lumos Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 “Holding out for a Hero”, as Bonnie Tyler said. Well, we may not have to wait much longer! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawfield shed boy Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 Ewan watson 3year deal. Creative midfielder after Jim Cowell pulled out last min 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaggy Snake Posted November 7, 2020 Share Posted November 7, 2020 These are all the players we list as midfielders on our website and being quite frank, not a single one of them appears to be league one standard. That's only, possibly harsh on Henderson (who is apparently talented) and Palmer (who got injured instantly). We're pinning our hopes on Cuddihy, a guy who was our 4th best central midfielder last season. Absolutely pathetic. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BullyWeeStonehouse Posted November 7, 2020 Share Posted November 7, 2020 3 hours ago, Jaggy Snake said: These are all the players we list as midfielders on our website and being quite frank, not a single one of them appears to be league one standard. That's only, possibly harsh on Henderson (who is apparently talented) and Palmer (who got injured instantly). We're pinning our hopes on Cuddihy, a guy who was our 4th best central midfielder last season. Absolutely pathetic. Seeing that actually makes it glaringly obvious how weak we are in the middle of the park. Alot of improvement needed between now and the Montrose game. I cannot face going back down into League 2 again. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLClyde Posted November 7, 2020 Share Posted November 7, 2020 The last 3 performances have been reminiscent of performances we put on under the likes of Chapman and the likes. Utterly embarrassing stuff. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullyweehutch Posted November 7, 2020 Share Posted November 7, 2020 There hasnt been a single positive to take in the games after beating the scum. The highlight in each game has been the final whistle. I understand Lennon has barely a budget to work with but the recruitment has been abysmal. Goodwillie is isolated up front.Norway does a fair bit of running but that's it. Midfield is non existent and the defence is a shambles. Particularly honking has been Mcniff and Johnston but tbh most of the players are hiding and need to step up or we will be struggling to stay out the pyramid playoff next season at this rate. 3 games, 8 conceded without reply or much attempt on fucking goal 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumos Posted November 7, 2020 Share Posted November 7, 2020 Danny keeps blaming the defence but it’s deflecting from the real problem, IT’S THE MIDFIELD!!! I thought that Cuddihy would be able to step up and control the midfield but I was wrong . Some thought that Grant, Mcstay and Rankin leaving wasn’t that big of an issue but it’s HUGE . The defence have no confidence in the midfield to help them out so they are making basic mistakes, mistakes that happen when you have no confidence. The transfer window can’t come quick enough... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clyde85 Posted November 7, 2020 Share Posted November 7, 2020 5 hours ago, Jaggy Snake said: These are all the players we list as midfielders on our website and being quite frank, not a single one of them appears to be league one standard. That's only, possibly harsh on Henderson (who is apparently talented) and Palmer (who got injured instantly). We're pinning our hopes on Cuddihy, a guy who was our 4th best central midfielder last season. Absolutely pathetic. Looking at that is scary and very worrying. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BullyWeeStonehouse Posted November 7, 2020 Share Posted November 7, 2020 (edited) People keep going on about how other felt it wasnt an issue losing Grant, McStay and Rankin. Genuinely dont remember reading that on here from anyone other than the odd one or two (myself included) that felt McStay could be replaced reasonably easily. Edited November 7, 2020 by BullyWeeStonehouse 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Burton Posted November 7, 2020 Share Posted November 7, 2020 Really isn't a lot of options.Move Syvertsen into central midfield? Or try Howie in midfield again.At most we should only be playing one of the young inexperienced players. Henderson looks the best of the bunch. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David W Posted November 7, 2020 Share Posted November 7, 2020 Our midfield will be a lot better with Palmer and Cunningham in there. It may still be a huge problem, but it will be better than Tuesday/today. From what I saw of Palmer last season he can pass through midfield similar to Grant. Cuddihy just can't do it. Despite feeling a back three might suit Shiels and possibly get Syvertsen up with Goodwillie, the team selection today was bonkers. Up against the most attacking LB in the league and we play Johnston (lazy) and Rumsby (terrified to leave the penalty area) in support of Bain. A limited midfield pair (I actually thought Robertson battled away okay in patches) who were hopelessly outnumbered by Airdrie's three and Robert drifting in. That meant we couldn't push up the pitch and win the ball high. We need to bin the idea of playing wingers and get an energetic quartet who can press and counter at pace. We absolutely need to stop teams higher up the pitch. I fear we still lack a bit of strength in there though. Where is Howie? I think when fit we need to get him in alongside Lang. McNiff is back to punting it long. Perhaps a by-product of losing Grant. