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21 minutes ago, Diamonds Are Red said:
No excuse for it at all. A player purposefully making a bee line to opposition fans and giving them the v is not a role model for your young fans.
He's a good player but he's a thick clown. A diddy who can't accept it didn't work out for his pal with his case.
Always forget the ‘be a role model for the opposition fans weans’ line in the contract.
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14 minutes ago, GloriousHoops said:
Dom Thomas is an enigma.
A world beater one week (and occasionally one half) and the next it looks like he can't be arsed.
Agree he can be hot and cold, but have never got the impression he can’t be arsed. I think he just falls out of games sometimes which is pretty much the only reason he’s at this level.
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1 hour ago, EaglesandSpiders said:
I thought we were going to sign a more experienced striker
Not convinced many experienced strikers would be interested in being second choice to Paton.
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Signed James Crole on loan from Cardiff. Good luck to him and hope he does well obviously, but can’t begin to describe how little hope I have bringing in someone new to senior football into a relegation battle. Brutal.
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Great win. Thought Raith looked decent enough going forward and caused problems firing it up to Hamilton who won everything in the first half, but overall seemed a bit toothless and more interested in trying to win fouls at every opportunity, and subsequently greetin’ about the ones they didn’t get.
Actual result could have been anything. Ferrie had a wonder save, free kick off the bar, Paton had one sitter and another well blocked near the line.
Just much happier watching how we tried to attack, it reduced the amount of self-inflicted disasters by getting it up the pitch quickly which allowed us to get out of Raith’s press that has done well against us (as has any team that pressed us) previously. Welsh had a cracking debut and with a few more signings seemingly to come we might be in for a less horrific second half of the season.
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8 minutes ago, Southsideforever said:
We all need to be behind the team and coaches at this time. It’s easy when the going is good, when it’s not going well we need to dig deep. I hope we have a good support for this one, the players deserve it.
I like the principle but If there’s anyone that’s been digging deep over the last few years associated to the club it’s the supporters. From the shambles with Lesser to what we’ve witnessed this season, it’s wild many of us have made it this far before deciding to protect our sanity.
I’m at the stage where I’m going out of sheer habit and sunk cost rather than any actual enjoyment.
On the game, can’t see anything other than the inevitable. My main hope is by Tuesday we have a new manager in the stands ready to take over in the next few days.
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Bowyer with 2/3 signings over the age of 25 in Jan and this season might not end up being the absolute bin fire it’s been so far. Until I see it happen I’m scared to get too optimistic about it.
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Blown away by how awful that statement is, zero idea if that’s permanent or interim appointment.
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We had a stab at working our way through the list of good>horrific managerial options in the latest podcast episode for anyone interested https://linktr.ee/spiderstalk
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Pack it all in if we’re signing Mackay. Couldn’t be further away from what we should be aiming for from both a football and community perspective.
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We need some clear comms about who will be making the next set of decisions. Beuker and Veldman gone leaves a gaping hole over the whole football side of the club. If we’re still aiming to ‘stick to the model’ then our first team manager has to be aligned to whatever the youth teams are doing, and whoever the DoF is (if we continue having that role?).
Today was the correct decision but I’ve got so little confidence in the decision makers at the club that I’ve got the fear we go for someone horrific from the usual manager merry-go-round.
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1 hour ago, Southsideforever said:
Punishment is people saying he should not be considered for a management position because of history. Experience of playing for Queens Park, Norwich, Celtic, West Ham, Watford, Scotland and managing at Watford, Cardiff, Wigan, Ross County and Scotland is a lot. I can't think of many managers in Championship with this level of experience?
Experience does not equal competence.
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4 minutes ago, GloriousHoops said:
I still worry about Veldman's tactics.
I thought Paddy Jarrett was playing well and got subbed.
I don't like to pick on the lad but Lucas McCormick just doesn't have it.......yet..... and inspires no confidence in his teammates. They don't pass him the ball.
Wildest one for me was not taking Bannon off when he couldn’t run, he visibly didn’t want the ball as the guys continued to fire it to him.
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Tragic performance once again.
Thomas has never worked in the centre and to no surprise it didn’t again, looked fine out wide. McCormick unfortunately not ready, Fox playing 15 mins as a striker. Total desperation.More individual errors than I can count - 2 howlers from Spong, Bannon for the pen.
Finishing all over the place, zero ability to cross the ball.
Only positive was Ferrie having one of his best performances, but frankly the fact he had to make 3/4 unbelievable saves is ridiculous and totally self-inflicted.
