Clackscat
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Agree with all of that but what does 'shilpit' mean? Thats a new one for me and I am often accused of using strange words!I give credit to the manager for changing things after an abysmal first half. Tanner and Fisher seemed unable to cope with RC's "physicality": they for me will always be the most "street wise" XI in the league. That's not a compliment. Sendy-off Boy should be driving a plough.
Campbell and Bowman were a great improvement, the latter giving great support to Moult, who had been completely isolated in the first half. I also thought MacLean showed promise when he came on.
The manager may consider the two young Scottish midfielders worthy of more starts, and they certainly offered more dig and passing options.
Haste ye back, Elliot Frear: we missed your drive down the flanks. You may look a shilpit wee guy but you get kicked up and down and never give up.
We would have lost this match last year. We produced much more fight after HT and Campbell and MacLean were contributors to that.
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I see BBC reporter is crediting our victory to changing formation to 3 5 2. Couldn't make it today, is that an accurate report?
Great to see a win being ground out when not playing well and a manager prepared to make the right changes at the right time.
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Ya bezzer seems to think the opposite (ie Airdrie fans not happy with him), but then he has been putting a pretty negative spin on most things recently.Being brought up and living in Airdrie most of my life, I know quite a few Airdrie fans that regularly go to their games. They've all been complimentary on Ferguson. One for the future definitely, I'm happy with that piece of business.
Never seen the lad play but happy to trust the clubs judgement on this and the immediate loan back plus having him involved at Motherwell during the week seems sensible
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2 cracking goals great build up and finishing.....future is bright. If a home draw next lets get it at FP and get a crowd in to see the lads
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Craig Clay an unused sub as Orient thrashed 6-1 by Bromley
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As ever a well thought out sensible post making good critical points but fair and reasonable.Well I was at the game and its fair to say its one of the oddest I've witnessed in almost 60 years. I'll not comment on the 3 red cards as I haven't seen them in detail. I thought mistakes were made in the team selection. We lacked pace and movement up front and perhaps, and I say perhaps, MacLean could have given us that. Predictably left wing was a problem for us. We started off well and controlled the game and swung over cross after cross into Saints' box with little effect. Plenty of possession and graft but no cutting edge. After perhaps 20 minutes of pressure we failed to register one effort on goal. Saints broke away and predictably scored 2 goals with 2 attacks. the first one relying on spades of good luck. Bowman and Fisher worked damned hard but did nothing admittedly, with poor service. Poor defending did cost us and thats what Saints are good at - making few mistakes and scoring when the chance presents itself. Over the piece we didn't play badly but lacked experience and streetwiseness. Up front is where our problems lie. Neither Fisher nor Bowman look like doing the business at this level. Hard work in life by itself counts for nothing.
As we lost men Saints began to dominate the game as you'd expect. They've now picked up 6 points by beating 2 teams in close fought games as they do.
I can't go on without referring to the referee. Red cards apart he had a poor and inconsistent game. He missed 2 blatant hand balls, at close range and a cast iron penalty in my book when Paton, I think, grabbed Moult by the throat at a corner. However you dress it up Paton did not do that by accident. I'd also like him to explain to me why he checked our players 6 times for stealing yards at throw ins and did not pull up Saints once, not once, for similar indiscretions. Failing to give the advantage when Moult was fouled was not something you expect from an experienced referee.
As far as Robbo is concerned he must address 2 weaknesses: occasional errors at the back and lack of bite/punch up front. The latter is now becoming a worry.
Overall though I'm not overly concerned. We've had 2 tough closely fought league games and sustained two losses with little or no luck. Normally after a defeat I'm hard on the team, but not today. I was one who applauded them off the field for fighting well even when down to 8 men and not giving up. A number of players, including Louis Moult, appreciated that and came over to acknowledge the applause.
One final thought is it normal practice for the 3 match officials to leave the pitch before most of the players? I always thought the ref was last to leave.
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Tickety boo old boy....all way too clever for this old gitI fear the fun is over my friend. But seriously you ok bro?
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Love it, I felt your pain on the previous blog mentioned, as it in many ways epitomised how I felt, and agree with every word in this one.New blog post on our website - http://www.mfc1886.com/falling-back-in/amp/
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Can't think of any in recent times. Think the big man could be immense for us. He has a good head on his shoulders as well, watching highlights, at very end of match a ball was played into the box, County man had possession but he didn't dive in, forced him back then ft whistle went. Brains and Brawn that will do for me
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Aye Bigi caught in posession to start it all, maybe not fully fit after missing SundayJust caught the highlights, looked some game after half time. End to end stuff and lots of chances. McLean took his goal really well, and was onside for me. Few good saves from Carson and Fisher & Moult really unlucky not to score. Hard to really tell from footage if appeal will be successful or not, but definitely a penalty.
Only thing that stood out as constructive criticism was County's first goal was an absolute horror show from our point of view. From our throw in, a relatively wee guy like Schalk waltzes through three defenders with absolute ease. Top finish mind you.
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It would appear this is one rule you didn't know about mate. I actually thought you were on the wind up with your Robbo/Burrows comment....maybe you were, and if so you have hooked me..... because if not hope you enjoying your big slice of humble pieListen MATE. I know all sorts of rules. If this has taken place Robinson has to walk. Burrows while we're at it actually, something like this can't go on.
