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2 hours ago, Insert Amusing Pseudonym said:
We got a goal given against us in Europe which was a far bigger example of interfering with play this season and i definitely was annoyed by it tbf
That's interesting - I wonder if that's where the idea came from.
For me, PAOK's goal should never have stood either.
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26 minutes ago, Tony Wonder said:
Probably to ensure he's not falling foul of the offside rule.
Is he in his eyeline in relation to the position of the ball? No
Does he impede his view? No, because its behind a wall.
Does he move across his vision as it's struck? No.
It's not interference.
Why is he there?
If Kingsley can hit the free kicks we know he can, and you say Shankland being there makes no difference, then why the hell would you put Shankland there? He didn't end up in that position by accident - it was clearly a plan. And that clear intent makes it easy for the officials to say he was interfering with play.
The 'behind a wall' defence is nonsense - he's in the way *after* the ball goes past the wall. We all know that's why he's there in the first place.
Tried to get clever, got caught.
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1 minute ago, Tony Wonder said:
It's the same as forwards trying to confuse the line at free kicks by going off and on. Its still not interference.
The ball is coming from the left side of the goal, Shankland is on the right of the Goalie. It doesn't come across his path, it's a pathetic decision.
Why is he checking where the keeper is if he isn't trying to influence the play?
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4 minutes ago, Tony Wonder said:
Shankland was in no way shape or form interfering with the goalies eyeline. He runs away from it before it's hit and the goalie is focused on Kingsley's actions.
Shankland clearly checks to see where Wickens is. He's trying to influence the game from an offside position. If he wasn't, what the hell is he doing there?
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Sorry to have to say that all Don Cowie seems to have learnt from 2 years as MacKay's assistant is to keep trying the same hoofball shite. Got lucky at the end because there are 2 decent footballers in the team.
It's going nowhere. They might survive another playoff but that just wins us another year that will again be brutally painful to watch.
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Even Stephen Kelly in his BBC ratings prime wasn't as good as Eli King today
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BBC Scotland.... 'countless 23 shots'
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Oh well, seems he's gone.
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16 minutes ago, Matty-RCFC said:
You have to adapt though. The players are people, too. They have personalities. You can’t just wander in, tell them how shit they are, and then expect that they’re going to react to that. Some will have - Murray and White seem the type to relish that challenge. The rest clearly haven’t.
Some will relish that challenge, some will hate him. That's why the Derek Adams way won't work until he finds the players who respond well. You can't judge him in 2-3 months.
Maybe the players who don't like it are the problem. Brittain, Vigurs, Boyd, Gardyne, Lawson, Kettlewell, etc played their best football under Derek Adams.
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1 minute ago, Matty-RCFC said:
You can’t genuinely back somebody with those man management skills?
Those have always been his man management skills. Beating Celtic at Hampden and the invincible run were with those man management 'skills'. It's always been his way. He just needs to bring together players who respond to it.
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Am I the only County fan still backing Adams?
His record at the club surely earns more than 2-3 months. And if it takes too long to turn things round this season, who would be better to win promotion next season.
Tonight was an absolute shambles yes. He clearly hasn't figured out the answers yet. But he has always been a streaky manager - takes a while to turn things round but when it clicks, it really does.
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35 minutes ago, Matty-RCFC said:
Slew was an athlete - he had a unique skill set but he was technically miles off it. Songo’o was alright, but again I’d have all 3 of our current centre backs before I’d have him in the team. Max Melbourne was a waste of a jersey.
If we played Morecambe tomorrow, I’d have no doubts that we’d beat them comfortably. I think every team in the Scottish Championship would too.
ETA: Falkirk probably would too.
All about opinions I guess, but I'd have Songo'o before any of our centre backs. Does 'athlete but miles off it technically' not remind you of any of our current forwards?
It's subjective of course, could make arguments either way, but there's no huge gulf. Without Dhanda this County team would be struggling horribly. The team with Slew and Songo'o didn't.
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1 hour ago, Matty-RCFC said:
The only bit that mildly irked me was the x100 times better comment as that is simply not true. Ross County would hammer Morecambe.
Maybe with Dhanda playing. Without him, could go either way.
We've seen Songo'o, Slew, and Melbourne. Are they really miles below Leak, White, and Purrington?
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Only a matter of time before Yann Songo'o appears. Has a manager ever signed the same player 6 times?
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"Endeth the engagement"
Again, any sane reading of my posts would see that I question whether players (including Baldwin) on long-term contracts have really earned them. And that it seemed like the manager would be happy to let some of them go. If they now start performing - great of course we don't want rid. But if we're honest very few of us would have been bothered if lots of them had been out of contract in the summer.
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3 minutes ago, Sortmeout said:
I don’t even know who you are talking about but as a neutral I would say that if you’ve got a new manager who has come in and suddenly *insert player name here* has done well and you are getting results then you would be mad to want to get rid of him. Every player will have a manager who just makes them click and it could be that Adams is the man to get whatever player it is playing well.
