Brian Carrigan Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 1 hour ago, Jan Vojáček said: I never get it when managers think 'this guy is cracking at position X, lets play him at position Y instead'. If you look at our games since since maybe Barry Ferguson was in charge, we’ve probably had someone playing out of position at full back in 90% of our games. Last season was one of my favourites - Lennon signed left backs Andy Rodden and Nathan Hendji in the summer. In the first game against QotS he started Hendji, hooked him after 10ish mins and brought on Paul Kennedy (a centre midfielder) to play at left back, leaving Rodden on the bench! He then signed a third left back in Jon Craig on loan but still continued with PK for many games. Brilliant. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunning1874 Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 1 hour ago, Jan Vojáček said: Two spells of Jim Duffy will do that tbf. I was talking to a Pars fan yesterday about when Duffy signed Chris Hamilton (their current captain as a CDM) having played at Hearts as a centre-half. And played him on left-wing for half a season We also had Ross Forbes as a left-back for a spell. Oh, and Michael Paton (a striker or attacking mid) as a right-back memorably up at Brechin. He was sent off for two bookings because he was incapable of tackling. Admittedly we had a few injuries at the time, but one of Duffy's greatest out of position hits with us was playing two centre backs in central midfield and two central midfielders on the wing in a 4-4-2. Contrived to lose to Alex Rae's St Mirren. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Replays Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 28 minutes ago, Brian Carrigan said: If you look at our games since since maybe Barry Ferguson was in charge, we’ve probably had someone playing out of position at full back in 90% of our games. Last season was one of my favourites - Lennon signed left backs Andy Rodden and Nathan Hendji in the summer. In the first game against QotS he started Hendji, hooked him after 10ish mins and brought on Paul Kennedy (a centre midfielder) to play at left back, leaving Rodden on the bench! He then signed a third left back in Jon Craig on loan but still continued with PK for many games. Brilliant. In fairness to Danny Lennon, Kennedy was very good at LB in that Queen of the South game IIRC! Not that it was a viable long-term strategy, of course. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunning1874 Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 Mystery solved, King still with you for this weekend. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowshed Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 4 hours ago, Replays said: I see our website is saying Alex King is available for tomorrow’s match. I’m going to assume we’ve done our due diligence and made sure he’s actually still our player for the match. It’s not as though we have previous for this kind of thing or anything. He’ll be available back to us on the 8th 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JIMMY CHOO Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 2 hours ago, Dunning1874 said: Admittedly we had a few injuries at the time, but one of Duffy's greatest out of position hits with us was playing two centre backs in central midfield and two central midfielders on the wing in a 4-4-2. Contrived to lose to Alex Rae's St Mirren. Thanks for clearing this mess up for me. The reason we are bottom of league 2 and heading on a one way ticket to the lowland league is and wait for it we played all the players out of position.You couldn’t make this shit up. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BullyWeeStonehouse Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 McCulloch away on loan to civil service strollers and Mulvanny released. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Replays Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 Another two ringers gone. Hopefully preceding an arrival or two… 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Only one David Marsh Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 We must be signing a forward since we are now down to Young not that Mulvanny was going to play a part 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macclyde+ Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 Hopefully inking the pen as we speak 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_bully_wee Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 There might be a player buried somewhere inside McCulloch but I'll never have any idea what it was that Duffman saw in Mulvanny. Best of luck to both. I think if we were going to see any signings this week, then it'd have been on Wednesday or Thursday, but I'd be delighted to be proven wrong. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David W Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 (edited) I assumed Mulvanny was McLean, given the Killie link. Either way, he wasn't a striker or winger, maybe a wingback at a push. McCulloch was just too weak, no upper body at all. Needs to bulk up. Am I right in saying he's the one that's actually contracted for another season? Edited January 5 by David W 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_bully_wee Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 Dunachie, McCulloch, Mulvanny and P. Grant(!) were the ones given two-year deals. Could be that McCall thinks McCulloch has something about him that a loan spell might bring out, or just that he isn't willing to rip up his contract at this moment in time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Replays Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 4 minutes ago, David W said: I assumed Mulvanny was McLean, given the Killie link. Either way, he wasn't a striker or winger, maybe a wingback at a push. McCulloch was just too weak, no upper body at all. Needs to bulk up. Am I right in saying he's the one that's actually contracted for another season? You’re correct, David. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Clyde FC Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 1 minute ago, the_bully_wee said: Dunachie, McCulloch, Mulvanny and P. Grant(!) were the ones given two-year deals. Could be that McCall thinks McCulloch has something about him that a loan spell might bring out, or just that he isn't willing to rip up his contract at this moment in time. Not sure I agree re McCulloch...maybe just the cost of paying up of his contract, so send him on loan and defer another cheque to be written. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Carrigan Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 I do feel bad for the likes of Duncan, Malcolm, Mulvanny, McCulloch, Hendji etc and all the baffling signings. They just get absolutely shown up at this level. There’s no way they could possibly have shown enough in training/friendlies to justify a professional gig. You get the feeling these boys have just been thrown to the lions to prove some kind of point, whatever it may be. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macclyde+ Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 27 minutes ago, Bully Wee Clyde FC said: Not sure I agree re McCulloch...maybe just the cost of paying up of his contract, so send him on loan and defer another cheque to be written. Agree with this. I know he's still a young lad, but similar to Craig cannot defend. Had a few absolutely horrendous games (particularly at Stenny and Peterhead) where he was hooked after an hour. I do though agree with the point that all these lads were thrown in at the deep end, and should never have been signed, as they're nowhere near good enough at the moment. Hopefully some of them will bounce back after a couple of years, but I suspect none of them will play again above Lowland League level at most. Hope I'm proved wrong though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLClyde Posted January 5 Author Share Posted January 5 Josh McCullochs performance against Brechin is possibly the single worst individual performance I’ve ever seen. Looked like he’d never kicked a ball in his life. 7 out the door by the 5th January, incredible stuff. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowdenleith Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 1 hour ago, SLClyde said: Josh McCullochs performance against Brechin is possibly the single worst individual performance I’ve ever seen. Looked like he’d never kicked a ball in his life. 7 out the door by the 5th January, incredible stuff. Must be paying up most of these contracts though, so it won’t come cheap. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Replays Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 Looks like it’ll be next week for some further business. Here’s hoping Hamilton, Howie and Leitch improve us tomorrow. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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