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Obviously we don't know what system Hopkin is planning on, but if we even very charitably say he's managed to figure out a system which allows us to get an attacking midfielder, two wingers and two centre forwards in at once without being stupidly imbalanced then we'd have the following options for those five places in the team:

Nesbitt, McGuffie, McPake, Omar, Lyon, Colville, Wallace, Oliver, Salkeld, Muirhead, Orsi, MacIver

Compared with those 12 (twelve) attacking options and another four central midfielders, we have the following defenders:

Strapp, McGinty, McLean

If this season does go tits up at any point there is absolutely no way the budget can be used as an excuse. If we end up short in defence it's because Hopkin has chosen to stockpile attackers rather than not having the resources to strengthen the defence.

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We now have 16 midfielders/forwards fighting out for effectively 6 positions. There is going to be a lot of unhappy players on match day.

Meanwhile we have 3 defenders, 1 of which is 35 and past his best.

Absolute madness recruitment from Hopkin when just  a week or two ago he said how tight the budget was and asking fans for more money.

Quite why he gave so many of our deadwood new deals and continues to recruit wingers and attack minded players is anyone's guess.

We have 4 defensive midfielders, we have 5 wingers, has Hopkin lost it? How is he going to make this work?

 

 

 

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No Idea who Michael Ledger is, but no doubt QoS fans will be along soon to tell us he's shite...

Beyond that, there must be contract cancellations/moves to come; there's no way he can sustain a squad that shape... and absolutely no way he can justify some of the cost, this season of all seasons. The Wallace signing is just taking the pish.

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5 minutes ago, The Ghost of B A R P said:

No Idea who Michael Ledger is, but no doubt QoS fans will be along soon to tell us he's shite...

Beyond that, there must be contract cancellations/moves to come; there's no way he can sustain a squad that shape... and absolutely no way he can justify some of the cost, this season of all seasons. The Wallace signing is just taking the pish.

I’m not saying he is shite - he just didn’t make us any less shite!

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Well, it's two defenders finally. We're still too short to be playing a back four as it is, but I also don't have a clue who out of this squad would be a right wing back and we surely don't have the budget left to sign any more defenders. Fjortoft and Ledger both need to be successful or we're in big trouble, we simply can't afford defensive signings going wrong.

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McPake - certainly worth a shot, we didn't do too badly from the last winger that a fellow Championship club thought was shite. But the attitude could be an issue if things go badly (see McKay, B.) 

Fjortoft - 6 foot 4 centre half and isn't 100 like McLean, hopefully we'll get a proper hammer-thrower instead of a donkey.

The others:

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5 hours ago, madton said:

We now have 16 midfielders/forwards fighting out for effectively 6 positions. There is going to be a lot of unhappy players on match day.

Meanwhile we have 3 defenders, 1 of which is 35 and past his best.

Absolute madness recruitment from Hopkin when just  a week or two ago he said how tight the budget was and asking fans for more money.

Quite why he gave so many of our deadwood new deals and continues to recruit wingers and attack minded players is anyone's guess.

We have 4 defensive midfielders, we have 5 wingers, has Hopkin lost it? How is he going to make this work?

 

 

 

Must have gone to the same coaching school as Goody.

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7 hours ago, AsimButtHitsASix said:

I got a horrible feeling he's decided Chris Millar is a right back or something equally ridiculous. 

In a 4-4-2 with a solid midfield 4 in front of him that wouldn't be a bad idea as a one off but we can't go into the season with Jacobs or Millard as our first choice rb. 

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On 21/09/2020 at 17:47, AsimButtHitsASix said:

The Wallace Duffy loan has been cancelled...

Wallace Duffy now expected to pitch up at ICT. No idea how good he is but if it eliminates the possibility that Brad Mckay will rock up at RB for us then it is a fantastic signing.

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On 26/09/2020 at 03:26, AsimButtHitsASix said:

I got a horrible feeling he's decided Chris Millar is a right back or something equally ridiculous. 

He is on record as saying Millar will have limited game time now. He is likely looking at Jacobs and Ledger just now for RB in a 4, Salkeld if we are playing a back 3, and maybe still looking to replace Duffy.

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1 hour ago, RiG said:

Wallace Duffy now expected to pitch up at ICT. No idea how good he is but if it eliminates the possibility that Brad Mckay will rock up at RB for us then it is a fantastic signing.

He's shite by all accounts. Happy to take the word of the St Johnstone fans on the subject now.

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I'd put money on us lining up Ledger-Fjortoft-McGinty-Strapp across the back if there are no further signings. Strapp with license to push on, the other three shuffling across.

Whether that's good enough remains to be seen.

An actual right-back would be very welcome, but more than that, we need a first-choice keeper.

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