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Why should Forbes be a straight swap for Keith? Are we only allowed to have one style of player in the team? Do you seriously expect us to have clones for every first team player? That's just deluded.
we're a team that plays 4-4-2. it appears that forbes can only play in a midfield 3. since mccall has been here he has played forbes in a centre mid pairing once at killie when he came on as a sub and got subbed back off.
i'm not enthused by having to play 4-5-1 every time las or jenno miss a game.
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Sorry but you're talking pish.
We let Saints have the ball and sat off them to let them try and break us down, which they didn't as they didn't create one decent chance all match. We on the the other hand created all the chances and forced Samson into 5 good saves despite and I quote you that "our midfield was horrible".
Forbes and Law both had good games.It's not a lack of faith, he chose to play Forbes as he was the best option available to him. As for the formation I think it was used to counter the fact that Saints had 3 central midfield players. We went like for like.
As for the tactics they weren't pretty but they worked and as posted above using the players available for you to the best of their abilities is good management and shock horror it worked as we won.
our tactics didn't work at all.
we didn't 'let saints have the ball', we got the run around for most of the game. we were up against two of the worst centre backs in the league and our centre forward won nothing against them. how many times did we kick the ball at higdon followed by him jumping 4 inches and their defenders winning the ball with no one near them?
we didn't use the players available to the best of their abilities. humphrey didn't have a clue what he was doing and barely got a kick, murphy was on the edge of the game for 90 mins and law disapeared for the first 35 of the 2nd half. apart from jenno no one in our midfield kenw who they were meant to be picking up for most of the game.
is it a lack of faith. if las was fit we would have played a 4-4-2. forbes is meant to be a centre mid but he can't play in a midfield 4 so we have to play one up top to fit him in. the fact that it only takes either jenno or las to miss a game to make us completely change tactics is very worrying.
st mirren are utter garbage, we shouldn't be happy just because we edged them in a close game.
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Changing the shape of a team to accommodate the strengths of your available players sounds like common sense tactics to me rather than a lack of faith.
it was a definite lack of faith.
murphy and humphrey spent the majority of the game man marking their pishy fullbacks.
if forbes was up to it he would have been a straight swap for keith. he isn't so we ended up chasing shadows.
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3 Points will do for me anyday, tactics right or wrong, still top of the SPL.
No stick out players today, positive or negative, for what ever reason it never seemed to work, not pretty on the eye, but sometimes its nice to win ugly!NEXT.
honestly?
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brief thoughts.
our midfield was horrible. they were hopeless. we made all the chances so we deserved the win.
higdon - that bad he tried to get himself sent off. that performance isn't acceptable, up the workrate or face questions about the waistline.
humphrey - it's like playing with 10 men. that's 270 mins of utter failure, wtf!
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if you had a compy to get in then you can have no complaints.
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craggs for me. double figures in clearances in his own box. tremendous.
forbes had a lot of good passes. on the other hand we had to change our full shape because the manager didn't have the faith to play him in a centre 2 and there were quite a few occasions were he should have been in control but he got shrugged off it because he was too weak.
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There are indeed student prices at st mirren, was a tenner a student skull for the Aberdeen game.
McGregor is a huge loss for them.
you went to st mirren - aberdeen rather than our game against killie?
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a good appointment.
in his book big tel talks about how big an influence marhsall was in the dressing room and how he gave the team talk at 90 mins in the hearts semi.
delighted to have him back at the club.
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Saunders looked dodgy today, i like him tae but he just didn't look confident at all. Get him back in the team and get our international player back to his best.
i thought he came onto a game in the 2nd half, he won 2 or 3 huge headers near the end. he also played one of the passes of the match down the line to hateley.
i think we need to bear in mind that he only had a couple of minutes against partick and nothing against leeds, ict or killie. he's obviously a bit behind the rest in match sharpness.
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never heard any negativity at the way we played today, I'd have beeling if I was a Hears fan though - they were fucking garbage, and seemed intent on giving Kello as many touches as possible.
i think it's down to where you sit. good vibes in our section, nae point slagging your own players when there are wanks like grainger and templeton about.
if anything las should have passed the ball back to randolph rather than trying to chip it out left, as tweed said he had a hand in his own downfall.
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African '18 year old' Means he is really 28. That's why when they turn 30 they are infact 40 and incapable of cutting it anymore.
he was born in belgium.
some folk are just massive, lebron james and dwight howard were monsters when they were 18.
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I thought amatuer teams didnt recieve any money.
i had a google of the rules
up until a certain age (23) if a club signs a player on his first pro contract they have to pay 'training compensation' to the clubs that developed him from the age of 12 to 21.
fifa rules govern cross border signings and the lowest grade of compensation under their guidelines is 10,000 euros per season.
