TheScarf Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 39 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said: My experience of McPake was he could go on runs but as soon as what was working stopped working, he completely lost the plot and struggled to stop the death spiral. It happened at Dundee constantly and even when they got promoted it was Charlie Adam making things work more than McPake. Im unconvinced he'll be any use a tier up without the same financial advantages but who knows. I was coming on to post something similar. At Dunfermline in League One and Dundee in the Championship he has the budget advantage over the majority of teams to do well. He didn't have that luxury in the Premiership with Dundee and he won't have it next season with Dunfermline in the Championship either. What with the likes of Thistle/Dundee/QP/Falkirk/United/County (not all of them obviously) potentially being there. A hill I am delighted to die on and will for all my days, is that Dundee got promoted in 2021 due to Charlie Adam and no one else. Someone will have the stats but I'm pretty sure Dundee's results that season with v without him were mental. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 14 minutes ago, Central Belt Caley said: Rooney was great for us and most fans were gutted he left. I wasn’t surprised he got a move up the leagues Yep, it seemed to click for him about halfway through the 18/19 season and from then until he left a year or so later, he was the first name on the teamsheet. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellaboz Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 Less Rooney more Matty chat please x 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoo61 Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 4 minutes ago, TheScarf said: I was coming on to post something similar. At Dunfermline in League One and Dundee in the Championship he has the budget advantage over the majority of teams to do well. He didn't have that luxury in the Premiership with Dundee and he won't have it next season with Dunfermline in the Championship either. What with the likes of Thistle/Dundee/QP/Falkirk/United/County (not all of them obviously) potentially being there. A hill I am delighted to die on and will for all my days, is that Dundee got promoted in 2021 due to Charlie Adam and no one else. Someone will have the stats but I'm pretty sure Dundee's results that season with v without him were mental. Mate, we've got Todd, Super Matty Todd, I just don't think you understand. As he's James McPakes man and better than CharlieADAM...we've got the Championship in the bag. So....hard to argue with that logic right there. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LowerLeagueFC Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 I've never seen a team as vulnerable from set pieces as Falkirk. Any ball into the box reeks havoc 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 Just now, Stoo61 said: Mate, we've got Todd, Super Matty Todd, I just don't think you understand. As he's James McPakes man and better than CharlieADAM...we've got the Championship in the bag. So....hard to argue with that logic right there. God that's good. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 19 minutes ago, CallumPar said: But the guy above would come to our threads regularly to say that Comrie was never a footballer, could never be good enough etc. For the top flight. Hes 26 and playing in the Scottish 3rd tier. Im still fairly confident he'll never be a regular for a top flight side. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoo61 Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 1 minute ago, TheScarf said: God that's good. (I had a penis draw on my back by some...shit! That was me...) <<in this style.... I know it was. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 McGlynns post match interview wow. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoo61 Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 Just now, 101 said: McGlynns post match interview wow. WHERE? GIES IT. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamish's Passenger Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 1 minute ago, 101 said: McGlynns post match interview wow. My highlight was 1 minute 10 seconds where he tries to fly away. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallumPar Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 8 minutes ago, TheScarf said: A hill I am delighted to die on and will for all my days, is that Dundee got promoted in 2021 due to Charlie Adam and no one else. Someone will have the stats but I'm pretty sure Dundee's results that season with v without him were mental. So they only won games because of a player McPake signed? Also, you’re talking about budgets, he’s signed 3 new players on permanent deals here. One was a backup keeper. The rest of our players are loan signings and the players who were dross last season. I don’t think there’s much doubt Falkirk have outspent us this season. If you watched the likes of Mehmet, Breen, Chalmers, Wighton etc last season, you’d think their careers as full time footballers were over. Will we need to improve the squad, to compete in the championship? Absolutely. But McPake’s given us reason to believe in him/back him. His permanent signings (Hamilton and Benedictus) have been fantastic for us and are captain and vice-captain. But his main achievement is making us a team. Last season, there was no team spirit, seemed to be a lot of in-fighting in the squad. They were a shambles. McPake brought in leaders and has changed the mentality and, almost the same set of players, now seem to gel really well as a team. Is that not a sign of good management? Again, I have to ask, have you never seen anyone learn from mistakes and become better at their job? Nobody’s trying to rewrite history and claim he was the messiah at Dundee. But it’s really strange behaviour to come on here and criticise a manager, when his team are 8 points clear at the top of their league, with 16 clean sheets in 27 games. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallumPar Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 2 minutes ago, 101 said: McGlynns post match interview wow. He keeps flapping his arms. Like a toddler throwing a tantrum. He obviously looked at the stats just before the interview and couldn’t find any way to claim they were the better team this time. Surprised he didn’t claim it was a draw, because of the yellow card count! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 Can’t find the story just now but loved how when McPake first turned up at East End to see about the job he spotted a young lad running round the pitch the whole time. This was weeks before preseason. The young man introduced himself as Matty Todd and explained that last season wasn’t good enough fitness-wise and that he was determined to improve himself and the team this year. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoo61 Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 2 minutes ago, Shandon Par said: Can’t find the story just now but loved how when McPake first turned up at East End to see about the job he spotted a young lad running round the pitch the whole time. This was weeks before preseason. The young man introduced himself as Matty Todd and explained that last season wasn’t good enough fitness-wise and that he was determined to improve himself and the team this year. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted March 8, 2023 Author Share Posted March 8, 2023 4 minutes ago, CallumPar said: He keeps flapping his arms. Like a toddler throwing a tantrum. He obviously looked at the stats just before the interview and couldn’t find any way to claim they were the better team this time. Surprised he didn’t claim it was a draw, because of the yellow card count! He does that wee flappy arm thing in literally every interview. The last interview he did after the game at TFS was fine. I haven't watched this one, but im quite certain that it will be fine too. Its certainly a weird reaction we always seem to get to these interviews. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 12 minutes ago, Stoo61 said: WHERE? GIES IT. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoo61 Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 Just now, 101 said: Well, I am genuinely relieved that no one is dead. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvo Montalbano Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 I don't think any Pars fan has ever said that McPake didn't have a big budget at Dundee or that Adam wasn't a big, if not the biggest, factor in their winning promotion. Its such a bizarre thing to come out with. He's not had the biggest budget in this league (certainly in terms of player acquisitions, although I suppose our wage bill will be amongst the highest), he's not had the luxury of revamping an underperforming squad, he hasn't got an Adam like figure who can single handedly win games (although Matty Todd is starting to get that way!) and he's said himself he learned a lot from his time at Dens. What he has done is got players who looked terrible playing well again, he's not been afraid to admit to mistakes and change players or tactics when it's not working, he's managed to instil some belief in the squad and he's managed to get the whole squad - even non-playing members of the squad - pulling in one direction. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 11 minutes ago, Shandon Par said: Can’t find the story just now but loved how when McPake first turned up at East End to see about the job he spotted a young lad running round the pitch the whole time. This was weeks before preseason. The young man introduced himself as Matty Todd and explained that last season wasn’t good enough fitness-wise and that he was determined to improve himself and the team this year. John Hughes wasted a talented ACM at RB he should never recover his career from this mess. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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