I'm very happy to have Adams back. And I haven't said that I want rid of any player. That's just Pete inventing straw men.
I've said that some players haven't really earned the contracts they have. Delighted if they are now performing but I could search the posts of pretty much any County fan on here and they'd be slating players who are signed up on long-term contracts.
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1 minute ago, Pete the Jakey said:
I’m a Jakey I’m always pished.
And my oh my, you must have trawled through some posts to find that to counter my argument. I said that last year he was wasn't as culpable as Iacovitti, which is true and borne from statistical analysis.
The fact remains as does my opinion, asking for our captain and central defender to be offloaded after three clean sheets is the utterances of a madman. Here endeth my engagement.
There's a search function. It was no trouble. Lots more I could have quoted too. And no sane reading of my posts could have thought I was talking about the last 3 games. There, we've both endeth our engagement
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On 11/08/2023 at 09:35, Pete the Jakey said:
Seem history hasn't treated Iacovitti well. I thought he improved with every season he was with us. Yeah he wasn't great going forward, but was pretty solid at the back and was certainly lot less culpable than Baldwin last season.
Correct me if I am wrong but he was never red carded for us, and picked up only 12 yellow cards over 116 appearances, pretty good for a CB.
20 hours ago, Staggie52 said:I think you must be the one pished , I commented on Baldwins performance tonight, said it was good, but he needs to do it regularly, you come back abusive and wittering about the team’s performance over three games.
Maybe Pete was pished in August...
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9 minutes ago, Rcfc fan said:
Please elaborate who you’d like rid of out of tonight’s starting 11 , I genuinely can’t think of any of them I’d wish to see leave
Was that the first game you've seen in the last year and a half? I could, for example, start with the captain. Has he really been earning his contract?
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4 minutes ago, Savage Henry said:
Yup. And we can pretty much all name them. They’re the guys who are warming the bench right now who were previously regular starters. Or they are guys in the stands who look like they have no intention of ever getting fit again.
Well yes, but a fair few of the starting 11 too.
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It sounds like DA is just a bit frustrated that he's inherited a lot of players that he's not that keen on, and they're mostly signed up for next season on decent wages. Players that he would let leave if he could. It's easy to agree that there's a good number of these players who haven't done much to earn their contracts.
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The signings of his last summer were pretty much all disastrous. But somewhere among the dross was Liam Boyce too.
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So everybody cares obsessively about who their club's manager should be...
But nobody cares what money is made available to hire them. Like there isn't an obvious link.
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Ok, deep breath, this is what I'd do..... If you don't like TL:DR then please just DR
26 team set-up across North, South, East, and West leagues (2 with 6 teams and 2 with 7 teams). Each league is a competition, a trophy, a success, in its own right.
Play the other teams from your own league twice and other teams in the set-up once. The 4 league winners qualify for the post-season championship. Probably the 2nd place team with the best overall record qualifies too - that's a blatant sop to the OF but I think necessary. The next placed teams in each league play off for a 6th and final place in the post-season championship.
The champions are decided by these 6 teams playing each other home and away. They start level except for regular season bonus points - 5 points for team with best overall record and 3 points for league winners with next best record and 2 or 1 points for the other league winners. Teams who didn't win their leagues start with no bonus points.
The teams finishing bottom of their leagues should play-off against the winners of equivalent 2nd-tier leagues for relegation or promotion. Other details would need to be worked out: what could other teams do while the championship group is played out? how could leagues move up or down from 6 or 7 teams? where do north/west/south/east start and end? (I think it only works if Lanarkshire is part of South)
The benefits?
1 - Loads of team start the season with hopes of some meaningful success in the league. I think winning the East league would for example be seen as meaningful by Hibs, Hearts, or Livi.
2 - Other teams have a shot. The best team will usually be champions and that will usually be Rangers or Celtic, BUT with just 10 games to go there will be 6 teams within touching distance.
3 - Sky (or whoever) very probably get their 4 OF games. We might not like being ruled by Sky but money talks.
4 - Loads of derby games. Dundee and Utd will pretty much always have their derby games every year, so too County and ICT, Dunfermline and Falkirk, St Mirren and Morton, Kilmarnock and Ayr, etc
5 - Variety. Very few teams play the same opponents 4 times a year. Everybody plays 25 different teams in the regular season.
6 - Stability. Middling sized clubs can plan with reasonable certainty about what league they will be in next season. The risk of relegation is important and would still be there, but lots of clubs have ambitions and plans that have to be suddenly abandoned because of dropping a division. This would give them a chance of a fair number of years to develop in the same league set-up.
7 - Pyramid. Ambitious smaller clubs would be much closer to the big time. There would be 26 or so clubs who would be just one step away from the top league.
It's not perfect, it couldn't ever be, but for me it's miles miles better than what we have.
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League positions since 'The Split' was introduced
in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
Posted · Edited by AndyX
If you let us go back just 1 season further, Motherwell have the full 2-12