FuzzyBear Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 Ziggy no longer going to Romania. C'mon Accies get him signed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty Tunbridge Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 Ziggy no longer going to Romania. C'mon Accies get him signed.Banker to piss us all off again and make a sideways move to St Mirren or County like the time he ended up at Partick 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radford Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 Alston is one of these players that is a central midfielder but isn't good enough to play there, so gets shunted to the right. But he's by no means a winger. That sounds harsh above but I thought he had a decent start to last season for us before appearing to fall completely out of favour. I think he might suit Accies. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bert Raccoon Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 Happy enough with Alston tbh. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bomberharris Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 Alston is one of these players that is a central midfielder but isn't good enough to play there, so gets shunted to the right. But he's by no means a winger. That sounds harsh above but I thought he had a decent start to last season for us before appearing to fall completely out of favour. I think he might suit Accies.We have really struggled for creativity from midfield this year so this is a definite need we’ve addressed and I think he’ll do a good job. Accies signing known top flight players early in the transfer window [emoji44][emoji106] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YER SISTERS YER MAW Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 At least he's played at this level and been fairly competent, unlike a few of last seasons English jobbers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laid-back Accie Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 I think all in all this is a decent signing, experienced with the Scottish game and has played at this level for 3 years. We certainly still need more in, but so far if you compare the dealings already done with any summer transfer window under Canning, I think we surpassed all of them already, and a big reason for that was what Alston said in his interview, when said a big reason for coming here was to work under Rice. No player would ever say that about Canning, so much so he had to go into the depths of eastern Europe and further where nobody knew who he was. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 Youd imagine Rice will have a decent idea of what hes getting with Alston, so feels a bit pointless giving an opinion. Anyway, always thought he was a good footballer, has a natural ability to make late runs and is clearly technically sound. Think Kyle nailed it by saying he'd be best as a "10", as he cant be trusted defensively. No ill towards him, sometimes things just dont work out. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Accies88 Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 Im really happy with this signing . Reckon Rice will get him going btw. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tree house tam Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 (edited) Alston isn't Saints level and I'm very glad he's gone, that's the truth of the matter. Good luck to the lad, he tries hard, just isn't very good at much apart from hitting from distance, that's not enough at this level imo. Edit; he's too fucking ugly as well. Edited June 6, 2019 by tree house tam 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yummy fur Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 4 hours ago, Laid-back Accie said: I think all in all this is a decent signing, experienced with the Scottish game and has played at this level for 3 years. We certainly still need more in, but so far if you compare the dealings already done with any summer transfer window under Canning, I think we surpassed all of them already, and a big reason for that was what Alston said in his interview, when said a big reason for coming here was to work under Rice. No player would ever say that about Canning, so much so he had to go into the depths of eastern Europe and further where nobody knew who he was. Still a lot of selective memories when it comes to Martin Canning - I wonder if Ziggy Gordon, Tony Andreu or James Keatings knew who Canning was? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty Tunbridge Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 Still a lot of selective memories when it comes to Martin Canning - I wonder if Ziggy Gordon, Tony Andreu or James Keatings knew who Canning was?I’d assume they did because they all played with or for him previously? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laid-back Accie Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 1 hour ago, yummy fur said: Still a lot of selective memories when it comes to Martin Canning - I wonder if Ziggy Gordon, Tony Andreu or James Keatings knew who Canning was? What about James Keatings? Poor signing by all accounts. Andreu and Gordon were alright this season yes, and played their part in keeping us up, but those small positives are heavily outweighed by the amount of sheer dross that Canning brought in. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accies1874 Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 I think the point was more to do with players coming because of Canning. A few of our signings did say Canning's words attracted them to the club, and Ziggy said it was "a no brainer to play for that man." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Im_Rodger Posted June 7, 2019 Author Share Posted June 7, 2019 19 hours ago, YER SISTERS YER MAW said: At least he's played at this level and been fairly competent, unlike a few of last seasons English jobbers. The 'English jobbers' did not bad last season imo. Aaron McGowan Mickel Miller Gary Woods Steven Davies Matt Kilgallon I'll give you Bingham though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Im_Rodger Posted June 7, 2019 Author Share Posted June 7, 2019 Also if the club can bring Ziggy back I'd go as far as making him Club Captain. He was always meant to be our captain before he made the dreadful mistake of going to Partick. Now Imrie is gone it basically means Mackinnon will be captain despite him rejecting the position in the past. I also think if Ziggy were to stay he would be playing pretty much every single game. I cannot say the same for Mackinnon. He came knowing he is no longer our number 1 RB but never greeted about it like most other footballers these days. Jumped into CB and adapted spectacularly. Make it happen Maitland. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 16 minutes ago, Im_Rodger said: The 'English jobbers' did not bad last season imo. Aaron McGowan Mickel Miller Gary Woods Steven Davies Matt Kilgallon I'll give you Bingham though. Alex Penny, Mason Bloomfield, yon boy Smith an d I'm sure there was someone else who didn't even out of last summer's window before being punted. Pretty mixed hit rate I'd say! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Im_Rodger Posted June 7, 2019 Author Share Posted June 7, 2019 4 minutes ago, Kyle said: Alex Penny, Mason Bloomfield, yon boy Smith an d I'm sure there was someone else who didn't even out of last summer's window before being punted. Pretty mixed hit rate I'd say! Penny was Welsh, Bloomfield scored us a winner that without the points would've put is into 11th. There was a few but our Starting XI for most of the season had more English players than Scottish. Last season we got it right with the English players. A few did flop but our English players were better than our Scottish players last season. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FuzzyBear Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 Alex Penny, Mason Bloomfield, yon boy Smith an d I'm sure there was someone else who didn't even out of last summer's window before being punted. Pretty mixed hit rate I'd say!Adam Phillips was the one who lasted about a week. Never forget Sam Kelly. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Im_Rodger Posted June 7, 2019 Author Share Posted June 7, 2019 Forgot Oakley was English as well. It's fair to slate getting English players if they were pish. But last season the English players we did get were actually pretty good. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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