CYRILLRIP Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 Realistically we are limping towards the end of the season. I'm usually quite optimistic, but can't believe the mess we seem to be in at the moment with the managerial appointment to the end of the season and only a skeleton squad signed beyond the summer. I think we will get one or 2 players in during this window, probably on loan, but I'd be astonished if they were of the quality or fitness levels to make an immediate difference. I hope to be surprised! It seems quite difficult just now to assess whether we are 1 or 2 players away from being decent again and that a return of confidence would make a monumental difference or a team that is un-fixable and heading for the rocks. I thought there were hopeful signs in the Celtic game that the break had done us good and we might be able to get back on track. Defensively, we were just about all right against a hugely potent Celtic team. The midfield were back to being organised and combative and we created a few chances with Kabamba looking like he could offer something. At Perth it was back to pre SC days though. AD has said that we need to get back to what we were good at. I think there is a bit of the rose tinted specs on this one, because without the sprinkling of real quality that we had then, we are left trying to be compact and hard to beat with a poorer defensive unit and a poorer attacking set up that makes it very hard to create chances. So, we leak goals and can't score. Generally, our attacking line ups don't work even against the bottom sides in the table. Whenever we deviate away from the standard midfield 3 we get outplayed. It's been obvious to all and sundry since the start of the season that Dicker and Power need some legs around them and that El Mak was not the solution to that. Personally I think that El Mak was the replacement for Dicker and that AA wanted 3 at the back with El Mak being the guy to bring the ball out and start attacks, but that never happened. It's those 3 that are the real problem area in the team and some ruthless decisions are required to improve us. I like them all individually, but their best work is done on our side of the half way line. Maybe just a 10 type creative player would help, but I think we need to swap 2 of them out for younger more all round type players. It looks like mend and make do for this season though. Biggest worry is the wrong managerial decision - just can't see it ending well at all unfortunately. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craigieboy Posted January 29, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 10 minutes ago, Souleycouley93 said: Nemesis Ollie Shaw and Lee Erwin upfront will cause us enough bother. Bet we end up signing a fat Tony Watt and someone like Berra till June. We literally have Lyle, Mckay,Macdonald, waters, Thomas, Cameron, Wilson, Frizzell, St Clair, Millen, Hendrie + Johnson all never gonna be selected but on the books. Punted Sow Jackson Millar out because they weren’t good enough. Koprivec+ Branescu Odonnell DDF Bruce Hamalinen Dicker El Makrini? McKenzie Kiltie Burke Bunn Connell All more likely to be selected but out of contract in June. Power Findlay Brophy Kabamba (Cameron Thomas Waters )El Mak one year option maybe will be here in summer. Burke new deal. The rest will move on probably. Dicker and O’Donnell are away I reckon. Mckenzie and Kiltie are only others who would be close to being offered new terms surely. Dicker away? Where Dicker move anywhere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shortie Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 21 minutes ago, Souleycouley93 said: Nemesis Ollie Shaw and Lee Erwin upfront will cause us enough bother. Bet we end up signing a fat Tony Watt and someone like Berra till June. We literally have Lyle, Mckay,Macdonald, waters, Thomas, Cameron, Wilson, Frizzell, St Clair, Millen, Hendrie + Johnson all never gonna be selected but on the books. Punted Sow Jackson Millar out because they weren’t good enough. Koprivec+ Branescu Odonnell DDF Bruce Hamalinen Dicker El Makrini? McKenzie Kiltie Burke Bunn Connell All more likely to be selected but out of contract in June. Power Findlay Brophy Kabamba (Cameron Thomas Waters )El Mak one year option maybe will be here in summer. Burke new deal. The rest will move on probably. Dicker and O’Donnell are away I reckon. Mckenzie and Kiltie are only others who would be close to being offered new terms surely. just about sums it up to me - sad times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barbinho Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 10 minutes ago, Craigieboy said: Dicker away? Where Dicker move anywhere Away back closer to his family on the South coast, probably. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrestersKtid Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 @CYRILLRIP We had plenty games under SC where the likes of Mulumbu and Stewart were not available. The remaining players however were still compact and shut teams out. Dyer is probably alluding to that more. Very achievable imo as it's essentially the same players but DDF for Broadfoot and Hamalainen for Taylor. -1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclean07 Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 In my opinion I would settle for two quality loans who will keep us up until we see what is happening in the summer. Needs must. As I’ve said before, at the Trust meeting two specific statements from the Board members were the recognition of the need to rely less on loans and improve the quality of player we were recruiting. That’s what’s makes the current situation so frustrating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclean07 Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 5 minutes ago, PrestersKtid said: @CYRILLRIP We had plenty games under SC where the likes of Mulumbu and Stewart were not available. The remaining players however were still compact and shut teams out. Dyer is probably alluding to that more. Very achievable imo as it's essentially the same players but DDF for Broadfoot and Hamalainen for Taylor. Bachman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 1 hour ago, Alan56 said: Forecast signings - One today, one tomorrow and two late on