DukDukGoose Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 28 minutes ago, betting competition said: This season Hibs, Hearts and Aberdeen have failed to win a Scottish Premier League game after a European game. The 3 teams don't have big enough squads to cope with the demands of Thursday/Sunday, so with that I'm really concerned about how much extra games will hurt our qualifying for Europe campaign. I really don't think that's where our concerns lie. We're struggling to break anyone down playing the ball on the deck. Teams are wise to the second ball football we've been playing. It's no surprise to me that our best performances have been against teams who are trying to play out from the back. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 The three or four times we actually passed the ball around yesterday we looked ok. I understand the benefits of getting the ball forward quickly but when it's not working it just gives the opponents the ball. Jensen looks like he could be decent possibly. Not a single decent individual performance yesterday. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thenorthernlight Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 1 hour ago, Dons_1988 said: It’s way too early for knives out obviously. But it’s natural to be identifying issues as they arise and there is a wee bit of a pattern developing in certain games. Challenges for him to overcome that he’ll live or die by. I’m sure he’ll say, with some justification, that we’re into an intense period of games with half the squad either injured, not recruited or not up to speed. It is a hindrance but unfortunately he’s just got to navigate it. The performance yesterday though was beyond lacklustre. My knife isn’t out, but there have been a few red flags, and not just yesterday. - Long ball football, far too much of it. He got away with it last season, partly because of where we’d come from & partly because he was winning mostly. It’s now one win in eight league games though. - Absolutely wedded to 3-5-2 or a variation thereof. - Not pro-active. Yesterday was crying out for changes in formation & personnel at half time. He didn’t. We deservedly then lost the lead. - Lack of substitutions. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
betting competition Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 3 hours ago, DukDukGoose said: I really don't think that's where our concerns lie. We're struggling to break anyone down playing the ball on the deck. Teams are wise to the second ball football we've been playing. It's no surprise to me that our best performances have been against teams who are trying to play out from the back. Too early to judge when most of the new signings haven't had a preseason with us. Will take a few months to get all players up to speed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DukDukGoose Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 13 minutes ago, betting competition said: Too early to judge when most of the new signings haven't had a preseason with us. Will take a few months to get all players up to speed. Not so sure. Most players were here last season and doesn't look to be a drastic change in style of play. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
betting competition Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 (edited) 54 minutes ago, DukDukGoose said: Not so sure. Most players were here last season and doesn't look to be a drastic change in style of play. We have made 11 new signings so far and only 2 was the previous season. Most of those are not fit enough to play for the team, but they will also need time to gel. On a positive note we won't have the same turnover of players as we did last season going forward. Edited August 28, 2023 by betting competition 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DukDukGoose Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 10 minutes ago, betting competition said: We have made 11 new signings so far and only 2 was the previous season. Most of those are not fit enough to play for the team, but they will also need time to gel. On a positive note we won't have the same turnover of players as we did last season going forward. I'm talking about yesterday's starting XI. Only Devlin, Polvara and Ruby didn't play under Robson, in this set up, last season. We're almost in to September. 3 new players starting shouldn't make a massive difference. If it does then that's on Robson. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarleyQuinn Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 On a positive note. From the limited minutes, I thought Jensen looked decent. The team looked tired yesterday after Thursday exertions. Performance was undoubtably poor however we earned a point that we didn't receive away to St Mirren all of last season. We move on. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highloon Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 18 hours ago, DrewDon said: It's still early days for him and nobody was good, but Rubezic's performance today was a bit too Dave Bus for my liking. He was incredibly poor and looked really low in confidence / out of his depth. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starryfish Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 6 hours ago, betting competition said: We have made 11 new signings so far and only 2 was the previous season. Most of those are not fit enough to play for the team, but they will also need time to gel. On a positive note we won't have the same turnover of players as we did last season going forward. Unless the majority of players we signed this summer are shite and get the manager emptied and subsequently need replacing themselves 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don exotic Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 4 hours ago, Highloon said: He was incredibly poor and looked really low in confidence / out of his depth. To be fair, he has been thrown in to all the matches since his arrival. He has ended up playing with a number of different players, often with them out of position as well. So hasn’t had the easiest of starts to settle in. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingjoey Posted August 29, 2023 Share Posted August 29, 2023 Pape Habib Guèye has eventually signed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highloon Posted August 29, 2023 Share Posted August 29, 2023 2 minutes ago, kingjoey said: Pape Habib Guèye has eventually signed. Can he play Thurs? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyDickFingers Posted August 29, 2023 Share Posted August 29, 2023 1 minute ago, Highloon said: Can he play Thurs? No 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DukDukGoose Posted August 29, 2023 Share Posted August 29, 2023 If he can't score a pen with two touches then I'm not interested. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dons_1988 Posted August 29, 2023 Share Posted August 29, 2023 3 minutes ago, DukDukGoose said: If he can't score a pen with two touches then I'm not interested. Should’ve been awarded 1.5 goals for such magnificent skill imo. welcome, pape! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pozbaird Posted August 29, 2023 Share Posted August 29, 2023 2 minutes ago, Dons_1988 said: Should’ve been awarded 1.5 goals for such magnificent skill imo. welcome, pape! …and his shirt name for Ibrox hopefully. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highloon Posted August 29, 2023 Share Posted August 29, 2023 2 hours ago, TommyDickFingers said: No Thx. Shame. Maybe see some action v Hibs. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don exotic Posted August 29, 2023 Share Posted August 29, 2023 Now we have a Pape in attack and Dadia in defence are we going to sign Son in midfield to complete the set? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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