SmokeyJoe Posted May 13, 2021 Share Posted May 13, 2021 30 minutes ago, RedLichtie86 said: 1 hour ago, SmokeyJoe said: hope morton stay up purely for the better away day Aye. Visiting Greenock is slightly less shitter than Airdrie. absolutely 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellichtie Posted May 13, 2021 Share Posted May 13, 2021 The downside of Morton staying up is having to drink in the Norseman. I do like Cappielow more than the Excelsior though. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lichtgilphead Posted May 13, 2021 Share Posted May 13, 2021 Even though I have a Killie-supporting next door neighbour, I'm more intersted in Kilmarnock coming down. Last time we visited was over 30 years ago, and it's one of the few Scottish league grounds I've never seen Arbroath play at 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timlichtie Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 Even though I have a Killie-supporting next door neighbour, I'm more intersted in Kilmarnock coming down. Last time we visited was over 30 years ago, and it's one of the few Scottish league grounds I've never seen Arbroath play atAgree, Rugby Park is a decent stadium. A good away day too. It’s just a shame about the plastic pitch. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lichtgilphead Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 (edited) Yeah, last time I visited was when they still had the half covered curved Johnnie Walker end and the social club under the stand with cheap pints and free burgers. The 1980's were a different time! Wasn't an Arbroath game though, so it doesn't count. Edited May 14, 2021 by lichtgilphead 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahfpjim Posted May 15, 2021 Share Posted May 15, 2021 On 09/05/2021 at 21:48, Gayfield said: Great to see Leicester today playing in the maroon colours but our maroon you can see is too red. Who decided on the change of shade ?. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stan3600 Posted May 15, 2021 Share Posted May 15, 2021 Great to see Leicester today playing in the maroon colours but our maroon you can see is too red. Who decided on the change of shade ?.I don’t think our maroon has ever been like the Leicester strip. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1320Lichtie Posted May 15, 2021 Share Posted May 15, 2021 There are different shades of maroon? Canr ever remember it being as dark as Leicester’s. There’s is quite purple. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahfpjim Posted May 15, 2021 Share Posted May 15, 2021 39 minutes ago, 1320Lichtie said: There are different shades of maroon? Canr ever remember it being as dark as Leicester’s. There’s is quite purple. Yes there are different shades of maroon but back in 60s & 70s and perhaps later our maroon was darker it has now become redder. Just check out the club web site for the replica items 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecto Posted May 15, 2021 Share Posted May 15, 2021 1 hour ago, 1320Lichtie said: There are different shades of maroon? Canr ever remember it being as dark as Leicester’s. There’s is quite purple. Back in the 70s we had a much darker maroon, until the current top, we had been more claret than maroon, oh and am not keen on the new black strip, not keen at all 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stan3600 Posted May 15, 2021 Share Posted May 15, 2021 It’s great to be at the end of a season and all we have to discuss is the exact shade of maroon and whether we’ll be playing Kilmarnock next season. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicesterlichtie Posted May 15, 2021 Share Posted May 15, 2021 4 hours ago, ahfpjim said: Great to see Leicester today playing in the maroon colours but our maroon you can see is too red. Who decided on the change of shade ?. Would've preferred to have watched Leicester play in blue but the deep maroon kit used today was the winning formula. As a supporter of both clubs, I have to say I've been blessed in recent years to seeing a fair bit of success between them. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1320Lichtie Posted May 15, 2021 Share Posted May 15, 2021 50 minutes ago, Leicesterlichtie said: Would've preferred to have watched Leicester play in blue but the deep maroon kit used today was the winning formula. As a supporter of both clubs, I have to say I've been blessed in recent years to seeing a fair bit of success between them. You’ll be getting called a glory hunter soon 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stan3600 Posted May 16, 2021 Share Posted May 16, 2021 With JET off to Aberdeen id imagine Jack Hamilton will get a decent shot at establishing himself at Livi. He could do very well. His goal scoring is not in doubt - he just needs to raise his work rate a bit. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonLichtie Posted May 16, 2021 Share Posted May 16, 2021 34 minutes ago, stan3600 said: His goal scoring is not in doubt - he just needs to raise his work rate a bit. I'm not sure on this to be honest...... I think some strikers are quite simply goalscorers and that's what they do, due to their instinctive positioning/ reading of the game quite often. While there's multiple reasons Hamilton had a far better season than Doolan, one of them would be the comparison of time actually spent in the penalty box. Doolan spent a large portion of games dropping deep for the ball, while Hamilton concentrated on being where he needed to be to score the goals. I think Hamilton is a player it'd be very difficult to play up top by himself, and like all strike partnerships he also wouldn't work alongside another player similiar to him. If he plays alongside someone who can do the running/ drop deep to get the ball/ link