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18 minutes ago, Chesh said:
What because he scored a goal, he doesn't work in this system without Oakley as evidenced by 1 win in 10 games since he got injured and the 1 game we won Oakley was back.
Scoring a goal from a break in the box doesn't make you motm infact picking out any morton player as our MOTM tonight is the real terrible take.
Actually winning balls and trying to get in about it and doing a job he doesn't normally do does. He was good tonight. Your take on most things is rotten so probably adds to the argument he was.
14 minutes ago, Chicken_Soup said:Quitongo was our only outball during his time on the park and should’ve won us a penalty. Nobody was good enough tonight but that’s a terrible take.
He was lazy and done tbe minimum. He's obviously got power and pace but his decision making and football brain isn't good enough and it showed tonight. Diving when there's options ahead is a good example, as is being lazy in the lead up to a goal.
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18 minutes ago, Alibi said:
Team looked knackered right from the start but FFS they make it hard for themselves. That Baird fluffed passback for example. We seemed unable to string two passes together and we didn't win any second balls. The Quitongo incident looked a clear penalty and in fact the "dive" for which he was booked looked as if there was slight contact.
That was a dive. He was rotten and shouldn't play for us again.
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2 hours ago, Chesh said:
Tyler French is a fraud
Absolutely rotten player.
57 minutes ago, Chesh said:The number 9 on our subs board must not be working.
Only reason how Muirhead hasn't come off and bearne hasn't come on.
Our motm. Terrible take.
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I'd definitely keep Crawford from that list. He's obviously dropped in form but the work rate and pressing her offers is really important to how we play. He does need a bit of support though with other options in the squad to do what he does.. I'm not that surprised he seems to have tapered off towards the end of a long season.
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10 minutes ago, Scott said:
He can’t judge the flight of a ball, shanks crosses out the pitch, gives the ball away when trying to pass it more often than not, and makes a habit of losing his man for crosses (see Airdrie’s 3rd on Saturday). The one thing he is good at is getting back in front of a wide player using his pace if they’re on the counter attack. He’ll pick up a decent wage non-league down in England, but I’d be disappointed if we didn’t look to improve on him for next season. If he was as good as Dundee fans said he was, the injury has clearly done him as a player.
Aye, agreed. We can do much better than him.
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33 minutes ago, HamCam said:
Another end of season shambolic performance. The shortcomings in the squad are there for all to see so no surprise we come up short. As soon as we concede the first goal in a game the belief in the team evaporates and you just know we are unlikely to come back. In this regard the experienced players let us down once again. Even if the play offs are realistically beyond us every position higher up the table means more money in the transfer kitty albeit you have to hope it is not wasted on offering contracts to players who keep on under performing. Talk about sucking the life out of the fans.
Win on Tuesday and Airdrie lose to Raith and we're only 2 points behind. I can't see us picking up many points tbh though.
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10 minutes ago, LargsTON said:
Anyone found a stream for this?
Don't think there is one today. Seems to be for every other game in the league. Looks like it might be a good thing.
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4 minutes ago, gmfc_craig said:
Agree that Bearne was no doubt MotM, needs to keep his place. Thought the ref made the game all about him and wasn’t letting the game flow, how the boy wasn’t booked for that tackle on Bearne was astonishing!
Special mention to Louis Longridge for the banter with the cowshed. He even had a little giggle to himself after he let a ball go right under his foot and out for a throw after getting it tight. Fair play lad!
French was absolutely honking today and though Baird looked a little nervy at times. Much needed 3 points.Their keeper diving about a minute after the challenge was only made more ridiculous by the foul throw that was taken exactly where the ref said then the next one taken in the same place. Terrible.
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28 minutes ago, Cappiecat 1.2 said:
He said he was shocked how much pace Quitongo has lost and postulated that the Quitongo of old could have outrun those defenders easily but currently he actually looks done.
Aye he was horribly wrong.
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5 minutes ago, Alibi said:We made heavy weather of that. Two good goals plus Broadfoot hit the bar with a header at 0-0. QP looked feeble up front although did have a couole of close things. I was shocked how much pace Quitongo has lost. The previous Quitongo could have outrun those defenders easily but currently he looks done.
