Fearchar
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Wouldn't we do just as well with an AI coach? 🤨
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Surely football clubs are just blindly following the example of big corporations, which have seen that collecting and analysing some data can boost their turnover even if they exclude the outliers, e.g. the disabled, the elderly and the security conscious. IMHO this only leads to putting off potential customers for the future, especially the young, who often prefer spur-of-the-moment decisions to attend events, and they don't have the steady income stream to buy, say, season tickets. Disregarding the needs of disadvantaged groups only leads to rancour, and a flight to the two rancid clubs in Scotland that can afford to provide decent faciclities for the disadvantaged.
FWIW, I've long believed that all football entry should include a minimal proportion of ticket sales (1%?) that goes into a trust that supports clubs to fund improvements, e.g. the toilets at Cappielow - with funds provided on the basis of need and lack of ability to pay. Standards for all, including visiting fans, could gradually be raised throughout the game, while the wealthier clubs would hardly even notice the sums involved.
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47 minutes ago, Jaggernaut said:
As usual, a few standard deviates at the edges.
Watch out! The polis will be around to knock on your door soon. 🙄
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30 minutes ago, partickthedog said:
Why is any team allowed to get away with having just one match ball? Slows everything down so it favours the anti-football team.
They still seem to manage to defend five corners in a row without conceding a goal, though.
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Bannigan is a luxury the team cannot afford: slow and too one-footed.
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Playing like inexperienced pensioners. Dominated from the front to midfield, with some desperate defending keeping the scoreline down. McInroy the only effective midfielder.
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Immediately hung up on - several times. It looked as if these two season ticket holders wouldn't get to go. ☹️
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.
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10 hours ago, Jaggernaut said:
That seems a bit unfair on the 24th season ticket holder.
Probably squeezed in on the end of a row, restricted to half a seat. 🙁
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All credit to Aaron Muirhead for his attitude towards that game.
8 hours ago, laukat said:We were pretty poor yesterday. We played like the Alan Archibald 2018 team. Slow sideways, retaining possession at all costs but for little value, no pace and no-one willing to take a risk. We had load of the ball yesterday but in the first half didn't put a single shot on target.
Part of me wonders if we fear losing possession because we don't have a midfield able to regain possession quickly.
Bannigan is really starting to annoy me. He can't tackle and can't play a forward pass. His trademark is to runs quickly forward with the ball at his feet, delays picking a quick risky pass in favour of a safe sideways pass to retain possession.
Williamson has potential but only if he figures out that his best position is at the CDM not as an 8 or a 10. Lyon was very hesitant in possession in the first half and he still looks like he needs to hit the gym and muscle up a bit otherwise he will just be too easily pushed off the ball. Alston was barely in the game but I'm not sure he's what we need.
At the back I thought Williams and Muirhead were decent. Milne still has a bit of rustiness but is getting there. MacKenzie is not a fullback and if we expect him to cover injuries in the league in that position we may well have a problem.
Right now we look a poor team and unless we get McMillan back, Robinson fit and sort out our midfield we will struggle for top 4. We desperately lack a dominant voice/leader in the centre of midfield.
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.
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A warm tribute on the club site.
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And the equaliser comes from the Lowland League side playing through the centre - where most goals come from.
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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.
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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.
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McKenzie is getting roasted every time. We need a right back in case McMillan gets injured again.
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Let's hope our team has started Dundee United on a trend of crumbling for the season.
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4 hours ago, sandy said:
I’d like to see Sneddon back
It's certainly about high time that Mitchell scored.
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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
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On 6/21/2023 at 9:10 PM, partickthedog said:
Draughts team seems to set up in a rigid 4-4-4 formation. Presumably the goalie operates as a sweeper keeper. The extra player should come in useful (if not noticed by the referee).
Surely that should be a striker-keeper, at least if Sneddon is involved - the extra man in the box.
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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.
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23 minutes ago, sandy said:
At least the financial situation is now out in the open. It’s what many of us suspected.
Dools is going to have to be creative to re-build the squad.
5 minutes ago, Garscube Road End 2 said:Back to sniffing out Juniors gems like Doolan and Erskine.
Time to get the scouting sorted out. The display during the playoffs has earned widespread approval, which must help.
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On 6/5/2023 at 9:15 AM, laukat said:
Be interesting to see what Doolan does with the squad.....
Sneddon is possibly the only one who could feel hard done by but I don't see how we can afford to have 2 goalkeepers on starting wages. If we need to cut costs the obvious move is Mitchell with McCready as backup and emergency loans if required....
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.)
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46 minutes ago, Jaggernaut said:
On the BBC text they said it was done on the advice of the police.
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.
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He's also a fan. Maybe he's following the team like any other.
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The last game I attended - in Germany. (Face obscured to spare the blushes of my younger son, who has not bought a season ticket. 😶) Pilsner and Currywurst, for the bon vivants anxious to know.