Fearchar
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Alegría was the weak point in that game - both lying down in the vain hope of getting the opposition penalised and missing a sitter. Jakubiak won't score often, but bringing on Alegría put paid to any hopes of scoring. A suicidal substitution. Once Smith was on for Graham, the game had been conceded.
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At least we've learned that match reports can compete with estate agents' descriptions: "The game then went through a bit of a lull in terms of goalmouth action with chances few and far between for both sides" = "Head tennis and the big boot took over".
It looks as if the players' equivalent of "The board fully supports the manager" for managers is reflected in McCall's statement, "who I thought did well when he came on" - i.e. had two legs when he came on, although they didn't really contribute to play.
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1 minute ago, jlsarmy said:
Not sure Simon Donnelly is a good comparison, at least SID could trap a football.
A far superior footballer, but the same problem, of tensing up when aiming at goal. (Actually, Jakubiak's trapping isn't bad, certainly by comparison with that of most of his teammates.)
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My eyes hurt. For any young science-oriented scholars just now: obviously, there is going to be a big future in dementia care.
Clearly, Jakubiak has the same problem that Simon Donnelly had in front of goal: he tenses up and miskicks. Why don't football clubs ever watch what their players are doing wrong, or at least consult a sports psychologist? As for Alegría, he is all show: falling over is his best trick.
Even if we do make the playoffs, there is little likelihood of progress there. We should really be looking already at who to bring in for next season, as many of the current players are either going to be caught up by age or showing no improvement. Keeping them on will only encourage genuine talent like Sneddon to move on.
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2 hours ago, lady-isobel-barnett said:
Posted this before. I was at the pre-season training/meet the manager day and was surprised at the length of queues of young kids awaiting player autographs. So I would say its not all doom and gloom on that front.....
The number of young fans at the last game in Inverness (in seriously bad weather, midweek) surprised me. It may well be that the policy of allowing under-16s in free is paying back now, despite a dip in the slightly older ages.
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On 4/9/2022 at 12:24 PM, fenski said:
There were a few moments I thought the Queen's players were passing the ball in a different way because of the pitch - using a softer touch. Maybe the pitch affected our performance more than I thought at the time.
I don't think you should write off artificial surfaces though - some are definitely alot better than others.
This was how I saw it, too: the QoS players were used to playing on that pitch, and it showed. To some extent, that is always the case on a plastic pitch, as none of them is consistent. In that respect, they are no better than grass pitches, but often wildly inconsistent in a way grass pitches cannot be.
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Just now, fenski said:
Is it actually 442? Difficult to tell it's so disjointed. Looks nearer to 433 though
That's what it looks like to me, with the idea being to rotate Tiffoney, Smith and Graham. It's leaving us short in midfield, though, with Smith being his usual ineffective self up front.
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The passing back is beyond a joke now - almost number 5 for the Pars. As for passing to a team-mate who is already marked.....
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4-0 followed by 4-1. Passing the ball back into their own defence- even turning attacking moves into threats to Sneddon! These are embarrassingly inept performances, regardless of the restrictions.
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Finally, Smith off.
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Same old same old. Even my other half - not a football fan - asks why they keep passing the ball back from the opposition half. What is wrong with THREE managers that cannot see the same mistake being repeated time and again, for game after game? Aside from Tiffoney, there is no pace - send it up the park!
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Algeria is slow and offers no threat - like Smith. Doherty and Tiffoney are the goal threats.
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Nearly 4-1. The constant passes back are suicidal.
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Just now, jaggy said:
Unfair on Alegria. He was up front on his own against defenders who were hell bent on getting him sent off. He had no service or support
So I keep getting told on here - too young, not enough service, playing against defenders trying to get him sent off. In the last game he had two opportunities on a plate, but we've yet to see him score. His gestures to the crowd in this game suggest a different kind of entertainer than a footballer.
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Given that the pitch cannot be changed in the short term, I don't understand why none of the management team seemed to have realised that turning back and passing to a player behind was an invitation to the opposition to challenge for possession on that surface. Conversely, on the few occasions that the ball was taken forward, going past opposition players in midfield, it showed the problems for opponents trying to tackle without committing a foul on that surface - but no, the short pass back was persisted with, even after it had led to a goal being conceded. Turning with the ball and/or taking it past opposition players seemed to be beyond the wits of our players. That isn't even an argument for a long ball game - just avoiding one of the clear weaknesses in the team's play.
Of course, maybe the management team are subject to some kind of groupthink, like convincing themselves that Smith and Alegría are up to playing for the Jags. (Tbf, Alegría was found out and hooked, to be replaced up front by a defender. He might as well pack his bags and return across the Clyde.)
