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Forbes is a luxury player. He needs to have good players around him, and to be used correctly to be effective.

He can't run far, tackle or track back and don't expect any kind of work rate from him but his passing and delivery from corners and free kicks is excellent.

He was certainly a far better player for us than Mark Kerr who's first choice at Falkirk.

If Duffy thinks he's a wing back or something then he'll be pish.

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Forbes is a luxury player. He needs to have good players around him, and to be used correctly to be effective.

He can't run far, tackle or track back and don't expect any kind of work rate from him but his passing and delivery from corners and free kicks is excellent.

He was certainly a far better player for us than Mark Kerr who's first choice at Falkirk.

If Duffy thinks he's a wing back or something then he'll be pish.

He has been quoted in the paper saying that as he's left footed, he opens up new options for formations and gives us more balance. Kinda suggests to me that he might be used wide left, which seems like it might be a waste of him.

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He has been quoted in the paper saying that as he's left footed, he opens up new options for formations and gives us more balance. Kinda suggests to me that he might be used wide left, which seems like it might be a waste of him.

He might balance out a midfield 5 as a left sided creative player, with Russell providing the overlap on that side and McCluskey giving us width on the right. We'd probably need 2 defensive/sitting midfield players in the middle.

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We've used him wide left at times. Like you guys and your central defenders, we tend to use central midfielders all over the place. Against Peterhead he had a few decent forays into the box from the left but we're so toothless up front there wasn't much danger of his crosses/passes coming to much. Scored a good free kick in that match too.

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I'd like so see us line up like this:

Gaston

Kilday Miller Milojevic Lamie

O'Ware Pepper

Forbes

McCluskey Peaso Russell

Would like O'Ware at CB but he offers more defensively than McKee would at CM. Think Forbes played in a similar role at Partick and seemed to do well there.

I reckon Jamie McCluskey and Russell would provide a good option for Forbes and they'd get the ball in the box for Peaso.

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I didn't realise that Rae was the manager and was signing all the players.

Well according to the Gisbey Gazette this week he does - earning all the plaudits and proving his doubters wrong by, err, re-signing a player he allowed to leave last summer. Stick to the happy-clappers' program please.

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Not convinced at all by the Forbes signing; as shown by the efforts above to shoehorn him into the side, we now have a very unbalanced first team.

The team needs defensive solidity in front of the back four and this signing is not a solution.

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Forbes is a luxury player. He needs to have good players around him, and to be used correctly to be effective.

He can't run far, tackle or track back and don't expect any kind of work rate from him but his passing and delivery from corners and free kicks is excellent.

He was certainly a far better player for us than Mark Kerr who's first choice at Falkirk.

If Duffy thinks he's a wing back or something then he'll be pish.

That description could've been used for Steve Masterton.

Not convinced at all by the Forbes signing; as shown by the efforts above to shoehorn him into the side, we now have a very unbalanced first team.

The team needs defensive solidity in front of the back four and this signing is not a solution.

LIkewise. Completely uninspiring.

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That description could've been used for Steve Masterton.

And Andy Ritchie.

LIkewise. Completely uninspiring.

Forbes is a luxury player. He needs to have good players around him, and to be used correctly to be effective.

Ritchie at his best could have beaten the opposition along with a goalie and a set of ninepins, Donkey!

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That description could've been used for Steve Masterton.

And Andy Ritchie.

LIkewise. Completely uninspiring.

Forbes is a luxury player. He needs to have good players around him, and to be used correctly to be effective.

Ritchie at his best could have beaten the opposition along with a goalie and a set of ninepins, Donkey!

Yeah hehaw,, that would be when in one of his two career tackles he won the ball, kept it for the entire 90 minutes when Orr, McLuaghlin, Holmes, Rooney , Thomson, Busby etc sat about on their arses and did nothing would it?

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I was also thinking Masterton. Ross Forbes sounds like a guy who hasn't really fulfilled his potential for whatever reason. Hopefully he'll do us a turn and get himself back on track. Not exactly excited at the prospect of a 'luxury' player but he should add some of quality and experience to the side. A bit more work needed in this window - but I'm allowing a bit of optimism to creep in at this stage.

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That description could've been used for Steve Masterton.

And Andy Ritchie.

LIkewise. Completely uninspiring.

Forbes is a luxury player. He needs to have good players around him, and to be used correctly to be effective.

Ritchie at his best could have beaten the opposition along with a goalie and a set of ninepins, Donkey!

Yeah hehaw,, that would be when in one of his two career tackles he won the ball, kept it for the entire 90 minutes when Orr, McLuaghlin, Holmes, Rooney , Thomson, Busby etc sat about on their arses and did nothing would it?

FFS Donkey - you were there too! :wub:

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Seems a bit strange that Duffy would be in the paper saying he was trying to sign a player who wouldn't set the world alight but would do a job that needed done in midfield for the team when he was trying to sign Iain Davidson. Having not got him he's went and signed a completely different type of player in Forbes for the same position presumably with the same part of the budget that would have been used on Davidson.

All seems a bit football manageresque, signing any players who become available even if you don't need them and potentially miss out on bringing in the type of player you do need because of it.

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^^^ idiot found

Ok put the mirror away then!

By the way have you thought about adding another banner tag line to your posts? " VikingTon self made football pundit in love with his creator" ? You might also want to correct the typo above your photo from better to bitter while you are at it.

Hh

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FFS Donkey - you were there too! :wub:[/quote

Yes indeed, happily munching a carrot whilst Busby marked out Strachan to give Andy space to amble.

Fort Matilda special Dave? :P

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