Not a great game to watch but got the win and now 8 points clear of Inverness who only have 5 games left. So far they have roughly 1 point per game olayed so looking like ending with maybe 37-39 points. I’d say we should be safe. A win at Airdrie needed next to edge us further ahead of them, and a win at Ayr, would set us up nicely for a playoff spot.
Wot?
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1 hour ago, TONofmemories said:
Really wasn't impressed with Imrie moaning about budgets in hospitality. We're 7 games or so to end of season. Time to maybe get over it?
I do have some sympathy here. A small squad is obviously impacted more by injuries like we seen at the start of the season but it also leaves options limited for when players aren't in form so more difficult to shake things up a bit. There's players that know they'll start regardless because no one else is pushing them for a place in the team.
That said, we can only spend what we've got and a couple of signings haven't paid off but you can't get them all right. I know the baird budgeted for 8th but I think Imrie has done enough to add a bit more to the budget for a higher league place - I'd like to think it's low risk and Imrie would get more consistency across the season if he had more money to spend.
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6 minutes ago, vikingTON said:
What evidence shows that this would be an effective approach? How many goals/assists have those two options added this season, that lead you expect that we will break our current duck in the next match?
The same question applies just as much to McGrattan or Bearne. Absolutely none of this cast of wide options reliably deliver anything at all. It's like having four Stephen Stirling figures rotating around the line-up at the moment, who suddenly become twice as good the week that they're not actually on the park. Enough of these wingers.
What's actually needed is a reset to executing the basics well. Play the ball directly towards Oakley and actually press as a unit the second ball wherever it drops. Then start playing football in the opposition third of the park instead of fannying around with it in the back four. That has always been the key to our success and we have unintentionally deviated from it.
I think Garrity has been a threat when he's come on and the others haven't been. Quitongo gives us a bit more energy and makes defenders worry about him so it keeps us a bit higher up the park. Don't really disagree with the last paragraph - it's what we're best at - but the players who have been starting haven't really been great so our options are limited.
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42 minutes ago, HamCam said:
For all the acclaim the team received for the unbeaten run they have to accept the subsequent drop off in form has been unacceptable. What is most disappointing is the lack of leadership from the senior pros and the inability of players given more game time to take the opportunity. McGrattan is rightly singled out. I had high hopes the boy would kick on this season but watching him in recent weeks he is going through the motions. He was clearly not alone today and I hope this is taken into account when we look at which members of the squad we look to retain next season. This team has a soft centre and seem unable to overcome adversity such as conceding the first goal. Once again we are in danger of a season which offered so much promise petering out. The dream of third place now looks like a delusion.
To be fair if it was one game in isolation we could say there was a missed penalty and a couple of cracking saves/ bad misses and we would have had 3 or 4 on another day. The problem is the overall performance wasn't great and it's been the same for a few weeks.
Think we need to get Garrity and Quitongo in for Muirhead and McGratten and get down the wings a bit more next week.
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11 hours ago, Mr.Blue said:
Any suggestions? I've said in the past that we could offer say 10 adult and 10 child tickets to every primary school in Inverclyde. Say there's approx 15 primary schools in the area that's 300 tickets that we could be making money from in merchandise, programmes, 50/50s and food. If the kids enjoy it they come back the next week and perhaps regular visitors.
We could maybe do something like bringing back the unemployed discounts. Lots of people in that position in the area and better getting some more than mine.
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43 minutes ago, dunning1874 said:
That pre-Oakley unbeaten run last season we were very reliant on natural width with Quitongo on the right and McGrattan or Kabia on the left, with the long balls primarily aimed at finding the feet of wingers rather than going for Muirhead's head and trying to play off flick ons.
I can understand why Imrie has stuck with things like Blues on the right when he was in fantastic form there until a few games ago, but in Oakley's absence we need that natural width back to give us an outball. Having naturally central players there is fine when we're scrapping for second balls in a congested middle of the park and you want whoever's playing out wide to be comfortable stepping inside, but with no target man to aim at we need players who are comfortable opening up space by hugging the touchline, linking up with Strapp and French and carrying us up the park by running at full backs.
