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Good draw, should get rid of both Edinburgh teams too.

Good watch that, although probably would have left out the QOTS clip, tributes don’t need to be balanced.

He can hold the ball up and win headers in the box from crosses which is more than our other strikers can do. We would be better with Clarkson/Polvara + Gueye than we would with Gueye + Nisbet/Ambrose. Those are our options until we get a striker in.

I thought Polvara looked quite good in the advanced “Clarkson” role. I’d go with Gueye up front unless we sign a top tier striker.

If ever there was a game to give Devlin and Nilsen a rest…

I can’t believe any sane person would have chosen to put Nilsen in midfield instead of Palaversa and sacrifice any mobility we had in that area. Predictably he did nothing other than kick people (and get caught under Balogen for their second). Morris taking one look at the defender on a yellow card and deciding he wanted no part in trying to take him on was a shining nugget on a turd of a team performance, ultimately inconsequential but gutless all the same.

We could have conceded three goals in the 5 minutes or so they’ve been pricking about getting subs on.

I don’t think Solberg ever played at LB? He played (terribly) at RB for a bit but was predominantly a CB. If I remember correctly Anderson played RB mostly while Solberg played in the middle and wasn’t until 2002 or so that Anderson moved into the middle. LB would have been Jamie McAllister or Andy Dow depending if Dow was in midfield or not.

He can be developed into the sort of defender who wins most headers, clears his lines without taking risks and focuses on keeping things simple. Problem is, that’s not really the sort of defender that is effective in Thelin’s system. We need defenders who are comfortable on the ball, both in terms of passing and keeping possession in tight areas. The type of defender that will be comfortable playing in midfield. That’s never going to be Rubezic. You can see the difference in MacDonald looking solid playing in a Robson team and looking like a fish out of water playing for Thelin.

I imagine they’ll be quite comfortable swapping wings quite frequently. Hayes and McGinn used to do that too during matches.

This guy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeppe_Okkels

Bavidge seems to have been utilised in a wider role these last 12 months or so from what I’ve seen, and started wide right for ICT today.

Bavidge has scored on his ICT debut, I think he’ll do quite well there.

I can’t see Thelin relying on youth too much. Today he preferred having Nisbet play deep behind Peter Ambrose with obvious results instead of giving Fletcher Boyd a run out.

I think our problems are a bit too deep rooted to be solved by making a couple of transfers unfortunately.