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  1. Hull bid £750k apparently, we knocked it back and accepted £1m with a sell on, hardly double. The guy is a Scotland U21 regular, still had 2.5 years of his contract and is 19 and improving the more games he gets, and his scoring record? Isnt that bad considering he isnt a centre forward! He plays wide,is our out ball, has scored 4 or 5 goals this season and has set a few up too, considering we are hardly a free scoring team Id say thats ok. My main gripe was that there is no way on earth we would have got less than £1m for him in the Summer! So selling him now is essentially accepting the first half decent bid. We are 3rd in the table, have a good cup draw and a fantastic chance of getting Europe. But that could all be down the shitter now. If the club had actually bothered to sign the striker/s that everyone but Steve Robinson can see we desperately needed, then selling Scott would have been dissappointing, but understandable to an extent. Instead we cash in on a quick buck and bring in a 24/25yo panic loan full back/winger who got dumped by Wycombe Wanderers 3 weeks ago. Our "Striking" options left are Long, Manzinga, Seedorf, McIver, Ilic & Hylton. Long cannot play up front on his own, but will work hard nontheless. Hylton looks decent in flashes, Seedorf, as much as I want him to succeed, is utter shite and would struggle in the Highland League! Ilic & Manzinga have the jury well out, and McIver looks handy but very raw. We desperately needed at least 1 central striker, we got Ndjoli who is a winger and is apparently not even good enough to make yesterdays bench, and a last minute panic loan Lw/Lb. THATS why I said the Scott deal was Horseshit!
    5 points
  2. After the summer the only wingers we will have are Ilic, Hylton and Seedorf, hopefully with the latter being punted. A fit and healthy Murphy would be a superb signing.
    2 points
  3. I’m generally a supporter of Robinson but I’m baffled as to why we keep bringing in very average wide players when it’s obvious we are crying out for a decent central striker, it just seems a complete waste of money. I thought Lyndon Dykes was excellent yesterday and he’s exactly the type of player we need not another lightweight winger. Now ok we know we can’t afford Dykes but I would rather see Main return who could at least hold the ball up and had a physical presence. I would like to think we have more than enough quality in the team to avoid a freefall though, we always tend to bounce back.
    2 points
  4. I have to say I think you’re exaggerating the level to which this seasons success has been due to Scott, I would say his impact has been minimal, he’s slowly improving but has a long way to go. I can name another half dozen player in the first 11 who have had more of an impact than Scott has. Sitting at a large table of well fans yesterday they were split down the middle on the Scott transfer with one stating he would get nowhere near the first team and be back up here with his tail between his legs within 18 months, time will tell. We needed a central striker before Scott left and still do so nothing has changed there anyway. Scott is not Ronaldo and I don’t see him been the difference between Europe or not.
    2 points
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  6. Yes - yesterday was worse than accies. Way worse. Our only corner and only shot came in the last couple mins. Corner came to nothing and shot was a daisy cutter from about 25 yards - it did actually trouble the keeper in the end though. A bad day at the office but let's face it livi are a horrible team to play, on an even worse pitch. Time to make up for it on wednesday.
    2 points
  7. It’s a hell of a lot better than what was on offer at Livingstone yesterday.
    1 point
  8. Precisely. The only doubt over Murphy is/was his fitness. We may have invested in a plethora of wingers but two have failed to make much of an impression and the two just through the door arrive with big question marks (as do many of our signings to be fair). A fit Jamie Murphy guarantees you goals, assists and character. As for a centre forward, we’ve struggled since the departure of Moult to find the right fit.
    1 point
  9. We will be in the market for strikers and wingers this summer. Murphy is levels above Hylton who is the only decent winger we have.
    1 point
  10. Went to the game yesterday saying to myself at least it's got to be better than the first day of the season. It wasn't. It was twice as bad and far worse than the Accies game. Apart from Gillespie we had nobody who can claim to have played at anything like a reasonable level. Polworth just can't play on that surface but when I saw he was being substituted by O'Hara I said to the guy next to me that we were settling for 0-0. What happened next, long ball into the box Livi score and we are left with nobody on the park capable of making an incisive pass to get us back into the game. Everybody going on about signing a big striker to play up top need to take a reality check. Every team in the country is looking for that player and we don't have the financial clout to compete in that market. Don't get me wrong I would love a big 20 goal a season target man but am realistic enough to know it won't happen any time soon.
    1 point
  11. Not saying Main would be my number one option but if it was between another winger from down south or him I would have taken him, we badly need someone that can hold the ball up front, yesterday was painful to watch with no one ever in control of the ball.
    1 point
  12. Tempting fate but after a while we have learned how to play on that Accies pitch and as a result have had some pretty good results there of late. Compare that to Livingston where game after game we persist in sticking to our usual style. Passing the ball back and forth across the back, collecting in midfield and trying to hold off/sidestep men before playing a searching pass. Contrast that to how Livingston play on their own pitch. They get the ball into the final third as quickly as possible, usually one touch, and only try to play passing football when they are in that area. Even if there was nobody to pass to, I lost count of the number of times they just punted the ball upfield into our full back areas and then pressed us into overplaying and usually giving away possession. Dykes may be an excellent player, but the rest are a bunch of journeymen who play to instructions ...and do it well. Apart from Gillespie the performance yesterday was shocking and disheartening. I take it the game plan was set out for them so Robinson and Lasley must take their share of the blame. Why are we unable or unwilling to adapt our style to suit that pitch? Time after time it’s the same story. Even when we get a fortunate result like the start of this season. I don’t buy that we don’t have the players for a more suitable approach. Man for man we have better players than Livingston, but not on yesterday’s showing. Surely professional footballers of supposed good quality are capable of adapting to conditions, if they are instructed to. Interestingly Livingston appear able to play a more passing game when playing away from home on a grass pitch. So they are able to adapt. I don’t think James Scott would have made much difference and would have been isolated in the same way as Long, eventually playing deeper and deeper. Sad to see him go though. That said we might not have been treated to the sight of Bevis Mugabi doing his very best impression of a left winger/ centre forward. Credit to him for effort, he certainly gave it his all. And having suffered through both games, YES, yesterday was far worse and more embarrassing than the defeat to Accies.
    1 point
  13. We were shocking today much worse than Accies game . Pitch not to blame we had 1 player and 10 duds had a great season to date but that today was not acceptable .
    1 point
  14. Aaron Taylor-Sinclair puts Livi ahead.
    1 point
  15. Your arse is making buttons to see how this trial goes isn't it? I wonder if your new found interest in assault cases will last any longer than your previous interest in legal matters when you were so desperate to take up the cudgels on behalf of the the Oldham player who accused Robinson of bullying.
    1 point
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