fizoxy
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The cool thing is that we’ll know what deals fell through in three windows time when we finally sign them.
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Ellis plummer forced to retire at 25.
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He’s an attacking midfielder. He converted to that when he joined Dundee and that’s what we’ve signed him as, as per our statement.
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Disappointing we conclude the window with another midfielder, we do like to chase a player though. Apparently a couple of deals fell through.
Hopefully the attacking options we have continue to show improvement and this overhead kick guy adds something.
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8 minutes ago, Shaka said:
I dont agree at all. Football is a business not a charity. He got injured during his contract, that means he was paid fully for a year or so while offering us fuck all! Thats loyalty enough from us Id say. We honoured his contract, he shouldve been sent off with a nice statement at the start of june. There is no loyalty in football these days, policies like this from the club are naieve in the least
We took a (probably inexpensive) punt at retaining a player who could do a job for us, whilst showing that we are a club that stands by its players. You’re right it is a business, and part of our business is trying to find ways to attract and keep players we might not otherwise get, that involves some creativity and also putting out a good image of the club. It didn’t work out and we lost a couple of months wages, but was a low risk attempt at doing the right thing.
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We did the right thing since he got injured on our watch, but by all accounts he may not even have been ready by Christmas, so it probably works out well for both parties for him to seek a contract elsewhere. Also, I doubt the contract we offered him was worth much.
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Tanner turned down his contract offer and has left.
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Livingstone loan to Morton confirmed, to the end of the season with option to recall in January.
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I don’t think it’s a bad thing to have some cover/competition in midfield, especially since it could be a while before we see Turnbull again (if at all). There’s going to be injuries and suspensions. Right now we have sloth, Maguire and semple as cover, so I’m wondering if management don’t see semple or Maguire as being ready yet.
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Sloth and Manzinga both starting for the reserves today.
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The twitter rumors have livingstone going out on loan (fair enough) and us losing out to Killie for Hendry (double fair enough).
I’d be surprised if we didn’t bring in a striker tomorrow, and possibly a defender. However it seems we’ve had some deals fall through lately, so who knows what happens tomorrow. It’s Labor Day here so I can sit all day refreshing twitter in the comfort of my own home, rather than my desk.
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He looked slow and tentative on the ball to me. There was a couple of times he took the sting out of our attack when he received the ball. Like seedorf, he’s showed glimpses, so there’s plenty of opportunity to prove me wrong. It will be interesting to see where we stand on the crop of wingers come the end of this season.
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Seedorf was fine, he made a couple of mistakes but works hard enough and took his goal well. It’s good to see him grow in confidence and improve. he’s clearly still learning, and I’m happy to for him to do that if he can keep scoring goals like that. I’m more worried about Hylton who looked woeful despite the nice finish.
Scott is on the verge of really breaking out, it’s easy to forget he’s just turned 19.
I forgot to mention Polworth, who I thought was solid again, and is becoming a key player for us. Donnelly also improved in his general display, but the hibs midfield was only as strong as the paper they look good on, which may have been a factor.
I’d echo the earlier comment that hibs look like a side that’s trying to get their manager sacked, and he’d probably deserve it for selecting Whittaker.
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Hibs played some ok stuff without creating any chances, and I’ll put that down to our defense who all played well. Middleton and Allan might as well have not been on the park.
I don’t think we had any standout performances good or bad, but Scott is gaining in confidence and is showing up well on the ball. Long’s movement is excellent, but he really should have taken his chances.
Hylton came on and looked terrible, but fair play to him on the goal.
Campbell is just fun to watch.
God knows why that first one wasn’t a pen. It was a nice finish from Donnelly on the one we did get, was wondering when he was going to switch sides.
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Problem is that half the time “good source” = on here or twitter.
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I’m going to guess we’re hoping for one of the two keepers to bite on the contract offer.
As for the outfield players he mentioned, the out of contract players in 2020 (who aren’t new signings) are - Tait, Hartley, Dunne, Donnelly, livingstone, grimshaw and Maguire.
I’ll take a guess at Tait, Dunne and Donnelly.
I don’t think any of our new guys are in the Kipre scenario of an immediate extension.
It’s great so see us act early, which is probably related to the money we got in for the young players we lost.
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Stevie May returns to St Johnstone, so that narrows the available striker pool by one.
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Long, grant, Johnson, Thomas and Laing. What a cohort!
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I also thought Campbell played well, and was a big part in us controlling most of the game.
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Polworth had a good game, and I noticed a lot more defensive involvement on Saturday. I think he has flown under the radar a little, but is going to prove to be an excellent signing. However, I gave my vote to Long, who had good movement all game and showed he could hold the ball up when needed to. His run and finish for the third we’re excellent too.
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As for negativity, there’s no problem with criticizing managers and players for their performances, and we all have favorites/least favorites, and venting online is a good avenue for that. However, a lot of folk make up their minds way to early then spend the next year or three looking for opportunities to justify it and others are just plain miserable.
We generally accept that we are a club that has to pluck players from obscurity and develop them, which is a strategy that isn’t going to succeed every single time. Depending on your outlook you’re either going to rhyme off the list of success stories or the failures.
But calls to get rid of players after a couple of months is just silly. Never mind the fact that terminating contracts costs money (both to pay up the contract then pay for a replacement) , and the player would have to agree to that, which would be a fucking dumb decision if they’re as shite as some folk think.
Seedorf and Hylton showed they had something in the cup group stages, but are clearly not ready for league business. The problem is that there’s only one way to get them up to speed and that’s to get them involved. They both have attributes you can’t coach, I.e, pace, it’s up to our coaching staff to refine that and make it work for us consistently, and there are going to be some ups and downs in that process.
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Tait and Carroll had the same sickness bug that Gallagher had. So did Polworth but it was earlier in the week and he was passed fit.
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1 hour ago, DEWELL said:
I'll let you know. We need 3 forwards and need to terminate Hylton and Seedorfs contracts. If we can get some decent forwards in we have a chance of a decent season.
Terminate contracts? You’ve jumped the shark.
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We were better, Accies we’re terrible. Too easy.
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Tanner has a new job. We must have offered him peanuts.