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wellsince75

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  1. Frustrating game - we offered very little in attack . Why out better footballers don’t get a game is lost on me
  2. Get the subs on cup game. 15 mins left front 3 offering naff all change it
  3. Mugabi should never be playing right midfield - or his position , he’s a big strong centre half - can’t believe he should ever be in that postponing such a stupid , needless challenge . Gave the ref a decision to make .
  4. It’s luck that we’re only trailing by 1 . hibs the far better team . Too many late tackles and zero ability to hold the ball
  5. The style of play isn't all about the quality of players. Lower league team have out played us with basics.
  6. I’d like to see Kelly Mugabi. Sondra. Lamie S’OD. Slattery Ohara Goss Carrol KVV. Shields There could be a few variations of personnel but with a lack of natural winger I’d be pushing sod and carol up the flanks - they’re both decent in the final 1/3
  7. yip - it's disingenuous , "very exciting to see teams who will be 7-4th" and win sweet fanny adams, to quality for Europe and get dumped out before the next season starts. How dull our league truly is due to old firm and we're meant to be delighted to have them. Be better for all concerned for them both to join a different league and make things relatively interesting.
  8. I doubt our issue lies in formation - more tempo and lacking basic passing. FWIW Id use a 3-5-2 with both Carrol/SOD being part of the 5. Appreciate this would flip into 5-3-2 when under pressure but the issue for me goes well beyond formations.
  9. Not convinced Donnelly deserves negative attention any more than the next player. Kelly is the exception but everyone else has strengths and obvious weaknesses. The key is getting them to gel as a team. Donnelly is a decent holding midfield player who needs a more create midfield player to come short for easy passes. Bottom line is we've stopped playing as a team , lost confidence and lost our way. We need to be stronger than the sum of all parts, currently we are worse than a sum of all parts. Get back to basics. play simply, move forwards and backwards as a team and give us something to cheer.
  10. In recent times Mcghee (1st spell), Mcall both had spells of us playing decent footy. Robinson had us playing at tempo where we really got stuck in and a few streaks of decent play, equally backed up by poor streaks of dreadfulness. GA is set up to work hard without any flair. Similar to Robinson in as much we go through purple patches of winning ugly followed by this run of not winning and it still being ugly. We're missing some longer term thinking where we look to invest through a youth, invest in quality that sees us gradually improve each season and critically approach to our style of playing. Something to help that creates a desire to cheer the team on v's rip our eyeballs out their sockets.
  11. pre season was ugly - we struggled against lower league teams. From there we managed to be well organised and win games - our luck was always going to run out. In the midst of all this we extended GAs contract which most were delighted with. Majority happy when we're winning irrespective of how awful we are to watch. Personally I'd like to see good counter attacking teams who can at least pass the ball and move forwards and backwards as a team. GA isn't the man for that style but he's the one in charge and results speak volumes.
  12. Agree he’s been poor - He’s not a great defender but is decent pushing up . He made far better with Scotland who typically play a different formation than our 433 , where he gets caught out and has no right mid /extra defender to cover him
  13. Tough gig at the moment , 7 clubs doing their upmost to blow the chance of 4th. be good to mix up our approach . Both SOD and Caroll are pish as part of back 4 but both are decent moving forward . Play a 3-5-2 that flips into a 5-3-2 , at least we’d have some natural width
  14. never likely to happen. We extended his contract with the same style of play. he said it himself a few times, we didn't have better stats, better style of play when we were 4th. We were ruthless, took our limited chances. Thats the difference. The club knew what they had an extended the deal. Can't see that changing this season.
  15. I believe we have some decent players, who under a different system would add value. I don't understand why we don't try and pass, move, create space etc. overall it's approach that's annoyed me since pre season and yes we miss having the class of Watt in our team - more for how he brought people into the game than just his goals.
  16. He was easily our best midfielder - got a game every week. Can't help but think he and GA don't see eye to eye. Must have suggested why don't we start passing to one another and got dropped.
  17. This is why we have a good pitch - keep the ball of the grass
  18. Chop , change , chop , change Don't play either of our left backs in left back position. Don't play Slattery who was our best midfield player first half of season. Hope we find a way to win.
  19. When fit I Ojala was excellent. Similarly I'd have Slattery but no issues with the others. We have too many players - I'd be happy to reduce volume and have better quality.
  20. No question that GA stopped the rot and got us back on a stable footing. Also quite incredible that we were ever 4th for a sustained period .. When I do take a step back I don't really see the long term direction/trajectory, that for me is the issue. What type of football we're trying to embed. We're set up to stop other teams, to work our socks off and to press - but then what ? Who's our best players and why do our better players get dropped for long periods ? (Slattery) Why renew contracts on players who have proven not be a starting 11 ? Overall I find it difficult to have warm feelings about the longer term GA plan.
  21. Yorky - point well made about budget. My issue with GA is his attitude /no regrets about zero football, when we were winning and 4th it was easier to accept albeit still hard to watch or listen to him go on. GA has zero interest in the style of play, he doesn't care , as long as we get 3 points. (his words) Will be interesting to see if GA gets us top 6 with his approach, if he does fair enough.. Pretty much any decent mgr will have us +9th in the league, with occasional hot runs of top 6. I don't believe we have to approach this with a total lack of entertainment/style of play..
  22. Entertainment and quality of play has been horrible under GA. easy to forgive and ignore when we’re winning as an ugly win is still a win. far tougher to accept when we lose .
  23. strong team selection. Ojala & Slattery would both be in my starting 11 (if fit) but generally speaking a strong looking team.
  24. A lot of the game was a hard watch - it could have been +4 -0 . Something like 20 shots on goal. hard not to loose our shit when we’re that bad
  25. It frustrates me that we approach a game against Rangers the same way we do against any other club - we won't outplay them. We need to set ourselves up to get in their faces and defend much further up the pitch. There's bugger all need for 3 forwards - total waste. So easy for Rangers , they are a better team by a distance, it's poor game mgt to play into their strengths.
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