things up, I think it probably suits him and lets him get on with what he's best at. That, for me, is one of the big differences the higher up you go.... less running after like a headless chicken and chasing everything and more reading of the game and appropriate positioning. I think that the higher the work rate outside the box, the less chances you get in the box as a striker most of the time. That being the case, there's probably an argument that if Jack Hamilton had a higher work rate, he may have had a couple less goals, and we may not have the luxury of in depth discussions on the right/ wrong shade of maroon and all be shitting ourselves in the lead up to the play off final 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stan3600 Posted May 16, 2021 Share Posted May 16, 2021 I'm not sure on this to be honest...... I think some strikers are quite simply goalscorers and that's what they do, due to their instinctive positioning/ reading of the game quite often. While there's multiple reasons Hamilton had a far better season than Doolan, one of them would be the comparison of time actually spent in the penalty box. Doolan spent a large portion of games dropping deep for the ball, while Hamilton concentrated on being where he needed to be to score the goals. I think Hamilton is a player it'd be very difficult to play up top by himself, and like all strike partnerships he also wouldn't work alongside another player similiar to him. If he plays alongside someone who can do the running/ drop deep to get the ball/ link things up, I think it probably suits him and lets him get on with what he's best at. That, for me, is one of the big differences the higher up you go.... less running after like a headless chicken and chasing everything and more reading of the game and appropriate positioning. I think that the higher the work rate outside the box, the less chances you get in the box as a striker most of the time. That being the case, there's probably an argument that if Jack Hamilton had a higher work rate, he may have had a couple less goals, and we may not have the luxury of in depth discussions on the right/ wrong shade of maroon and all be shitting ourselves in the lead up to the play off final [emoji3] Good points. It’s not so much pressing the opposition more (although he could do that too) it’s making more runs in attacking positions. Harry Kane, Mo Salah and Kevin Nisbet do a lot of running. But he did save our bacon. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timlichtie Posted May 16, 2021 Share Posted May 16, 2021 I'm not sure on this to be honest...... I think some strikers are quite simply goalscorers and that's what they do, due to their instinctive positioning/ reading of the game quite often. While there's multiple reasons Hamilton had a far better season than Doolan, one of them would be the comparison of time actually spent in the penalty box. Doolan spent a large portion of games dropping deep for the ball, while Hamilton concentrated on being where he needed to be to score the goals. I think Hamilton is a player it'd be very difficult to play up top by himself, and like all strike partnerships he also wouldn't work alongside another player similiar to him. If he plays alongside someone who can do the running/ drop deep to get the ball/ link things up, I think it probably suits him and lets him get on with what he's best at. That, for me, is one of the big differences the higher up you go.... less running after like a headless chicken and chasing everything and more reading of the game and appropriate positioning. I think that the higher the work rate outside the box, the less chances you get in the box as a striker most of the time. That being the case, there's probably an argument that if Jack Hamilton had a higher work rate, he may have had a couple less goals, and we may not have the luxury of in depth discussions on the right/ wrong shade of maroon and all be shitting ourselves in the lead up to the play off final [emoji3] Jimmy Greaves put his success in goal scoring down to not moving around much. He claimed it made him harder to mark. There’s no doubt that the well timed sprint from a static position got him goals. Jack certainly popped up in the right places to score for us. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Venom Posted May 16, 2021 Share Posted May 16, 2021 Yeah, last time I visited was when they still had the half covered curved Johnnie Walker end and the social club under the stand with cheap pints and free burgers. The 1980's were a different time! Wasn't an Arbroath game though, so it doesn't count.That's a great picture that, where is it from? It's likely just my own nostalgia (and I don't think I ever saw Ayr win there) but I much preferred that Rugby Park to the current one. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lichtgilphead Posted May 16, 2021 Share Posted May 16, 2021 41 minutes ago, Jeff Venom said: That's a great picture that, where is it from? It's likely just my own nostalgia (and I don't think I ever saw Ayr win there) but I much preferred that Rugby Park to the current one. I just did a google image search on "old rugby park kilmarnock" and the image was about 20th on the list. Here's the link 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecto Posted May 16, 2021 Share Posted May 16, 2021 17 hours ago, Leicesterlichtie said: Would've preferred to have watched Leicester play in blue but the deep maroon kit used today was the winning formula. As a supporter of both clubs, I have to say I've been blessed in recent years to seeing a fair bit of success between them. Chelsea have an all white strip, not sure why they didn't both change yesterday 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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