tlg1903

Missed this, that is quite the jump for him but good luck to him.

Not exactly a come and get me from JBA but it's not a comprehensive I'm going no-where either. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c4gr07q0w48o

Can you imagine the hun meltdown if we took Muscat and he knocked it out of the park? Some awful names there but a few I would be happy with.

And it's not good enough, he's been shaky for a large part of the season but the past month or so it's got worse. I've gone beyond the hope he has a good game but I'm nervous of him when he has to do something stage and I'm now actively expecting him to cost us a goal at some point per game. The 1st goal on Tuesday I greeted with a resigned shake of the head instead frustration and anger. For his own good he needs to be dropped imo.

Barry Nicholson was such a good player.

It's a hell of a fixture to drop Suman into but at this stage I'm not sure we have a choice. If Mitov starts and drops another clanger early on it the crowd is going to get toxic pretty quickly. It does seem to have got to the stage where most of the support has reached the end of it's tether with Dimi.

We missed a trick not taking Scott Bain back if you ask me. Whilst not the most glamorous sigining he was available on a free, would have been handy for the euro squad as he came through the dons youth system, and would have been genuine competition for Mitov. Is he at good at pens as Mitov? No, but hes defo far more solid in pretty much every other regard and I feel safe saying we would have more points on the board if he was our Goalie.

We did, there has been some successes in terms of player sales etc so at least some of our recruitment hasn't been awful. Some of Dereks recruitment could still net us tidy fee's too 2bf, Bristol have just triggered Mcrories year extension apparantly in the anticipation of bids for him and Ferguson could be off from Bologna this window as well with Inter being linked in December if memory serves. At best I would say we have made a cunt of it far more than we haven't.

Completely agree re setup etc. That said even with McInnes in charge of player recruitment I suspect he would have done better with the extra funds available than we have seen since he left. You could argue that some of the dross DM took in was because his hands were tied financially and say what you like about him but Derek was very good at moving players he's taken a chance on quickly when it clearly wasn't working.

He didn't have as many howlers for sure but he's always had a wee mistake him and I've not been 100% convinced of him for at least a year now. The problem he has right now more than anything else though is his confidence is clearly shot which is leading to even more erratic decisions. At the very least there is solid grounds to be taking him out of the firing line for a few games.

System football has been on the rise for a while now and you're spot on that it takes away creativity and individuality, the latter by it's very nature and the former as consequence of that. It doesn't help that kids don't play football independently like they once used to. I wasn't a great player by any stretch growing up but I played virtually every day for years up to my mid teens and none of it was coached. That was the culture, you played football at lunchtime and then at the park once school was over. It's in circumstances like that that the players we have all admired over the years for being able to take the piss out of the opposition have honed those skills, not at a training facility where coaches are constantly drilling into you to move the ball on quickly cos system. Unfortunately kids mostly play football as a focused hobby now in coached environments which obviously isn't all bad but most of the really skillful players we have loved over the years learned those skills in the first place to take the piss out of their mates down the park. Who doesn't love shouting 'Meg' as you go past your opponent after all. It does make me wonder how players from previous era's would get on in the modern game. E.g would Ronaldinho if he was starting out now still get to a club like Barca or would he have to adapt his game, play to the system and learn to track back? Would a player like Matt Le Tissier even be able to work his way into the Southampton first team? I suspect he would be deemed too slow and lazy.

Jesus wept Karlsson, take that first time ffs

going forward we actually look relatively exciting at times. Defo going a bit more direct and the hun back line isn't liking it much.

We need a new goalkeeper. Lost all faith in Mitov to to be good enough consistently.

Nope, Polvara as CB by the looks of it, Shinnie KK and Armstrong playing as a 3 and Bilalovic up top with Nisbet