AlmostFrazzled
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I'd agree with Robinson saying we didn't do the simple thing in the first half. Yes, Queen's tired a lot in the last 20-25 minutes. But the second half we were happier playing the ball side-to-side tiring them out.
If you were booing at half time on Saturday you are an absolute riddy.
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Cheers. Took them long enough to answer as I have been asking all week.
Disagree - I thought his passing was sharp and purposeful. He just couldny run, tackle and lacked a final ball.
Worth noting he's also only 21 and didn't get his debut till December 2014 which isn't the 4 years some folk are claiming.
Good luck to him - We need exciting players in this league and he's still got a bit of time to develop. I'd actually love to see his talent turn into something meaningful on the pitch - as long as he's shite against us I'd be delighted to see him do well.
I wonder if Killie have their own Nando's Police?
So his passing was sharp & purposeful, but he couldn't pass a ball in the final third?
In all fairness to Dom, if I was needing a winger to run straight at a full back, and hit the first defender with every attempted cross I'd have him as first name on the team sheet every week.
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I'd have liked to have seen him in behind the front two in that ryan Gauld position that he played at Dundee Utd
However we never ever had the players around him to afford that luxury position
Also he couldn't pass water.
Based on last season Thomas just wasn't good enough.
Amble opportunity to prove him self last term playing just over 90 minutes of league football, comprising 4 sub appearances, three of which we were getting gubbed in when he came on.
The end for me was that 14 minute appearance against Kilmarnock when he failed to do anything to break the 0-0 deadlock. Mentioning that Scott McDonald, Louis Moult and Lionel Ainsworth started that match and did fuck all is merely a deflection tactic, one might even say evil and disingenuous sophistry. The blame for that performance rested purely on young Thomas.
Personally, in an age when our youth side win cups and achieve superb league placings, the only way to go is to ditch these youngster with their track record of success at youth level and focus purely on our next signing from Dagenham & Redbridge. Bradley Hudson-Odoi, Oliver Hawkins and Mitch Brundle come on down. The heady heights of 3rd bottom awaits.
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I'd doubt Dom Thomas is a top earner at the club, but it does free up a wage. Sensible move from Robinson because I reckon we'd have got another 4 sub appearances from him this season where he'd give the ball straight to a full back.
Me in this thread:
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Fucking hell. This thread, man.
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If Killie can manage to get him to do something then fair fucks to them. I haven't seen anything that would suggest that he'd be able to hold down a place in our team.
Neat and tidy in possession. Fair assessment of his best asset. Don't recall Clay giving the ball away too often but it's easy to do that if you don't try and play the killer ball and just shift the ball 10 yards to the side. Quite good at retaining the ball under pressure as well.
Must confess, I don't dislike Clay as a player despite the knowledge he's not good enough to be starting every week. Always gives 100%, never hides and seems a good character who fits in well. If we didn't have Campbell coming through, you could make a case (and with Lasley's retirement you possibly still can) for having him on the bench as a cheap backup option. But the signing of Rose and the emergence of Campbell and Gordon will probably see him not even make the bench. Wouldn't slate the guy though. Always gives his all, just that his all probably isn't enough at this level.
Always feel if a player gives his best and it's not good enough, then the manager is to blame for picking him. Would only dislike a player if they have ability but don't give it their all...
We'll agree to disagree, because I have genuinely not been that hacked off at anyone in a Motherwell jersey in years. I can forgive Zak Jules because his issue was clearly that he has absolutely no footballing ability. Clay hides from games, and when he does get the ball he plays a 5 yard pass sideways or backwards. He's also chronically unfit as after 50 minutes he's clearly breathing out his arsehole. And, as I said before, in that last home game against Kilmarnock when he ran into the box and blatantly dived I absolutely lost the nut at him.
If we can arrange a giant cannon to fire Clay & Blyth into the nearest large body of water that would be great.
