Tattie36
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Really looking forward to this. This will be the first time I’ve seen us under the new regime and, for various reasons, only the third time I’ve seen us in the league this season.
Judging by what I’m hearing and reading, McIntyre seems to have got us playing better football and we seem to be competing in games now.
A win would be superb, a draw decent and even a narrow defeat wouldn’t be the end of the world.
Reaching half way in a similar position (points wise) to last season wouldn’t be terrible as at least… and at last things seem to be going in a positive direction. A few weeks ago I, like many others, thought we were doomed but a few more points in the coming weeks and we’ll start climbing the table. Thankfully plenty of other teams in the Championship are within touching distance.
The Foundry reopening on Friday is an added bonus for some pre and post match beers.
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That’s quite a weird wee fact - we’re the only team in the league without a draw so far this season. Quite the change from last season in particular.
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4 minutes ago, keptie said:
My god, even when we get a win you can't help moaning.
Not moaning at all. I’m absolutely over the moon after that win today.
Even if we go down, I’m actually feeling pretty positive about the future.
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10 minutes ago, clashcityrocker said:
I love football - what an effort from everyone - I knew a result was coming soon.
Thanks to all the players for putting in another great shift.
This really is a yo-yo league - Arbroath only 2 points behind Morton who are 5th in the league !
Have a great weekend.
I wondered how long it would take for you to come out with a “telt ye” type post.
Repeating the same guff 10 times a week for 18 months doesn’t somehow make you a sage when we eventually win one.
A great, if slightly unexpected result and performances certainly seem to be improving under McIntyre but let’s just enjoy the winning feeling without the “I’ve known this was coming” type posts.
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21 minutes ago, lichtie23 said:
Picking up Points “soon” isn’t good enough. We need to pick up points now
Yeah. At the turn of the year last season I think we had 15/16 points and a large proportion of us thought we were doomed. Luckily Cove shat the bed which kind of saved us.
I would hope we can be sitting on the same kind of points again this season to give ourselves some kind of chance and hope we have a good window. The big problem is that I just can’t see where those 3 or 4 points are coming from - Dunfermline at home perhaps. If we can even get any kind of half decent team on the pitch that is.
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1 hour ago, Smokerson said:
We have 20 signed players with 2 on loan. I would suggest that would be 1 possibly 2 short of a normal part time squad. You cant go and sign 24/25 players at part time level, 1. you cant keep 12/13 boys of a decent standard happy every week when they are not playing and 2. I would imagine it would not be the best use of our budget.
The bottom line is we have been very unlucky with injuries but the issue McIntyre has is there are 4 or 5 players in the squad who are just not championship standard, he will have to move them on in January and we are all very hopeful he brings in some decent replacements. Whilst we were shite last season, it was bringing in solid signings in Dow, Hetherington, the irish lad at full back that helped us stay up.
No one is suggesting we have 24/25 players. We’ve had no more than 19 available players this season as Hamilton was out until very recently. Now 19 is maybe fine at the start of the season when everyone (well mostly) is fit and there are no suspensions. It always happens at this time of year - players get injured and suspended. Yes, perhaps we’ve had a few more injuries than expected but that has to be planned for. Is there a part time team in the top 4 league with a squad as small as ours? I’d be very very surprised.
To me 21/22 is the perfect size of squad. You can say that you can’t have X amount missing out every week but that’s never really the case due to aforementioned injuries and suspensions.
You also need a squad of that size to encourage competition and to keep players on their toes. I feel we have too many players phoning it in every week due to lack of pressure from within the squad.
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1 hour ago, lichtie23 said:
I wonder if Ali Adams can play CB?
Don’t want to keep banging on about this or to say “I told you so” but I did highlight this as long ago as Aug/Sept and was castigated by several of our fans - as recently as the TNS game I was told the squad numbers “are fine”.
We had a similar situation this time last season when we couldn’t fill the bench v QP but the management/board learned sweet FA. You have to plan for and have enough players to cover for injuries and suspensions etc. It happens to EVERY single team, we’re not particularly unlucky. To have a squad of 19 in the modern game, at this level is ridiculous… with no youth or reserve squads to dip into in extremis. Makes the Balde situation even more ludicrous- who the f**k on the board signed off on that?