Garrity has to start next week.
Agreed. We are good when the full squad plays but pressure on the wings and runners central and out there causes problems. We are pretty flat without it.
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3 hours ago, LargsTON said:
I've looked back to last season when we had another long unbeaten run and that run occurred before Oakley had even signed for us. It's a grim stat with him missing from the team but there has to be more to it. We're not a one man team and we've still the same core of players.
I don't think it's just Oakley. Wilson out means we can't play Crawford high up and we lose out in the middle too. I think we'd have been fine with one or the other but not both so it's a bit unlucky.
We do need a bigger squad but Imrie is right when he says its very fine margins. I'd love us to have a bigger squad with cover for every position but, if we're realistic, we need to accept injuries to key players will hit us harder than other teams and the budget only goes so far.
There's an argument that we should be able to adjust and use the squad but a more flexible squad more often than not means poorer quality in a player's best positions. I think I'd rather see better players that aren't as adaptable than players with less ability that are but that's basically what the choice is. The highs will be higher and the lows will be lower with what we have but the alternative is probably a bit boring.
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13 hours ago, Brian Skelton said:
There is no use punting balls up to Muirhead it was and never will work. He doesn't jump for balls his first touch is questionable. Dougie was going nuts with the whole team today. Bad day at the office we move on.
I feel a bit for him. It's not his game to get balls launched up to him and the little he did win he was basically flicking it on to himself.
Also feel a bit for Power. Obviously could have done a lot better but our choice of passes was terrible and was constantly putting other players under pressure. Not an excuse but the pitch didn't help - hopefully the last we hear about Cappielow after seeing that.
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10 minutes ago, Scott said:
Thought it looked like Gillespie was playing on the right of a midfield 3 but more advanced than Blues & Power. Crawford can come into that role given we shouldn’t be so defensive today and allow Garrity to play further forward.
We need Crawford as high up the park as possible to pressure defences. That's been one of the big parts of our success this season.
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Thought Gordon was the difference. Hopefully makes the euros squad.
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Not seen it mentioned but the loss of Broadfoot playing it from the back probably hasn't helped us either. Baird and O'Connor are probably more solid defensively but he's more likely to play it out from defence and into the forwards feet so is better especially when we don't have someone like Oakley up top.
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30 minutes ago, Scott said:
Pretty blatant dive tbh from the Shed.
Was right in front of me and looked like his foot was caught.
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1 hour ago, Deego said:
Did anyone else think their left back was booked twice?
Apparently he booked Muirhead for speaking back to him but it did look like it and he should have been booked twice for timewasting.
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10 minutes ago, vikingTON said:
We didn't have a rhythm before that either and could be playing now and still wouldn't have scored. Perhaps if French spent less of the first half complaining to the referee and more time dealing with basic defensive tasks and passing the ball to a team mate, we might have had a different result. The fixation with refereeing decisions was a distraction from the actual issues.
Don't disagree that we didn't have any and could have been better. The point was more that the ref's performance didn't really give us the opportunity to either because he was so bad. There's no getting away from the fact we had too many players who weren't good enough on the day though.
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4 minutes ago, ChampTon said:
Apart from the game at Ibrox - and to be fair he appears to still be injured - MacDonald is absolutely hopeless. Not the first time he's palmed one into the net this season.
We could've played all day without scoring. Only pass marks I'd give is for Power, Garritty and wee Bearne who came on - think he won more headers than anybody else in the front half of the pitch.
Couple special mentions to the absolutely atrocious Graham Grainger (apparently he pointed to the spot before the rammy?), Alex Samuel and the twat up the back of the shed who was screaming "Get to fuck Imrie", lets hope his kind don't come back.
I think MacDonald is carrying an injury but he was poor. Particularly at the free kick.
I thought Bearne looked out his depth again.
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He's clearly got very strong points but tonight summed him up. No brain, lazy and generally doesn't add anything but gives a wee bit of hope from time to time. It's time to part ways.