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Martin Harty - Has he been officially confirmed as a member of James McPake's backroom staff? I recall a few Dundee fans saying he'd probably be involved. There's an interview with Lewis McCann on the COWs today and he mentions him. Pretty good interview, touches on the difference with McPake and the coaches as opposed to the two last season, how much better it is etc.

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Chalmers brings us all together.

Whenever you lot are swinging handbags at each other I'm going to swing in, the hero, and bring up Joe Chalmers to settle everything right back down.  

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McPake has spoken to the media before the weekends fixtures. Courier reporting that JMcP thinks there'll be some movement soon but still relying on clubs up the food chain doing business etc.

Also said Dorrans should be back in full training next week and available for selection circa second game of the league season. 

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9 hours ago, Stellaboz said:

Chalmers was so bad, he's got a lot to make up for. The cliche they someone isn't trying hard enough is thrown around too often, but I'm convinced it's the case with him. Lazy tracking, no late runs into the box, very lazy efforts on goal, the list goes on.

I'm not even sure chalmers is particularly lazy, to me its that he genuinely doesn't understand football.   He'll move to a free ball 10 yards away,  but if its 5 and there's an opponent that might challenge him he backs off.   He can take a decent touch,  but if someone in a different coloured shirt runs towards him he gets confused and only knows to play the ball backwards   take his lack of runs into the box,   that's because if he does that he might not get a touch of the ball and if he does it will only be one, that confuses him as he thought football was about making 3 touch 5 yard passes,  same with his very rare shots,  there's no purpose to them as he doesn't see the difference between it going 10 yards wide or into the net,  either way it doesn't help his passing stats.  He won't track a runner cos why would he?  if the boy scores that gets us possession.  

You can see exactly why hughes signed him and exactly why he's a flop.    The day football adapts netball style rules over how many players can be in a section of the pitch and rewards the win to team with the most passes made regardless of distance chalmers may become successful,  until then...

 

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7 hours ago, The Toun Clock said:

McPake has spoken to the media before the weekends fixtures. Courier reporting that JMcP thinks there'll be some movement soon but still relying on clubs up the food chain doing business etc.

Also said Dorrans should be back in full training next week and available for selection circa second game of the league season. 

This line from the OP write-up made me laugh:

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James McPake shares most fans opinions on friendlies in that it seems he hates them as well

 

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2 minutes ago, Cardle is Magic said:

Fan of a really tall lad called "Little".

Would imagine he'll get a few games if/when Mehmet struggles.

 

Mehmet tends to get injured quite a bit, I'd imagine we'll see the Little guy at some point. 

A two year suggests we certainly rate him. 

 

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1 hour ago, Chubbychops said:

Read that he pulled out some great saves against Burntisland Shipyard. McPake seems to like what he's seen.

Glad we've got the back up keeper sorted because Deniz was howling last season. 

He was to start with but I thought solid during the international break he was solid enough. Peter Grant just had a knack of getting the very worst out of players.

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