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I think the Raith game showed that Clarkson and Cameron on the same pitch isn't going to work (unless chasing the game). Cameron regularly drops deep into the area that Clarkson wants to play in, and he doesn't really press from the front. It pretty much nullifies Clarkson's game. It has to be one or the other. I'd have had Aouchiche alongside Shinnie, but Armstrong was good there and Shinnie did the required running. Clarkson to come off the bench when Cameron tires, if he doesn't leave by the end of the window.

Certainly a bit of that- Cameron and Armstrong came short but generally well marked. Shinnie too but you feel as he is so left footed he is easier for opponent to read the pitch doesn’t help for give and goes- ball bobbling all over the place, and was pleasantly surprised overall considering the wind as well how many decent passages of play we managed yesterday But as a centre half, if no movement in front, drop it down the channel behind the centre half and make them turn on it now and again- passing back and forth between centre half’s hoping the other will take responsibility is scourge of modern fitba

No link anywhere, but throwing out Liam Henderson at sampdoria. Box to box, been in Italy for a while and captained Scotland at all level except senior level. 29, 6ft. Worth a look? According to wiki, 2 goals and 8 yellow in 19 matches this season. greg docherty, holding mid and captain of charlton, 29 too. one etc celt and one ex ranger, but both experienced leaders and possibly the type of player we need? Jordan holsgrove at estoril has an interesting bio…. anyone got lutz’s phone number, been scouting online this morning!

It’s either clarkson or Armstrong at present. Cameron starts, and I think shinnie again proved yesterday how important he is to us. As you say, we need to fork out for a legit manager, but that center mid spot to play alongside Cameron and shinnie is massive (and the new signing is really shinnie’s replacement), not just player but captain too perhaps. As I said in the other thread, really needs to be a 25-28/30 yr old leader in there, but replacing club legend shinnie will be very hard. agree, think we win this. Killie are crumbling and yesterday was a huge boost for us. Don’t see mitov being dropped just yet though. Maybe 3-1…?

That’s our missing holding mid, a young sivert. If we sign one more player this window, it’s him. It’s great that we have all these young players who look good at times, this needs to be a 25-30 yr old with experience/leadership. Shinnie and Armstrong do it sometimes, Clarkson too, but I don’t think the first two are naturally that guy plus aren’t long term solutions. didnt see the games Kjarten played, despite being younger, can he do that??

The thing is we’re all quite rightly lauding our attacking display yesterday, but there were many occasions in the first half that Milne and Knoester saw no movement in the central midfield area in front of them for them to actually spot a team mate to pass to.

As basic as it is, anyone who has played the game as a defender or midfielder has been told not to let the ball bounce. Saw it again yesterday, the hesitancy and doubt. Even if the header isn’t perfect, letting the ball bounce leads to problems so many of the times. Our two CDs do it, Jensen is probably the worst. That’s defending 101 and if leven or the new manager simply emphasizes that we’d be doing a lot better too. Also encourages players to be more aggressive in the air if you play by that ‘rule.’

Then again, if we can beat Real Madrid and be the best team in Europe starting two 19 year olds, and our central midfielders being 19 and 22, no reason not to place expectations on frame bilalovic lobban Milne and Kjarten! Was really pleased for nisbet yesterday, finally able to play his game by getting proper service for the first time this season. As mentioned too, fully expected sivert’s goal to be disallowed based on the shiteness of the ref and var.

I thought it was very clear that bilalovic had been instructed to take the ball outside, much like frame told to get upfield aggressively which he didn’t do in his previous game. If you can get devlin to bomb on like he has done in the past too, the two of them on the right can be just as effective as topi and frame were yesterday. If devlin doesn’t have the legs for it lobban is certainly capable. yesterday gave me hope, but for us to get that aggressive play wide we need that mobile holding mid to provide cover, and central defenders who don’t make silly mistakes. Obviously frame and a right back pushing up is affected by the confidence they and the team has with the defenders/players behind them and we have been hurt with mistakes from long balls and lost cheat goals there. we’ve signed Morrison, need that midfielder this week. Think it could kjarten long term so another loaner in right now is fine, but we’re starting to ask for a lot from a number of young and inexperienced players.

Kylie Minogue - Wouldn't Change a Thing

Probably not, but thanks for the edgy take. It's good to know what the tabloid-fodder are believing.