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There was a Trialist playing with the under 19,s last week at Bathgate don't know if hes the French-Angolan player but he played well ,its a pity we've lost out again by yet another admin error or a cock up as Dossers fae the shire wid sae.
he might have been a good player but i doubt he was worth 90,000 euros which is what we would have had to pay to various french amatuer teams.
i'm guessing his agent didn't inform us of that when he brought the guy over.
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looking forward to seeing big shaun and craggs versus big sutty.
they should at least be wise to his backing in and grabbing trick.
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I would just as readily play McHugh or Smith rather than Higdon and why not what has Higdon done in the games hes played in.
the difference between higdon playing and occupying defenders and him not being there was pretty stark last saturday.
i'd give boab the nod tomorrow. i'd expect us to come fast out the blocks and press them and he might be able to some joy in the box.
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The imagination shown by Aberdeen's extensive scouting network continues to impress.
dazzer gets his rumours from thingsmadeupbysadcases.com. any idiot can go on those sites and link any player to any club. the fact that he keeps on reposting them here gives a strong hint as to who is making them up.
jeffers was worth it just for his goal at aberdeen and the performances in the two quarters and the semi. his signing and that of ross were a bit like bob malcolm's a few years ago, a good move when the window was shut to help us achieve our goals but not worth it under normal circumstances.
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No, not for the sake of a few quid I'd rather miss out on a few games and see a small but determined squad with the talent we have.
But the club seem to want more people through the gates
you continually defend the high current prices, do you believe it reasonable or value for money
i think my season ticket is pretty good value.
everyone would like everything to be cheaper but you've got to be realistic. we're over achieving on a low bugdet right now and i don't see where we could make savings.
if we want a decent team on the park playing in the spl then fans are going to have to put their hands in their pocket, if not we'll end up like accies. would paying a 100 quid less a year for home games (a fiver off every match) be worth that?
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I have stopped going , down to maybe 15-20 games a season
and I do for the 10 or so that are at Fir Park
thanks for the advice.
edit: as for the players , I'll not have to choose who goes, it'll happen all by itself, in the meantime I'll enjoy the talent thats on show when I can, doesn't mean I can't be concerned about the future
that was actually addressed to the prior moaner.
i can't understand how people can moan about prices when we're down to the utter bare bones. would you prefer we hadn't signed law and higdon but knocked a few quid off the price of a ticket?
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so more season ticket holders year on year
prices up year on year
less people inside the ground year on year and less cash through averaged crowds
sure its great kids are being encouraged and those schemes should be maintained, but PATG prices and the general season ticket price for someone that will miss a couple of games is still too expensive
sad as for every few kids that might add to the income stream in the future , adults that have been paying in are lost forever
who should we get rid of to fund these price cuts?
randolph
hateley
hammell
craigan
hutchison
lasley
jennings
humphrey
law
murphy
higdon
saunders
forbes
hollis
page
carswell
lawless
pollock
smith
mchugh
take your pick
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if you don't like it you probably shouldn't go.
and if you do go then surely to fuck you should sit in the east and save those valuables poonds!
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from hearts fan and guardian journo ewan murray.
Various chat about Romanov finance etc.... Hearts last accounts named debt at £36.1m. There was a £10m debt for equity swap after that, plus Wallace transfer... at a guess the current debt will sit at £30m-ish. It was more than £20m when he took over. I maintained in 2004, as I do now, that the Murrayfield plan was utterly flawed and would have triggered the slow death of the club.
Even if the debt for equity deals are balance sheet transactions, the cash spent on wages (from a peak of £12m per year) was, in reality, dished out. Over five years, that won't be far off £50m. Even if you don't add in debt for equity deals, there is zero chance of UBIG seeing that cash again. If the club had been better managed, wages would have been spent more sensibly and UBIG may have had more of a return (via Europe) for their investment.
My view is that their short-term plan is to get the balance sheet debt back towards £20m before selling Tynecastle. Based on nothing other than semi-educated guesswork, that theory. But UBIG's record of following through well made plans in Edinburgh isn't clever- the former bank building in St Andrews Square a prime example of that.
hertz are fucked.
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i think i know what this is then.
there was a guy a few rows behind us who lost the plot when humphrey fell over for about the 5th time and went mental. a couple of minutes later he was arguing with a guy sitting himself at the end of his of row (who i had never seen before) and getting held back by his mates.
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on the spl website they have rab douglas down as having 7 shut outs in a row for celtic in 2000/01.
clean sheets against rangers, dunfermline and celtic needed to match it. easy