Swello Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 24 minutes ago, Phillips455 said: Scottish cup TV fixtures announced. ViaPlay got the old firm, BBC picked the Hearts and the Darvel Matches. So Saturday 3pm Kick off it is! Yas. This season is already paying for a few years of Cup boredom. Now all we need is to get through this and draw the winner of the Ayr/Cove/Elgin tie away and I promise I'll never complain about boring fixtures/Morton again. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kapowzer Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 1 hour ago, Swello said: Yas. This season is already paying for a few years of Cup boredom. Now all we need is to get through this and draw the winner of the Ayr/Cove/Elgin tie away and I promise I'll never complain about boring fixtures/Morton again. All we need is for someone to forget to microwave the two OF balls and we may have a chance. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capt_oats Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 There's yer Barry Maguire to Dundee on loan confirmed. That seems like a really good move for him tbh. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K.T Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 What’s he like? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludo*1 Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 3 minutes ago, capt_oats said: There's yer Barry Maguire to Dundee on loan confirmed. That seems like a really good move for him tbh. Is it a good move for us though? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Handsome_Devil Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 4 minutes ago, Ludo*1 said: Is it a good move for us though? I think he'll do fine in the Championship. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swello Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 I think you'll find that he's perfectly decent in the Championship - he's a hard worker, good attitude just isn't outstanding in any sort of midfield role in our league. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
well fan for life Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 Good news for us & him. I reckon dropping down a level is good for him because he was never going to make it with us. He got retired as a CB years ago against St Johnstone and he lacks most of the attributes required to play in midfield in the top flight. FWIW I think he will make a pretty alright career in the championship. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capt_oats Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 (edited) 3 hours ago, Ludo*1 said: Is it a good move for us though? Fair play. I was waiting on that. With Maguire I think I think most comments on him here a few pages back are pretty accurate. @Handsome_Devil, @Swello and @well fan for life have summed it up far more succinctly than me above. He's very much a 'tidy' player. He's got two good feet but he's never really done enough to cement a spot in our first team. He's also slightly unfortunate in that his peer group at the club happened to be the likes of Turnbull, Campbell, Cadden etc and he's not any of them. IIRC he started at the club as a midfielder but was shunted about the park trying to find him a position. We tried him at CB and Robinson pretty much ended that after St Johnstone won 5-1 at FP. After that he went back to midfield. As I say he actually has all the tools, he has a good physique, has good feet, he's not a bad player but as @Swello says he's just doesn't seem to have an outstanding attribute at our level. Except beep tests. He's fucking brilliant at those. The fact he's moving to a similarly sized club whose fanbase actually have expectations of promotion is a good move for him as equally there will be expectations on him to actually perform. Posted this the other day but of all his managers Alexander used him the most (he also missed the 2nd half of our season where things went completely sideways so none of that is on him): Edited January 26, 2023 by capt_oats 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swello Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 From our point of view - I wonder if this bit of clearing the decks makes room for a much needed midfield destroyer in our squad. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Handsome_Devil Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 I could actually see Maguire doing a Craigan/Lawless/Devlin and even turning out to be an ok top-flight player after a few 30+ game seasons at the lower level. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fifespud Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 Thanks guys. Doesn't seem like a total disaster! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capt_oats Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 16 minutes ago, Swello said: From our point of view - I wonder if this bit of clearing the decks makes room for a much needed midfield destroyer in our squad. All our business so far this window has pretty much been like for like and with Maguire away to Dens it only leaves us with Goss, Slattery and Cornelius for the 2 pivot spots in a 4231. You'd kind of hope that an actual #6 is the plan. Like, I don't see Danzaki signing having any bearing on Maguire's loan. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casagolda Posted January 26, 2023 Author Share Posted January 26, 2023 32 minutes ago, capt_oats said: He's got two good feet My main memory of the covid season was Jock Brown’s love of Barry Maguire and being completely in awe of the fact he was capable of hitting the first man at a set piece with both his left and right foot. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RostokMcSpoons Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 (edited) 6 minutes ago, Casagolda said: My main memory of the covid season was Jock Brown’s love of Barry Maguire and being completely in awe of the fact he was capable of hitting the first man at a set piece with both his left and right foot. To be fair, I do remember Barry hitting a couple of half-decent free kicks into the right area, and it seems in football you only have to do something good a couple of times in front of a pundit or commentator to get a reputation that sticks for yonks afterwards, however meritless it turns out to be. I'm rather hoping Jock Brown was watching me playing 5-a-side as I've managed to Cruyff-turn nutmeg two people in successive weeks. It'd rather fun for this fat old bloke who has always been shite at football to be known til the end of my days for that, rather than tripping over my own feet or the ball. Edited January 26, 2023 by RostokMcSpoons 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swello Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 17 minutes ago, Casagolda said: My main memory of the covid season was Jock Brown’s love of Barry Maguire and being completely in awe of the fact he was capable of hitting the first man at a set piece with both his left and right foot. He did the same with Ray McKinnon for fucking years - I laughed when he adopted Barry. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazylegsjoe_mfc Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 25 minutes ago, Casagolda said: My main memory of the covid season was Jock Brown’s love of Barry Maguire and being completely in awe of the fact he was capable of hitting the first man at a set piece with both his left and right foot. I think if you're 6'2", to be taking corners and not be in the box attacking them, you must be great at them (Charlie Mulgrew for example), Maguire wasn't. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capt_oats Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 I have absolutely nothing against the bold Baz but the current "Barry Maguire didn't get a chance at Motherwell" discourse on Twitter is fucking wild btw. "One of the best young players at the club"...he's 25 in April. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rowsdower Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 He's been unlucky with injury, but has had plenty of chances. I've also blocked about 20 folk who replied to the club tweet with "this isn't Danzaki". 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capt_oats Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 1 minute ago, rowsdower said: I've also blocked about 20 folk who replied to the club tweet with "this isn't Danzaki". Said it before but I've muted more Motherwell fans on my Twitter feed than any other demographic. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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