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ATS confirmed as player-coach. Seems a very sensible move all round.
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Frizzell! Delighted with that. We saw how much we missed him when he was out injured for a couple of months last season and he really deserves a crack at the Championship.
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https://twitter.com/KCTestimonial/status/1669338347725258752 I saw this clip on twitter about Stevie Hetherington re-signing for Alloa featuring a video of him assisting against Airdrie in 2018. Our team that day was Wullie Muir Chris O'Neil - Daniel Higgins - David Brownlie - Kieran MacDonald Scott Stewart - Dean Cairns - Ryan Conroy - Jake Hastie Dale Carrick - Darryl Duffy We've came a long way from those dark days. That central midfield
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Yeah as much as I've always been an ATS truther I don't really want to see him playing in the Championship regularly. He did his job very well, for a spell he was our most consistent defender, and I'll always have a lot of time for him but think he lacks the pace needed at a higher level. He seems like a great guy to have around the club though, his calmness and experience improved everyone around him when he played and as you say, he seems keen to get involved in coaching too. ATS as manager when McCabe heads off to Real Madrid in a few years.
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Re-signing news and a new kit tonight! Can't wait to see ATS modelling a purple strip.
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Quite interesting seeing the difference in opinion on here and social media. I think we’re mostly in agreement that he’s a decent squad player with potential but not quite ready to play regularly in the Championship yet, whereas elsewhere people seem to view this as a brilliant signing. Might just be that we’re less hyperbolic either way.
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Meh. McMaster did well towards the end of last season but not sure he’s ready for the step up just yet. I hope we’re still able to bring in a stronger holding midfielder, as I’d rather not rely on McCabe and McMaster there all season. I do think he has potential, so hopefully he can develop further this season.
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I think that's a great signing. He's not the best technically but he's a real handful as he showed every time he played against us and offers us a physical option for games when Gallagher is struggling. We will need a bit more physicality and height going up a level, so Todorov seems a good fit for that. I'm not sure he's a great fit our our style of play but McCabe was clearly getting a bit more streetwise as the season progressed and having options to change it is really important.
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Nikolay Todorov! Consilium at it again
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New signing (presumably) at 5:30pm!
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The main thing for me is that if we have offered Watson more than one year then I guess we might have done the same for Frizzell, Gallagher, McGill etc? Obviously we need to see how these players adapt to the step up but I think it’s a gamble worth taking.
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They must have heard you, new deal for Watson announced. Hopefully the first of a few.
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You still had to play Airdrie at home though, which never ends well, and we also never beat Raith. We’ll never know but I don’t think it’s as simple as a win over Raith (which I’m not convinced would have happened) would have done the job.
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The Queen of the South thread
Mr November replied to qos_75's topic in Scottish League 1 General Chatter
Kyle Doherty celebrated a goal against Airdrie directly in front of our fans, which was quite odd given nobody knew who he was, so he fits as a Paton replacement in that category but that’s about it. I do quite like the rest of Bartley’s business so far though and there’s been nothing to fear yet from the other teams, so I suppose you have to have faith in him. -
What’s Owen Moffat up to these days?
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Three Saturday games and the away game I might not bother with midweek, can't complain with that.
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Good to see Jim Duffy getting the band back together again with Forbes and Carswell as the first two signings.
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Yeah it was a recurring theme for a while, we lost three play-off finals in a row from 2007-2009 and then a semi-final in 2010. Relegated from the Championship three times in four years! I suspect we'll see him playing a bit less yeah. We had a great run towards the end of the season where he dropped out the team but he was arguably our best player across the four play-off games, showing up in the big moments. I'm not sure he has the legs to play in midfield every week at a higher level now and we need to improve in midfield anyway. He'll have a few big decisions to make about playing himself this season.
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This is the first time we've properly been promoted through the play-offs. We got moved up after losing play-off finals in 2008, 2009 and 2012 due to Gretna, Livingston and Rangers but each time just ended up losing in the play-offs or automatically relegated. That was a different situation though as on each occasion we started building a squad for the third tier, only to end up in a higher league. It's quite an unfortunate record.
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The reaction when Ian Murray played a load of trialists like Luke Lyons and Harris O’Connor and lost 3-0 to Clyde was funny. Excluding the youth team players, did we sign any of the cup winning trialists? I think the previous year we only signed Luke Lyons and Gabby McGill but could be wrong. Very mixed success there!
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All good points. I’ve said it before but we’re now on day 18 of the daily club tweets and we’re only at Euan Deveney. Easy to forget just how small our squad of genuine first team players was last season (and the season before). As you say, we’re still in a tricky position for recruiting full-time players. Remember last summer when people panicked because Queen of the South signed a load of players early on while we signed no one, forgetting that they’d just signed Rico Quitongo, Max Currie and a finished Gavin Reilly among other jobbers. I’m sure McCabe (and the good people at Consilium) will be prepared and working on things. We’ve seen McCabe become a lot less naive tactically, I expect he won’t repeat last summer’s lack of signings. Plenty of time before we can start panicking.
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I think that draw is fine if the fixtures work out in the usual way. Not the most exciting but all games we have a chance in. Bonnyrigg is a great away day, Inverness isn’t ideal since we’re heading there twice already, we’ve done well at home against top flight teams previously and our games against Dumbarton recently have been chaos.
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Can one of you wish for signing Kyle Turner next please?
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I think our fixtures are usually pot 5 away, pot 4 home, pot 1 home and then pot 2 away. I’d like Livingston, who seem to struggle in the cups at times, and Albion Rovers, as we might not get back to Cliftonhill for a while. Not too fussed about pot 2 or 4 but let’s go for Hamilton and Clyde since they’re probably the weakest teams in each.
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That does make sense, I know they announced Murray Johnson’s loan to Queen of the South around the same time so they were possibly very keen to announce it for whatever reason. It is very odd isn’t it? I get when they do it for club statements that they maybe don’t want a lot of attention on like Salim being punted but bizarre to not tweet out the squad update. I’m not bothered about them not mentioning anything about Callum Smith, than can easily be included as a sentence in the next update, just weird to quietly post a squad update on the website and not share it.