RichRJohnstone
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A little bit off topic, but did anyone buy a kilt when we had our tartan designed in February 2017?
I'd quite like to find out who the manufacturer was to see if there's any way I could get a kilt now, but all the posts seem to have scrubbed from the website.
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Just now, Hampden Diehard said:
I remember a famous referee of the past (Bob Valentine?) saying that he hated officiating at "wee" games as he heard the individual shouts of abuse. He didn't bother about 30,000 chanting he was a b*****d but one guy down the front of an empty stadium questioning his sexuality or calling his wife an ugly cow hit home.
I remember an away game of ours that Willie Young was the referee for - might it have been Grenta away? - where I'd been in the high street pie shop before kick off and they told me the referee had been in earlier. Perhaps not the most athletic pre-match sustenance, but pretty much what you'd expect of Young at that stage if his career.
When the teams came out, I shouted 'Did you enjoy your pie, Willie?', and, fair enough, he turned round and gave me a big thumbs up.
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On 30/12/2023 at 23:00, an86 said:
Will be our lowest ever Firhill support. Be lucky if we take 200. Will only be the habituals, the lunatics and the people who hate life. See you in the Star and Garter.
Thanks to the kids school holidays extending my visit home, this will be my first game if the season. I'd love to be category 1 but probably category 3. See you there!
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The comms make my head hurt. If you go half the way home you do not, by definition, end up at home. Never mind that we needed fans to ask if we are selling half season tickets...
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2 hours ago, an86 said:
Think unsuccessful is a touch unfair. He had a solid first season at a decent level and was sacked after six games this season. It’s even more ruthless down there than up here.
I’d also point to someone managing successfully at a higher level, like Stephen Robinson, who has had nowhere close to the season that Brown had in the English lower leagues. We’ve seen a few guys go down there and absolutely tank, which he definitely didn’t do.
Maybe I'm over-egging it, and the Robinson comparison is a reasonable one, but don't think we have a lot of settling in time to spare either.
No contact yet, apparently: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67683734
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4 hours ago, Zanetti said:
Scott Burns in The Daily Record is linking us with Scott Brown and Gary Bowyer. Would much rather either of them than Mackay.
Edited to add that he mentions Charlie Mulgrew too, but I can't see us making the mistake of giving someone their first job again after neither Ellis nor Veldman worked out.
Scott Brown isn't much better than a rookie manager, given his one stint was short and unsuccessful. Had my doubts about Bowyer last season, and think Dundee made the league harder than it should have been, but think he would help us out of trouble.
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4 hours ago, Bring Your Own Socks said:
If you’re close to Neil, which is a good shout btw, you’ll be aware that at least one of our committee has been visiting Brentford and learning from their model. Seems to be doing well down in London though? I believe his old chum Stephen Pressley is working in a development role at Brentford also.
No connection to Neil other than him being my favourite player the first season I watched us - the 99/00 title year - and keeping an eye on his career since. I appreciate it is wanting two plus two to equal five every time we have a vacancy, and that he is doing well at Brentford, but he'll want to go out on his own eventually surely, and there might be some heartstrings we can tug at. The fact that Brentford does have elements of a model we could learn from makes it a good fit, and not just an emotional one.
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7 minutes ago, Stuntiethumper said:
Right. Bit of a day eh?
The tone of the club announcement suggests to me that this parting of the ways was not preplanned and we are unlikely to have a successor lined up. So what do we do? Go for someone who could live and breathe the project or go with a short term appointment to keep us up? If we don't have a successor lined up I think we should go for a short term appointment and continue our search at leisure. If the "temp" does well then they obviously put themselves in contention. The question though is who would we go for? Callum Davidson? Tony Mowbray? Or poach John McGlynn? Thoughts?
I refer you to my previous post regarding Neil MacFarlane but Tony Mowbray would be fun. That's the kind of appointment that, if the club was where it was 6 months ago, would have seemed very unlikely but not impossible. Now feels like we're shopping in a smaller market.
