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3 minutes ago, Zing. said:
Watching Fish and especially Rocky trying to play the ball out from the back is painful. Triantis is better on the ball but cannot defend at all.
We’ve got some good players up top and score plenty goals but the way he has us playing puts us under so much pressure defensively. The game we beat Aberdeen 2-0 was laughable, put about three or four on a plate for Miovski by trying to play out and he somehow missed them all.
Aye, that was a bizarre scoreline based one the game itself.
He had Marshall playing it in to Newell and Levitt was playing further up the park. To me, you swap those two in the middle for a start.
I've posted it elsewhere on here, and it's an extreme example, but Arsenal have established themselves as one of the best teams in the Barclays again. It was a slow build, Arteta didn't try to play the way they do immediately. He worked with what he had and made it work before adding the players here and there.
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7 minutes ago, lennyzer0 said:
Aye, this. Apart from anything else, the players won't believe it any more than the (not daft) fans do. Where's the quick boost in player moral from talking obvious nonsense? There should be a middle ground from Clement.
I'd imagine he's went through them privately.
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6 minutes ago, Zing. said:
One of my main gripes with Montgomery is that his answer to our defensive problems was Triantis. He’s come in and been rotten so we’ve had to keep watching Fish/Rocky every week shipping soft as f**k goals. Why they didn’t try to properly address the main problem area in the team in January I’ll never know.
I think any manager of Hibs, Aberdeen or Hearts that finishes in the bottom six would be extremely lucky to keep their job having had the amount of the season in charge that Monty has. The squad isn’t brilliant but it’s good enough for at least 6th, Lee Johnson managed it with a worse squad.
From the small amount I've seen, he's tried to implement a style that didn't suit his squad.
So many managers make this mistake that it baffles me.
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17 minutes ago, VincentGuerin said:
I think anyone with a functioning brain could understand Clement's post-match.
The players are on a bad run at a vital time, he sees no benefit in going after them as he needs a quick jump in moral. Get out there and say how well they played, give them a wee boost and project a bit of calm.
There's not a fucking prayer he believes what he said, and only the most credulous of observers could possibly think he does. Many Rangers fans will.
He missed the vital part where he is supposed to put all the pressure on Celtic, though.
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1 minute ago, Drooper said:
What isn't?
The part quoted.
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19 minutes ago, Drooper said:
The Robinson to St Mirren appointment was largely met with positivity. He had a poor start and there was (bizarrely if not surprisingly) restlessness within a matter of weeks. The key difference there is that he was starting from the club being in a reasonably good position (relative to previous seasons).
There is an argument that your new manager will be cut a fair amount of slack as things are unlikely to get much worse. That, however, hinges on managed expectations. I'm already seeing posts about a cup win and top four finish within his first season. Perhaps not entirely unreasonable given the size of the club, budget available, etc, but I recall McInnes doing pretty well but it was never quite good enough for a substantial proportion of the Aberdeen support.
I would have thought that a solid top 6 finish and a tilt at Europe in his first season wouldn't be a failure, no?
Not true.
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1 hour ago, LIVIFOREVER said:
Thought for a second you were going to say Dundee because of how funny it would be seeing your predominately bigoted away support greetin, and seeing if your sour pussed manager went over to shake the Dundee manager's hand, or bolted down the tunnel in a huff again.
He prob knackered himself from blanking the Dundee manager, after doing that to County's, which would make it even funnier seeing him having to congratulate Docherty through gritted teeth.
Kidding aside, you obv have to back your own team, but you're as reasonable and decent as a Raingurs fan could possibly be, come on, you've got to see how funny it would be.
Is he not from Livingston?
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6 minutes ago, tarapoa said:
Enjoyed the Burrows and Thelin interviews on RedTV.
I suppose the only concern is 'how patient is patient?'. Fitba is very short-termist these days, and Thelin getting the breathing space to implement a coherent playing style with the right players sounds great - then reality can bite.
Would our support (and board) on the whole be classed as more or less patient than average? I think we know the answer to that.
It's obviously on a completely different scale, but look at Arteta at Arsenal.
Got a bit of time and adapted and evolved the teams style.
A lot of young coaches could learn from him tbh.
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Considering we spoke to Robinson and he was desperate for it, I'm delighted with this.
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5 minutes ago, 10menwent2mow said:
Priorities for him during the summer.
