RicoS321

Good post. You're right, they might just be poor at it. Also, Glass inherited a squad of well paid senior players, so perhaps I'm being unfair. It's extremely difficult to see where Adam Montgomery fits into our strategy however.

The problem is that they're only reversing the decision because people withdrew their support. Their statement directly contradicts everything they said 24 hours before, with zero explanation. We're sorry that you're upset is basically what they're saying. They'll get away with it too. Resigning should be the only course of action for the directors and manager, who were told in advance what the consequences would be. The Raith fans who withdrew their support can't back down now. As an aside, this is why I don't want us having a sugar daddy rich cunt ploughing his money into AFC. The fans of Raith put together £100k+ (from memory, I think they did anyway!) at the beginning of the pandemic to help fund the club (plus they have a player development fund). They got nothing in return. If those funds had been treated, correctly, as an investment - just like it would be if it was a wealthy business person putting in a lump sum - then they would have had a big say in this transfer. It's precisely the reason I'll never give money to the Aber DNA pish. If you're still giving money to this type of scheme/scam, then don't be surprised when AFC fuck you over in much the same way (like when Milne sided with the Tims in the voting structure). Those funds should return a shareholding and a say.

Good luck to him. It does bring in to question our development of youth. Whether it's an actual policy or just another sound bite that clubs deploy increasingly these days. In my opinion, what's missing from Dean's game is simply game time (probably at spfl level). He has all the attributes of a really good player, but inconsistency in game time leads to inconsistency on the pitch. To truly be a youth focused team, I think we'd have to be ditching McGeouch (and probably Ojo) and offering those minutes (I'm certain Campbell could have done exactly the same as McGeouch against County) to Campbell. In that regard, I see zero difference between the Glass and McInnes approach. The only difference currently is Ramsay, but given that he's very good at football, I find the suggestion that he wouldn't have featured under McInnes this season hard to believe. I don't believe he'd be completing 90 minutes every week under McInnes, but I don't believe he's actually ready to do that yet either. There's something that we're not quite getting right in our youth development. This situation reminds me of the Wright one. We appear to have missed an entire season of Dean's development, much like we did with Wright. Due to the fact that we crammed our squad with senior players (all in one fucking position too!), we've completely limited Campbell's game time. We've afforded Ramsay the time to make numerous errors in a way we haven't Campbell. If we weren't willing to do that with Campbell he should have been out on loan much sooner. It remains to be seen if that will have a lasting effect on his overall development or not. Hopefully not. I think Campbell was good enough that we should have been looking at a youth product that was as good as Jack in a few years and I think we might have failed him. Glass inherited that squad, but he also added guys like Longstaff to it. We're not getting the mix right if we're going to be focusing on youth as suggested, to the extent that I think it's just another marketing strategy.

It was really bad like. Probably worse than anything the Huns have ever written. No moral high ground for us dandies unfortunately, we all knew what we'd signed when he came here.

No. If we're not scoring with Ramirez up front, then it's unlikely to be any different with Anderson, they're similar players. I think Ramirez is better, although I think Anderson would have been fine as our main striker too. I completely understand the thought process behind the Jet move. He is a totally different type of player to Ramirez and should have allowed us to completely change tactics during a game. That he's pish and unfit is obviously the main problem there. On our budget, I don't think we can waste two wages on a Ramirez/Anderson type, with one simply replacing the other without anything else changing. We haven't had anyone that can offer something different from the bench since Magennis left. If the question had been, would you have been happy with Anderson as number 9 this season with the Ramirez money spent on a good number 10, I'd have said yes. That's not a criticism of Ramirez, just I don't think we've significantly benefited from having him up front, or certainly not got the best out of him. It's much like me playing golf this morning with my relatively expensive irons. Ramirez is like the brain that we only ever use ten percent of. Just as I could get by just as well with half price irons, the dons would have been just as fine with Anderson. If I get those golf lessons, or the dons get a good number 10, then we'll really start to see the benefit of buying a more expensive tool (no offence, Christian).

I have no idea what our plan is. We play ridiculously tight and narrow in every single game when we have a very good poacher in the middle. When he finally brings off Ojo, he makes sure Hayes and Vicente are inverted, so they always cut in. We're so easy to defend against. The fact that McKenzie came on as opposed to an attacking player says a lot about the quality in that area on the bench and a lot more about our failure in the transfer window.

Brown lucky not to get a second yellow.

Predictable sub. Not sure it adds much. Again Ojo getting a lot of game time in that high position.

Hayes has been excellent since changing hair colour. Great finish.

Maybe the technical admins should look into the fact that the words "could" and "almost" keep getting inserted randomly into posts.

Nice one Val. Thankfully the Dons would never stoop so low.