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1 hour ago, EaglesandSpiders said:
I don't think you're in the minority. His recruitment so far this season has been off the mark but could have been rectified in January. I'm sad to see him go too. I'd rather have him stay and fix this mess we're in but as I said before, he had already left when his name departed from Van Gaal's lips.
Yeah, I don't think your in the minority at all. This season is proving harder than last and I do think the squad construction left us very undercooked for this level, but Beuker's job was ultimately much bigger than one season. I worry whether the structure he's put in place are embedded enough, and if whoever makes the football decisions now will be able to resist pulling it up by the roots to check that it is growing. With Beuker we had a plan, with questions about the execution. I think we all want to know if we still have a plan.
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27 minutes ago, Bring Your Own Socks said:
He found us. A former Dutch international living in Glasgow area told him about our “vision”. He asked for an introduction and at that meeting presented his world and all that’s in his head. Those present from QPFC were blown away and said it was amazing but where would they find such a guy to pull it altogether. Could he recommend someone. He said, “Yes, I recommend me”.
Ah, ok. Well now I'm scared!
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5 hours ago, Bring Your Own Socks said:
Does anyone know if Beuker actually put down roots in Glasgow? Such as a family home, have his wife and kids moved here? Does he even have a family? If not this Glasgow Experiment might just have been a bit of a sabbatical for him. Guys like van Gaal don’t wait for the phone to ring. How long has this whole Ajax regeneration being brewing?
Very disappointed. A ten year commitment and he walks away after less than two. The guy who was “ready to put a dent in the universe”. And all we have is a pile of ifs, buts and maybes and a financial burden of a structure well without our means. Not to mention a dysfunctional first team. Some seem emotionally attached because he’s a nice guy. To me, if he walks, he’s failed us massively.
Sharp reminder how fragile our club is.
It's certainly a big test of the underlying thinking of the model, and the confidence the decision makers have to stick with it when there is both a natural break if Beuker goes and the team is struggling on the park.
For me, the rationale remains if not sound, then the best chance we have of full-time sustainability. Develop young players that we can sell, with a long tail of solidarity payments, that can provide funds to supplement the (hopefully growing) support. It always had elements of a gamble, and this season feels like a crunch, but the idea is the right one - albeit I would definitely have supplemented the squad for this season.
If the committee/ chief exec (usual caveats apply) think the same, then we should focus on making an appointment to keep it going. I imagine we found Beuker, rather than the other way round, and should look for an appointment to continue the work, rather than worry about the immediate problems of this season. I'd start at the Brighton and Hove Albion football department and see how far down the food chain we'd have to go to get a yes.
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11 minutes ago, qpfc said:
Haven’t even been particularly bad but that type of error happens every single week now. Just had to laugh when Tizzard made that error. Wasn’t his first error in that half. Can’t say it will do the guys morale any good subbing him 5 mins before half time
Longridge and McPherson been decent on the right but still too slow in the build up
Get Veldman out, we will simply get relegated playing this way. We’re not learning
Aye. First time watching us live this season, but 20 minutes before the Airdrie goal I paused the game to.explain to my 6-year-old how we would concede a foal.with the high line, and lo and behold! If Tizzard isn't a broken man he's stronger than me.
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9 hours ago, pmonigatti said:
Would like to see us move to a 3-4-3. I’m sure I read that Veldman used it in the games he took charge at Anderlecht.
The back two are far too fragile against the counter attack, adding that extra body in there may help solve that problem. Especially if the extra man in the 3 is able to step up when in possession to play in the hole where Spong currently sits.
Not sure we can play Fox and Tizzard alone together, too similar in types for me. Bannon looks like he has the extra yard of pace that might allow the other two centre backs to be a bit more physical.
No real problem from me playing Dom and Hepburn on either side. I did wonder if todays set up was to try and pair experience with youth on either side.
I don’t thing McKenna was at fault for any of the goals, not sure why he’s getting stick.
My 3-4-3 lineup would probably look something like:
Hepburn Paton Thomas
Robson Spong Thomson Longridge
Fox Bannon Tizzard
(if we play bannon in between the two bigger lads it might give the right balance)
There could be something in this, but really it's a question of where Veldman sets the defensive line. If it's as high as it was last night, I don't think it really matter if its a back three or back four.
