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How can they get away with spending 9 million today, 35 players signed in two years, 10 million shortfall last year to see out the season and so on and so on. It just beggars belief they get away with it and makes the Scottish premier league a total joke. Killie stick to a strict budget along with all other teams and this is what we get.5 points
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Love Elsie and Josie, but times have moved on, they either need someone to help in shop with them or some serious on the job training. We need to leave the "Open All Hours" routine behind us. P.s I'm away the "open all hours" pun might not be best to use here considering OP's complaint5 points
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This is their all-or-nothing season. They will do anything to stop 10 in-a-row. Looking forward to seeing them going bust, just like a previous club with a similar name, 8 years ago.5 points
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We're up to our necks it debt again And soon we're going to die For we are the silly Billy boys4 points
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Spending the morelos money before they have it. Hope the deal falls through and the f**kers are up to their necks in debt again.4 points
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I like Dyer but unfortunately I don't think he has the quality to be a number 1. I understand why he got the job after AA left but I think his appointment for this season shows a lack of ambition from the board. His record is poor; GP 16 W 4 D 2 L 10 I understand that it wasn't his team but the same can be said for AA whose record was; GP 22 W 9 D 5 L 8 Dyer was playing 8 of the 11 first team regulars he coached under SC that had managed to finish 3rd but he wasn't managing to get the results. Was this due to poor tactical decision making? He has already been criticized of that in the first game with playing Eastwood over Rogers, leaving Kabamba up top as long when he wasn't able to have much of an impact. Again I understand that he has brought new players in who couldn't play due to injuries so we will need to wait and see what impact they have with the squad. I true view of where the team is will be able to be assessed after the County, St Johnstone and Dundee United games. But a comparison that I feel can't be over looked is when you look at Daniel Stendels record with hearts; GP 17 W 5 D 5 L 7 He took over undoubtedly the worst team in the league about the same time Dyer took over and managed to get more points out of Hearts than Dyer managed with Killie. The league getting called when it did I feel was a blessing for Killie. I hope Dyer finds his groove and starts getting the best out of the squad he has now assembled to get the results as we all want the club to succeed on and off the pitch.4 points
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Oh I do agree, but dyers record is still pretty awful and as far as I can see we still haven't addressed the issue of creativity in the team. Also he left kabamba on the full match when he did nothing, played a goalie that had only just arrived then subbed him off 'injury' and imo broadfoot should no longer be starting hes too slow and his positioning for the first goal was god awful4 points
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Agreed, boils my piss when so called Killie fans talk about limiting Celtic to 3 goals at RP. When was the last time they scored 3 at RP? I'll be watching it in a pub in Glasgow hoping we score first to get it right up the c**ts.4 points
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Getting beat will be a good result!!!!!! Couple of seasons ago we would be thinking good chance of a Clarke masterclass and 3 points are very achievable. No point turning up Sunday just to play to not get humped.4 points
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Lose one game away to a good Hibs side, who many are predicting to finish third, and its back to the same old negativity from Killie fans. Some people can’t wait to type the words ‘I knew it was the wrong decision’.4 points
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Yep, absolute nonsense to overlook it, it's the same thing all the time, start slow, lose terrible goals, improve as the other team starts to be more cautious with their lead, still create next to nothing. You can say its one game all you want but we've literally picked up exactly where we left off4 points
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(Fair warning: don't waste your time with the below if you don't put any stock in stats). It's fair to say our entire left side is weaker than our right. Can't speak to the new full back or winger of course, but Waters does not appear to naturally overlap (or has been instructed not to), which pretty much cripples our left side when playing with McKenzie on the left who will drift inside. A couple of times against Hibs in the first half McKenzie dropped the ball to Tish, moved in, got it back and played it wide to where he expected Waters to be to find that Waters was either not up with play or hadn't moved at all (to be clear, McKenzie is hardly innocent there, you don't get to play the ball to fresh air and escape blame no matter the circumstances). If playing McKenzie on the left (or really anyone who's going to move inside), the fullback just has to be instructed to overlap or there's nothing stopping the Hibs fullback just following McKenzie inside, meaning no one is finding space. Contrast that to our right side, where Millen was doing entirely the right thing and holding behind Burke who was mostly trying to push his fullback to the goalline at the junction of the 18 year box, meaning if he played it back to Millen, he had all the time in world to get a cross in - and did it pretty well on a good few occasions, However, I've tried to explain McKenzie's value to you a couple of times by describing movement and space, so I'm going to