RicoS321

Seven straight wins should setup an interesting home tie against the Tims like.

He shouldn't have been in his box though, he is required to be up the park a bit when the defence is so high up. He should have been about the thirty yard line, giving him plenty of time to get back when the ball deflected, his positioning was poor, but not massively poor. It was really bad decision making from Henry. There were two easy passes available (O'Donnell was the ball) that would have made for a really good opportunity to score. A defender should always know if he's last man (or close to last man) when stepping up with the ball like that, he would have been very aware that there was zero cover behind, so he should have been passing and backtracking. It was fairly basic stuff. Marshall is obviously at fault too, but Henry was the main culprit for me, Marshall would have been out of position for a few seconds at most trying to communicate with his defence and would have rightly expected the ball to remain upfield for that period. It's no different to defenders getting caught out of position when another defender passes it straight to an opponent unexpectedly.

Ach, I think we can forgive Marshall for that one. When you see how high up the rest of the defence was, he's actually probably only 5 yards or so from where he should have been to act as a sweeper. 99 percent out of 100 times he'd get away with it. As for dykes, he did okay in the first half, he worked hard and put himself about the place. If Christie had offered more we probably wouldn't have been complaining as dykes was only ever there for his hassling defenders and holding it up. Even when Adams came on, I think he'd have been far less effective without Dykes. You're spot on with the McInnes shout, but that's the same with nearly every other manager over the years, from Levein to Strachan and now Clarke. Again, it's because the first goal is so important that they almost always take the cautious approach, when the answer was probably Dykes and Adams. Nisbet is a decent finisher but isn't as intelligent with hold up play as Dykes. The problem that Clarke has now is that Dykes would probably have been the preferred option against England when we'll see little of the ball and we need a target up field, but he's played himself out of a start. I'l don't think Adams has what it takes either unfortunately. I just wish managers would learn that they only ever get one chance at this and a risk is nearly always the way to go. As you say, very like McInnes, we saw this so often in our European ties where we had a good chance but failed gloriously due to caution.

I don't think Paterson is that good though? O'Donnell is poor but he's generally sensible enough. I think I'd trust Forrest to mark his man over Paterson. McTominay one was never a pen, he charged head first into the defender. He was terrible today, really didn't put in the effort required. He should be dragging his midfield through games like these. He didn't show up. Totally agree about Tierney, knew we'd be up against it when he wasn't in the squad. Surely must be questionable whether he'll go from not being on the bench to being fit to play England. Will be a huge miss, Cooper doesn't offer much at all in there.

0-1 halftime. Unlucky to be down, a decent even game. Good goal, just a bit disorganised at the back, with Henry slow to get across leaving O'Donnell with two men so just a fraction too late to block the cross. Not much the defenders or keeper could do from there. Hanley and McGinn been good, Robertson excellent, dykes been okay. Need more from McTominay and Armstrong and Christie to get on the ball more.

Aye, that link should help us for a couple of seasons you'd think. Assuming he can spot a player that is. Hopefully be a decent signing, and if he is decent he isn't just whisked away in January like that shitey Welsh goalie. I'm not convinced that putting our eggs in the 19 year old basket is the way to go, so hopefully we'll see more action to take over when consistency becomes an issue.

Great match. I had a fiver on 3-2, which worked out nicely too.

England the better team so far. Croatia not a patch on their 2018 team, but modric world class.

It was point blank though. Often those ones just hit a goalkeeper without them knowing much about it, it was a bit unfortunate. It doesn't help that they showed about 83 slow motion replays of it. Of course your going to save it in slow motion.

Impressive turnaround. I'm assuming they'll be allowed a sub. Cant believe you deleted my previous posts. You're going to have to get some [thisIsJustAJoke/] tags for the forum to save me having to explain my terrible sense of humour.

But again, it has to be a player who English fans will recognise. Same with fabregas. We'll get Strachan at some point too I expect. Again, all firmly based in being a token Scot familiar to England (Strachan obviously coached the national side, but the point stands). It's fucking ridiculous that there isn't coverage of the entire tournament on the BBC Scotland channel.

Aye, good opening game.

It's the fact that we have to watch it through an English lens. It's fucking tragic. Why Ferdinand and Shearer? Why are they better pundits than, say, Neil McCann and Ricky Foster? I'm not saying they are or aren't, it's just that they're there on a UK television channel to satiate an English audience. Fucking cunts. Fine to pay them a fortune for English match of the day shite, but that shouldn't automatically transcend European international fitba. They can fuck off.

Nah, I just heard it thirteenth hand. Probably a heap of balls. I think Ross will turn out to be very good. Hopefully it's for us.

Ross turned down a contract offer? Not good if true.

Could be the next Edmondson. To be honest, the success rate of 19 year old loanees is going to be pretty low, for much the same reasons as our own 19 year olds struggle with both physicality and consistency. Even maddison struggled to hold down a place here as his workrate hadn't developed to the required standard and he was kicked regularly.

Yep, he's got a plumbing business to run, he should put that first and recognise that social media isn't a place for trying to make jokes even if they're well intentioned. He'd be better off making an actual point if he's annoyed in any way, which he doesn't seem to be. I disagree about Brown, he wasn't even close to the best player on the park in our recent game and nearly all our midfield out performed him. I'm not expecting a lot from him and will be happy if he still has what it takes and hope that he adds something behind the scenes in his assistant role. I'd be extremely cautious about hyping him up if I were AFC, and if he's our marquee signing it's nae really that inspiring.

I don't think he needs to be the focal point of our marketing campaign. It's disrespectful to those that have been here longer. Big Andy should have been the lead photo. It's utterly classless that he hasn't apologised for the handling of the Logan situation, both from him and the club. If there was any link between talking a good game and actually producing then I'd be happy with Brown's comments, but I don't think people should put as much onus on them as they do.

That is fucking ace. They had better be your insurance company. Even if you don't need insurance.

He was in the YouTube video, so he's not dead.

Our new strip seems to have a minky Tim in it this season. Racist Tim

I don't actually, I must've missed that one. Doesn't surprise me in the least. Thing is, it could just be that the Hun were more up on the rules and system than us, we need to be absolutely on top of the requirements as we'll definitely struggle to justify visas for the level of player we'll be looking to take in.

How does this work then? We've got to take our case to the SFA, who decide if he's going to be given a work permit? This is surely a fairly flawed process? Already, the scum have a distinct advantage as they can afford to buy an international player, but I'm guessing that pretty much every signing of theirs who doesn't meet the international matches criteria will also be prioritised for a visa too. To be honest, I can't see what this guy has done to merit a visa over any other player, but then I have no idea how the SFA work their system.

Out of 100 eh? That's the thing about percentages...

I think he's signed for Port Vale.