Les Westander of County Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 FT 1 -2 Assuming Dylan Dykes is a defender tonight, that must have been a back 3? in some kind of a 3-3-4 shape with 4 strikers and 2 attacking midfielders Marcus Fraser on the bench in case it all went pear-shaped. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkPockets Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 20 minutes ago, Les Westander of County said: FT 1 -2 Assuming Dylan Dykes is a defender tonight, that must have been a back 3? in some kind of a 3-3-4 shape with 4 strikers and 2 attacking midfielders Marcus Fraser on the bench in case it all went pear-shaped. 4-4-2 with Tony Dingwall at RB and Stewart at RM according to some who were there. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Westander of County Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 Hmm. So Dow probably pushed back to midfield - top of midfield diamond maybe. Paton defensive mid and DKD & Stewart to left and right. Mibbe. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CountyFan Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 19 minutes ago, Les Westander of County said: Hmm. So Dow probably pushed back to midfield - top of midfield diamond maybe. Paton defensive mid and DKD & Stewart to left and right. Mibbe. Close enough. To the surprise of absolutely nobody I can confirm that Tony Dingwall is not a right back. Liked the look of Ross Stewart I must say. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Westander of County Posted August 15, 2018 Share Posted August 15, 2018 22 hours ago, CountyFan said: ... To the surprise of absolutely nobody I can confirm that Tony Dingwall is not a right back. ... Disappointing. He is going to have to make his case for inclusion in this very competitive squad where a place even on the bench will be keenly contested. But then maybe a strong Reserve team is part of the cunning plan. With cunning advantages that I might not yet understand. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comrie Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 Tony's problem is that now and again he shows a bit of skill and people think he's going to finally make that breakthrough, then he gets a run and does absolutely nothing. He'll probably end up at Caley or Elgin in the near future. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 Sadly for Tony he isn’t even in contention for a place on the bench with our midfield. Still he will always have his Jeff Stelling moment - Tony Dingwall from Dingwall has scored in Dingwall for the Dingwall side. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comrie Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 Raith at home in the Challenge Cup, very winnable tie. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 Raith at home in the Challenge Cup, very winnable tie.We’ve said that before........One of the lows of Derek Adams’ reign. Brian Graham ran our reserves ragged that night. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sophia Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 8 hours ago, Comrie said: Tony's problem is that now and again he shows a bit of skill and people think he's going to finally make that breakthrough, then he gets a run and does absolutely nothing. He'll probably end up at Caley or Elgin in the near future. On 14/08/2018 at 19:28, forkboy said: Am I doing it correctly? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebonce Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 2 hours ago, Savage Henry said: We’ve said that before.... ....One of the lows of Derek Adams’ reign. Brian Graham ran our reserves ragged that night. Jon Bateson. Spoiler According to Wiki and Soccerbase he hasn’t played a competitive game since! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comrie Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 2 hours ago, bunglebonce said: Jon Bateson. Hide contents According to Wiki and Soccerbase he hasn’t played a competitive game since! Big Kova at centre half, that was an awful game to watch. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Westander of County Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 Brian Graham was mentioned by Markpockets on OTB - proposing he should start. The question this raises for me is: Has Brian Graham ever in his career had a run of starting games? (Probably did when at Raith) And if not why not? To me, he always looked worth more starts and appearances than he ever seemed to get, with us and with others e.g. Hibs. It was as if he was being undervalued as merely somebody tall to punt a ball up to. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunning1874 Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 (edited) 12 hours ago, Les Westander of County said: Brian Graham was mentioned by Markpockets on OTB - proposing he should start. The question this raises for me is: Has Brian Graham ever in his career had a run of starting games? (Probably did when at Raith) And if not why not? To me, he always looked worth more starts and appearances than he ever seemed to get, with us and with others e.g. Hibs. It was as if he was being undervalued as merely somebody tall to punt a ball up to. Discounting his loan spell with East Stirling in the fourth tier, I can only recall him getting one proper run while he was breaking through at Morton. James Grady had taken over and clearly made the decision that Graham, while still raw and struggling to score, was worth persisting with because he would eventually come good. So he persists for weeks with Graham in the team failing to score then after, from memory, eight games without a goal he gets one against Queen of the South. Having had his persistence in picking him finally pay off, Grady then dropped him the next week and he was in and out the team from then on He definitely played regularly at Raith though. EDIT: Checked and I've got my wires crossed here. He actually got goals in Grady's first two games in charge after starting Irons' final game, then was dropped three games after that. He didn't manage two consecutive starts again under Grady. The following season under Allan Moore he got a run of 13 consecutive games from October through to January, scoring 8 goals in that spell, before returning to the bench. The most consecutive starts he had after that was three, then he signed for Raith that summer. Edited August 24, 2018 by Dunning1874 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Widge Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 Graham eventually got a run of games for saints when he was on loan at us. Not sure that he improved the more he played tbh, he was the epitome of an impact sub. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 2 minutes ago, Widge said: Graham eventually got a run of games for saints when he was on loan at us. Not sure that he improved the more he played tbh, he was the epitome of an impact sub. He scored ten goals that season, and only two were off the bench. He had a run of twelve starts for us that season, and got five goals during it. It only ended when he was banned retrospectively for diving against ICT. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Westander of County Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 5 hours ago, Dunning1874 said: Discounting his loan spell with East Stirling in the fourth tier, I can only recall him getting one proper run while he was breaking through at Morton. James Grady had taken over and clearly made the decision that Graham, while still raw and struggling to score, was worth persisting with because he would eventually come good. So he persists for weeks with Graham in the team failing to score then after, from memory, eight games without a goal he gets one against Queen of the South. Having had his persistence in picking him finally pay off, Grady then dropped him the next week and he was in and out the team from then on He definitely played regularly at Raith though. EDIT: Checked and I've got my wires crossed here. He actually got goals in Grady's first two games in charge after starting Irons' final game, then was dropped three games after that. He didn't manage two consecutive starts again under Grady. The following season under Allan Moore he got a run of 13 consecutive games from October through to January, scoring 8 goals in that spell, before returning to the bench. The most consecutive starts he had after that was three, then he signed for Raith that summer. 5 hours ago, Widge said: Graham eventually got a run of games for saints when he was on loan at us. Not sure that he improved the more he played tbh, he was the epitome of an impact sub. 5 hours ago, RandomGuy. said: He scored ten goals that season, and only two were off the bench. He had a run of twelve starts for us that season, and got five goals during it. It only ended when he was banned retrospectively for diving against ICT. thanks Most strikers benefit from a run, I guess, and his goals return actually compares quite well to most. But then BG may be used by now to getting inconsistent chances to play. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
staggy4life Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 According to the P&J, Dow available for a transfer. Dykes and R.Dingwall available on loan. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staggie_93 Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 (edited) Bizarre to offer Dow a new contract in the summer, when he done absolutely nothing to merit one. Edited August 24, 2018 by Staggie_93 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spain Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 Pretty sure Dow was technically under contract on the same type of deal as everyone else where we either kept him on his Premiership wages (like we did with Naismith before selling him) or had to offer him a cut-price contract after relegation where he could walk away if he wanted (like a few elected to do). I don't think we ever had the option to send him packing for free. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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