101 Posted Saturday at 17:04 Share Posted Saturday at 17:04 1 hour ago, Andriy_Parmolenko said: Anyone watching the St Mirren game know the nature of Hamilton’s injury? Looked like he was caught on the ankle hopefully nothing too serious. Wasnt too much between the teams given where we both finished last season. Sutherland and Young looked decent enough and can definitely put pressure on the starting players. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wacky Posted yesterday at 08:14 Share Posted yesterday at 08:14 (edited) That was much better yesterday. We gave a decent account of ourselves against a premier team, and imo we were the better team for large periods of the game. It was like the land of the giants in comparison to our players, and they were the ones fouling the most. Wotherspoon looked burnt out after about an hour and started fouling, but he looked a class above for that hour. I would have liked to have seen Chris Kane and him play on the same park, but Chris still isn’t in the squad for some reason? McCann looked better than I’ve seen for a while too., he worked his socks off and wasn’t bad at all. What can I say about Hammy? The only way they could deal with him was to kick and bully him, the guy is superb. Their goal came from an error via Bene, you don’t see many of them to be fair but that one was a howler. I also think Sutherland should feature heavily this season, and Young looks very capable as well. I also liked that wee left back trialist, he didn’t get on the ball much, but didn’t look too shabby when he did. I think Ngwenya will be decent for us as the season goes on, he looks like a good fit to the team. All in all I feel a wee bit more optimistic about the coming season after seeing that performance yesterday, and that optimism will grow if we can bring another couple of players in. Edited yesterday at 08:22 by Wacky 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
da_no_1 Posted yesterday at 08:37 Share Posted yesterday at 08:37 Every time I've seen Taylor Sutherland I've been impressed. He could be the answer for the LHS with Wotherspoon and KRH behind Kane. Really hoping he gets a run in the first team this season. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well over Par Posted yesterday at 08:41 Share Posted yesterday at 08:41 Taylor deserves a run. Can’t for the life of me understand why he couldn’t get on when a goal was needed last season Hammy is ok. Sare ankle but fine 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wacky Posted yesterday at 08:44 Share Posted yesterday at 08:44 6 minutes ago, da_no_1 said: Really hoping he gets a run in the first team this season. It’ll be a total travesty if he doesn’t. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Passionate Posted yesterday at 09:04 Share Posted yesterday at 09:04 Is Mochrie still training with you guys, nothing happening at our end it seems to be a typical P and B rumour. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chubbychops Posted yesterday at 09:31 Share Posted yesterday at 09:31 21 minutes ago, Passionate said: Is Mochrie still training with you guys, nothing happening at our end it seems to be a typical P and B rumour. Not heard anything recently about him training with us. Rumours of us being after him was a good few months ago and no read anything since. We have Matty Todd, David Wotherpoon and young Andy Tod that play that role, so not sure we will go for Mochrie. I would say a box to box midfielder would be more useful to us, as we have not replaced Paul Allan. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well over Par Posted yesterday at 10:55 Share Posted yesterday at 10:55 No sure we have enough pennies to get Mochrie in ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AuldReekie Posted yesterday at 11:07 Share Posted yesterday at 11:07 11 minutes ago, Well over Par said: No sure we have enough pennies to get Mochrie in ? How much pennies do you think we have and how many do you think we need to get Mochrie? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AuldReekie Posted yesterday at 11:12 Share Posted yesterday at 11:12 Lots of nice play yesterday but some of the decision making from Mehmet and defenders is appalling. Think defence could come good but still big question marks over goalkeeper IMO. Also quite clear why we don't score many goals. Shooting is horrific. Great that we created a lot of chances but generally, we failed to really test keeper other than one or two efforts. At least we created plenty, so hopefully quality of finishing improves. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted yesterday at 11:25 Share Posted yesterday at 11:25 3 hours ago, Wacky said: I would have liked to have seen Chris Kane and him play on the same park, but Chris still isn’t in the squad for some reason? Didn’t the manager say he was ready for the league cup campaign now and didn’t need any more minutes in the friendlies 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvo Montalbano Posted yesterday at 12:29 Share Posted yesterday at 12:29 I really don't get why football managers keep insisting on having players do things they are clearly not comfortable doing. Just watched the highlights there and we have Mehmet, Benedictus, Breen, Hamilton, arguably Fisher who can't take the ball in a tight space and do something other than let it rebound off them or kick it the way they are facing but McPake seems to want them to play out from the back. Playing out can work fine of you have the players to do it or if the other team doesn't really press you, but when the defenders and defensive midfielder can't do it and the other team press high it's a recipe for disaster. Even when we do beat the press, we don't quite have that speed of thought to get the ball into dangerous areas quickly enough. Glad that we created some chances but unless Kane is going to score 20 by himself then we're going to struggle as I can't see us keeping many clean sheets. