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19 minutes ago, LIVIFOREVER said:

Aye if only we had 4 or 5 players well over 6ft to aim the ball into a particular area for them all to get in there and attack it. Seriously how can a set piece taker not practice like feck at hitting balls into the box, and at least hit it over the head of the first defender at corners, and not overhit it to the opposite corner flag.

Players should know exactly where it's going and with the height we have in our team now we should have a very good chance of getting a head on the ball, Ayo, Fitzwater, Bahamboula, Guthrie, Nouble, yet we waste just about every set piece we have.

Yes; I think other clubs have cottoned on to the fact that, no matter who we have in the line-up, every ball seems to be aimed at Obileye (that is when the ball doesn't miss the line altogether and goes out for a goal-kick.

We seemed to be causing far more chaos with Nicky's long throw-ins; even if the ball didn't reach Nouble; it seemed to create panic in the defence.

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Goalkeepers
1. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Shamal George - 2026
31. 🇷🇺 Ivan Konovalov - 2023 (1 year extension option)
32. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Jack Hamilton - 2024

Defenders
2. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Nicky Devlin - 2023
3. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Jackson Longridge - 2023
4. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Tom Parkes - 2023
5. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Jack Fitzwater - 2023
6. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ayo Obileye - 2023 (1 year extension option)
11. 🇨🇴 Cristian Montano - 2023 (1 year extension option)
12. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Jamie Brandon - 2025
15. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Morgan Boyes - 2023 (1 year extension option)
25. 🇦🇺 Phillip Cancar - 2024 (1 year extension option)
29. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 James Penrice - 2024

Midfielders
8. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scott Pittman - 2026
17. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Stephen Kelly - 2025
18. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Jason Holt - 2023
22. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Andrew Shinnie - 2023
24. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Sean Kelly - 2024
33. 🇧🇪 Stephane Omeonga - 2023

Forwards
7. 🇨🇬 Dylan Bahamboula - 2024 (1 year extension option)
9. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Bruce Anderson - 2024
10. 🇬🇼 Esmaël Gonçalves - 2024 (1 year extension option)
19. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Joel Nouble - 2023 (1 year extension option)
28. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Kurtis Guthrie - 2024 (1 year extension option)

In
Dylan Bahamboula - Oldham Athletic
Scott Bitsindou - KSK Lierse Kempenzonen
Jamie Brandon - Heart of Midlothian
Phillip Cancar - Western Sydney Wanderers
Shamal George - Colchester United
Esmaël Gonçalves - Sheikh Russel
Kurtis Guthrie - RoundGlass Punjab
Jack Hamilton - Greenock Morton
Stephen Kelly - Rangers

Loans Out
Scott Bitsindou - Arbroath - Contract Expiry 2024 (1 year extension option)
Harrison Clark - Stirling Albion - Contract Expiry 2023 (?)
Jack Hamilton - Hartlepool United - Contract Expiry 2024
Josh Mullin - Ayr United - Contract Expiry 2023
Jaze Kabia - Greenock Morton - Contract Expiry 2023
Brian Schwake - Greenock Morton - Contract Expiry 2023

Out
Odin Bailey - Birmingham City (Loan return)
Daniel Barden - Norwich City (Loan return)
Caleb Chukwuemeka - Aston Villa (Loan return)
Alan Forrest - Heart of Midlothian
Keaghan Jacobs - Arbroath
Adam Lewis - Liverpool (Loan return)
Jack McMillan - Partick Thistle
Carlo Pignatiello - Greenock Morton
Matej Poplatnik - Ilireja 1911

Craig Sibbald - Dundee United
Sebastian Soto - Norwich City (Loan return)
Max Stryjek - Wycombe Wanderers
Gavin Reilly - Queen of the South

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3 hours ago, Durnford said:

I'd be particularly interested if he was good at set pieces; particularly corners.

Kelly was very poor with the corners on Wednesday and Shinnie also seems to have lost his touch.

Speaking to a few rangers supporting pals they say his free kicks are pretty impressive. He's also one for a long range shot which is something we don't have a lot of. Found a video of a belter of a free kick he scored against Denmark U-21s https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=694552764959444

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Saw CC mentioning that this is probably a long term succession signing like I'd posted about yesterday. You've got Omeonga/Holt/Shinnie/Pittman all out of contract in the summer so he's got a year to settle basically. If he forces his way into the team sooner then good. Pitts will stay you'd think but Omeonga/Holt could get a better deal elsewhere as much as I'm desperate for them to stay.

Shinnie looks done though, we could do with him just packing it in. Looked absolutely lost on Wednesday

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Just now, LIVIFOREVER said:

Did Kyle and Keaghan have first name initials on theirs, can't remember.

