Well over Par Posted July 7 Share Posted July 7 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 July 7 Share Posted July 7 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 July 7 Share Posted July 7 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 July 7 Share Posted July 7 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 July 7 Share Posted July 7 No sure we have enough pennies to get Mochrie in ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AuldReekie Posted July 7 Share Posted July 7 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 July 7 Share Posted July 7 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 July 7 Share Posted July 7 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 July 7 Share Posted July 7 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 July 7 Share Posted July 7 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 July 7 Share Posted July 7 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 July 7 Share Posted July 7 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 July 7 Share Posted July 7 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 July 7 Share Posted July 7 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 July 7 Share Posted July 7 (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 July 7 by Wacky 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted July 7 Share Posted July 7 (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 July 7 by 101 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AuldReekie Posted July 7 Share Posted July 7 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. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parsboi Posted July 7 Share Posted July 7 1 hour ago, AuldReekie said: 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. Exactly this. Far too often it’s seen on forums and social media - only outcome is the damage to the clubs rep. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaton Posted July 7 Share Posted July 7 Do people not read or watch what the club put out? Laughable BS here 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted July 7 Share Posted July 7 24 minutes ago, Heaton said: Do people not read or watch what the club put out? Laughable BS here I wonder if folk are deliberately ignoring certain things. Not saying Wacky did perhaps the folk who spoke to him did (if they weren't just on a wind up). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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