Fide Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 I see no reason not to maintain the same blind optimism that clouded my judgment through the whole of last season. An edgy 1 - 0 victory for Killie, a Coulibaly screamer being the decider. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desp Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 6th August 2016 will go down as Joe Chalmers Day. A man-of-the-match performance from central midfield, capped off with a late double to seal the three points. Kilmarnock 0-2 Motherwell (Chalmers x2) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thisGRAEME Posted August 2, 2016 Author Share Posted August 2, 2016 A blow that Lasley is suspended. I'm with Desp. Joe Chalmers day is a go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capt_oats Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 40 yard screamer into the top bin from Joe. It will be a day that lives long in the memory. I'm totally down with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swello Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 Much as a Joe Chalmers start in midfield excites me (as it did for the 45 mins I was Tynecastle when McGhee first tried it) - I assumed that as we've got 2 "trialists" signed up until the end of August (right?) - then if they are fit, one of them surely needs to play? Quite looking forward to the real stuff starting again but I wasn't expecting so early on, the P&B nightmare where all the 'Well fans are confident and all the opposition fans are convinced they'll be beaten. Home win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busta Nut Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 Clay will play Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gianfranco Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 When is his short term deal up Busta? I'm assuming you're in the know a bit if he's available for Saturday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
well fan for life Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 Props to Joe Chalmers for forging a career in professional football even though his feet point at 9am & 3pm. Can't be easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desp Posted August 3, 2016 Share Posted August 3, 2016 13 hours ago, Busta Nut said: Clay will play You could be a poet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bushel o' Bricks Posted August 3, 2016 Share Posted August 3, 2016 Really looking forward to this one. The fixture list usually gives us a day out at Rugby Park at this time of year and invariably it's a beautiful sunny day, so hopefully this year will be no exception. Kilmarnock have taken a risk by signing so many new and young players who are unproven at this level. The early signs in the League Cup have hardly been encouraging with the exception of Coulibaly who seems to have hit the ground running. As for our own League Cup campaign, it's been a professional job with ultimately comfortable victories over the three part-time sides; although it's hard to use this as any real benchmark for our league prospects, there have been some promising signs with the likes of Cadden and Johnson in particular impressing. As for our line up, I'd imagine we'll go with: Samson Tait Heneghan McManus Hammell Cadden McHugh Clay Ainsworth McDonald Johnson We have recorded 1-0 victories in our opening league game in each of the last three years and I'll predict that trend to continue against an unfamiliar new look Kilmarnock side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killie Zenit Posted August 3, 2016 Share Posted August 3, 2016 Missing this as I'm working on Saturday - will listen on the radio with what I expect will be mounting horror, as I'm ever the pessimist and having seen the Morton and Albion games, we don't look anywhere near a team yet. Hope to be wrong, as ever. We can't get pumped 4-0 at home on the opening day two years on the trot, can we? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefinitelyMaybe Posted August 3, 2016 Share Posted August 3, 2016 Samson in nets surley gifts us at least 2 tap ins from spilled shots ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathematics Posted August 4, 2016 Share Posted August 4, 2016 Just realised Samson is in goal for Motherwell. Updated prediction: 4-4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MP_MFC Posted August 5, 2016 Share Posted August 5, 2016 How insane is Lee Clark? Club suits and pitch dimension changes. Wonderful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casagolda Posted August 5, 2016 Share Posted August 5, 2016 On 2 August 2016 at 22:35, Busta Nut said: Clay will play Is that a great idea though? Unless we're in the process of signing him to a proper contract, I can't say the idea of playing Clay in a game like this sits well with me. Then again, the only other likely option is to play Joe Chalmers in there and that doesn't exactly thrill me either. Whilst I've been relatively pleased with our recruitment so far, Lasley's suspension highlights just how short we are in the middle of the park. One player missing and we have to resort to playing a 'trialist' or a left back in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desp Posted August 5, 2016 Share Posted August 5, 2016 I'm also pretty unsure on the whole Clay/Lucas situation. You either sign him for the season (or even six months) and play him or decide against signing him and letting him go. With Lasley out, it does leave quite a gap in there. However, it's been well documented that Kilmarnock have a number of new players in their side. The majority of which have very little (if any) first team experience. Would this not then be an ideal opportunity for Allan Campbell to come into the side? The team facing him shouldn't faze him in anyway. Tell him to sit in the middle of the park alongside McHugh and keep things simple. There will be four players ahead of him, Cadden, Ainsworth, Johnson and McDonald, who have enough about them to do some damage in the final third. I'd much prefer that gamble to the unfancied Joe Chalmers (despite the comedy prediction earlier). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casagolda Posted August 5, 2016 Share Posted August 5, 2016 11 minutes ago, Desp said: I'm also pretty unsure on the whole Clay/Lucas situation. You either sign him for the season (or even six months) and play him or decide against signing him and letting him go. With Lasley out, it does leave quite a gap in there. However, it's been well documented that Kilmarnock have a number of new players in their side. The majority of which have very little (if any) first team experience. Would this not then be an ideal opportunity for Allan Campbell to come into the side? The team facing him shouldn't faze him in anyway. Tell him to sit in the middle of the park alongside McHugh and keep things simple. There will be four players ahead of him, Cadden, Ainsworth, Johnson and McDonald, who have enough about them to do some damage in the final third. I'd much prefer that gamble to the unfancied Joe Chalmers (despite the comedy prediction earlier). I think we'd all prefer to see Campbell get his chance over shoehorning Chalmers in there. However you'd argue the perfect time to give him his debut would actually have been during one of the three matches we've just played against part time teams in the league cup. The fact he never played a single minute and wasn't even in the squad for three of the four games would suggest to me he won't be playing here and isn't in McGhee's plans just yet. Chalmers on the other hand started one and came on in two of the other cup games, so I fully expect him to start here if Clay's situation is still unresolved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swello Posted August 5, 2016 Share Posted August 5, 2016 3 hours ago, MP_MFC said: How insane is Lee Clark? Club suits and pitch dimension changes. Wonderful. What's this?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thisGRAEME Posted August 5, 2016 Author Share Posted August 5, 2016 Clark has shrunk the pitch, last minute. Presumably to contain the rampant pace of Johnson and Ainsworth against his Sunday League team. And for some reason players have to wear suits, because it's important to look good while you're taking a shoeing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Estragon Posted August 5, 2016 Share Posted August 5, 2016 Motherwell are 13/8 on bet365 - real bet, not Cherridee bet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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