Whatever this is meant to be is not working, the players are absolutely terrified trying to play the style of football they’re getting made to attempt. Something tangible has to shift in the next couple of weeks or we’re going to be dragged to the bottom of the league.
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That was so bad. 2 teams who looked woeful in different ways but leads to the same result.
My overriding feeling from that was just sheer boredom, nothing about what we do is exciting.
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8 minutes ago, ExiledLichtie said:
The poor pass out of defence that got intercepted in the first half? The desperate clearance off the line after he took too many touches in the second half?
Risk and reward with McKenna, he creates a lot more for us than Gaston punting it aimlessly every time he got the ball.
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Not the best but can’t complain with 9/9.
2 goals 2 assists for Paton in the league so far, excellent start from him.
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1 minute ago, ExiledLichtie said:
He had several ropey moments and very very nearly lost a goal.
Very very didn’t though.
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18 minutes ago, Bring Your Own Socks said:
I wonder if the big story of the week re numerous English clubs showing interest in Callan McKenna will be enough to reinstate Ferrie for this one. McPherson certainly to start but maybe with Healy as his wing partner. Other than that, no tinkering required.
Weather looks fair and I’d expect the Gayfield pitch to be healthy at this time so anything less than victory would be a disappointment.
Planning to bring my snare drum, hi-hat and cowbell…I’m sure Arbroath stewards will be groovy about it. Nice!
Unless he’s agreed terms and about to go, I’d imagine every game we choose to start McKenna would be increasing the number the club are hoping to get for him.
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This is going to be a fun year, conscious tougher games await but a great start.
Starting to understand what Paton offers a bit more now. Thought he’d be similar to Murray but his link up play and passing look excellent.
Same as last week I couldn’t be more impressed with Jack Spong, the way we play is perfect for him and hasn’t put a foot wrong yet.
The team is playing way ahead of what I expected this early into the season.
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That was way better than I was expecting. Shame about the goal but McKenna was tremendous, bold from Veldman to play him ahead of Ferrie but for 16 his composure was wild.
Spong looks like the real deal, him and Turner bossed the midfield.
On Inverness, very unimpressive. Longstaff unsurprisingly looking poor.
Maybe this mildly terrifying style of football might actually work.
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I think it will be a strange start to the season. Beuker seems very confident that when the players learn the new systems it will serve us much better than whatever Coyle was trying to do last year. I don’t think (clearly) that it will result in us being great straight away this year.
I thought it was interesting when Fox said the young guys are a year or so ahead of the first team in learning the new style of football because they were under the control of Beuker and his team.
Long term if they get the kids and the first team playing the same way, it should become relatively interchangeable when players leave, get injured etc. I don’t think it’s a surprise Bruce, McLeish and McKenna have looked good since they came in and arguably more comfortable than the senior players (I’m giving McKenna a pass for his error, he’s looked great otherwise) with this style of football.
So long as we can see continual progress over the first few games that’s where my expectations are at.
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22 minutes ago, HoBNob said:
Some going that, I only said the word "owner" once in the post!
I referred you as a rich owners (plural) plaything, that was primarily aimed at the decision to bin off an 800 seater stand for a hospitality stand. I don't know who it is that calls the shots with regards to that but it didn't come across as the decision of a group who had the common Queens Park fan at heart.
I named Haughey twice right enough in response to the post where Hampden Diehard had referred to him as the man putting the cash in, the second time was referencing his ties to Hampden. He put cash into the SFA a few years back for it did he not? So you'd presume he'd help with getting favourable rent conditions for using it?
I mean you definitely referenced our ‘owner’ twice but that’s irrelevant as we already know what you said is wrong.
It is interesting the amount of other teams fans who are so passionate about our sustainability from 2030 onwards. Plenty of work to be done to get us to that point but the intent is there.
I have numerous issues about what’s happened to date, but I’m glad Queen’s are trying to do something different with Beuker’s approach. Whether this all works in a decade who knows but I’d argue there’s very few clubs in Scotland doing more thinking about how the club will be operating in 10 years than we are.
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12 minutes ago, foreverarover said:
The issue is that they only hire out one small section of the ground with a couple of turnstiles. That in itself means they can dictate how much of the ground they require per game and can alter to suit the potential visiting support. Every other club has to pay for and upkeep a full staduim irrespective of the crown size. That is imo a massive advantage. I said this before and say it again, this was always the plan to stall the build hoping to get into the top league and hire out hampden.
Teams opening parts of the ground they rent to suit the size of the crowd is hardly a new concept.
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Seeing the Inverness result makes me even more utterly relieved we don't have to go through that torture.