Guest Bob Mahelp Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 Any idea when Devlin will be back ? We're almost incapable of keeping a clean sheet without him. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrewDon Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 Stewart showed nice touches and is technically gifted, but I'm not sure about him and Cosgrove together. I thought Cosgrove - and the team more generally - missed May's ability to drag defenders and press from the front. Mackay-Steven was probably the biggest disappointment for me, though; he played like somebody who wanted to avoid injury. There just wasn't enough intensity or urgency to our play at 1-0, combined with a lack of a guile and a general complacency, and now we have an unwanted and unnecessary replay to negotiate. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussellAnderson Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 Stewart showed nice touches and is technically gifted, but I'm not sure about him and Cosgrove together. I thought Cosgrove - and the team more generally - missed May's ability to drag defenders and press from the front.Make sure fans of other teams don’t see this they’ll lose their minds. But Stewart’s scores more goals than May so he must be a better player!!! Aaaaah! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dons_1988 Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 A shite, rusty post break performance and a needless replay. However, these things happen. We’re still in the cup and plenty to be positive about. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big al Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 4 hours ago, RussellAnderson said: Make sure fans of other teams don’t see this they’ll lose their minds. But Stewart’s scores more goals than May so he must be a better player!!! Aaaaah! Lol 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingjoey Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 7 hours ago, DrewDon said: Stewart showed nice touches and is technically gifted, but I'm not sure about him and Cosgrove together. I thought Cosgrove - and the team more generally - missed May's ability to drag defenders and press from the front. Mackay-Steven was probably the biggest disappointment for me, though; he played like somebody who wanted to avoid injury. There just wasn't enough intensity or urgency to our play at 1-0, combined with a lack of a guile and a general complacency, and now we have an unwanted and unnecessary replay to negotiate. That’s almost exactly what I was going to say about yesterday. I didn’t think that we played that badly, but we didn’t threaten enough. Cosgrove was almost anonymous, apart from the ball always breaking away from him when he was trying to hold it up. Stevie May is probably a better option with Greg Stewart, who definitely looked like a player yesterday. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muzza81 Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 7 hours ago, RussellAnderson said: Make sure fans of other teams don’t see this they’ll lose their minds. But Stewart’s scores more goals than May so he must be a better player!!! Aaaaah! Are you seriously suggesting May is a better player than Stewart? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussellAnderson Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 Are you seriously suggesting May is a better player than Stewart? Depends what they’re being asked to do. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dons_1988 Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 Depends what they’re being asked to do.You’re absolutely right that mays contribution to the team is underrated. However I think the selection issue is more who plays alongside Stewart than whether or not Stewart should start. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muzza81 Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 19 minutes ago, RussellAnderson said: Depends what they’re being asked to do. Well obviously, however McIness has signed Stewart so he must have some sort of plan to utilise him and make Aberdeen a better side than prior to his signing. You’d rather have Stewart in your side every day of the week though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 As an aside, I see Jayden scores for Preston yesterday. Second greatest league in the world. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussellAnderson Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 1 hour ago, Muzza81 said: Well obviously, however McIness has signed Stewart so he must have some sort of plan to utilise him and make Aberdeen a better side than prior to his signing. You’d rather have Stewart in your side every day of the week though. Well as I've said, not necessarily. Yeah in a playground, everybody lines up and we're picking teams scenario, you'd pick Stewart over May. But in the system which we've played through November and December, the system where we've been as good as we've been this season, directly replacing May with Stewart wouldn't benefit the team. I wasn't at the game but from what I gather that's what happened yesterday. Cosgrove was isolated and although Stewart was our best attacking outlet, he didn't bring the best out of the rest of the team. I believe that to accommodate Stewart we would need a proper defensive mid in the place of either Shinnie or Ferguson, potentially Gleeson, but more likely a player who we don't have in our squad at this minute. Killie got the best out of him with Power and Dicker behind him in the centre of the park, both of whom are more defensive than our preferred duo. Because May puts in that defensive shift up the park, it allows the midfielders to support more and puts pressure on the opposition closer to their goal. There could, as someone's alluded to above, be room for both May and Stewart, but that would probably mean dropping the Ballon d'Or, and I wouldn't want to do that either. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussellAnderson Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 1 hour ago, Melanius Mullarkey said: As an aside, I see Jayden scores for Preston yesterday. Second greatest league in the world. it was a really cracking finish too: https://twitter.com/Jim__Douglas/status/1086721462239744000 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