It’s not the 1980s anymore ffs.
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7 minutes ago, Wee jeemie said:
Sorry but I agree with vernon, to say Cove would’ve stayed up is outrageous, they were in free fall and had no option but to sack McIntyre, when Dundee employed him I thought he might do okay because he’d won a cup , but winning a cup doesn’t make someone a brilliant manager Bobby Williamson , Jim McIntyre, jimmy Calderwood , Ivan golac , John hughes, davie Whyte , Stubbs at hibs , and even Danny Lennon the guy Wright at st Johnstone have all Won cups , but the thing they all have in common is they are all shit managers , and all sacked a by their clubs a season after for being bottom of their leagues
I don’t disagree with you on McIntyre, he could well turn out to be a terrible manager and a poor appointment. However, to blame him for our current predicament is ridiculous. He has inherited a completed shambles - an imbalanced squad lacking in quality and numbers - we have the very real prospect of having to bring on our sub goalie as an outfield player in the next couple of games. The previous regime and the board have to take full responsibility for this, yes McIntyre may compound it but he has to be given the opportunity to turn things round before we start doing a “Dundee” on him.
I don’t think it is outrageous to suggest Cove would have stayed up. Yes, their results were all over the place and they were in a very bad patch when he was punted. However it was once Hartley came back that they went into free fall. I saw Cove a few times last season and they were a far far better team pre Hartley.
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9 minutes ago, Vernon gilmore said:
Well that’s Morton off the bottom , it’s all Arbroath deserve after employing that unless git McIntyre , I seriously hope he’s sacked in time to save your place in the league , you have to learn from coves mistake last season and get rid asap
McIntyre has been in charge for one single game so far and has inherited an absolute shambles. Arbroath are where they are due to the previous regime. Yes we may go down and his appointment may turn out to be a mistake but blaming him for where we are just now is wild.
Cove would have probably stayed up if they’d kept McIntyre, they were in a decent place when he was sacked. It was reappointing Hartley that fucked them.
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2 hours ago, 1320Lichtie said:
Mate told me McIntyre said on radio that he thinks there is only 14 players fit for tomorrow
Don’t be silly, I’ve constantly been told on here that our squad size is fine when I’ve raised concerns. Must be a mistake.
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6 hours ago, JoseMarooniho said:
I wish I didn’t think we’re going to get pumped. Oh for the carefree days of that 3-3 game.
Oh yes, the heady days of being gutted that we only drew 3-3.
Can easily see there being 6 goals again on Wednesday… I fear that’ll be the only similarity.
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1 hour ago, 1320Lichtie said:
Brilliant. Ricky Little definitely won’t be back.
Ive genuinely no idea how we are supposed to get through to January and pick up any points at all.
Completely agree - we are a mess.
I think I’m right in saying that we had 15/16 points by Christmas last season… and we thought that was bad… really bad.
Unfortunately I think it’s going to take a minor miracle for us to pick up enough points to stay up this season - can we find a Jack Hamilton type loan to save us like on 20/21?
Can’t blame McIntyre for any of this. The club left the management change far too late, damage was done.
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1 hour ago, Broath Boy said:
Best chance in years to smash us, comfortable 0-3, we could have afforded Jacks wages but dick/board disagreed. You will be 2nd, UTD will win.
When are some folk going to understand that guys like Jack Hamilton, Craig Wighton, Chris Hamilton, Ben Williamson, Anton Dowds, Joel Nouble and any other decent LOAN players we’ve had in the last few years (oh and add Simon Murray as I’ve seen his name mentioned) are full-time football players and would never sign for Arbroath unless it was, again on loan (unlikely) or if they for some reason decided to go part-time or were at the end of their career and they couldn’t get a full-time gig.
Who in their right mind would give up a full-time career to go part-time? They may have enjoyed their time at Arbroath and think fondly of the club and supporters but they will have seen it as no more than an opportunity to prove themselves to their parent club or get a move to another full-time club.