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Fascinated to see Thomas O’Ware's name as the coach of Young QP in the Killie match report, and it seems there was a quiet announcement in the Reserve League preview this week: https://queensparkfc.co.uk/reserve-league-preview/.
Seems a bit if a weird fit given he's still a player for Kelty Hearts - I know not all the Young QP.players will be on full time deals, but I think some of the first team adjacent ones will be (?). But I also guess he's not a name Marijn Beuker would have arrived at at random, or on the lower league merry-go-round., so there must be thinking behind it. O’Ware says he's been doing coaching for 9 years or so, which is interesting.
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2 hours ago, Ben Reilly said:
There is nothing on the walls at all to identify it as a Queens Park club. The closest thing is a QP badge on the Tennents tap.
What's happened to all the squad pictures, and kits. Especially sad to see the donors wall gone. Got my Father in laws name put on one of the boards for his 80th birthday just as the pandemic started (at a not insignificant cost) but it's nowhere to be seen.
Really disappointing. Why would all this be removed? Who is it for? Would someone hiring it for an event (I'm guessing the rationale?) really expect there to be no sign of the football club?
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Before this game, I had a horrible feeling we might get caught out this season. Going to be a very young team in what feels like a more difficult Championship (I appreciate it might not be hugely younger than last year, but there's more change this year compared to last. It fells like we hit the jackpot a bit with Mal and now we're hoping we can do it with three more) and today hasn't really reassured me hugely.
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Wondering if we might face some work permit delays in announcing Veldman? Just remembering the time it took for Eze to be announced last year when we all knew it was a done deal.
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2 hours ago, qpfc said:
Realistically I’m looking at this as positions needed for the first 11
GK: Ferrie
RB: ?
CB: ?
CB: ?
LB: Robson
CM: ?
CM: Thomson
AM: ?
RW: Thomas
LW: ?
ST: ?
Subs: Jarrett, Williamson, Bannon, Healy, Eze, Heraghty, BrownCan see Eze (especially with Coyle away) and Brown leaving this summer also. Savoury basically a man down for the season also. Yikes we need some good signings
If we are looking at this with an eye to the mid-term, surely Jarratt or Brown plays AM, Healy left wing and Williamson up front? We obviously skipped any kind of growing pains 30-odd league games this year but think they might be coming next season, and maybe we'd be be better for.going through them.
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No idea who is making this decision, but I think it's Neil MacFarlane's destiny to manage QP and his work with Brentford B could be a good fit with Beuker's ideas.
But given the last few weeks, I should not be allowing such hopes to triumph over expectation.
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3 hours ago, G_&_T said:
Leanne Dempster mentioned the 'Hampden Campus'. Perhaps the future is that Queen's Park will register their home ground as the 'Hampden Campus' and play their bigger games at 'Greater' Hampden and their low-key games at Lesser.
I noticed that too - sure there will be an effort along those lines, but can't see it happening without a fuss and probably not happening at all. Would require SFA/SPFL to make a special effort for us, and I'd be surprised if they are so inclined.
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Obviously disappointing. I never can really manage to hold it against payers moving for money - it's a short career and Murray must never have thought he'd get another big contract given his injury record, but it is still a blow.
24 minutes ago, qpfc said:Just listened to Coyle on bbc radio Scotland. Says Murray got an outstanding offer from county and we couldn’t compete with it at all, especially as he has a baby on the way
As mentioned above, I would be interested in getting an idea of the fee, given that it has to surely reflect the the likely impact on our league position, not just the balance of Murray's deal. Does Coyle's comment imply Murray's head might not have been in it if we had kept him til June?
I don't know much about Henderson or Shields, but juat as Murray grabbed the playoffs by the scruff last seaaon, there's a chance for someone to make a name for themselves now.
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On 25/01/2023 at 10:02, Arachnophile said:
I made the mistake of trying to wait til payday to buy the third kit, so if anyone has a large that they don't need or want then I'll happily buy it off them.
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Oh no! Who was the manufacturer? Cheers.