Kyle Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 1 hour ago, Radford said: We can't be in the territory where win equals play well, lose equals play badly as I know you far better than that. And at the risk of repeating conversations/arguments had elsewhere, how many times this season would you say the opposition have played better than us? I don't buy this "they just let us have the ball stuff" either. There have been bad decisions in games etc... but nobody IMO can claim we've played poorly over the course of the season. Certainly ion comparison to August to December last season where largely we were shite. That does make me worry about your latter point though, if we can't pick up points playing well, what'll happen of we play badly. Maybe the manager should ask Tommy Wright about that... Can see it from most posts but as a straw poll, are fans glass half-full or half-empty at the moment? At this point last season we had 20 points from 19 games despite playing terribly for most of the first half of last season. We were still near the bottom but going in the right direction given the results in December. This season we have 18 points after 21 games despite, apparently, playing well. Most of the players available are the same - we probably have better personnel in defence now but better wingers then - so what's changed? The difference is the manager - one was pragmatic and able to pick up results despite everything being on fire, adjusted to his squad and surroundings and we picked up as a result. This year we have a philosophy manager who keeps making the same mistakes and who doesn't seem to be able to change things in game when his preferred formation and style doesn't work. As things stand I have zero faith in Davidson being able to turn results around with what he has and his signing success rate is below 20%. Not a great cocktail. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Real Saints Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 “Yes, he has a future but where we are in the league makes it very hard to throw him in at the moment.” Absolute blethers. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perthsaint1977 Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 A shambles of an interview to end a shambles of a day. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valentino Bolognese Posted December 30, 2020 Author Share Posted December 30, 2020 1 hour ago, Radford said: My January concerns are boardroom based rather than the manager. I certainly won't overly judge him on his first window. But in terms of getting funds, are we left hoping that his quiet approach actually carries more favour with the chairman and KR than TW's tantrums? I suspect I'm grasping there... Playing to the gallery won't win us games. I think we'd probably see through it as fake if CD started to shout and get angry in interviews. There is no reason the players can't respect a quiet guy. .... Can see it from most posts but as a straw poll, are fans glass half-full or half-empty at the moment? I know what you mean, but on the other hand we're supposed to be one of the better run clubs with cash reserved for emergencies. We're in emergency territory, or at least very close. I think what's more likely to be of interest to Brown is signing a player and keeping him on a wage and not playing him. Whatever the story is with Melamed it doesn't seem to have been a great investment, which might not do him favours in terms of credibility when he's rattling the bucket for new players. I agree that we don't want someone to act out of character - that's my point. If his natural state is calm, contained etc that's fine but it makes you wonder if he can inspire a dressing room under siege. He certainly seems more feisty on the touchline than when he arrived, so maybe it's different behind the scenes. Glass is neither full nor empty and I'd like to think we'll be able to pull out of this tailspin but it's been a long season so far and home draw to a team missing (I think) 8 first team players is not a good look, and there's been a lot of alarms going off in the last few weeks. We've made this County game far more important than it should have been. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bose Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 I wouldn’t get too optimistic about new faces in January. Not sure our Director of Football Operations, or whatever her title is, will allow anything other than one or two 35-40 year olds come in. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 23 hours ago, Radford said: we'll see how many are scored about the 0.20xG that @RandomGuy. talks about. Just to make it public, and with the caveat they've made a mistake and credited Kanes header to Conway, so its clearly not gone through the second phase of checks yet, but chances of 0.2xG or above score was.... St Johnstone: 1 Hamilton: 2 Best chance of the match, on paper, was Hamiltons at the very start. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 About 30 mins in and our attacking play has been abysmal, Stevie May follows me on Twitter, but I'm not sure he will after tonight f**k knows what he's thinking dropping so deep so often for. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Positive, sometimes. Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 30 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said: About 30 mins in and our attacking play has been abysmal, Stevie May follows me on Twitter, but I'm not sure he will after tonight f**k knows what he's thinking dropping so deep so often for. Instructed to do so. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 Just now, Mr Positive, sometimes. said: Instructed to do so. Not all the time. Theres an instance of us attacking up the wing, one wing back crossing, it being worked out to the other wing back in a crossing position, and he's not in the box at all during the entire move, leaving Kane to challenge 3 CBs for it. Seems obsessed with trying to shoot from outside the area. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valentino Bolognese Posted December 31, 2020 Author Share Posted December 31, 2020 2 minutes ago, Mr Positive, sometimes. said: Instructed to do so. Got to be. Madness. Two things I noticed watching live. One was when May came off he seemed to be looking at the bench and shaking his head a lot, in a really quite pissed off way. At the time it looked to me that he was really unhappy about something. Also, McCann looked to me to be very, very far forward and our most advanced player on quite a few occasions. Caveat - I wasn't giving my full attention and was having a beer or two, but these seemed odd to me. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radford Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 2 hours ago, RandomGuy. said: ... but chances of 0.2xG or above score was.... St Johnstone: 1 Hamilton: 2 Haha, you are forgetting you showed me the list! But at least you've made grumpy pants with the green vote happy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 36 minutes ago, Radford said: Haha, you are forgetting you showed me the list! But at least you've made grumpy pants with the green vote happy. I'm very specific, 0.19 chances don't count 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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