I can't remember either, I'll need to look it up. I think it was maybe just Keaghan that did Ke. Jacobs possibly. Although it now means we can call Stephen Kelly, Saint Kelly of Livingston :D 

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1 hour ago, LIVIFOREVER said:

II remember one game had all four Jacobs bros playing for us, that must be a record, firstly having triplets playing in the same team, and secondly four brothers all playing together for a pro football team, should have that on the chase or tipping point.

I believe it's still a world record

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He's certainly different from the usual ex pro footballers turned managers, gives a good tactical explanation of his game plan and thought process throughout the game in his post match interviews too, if i'm being honest asides, he's a good listen. If anything he puts too much thought into games and overdoes it at times trying to counter threats from the opposition, but none of the usual dull post match droning on, likes to have a laugh with the interviewer too with his dry wit putting them on the spot.

I'd like to know the stats on having everyone back defending corners to leaving one player up on the halfway line though, that annoys me to an unhealthy rambling state when i'm sitting watching games, i know he puts a lot of stock into the modern day way of analyzing football, and there must be good data backing it up, but it boils my piss seeing us doing it.

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There is a beautiful compilation video of Manuel Neuer collecting corners and instantly launching it to Robben who is on the move pre-empting Neuer collecting the ball. It is almost like 'special' plays in the NFL. A tactic that is only suitable if other criteria are met. We do it with the long throw I'd like to see us do something similar, particularly with a group of players who will properly bust a gut in support if it works.

 

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39 minutes ago, The Wrong Car said:

Pretty sure there was a video from a English lower league manager on that - essentially leaving players up gives away space in the box to attackers

No doubt, but you've always got more players defending a set piece anyway, for a start you've 2 players extra with the opposition keeper and set piece taker out of the equation, so why do we need both extra players in our box, and not stick one up the pitch, which would take out another 2 opposition players dropping back to mark him. Just annoys me because we essentially have to defend a set piece twice, maybe even three times, as the clearance will always go out to an opposition player to be knocked back in, with us having no player outside the box picking up the clearance. And also it makes the counter attack a lot harder, with us having to break from our box.

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No doubt, but you've always got more players defending a set piece anyway, for a start you've 2 players extra with the opposition keeper and set piece taker out of the equation, so why do we need both extra players in our box, and not stick one up the pitch, which would take out another 2 opposition players dropping back to mark him. Just annoys me because we essentially have to defend a set piece twice, maybe even three times, as the clearance will always go out to an opposition player to be knocked back in, with us having no player outside the box picking up the clearance. And also it makes the counter attack a lot harder, with us having to break from our box.
Keeping all our players in the box can tempt the other team to push further up, leaving gaps for quicker players to break...guys like Omeonga, Anderson, Bahamboula can use their pace to chase down the clearance
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1 hour ago, DavideFernandezLoveChild said:

There is a beautiful compilation video of Manuel Neuer collecting corners and instantly launching it to Robben who is on the move pre-empting Neuer collecting the ball. It is almost like 'special' plays in the NFL. A tactic that is only suitable if other criteria are met. We do it with the long throw I'd like to see us do something similar, particularly with a group of players who will properly bust a gut in support if it works.

 

Yeah Sarkic was good at that for us too, that kick up to Dykes for his goal against Celtic, although i think that was from a free kick but he did good kicks from his goal area too. I think Shamal has good distance from his kicks and could do it with Nouble and Guthrie as well. Fat chance just now from a set piece though because we don't have anyone up the pitch and have to break from our box.

 

Just remembered, wasn't it how Nouble scored against Sevco, Shamal up to Devlin? who headed it on to Nouble, could check myself but can't be bothered.:lol:

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2 minutes ago, Cptn Hooch said:
9 minutes ago, LIVIFOREVER said:
No doubt, but you've always got more players defending a set piece anyway, for a start you've 2 players extra with the opposition keeper and set piece taker out of the equation, so why do we need both extra players in our box, and not stick one up the pitch, which would take out another 2 opposition players dropping back to mark him. Just annoys me because we essentially have to defend a set piece twice, maybe even three times, as the clearance will always go out to an opposition player to be knocked back in, with us having no player outside the box picking up the clearance. And also it makes the counter attack a lot harder, with us having to break from our box.

Keeping all our players in the box can tempt the other team to push further up, leaving gaps for quicker players to break...guys like Omeonga, Anderson, Bahamboula can use their pace to chase down the clearance

Nah they always have a few waiting to collect the ball being knocked out, not saying it's impossible to break from our box, just a lot harder, and as i said the first clearance is always going out to an opposition player, who has no pressure on him playing the ball back into our box, or picking out his pass. 

Can't actually believe i'm the only one on here it annoys, and you're happy we don't put a man up the pitch.:unsure: Really bugs the shit out of me, Gary Bollan used to do it too and did my tits in.:lol:

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