Friday. None Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrestersKtid Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 4 minutes ago, Mclean07 said: Bachman. True but bachmann only played 28 games for us out of 45 last season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skepta Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 Tony watt free agent. Not sure if I would take him or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post dasboag Posted January 29, 2020 Popular Post Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 2 minutes ago, PrestersKtid said: @CYRILLRIP We had plenty games under SC where the likes of Mulumbu and Stewart were not available. The remaining players however were still compact and shut teams out. Dyer is probably alluding to that more. Very achievable imo as it's essentially the same players but DDF for Broadfoot and Hamalainen for Taylor. agree, I just wonder that a lot of the much talked of disagreements behind the scenes with AA were around this approach. It's been said AA wanted to work towards two up front, the squad resisted because "its not what they are good at". He then made us difficult to beat with all the defensive shape work etc that I still see signs off, but is being worn away every week. Instead we are now looking to play Kiltie or Brophy off of Kabamba - which incidentally is what we should be doing - but it doesn't look as if we've done the homework on how removing one of those 3 defensive midfielders from the defence affects our overall game, and again - shape. The players have been the same recently (cos we've not no other fecking options!) but El Makrini in particular is suffering as he's playing an entirely different role that doesn't suit him. I honestly think a flat 4-4-1-1 is the only way to get us to the end of the season I look at this now though and think without Def Mid protection that DDF and Niko would be exposed often, and Bruce would be the same as his mobility is not great. In short - there's a reason why we offered nothing going forward under AA - it took a lot of resource to protect our goal. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GCM Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 24 minutes ago, david mcbeth said: I will stick my neck out and say that we will make no signings. If there are no new signings or they are of the level of Sow and Jackson, there is a massive level of incompetence somewhere within the club. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cass316 Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 I see Craig Slater has signed for Queens Park. What a waste of a talent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killie billies pal Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 I think we will make three signings, whether they will be the standard we are looking for is another story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craigieboy Posted January 29, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 2 minutes ago, killie billies pal said: I think we will make three signings, whether they will be the standard we are looking for is another story Might will make four signing wait see what happen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fletch Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 15 minutes ago, Cass316 said: I see Craig Slater has signed for Queens Park. What a waste of a talent. He had a really bad injury down south and never seemed to manage to come back from it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barneyboy Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 11 minutes ago, Craigieboy said: Might will make four signing wait see what happen Hope you're right craigieboy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan56 Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 15 minutes ago, Craigieboy said: Might will make four signing wait see what happen If we make 4 as I suggested can I have your job? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan1el Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 1 hour ago, Mclean07 said: Bachman. Can't underestimate how big a loss he was. Before last season I was in the defence makes the keeper good camp, but watching Bachmann compared to our goalies this season its possibly the other way round. Another frustrating couple of days ahead, whatever happens we need to stay in the division, appoint Holt the day after the last game and start again. The Board also need to apologise for majorly messing up this season, I still cannot believe we never played any friendlies on our new pitch before the Euro game!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ngonge88 Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 Aiden McGeady? Dare we might have offered already and hes one that we cant offer enough to or agents are going for a better deal first Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killieboy87 Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 19 minutes ago, Ngonge88 said: Aiden McGeady? Dare we might have offered already and hes one that we cant offer enough to or agents are going for a better deal first He was at the Hibs v Dundee United game last night, I'm guessing with Jack Ross' Sunderland connections, he'll end up at ER. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangodog Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 10 minutes ago, killieboy87 said: He was at the Hibs v Dundee United game last night, I'm guessing with Jack Ross' Sunderland connections, he'll end up at ER. Maybe wanting to get into the Riordan/convicted drug dealer pub scene in Edinburgh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKX16 Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 3 hours ago, david mcbeth said: I will stick my neck out and say that we will make no signings. Don't say that david,I look to your posts for encouragement when I have doubts. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 3pm passed again and nothing. I fear the worst. Hope I’m wrong. -1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barbinho Posted January 29, 2020 Report Share Posted January 29, 2020 9 minutes ago, Graham said: 3pm passed again and nothing. I fear the worst. Hope I’m wrong. I share your fear. Depressing, innit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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