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42 minutes ago, VladimirMooc said:
Almost all your posts appear to be about Craig Slater, so I’ll apologise for being negative about someone you obviously know/are related to/are. But I’d also suggest not going on to football forums where people give honest opinions about players they pay good money to watch.
No need for apologies I just don’t get the vitriol from some posts. If he’d been an asshole or caused bother at your club or something I could maybe understand it. I don’t know maybe he was nasty to you,if so then he’s getting it back,fair enough. Coached him when he was a kid. Great kid great attitude.
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3 hours ago, VladimirMooc said:
The fact that anyone can be “gutted” at Craig Slater leaving highlights how far our standards have fallen. He is an absolute nothing player and I’m pleased he’s gone.
Gutted Slater has left. Good wee player,McCall preferred Cole and Banzo and that’s fitba. Other people can have an opinion,even if it’s one that isn’t as negative and nasty as yours. He was unlucky to get injured but speaking to people who worked with him said he was a model pro and a great lad who really liked Thistle. That’s good to hear and I wish the lad all the best.
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3 hours ago, cilitbang said:
Always found Slater very “meh” and never felt he was that mobile (slightly more mobile than Harkins doesn’t say much).
Slater regularly topped distance covered during matches. Think that means he’s kinda mobile. I’m not saying you do this, but a lot of fans just follow where the ball is, players don’t, so maybe his, and others runs don’t get noticed maybe as much as a winger might get noticed.
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18 hours ago, jaggyness said:23 hours ago, wee_bairn said:What's the script with Slater? Every game against us last season he looked a class above. Is he inconsistent? Attitude problem?
As has been said, there's a player in there. I think he sees himself as, forgive me, an outright number 10. Grafting and putting a shift in aren't his game and the fact we were horrendous under Archibald and Caldwell didn't help him. I think he's probably a luxury we can't currently afford and doesn't strike me as a McCall type player
Slater was out injured for a few months. Don’t think the lad sees himself as a number 10 at all,certainly not a crunch tackling midfielder but works hard. Spoke to someone at the club who said he was regularly top of the running stats in games. Came back and Brannigan and Cole been playing well recently so won’t be playing CM till one of them are suspended or injured. Definitely a good player when fit,playing regular and confident.
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2 hours ago, AMMjag said:
Regardless of the quality of our bench, it's not as if the starting eleven itself wasn't packed with dross aswell.
The midfield had two of your ten-a-penny side-to-side passers in Cole and Slater, and combined with Palmer who offers nothing of note, conspired to be completely ineffectual. This is why Miller constantly drops deep to try and start his own attacks, and it's largely why we struggled to break down an Alloa team who were puffing out their hoop the entire second half.
We don't have anyone on the bench with the clear attributes to change a game in our favour, but for the level we're at simple things like fresh legs or different personnel or a lump of wood to aim at up front can give you a chance at a decisive alternative to an absent midfield and side-to-side passing to pointless, sand-dancing wingers.
If that option hasn't been used to make some kind of point then it's an abdication of responsibility and hardly puts credit in the bank for McCall, when he really needs it after the absolutely harrowing shiteshow at the weekend.
I thought our midfield was good last night as well. Wow.
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4 hours ago, dave.j said:
Jamie Sneddon
Ryan Williamson --- Tam O'Ware --- Sean McGinty --- James Penrice
Shea Gordon --- Stuart Bannigan
Aidan Fitzpatrick --- Craig Slater --- Joe Cardle
Kenny Miller
Tommy Robson (RB)
Steven Saunders (CH)
Gary Harkins (CM)
Callum Wilson (CM)
Lewis Mansell (FW)
I'm sorry, but that is not a squad thats close to competing to win the league!!!
We are 7 or 8 players of real quality away from being close. A Goalie, a Centre Half, a Left Back, a Defensive Mid, 2 attacking midfielders, one who can play wide, and a striker or 2.
Looking at what seems like our strongest starting 11, i'd say what does stand out is there's a lot of folk in there who you'd think would be suseptable to injury.
