Peppino Impastato Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 Signs 18 month deal with Dundee. Holy fk. Some coup for them if he's fit Also if he agreed to play for Scotland and that guy at hull that gives us ten decent cbs to choose from. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Moonster Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 Didn't realise he was only 26. Doesn't appear to have done anything since 2016, I take it he was badly injured? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forameus Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 Personal issues I believe. Alcohol, gambling, the full gamut. Hopefully for his own sake he can get things back on track, but still doubt he'll want to turn out for us. Would make Dullard combust. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Moonster Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 1 minute ago, forameus said: Personal issues I believe. Alcohol, gambling, the full gamut. Hopefully for his own sake he can get things back on track, but still doubt he'll want to turn out for us. Would make Dullard combust. Ah. Well hopefully if he's signing for a club again he'll have that behind him and can just concentrate on playing. Don't see him turning any heads for the England team, he may well just fancy playing for us after a while playing up here. I hope so anyway, if purely to watch Dullard combust as you say. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppino Impastato Posted February 8, 2018 Author Share Posted February 8, 2018 I have been thinking for a while we are actually not bad at CB going forward and much more of an issue is central midfield. We don't have much coming through to follow a decade of some really good players like Fletcher and brown. McCarthy is a big miss for Scotland imo, injured just now but about 220 EPL appearances, quality player. Him and mctominay and we would be looking really good. Though we will miss out on mctominay imo, just wishful thinking. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Man of Aran Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 1 hour ago, Peppino Impastato said: I have been thinking for a while we are actually not bad at CB going forward and much more of an issue is central midfield. We don't have much coming through to follow a decade of some really good players like Fletcher and brown. McCarthy is a big miss for Scotland imo, injured just now but about 220 EPL appearances, quality player. Him and mctominay and we would be looking really good. Though we will miss out on mctominay imo, just wishful thinking. I know none of them are particularly young anymore but I'd like to see some combination of Cairney, McGinn and Armstrong/McGregor become established as the midfield 3 going forward. With the likes of Brown, Fletcher, McArthur etc. in and around the squad for experience. I'm not 100% convinced McGinn will develop into anything other than average yet either, but outside of that lot I'm not particularly impressed with any of the midfield options coming through. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dindeleux Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 I have been thinking for a while we are actually not bad at CB going forward and much more of an issue is central midfield. We don't have much coming through to follow a decade of some really good players like Fletcher and brown. McCarthy is a big miss for Scotland imo, injured just now but about 220 EPL appearances, quality player. Him and mctominay and we would be looking really good. Though we will miss out on mctominay imo, just wishful thinking. This isn’t really a slight on him but McCarthy is a poor mans Darren Fletcher. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppino Impastato Posted February 8, 2018 Author Share Posted February 8, 2018 5 minutes ago, Man of Aran said: I know none of them are particularly young anymore but I'd like to see some combination of Cairney, McGinn and Armstrong/McGregor become established as the midfield 3 going forward. With the likes of Brown, Fletcher, McArthur etc. in and around the squad for experience. I'm not 100% convinced McGinn will develop into anything other than average yet either, but outside of that lot I'm not particularly impressed with any of the midfield options coming through. Totally agree, though just stylistically I really like McGregor, cracking wee player. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppino Impastato Posted February 8, 2018 Author Share Posted February 8, 2018 3 minutes ago, Dindeleux said: This isn’t really a slight on him but McCarthy is a poor mans Darren Fletcher. Probably but he would be an important player for us for the next couple of campaigns. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordopolis Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 Hope Caulker can get himself sorted out first and foremost. After that, who knows, maybe playing up here and returning to a positive routine within Scottish Football might encourage him to switch to us? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigkillie Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 The fact that he's had to sign for Dundee right now suggests that he's not really in a place to be playing for Scotland, let alone England. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppino Impastato Posted February 8, 2018 Author Share Posted February 8, 2018 7 minutes ago, craigkillie said: The fact that he's had to sign for Dundee right now suggests that he's not really in a place to be playing for Scotland, let alone England. You'd have said that about hendry a year ago. Caulker has proven pedigree, if Caulker can get his head and body into the right place he's the best CB in the country. Dundee offer a platform. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broken Algorithms Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 16 hours ago, craigkillie said: The fact that he's had to sign for Dundee right now suggests that he's not really in a place to be playing for Scotland, let alone England. Agree with this. If he screws the nut and can progress than fair enough. But at the moment I don't think we should be looking to give him games for the sake of his history of clubs and the fact he's a coup for Dundee. Would far rather we looked at someone progressing in the other direction like Liam Lindsay. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ONeils40yarder Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 In regards to central midfield...keep your eye on Allan Campbell, at Motherwell, absolutely smashing player 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppino Impastato Posted February 9, 2018 Author Share Posted February 9, 2018 (edited) 5 hours ago, rw89 said: Agree with this. If he screws the nut and can progress than fair enough. But at the moment I don't think we should be looking to give him games for the sake of his history of clubs and the fact he's a coup for Dundee. Would far rather we looked at someone progressing in the other direction like Liam Lindsay. Nobody is suggesting give him a game now but if he returns to his previous form he's easily good enough to stroll into our team. Edited February 9, 2018 by Peppino Impastato 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gkneil Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 Caulker has already played for England senior team, has there been a rule change to switch allegiance? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppino Impastato Posted February 9, 2018 Author Share Posted February 9, 2018 10 minutes ago, gkneil said: Caulker has already played for England senior team, has there been a rule change to switch allegiance? Not in a competitive game, meaning he's still eligible for us. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie_M Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/football/2341161/dundee-steven-caulker-play-scotland-england/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppino Impastato Posted March 10, 2018 Author Share Posted March 10, 2018 45 minutes ago, Jamie_M said: https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/football/2341161/dundee-steven-caulker-play-scotland-england/ Get him called up tomorrow 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tartanbrush Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 What imbecile would even entertain the thought of a bona fide englishman, who turned us down in the first instance to play for 'them' who has literally stood and sang god save the queen whilst standing with pride wearing the 3 lions on his shirt in his first cap and would do again without any hesitation whatsoever were he to get picked again, including any future match against Scotland. But is now so shite he's playing for Dundee and a million miles away from an England call up in a sad desperate act to improve his cv he would happily jump ship to Scotland since theres no chance he will get picked again for England and some scotland fans would actually entertain this and welcome him into our squad with open arms. Deary me the whole notion of international football and what it means is completely lost on some people. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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