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8 hours ago, renton said:
Who cares, it's the challenge cup. Aye, it's nice we've won it a couple of times and it was a decent day oot but let's not pretend it really means f**k all.
Take the kicking, keep or get the boys fit for Saturday - Murray is being sensible here.
I think the big worry is that we might not be much better off by Saturday, or god forbid, we could be worse off if we pick up a knock or two tonight.
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56 minutes ago, Jack Rae2 said:
I can’t be the only one bothered by the fact we have 12 fit players for tomorrow, Mitchell and arnott on loan, 1 of which who is barely playing, and we won’t recall them?
Arnott can't play anyway. Like Young, he's cup-tied.
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What a joke that we can't even buy these online.
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Is that not the Swiss international striker, Tobe La' Rone?
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Arsenal haven't looked back since they hooked Tierney.
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8 minutes ago, Raith69 said:
When talking of finances and signing Connell, then according to the salary Sport website then Connell is on £250 per week and interestingly Big John is on £870 and is our highest earner in our squad not bad for sitting on the bench. Also Ethan Ross is on £860 per week. Now how totally reliable this is then I have no idea but does make interesting read.
I think that is the site that is basically using salary details lifted from Football Manager.
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40 minutes ago, TxRover said:
Simple facts:
If we don’t sign Connell, we go into the Queen’s match with a maximum of 18 healthy players, discounting Ngwenya and Ross, and assuming Stanton is ready to go (questionable).
Here’s the possible “strongest” lineup for Queen’s without Connel:
MacDonald (and I’m not sure he’s 100% either)
Millen/Lang/Nolan/Dick
Brown/Spencer
Connolly/Easton/Vaughan
Gullan
Bench: McNeil, Masson, Young, (?)Stanton(?), Frederiksen, McBride, Mahady
That bench is near criminal? Now Connell would give us “more depth” at our “best stocked” area…but he is the devil we know and no one can say he doesn’t run and work his ass off. We are now perilously thin in the back, and our midfield is a f**king MASH unit. IM needs to find the money to bring in a spare mid and a utility defender, in my thinking…especially if we get bad news on Ngwenya. I’m concerned that Thomson seems behind schedule, as Jamie has looked pained in each of the last couple of games, the right shoulder may not be right.
Young can't play on Wednesday because he's already played for Elgin in the Challenge cup this season.
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After a pretty poor season by his standards last year, that result must sting for Morikawa.
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11 minutes ago, raith1974 said:
You've hit the nail on the head. Rather than saying there are no strikers or players maybe it should also read for our budget or lack off.
Let's say what players other rival clubs sign this month as I'm sure Cove will bring a few in, Arbroath already have and will probably bring in another 1 or 2.
To be fair Arbroath have also lost one of their best players after he was recalled by his parent club so it's not all one way traffic with them.
Cove have signed Brody Paterson so it'll be interesting to see how he gets on against us on Saturday.
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I have some sympathy with Murray here. Connell isn't really what we want or need, and ideally Murray would feel like he's in a position to roll the dice and wait a couple of weeks to see if anything better comes up, which it might do depending on the movement in squads up higher up the ladder than we are. Unfortunately you only had to look at our bench on Friday night to see that our squad is threadbare at the moment and the ongoing availability of players like Gullan and Vaughan who started on Friday is uncertain at best. So with the games we have coming up, it kind of makes sense to get Connell signed quickly so we can play him straight away.
I don't rate him much, but given where we are at the moment, if Murray signs him up tomorrow on a deal till the end of the season I won't criticise him for it.
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Not selected today in the cup. With a new manager to impress it's possible he might not even be Norwich no 1 by the time the next international break comes around.
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11 minutes ago, TxRover said:
Agree, the extra factor would be the pitch condition. Can any Queen’s fan address the turf condition?
It's an artificial surface is it not?
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I've not seen much of Motherwell this season but it looks like it's about time Penney was dropped.
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I think most Rovers fans would prefer we made a few changes also, although we have fairly limited options at the moment due to injuries.
We are up at Cove on Saturday and a win there would pretty much confirm we'll not be dragged into the reckoning for the relegation play offs so I would rather that was our main focus this week.
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30 minutes ago, R.R.FC said:
Just to add to this. We have only won 2 of our last 20 matches on grass. Full record is:
Played: 20
Won: 2
Drawn: 8
Lost: 10In that same time our record away from home on astro is:
Played: 15
Won: 11
Drawn: 1
Lost: 3Obviously helped by the fact the poorer league sides like QOS and Accies play on Astro as well as defeating lower league dross like Banks O’ Dee and Falkirk but enough there to suggest our passing approach doesn’t translate particularly well to a bobbly grass surface.
If we play to our maximum we will win but there is definitely upset potential in the game. Get an early goal, we might relax play our football and win comfortably. However, if we continue our wastefulness in front of goal, the longer it stays 0-0 the more belief they take and then one defensive mistake is all it takes to become a disaster. Hopefully MacDonald isn’t required to play as well as McGurn did on our last visit!
Didn't realise the contrast was as stark as that.
Who were the two wins against? Partick last season and Arbroath this?
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Tickets on sale on Monday for the Linlithgow match according to their twitter feed. £18.
There's no doubt that we can't underestimate them but we will be better than them man for man in every position. If the players turn up and do their job professionally we should win by a couple of goals.
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13 minutes ago, CountryBumpkin said:
So that'll be a nailed on scrappy 1-0 home win next week then.
With Hartley coming out of retirement to score the winner...
In all seriousness though, a win next week and we will just about be out of reach of the bottom 3. Even a draw would be decent.
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Noticed O'Riordan played the full match for Crewe today and helped gain a clean sheet.
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Results going for us today with Cove's goal difference taking another hammering into the bargain.
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16 minutes ago, Been going too long said:
Agreed thought that was LV’s best game since he came back
Me too. That was the sharpest I've seen him since he came back.
Good to see.
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Just now, CALDERON said:
New year, new outlook.
Until we lose at Cove next week...
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1 minute ago, raith1974 said:
Most worrying thing tonight was IM apparently looking to sign Connell. Yes we have no depth that was shown tonight but squad players are not the answer just like he said about the 4 players this HK lot wanted us to sign.
If we do sign him, it better only be a deal to the end of the season. Handing out a deal any longer than that would be a borderline sackable offence.
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1 minute ago, CALDERON said:
I didn't see the game, but there was absolutely f**k all on that bench.
Yeah I think it's a it harsh to criticise Murray for that. Of that bench, rightly or wrongly, Connell is the only one that Murray has given any decent amount of game time to so he was never going to be chucking on the likes of McBride and Frederiksen with 20 minutes to go.
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6 minutes ago, roverthemoon said:
Thought it was a fair result on the balance play. Superb first half but the pressure was always going to tell second half. Would have liked us to be a bit more ambitious after we conceded but in fairness we did have a go the last few minutes. Murray alluded to what the players had been dealing with on the whole financial/takeover thing in his post match interview. Hopefully he can create a more cohesive group as a result.
Still think we have enough as a team to avoid relegation. Really enjoyed the game and atmosphere. Also, Friday night football is class.What did he say?
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