The Famous Aberdeen - Season 2022/23

[coprolite]

My take on the new signings after our first real test. 

Roos- looked decent stopping shots. Not very commanding. Some shite kicking. 

Richardson - i feared the worst but he looked better than expected. Raw and inexperienced, could have closed down crosses better. Can support attacks better with a bit more mutual understanding. 

Stewart - maybe suspect for first goal but generally solid. Erratic distribution but prefers a pass to a hoof. 

Coulson - one good run. Position a bit suspect at times. Doesn't look particularly solid but looks pacey and niggly. 

Ramadani - shocking first half hour good next 15, in and out of second half. To be convinced. 

Miovski- Limited sample, looks ok at holding up but had to drop too deep to see the ball. 

Duk- handful but ineffective 

Roberts- didn't notice him do anything. 

 

I'm sure i've missed someone. 

[DukDukGoose]

19 minutes ago, coprolite said:

My take on the new signings after our first real test. 

Roos- looked decent stopping shots. Not very commanding. Some shite kicking. 

Richardson - i feared the worst but he looked better than expected. Raw and inexperienced, could have closed down crosses better. Can support attacks better with a bit more mutual understanding. 

Stewart - maybe suspect for first goal but generally solid. Erratic distribution but prefers a pass to a hoof. 

Coulson - one good run. Position a bit suspect at times. Doesn't look particularly solid but looks pacey and niggly. 

Ramadani - shocking first half hour good next 15, in and out of second half. To be convinced. 

Miovski- Limited sample, looks ok at holding up but had to drop too deep to see the ball. 

Duk- handful but ineffective 

Roberts- didn't notice him do anything. 

 

I'm sure i've missed someone. 

Richardson had a few 1 v 1 situations where Kennedy just didn't have the vision to play the ball. Instead turning inside and going safe. 

Would be interesting to see what Richardson could have done if played in behind. Won't get space like that against most teams.

[tarapoa]

Think the full-backs were always going to be a concern.

Maybe due to the number of overlaps, and questionable help from Kennedy, but Richardson was very passive defensively in the first half - making little attempt to pressurise his opponent or stop crosses come in.  Thought he improved second half, and most certainly can be an attacking weapon.  Would still like to see an alternative that can defend better brought in there though - as right now, that is probably (yet again) McCrorie.

I was actually pleasantly surprised by Coulson - suffered with the jittery start that the whole team had, and was maybe offered a bit more protection on his side - but given it was the proverabial 'baptism of fire', there was enough there to offer encouragement.

Celtic's subs were more effective than ours - nothing stuck to Duk. 

 

 

[big al]

2 hours ago, Merkland Red said:

Richardson had a few 1 v 1 situations where Kennedy just didn't have the vision to play the ball. Instead turning inside and going safe. 

Would be interesting to see what Richardson could have done if played in behind. Won't get space like that against most teams.

1 of kennedys problems is that he has always played with his head down. The way some were drooling over his displays against part timers from L2 dismayed me. Most of the time he’s just not good enough. 

[Bogbrush1903]

I only watched the last five minutes of the first-half and the whole second-half but I was pleasantly surprised by both Richardson and Coulson.

Roberts we saw very little of but there was one moment when he played in Richardson or Hayes on the right hand side.

Although, it was almost impossible to make any judgement on the forward players given their lack of service due to our approach to the game. Duk definitely needs to lose a few pounds though.

Stewart was good at defending on most occasions aside from when he was clumsy and tripped over his own teammate and into their attacking player which could've been penalised.

However, Stewart needs to be careful with those low central passes to feet from defence to midfield. I fear we're going to get caught because players are going to come savvy to that soon enough.

 

[Don exotic]

3 hours ago, Bogbrush1903 said:

However, Stewart needs to be careful with those low central passes to feet from defence to midfield. I fear we're going to get caught because players are going to come savvy to that soon enough.