logie skid boys Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 3 hours ago, kingjoey said: That’s almost exactly what I was going to say about yesterday. I didn’t think that we played that badly, but we didn’t threaten enough. Cosgrove was almost anonymous, apart from the ball always breaking away from him when he was trying to hold it up. Stevie May is probably a better option with Greg Stewart, who definitely looked like a player yesterday. Aye that is the problem we will have . was it down to missing mays workrate and the poor performace of mcginn and gms that cosgrove never got chance.....bit both prob . next few games will tell us if we can miss mays workrate .. stewart .thought he was excellent on the ball ..but not close enough cosgrove or not on the ball enough times around the box where he is needed . 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bob Mahelp Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 Just now, logie skid boys said: Aye that is the problem we will have . was it down to missing mays workrate and the poor performace of mcginn and gms that cosgrove never got chance.....bit both prob . next few games will tell us if we can miss mays workrate .. stewart .thought he was excellent on the ball ..but not close enough cosgrove or not on the ball enough times around the box where he is needed . We also couldn't cross to save our lives. We must have attempted to cross the ball more than 50 times.....McGinn, GMS, Stewart, Logan, Lowe, Shinnie, McLennan...every fucking player outside Lewis had a go at putting the ball into the box, and every fucking cross was utter shite. It was either too low and the first man nodded it away, or too high and it flew past the back post. What chance did Cosgrove have ? The rest of the should hang their heads in shame that in 90 minutes of crossie in against a part-time team at the bottom of League One, not one of them could find a decent cross. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AFCDannyFTH Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 4 hours ago, RussellAnderson said: Well as I've said, not necessarily. Yeah in a playground, everybody lines up and we're picking teams scenario, you'd pick Stewart over May. But in the system which we've played through November and December, the system where we've been as good as we've been this season, directly replacing May with Stewart wouldn't benefit the team. I wasn't at the game but from what I gather that's what happened yesterday. Cosgrove was isolated and although Stewart was our best attacking outlet, he didn't bring the best out of the rest of the team. I believe that to accommodate Stewart we would need a proper defensive mid in the place of either Shinnie or Ferguson, potentially Gleeson, but more likely a player who we don't have in our squad at this minute. Killie got the best out of him with Power and Dicker behind him in the centre of the park, both of whom are more defensive than our preferred duo. Because May puts in that defensive shift up the park, it allows the midfielders to support more and puts pressure on the opposition closer to their goal. There could, as someone's alluded to above, be room for both May and Stewart, but that would probably mean dropping the Ballon d'Or, and I wouldn't want to do that either. Bingo. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A96 Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 14 hours ago, Bob Mahelp said: We also couldn't cross to save our lives. We must have attempted to cross the ball more than 50 times.....McGinn, GMS, Stewart, Logan, Lowe, Shinnie, McLennan...every fucking player outside Lewis had a go at putting the ball into the box, and every fucking cross was utter shite. It was either too low and the first man nodded it away, or too high and it flew past the back post. What chance did Cosgrove have ? The rest of the should hang their heads in shame that in 90 minutes of crossie in against a part-time team at the bottom of League One, not one of them could find a decent cross. Can't argue with that , about the crosses. GMS was out of sorts on Saturday , but that can be put down to his long lay-off , to some extent. Logan hardly ever now pings in a cross with his right foot. He usually cuts back on to his left and the cross is usually too high and "floaty" coming down somewhere round about the edge of the penalty box and fairly comfortable to defend. McGinn has always been guilty of over-elaborating , cutting back from one foot to the other when he seems to have given himself space to get a cross in , but doesn't do so and the opposition defence gets time to organise themselves to dealwith the cross. However , McGinn in among the numerous poor crosses and wated opportunities , he usually manages to set up at least one good chance with a quality cross or cut-back , and Saturday was no exception with his cut-back to Stewart in the second-half. In contrast the Stenhousemuir lad showed the waywith their goal , by firing in a superb early cross, when the opportuity arose . No fannying about. Just get it in to a dangerous area and trust your team-mates to be in a position to get on the end of it. Not rocket science. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarapoa Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 (edited) The crossing likely partially down to Stenny's bus parking closing down the spaces, and also the lack of tempo from AFC. If there's no pace to the game. defenders will easily show players on to their weaker foot or into an area where the cross is likely to be floatier and less dangerous. The one wee change of pace we did have, led to great play from the otherwise dreadful McGinn and a bonnie ball in which Stewart should have burst the net with. Other that it was so ponderous and one-paced - hopefully just 'rustiness' as has been suggested..........but practice badly needed for some. Edited January 21, 2019 by tarapoa 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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logie skid boys Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 Think he might still stay at saints ,, but dont think many up here that bothered if he does or not .. For me i think he is an improvement on considine and reynolds as at least one them will be gone in the summer .and both will get clubs as they can do job for few teams in this league . 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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