Smiggers Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 Excellent result and very competent display. Not the most exciting but never looked like losing. That’s me been to Cove three times and Queens have won every time. Not too bad a following but a few more of you need to keep the faith! As always……next week the big test. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watson Nimrod Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 Disappointing really but key players still missing and I’m afraid anyone plucked from the crowd would have done a better job than Darge who clearly isn’t working at this level but I guess the cupboards are bare. Got to give the 2 new lads a chance to settle in, both hopefully will be here for the long haul, reliably told a local CB is inbound so no idea who that might be. Not happy about the result but moderately happy for Bartley who I have met a few times in my day job and I like him and thought he was exactly the sort of manager we could do with at the Balmoral. At our level and geographically it’s ridiculously tough to compete. I’m as critical as anyone on Hartley and the stagnant coaching set up but trying to get consistency while trying to persuade players to come here is extremely hard. So onwards to Tuesday night and the long drive but the reward will be worth it if we can navigate a very tricky pitch. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jo9 Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 1 hour ago, Kircer bairn said: How was Lowal ? Reserving judgement to be honest. Given the overall performance today it would be unfair to judge him right now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rjc-1988 Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 Having Brydon, Efe and McLelland certainly gives us a good foundation from which to build on from the back. Tempting fate I know but with a good keeper and these three we shouldn’t really be losing too many goals in L1. We are painfully short of creativity further forward but that was a good win. We have a had a good few false dawns - it will be interesting to see if we can finally get a result against bogey team Accies next week. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19QOS19 Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 6 hours ago, Rjc-1988 said: Having Brydon, Efe and McLelland certainly gives us a good foundation from which to build on from the back. Tempting fate I know but with a good keeper and these three we shouldn’t really be losing too many goals in L1. We are painfully short of creativity further forward but that was a good win. We have a had a good few false dawns - it will be interesting to see if we can finally get a result against bogey team Accies next week. Aye. For as awful as the last two away games were (pre-Cove) in an attacking sense, the defence has clearly done well to only concede once in each game at two difficult venues. We seem to have got that part right since the Hamilton game but MB really needs to get the balance right overall. Hopefully no more injuries this week and we kick on at Hamilton rather than this being another false dawn. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 Any word on the Stone injury? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fae_the_'briggs Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 I wasn't in attendance and haven't seen any footage, what kind of injury has Stone sustained? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bod Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 Genuine question for @CoveRangers1922, how are you clear in 3rd position when you play as poor as that and made us look good? Fyvie must be some player of he makes such a diff and with Efe and Brydon keeping the shackles on Burrell you looked clueless. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otis Blue Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 14 hours ago, Watson Nimrod said: ... At our level and geographically it’s ridiculously tough to compete. I’m as critical as anyone on Hartley and the stagnant coaching set up but trying to get consistency while trying to persuade players to come here is extremely hard ... Just wondering about the geographical aspect and difficulties in attracting players - so where do Cove train during the week? Is it in the Aberdeen area? Queens have similar issues and our go to solution over the years has often been to train in the central belt during the week (currently we train in Hamilton) and this helps us in attracting central belt players - OK the southern based players then have to travel up to Hamilton but the majority tend to be central belt based. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoveRangers1922 Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 (edited) 6 hours ago, bod said: Genuine question for @CoveRangers1922, how are you clear in 3rd position when you play as poor as that and made us look good? Fyvie must be some player of he makes such a diff and with Efe and Brydon keeping the shackles on Burrell you looked clueless. The run of 6 straight wins and undefeated in 10 all competitions came with the return of Fyvie. We weren't overly convincing at times but we were miles ahead of yesterday's performance. Without Fyvie we can't build or sustain attacks. Shouldn't have such a reliance on one player but we do. We resort to either launching long balls in the general direction of Rumarn and hope he gets scraps OR the SLOWEST build ups known to man allowing the opposition