New Keeper - Looks like Roos is away so I think this will be at the top of the list.
New No 9 - Would have to think Bojan will be on the move and not sure Sokler and Duk are really capable of filling his boots.
I think we are pretty decent in the middle of the park, maybe need a solid DM as Shinnie running about like a headless chicken isn't really cutting it anymore. But between Shinnie, McGrath, Clarkson and Polvara, I think we have the basis of something.
Be interesting to see Besuijen coming back from loan as I think we've chronically lacked width this season.
Presuming Gartenmann doesn't come back are we OK with Rubi, MacDonald and Jensen as our Centre Halfs? Not really sure about that. Maybe need AN other.
Thelin favours a high press. Sokler could probably work with that. Besuijen not so much!
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3 hours ago, tarapoa said:
There is a school of thought, that at least it keeps the season alive (beyond next weekend) - and ensures the minds remain focused from players, coaching staff and fans alike.
Wait, it's this season's AFC - half-@rsed players and a captain who has developed a self-destruct button - the 33/1 for us to be the ones going to Broomfield or wherever as condemned men looks very generous odds.
The season has become an unflushable turd.
It will be good to keep them on their toes for the cup final.
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Hilarious.
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What a fucking idiot
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Kenny had enough?
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1 hour ago, DrewDon said:
That moment when he received the ball in front of the dugouts, with space to charge into, but kind of stopped dead, stumbled over the ball and then gave it away. I burst out laughing, unfortunately. Must have wanted the ground to swallow him up.
Then the right foot pass that almost cleared the Mainer not long after it!
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29 minutes ago, DrewDon said:
We started well enough, especially with Duk's running causing Dundee issues and incurring three bookings, but once Dundee got to grips with him then they were the superior team - as they have been in all three games against us now, in fairness. We needed a bit of luck and Dundee profligacy in the second half to get out with a point, and it was probably a point more than we deserved. I can't say anybody was particularly good for us, but I thought McCowan was particularly impressive for Dundee and they moved the ball well, looked like a team with a good mix of physical and technical qualities at times.
It's poor from Shinnie at the end, but basically captures our lack of control and general rashness in microcosm.
Duncan hasn't played a lot of football lately, and I don't want to single him out because nobody was good for us, but his performance from the bench with the exception of one half-decent cross was one of the poorest I have seen from an Aberdeen player. He finished last season really promisingly under Robson as an understudy for Shinnie and Ramadani respectively, but he looks broken right now.
I wouldn't have minded Phillips getting some minutes, especially as he is the most natural replacement for Shinnie next week. I suppose he hasn't been out for too long so could still start, but surprised we didn't chuck him on for ten or twenty minutes at the end when Shinnie was clearly running on empty.
More broadly, I suppose it is four unbeaten, but variance has caught up with us over the last couple of games after maybe riding our luck a little bit to narrowly beat Motherwell and County, and we were fortunate not to lose today. Still not a good team, still not well coached, and absolutely deserve to be where we are in the table. If anything, the attacking patterns have disappeared since Warnock walked away, and the defence remains as fragile as ever despite somehow having three clean sheets in the last four games.
Aw Duncan was honking. Felt sorry for him. Absolutely no confidence at all and the crowd was on his back immediately.
Needs a loan.
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4 minutes ago, Hauzen said:
Aye he's being an utter dick right now.
"Kenny, Kenny, Kenny, Kenny... Kenny, Kenny"
"Do you want to let me speak" x8
He wasn't wrong tbf, but it was embarrassing to listen to and very unprofessional.
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2 minutes ago, The Master said:
When did we last go a season unbeaten against Aberdeen?
Last season.
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Just now, Stylish Kid said:
Stewart was decent when he first came on the scene but he's very quickly become a parody of himself
Arguing over nothing at the minute.
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Strange one. Screaming for us to hire an experienced head who knew the league two weeks ago.
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Dreadful stuff from us in that second half.
Dundee deserved three points so have to happy taking one.
Shinnie is a complete moron.
Devlin is crap. Really crap.
Touch of class from the Dons playing joy division for the away support at the end.
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3 minutes ago, Boo Khaki said:
This has the feel of one of those games that will be decided by a totally random VAR decision either way, without a single person inside the ground having any idea what the review was actually for.
Walsh was making baffling decisions both ways in the first half.
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