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I honestly don't know what to expect from this game. We have to win this if we want to stay up, simple as that.
I thought Josh Sims looked lively when he came on against celtic so wouldn't be opposed to him getting a start.
Randall's proving to be a bit of a weak link in our defence as he can't go forward or defend at right back.
I would go:
Laidlaw
Smith Watson Iacovitti
G. Edwards Loturi Kenneh Harmon
Sims
Brophy White
This is on the assumption Dhanda is still out btw.
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Thought we were really poor on Saturday and didn't look like creating much, shows the drop in quality when Dhanda isn't playing. We seem to concede really poor goals defensively every time we play livi and once again that came to pass. From a livi perspective there is a clear drop off from earlier in the season. I wonder if it's fatigue or teams sort of sussing them out but I felt like they were there for the taking at times. Ultimately though we weren't good enough to win the game.
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This is a game where I think every County fan would take a point if offered it now. Our record at Livi is very poor. Our lineup kind of picks itself right now. The shape is the only thing that changes.
Laidlaw
Randall Watson Iacovitti
G. Edwards Kenneh Loturi Harmon
Dhanda
Brophy White
Head says 2-0 Livi, Heart says 1-0 County.
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Kettlewell's time with us as manager in the top flight can be summarised in the phrase 'poor in both boxes' There were games where you'd leave thinking we were well in the game but we'd been beat 3-0 and missed sitters. Every team is prone to a game like that but it became a constant with the team.
That being said I can see it being a good game on Saturday. Both teams seem totally re-energized since having a strike partnership.
I'm gonna go for 2-1 County with Brophy and Dhanda scoring for us and Spittal scoring an inevitable screamer.
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16 minutes ago, Pete the Jakey said:
Yeah, its between those two. I just think its a bit daft you can vote more than once.
Yeah especially when the votes are through social media, surely you can make it once per account.
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2 hours ago, Pete the Jakey said:
Player of the month poll is online, love it how you can vote more than once. Last month I voted 10 times for Dhanda, this month I might vote 15 times for Brophy.
I think Dhanda is POTM again for me. I think Brophy might win it based on the United game though.
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I'm not sure on United's financial situation and what they're willing to pay to get the right man in but getting Danny Cowley would be worth a shot I reckon. Courts is an obvious candidate I suppose. I think Mulgrew might be a good shout purely because it means he's out of the starting 11.
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17 hours ago, Pete the Jakey said:
Yeah, all of a sudden with the correct support around him he looks like a decent striker. He is slow and lacks movement but put the ball into his head or his feet (like Dhanda and Brophy are capable of) and he will more often than not score.
It says a lot that we've had numerous strikers over the last three seasons and Jordan White always finds his way back into the starting 11. Criminally underrated by our fans I think.
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I thought we were very good yesterday, United are as good as down. Fletcher the only player who got pass marks imo.
The front three of Dhanda, Brophy and White is exactly what we've needed for a while. Brophy is exactly the striker White needs next to him and vice versa.
We changed to a back 4 as United went 4-3-3 so we weren't left short at the back and played White as the deep lying forward with Dhanda off the left and it worked a treat. If Dhanda doesn't end up at a Hearts/Hibs/Aberdeen next year I'll be massively surprised.
Also maybe we shouldn't have laughed at St Johnstone for wanting to spend money on White cause he is the absolute boy btw.
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This is one of those games where any score line makes sense. Both teams are capable of pulling off a random win out of nowhere and both equally as likely to concede three and have a total meltdown.
I'll go for a 2-2 draw.
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13 hours ago, bunglebonce said:
I agree in as much as 3-5-2 gets most of the best players in their best positions. However there are two big issues with it from an attacking point of view, one of which you identified:
1) The long balls from defence. Iacovitti loves a ball into the channel for people to chase. Harmon and Randall too. It’s a deliberate tactic too, whether pressed or not. Why play a playmaker when the ball by-passes him for percentage football. In this age you need one, arguably two of the centre-backs to be able to step out with the ball. County don’t do that.
2) You can’t win enough matches to survive when playing with two strikers who are supplied by wing-backs who don’t cross. Harmon averages 0.9 key passes per match (ie nearly one pass that results in a shot). Randall is 0.2. Harmon has been quite productive but hasn’t been so consistently good recently. You know what you’re going to get with Randall ie nothing going forward. So much depends on Dhanda and/or Loturi to drift into the outside right channel to put crosses in. The long ball tactics don’t help get them into good positions.
There needs to be a shift in the team’s passing patterns, or they’re goosed I reckon. Pray for one of Brophy’s snapshots going in.
I absolutely agree we're not making enough of wide spaces. I think Harmon is a good up and down wingback but his productivity as you say is lacking.
I think G. Edwards totally shifted the dynamic last weekend where we had someone directly looking to get himself or the ball into the box when in wide spaces so I'd like to see him come in.
I've been hypercritical of our central midfield all season but over the last few months it's sort of dawned on me that a key issue they face is that they're watching the ball fly over their heads the majority of the time.
We've seen games this year where we've done well and tried to play, Hibs away being one that comes to mind.
41 minutes ago, central staggie said:I had never considered playing Randall at RCB
Believe it or not he has played there a good amount this season already. When we play Owura at RWB, Randall has often been the RCB.
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3 minutes ago, Savage Henry said:
Already our big name winter signing is looking like a bit part player at best. I’ve always thought crap teams should play 4-4-2, and if we aren’t going to play Sims we could go 4-3-1-2, thus eliminating Randall completely.