I'm not sure it's that weird tbh. Most of the teams around us have a few trialists in at the moment, if Dundee fans are to be believed they've got up to half a dozen in at the moment. I understand the point in that for a key area that's been known to need addressed by everyone including the manager you'd have thought we'd have targets in mind that we'd have gone out and signed straight away in the same way that we've done business early for other areas of the park but when you strip it back it is there that much difference between us ending up with a player having had him in for a fortnight to have a look at him then deciding he's a good fit over just signing him straight away? It's possible that they're players we've identified but wanted to have a look at before committing to.
Speaking hypothetically, had we just straight out signed Dembele and he had slotted in as he did on Saturday there's a fair chance people would feel a lot more comfortable about us having made positive steps to "address" the defensive area of the park however because he and others are trialists there's, rightly or wrongly, an implication that they're inferior players vs someone we've signed straight away. Similarly, again hypothetically, I'd imagine people would be a bit more comfortable had we gone out and signed someone like Meekings because he's known name in this league, yet he hasn't kicked a ball due to injury since December and has a patchy injury record in general.
In honesty I'm a lot happier if we've got trialists in early in order for us to take a look at them and make a decision early. If the process is us taking a look at them and making a genuine appraisal on whether they fit in/are good enough then fine. It becomes more of a problem if we just end up taking them regardless simply to fill a jersey. In truth I think there's more chance of the latter happening at the end of the window than at this stage.
In other news I see that's Everton chucking stacks of cash at Burnley for Michael Keane, if Burnley want to follow up their reported interest in Ben Heneghan then now's the time for them to do it.
I would much rather we didn't give anyone a trial and just signed guys out of nowhere. I mean it worked so well last season with Belic & Jules.
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Tait is excellent. When he missed the second half of the season we lost a massive part of our attack. Yes, he is a bit suspect, but in fairness the games he's been ripped to bits were against Sinclair & Hayes who are two of the best wingers in the league.
So far everyone's been polite about Clay. I'm willing to put it out there that he's absolutely shit. A total waste of a jersey. Can't pass or tackle. His only positive part was a shot that was sailing into the Moray Firth before a freak gust of wind caught it. Towards the end of the season his speciality became running into the box and just falling over mainly resulting in getting booked.
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Be less shit.
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Jacob Blyth needs an op on his foot or ankle or something, he is going nowhere. Apparently.
Fucking story of his life.
I wouldn't. He was up and down last season but he is still very young and to sell him to a direct competitor would not be an astute move imho.
Hopefully this will bring others out the shadows.
Could be a huge month ahead if we are to find replacements for Cadden, Henaghan and Moult!
FWIW - my realistic valuation of each player would be:
Moult - £750k to £1m
Cadden - £500k
Henaghan - £3-500k
If we get £3-500k for Heneghan we could probably be done for robbery.
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Zak Jules signs for Shrewsbury. Their fans seem delighted
100% signing up for an account on their forums. There's too much Zak Jules gif gold floating around that needs to be shared.
Could do a job
Would walk into our current defence........
Cheers, lads.
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Paul Quinn released by County. http://www.rosscountyfootballclub.co.uk/news/archive/senior-and-development-players-released/
*Awaits "could do a job" post.*
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Are you saying that Lee McCulloch decided not to sign for us (I actually never realised we were after him at any point) because some folk in the East Stand had a go at him when he was playing against us in a Sevco top?
Aye. But the assailant remains at large.
On topic I think Robinson deserves a fair crack at it. He was absolutely hamstrung by injuries and horrific signings left from McGhee's time and from the sounds of it he's not hanging about getting rid of some of that absolute dross. While it's not been a wonderful style of football to watch at least we became slightly more difficult to play against even with a makeshift defence including Zak Jules.
Surely need to find a way of getting shot of Blyth?!?!
I was thinking that myself. Surely we can come to an agreement with him for him to quietly leave.
"Jacob, son. You're shite and made of glass. Away ye go."
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Was Blyth injured and we have just not seen the best of him or is he just shite?
Injured.
And shite.
Tories in the front row.
It's a football site keep politics out if it can't stand anything to do with it.
Sounds like something someone sitting in the front row would say...
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The Great Rebuild 2017'18
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Say what you like about McDonald, but the boy fucking hates a pre-season. He'll find a contract at the end of August and wander straight into a team.