to set themselves. Tough watch from us yesterday. We looked a gang devoid of any ideas. Supposedly our disallowed goal wasn't offside and would have drawn us on level terms. We played so poorly that we can't fret over the loss. Queens were alright, did enough without looking overly spectacular. Moves you right back in towards contention of the playoffs. Brydon back certainly helps you lot, he and Efe strolled it. Hartley needs to get the begging bowl out and see if the directors can give him another signing. Edited January 28 by CoveRangers1922 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watson Nimrod Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 5 hours ago, Otis Blue said: Just wondering about the geographical aspect and difficulties in attracting players - so where do Cove train during the week? Is it in the Aberdeen area? Queens have similar issues and our go to solution over the years has often been to train in the central belt during the week (currently we train in Hamilton) and this helps us in attracting central belt players - OK the southern based players then have to travel up to Hamilton but the majority tend to be central belt based. That’s the point I was making is that there are real similarities with our clubs. We train in Aberdeen tho. FT players during the day and combined sessions several evenings. After the promotion from the HL there were lots of players coming out of FT football who benefited from coming to Cove combining that with training for a future career or a job outside football. Couple that with the contacts some of our board have in the oil industry we were a very attractive option for decent ‘local ish’ players. That pipeline firmly dried up. We tried to entice Andrew Considine and Joe Lewis from Aberdeen 2 years ago and were way off the mark with expectations that were being matched just 3 to 4 years previously. All the North clubs struggle when they loose multiple players. It was Peterhead a few years back and the debacle that occurred for us over the last summer is well documented. We are still attractive to decent full time players who want to drop down to PT, but we can’t attract decent FT players to come up here at this level (although Doyle and Shiels have bucked that trend in the last month). Thankfully there seems to be a slight volte-face from the board now in that we will extend PT contracts maybe even sign a PT player if he was the right fit, still doesn’t give me much confidence we will find the FT players we need tho. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Another Edin Doonhamer Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 Jack Brydon had a superb game, continually shouting instructions and encouragement, and being in the right place to score, perhaps rather a flukey goal. Doherty worked really hard and played very well, and his goal was superb. Great break by Queens from a Cove corner, Lewis on the ball, with Kyle D to his left and Lee to his right. He chose Kyle. Gav was getting ready to go on to replace Kyle D before he scored, so was obviously always going to happen. Never really looked in doubt after that. Both keepers were comfortable. Harry didn't have a lot to do regarding facing shots, Gordon made a great double save. And no, Megginson and Harry didn't collide, the subs were made during the interval. With Jack back perhaps we can go on to better things. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otis Blue Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 11 hours ago, Another Edin Doonhamer said: Jack Brydon had a superb game, continually shouting instructions and encouragement, and being in the right place to score, perhaps rather a flukey goal. Doherty worked really hard and played very well, and his goal was superb. Great break by Queens from a Cove corner, Lewis on the ball, with Kyle D to his left and Lee to his right. He chose Kyle. Gav was getting ready to go on to replace Kyle D before he scored, so was obviously always going to happen. Never really looked in doubt after that. Both keepers were comfortable. Harry didn't have a lot to do regarding facing shots, Gordon made a great double save. And no, Megginson and Harry didn't collide, the subs were made during the interval. With Jack back perhaps we can go on to better things. Cheers, thanks for the feedback - sounds positive. Suspect that any optimism maybe needs slightly tempered by that Cove side not being up to much - was it a case of we looked good against a poor side perhaps? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bod Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 1 hour ago, Otis Blue said: Cheers, thanks for the feedback - sounds positive. Suspect that any optimism maybe needs slightly tempered by that Cove side not being up to much - was it a case of we looked good against a poor side perhaps? Feel it was a bit like that, this weekend will be a bigger marker of where we are. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DG.Roma Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 On 27/01/2024 at 15:15, DoonhamerDon said: A goal! We must have had a shot Funnily enough, no, it wasn't a shot! It was beautiful though 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
84yards Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 Fantastic result for us. Hopefully we can get a run going now. We even won the one that matters .... 4-2 on shots on target. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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