try again with a couple of hard numbers (only fair since you've been talking goals and assists) - expected assists and key passes. You know what an assist is - where you play the pass that leads to the goal. Expected assists are passes that should lead to a goal - in other words creating a good chance. You'll not be surprised to learn that Burke is top of the list for us there, with O'Donnell second and Rory McKenzie third. What might be more surprising (to me as well to be perfectly honest), is that while most of Burke's expected assists come from set piece delivery (61%), only 29% of McKenzie's do. To be clear, that's not to say he's better than Burke in that regard - Burke's expected assists trend about three times that of McKenzie overall. The bulk of McKenzie's (45%) comes from counter attacks, with the remainder coming from build-up attacks (attacks where we've been in possession of the ball and the opposition has transitioned successfully to defensive shape). His expected assist stats also correlates well with his key passes (a main pass that leads to a shot - this is distinct from an expected assist as it doesn't account for it actually being an expected goal), with 20 last season, second only to O'Donnell who had 30 (for more context Burke had 13). Strangely enough going back to the previous season's stats McKenzie's expect assists are twice that of Jordon Jones (which I was surprised to see as I thought Jones was more effective in that regard than most on here), though in fairness everyone that season is dwarfed by Steward and Burke who had about 4 times that of anyone else. Can't find any key pass data on the modern fitba patreon database for that season though. Why his expected assists and key passes don't translate as well into actual assists are likely down to positioning and the nature of the chances - namely that same stat that most of his are coming from open play rather than set pieces and from the left hand side generally - if you've ever looked at cross stats the results of outswinging crosses dwarf those of inswinging because it's much easier for strikers to attack the ball than the defenders (which no doubt contributes to both Burke and O'Donnell's expected assist stats), but that's pure speculation on my part. The point isn't that the guy should be immune from criticism, he has plenty of flaws in his game (I still suspect most are mental rather than technical in nature), and he was far from his best again Hibs, but he does offer things to our team that you're not noticing.4 points
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I find the new pundits difficult to watch. Come back M Stewart. Anyone else feel the same? Its a record and fast forward job for me.3 points
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Check out the bumper new fanzine on the link below and you might even win yourself a new Killie top https://issuu.com/killiejim/docs/hippo-covid4a Thanks3 points
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Correct, inherited shambles. Alessio got that shambles to 5th. Imagine what he would of done with decent players3 points
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For me last season was his job interview which he didn't shine at. We should had moved on and got a manager to take us forward as a club. Of course I want us to succeed but I know deep down we won't and we will be looking for a new manager at Christmas time. Dyer isn't qualified enough, what happened to learning the trade in the lower divisions and working your way up We have gone for the cheap option im afraid3 points
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To all the soothsayers and doom and gloom merchants on this Forum. Give AD the time he deserves to mould HIS team and you may be pleasantly surprised. I used to wonder why the media in Scotland always refer to Killie fans as "hard to please". Of course it almost goes without saying now that they get that idea from this thread and others on the Forum. We appear to have a nucleus of posters who like a moan. Opinions are healthy they should produce healthy debate. Lets get serious, how do you expect the media to talk UP Killie when so many on here cannot.3 points
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Looks that way. They've probably had the Morelos deal done for a few days and held off on making it official to put them in a stronger position to get his replacement in. It's be lovely if we ended up with Stewart as a knock on but I don't know if the rumour was purely killiefc.com fiction.3 points
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I dont think we are top 3 but I like to think we can give any team in the league a game. Did Dyer say our aim is to avoid relegation?? Maybe I dreamt that. I think top 6 is a great season, bottom 6 has to go down as a failure for me. We made Europe and top 6 a couple of seasons ago I was hoping we would build ourself into a top 6 club following that3 points
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They can do what they like. The rules that apply to the rest of us don't apply to them. They and the things that support them do not need to abide by the laws of the land, they urra peepul.3 points
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Is the “stockroom” not a cupboard at the back of the shop ? If this is the case they surely don’t need a stockroom assistant, they just need to be better organised as a team. Just my thoughts.3 points
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I think it was a mistake to appoint AD. Obvious now as it was at the time. But symptomatic of the lack of ambition of the board following the once in a generation opportunity we had. But those who thought he was the right man before hibs should not change with one game - a game where we were competetive. And all the folks commending Fowler snd dyer for transfer activity can doubt after one game? Ridiculous way folks sway from game to game. Get behind the team. Everyone of the players. There is no glory in us being “right” when the team we love are not winning.3 points