I think with Murray it's unfair to assess how he'll be after a few weeks at the club. He'll get plenty game time but as of right now I think you'll be hard pressed to find any County fan that would have him over White or Brophy at present. 4-4-2 would absolutely kill us in the middle of the park and makes Dhanda (our best player imo) ineffective. 4-3-1-2 is certainly an option but I think Randall kind of has to play in that system otherwise you're playing a winger or a centre half there. Ultimately 3-5-2 is our best set up but the biggest concern I have with it is the centre halves going long unopposed, I have no problem with long passes if they are exactly that, passes. However the recurring theme seems to be shelling it into the channel or central and hoping White can knock it down so the likes of Dhanda, Brophy, Murray etc can do anything with it.
Our squad isn't terrible and I back us to show a bit of quality on Saturday.
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1 hour ago, Rcfc fan said:
Could we play both?
I believe Edwards can play winger too,
looking forward to having brophy back
I think Randall's best position for us is on the right side of a three so there is absolutely scope to play them both at the same time.
Ideally on Saturday we line up like this:
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5 minutes ago, VincentGuerin said:
It's true, and a win at Killie would push Motherwell to the very fringes of the discussion. If they lose there, though, suddenly it looks grim for them pre-split. Two away games against direct rivals followed by Rangers. Only 'winnable' game pre-split after that is United at home. Their feel-good factor could vanish very quickly.
In contrast, United have home games with Aberdeen and Hibs, both of whom they've already beaten, as well as St Mirren, who are poor on the road, and Motherwell themselves. I see more scope for them picking up points than Motherwell.
County's run looks quite tricky, they need point on the board in the next two games, really.
Killie's fixtures don't look great, either. I'd be more concerned with their run than United's, for example.
A lot hinges on this weekend. But if Motherwell don't win at Killie, there's still a big question mark over them.
Can't argue with any of that really, I know from here on out it'll be said every week but this weekend is the biggest of the season for the bottom 6 clubs. I think County have an ability to pick points up at home when we shouldn't, every time we've been bottom or thereabouts we've managed to get a run together so the fact we've not looked like doing that as of yet with our fixtures is a concern. I think with United the club is in a really toxic place at the minute and Fox is out of his depth that's why I reckon it's probably between us two.
I think with Killie they have a really good manager with a pretty average (being kind) squad, I can see them getting points at home but they desperately need points on the road.
it'll be draws all round this weekend to piss everyone off.
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Making my long awaited return to the forum to say that if we are looking to win any games of football for the remainder of the season Dhanda MUST play and should only be taken off if we're looking to go full on defensive to hold onto a lead/draw.
Also Gwion Edwards looked decent against St Mirren and would like to see him at RWB on Saturday with Harmon on the left.
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15 minutes ago, VincentGuerin said:
Counter-intuitive, I know, but if I were a Motherwell fan, I'd be deeply worried about having just hired the guy who won two games in a row as caretaker.
The caretaker bounce is common, and hiring them often a mistake. Just last season Burnley's Mike Jackson (an internal promotion like Kettlewell) took over a side that had picked up 4 points out of 21, took 10 from the next available 12, and then they reverted to type and got relegated anyway by collapsing in the last four games. It was quite similar, battling to a couple of big home wins, players re-energised, crowd re-energised. Then they fell apart.
Kettlewell got the two wins, and you can't quibble with that. But St Mirren are poor on the road, Hearts average at best, and Motherwell statistically were likely to win sometime. I'd be suspicious of those two results.
For what it's worth, Motherwell have seemed decent when I've seen them this season, but then so have Dundee United, so a small sample size can be misleading.
The thing with the new manager bounce potentially waring off is that Ketts probably only needs a few more wins to create a fairly large gap between the others at the bottom. This genuinely could be enough to lead them into a favourable position by the split.
For what it's worth I think it's a shoot out between ourselves and United for bottom.
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14 hours ago, Forfinn said:
There's not much width in that formation.
Spine is strong though.
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I wonder who we'll go with out wide to start this.
Sims and Owura seem to be the first picks but Olaigbe and Akio have both impressed, Sims and Akio having slight knocks may change things though.
I'd go
Laidlaw
Randall
Baldwin
Iacovitti
Purrington
Callachan
Loturi
Dhanda
Olaigbe
Owura
Hiwula
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Livingston 1-2 Rangers
Hearts 2-2 Ross County
Kilmarnock 1-3 Dundee United
St Johnstone 0-2 Hibs
St Mirren 0-1 Motherwell
Celtic 4-1 Aberdeen
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37 minutes ago, senorsoupe said:
I definitely hadn't seen them this season, and they weren't memorable last season. I don't tend to remember players from the opposition teams unless they do something really special or something really terrible.
Akio certainly fits the profile of someone who could 'do a job' in this division. Loturi looks neat and tidy on the ball but isn't one that's going to break lines or score goals from midfield. I think they'll both be okay at worst.
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Great signing on paper. Squad is coming together very nicely despite the Buckie result.
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The Demon making a return purely to cause chaos is peak TV.
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Our away kit this year might be my favourite county kit in a long long time.
The home is nice too imo but it doesn't look like a county kit.
Good efforts all round.
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It was last seasons kit we wore. I think Olaigbe and Edwards looked good. Sims had some good moments in the first half too. Dhanda has a bit about him. I do think we're light at centre half still.
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