 

From the others matches I would expect Scales to be the player more commonly playing out from the back. He looks more comfortable judging when to make these passes and at least its less predictable than always looking for the wings.

[TheDon99]

I thought the Duk sub was bizarre tbh. He's looked raw as f**k in the few game minutes that we had seen previously. Especially strange with Ramirez on the bench who probably would have been a like for like swap for Miovski. But if he was specifically doing it to add Speed alone the surely he would have been just as well going for Watkins who's hold up play is also pretty good.
Getting the feeling that he might want/ expect both of those players to be out the door, despite what he says publicly.

[tarapoa]

14 hours ago, TheDon99 said:

I thought the Duk sub was bizarre tbh. He's looked raw as f**k in the few game minutes that we had seen previously. Especially strange with Ramirez on the bench who probably would have been a like for like swap for Miovski. But if he was specifically doing it to add Speed alone the surely he would have been just as well going for Watkins who's hold up play is also pretty good.
Getting the feeling that he might want/ expect both of those players to be out the door, despite what he says publicly.

Presumably Duk is meant to give that pace and strength that a tiring defence hate to see.  Unfortunately on this occasion he just looked clumsy and was snuffed out easily, but will judge him on a bigger sample size than we've seen to date.

He maybe thought that was a better option than a penalty box striker like Ramirez.

I really hope we keep Watkins, as he's still got that x factor in what he can produce in terms of skill and close control.

[Afc69]

Player incoming alert.

[big al]

13 minutes ago, Afc69 said:

Player incoming alert.

Do tell

[Rodhull]

Mcgrath on the verge of signing for Utd if twitter is anything to go by. 

[Dons_1988]

[Frank Grimes]

Is it too obvious Burns has a massive chip on his shoulder in terms of the way he’s reporting it 

[McG]

McGrath knocking Goodwin back and I’ve also heard Ronan has no intention of signing for Goodwin either. 

[Thenorthernlight]

20 minutes ago, McG said:

McGrath knocking Goodwin back and I’ve also heard Ronan has no intention of signing for Goodwin either. 

McGrath - never seen the fuss. Penalty merchant & not a huge amount else, as League One Wigan found out last season.

Ronan was always a long shot. 
He’ll get a gig with a good Championship club.

 

[highland_mechanic]

23 minutes ago, McG said:

McGrath knocking Goodwin back and I’ve also heard Ronan has no intention of signing for Goodwin either. 

Roman I would like to see join. McGrath is shite.

[Thenorthernlight]

1 hour ago, Frank Grimes said:

Is it too obvious Burns has a massive chip on his shoulder in terms of the way he’s reporting it 

Absolutely. It’s laughable the way he’s slanted it. 
I was told our interest in McGrath cooled a while back. 
Burns acts like a jilted lover because he’s no clue what’s going on at Pittodrie now, after Jim Goodwin turfed him out on his arse. 

[DrewDon]

On 30/01/2022 at 19:49, DrewDon said:

Feels like this is trundling slowly towards the inevitable conclusion of McGrath signing a pre-contract agreement with Dundee United. 

Not quite a pre-contract, but never has a player had bigger 'Dundee United' vibes than Jamie McGrath. 

[Afc69]

Just now, Thenorthernlight said:

Absolutely. It’s laughable the way he’s slanted it. 
I was told our interest in McGrath cooled a while back. 
Burns acts like a jilted lover because he’s no clue what’s going on at Pittodrie now, after Jim Goodwin turfed him out on his arse. 

There’s no question in my mind that we have cooled our interest in McGrath as we have lined up someone else, clearing the way for Utd to swoop. Not quite as Burns has reported it.

I don’t know the identity of the player we are apparently signing tomorrow but it links into us dropping our interest in McGrath

[AngusTheBull]

Quite a few reports Ronan is wanting to stay at Wolves having impressed there in pre-season.

 

Can't say I'm too fussed over McGrath.