It's interesting (and a little scary) to read Orlanndo's take on things. He seems a reasonable person, so I'm guessing the stuff he's saying is a not uncommon opinion Stateside. The Americans I've communicated with have a different take. Hugely different. They do not see any positives in the Trump presidency and tend to see it as the same abomination as those of us outwith America. They are pinning everything on the mid-terms and the Dems getting control of both houses. Then there will be at least an attempt at checks and balances. If the elections go ahead fairly, their take is that this is inevitable. Through online groups, I've spoken with a number of folk from Minneapolis/Minnesota. They're certainly seeing no positives from this carry-on, they're living a dystopian nightmare. I think in terms of the longer term picture, the UK has to be less dependent on the U.S. democracy has been proven so fragile there it has to be considered a failing state. Brexit is daily being shown as the disasterous folly it was, on SUCH a wide variety of levels. The UK is more vulnerable than ever. What a time to be alive. Thank fuck I'll be deid or lang.

Don’t think was in tunnel - the players were being separated going in their lad seemed to react after the stramash so not sure. Will probably never get to the truth as for VAR - Nisbet may have been offside when the lines weren’t working- but WTF was the linesman doing? He didn’t raise his flag even after the ball was in the net so he obviously didn’t think it was offside- or just absolved himself of any responsibility. Was the same with the Livi goal that was checked- Lino didn’t raise flag. If the circumstances show VAR not working, then the linesman’s view should be the deciding factor- rightly or wrongly. Thought Nilsen goal would be chalked off for a push so found it bizarre that they were checking for handball- still think on another day it might have been given as a foul, but having declared it was handball they were checking, think they didn’t want to then disallow it for something else as they had already made themselves look incompetent (There wasn’t much of a push for avoidance of doubt but did have both hands on defenders back who threw himself to the ground) finally to the game when we play with urgency and tempo we look good going forward and massive improvement on the pedestrian nonsense we have witnessed so much this season as said before - Topi, Frame standouts but far better performances from majority of the team Bilalovic didn’t get it right all the time but at least he was taking the full back on and trying to get to bye line unlike Milanovic Milne needs taken out of the team for his own good- confidence is so low he is afraid to make a forward pass in case he gives it away livi were pish though- only thing worse was Ross Hardie

Even the NR-fucking-A are coming out saying it’s wrong to say the victim was at fault for legally having a holstered gun on his person. This clearly shows the victim’s gun was taken away from him before they unloaded their bullets on his restrained and prone body: https://www.reddit.com/r/law/s/Dw7ZxTa3cx You don’t need to curate your news sources to form an opinion, just use your eyes FFS. “The U.S. Constitution (particularly the 2nd, 4th, and 14th amendments) prohibit officers from shooting citizens merely for possessing a weapon that is not an “imminent threat”. This was reaffirmed in Graham v Connor, which says force must be reasonable. ”

The TV coverage just looks like handbags with no visible distraught reactions from anyone apart from reacting to the idiocy of it being deemed worthy of a pair of red cards. Whether something was said in the tunnel is a different matter of course.

I'm a bit gutted he is going tho glad not to Hibs

I really like Polvara. Players that can give a solid 7/10 in four or five different positions are hard to come by, and by letting him go, we'll probably have to get two players in. His two footedness - proper two footedness, unlike thon Dorrington or Jensen lads - made him fairly invaluable. Guys like him allow you to keep your squad a bit leaner and makes it easier to give those that require game time a bit of game time.

That makes me so pwoud

Just on that link I posted earlier, it wasn’t an attempt to insinuate the Livvy player was pulling the race card or in any way purposely embellishing the truth, more out of concern that accusations were being made again with no substance allowing gossip and the court of public opinion to go into overdrive without any facts. In the previous incident it turned out the player everyone assumed was being accused was identified incorrectly: https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/360506719/new-zealand-footballer-matt-garbett-wrongly-identified-perpetrator-eredivisie-racism-row

Worst Killie team in a very very long time. Kinda proof of what a decent manager can do for a team. I actually fancy us to take this one by a fair margin. 2, maybe 3-0. We should have Bratveit fully registered for this, and I would expect him to be between the sticks. Would also fancy us to play Clarkson more now that Fancy Pants has been recalled Leven will do just fine til we find a full time manager. But he should NOT be the full time manager. This club needs to fork out for experience

100% All too often today across all leagues we are seeing players cast their eyes across to officials to see if they will bother accepting their goal. VAR has sapped the life and spectacle out of football. Its been proven over its all.ost 3.5 years in the Scottish Premiership that it is even more indecisive than a human referees eye, and it has sadly led to an even more inferior quality of referees today who time and time again reference VAR's decisions because they were too inept to make a decision. Jury's not. Bin it.

Agreed. He was better suited to our Euro games than our more physical scottish games. No hard feelings for the lad. Naturally would much rather he ended up at Houston or another MLS team than the likes of Hibs ... but I wouldnt be concerned if he ends up at another Scottish Premiership team

Thanks Rico. Although do we now need a thread that pulls Rico up on posts that haven't been addressed yet?

A wee bit of a shame to see him go. Whilst he is a wee bit off the quality we actually need, he was at least a grafter and someone looking to improve himself. Can't argue if the lad would prefer to head home though