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well over Par Posted yesterday at 13:09 Share Posted yesterday at 13:09 Bang on, Salvo, but let’s persist anyway. A good manager gets the best out of his players auld reekie. Any more incomings will be young loanees or free agents mochrie will get more elsewhere 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parsforlife Posted yesterday at 13:24 Share Posted yesterday at 13:24 2 hours ago, AuldReekie said: Lots of nice play yesterday but some of the decision making from Mehmet and defenders is appalling. Think defence could come good but still big question marks over goalkeeper IMO. I'm feeling slightly generous and saying that we were willing to take riskier decisions in playing out given it's a friendly, that should help develop our ability to play out (something we did well a few times) and also figure out just where the line is when we should just clear our lines. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chubbychops Posted yesterday at 14:01 Share Posted yesterday at 14:01 1 hour ago, Salvo Montalbano said: I really don't get why football managers keep insisting on having players do things they are clearly not comfortable doing. Just watched the highlights there and we have Mehmet, Benedictus, Breen, Hamilton, arguably Fisher who can't take the ball in a tight space and do something other than let it rebound off them or kick it the way they are facing but McPake seems to want them to play out from the back. Playing out can work fine of you have the players to do it or if the other team doesn't really press you, but when the defenders and defensive midfielder can't do it and the other team press high it's a recipe for disaster. Even when we do beat the press, we don't quite have that speed of thought to get the ball into dangerous areas quickly enough. Glad that we created some chances but unless Kane is going to score 20 by himself then we're going to struggle as I can't see us keeping many clean sheets. Didn't go to the game but just looked at the highlights there. Fukin embarrassing that we continued to play into the hands of our opposition like that. I really do wonder about McPake at times. Not just the manager, that lack of basic footballing ability from out defenders and goalkeeper to pass the ball 5-10 yards. Mehmet is a complete disaster zone of a goalkeeper he just cocks up pretty much every game and seems like we can't do anything about it. That 3 year deal is one of the worst bits of business out club has ever done. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaton Posted yesterday at 14:43 Share Posted yesterday at 14:43 Yeah looking at the footage and even thinking of last season, you have to wonder do we even do passing and shooting drills in training. At times it is so bad and is basic stuff. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
da_no_1 Posted yesterday at 14:53 Share Posted yesterday at 14:53 1 hour ago, Well over Par said: Any more incomings will be young loanees or free agents This is news how? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wacky Posted 23 hours ago Share Posted 23 hours ago (edited) 3 hours ago, 101 said: Didn’t the manager say he was ready for the league cup campaign now and didn’t need any more minutes in the friendlies I don’t know about this. Two guys I know were at the game yesterday too, and they were apparently told that Chris had “spat the dummy” because he wasn’t in the squad yesterday. I don’t know about this either, I’m just repeating what I was told. My first question would have been “how do you know that?” Edited 23 hours ago by Wacky 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted 23 hours ago Share Posted 23 hours ago (edited) 4 minutes ago, Wacky said: I don’t know about this. Two guys I know were at the game yesterday too, and they were apparently told that Chris had “spat the dummy” because he wasn’t in the squad yesterday. I don’t know about this either, I’m just repeating what I was told. He was told at Cove that he wouldn’t be playing. So I seriously doubt he spat the dummy yesterday. He also doesn’t strike me as the type to spit the dummy and he was in good spirits out on the pitch pre match. ETA this is the article so I presume the people who told you were winding you up. https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/sport/football/5029157/james-mcpake-chris-kane-wotherspoon-ngwenya-dunfermline/ Edited 23 hours ago by 101 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AuldReekie Posted 23 hours ago Share Posted 23 hours ago Would be good if folk didn't repeat stories that sound like utter nonsense. Management team clearly said a few weeks ago Kane would return for league cup games. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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