’t care or he is just not up to the job. I do not know the guy and cannot possibly answer but these are the only two possibilities.
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2 minutes ago, bobthespider said:
Am I right in saying that members and season ticket holders have had an email telling them what is happening re this season and season tickets and what is happening about entry to the cup games coming up …..do we think the club is going to tell the fans who pay at the gate each week this information via their website..I would like to think they would.
Don’t be so silly Bob. For that to happen there would have to be a President/CEO/committee members who care about the rank and file Queen’s Park supporter.
As long as they have their own bit of responsibility and status why should they have to answer to plebs like us?
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Queen's Park vs Dunfermline/Dunfermline vs Queen's Park
in Scottish Championship General Chatter
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Biggest takeaway for me tonight was the graft that our boys put in. Far too many games this season where we’ve shirked tackles or not tracked runners but everyone of ours put everything into that tonight and the crowd responded in turn. It was night and day from recent displays at Peterhead and Montrose and great to see.
I still make Dunfermline favourites (quite simply, I think they have better players than us) but I’m really encouraged by tonight and looking forward to Saturday.