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Watched the Norwich game this morning. Thought Hanley was pretty good on the whole: impressive positioning and anticipation, strong in the air, talking to teammates, calm and crisp at recycling the ball even if he wasn't progressing it much.

On the bad side, I can imagine a lot of teams making sure he has the ball and not letting McTominay and Tierney playing forward (think Hanley tried two long balls and both failed), plus he's always going to struggle in a foot race.

You can definitely see him slotting into the back three nicely, but I'd keep Gallagher for now.

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1 hour ago, accies1874 said:

Watched the Norwich game this morning. Thought Hanley was pretty good on the whole: impressive positioning and anticipation, strong in the air, talking to teammates, calm and crisp at recycling the ball even if he wasn't progressing it much.

On the bad side, I can imagine a lot of teams making sure he has the ball and not letting McTominay and Tierney playing forward (think Hanley tried two long balls and both failed), plus he's always going to struggle in a foot race.

You can definitely see him slotting into the back three nicely, but I'd keep Gallagher for now.

Hanley is actually fairly quick. 

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2 hours ago, Scumjob said:

I'll say it now. Stephen Welsh looks our best prospect at centre back since John Kennedy.

I'll assume this is a bit that's going over my head.

If a 21 year old with less than 30 games in his career to date, who hasn't even been very good in those games, is our top CB prospect then we're in trouble.

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On 06/02/2021 at 11:51, accies1874 said:

recycling the ball 
 

Mods, plz.

On 06/02/2021 at 19:46, Scumjob said:

I'll say it now. Stephen Welsh looks our best prospect at centre back since John Kennedy.

He won't even have the career David Bates has had, IMO. If Shane Duffy hadn't turned out a complete turnip he'd be out on loan to QoS or something.

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Just now, Marshmallo said:

I appreciate it's not the high level of Oostende or Reading but the young lad Cooper is captaining Leeds United again tonight and has the cigars out. 

Cool, thats us sorted then. No need for keeping tabs on any other centre backs.

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On 06/02/2021 at 22:13, G51 said:

I'll assume this is a bit that's going over my head.

If a 21 year old with less than 30 games in his career to date, who hasn't even been very good in those games, is our top CB prospect then we're in trouble.

Presumably he's trolling, considering Welsh couldn't get a game as a CB at Morton last season and is only getting games at Celtic because there's literally no alternative. 

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1 hour ago, Devo said:

He won't be getting a game there much longer. They have a German international and Spanish international CB who will be their first choice when fit.

He's really a championship level player. Decent but no better than several that we have.

Yes , well Cooper is a Scottish international !

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2 hours ago, Marshmallo said:

I appreciate it's not the high level of Oostende or Reading but the young lad Cooper is captaining Leeds United again tonight and has the cigars out. 

Good

McIntyre has been playing for the u - 21s though

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46 minutes ago, accies1874 said:
10 hours ago, Marshmallo said:
I appreciate it's not the high level of Oostende or Reading but the young lad Cooper is captaining Leeds United again tonight and has the cigars out. 

That was at good as I've seen him.

It is mad to me that the captain of a top half EPL team is eligible for us and he's not good enough for the trainspotters on here who would rather debate the merits of Jack Hendry or Andy Considine 😂

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8 hours ago, Devo said:

McKenna was pish at Ayr at the same age, that doesn't mean anything. Welsh has a really good chance.

And he actually played 18 times in half a season at Morton, hardly 'couldn't get a game' more like played every week.

Not at centre back tho, he was exclusively at right back.

Which was more down to our shite management than anything he did.

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