Jan Vojáček Posted October 1, 2018 Share Posted October 1, 2018 10 minutes ago, Brummo said: What change of manager / lack of? Hope this is just a wind up! I'm guessing (just a stab in the dark mind you) that you were maybe lining up a player from Dundee United? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mo83 Posted October 1, 2018 Share Posted October 1, 2018 What change of manager / lack of? Hope this is just a wind up!Depends who you heard was coming in? Is he at at a team with a manager? Player I heard the team currently don't have a manager! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoJest Posted October 1, 2018 Share Posted October 1, 2018 3 hours ago, mo83 said: 3 hours ago, Brummo said: What change of manager / lack of? Hope this is just a wind up! Depends who you heard was coming in? Is he at at a team with a manager? Player I heard the team currently don't have a manager! I guess it would have been Matty Smith 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brummo Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 Thanks for clarifying that it is player's team without manager. I thought for a horrible moment that we had lost ours! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brummo Posted October 6, 2018 Share Posted October 6, 2018 Sick as a parrot to end this round of games like we did. I know it isn't panic stations quite yet but surely, no one can be anything other than disappointed with the start we've made so far in League One. We came close to another point saved but "near deid n'er filled the kirkyaird". I really, really hope the Mo can put disappointing results like today's behind them and regain winning ways. Please... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mo83 Posted October 6, 2018 Share Posted October 6, 2018 Let's get a striker!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brummo Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 On 10/7/2018 at 06:31, mo83 said: Let's get a striker!! With United appointing a new boss, does this mean Matty Smith is an option again or does the deadline mean it has to wait till January? Disappointed to hear Dick loaned out Kane Hester to Kilby, as he could have done a job for the Mo. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mo83 Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 With United appointing a new boss, does this mean Matty Smith is an option again or does the deadline mean it has to wait till January? Disappointed to hear Dick loaned out Kane Hester to Kilby, as he could have done a job for the Mo. I'm not too sure if we can sign anyone at the minute or if it's just development loans we can bring in.As for kane I think eventually he will become a Mo player,when who knows though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FifeSons Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 On 06/10/2018 at 18:06, Brummo said: Sick as a parrot to end this round of games like we did. I know it isn't panic stations quite yet but surely, no one can be anything other than disappointed with the start we've made so far in League One. We came close to another point saved but "near deid n'er filled the kirkyaird". I really, really hope the Mo can put disappointing results like today's behind them and regain winning ways. Please... To be fair, you’re level on points with league favourites Dumbarton after 9 games 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lichtie78 Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 With United appointing a new boss, does this mean Matty Smith is an option again or does the deadline mean it has to wait till January? Disappointed to hear Dick loaned out Kane Hester to Kilby, as he could have done a job for the Mo. Hester only went to EK since transfer windows don’t apply to the Lowland League. Brian Kerr is the manager there, and he managed Hester on loan at Albion Rovers last season so I also imagine that would’ve swayed it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mo83 Posted October 11, 2018 Share Posted October 11, 2018 Hester only went to EK since transfer windows don’t apply to the Lowland League. Brian Kerr is the manager there, and he managed Hester on loan at Albion Rovers last season so I also imagine that would’ve swayed it. Don't think he will be at Ek for long from what I've heard. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brummo Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 Ach well, losing 3-1 to a full-time ex-SPL side, no huge shame, even if the BBC stats weren't pretty. Meanwhile back in the real world of steering clear of tier four... bring in another striker please. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tulloch Gorum Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 That Antoniazzi looked like a decent player today. I know you guys have him in on loan - reckon he's one to watch? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tongue_tied_danny Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 Why has Matty Allan not been playing recently? Is he injured or just out of favour? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mo83 Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 That Antoniazzi looked like a decent player today. I know you guys have him in on loan - reckon he's one to watch? Played really well in the first half yesterday,got a bit of creativity about him. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mo83 Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 Very poor yesterday from Montrose,never got started at all.We really need to add 3-4 players to this squad in my opinion if we are to stay in the league.Only bright spark was the young lad Antoniazzi performance looks to be coming into good form.Up front we have nothing at all at the moment crying out for a striker.Why Redman is on the bench is baffling aswell would be in my 11 every week. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Username With Mo In It Posted October 21, 2018 Author Share Posted October 21, 2018 I think your right about needing to strengthen the squad. We are currently paying the price for our lack of transfer success in the summer as we are now basically playing in a higher league with the same team as last season team minus three of its best players. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose moaner Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 We are really struggling up front. First half their keeper never had a save to make. Any team with pace is causing us problems at the back with Yano and bolo being to slow.Very cheap goals yesterday and not sure if it was a penalty. Ref didn’t do us any favours.I don’t think we won a single ball up front and they pressed high to stop us playing out from the back. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judge Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 It’s certainly a worry as we have no cutting edge. None of strikers getting a run to gain form either though as they change most weeks. Don’t understand why Redman and Fotheringham are not being picked more often in midfield either. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOFOREVER Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 (edited) All the above few comments are merited. I don't doubt that SP tried hard to get a seasoned striker in both before the season and before the window closed but the bottom line is that we didn't get one. There are strikers around in both Highland League and SPFL 2 and everybody else in L1 has some threat up front so we can only guess why we haven't. Has to be finance or geographical position. We can't accept the present position without trying something different. We've tried a myriad of permutations of players up front and none have solved the problem. Even giving an extended run to a couple of them I don't think is the answer. I honestly don't mean to be over critical but Martin Rennie is struggling at L1 level although he might have made it in L2 given pitch time. Craig Johnston I certainly don't want to criticise because he gives 100% but he isn't a goal poacher though might do more if playing alongside a more experienced striker. Danny Cavanagh has improved greatly but isn't the answer yet. That leaves on loan Euan Henderson who no doubt has talent but is yet to prove it consistently - again needs experience alongside him. So what's the answer now we are a long way off the next transfer window (and with no guarantee we will solve it then)? There are two possibilities. Firstly and probably the best one is to find an experienced striker at another club who is near the end of his career, in and out of his team and whose club would be prepared to terminate his contract to make him a free agent. We would need to buy him out so he was not out of pocket - not easy. I doubt there are any goodies already still out there unattached however. The second possibility is from within our own ranks i.e. move a defender into a striking role. OK, a daft idea, or is it? Think back to Brian Third in the 1970's. He was a left back but in an emergency played centre forward and never looked back. I know of another left back who turned centre forward in an emergency, scored a hat-trick of headers in his first game and never looked back. How many of you have heard of Glenn Murray who plays in the English Premiership and is up there as a top striker. Well, he started off at a Fourth Division club in their youth set-up - as a left back. Now he is a top class striker. Bolo or Andy Steeves - fancy a go? If nowt else either of them would stir things up and make the opposition work more and Bolo would occupy at least two defenders as a target man like Sanny used to. That means the opposition is pushed back meaning less pressure on us at the back and you never know we might even score a goal. So, we do nothing and hope for the best OR we try something else which might not work, but equally it might. Thoughts? PS: I agree Redman needs to be in. He is an attacking midfielder who can pop up with a goal. He and Masson are musts in the present set up. Edited October 21, 2018 by MOFOREVER Additional comment 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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