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Fearchar

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  1. They still seem to manage to defend five corners in a row without conceding a goal, though.
  2. Bannigan is a luxury the team cannot afford: slow and too one-footed.
  3. Playing like inexperienced pensioners. Dominated from the front to midfield, with some desperate defending keeping the scoreline down. McInroy the only effective midfielder.
  4. Immediately hung up on - several times. It looked as if these two season ticket holders wouldn't get to go. ☚ī¸ Then in position 8, then 6, then 5 in a queue. Maximum queue capacity 8? The connection was breaking up constantly. That's going through broadband, but with newly installed FTTP, which should provide clear VOIP. Changing to 5G didn't improve the connection, suggesting that the problem is at the other end, with the club. The waiting music is bad at the best of times, but dire when breaking up.
  5. Probably squeezed in on the end of a row, restricted to half a seat. 🙁
  6. All credit to Aaron Muirhead for his attitude towards that game. Out of likes, but can only agree. All credit to Aaron Muirhead for his comments after the game. Maybe his is the voice we need, but at the back rather than in midfield.
  7. And the equaliser comes from the Lowland League side playing through the centre - where most goals come from.
  8. Same old, same old - faffing about on the wings without getting enough players into scoring positions. The best opportunity by far came to Spartans in a rare breakaway, and our best was a ball over the top to a sole attacking player in the box, which might have been better lofted over all the players there, including the goalkeeper, who was well off his line. Let's hope for a more tactically aware 2nd half.
  9. Play the game according to the dinosaurs of Scottish football (Battle cry: "Ger the ball to the byeline an' whup u' in!"), and you'll lose to a John McGlynn team, or at best get a draw against 10 men. Obviously, both fullbacks had a poor game. Without the players on the bench to shore up this weakness, more goals had to be scored. Meanwhile, at the other end, the two players looking most likely to score, Lawless and Fitzpatrick, were exiled to the wings to feed off scraps or to launch hopeful crosses into the box. (Lawless, of course, also tracked back to cover McKenzie, who seemed to want to become a winger or a centre half instead.) Effective crosses require huge amounts of practice and more players in the box: "Without good balls into the box, there can be no tactical adjustments," and "Particular value has to be placed on the timing between wingers and both strikers," [my emphasis] and "The wingers need to have enough time to put in a precise cross," [my emphasis] and "At the same time [as the cross is coming in] the strikers need to be completely determined to force their way to the ball." (This is standard, conventional modern training for the over-20s according to the DFB, the German equivalent of the SFA.) By contrast, we generally play with a single striker and hope that the two wingers being played might get a cross in, despite being under pressure. This is the football of yesteryear, dependent on a lucky cross or a lucky striker. In the past, this may have been effective, but those days should be long gone. We needn't be surprised if the John McGlynns of this game are successful, as their antediluvian football is effective against similarly outdated tactics. By definition, it must be if he can get a draw with 10 men on the park.
  10. McKenzie is getting roasted every time. We need a right back in case McMillan gets injured again.
  11. Let's hope our team has started Dundee United on a trend of crumbling for the season.
  12. It's certainly about high time that Mitchell scored.
  13. The analysis of and players' access to their data is going to disrupt the market for players soon. It will become less of a guessing game and less dependent on who knows whom. https://trainingground.guru/articles/breakaway-empowering-athletes-with-their-data
  14. Surely that should be a striker-keeper, at least if Sneddon is involved - the extra man in the box.
  15. Perhaps it is all too easy for us to assume that a player we've seen years ago is the same player - disregarding the gains in skill and understanding we should actually expect from a committed professional, if balanced by a loss of pace. IMHO Stevie Lawless now is a more capable player than during his first stint with the club.
  16. Time to get the scouting sorted out. The display during the playoffs has earned widespread approval, which must help.
  17. How often has Mitchell scored, though? 😉 In the new season, we could even go for all-out total football, with goalkeepers doing a shift as back-up strikers. (After all, Jim Goodwin showed how an outfield player could easily stand in for a goalkeeper.)
  18. And who actually invaded the pitch? 🤔 It wouldn't be unreasonable for the club to question Plod's misplaced enthusiasm for interfering with matters on the park.
  19. He's also a fan. Maybe he's following the team like any other.
  20. Another slightly off-topic point: by getting club employees to work the turnstiles, entry to the ground was much speedier. More of this sensible approach, please!
  21. Nice to see the opposition goalkeeper unable to do anything but pick the ball out of the net. (He made a stunning save later on, though.)
  22. My guess is that they adopted it in order to avoid using the subjunctive mood: that way, they don't have to think when to say "might", and just replace it with "may" all the time - the wooly thinking of typical journalese. (E.g. "He may have scored that goal but the keeper made a fantastic save.")
  23. Bugs due to browser incompatibility? A password unrecognised despite being logged on? I don't know, but without even an error message (just a blank where the payment button should be - alongside a message asking to log on when already logged on) isn't user-friendly.
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