Jonesy

He can't be recalled outside the transfer window.

Yesterday was the first I've really been annoyed this season. I think it was mostly down to the players thinking it was all too easy and all they had to do was turn up for the season half and skoosh it. Even at the end of the first half rather than pushing for more they started to fuck about a bit too much and play some daft aimless passes that weren't going anywhere. I said then it would bite us on the arse and it did. Hendry just isn't good enough, and he doesn't even fit into this system either. 3 or 4 times yesterday there was a good ball into the box and he was hiding behind a defender at the back post. On another occasion Just had knocked the ball over a defender and had a clear shot at a volley and Hendry got right in his road. I'm not convinced Charles-Cook is up to much either so far. The only thing that's annoying me about Askou so far is constantly going on about load management. It's something Alexander used to do and he'd needlessly make 1 or 2 daft changes every week because of it. I could understand if we were playing Saturday, Tuesday and flying across Europe but we play 1 game a wee for fuck sake. Pick your best 11 and stick to it. We'll be absolutely fine this year and it's still a million miles better than what we've been made to sit through in recent years but if it carries on it'll become more than just a slight annoyance.

Lewis Ferguson barely got a start in his first 3 or 4 months at Bologna to let him settle in before he found himself as a mainstay and captain of the team. Chucking Miller in the deep end when he hasn't played any football since we played Carlisle almost 3 months ago ( 1 minute for Scotland aside) does nothing to help his development either.

Dundee are pish. Away win.

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Those that can, do. Those that can't, teach.

First things first, let's get that access road into the astro sorted. It's a total shambles. For £4.5 million we could have it made of marble and diamonds.

Aye, that's the same thing.

The extra wee kick back he'd get as a cut for saving them the sell-on fee before immediately moving on somewhere else would probably soften the blow, all without ever having to step foot in Watford.

There's the potential of being screwed over with the sell on fee if Udinese sell Miller to themselves at Watford for a low fee and then let Watford sell him on at a huge profit. Their owners are dodgy as fuck.

Chris McCart FFS. Aye, nae bother Tam.

Maybe so but SOD played the daft wee tit like a fiddle.

*If Celtic wanted him they could have got him*

SOD was superb when he came on. Pinged a few cross field passes about to perfection and managed to noise up one of their lot into getting themselves booked.

We'll absolutely leather a few teams this season. AP will score 15-16 goals at least.

If anyone can't figure out the way because the sign only says Beer Garden on it they shouldn't be near alcohol and probably shouldn't be allowed out unsupervised.

It's also definitely sign posted.

Flash in the pan. People have been complaining AP isn't suited as the striker in our new set up because his first touch isn't good enough so there's zero chance or it working with Bair, his first touch goes further than most people can kick. His success was built on using his pace and strength with acres of space to run into while the rest of our team stood on Liam Kelly's toes, it absolutely won't work when we've got our goalie standing 40 yards from goal. He's an absolute unit and some athlete but a football player he is not.

Don't knock it, it was our game plan for the bulk of the last 5 years. Give it another month or so (being generous) and there will already be idiots shouting for it to return.

For a start it's a pre season friendly so I don't really know why anyone cares. Beyond that we're getting used to another new manager who is setting up in a new formation and asking them to actually play football after 2 years of being told that the ball is their enemy, not to go anywhere near it and just let the other team keep it, of course there will be teething problems. Picking up on things like we didn't look comfortable playing out from defence or that the players were too slow to pick there pass (at time it felt like you could see their thoughts processing in real time but they're obviously still not sure of themselves yet) is a critique. Writing off some of the players or labelling it embarrassing is well past that and into lost the heid, pissed your wee panties territory.

We will end up relegated at some point but with Falkirk, Livi, Steven Presley's Dundee and (dare I say it) Stuart Kettlewell's Kilmarnock in the league it won't be this season. If you can at least accept relegation will happen at some point you'd be as well trying to enjoy it and have a bit of fun with it now and then rather than being a constant fucking misery.

Apart from all the examples listed, no one. You're right.

"Defensively worryingly bad" "Miles off it, nowhere near the level" "Verging on embarrassing" "Looked awful" "Worrying signs already at this early stage" "Players X,Y,Z shouldn't be anywhere near the first team" "Chasing shadows" "Early days but uninspiring. Expected better" (Albeit as part of a much more sensible post) "In for a rude awakening when the real stuff starts" All sound pretty pant pissy to me.

I wonder if the Twente fans pissed their pants this much over drawing 2-2 with us last summer, before going on to finish 5th in the Eredivisie? Falkirk lost to Edinburgh City at the weekend and they've probably stayed more sane than most of the folk on here.

Slattery, Stamatelopoulous and Balmer cost more than St Mirren and Killie have spent in recent years combined.