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Both teams looked honking , but at least Morton have the excuse that their pitch makes them dependent on the long ball (even from throw-ins), but hooking Jakubiak for Alegría was self-defeating - our most effective threat up front for the non-scoring loanee.
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50 minutes ago, laukat said:
Great result. An ugly game of football but a big 3 points.
Thought Alegria looked really good and the combination of him and Graham will I think score goals
My sons and I all thought he was a dud - missed two chances and created none. Jakubiak was much more effective when he came on.
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10 minutes ago, westertonjagfan said:
Much, much better second half. I think McCall may have whispered somethingin their ears.
After Tiffoney went off, only one winger, Turner, was left. When he was hooked, the wing play was left to the full backs and control was asserted over midfield, with two strikers to put on pressure up front. (That much could be heard from the radio commentary.)
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20 minutes ago, CotterJag said:
Can't make out who number 11 is but he's done.
Time for a sub.
Smith: I can't see why he gets preferred to Murray, who works harder and has a better touch.
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After looking at the on-target shooting and actual goals scored for the last 18 games (I got bored after that, as I wasn't going to set up a database - too much like work!), two things became clear: there doesn't seem to be any particular relationship between the number of on-target shots and possession, but high scores (2-4 goals in our case) occur when we have less possession than the opposition.
This suggests that we keep possession but then don't use it effectively. I suspect that closer inspection might also reveal a lot of (unproductive) corners, but unless someone pays me, I'm not going to set up a database and import further data to prove the point. Maybe someone else has the time to do so. (BBC reports have adequate data for simple calculations.)
How could we improve? If my guess is right, we have two options: (1) boosting our conversion rate from corners and crosses, by going the same way as pretty well all of our division, and getting a forward (or forwards) who is prepared to challenge the typical giant centre backs at our level and head the ball into the net; (2) alternatively, we could use our possession, and avoid letting the ball be shepherded out to the wings, instead bringing it into the danger area in front of goals. My hunch would be that the latter would suit the team better, but in any case the team seems to be playing with a confused gameplan - trying to play possession football and, at the same time, trying to get the ball out to the wing for crosses into the box. At the moment, we generally have plenty of possession but it's not bringing enough of a return.
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9 hours ago, Garscube Road End 2 said:
The guy should be chased after the Goodwillie debacle.
Yes, along with the board that let that through.
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20 minutes ago, Dick Dastardly said:
But others turn home conditions to their advantage. For instance Arbroath play in a gale force wind every other week, but have adapted to make the conditions work to their advantage.
we still try to play tippy-tap PY Barcelona type football on a mud patch. We need a game plan to work with the pitch the way it is. One thing we can’t change is the pitch.
Yup - and the groupthink among three managers won't let them see that.
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Neil Scally's take: "We got down the flanks quite a few times and had plenty of the ball but...the final ball wasn’t there," referring to the first half.
No s**t, Neil! The final ball wasn't there because it was being played down the wings to win corners instead of scoring goals. "You have to be clinical to win in this league and we (i.e. the players) weren’t clinical tonight" is just a cop-out: it was entirely down to the inept game-plan.
After all, referring to the previous, similar game: "We controlled a lot of possession, we found some good spaces in the final third but we couldn’t turn that into clear opportunities." Those "good spaces in the final third" were where play had been successfully shepherded down the wings, out of harm's way.
At least if he'd written, "We stupidly put all our effort into passing down the wings on a muddy park where ball control was never going to be the way to score," it could have been the start to aacknowledging what went wrong. After all, by his own admission, "[Morton] still didn’t cause us many problems," i.e. they were a poor team - but they knew enough about the game to get the ball into our penalty area where they might get a chance to score. Any time we had the ball, it was passed out to the dead areas on the wings, where nobody at our level scores from.
Does our team of managers even read what they write? A thought for the future, in our ownership: at least if we employed one thrawn mismanager instead of three, we might have some money to spend on getting a half-decent striker - or even a winger, if we must revert to the 20th century.
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It's astonishing to watch professional footballers and a clutch of managers apparently incapable of seeing the conditions and setting out to play appropriately. What are they all smoking?
Never mind that it's the middle of Scottish winter with a cut-up pitch: we'll pretend we're at the San Siro and send players down the wings, and back and across - oh, and let's spend the extra time, when we must be 5 goals up by now, passing across the defence.
For those of us freezing in the real world, the conclusion would have been: get the ball down the channels and into the opposing penalty box as quickly as possible, and use the slippy conditions to our benefit. And when you're losing in extra time, you throw everything into the opposing penalty box.
Never mind! With these tactics we'll win on corners.
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(Double posting due to weak connection.)