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_bully_wee Posted November 7, 2020 Author Share Posted November 7, 2020 Last season, we found it hard to create because we had to sacrifice a lot of attacking output from McStay in particular to protect a defence which was weak as piss, particularly in the full-back areas. That, plus the injury to Syvertsen meaning that our best form of support for Goodwillie until Cunningham arrived was the incredibly hot-and-cold (but mostly lukewarm) Lamont. Once the defence was tightened up (and could play a bit higher) with the arrivals of Livingstone and Lang, we saw McStay (and, to some extent, Grant too) being able to influence things a bit more in a progressive sense. The big problem we have now is that we've gone from having two central midfield players, who were very good at protecting our defence and allowing us to play progressively, to now relying on Cuddihy (nowhere near as good as either) alone doing that job. There are absolutely no alternatives to him, and he simply doesn't look up to it. Fingers crossed that Cammy Palmer is the player who's going to fix it, but christ knows what his injury situation is. It is a hell of a burden to be placing on a 20-year-old loanee. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLClyde Posted November 7, 2020 Share Posted November 7, 2020 If anyone casts a man of the match vote for this game they want their head checking. Couldn’t give a toss what happens in these cup games, ideally we’d have to forfeit them as 2 3-0s is better than what we’ll get playing the games. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haufdaft Posted November 8, 2020 Share Posted November 8, 2020 After the match Danny Lennon said:We played three centre halfs to tighten up the defence.The team is young and will be inconsistent.Robertson had a good first half with Barry Cuddihy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLClyde Posted November 8, 2020 Share Posted November 8, 2020 (edited) Bizarre comment given we were 3-0 down at half time. Must be something about Lennons being oblivious to how pish their team has been in the past few weeks. Edited November 8, 2020 by SLClyde 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawfield shed boy Posted November 8, 2020 Share Posted November 8, 2020 First half and the word "good" is a bizarre comment Were in mega bother and players body language at 1nil going back to.position was more worrying than scoreline... For anyone lucky enough not to watch it. 1nil looked like 5nil, heads were down & we looked beaten early doors.... Result confirmed my concern at time 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FREDDYFRY Posted November 8, 2020 Share Posted November 8, 2020 Didn’t watch yesterday thankfully; unfortunately I was not surprised by result it’s plain and obvious we are in big trouble, this is not a side having a bad day at the office, injury issues or some of the reasons we look to in the hope we will bounce back. The experiment or is it necessity to have a number of young loan players has not worked, these guys may well be talented but nowhere near ready. Not their fault. Even when we had Scott Banks, a player incidentally head and shoulders above these guys took around a dozen games to get up to speed with proper football. Just as worrying is that players such as Ally Love, Syvertson , Johnston are at best impact subs and these are our so called experienced players. Take no pleasure in this but it’s obvious, to me at least that this is different.. we are in big bother, I’ve seen this before as I’ve been supporting this club for over 50 years. My worry is that I think we are where we are and I not convinced Lennon can do much about it given we have a signed squad and zero finance to change it. Even if 2 proper centre mids would at least make us competitive. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBigGuy Posted November 8, 2020 Share Posted November 8, 2020 League 2 squad! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumos Posted November 8, 2020 Share Posted November 8, 2020 Any chance of a Clyde fan winning the Euromillions? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrigtonClyde Posted November 8, 2020 Share Posted November 8, 2020 Don't buy into this being a L2 squad at all. We've a quality keeper. Rumsby, Lang & Howie have all acquitted themselves well. For me, the CB pairing should be any 2 from these three, or indeed if they decide on a "three", it's them. The full backs don't appear to be a major problem, but there's options, Bain / Cuddihy, and Shiels / McNiff (possibly) Up front, Goody, Cunnigham and Love have all proven themselves as goalscorers, whether this level or higher. Norway in the past has shown to be best when playing wider, creating or coming inside from there. Johnston seems to be getting thrown under a bus here, but he's the kind of player who can open up defences. I don't expect him to offer much defensively, and maybe he is best used off the bench, but he can still make a difference. The main difference is midfield. Compared to last year, Grant is obviously a huge loss. But McStay wasn't a regular, on his day terrific, but that's exactly why he wasn't a regular. We didn't even have Rankin until around late February / early March by which time we'd started to turn things around anyway. So the biggest difference is really one player, Grant. Ideally, yes we somehow find some quality experience but that's maybe easier said than done. We've loads of pace with these young lads that are in, but they do need someone to take the ball from defence and do Grant's role. I'd try Lamont there, he's not exactly a novice now, let him sit deeper and let the others do the running - or at least try it. They seem to think Palmer can do that also, so maybe when he's back from injury. There's no dressing up that's been anything other than 3 poor results, but losing 1 goal away (Dumbarton) shouldn't be a disaster, we should have the firepower where that's not an issue. even 2 at home to Peterhead should still realistically result in a draw. Yesterday is a dire scoreline, and maybe there is a bit of confidence shot, but one or two changes to key positions "could" make the difference, I really don't see the need to write the entire squad off when most have done well enough in the recent past. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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