What we need atm is clarity though and I urge everyone not to panic. Don't panic.
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Wasn't a moment of madness it was a certain goal and he 'took one for the team' in trying to stop it. You are right though in that it looked a correct red card to meI cant see how we can win that appeal, he blatently shoved the guy away from the ball and a chance to score, a moment of madness.
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To put that result into perspective that was County's first defeat in 14 games going back to last season. Terrific result
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Well done lads i am just glad you had more fight and belief in yourselves than the hysterical pant wetters on here
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We are allowed to in extra time..anyway if we werent the ref would not have allowed it so ffs get realDoesn't matter if we go through or not, we surely will be kicked out of the competition for illegally fielding a 4th substitute.
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Pretty much 100% my view too.
On the back 3, I don't think it will work all the time. But, on the plus side, Robinson isn't scared to change things up.
I see numerous comments not happy about the back 3. All I would say is Robbo has tightened us up enormously, any game lost has been by the odd goal, or goallie has still to be seriously tested, so for me the more important issue to be resolved is at the other end of the park.
Like you I don't think he is afraid to line up differently if he feels it is right to do so, and am quite happy to trust his judgement in that regard
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I feel your pain Gav and I posted similar sentiments (although maybe not as strong) last year.First post in a while...
I've struggled to muster any strength of feeling towards our squads over the last couple of years. I don't like the model of signing substandard players from the English lower leagues and hoping about 1 in 3 of them turn out to be useful and produce a small transfer fee. They've no interest in Motherwell and likewise I've no interest in their development and future.
It's a continual struggle to keep churning through them and just exist along the same lines indefinitely.
It's to the detriment of young Scottish players of our own which I find immensely disappointing. I've no real affection for the team anymore and my attendances have tailed off to the point where I was away out playing golf yesterday afternoon and didn't bother to check the score until hours after the match had ended. In the not too distant past, I'd never have envisaged that ever being the case.
There's no identity to our team on the park, they're 90% mercenaries who will be off the first payday they can get their hands on. Contrast it to our team of ten years ago...
Loyalty though is a 2 way street and as others have pointed out 10/15/20 years ago we had players here for a season or two and then gone. I have no issue with that as long as they play well when here. The other side of the coin is clubs show no loyalty if a player loses form, is not liked by a new manager, or gets injured. It is a short career and players need to maximise their opportunities which they will not do as one club players.
I would love to see more home grown players in the first team and I have no doubt so would the club. Development fees if they move on even at the end of contracts are lucrative for the club (Erwin!), but these same rules prohibit us going for young Scottish talent from other clubs as they are too expensive.
Hence the model we have but the caveat for me is to see more of our own in the first team as the next 2 seasons progress, and a better quality of signings (which in the main this season we have). For now I would say the youngsters are not ready and fans would quite rightly criticise the manager for throwing them in en mass and have us in trouble yet again.
We are not the only club with this issue and I feel it is not the club that is the issue its the system.
Anyway hope your golf had a better result than the team on Sunday
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Cadden just ahead of Kipre and Heneghan
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Yeah Tanner does seem to divide opinion, I have now warmed more to him and think he will be good for us, absolute peach of a delivery for equaliser, just have to accept not every delivery will be as good !!!Thought we did ok, better squad than last year. I think our defence looks good I like Dunne thought he did well.
Big Cedric looks the business lets get him signed for another year.
Was surprised how much Tanner was involved but never really did anything of note but think he will do well.
As already said we need another striker, that's two games Bowman has been clean through and not scored.
I'm not happy we lost but can see some positives
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I can exclusively reveal that Sky TV have been taken over by Rangers TV (or so it seemed). Sychophantic unprofessional coverage
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Interesting point about Carson, must mean the defence in front of him doing a few things right. Good stop near the end although was offside. Certainly looks the part in terms of confidence/organisationWe absolutely battered them that half. How the hell did we lose that???
Play like that every week we will be top 6. That was chalk and cheese compared with last year. Players fighting to the end. Not giving up possession at throw ins!!!
Still not sure about Carson, not seen him make a save yet!
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Decent performance yes lacking in quality at times but fought hard Cadds Kipri Dunn pretty good. Cant legislate for top scorer missing a sitter and giving away a pen. Had it with Bowman, Fisher unlucky, terrific save and chance set up by 'off the pace' McHugh who to be fair wasnt as good without Biggi beside him. We will be fine this season..younger fitter and better organised
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Craig Clay came on for Orient 79 mins. They got beat 2-0 away to Sutton. Yet another great little club ruined by numpty owners. Challenging for championship to non league in a few seasons
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Agreed...there is a compilation somewhere on you tube of his goals for us, outstanding finishing.I can't think of a side since I was born that Michael Higdon wouldn't improve.
I warmed to Higdon when he was asked about the stick he was getting fron the fans (I think it was v Abdeen). Rather than bleating about it he replied that having just seen the highlights he was surprised he didn't get more stick.
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http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/sport/15483809.Pep_Clotet__Marvin_Johnson_left_out_of_Oxford_United_squad_due_to_tight_hamstring/?ref=rss
I see Marv declared he had a 'tight' hamstring so was not in Oxford squad today, and did not travel with the team. Hmmmm I smell sh###
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