I think McGrath will turn into an excellent player. If st mirren are accepting Gogic as any part of a deal, then I think we've made a huge mistake not offering them Gurr before he left, or maybe some dog shite off the Cormack park pitches.

Decent results all round for us with utd and Hibs both losing. Hearts out of sight like.

County score in the 800th minute of stoppage time to draw 3-3 with the Hun. Conspiracy.

St Johnstone are going to be pissed off when we tank them in the rearranged fixture, with all six goals coming from the four players we sign between now and the end of the window.

Looks fine in that picture.

But Huns 1 did pay their creditors. Until they didn't. It's the exact same business model, save for the side letters. I don't think global football has benefited from the rise of Man city, Chelsea etc. I'd be interested to see how much money Milne lost on AFC, similarly the Donalds. As far as I'm aware, Milne still has a substantial shareholding including preferential shares attached to the sale of pittodrie, but it's been a few years since I've looked at the accounts. It's the dons that ran at a loss for years, not Milne. Cormack slightly different in that respect if he is to believed, with loans from his family or some shite for Hernandez.

The problem for me with that is that's exactly what the Huns say about the balance sheet when they spend miles outwith their means. I don't see a difference. Cormack providing short term funding, or capital infrastructure investment is one thing, but he should be refunded when we make that back. To be fair, he's shown with McKenna that he wouldn't just accept the first big offer if it doesn't suit the team. I think that if Ramsay doesn't go now, it'll be in the summer. I'm not sure it'll make significant difference to our fortunes holding onto him for another six months over having someone like Ojo at fullback. He's still very much in development.

Seems low. Been a decent player all in. Will struggle to replace his movement and pace.

It was when haardon first replied though. They've obviously downgraded because he was so quick to say take it. Bologna are known for watching this site.

I'd like to see us run sustainably as a club and have as little reliance on Cormack and others as possible. The last couple of seasons has seen us take a fair hit, and if we can rectify that quickly, I think it's in the best interest of the club. Ramsay's value isn't likely to go up significantly (from now) playing in the spfl, and I think doig at Hibs provides a decent example of the opposite happening. £4.8M would have been huge (albeit, looks a lot more like £4M), and not likely to come around again. It sets a benchmark for future sales too, especially if he does well. Ramsay could be the start of something bigger (or not), we've not really established a baseline for selling players. If we start getting a lot of players through like him, I think we would begin to question selling quickly.

After the latest masonic revelations about Burns, I think he may have actually been a Hun. You should probably sit and watch the entire game on red TV, with the sound on so you can hear Cowan, as penance.

I see very little evidence of shit shooting, and plenty of evidence of bad choices and poor tactics. Hedges is probably the only one I'd say is guilty of missing half chances, but almost all of these he engineers himself and is usually off balance or shooting away from his direction of travel - in other words, they're not easy chances. Rooney in his prime for us was probably converting 30-50% of his good opportunities. He missed plenty, but almost always had more than one. McGinn blazed over the bar regularly before scoring. They both had plenty of chances in a game and knew that missing one wasn't generally dropping us points. I think we've probably missed a handful of good chances this season. We need to be creating 2 or 3 every game before we can start criticising our shooting. Other than Jet Vs city, could you name a good chance we've had that resulted in a shot off target?

A striking coach should not be instilling keeping their head down in their play, unless he's teaching primary kids. If they're at this stage in their career and don't already know that then they're screwed. He'll be teaching them about runs to make, walking them through the weaknesses of specific opponents, set plays etc, along with many other general coaching duties (I don't even think his job title is striker coach). There was only one chance last night where we had an open shot on goal and that was a decent effort, wide, by Ferguson on his wrong foot. Every opportunity high and wide was either a bad choice to shoot (out of frustration, with Ferguson particularly guilty) or under pressure and difficult to get away a shot. Those types of shot are difficult and a cursory glance at even the greatest league in the world will see midfielders blazing over with a man between them and the goal. It's a function of playing without wingers and it was apparent even against Edinburgh city. We had so many shots against them, but only a handful were actual decent chances because we're simply not creating them. The Jet chance against city being the first sitter in open play we've missed in ages. Our tactics are forcing us into trying to convert difficult chances in crowded areas, and no amount of coaching is going to improve that.

There were very few shots that a striking coach would have much influence over. Telling people to keep their head down has no bearing on anything, they'll have been told that since they were 5. The reason we're skying so many is that we're dicking about forever in possession, leaving us to try difficult, speculative efforts from distance with a player between the man and goal when the answer is just not to shoot. Very few of our shots have been open and what you'd class as good chances. We're not creating good chances. We're too easy to frustrate thirty yards out. Not only that, because we don't hit the line and get a cross in, we don't benefit from any other chances that might come from a deflection or poor clearance either. I feel a bit sorry for Hedges and Ojo, who've been asked to cut inside and try and make something out of nothing through intricate passing in congested defences.