athletic 1 Posted April 21, 2019 Share Posted April 21, 2019 Both Montrose and Brechin have bigger core support than Annan can dream of.What has that got to do with 11 v 11 on the park winning a play off tie? I’m sure teams with smaller supports have been promoted before you are just talking complete nonsense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
an86 Posted April 21, 2019 Share Posted April 21, 2019 It's been a sugar or shite sort of season. Annan showed why they're in the top four and we're not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hampden Diehard Posted April 21, 2019 Share Posted April 21, 2019 A rare goalkeeping error took the wind out of our sails and the heads went down as the realisation of a non game hit home.Hopefully minds on next weeks scuppering of Clyde's title chance... We seemed to die a death after Hart's out-of-character blunder. Disaappointing after the excellent efforts recently and four shut-outs. Annan won't win any popularity contests, but what they do gets results.McLaren's best game.The officials? If ever a game highlighted the way the Scottish football has marginalised linesmen, this was it. If they can't signal for incidents two yards away and have to wait for refs to tell them what way a shy is to go, we should do away with them.Onwards to scuttle Clyde's championship bid next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emfaefifeyahoorsur Posted April 21, 2019 Share Posted April 21, 2019 To be fair to Jordan Hart he didn’t have much time to adjust and I felt he did well to block the initial effort. I had the pleasure of interviewing the Annan manager once upon a time and he told me that his objective was to set up Annan in much the same fashion that he was inducted into in his time at Blackburn under Kenny Dalglish. That is , soak up the pressure, hit on the break and get back on the bus leaving the opposition scratching their heads wondering how they had the best of the game but got nothing from it . From the comments here ( and previously on other club postings) it would appear that the formula is working . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Donkey Posted April 21, 2019 Share Posted April 21, 2019 1 hour ago, Hampden Diehard said: We seemed to die a death after Hart's out-of-character blunder. Yeah up to that point we were arguably more dangerous, but the fight and belief drained away after the goal. 1 hour ago, Hampden Diehard said: Annan won't win any popularity contests, but what they do gets results. They know all the tricks, and they have a rather 'straightforward' style, but they can play a bit too and never seem out of position. The third goal was really quite good...the wee number 11 (think I remember him from last time as a stand out) drew Gibby and East (I think) before turning them inside out and chipping a perfect ball for a good finish from Muir. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houstonspider Posted April 21, 2019 Share Posted April 21, 2019 It is not easy for us to bring in loan players. We get offered players but these Clubs are looking for a contribution to wages that we can't do. Also they demand that we play them. How can you build a team knowing you have to play someone knowing they can be crap and you have to keep playing them. You are also developing other teams players. Better to find your own players and have them for the season. I think a number of our recent loanees have been quite successful. Given we were in the middle of a horrendous run of results did Roberts honestly think the team couldnt be strengthened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The man with no name Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 9 hours ago, houstonspider said: 15 hours ago, The man with no name said: It is not easy for us to bring in loan players. We get offered players but these Clubs are looking for a contribution to wages that we can't do. Also they demand that we play them. How can you build a team knowing you have to play someone knowing they can be crap and you have to keep playing them. You are also developing other teams players. Better to find your own players and have them for the season. I think a number of our recent loanees have been quite successful. Given we were in the middle of a horrendous run of results did Roberts honestly think the team couldnt be strengthened. We have lost 1 of our last 7 games and have been giving young players the opportunity to play. I think Mark is assessing his squad before the end of the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hampden Diehard Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 Happy to give Hart the benefit of the doubt. He's been terrific this year in any case.Interesting to read of the Annan manager's thinking on the game. It's shite but it does work. It certainly seems to wind the Clyde fans up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hampden Diehard Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 We have lost 1 of our last 7 games and have been giving young players the opportunity to play. I think Mark is assessing his squad before the end of the season.It wasn't too long into the season before it was fairly clear that we wouldn't be troubling the top or bottom of the division. Not sure if bog standard loan players would have made any difference unless they were going to score a goal a game. If Roberts has decided to blood young guys to perhaps influence them to stay for a year, I'll go with that. Agents are swarming all over our young lads, trying to lure them away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houstonspider Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 Has Roberts already been told he has the gig for next season ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfcuk Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 Annan are a big solid unit who can score goals their record over the past 4 months has been very good ( obviously disposed of by Clyde) in the play offs they have real chance I think it will be Clyde and Annan in the final but we will beat them over two legs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williebraveheart Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 1 hour ago, houstonspider said: Has Roberts already been told he has the gig for next season ? I don't know but I can see no reason why not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houstonspider Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 I don't know but I can see no reason why not.Depends if we want to be in contention or content to finish 8th. Will love it if i am wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williebraveheart Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 13 minutes ago, houstonspider said: 37 minutes ago, williebraveheart said: I don't know but I can see no reason why not. Depends if we want to be in contention or content to finish 8th. Will love it if i am wrong. Without knowing the squad we will have to wildly make predictions like that is baffling. We have had a decent run over the last few games at the same time as introducing some young lads to gain experience without detriment to team performance. You surely can't criticise Mark Roberts for that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bring Your Own Socks Posted April 22, 2019 Author Share Posted April 22, 2019 Interesting debate. Like the first game at Annan we had decent spells and matched Annan well but they were sharp and accurate with their chances and we weren’t. It would be interesting to know their goals scored v shots on target ratio. Likely to be very high.As for the manager’s tales from the boot room; Blackburn had one golden summer and many winters of discontent since. They were the product of Jack Walker and were blessed with the SaS attack force. When he passed away so did the glory. Maybe over on the QP thread is the place to debate the management team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the philosopher Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 7 hours ago, cfcuk said: Annan are a big solid unit who can score goals their record over the past 4 months has been very good ( obviously disposed of by Clyde) in the play offs they have real chance I think it will be Clyde and Annan in the final but we will beat them over two legs Not being presumptions but if we make the final we welcome the challenge.Like nothing better than to beat the CC's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick1867 Posted April 24, 2019 Share Posted April 24, 2019 On 22/04/2019 at 18:23, houstonspider said: On 22/04/2019 at 17:59, williebraveheart said: I don't know but I can see no reason why not. Depends if we want to be in contention or content to finish 8th. Will love it if i am wrong. We're currently 6th ( of course we might still finish 8th). Saturday was our first defeat since Edinburgh. Annan are a better team than us, we're missing good players through injury, and without too much at stake he's used the opportunity to field some youngsters . We have beaten Peterhead, Clyde, and Elgin this season, all teams who were above us at the time, so to say he can only beat teams below isn't strictly true. Too many draws this season has killed us imo , that's why we're not in contention for 4th. I agree with you on the loan front mind you, quite surprised we couldn't get a decent young striker in who might have made that difference but just shows you also how great MacPherson's contacts were. I'm no happy clapper but a sense of perspective is required here. Oh aye, he's made mistakes and we've had a few gubbings but I think he's learning from them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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