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McDeeBop

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  1. I know, as Killie fans, we're generally conditioned to getting shafted for transfer fees, but this is more pessimistic than even I thought possible. A lot of people would have said the same about Marley. Sometimes a player/team/manager just click. Also, don't think Van Veen has really had a chance at Killie yet. Not his fault that our front line have been performing very well generally, and you don't miss with a winning formula.
  2. You being serious? You think we'll only get £2 million for both Danny Armstrong and David Watson?
  3. I'll put my mortgage on one or both of Watson and Armstrong being away in the summer. I would love £4m plus for the pair (and it should be much, much more), but applying the non-OF adjustment, think we'll see £3-3.5m (with addons on top) That money, plus increased prize money, plus some Europe money should hopefully see us land some decent replacements.
  4. Surely missing the Celtic boy on loan makes Kiltie the creative outlet for the Saints? Negate that, and we did, and you negate a large part of their attack. Their two goals coming from corners backs that up. Now, its a wider question of whether you take what Watson brings to the middle of pitch out of our own game to accommodate trying to nullify that threat. Again, St Mirren didn't do anything of note attacking in the first half, a lot of their play was us shooting ourselves in the foot. Second half is a different story, suddenly there's no high press, we're winning headers/knockons/second balls and St Mirren have absolutely no answer to the physicality our front two are dishing out, no answer to the play being stretched out with Danny and Matty. I absolutely love love love the fact our forward play is not dependent on a specific style, formation or player, we can switch it up whenever we like and don't have to bring a player on, or change formation to do so. Teams need to be able to handle that, and St Mirren couldn't. On another day, we don't get that all-important first goal (which massively spurred us on) and we go home reflecting on an opening 45 minutes that killed the game. This day, however, everything came together in a glorious second half that I'll certainly never forget.
  5. My overriding memory of that goal is Mark O'Hara (that boy gets the best views of great Killie goals!) just completely giving up on chasing Shug while he's slaloming through the Dundee team.
  6. That one was a bit tasty. Yesterday's was a very, very different type of goal. More about making it happen, whereas Pittodrie was pure instinct.
  7. I'd have a little more agreement with the sentiment behind this if it wasn't for the 3 points, and 3 very good showings against that same Rangers team he's managed this season. Kilmarnock Football Club is not his whole life. Management is not his only job. If other stuff starts to interfere or impact the job he's doing for us, then yes, you can have issue with it. It's not, so don't?
  8. There is nothing, VAR check Tav penalties aside, to fear in that team. Gerrintaethum!
  9. You on the wind up? That 11 played a blinder in the last game in the most difficult fixture or season has to offer. That bench is an indication we have an immense squad, capable of plan B, C or D should it be required.
  10. That is an absolutely superb stat. Regardless of anything else, performances, VAR controversies, opposition calibre....if you aren't getting beat in 13 out of 14 matches in a row, you're doing something very, very right. Not many teams will be able to match that level of consistency, and given our winter transfer window we have those 'fresh legs' to bring something extra in the second half of the season.
  11. Most teams do. Rangers or Celtic always complain when teams dig in against them. They moan and moan about how teams go to their pitch and set up the bus and its boring football blah blah Steve Clarke absolutely had the OFs number in the league. Instilled an attitude of having absolutely no fear of what the opposition can do to you, but instead concentrate on what you can do to them. DM has done the exact same. Celtic got worried about what we were doing on the pitch, and that's not something they're used to at their ground. Now that's not to say everytime you play them you go gung-ho, but there's a way to do it and the team absolutely nailed it in that match.
  12. Look at who you are replying to. I don't think they're a wind up merchant per sé, but they spout some right daft opinions pretty much constantly.
  13. McGowan looked absolutely at it first half. Playing balls into forward's feet and picking up the return to drive on. Seemed to be Dee's game plan, ball sharply into feet, looking for the midfield runner. It was working too. Second half and Rory sat on McGowan the entire half and nullified just about their only attacking threat. You can take the ball into feet all you like, but if you've no outlet after that, you aren't going to create anything. And that summed Dundee up second half, I think. I have no idea how Watson keeps up what he does all game. He chases everything and has this knack of just getting a toe in when it counts. He is literally running from minute 0 to 90. There was a point in the second half where he'd run forward, didn't get the pass and Shaugnessy was striding forward with the ball. Watson chased him down, nipping at his heels and even though the Dee player got his pass off, Watson put him on the deck. The boy must be giving away head and shoulders (and about 10 years of experience) but he has absolutely no fear. Keeps this up and he'll got far in this game.