Think that’s about the best team from the players we have in the squad. Just hope big O’Ware can get back to where he was, but he has missed a lot of football. Hopefully Slater back fit for the start of the season. Certainly a team on the front foot. I’m sure there will be more new faces to come maybe a bit of steel to the side if required. I’m wondering how much of the Liam Lindsay money the manager will get if any. Plus he said he only spent a small amount of the January budget so maybe a couple of very decent signings to come.
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16 hours ago, Nightmare said:
In signing Harkins and Hazard, he’s going for players in positions we don’t realistically need to upgrade. Is Hazard instead of Sneddon going to make much difference? Is Harkins instead of Erskine?
By all means bring in a couple of CBs, a RB, a winger and a striker. These would all strengthen the team. I don’t think these do.
16 hours ago, Sting777 said:Exactly! Priorities must be at least one central defender (not Scobbie!!!) in the hope O’Ware might return quicker than anticipated and two strikers. These should have been addressed before the Harkins and anticipated Hazard signings!!
Totally agree. Money will be tight so these signings don’t make much sense to me,other than strengthening the squad if he’s able to move a few on. The manager said we had three scouts down South,but players down there in either lower leagues or non-league are on probably double the money we can offer at least. Then who pays for accommodation up here? Think it’ll be a tough window but hopefully we can pluck a few low cost gems from somewhere.
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7 hours ago, jagsfan57 said:
On those criteria you are probably right about Slater although Slater has been responsible for giving away goals too.
Bannigan finds a Thistle player more often than Slater does in a position to start an attack. It is unfortunate that those attacks come to nothing.Don’t agree sorry. Bannigan better at tackling, but this season I think Slater been slightly better in most departments.
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1 hour ago, Nightmare said:
Slater has been better than Bannigan this season. Bannigan has been responsible for giving away goals, has a poorer disciplinary record and hasn’t scored. Not to say Slater has been great - it’s more that he’s just been one of the less shite people this season.
Thistle fans look fondly upon their own, and it’s good that Bannigan will get a chance to get back to his previous level with us, but I’m not sure there’s any reasonable argument for him having had a better season than Craig Slater.
I agree. I think Slater has been better so far. Hopefully Slater will become “one of our own “. We spoke to one of the boys’ family who said Craig loves the club and said the fans have been great with him(it was only then,we thought it was safe enough to tell him we were Jags fans haha)Hopefully both Banzo and Slater can kick on second half of the season and get us out of trouble.
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2 hours ago, Walter said:
Goodbye and good luck Jack. You'll be sorely missed.
I honestly don’t know where people dig some of these clips from but I spilled my beer with this one. Well done Walter haha
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2 hours ago, Barney Rubble said:
Woods gets a bad rap - he was pretty decent when he was fit (signed as a free agent in October as I recall). With a full pre-season in front of him could indeed have got us that single point that would have saved us.
Watching Craig Slater this season, I can't help thinking he was the missing link in last season's squad.
Agreed Barney about Craig Slater The boy works his socks off,always available for a pass and has a wee bit of quality on the ball. Him and O'Ware were good signings by Archie,some injuries have hurt the squad but there's no denying O'Wares injury was a massive blow. Our defence is a shambles feel sorry for Penrice who should be getting talked through a game and learning but is actually having to take his own lead. Our defence has undone a lot of promising starts, under Archie and Scott I thought we'd be so hard to score against this season,instead we've gifted goals and that's been theirs and the teams' downfall unfortunately.
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I thought Ayrs' front two were pretty good. Other than that I didn't think there was much between the teams. First goal a brainfart,second goal a wonder strike. Thought Slater was Thistles best player till his substitution. A very strange decision unless he took a knock.
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Laszlo definitely staying. Most of the out of contract players away also guys still in contract for next season who have been asked to find a new club. Thought chairman was only saying Laszlo was staying as he didn't want to disrupt the play offs.
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Stenny v QP
in Scottish League 2 General Chatter
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Almost 100% correct I think he might have said effin face. A straight red for questioning a decision wow. I think both teams disappointed with the refereeing performance.