DAFC. Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Getting pumped off a part-time team isn't acceptable when you're full-time.No reason to believe Forfar can't pip us to the title based on our previous calamitous efforts to beat part-time teams when the pressure was on. Same applies if we have to go through play-offs again this year to the likes of Alloa if they find themselves in the play-offs. Still think we'll win the league but this is pretty pish stuff from a team that has a shittonne more resources than every single team in the league. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoBNob Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Morris wasn't injured against Cowdenbeath? He was dropped for the hopeless Kerr Young because Morris had the audacity to move up to the SPL, ironically I'm pretty sure after the Cowdenbeath game both him and Young played the same amount of games for Dunfermline. Good management Jim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Morris wasn't injured against Cowdenbeath? He was dropped for the hopeless Kerr Young because Morris had the audacity to move up to the SPL, ironically I'm pretty sure after the Cowdenbeath game both him and Young played the same amount of games for Dunfermline. Good management Jim. I know it's old ground but that really did annoy me about Morris. Every other manager in the league knows that his squad is likely to change from one season to the next and tries to get the best out of them while they still can. Would Airdrie fans have thanked Bollan for dropping Buchanan for the latter part of last season just because he hadn't re-signed for this season? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoBNob Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 It was absolutely atrocious management. No shock our defence was a shambles that day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAFC Posted October 23, 2014 Author Share Posted October 23, 2014 He played him upfront against Cowden. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poet of the Macabre Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 He played him upfront against Cowden. Almost scored as well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gingapar Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 There's a lot of ignoring the fact that Morris had been dreadful in the run up to being dropped. Regardless, it's old ground. Calls to sack the manager in what is his last season anyway whilst we've are on steady form is bonkers. It's been quite a boring season really, but not disasterous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAFC. Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Manager's Thursday comments: "We knew the young boys would improve..." Got that far and gave up. Jefferies continues to regurgitate this fantasy that we have good youth players that are slowly finding their feet. Utter, utter horse shit. Lewis Martin somehow gets called up for Scotland, Christ knows why. Nearly caused 3 goals against Forfar with stupid school-boy-esque pass backs which their strikers easily latched on to. Luckily their finishing was totally pish and we got away with it. He's been doing stuff like that since he got a start too. Jefferies is living in a total fantasy if he thinks our youth are any good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1320Lichtie Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Manager's Thursday comments: "We knew the young boys would improve..." Got that far and gave up. Jefferies continues to regurgitate this fantasy that we have good youth players that are slowly finding their feet. Utter, utter horse shit. Lewis Martin somehow gets called up for Scotland, Christ knows why. Nearly caused 3 goals against Forfar with stupid school-boy-esque pass backs which their strikers easily latched on to. Luckily their finishing was totally pish and we got away with it. He's been doing stuff like that since he got a start too. Jefferies is living in a total fantasy if he thinks our youth are any good. It's an excuse for managers to fall back on, look at Hodgson and the English media trying to make themselves feel better after a dreadful World Cup where they were made to look horseshit by saying over and over to themselves 'aww it's because we have a young team'.. Even though the average age of the starting 11 was nearly 27 years old. Infuriating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoBNob Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Martin gets a call up because he is a good defender, he does make mistakes but he's 18? He has the best potential out of everyone in our squad, He did have a shocker against Forfar though, then again Buchanan wasn't great either. It happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoBNob Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 There's a lot of ignoring the fact that Morris had been dreadful in the run up to being dropped. Whereas Kerr Young was?... Any time Young got tested defensively it was a horror show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAFC Posted October 24, 2014 Author Share Posted October 24, 2014 Not sure about Martin, he is very young but makes lots of errors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
da_no_1 Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 There are a lot of angry, angry Pars fans on this forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poet of the Macabre Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 There are a lot of angry, angry Pars fans on this forum. It's not anger as much as frustration that we're not performing anywhere near to our potential at the moment. Ryan Williamson has heaps more potential than Martin IMO. He might end up not doing anything in football but he can be a very exciting player to watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JF-DAFC Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 In hindsight playing that back three against Cowden was a disaster, but at the time I had no complaints against him picking that side. Morris was shecht in the semi 1st leg, Page got sent off suspended for 1 game. For the 2nd leg JJ dropped Morris, put Young & Martin in with Grainger beside them to organise, they all looked solid & we had Whittle & Williamson bombing on up the wings too. 1st Cowden game the back 3 looked solid enough again, although we lost a goal from a set piece it was Geggan who was beaten if i remember right. After those two performances he was never gonnae change it for the last game. In hindsight he 100% should have, yes. But who knows, Morris & Page might've had another shocker (not unlikely) & then we'd be going insane about JJ making changes where the performances had been good. I've seen JJ blamed for the Airdrie game that dropped us into the playoffs the season before, but how many chances did our team miss that day? & could he really have picked anyone else? Our run up to that game was surprisingly good too, beating Cowden & Morton. SPL was a write-off before he arrived although that Hibs game was spectacularly bad! McCann was unbelievable, hooked at half time & we put Gary Mason to centre back who promptly retired. That squad had some decent players but you could try any number of combinations (McIntyre did!) & still never find a first 11 that could play together... I dunno if JJ's done enough this season but I've been impressed by him putting two decent teams together in two short spaces of time - first after relegation from SPL he built nearly a whole new side, looked much better than the team from the previous season & were up there challenging before admin hit. Secondly after the redundancies despite only being able to bring in players under 20 years old he cobbled together a decent if very inexperienced team that did pretty well over the season, obviously coming up short in the playoff games though. This season's been a slow start but I'm pleased they've at least managed to sort out the terrible defending from last season & look at least ok at the back. I do get annoyed with the pish he comes out with after games sometimes but does it really matter much at the end of the day? He knows we need to improve no matter what he says in interviews. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pesadilla Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 Bump. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loon Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 JJ Must Stay HaHa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bernardblack Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 I am excited to read this thread this evening Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmfc Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 Our bitches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Martins Willy Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 I've always thought Dunfermline would walk this league even after a poor start with Jeffries at the helm but after the past two home results I am not convinced they will win this league. Jeffries really is a tactical dinosaur and a p***k into the bargain. Jeffries Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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