  14. Watson and MacKenzie joint MOMs for me, covered absolutely everywhere. Mayo was very good too. Odd game, overall. Feel some of the criticism for Vass is a little over the top, but would have pulled him for Cameron.
  15. I just f**king despair at people sometimes. Just leave it at the first sentence, man. The next two are just the utter pits and is a sentiment ABSOLUTELY NO-ONE needs to hear.
  16. I disagree. By what measure is the wider league poorer? How is that defined? I can compare two Killie teams from a few seasons apart, because I watch them religiously. I couldn't do that for any other team in the league. Is Motherwell worse now, than 5 years ago? Dunno. I've read a lot about 'league is pish this year', but isn't that just meaning that teams are beating teams? There's no outright top 6/bottom 6?
  17. Takes a lot to unite Killie fans, especially on the forums, but fair play @jesper, that is an amazing take which almost noone will agree with.
  18. Someone, might have been in this thread, said at the same stage of the SSC season we had 38 points at this stage. Now, this season we have wins over the old firm to account for the dropped points against the 'lesser' teams, but even allowing for this, that comparison is a huge compliment to the work that DM has done. SSC had one of the best penalty box strikers in Scotland at the time in Boyd. He had Stewart, an on-form Jones, Mulumbu, Dicker etc. DM has not had the calibre of these kind of players. yet has tightened that defence up magnificently (can someone do a goals against comparison? I recollect SSC's team conceded goals, but still ground out results?) allowing us to efficiently compete in every game. I've said it before, Steve Clarke had us set up to be efficient at what we do. Everyone knows their responsibility and we efficiently went about it. It made us an amazingly effective team, in all areas of the pitch. McInnes is doing the same, albeit with a lesser quality of player at his disposal.
  19. This. Comfortable keeper, and part of a extremely tight defence? Why are we not signing him? Realistic hat on, we'll lose Armstrong in Jan, bringing in £1m+. Watson will stay till end of season, but will be away for £2m+, we don't get third, but finish a comfortable 5th and we're all rueing what could have been. Neither Ndaba nor Findlay sign in the summer, having seen bigger clubs attracted to their form. Next season our, rightfully, inflated expectations are 5th+, with a cup run to semi/final. Which we achieve.
  20. I don't even care if this is objectively true, it's a dick thing to say. Conceding less than a goal a game is absolutely superb.
  21. No we wouldn't. Or, rather, we shouldn't. He's in his prime years, hes not in his last year of contract, he's proven at this level (and then some, according to stats). Our pants have been pulled down historically by players in the last 6 months of contract, or players who have made it clear they have no intention of staying with Kilmarnock giving us incredibly little oomph in negotiations.
  22. My idea was for people to provide their opinions and comments on stuff you maybe were too young to know at the time, or was before your Killie-supporting days but people talk about regularly. This may lean on the older members of the forum a bit more, so my first two would be ....Mark Reilly and Eric Skora. I was too young really to appreciate the type of role Mavis played, I think. You don't get a 6 figure move (to Championship, iirc?) without having something about you, but it was lost on me at the time. So, forum, what was he like, how did he play, what were his strengths/weaknesses etc? And for Skora, its all about his first loan spell. I was living in Devon at the time and never saw that period at all. Saw him at Tynecastle in his second spell here, but consensus is he wasn't the same player. So again, how good was he?
  23. Apropos of nothing, that year was absolutely ludicrous. Almost 2 points per game, sustained over a year is insanely bonkers territory for a club like ours. The idea this could be repeated this year by just having a manager with a bit of nous, 'cause the league is pish, is farcical at best.
  24. And lo was it ever thus where a bad result has everyone talking relegation form and a couple of good results has us challenging for Europe. Why does it have to be that far up or that far down? Our form has us in 5th, which is a superb season, so far, given the difficulties we faced away from home over the last 18 months. People can complain about the awful football, but every team in this league is in the same bucket, no fan is gloating about the free-flowing football on offer. "Aye, we keep losing, and we're bottom of the league staring relegation in the face, but the football has been nice." - said no-one, ever.
  25. He seems a switched on lad. He gets that playing games at the 'top' level is the 100% best thing for his development. He's up against experienced players 10+ years his senior that know the darker arts of the game, and he's coming out on top. Giving that up for a few thousand more a week makes financial sense, but you'd think that would come at the expense of how high your hard work could take you. First team at near enough any level >>>> youth team in EPL/Championship
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