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Alright folks, I had Blair Spittal on my podcast this week if anyone fancies giving it a listen. Spoke really well about his time at the club and clearly enjoyed it. Any feedback, follows or shares on social media which is @HeadItPodcast is greatly appreciated, hope you all enjoy👍🏻
 

Youtube:

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Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-chat-with-blair-spittal/id1570371231?i=1000580306786

 

Cheers

Ross

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3 hours ago, rossd98 said:

Alright folks, I had Blair Spittal on my podcast this week if anyone fancies giving it a listen. Spoke really well about his time at the club and clearly enjoyed it. Any feedback, follows or shares on social media which is @HeadItPodcast is greatly appreciated, hope you all enjoy👍🏻
 

Youtube:

Spotify: 

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-chat-with-blair-spittal/id1570371231?i=1000580306786

 

Cheers

Ross

Not had a chance to listen yet, but a Greenhead for sharing.

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Think you can count on one hand the amount of passes that went to our own player yesterday. Half asleep, second to everything, no desire, no one wanting to play. The 2 deeper midfield players sat by the centre halves, the 3 spread so far apart and the forward completely isolated. Made Porteous look like Van Dijk, allowing him to stroll up the park, spraying passes about. Just a horrible performance.

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We've apparently signed a creative #10 (who is, presumably, not on a poverty wage) but instead persist with Ross Callachan in that position. And we wonder why there's no creativity. 

1 win in 13 is rubbish. You can point to playing Rangers / Hearts / Celtic in six of those games as some sort of excuse. But look at the remaining seven: 1 win, 3 defeats, and 3 goals scored. The team hadn't scored more than two goals in a game since the end of February. 

They need to be picking up two or three wins from the next four.

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10 hours ago, yoda said:

We've apparently signed a creative #10 (who is, presumably, not on a poverty wage) but instead persist with Ross Callachan in that position. And we wonder why there's no creativity

1 win in 13 is rubbish. You can point to playing Rangers / Hearts / Celtic in six of those games as some sort of excuse. But look at the remaining seven: 1 win, 3 defeats, and 3 goals scored. The team hadn't scored more than two goals in a game since the end of February. 

They need to be picking up two or three wins from the next four.

Absolutely this. He's been poor for a while now.

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When he took over County's u20s there were maybe half a dozen players, supplemented by Jim McIntyre's bloated first team squad.

He built a team from locals and bringing in youngsters released from other clubs, forging a team spirit with comparatively few first-team players being used. County's u20s were the first non-city team to win the u20s/development league. As far as appointing a lead development coach goes you won't get higher credentials than that.

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It's bemusing that none of the winning team properly broke into the first-team squad. 

 

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Going by Whoscored, there were seven starting outfielders who completed <50% of their passes at the weekend. Three played for County.

Doidge 28.6%
Akio 33.3%
Van Veen 36.4%
Johnson 41.2%
Penrice 44.4%
Cornelius 45.5%
Purrington 46.4%

County's two full-backs being in that list is a contrast to Hibs' full-backs, who each completed >80%. County launch balls down the channel for percentage balls more than most teams in the league, it seems. Yet they play with two sitting midfielders in a 4231 who should be there to get passing combos going. A dysfunctional team quantified.

Akio only had nine(!) touches. Three of those were passes, so he completed one pass in his 56 minutes.  As far as I can see, Celtic's Kyogo had the next fewest touches with 16, including scoring a goal, but even that is low compared to the rest of the league.

The amount of touches of course aren't the be-all and end-all for a forward - just look at Erling Haaland at the moment - but you'd want a winger to get on the ball a lot. Edwards had 42 touches. Watson had 21 touches as a 56th-minute substitute at right-back (it felt like many of those were him and Callachan passing square to each other with nowhere to go).

Hiwula managed only three touches in 56 minutes vs Kilmarnock. The new Haaland? 😬

 

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21 hours ago, bunglebonce said:

When he took over County's u20s there were maybe half a dozen players, supplemented by Jim McIntyre's bloated first team squad.

He built a team from locals and bringing in youngsters released from other clubs, forging a team spirit with comparatively few first-team players being used. County's u20s were the first non-city team to win the u20s/development league. As far as appointing a lead development coach goes you won't get higher credentials than that.

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It's bemusing that none of the winning team properly broke into the first-team squad. 

 

Is it?  County are hardly known for giving youngsters a chance.  They all end up at Brora or Elgin.

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