SteveTheLichtie
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Huge mistakes made and still stayed up. Crazy season.
Same mistakes cannot be made this summer or we will be favourites to go down.
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9 hours ago, ExiledLichtie said:
I am delighted, we played an actual striker, and our actual striker got a goal. No doubt he'll be rewarded with a seat back on the bench.
Dick thinking he is being undermined by the support, sent him out to prove wrong, does the opposite, so punished by being benched again. Dick management 101.
Just as long as we don't make up a song for Shanks itll be ok.....
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Could easily play a front 3 of Linn Shanks and McKenna with Allan just behind. The extra man in the middle doesn't contribute when the possession tactic is long ball.
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Aptly titled thread name.
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12 minutes ago, ecto said:
So is Mark McNulty and Dylan McGeoch, also possibly time to see if we can make peace with Nicky Low, we are a far better side with him in it
Low won't be back.
Also not too sure if the club can afford to be relegated this season. If we are still well within a relegation battle at the start of January I can see the board making moves.
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18 minutes ago, virginton said:
I'd hardly say that giving a two year deal to Scott Allan is the sign of a club not spending enough to progress. The question is whether the signings have worked or not.
I don't think a club gives Allan a two year deal if it's seriously concerned about playing seaside league football next season. The expectation is clearly higher than that IMO.
The expectation is alot higher and the board are clearly building towards that. The issue they now have is the man in charge isn't capable of taking them to that next step. The hybrid full time setup is creating divides in the squad and I'm pretty certain the new recruitment team is purely a board level hire and won't have much to do with the current manager.
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Strikerless, gutless, hopeless.
Playing 442 diamond with no strikers has to be some sort of running joke with these players.
Dick will relegate us.
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Diamond wi no strikers turning up triumphs again for Dick......
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4 hours ago, Lichtie78 said:
Not even sure what this is supposed to mean
Are they scouting and picking out signings for the club regardless who the manager is or are they working directly for Dick. Pretty common for player recruitment to be seperate from the current manager.
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Glad the directors done something about player recruitment. Interesting thing now will be who they are actually working for, the club or Dick....
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Going diamond again......
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1 hour ago, lichtie23 said:
No Hammy??
Nope. Nothing against Hammy ability but don't think he has the engine to get up and down the park at this level anymore. Constantly get found out on counters on that side which ToB goes over to cover then we have a huge gaps in the middle.
Hancock can get up and down like Oakley on the opposite side.
Tough choices need to be made.
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Gaston
Oakley Little ToB Hancock
Tait Allan
Hilson McKenna Linn
Shanks
Big game. Need a win.
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How long has Dick got to sort it out? January?
Can't afford to drop to League 1.
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What's this about the new signing deal being off?
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3 hours ago, lichtiekev said:
Need to bin the diamond formation pronto too,
Back to 4-4-2,
Get Linn on the wing and Mckenna supporting Hilson upfront,
A fit Scott Stewart on the right hopefully soon and 2 centre midfielders,
Play people in there proper positions would maybe help too,
Diamond would work with 2 strikers.
Doesn't work by playing no strikers.
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Actually liked having Stewart in the backline doing the "ToB" job of coming forward and breaking through the midfield lines.
Oakley does an immense amount of running. A bit better on his final balls and he will do a good job. Same goes for Hancock.
Allan is screaming out for quick wingers for him to ping balls out to. Seen his frustration many times when an opportunity to release them wasn't done because our wingers have zero pace.
Still have little to no idea what Fosu is meant to be. Big guy, can't header, no pace, little vision, no finishing. Him going back and covering Oakley most of the game said it all.
If there is no striker coming in then it's going to be a big struggle.
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1 hour ago, lichtie23 said:
Only there until January
Highly likely the loan will be extended until the end of the season. He ain't coming back up here again.
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Correct decision.
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2 minutes ago, da_no_1 said:
I actually hope they do
They haven't.
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Games postponed.
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2 hours ago, afc_36_0 said:
Dick keeps saying that he wont sign anyone unless they’re better than what we’ve got, if thats the case why is our squad weaker and also we seem to sign players we dont know anything about.
I agree on the league 1/2 and even highland/lowland league players, surely we could get 3 or 4 good players from these leagues. Are we not trying or is it getting harder to tempt players away from part time teams around glasgow etc with the cost/time of travel?Ignore what Dick is saying.
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1 minute ago, lichtie23 said:
Fine Allan a months wages. An utterly ludicrous thing to do.
2 weeks is the max. He ain't getting fined. Shouldn't have been sent off.
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9 minutes ago, Walter said:
I wasn't at the game and I'm aware that statistics don't tell the full story but in what respect was this ever a close game?
Obviously close up until the sending off hence the ref ruined it. Did I seriously have to explain that to you simpleton?
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The Arbroath Thread
in Scottish Championship General Chatter
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Great to hear but damning of the recruitment that we are still reliant on him as our only creative outlet.