Chefki Kuqi Posted July 29, 2022 Share Posted July 29, 2022 Something just occurred to me that hasn't in a good wee while. At one point we had two fullbacks on our books with good pedigree and never used them, namely Charalampos Mavrias and Miquel Nelom. Mavrias looks to have gone on and had a decent career in Cyprus whilst Nelom doesn't look to have had much luck back in the Netherlands, but arguably came with a better pedigree. My question is why did we not play these guys at the time? Less than 5 appearances combined. We were crap. The mind boggles. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lofarl Posted July 29, 2022 Share Posted July 29, 2022 Who lasted longer? Maloney or Muller? Why include a photo book of a utter dross season? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crawford Bridge Posted July 29, 2022 Share Posted July 29, 2022 That picture sums Mueller up. Running into a dead end with his eyes fixed on the ball. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Other Foot Posted July 29, 2022 Share Posted July 29, 2022 38 minutes ago, Chefki Kuqi said: Something just occurred to me that hasn't in a good wee while. At one point we had two fullbacks on our books with good pedigree and never used them, namely Charalampos Mavrias and Miquel Nelom. Mavrias looks to have gone on and had a decent career in Cyprus whilst Nelom doesn't look to have had much luck back in the Netherlands, but arguably came with a better pedigree. My question is why did we not play these guys at the time? Less than 5 appearances combined. We were crap. The mind boggles. Didn’t they both turn out to be a bit ‘off it’ in training? Remember being quite excited about Nelom, given that he’d previously interested Celtic 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chefki Kuqi Posted July 29, 2022 Share Posted July 29, 2022 9 minutes ago, The Other Foot said: Didn’t they both turn out to be a bit ‘off it’ in training? Remember being quite excited about Nelom, given that he’d previously interested Celtic No idea, might just be a Neil Lennon thing. Was thinking about our new leftback and he seems of a similar background to these fellas, hopefully gets a couple more games for us at-least. I suppose Stevenson and Gray were mainstays back then with Mackie and Boyle occasionally providing cover maybe, just surprised they were kept out of the team. In-fact I'd dare say that had we given them a fair crack we'd have won the league by now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Other Foot Posted July 29, 2022 Share Posted July 29, 2022 Update on The Boyler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crawford Bridge Posted July 29, 2022 Share Posted July 29, 2022 Knowing our luck his knee would explode on his second day back at training. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin McCann Posted July 29, 2022 Share Posted July 29, 2022 3 hours ago, The Other Foot said: Update on The Boyler So nothing at all apart from filling a few lines in a newspaper. Exciting times. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Cabbage Posted July 29, 2022 Share Posted July 29, 2022 5 hours ago, Chefki Kuqi said: Something just occurred to me that hasn't in a good wee while. At one point we had two fullbacks on our books with good pedigree and never used them, namely Charalampos Mavrias and Miquel Nelom. Mavrias looks to have gone on and had a decent career in Cyprus whilst Nelom doesn't look to have had much luck back in the Netherlands, but arguably came with a better pedigree. My question is why did we not play these guys at the time? Less than 5 appearances combined. We were crap. The mind boggles. To be fair, both were pretty rubbish. I remember (very cold) trips to Rugby Park and New Douglas Park where both of them were rotten. Sure the Rugby Park one was where Neil Lennon went full divorced Da having a meltdown by playing Ambrose and Stevenson as a midfield two and we lost 3-0. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chefki Kuqi Posted July 29, 2022 Share Posted July 29, 2022 Well fair enough, I've thrown that question to a number of folks and enough people have said the same that they were indeed pretty pants in the few appearances they did make. Despite that I'm still curious about the alternate reality where they got a better crack at the whip, but that curiosity is my burden to bear. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Tappin Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 LJ has us top 3 already. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoose Rice Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 6 hours ago, Tommy Tappin said: LJ has us top 3 already. We lack a major cutting edge. Croatian looks a left back Luca though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyle Lanley Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 Double is on lads. lee johnson’s green n white army?!!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leith Green Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 (edited) 9 hours ago, Hoose Rice said: We lack a major cutting edge. Croatian looks a left back Luca though. Yes to both of these. I think the first maybe due to the players not having played much together before yesterday? Cabraja is absolutely a player, even though he is not match fit he strolled it. Great touch, decent in the air, can cross a ball and hard as f**k - sorry Lewis, but put your feet up wee man. Youhan will also improve with matches, loads of skill. Jury out on Tavares for me, if McGeady didnt have that injury he would be a straight swap. As an aside, I thought Kenneh was really good yesterday - kept it simple, won the ball, passed it short, started another attack - that midfield worked really well. 6 hours ago, Lyle Lanley said: Double is on lads. lee johnson’s green n white army?!!! In truth, we are still in transition after the shitshow of last season................however I do like the attack minded way that LJ has us set up. We will certainly lose some games, but by christ this is far better fun to watch than the utter dross "15 passes over the back then launch a long ball" that appears to have been Maloneys tactics. If we sort out our shit in front of goal, I look forward to loads of results like that famous 6-6 at Fir Park all those years ago Edited July 31, 2022 by Leith Green 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. X Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 Nice to see some of your players enjoying some team bonding time. -2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judy Murray Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 24 minutes ago, Mr. X said: Nice to see some of your players enjoying some team bonding time. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crawford Bridge Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 31 minutes ago, Mr. X said: Nice to see some of your players enjoying some team bonding time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leith Green Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 2 hours ago, Mr. X said: Nice to see some of your players enjoying some team bonding time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zing. Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 I’m more bothered by the fact that they went out to the pub instead of going to the game. Kyle Magennis is pretending at being a footballer at this stage. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. X Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 1 hour ago, Judy Murray said: 1 hour ago, Crawford Bridge said: 7 minutes ago, Leith Green said: Come on chaps, it would be remiss of me not to post a clip of two Hibs players having to be separated by a bouncer. Any other team this would be an embarrassment to the club, but Hibs, just another day. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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