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Can we Put this one to bed 1. Guff92 hates McKenzie and will pick up on it if he has a bad game and stay silent if he has a good one 2. McKenzie has filled a number of positions under a number of managers without ever tieing down a position of his own 3. Jones and Stewart are better attackers than McKenzie . McKenzie probably does a better defensive / protecting job 4. McKenzie has just signed a 2yr extention so I guess we can look forward to 2 more years of discussing how every midfielder past present and future or fantasy would be better than him3 points
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So is the answer to stay shackled to a country and an administration with a nationalist death wish? Is it to stay part of an economy going down the cludgie like an Express elevator? Is it to be run by a bunch if Eton Buffoons we did not vote for who have as much sense of responsibility as a bunch of drunken teenagers on a freshers week binge? Which do you consider the least worst option? I dont share the rose tinted glasses if many posters on this thread when it comes to independence but at least I can see there is an issue. It is not, as you portray, totally grievance driven. Since the 1980s the democratic system if this UK has been failing and the people who have benefited from that failure by getting elected have no interest in putting it right. Now it seems as though Brexit ma just push things over the cliff edge.2 points
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Yes probably, but at least they have the testing event so it will solve these problems before the weekend.2 points
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Got to at least let the new players get in the door though surely? If Haunstrup and McGowan are as good as we hope then you would expect that to address losing terrible goals. By all accounts Pinnock has a great cross on him and can make things happen. Even if it's off the bench, that's something Dyer didn't have last season. Plus, from the friendlies, we seemed to have a gameplan around a 442 which we weren't able to go with in terms of Brophy being injured at the weekend. To be clear - I'm not confidently predicting those changes will make everything OK - but I think it's only sensible to let that play out before coming to any conclusions.2 points
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I think Waters isn’t as attacking a full back as Taylor/Hamaleinen/SOD were, as Millen is and as Haunstrup appears to be... Since signing for us, he’s made 45 appearances in the Prem and two Cups in Scotland (including his loan spell at St Mirren), however has only managed 2 assists (both coming in the second half of St Mirren’s 3-0 cup win over Broxburn)... It would seem to me that McKenzie has been expecting him to get forward but this hasn’t happened (however, he shouldn’t have passed with Waters not being there). I do wonder if a lack of playing time together may have also been part of the issue as they’ve only played 2 45 minute spells together this pre-season meanwhile their only competitive game-time as a pairing has been a 75 minute spell last March and a 69 minute spell in July 2018 (granted they will have trained together plenty and as such it possibly won’t matter, but I don’t know). I think it’ll be interesting to see if Haunstrup is more attacking and if this helps us in this sense as the overlapping full back and McKenzie coming inside may help us break down more defensive sides better, as we have struggled with this on a fair few occasions in the past. I do wonder though if a move over to the right might happen for McKenzie once Burke retires... Would love to know where you get your stats from, seems a useful source!!2 points
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The amount of threads on here that turn into Rory bashing is both boring and tiresome. Having a wee bit of energy in midfield to combat 32 and 34 year old midfielders and a 36 year old winger is no big thing. Just lay off the guy man, it’s absolutely brutal2 points
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I think some of them do. What I saw of Julie Fleeting last season she provided decent analysis. I think it was Gemma Faye as well at times who was good. Then you’ve got people like Kerr who along with plenty of her male counterparts are rubbish. Their analysis and general chat is horrific and off putting.2 points
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@Mclean07 Ive saved you the hassle of typing it out just copy and paste But.....Motherwell have sold more than us and announced this figure weeks ago2 points
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I'm guessing due to the incoming players he doesn't. Once you have managed a few teams you get to know players/managers etc which opens doors. He resigned Broadfoot which says it all. Captin Broadfoot2 points
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I actually think it was injury time when Griffiths had a shot on target that day and it was their first of the game!1 point
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Right then...Morrison, Mathie, McLean, McInally, McGrory, McIntryre, Montgomery, Mitchell, Marshall, McDicken, McLean, McCulloch, Mahood, Maxwell, Maskrey, McLaren, Miller, McGowne, McLean, McIlroy and........McConville1 point
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You look more stupid every time you post this and it simply confirms your economic illiteracy every time. The other £10 is spent on small items like Scotland’s entire pension bill and most of its welfare (remember when the Nats panicked and said they couldn’t handle it). The current borrowing will include bailing Scotland out with furlough payments ( and they’re still begging for more). We would be bankrupt just now and borrowing at sky high rates in one scenario or still relying on the Bank of England in another. No currency decision, no central bank decision yet, no idea.1 point