What would Jack have done all day if he signed for us? Kick a ball around Seaton Park with our handful of “hybrid” players? A game of World Cup with Turan and Norey, backie in keepers.
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8 minutes ago, lichtie23 said:
Not yet. Is reopening soon though
Well that’s good news. Plenty of decent pubs in Arbroath but The Foundry was my favourite for a pre match pint.
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1 hour ago, lichtie23 said:
The recruitment team has been a failure in my opinion
I completely agree but didn’t want to say anything because it would have just added to my “mr negative” image with some people.
When, after last season’s shambles, they should have been concentrating on stability and sourcing players with proven capability and experience at this level or higher, they continued with this weird obsession of trialing English 8th tier nobodies. Yes a few signings have been decent - Hylton (played in the Scottish Premiership before), Bird and Steele, but the majority of trialist and some signings have been a bit meh or worse.
I know it’s clichéd as f**k but I’m convinced that the previous regime were convinced there were/are dozens of Noubles just waiting to be discovered down south.
I would imagine we’ll see a clearout in January and a load of solid if unspectacular signing brought in to steady the ship.
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2 minutes ago, PossilYM said:
Wembley?
Sorry - wherever it was played.
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5 minutes ago, itzdrk said:
Is there any evidence to these match fixing claims, are SWNT not just pretty terrible?
Not really - this was in the A Nations League so the top level of European teams. Ok, Scotland aren’t of the standard of England, Sweden, Netherlands etc but they’re relatively decent in the grand scheme of things. It’s only a few weeks ago that the Scotland wifies were very unlucky not to get a draw or even a win at Wembley - this was suspicious as f**k.
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If this game involved anyone else we would be screaming for punishment and sanctions. Absolutely disgraceful and I don’t know how some of these players and officials can look at themselves in the mirror.
I would love to see UEFA investigate this and throw the book at both teams, us in particular. Maybe then they would grow a bit of a backbone. I normally like watching the women’s team but this has put me right off.
Or am I being over dramatic and it was all fine and above board?
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Just now, Caledonian1 said:
Yes
Heads should roll then - at every level from players to officials.
Thankfully the Dutch have just scored again.
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I’m late to this thread but is there something very dodgy going on here?
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Dutch score.
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16 minutes ago, mo83 said:
Been employed for about 6weeks!
I suggest you look at the results immediately prior to him arriving and those after. Not blaming him but his arrival definitely had a negative effect. Imo it was definitely already a sinking ship when he came but his input seemed to hasten the inevitable.
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Quite simple - Malcolm had to go. He was part of the previous regime and his arrival coincided with our catastrophic loss of form. I wouldn’t have minded Sellars staying but perhaps the new manager wants a completely clean slate.
Ruffling a few feathers always happens when a new management team comes in and I don’t mind a big shakeup - it’s definitely what was needed. Can’t really have guys hanging about who may have some kind of loyalty to Campbell and would be happy to see McIntyre fail.
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13 minutes ago, Watson Nimrod said:
Wow, didn’t seen that coming.
He was awful for us (Cove), didn’t have confidence in our HL players who were clearly better than the ones he brought in and managed to destroy any spirit we had in the dressing room from the promotion up to the Championship by getting rid of of 20 goal a season striker over a petty squabble then the team fell apart. The only plus side is that he picked up a few decent loaners but whether that was by luck or judgement I’ve no idea.
Good luck staying up, he wasn’t totally to blame for us going down last season but if he hadn’t fallen out with most of the players before he had to be got rid of I think we would have stayed up.
Was he that bad at Cove? Yes you had some scuddings towards the end of his management but how much of that was down to him probably knowing that Hartley was coming back?
I suspect that a combination of Cove not winning most weeks, as they had become accustomed to since being in the league, and the prospect of the return of the hairy messiah tainted the fans view more than a touch.
The Cove I saw, in person and on TV, with McIntyre as manager was light years ahead of the Cove that got relegated.
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Just watched the highlights from Saturday and that second goal is lovely. Such a patient buildup - no panic, no route 1 punt. Hopefully how we continue to play.