RussellAnderson Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 Has he improved quite a bit since leaving? I tend to avoid St Johnstone games unless they involve Aberdeen (for obvious reasons) so I've no idea if he would be a good signing or not. Yeah he’s been pretty decent. Super passion and desire. Still young and learning. An ideal signing imo. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jmothecat2 Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 Yeah he’s been pretty decent. Super passion and desire. Still young and learning. An ideal signing imo. Good to hear. Annoyingly my abiding memory of him playing for us is when he needlessly got himself sent off against Motherwell after about five minutes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussellAnderson Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 Good to hear. Annoyingly my abiding memory of him playing for us is when he needlessly got himself sent off against Motherwell after about five minutes. Still won the game if I remember correctly? My memory of him is the pictures of him swinging from a lamppost in the wee small hours after we won the League Cup. Also scoring with a beachball while we were locked in after beating Celtic in the Scottish Cup that same season. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d31 Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 Poor performance in the first one back. Lucky we were not playing a top flight team. Lowe and Stewart showed encouraging signs 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bob Mahelp Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 Any idea when Devlin will be back ? We're almost incapable of keeping a clean sheet without him. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrewDon Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 Stewart showed nice touches and is technically gifted, but I'm not sure about him and Cosgrove together. I thought Cosgrove - and the team more generally - missed May's ability to drag defenders and press from the front. Mackay-Steven was probably the biggest disappointment for me, though; he played like somebody who wanted to avoid injury. There just wasn't enough intensity or urgency to our play at 1-0, combined with a lack of a guile and a general complacency, and now we have an unwanted and unnecessary replay to negotiate. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussellAnderson Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 Stewart showed nice touches and is technically gifted, but I'm not sure about him and Cosgrove together. I thought Cosgrove - and the team more generally - missed May's ability to drag defenders and press from the front.Make sure fans of other teams don’t see this they’ll lose their minds. But Stewart’s scores more goals than May so he must be a better player!!! Aaaaah! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dons_1988 Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 A shite, rusty post break performance and a needless replay. However, these things happen. We’re still in the cup and plenty to be positive about. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big al Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 4 hours ago, RussellAnderson said: Make sure fans of other teams don’t see this they’ll lose their minds. But Stewart’s scores more goals than May so he must be a better player!!! Aaaaah! Lol 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingjoey Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 7 hours ago, DrewDon said: Stewart showed nice touches and is technically gifted, but I'm not sure about him and Cosgrove together. I thought Cosgrove - and the team more generally - missed May's ability to drag defenders and press from the front. Mackay-Steven was probably the biggest disappointment for me, though; he played like somebody who wanted to avoid injury. There just wasn't enough intensity or urgency to our play at 1-0, combined with a lack of a guile and a general complacency, and now we have an unwanted and unnecessary replay to negotiate. That’s almost exactly what I was going to say about yesterday. I didn’t think that we played that badly, but we didn’t threaten enough. Cosgrove was almost anonymous, apart from the ball always breaking away from him when he was trying to hold it up. Stevie May is probably a better option with Greg Stewart, who definitely looked like a player yesterday. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muzza81 Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 7 hours ago, RussellAnderson said: Make sure fans of other teams don’t see this they’ll lose their minds. But Stewart’s scores more goals than May so he must be a better player!!! Aaaaah! Are you seriously suggesting May is a better player than Stewart? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussellAnderson Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 Are you seriously suggesting May is a better player than Stewart? Depends what they’re being asked to do. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dons_1988 Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 Depends what they’re being asked to do.You’re absolutely right that mays contribution to the team is underrated. However I think the selection issue is more who plays alongside Stewart than whether or not Stewart should start. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muzza81 Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 19 minutes ago, RussellAnderson said: Depends what they’re being asked to do. Well obviously, however McIness has signed Stewart so he must have some sort of plan to utilise him and make Aberdeen a better side than prior to his signing. You’d rather have Stewart in your side every day of the week though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 As an aside, I see Jayden scores for Preston yesterday. Second greatest league in the world. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussellAnderson Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 1 hour ago, Muzza81 said: Well obviously, however McIness has signed Stewart so he must have some sort of plan to utilise him and make Aberdeen a better side than prior to his signing. You’d rather have Stewart in your side every day of the week though. Well as I've said, not necessarily. Yeah in a playground, everybody lines up and we're picking teams scenario, you'd pick Stewart over May. But in the system which we've played through November and December, the system where we've been as good as we've been this season, directly replacing May with Stewart wouldn't benefit the team. I wasn't at the game but from what I gather that's what happened yesterday. Cosgrove was isolated and although Stewart was our best attacking outlet, he didn't bring the best out of the rest of the team. I believe that to accommodate Stewart we would need a proper defensive mid in the place of either Shinnie or Ferguson, potentially Gleeson, but more likely a player who we don't have in our squad at this minute. Killie got the best out of him with Power and Dicker behind him in the centre of the park, both of whom are more defensive than our preferred duo. Because May puts in that defensive shift up the park, it allows the midfielders to support more and puts pressure on the opposition closer to their goal. There could, as someone's alluded to above, be room for both May and Stewart, but that would probably mean dropping the Ballon d'Or, and I wouldn't want to do that either. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussellAnderson Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 1 hour ago, Melanius Mullarkey said: As an aside, I see Jayden scores for Preston yesterday. Second greatest league in the world. it was a really cracking finish too: https://twitter.com/Jim__Douglas/status/1086721462239744000 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
logie skid boys Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 3 hours ago, kingjoey said: That’s almost exactly what I was going to say about yesterday. I didn’t think that we played that badly, but we didn’t threaten enough. Cosgrove was almost anonymous, apart from the ball always breaking away from him when he was trying to hold it up. Stevie May is probably a better option with Greg Stewart, who definitely looked like a player yesterday. Aye that is the problem we will have . was it down to missing mays workrate and the poor performace of mcginn and gms that cosgrove never got chance.....bit both prob . next few games will tell us if we can miss mays workrate .. stewart .thought he was excellent on the ball ..but not close enough cosgrove or not on the ball enough times around the box where he is needed . 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bob Mahelp Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 Just now, logie skid boys said: Aye that is the problem we will have . was it down to missing mays workrate and the poor performace of mcginn and gms that cosgrove never got chance.....bit both prob . next few games will tell us if we can miss mays workrate .. stewart .thought he was excellent on the ball ..but not close enough cosgrove or not on the ball enough times around the box where he is needed . We also couldn't cross to save our lives. We must have attempted to cross the ball more than 50 times.....McGinn, GMS, Stewart, Logan, Lowe, Shinnie, McLennan...every fucking player outside Lewis had a go at putting the ball into the box, and every fucking cross was utter shite. It was either too low and the first man nodded it away, or too high and it flew past the back post. What chance did Cosgrove have ? The rest of the should hang their heads in shame that in 90 minutes of crossie in against a part-time team at the bottom of League One, not one of them could find a decent cross. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AFCDannyFTH Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 4 hours ago, RussellAnderson said: Well as I've said, not necessarily. Yeah in a playground, everybody lines up and we're picking teams scenario, you'd pick Stewart over May. But in the system which we've played through November and December, the system where we've been as good as we've been this season, directly replacing May with Stewart wouldn't benefit the team. I wasn't at the game but from what I gather that's what happened yesterday. Cosgrove was isolated and although Stewart was our best attacking outlet, he didn't bring the best out of the rest of the team. I believe that to accommodate Stewart we would need a proper defensive mid in the place of either Shinnie or Ferguson, potentially Gleeson, but more likely a player who we don't have in our squad at this minute. Killie got the best out of him with Power and Dicker behind him in the centre of the park, both of whom are more defensive than our preferred duo. Because May puts in that defensive shift up the park, it allows the midfielders to support more and puts pressure on the opposition closer to their goal. There could, as someone's alluded to above, be room for both May and Stewart, but that would probably mean dropping the Ballon d'Or, and I wouldn't want to do that either. Bingo. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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