eljaggo
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If Doolan goes, you can bet your bottom dollar that the next "manager" will be - you guessed it - that other Thistle leg-end Brian Graham.
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Agree entirely with Jaggernaut. I could add that for 95% of the time players are facing towards their own goal when they receive a pass, which in itself slows things down. The root causes are a lack of confidence and the avoidance of risk. It may be unfair to single out a player, but Bannigan is a master of the unambitious pass, and having passed it trots off contentedly with no urgency.
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Are we talking about rugs that go on the floor or the napper?
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Far too early to be indulging in manager speculation, and I agree with Fawlty Towers about the timing. What does slightly concern me is the thread about who is running the Club. It could get a bit messy if results show change is needed.
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Maybe they'll change their mind nearer the end of the window. We should hang in there.
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If Nilssen is encouraged/told to press forward and make the right side more of an attacking force, it will take the pressure (and covering defenders) from our left, and that will give more scope for Graham and remove the need for high punts up the field to Graham. Looks like a much needed signing that might just solve both the RB and the additional striker issues.
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Bannigan just slows down the game by incessant backward passes, and seems to amuse himself with needless fouls. Bannigan is not the answer.
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I sense a little nervousness/foreboding judging by the lack of posts on this thread.
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1 hour ago, partickthedog said:
Strapp took long throws from both sides for Morton which may have contributed to confusion as to which side he was actually on.
They must have been pretty poor.
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His father, Jock, was well known for running an ensemble.
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Is there an argument to be made for recruiting a smaller number of better quality players pre-season, and then gaining extra income from bigger gates as the points pile up? That extra cash could then be used later in the season to recruit to fill injury gaps and opportunistic signings. A bigger squad with poorer quality leaves no where to turn if things go pear shaped.
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To have played so poorly and end up only one goal down is encouraging!
Brian Graham was unlucky all night with the break of the ball, and it's hard to imagine that repeating itself on Friday.
If we can start with the players we ended the game with, and play with the same intensity as the last 20 mins, we are far from done.
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Raith went through a lot of the season scoring in the last few minutes. I don't know whether that was down to superior levels of fitness or good substitutions - or perhaps both. Conversely, we for a spell conceded late goals as we remember all too well. So I think Doolan has to be super smart with his initial line up and substitutions, and have a clear plan for the whole 90 minutes. His focus I think should be in getting more from our midfield, and through that taking some of the pressure off Fitzy.
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11 minutes ago, robphil said:
Fully agree. But ken Rosewall (who was four months short of his 40th birthday when he reached the Wimbledon final in 1974), enjoyed a beer and a cigarette, regularly played lengthy five set matches without visible signs of needing to be substituted...
As a keen tennis player, I watched Ken Rosewell at Wimbledon and when he played at Craiglockhart in Edinburgh with Lew Hoad, Pancho Gonzales et al. The speed of play was far slower than today, so the comparison is false.
PS Can't understand all these hate posts.
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23 minutes ago, Dick Dastardly said:
His record is no better than Doolan who is about the same age and also in his first manager job. Do you expect him to be moving on ?
Worried that someone might offer BBG a player/manager job if we don’t get promoted
Don't doubt your point about records, but other clubs will look at Airdrie's style of play and reason that with better players (especially up front) he would be a good signing.
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5 minutes ago, Lambies Lost Doo said:
Bring Banzo back into midfield. Experience and class.
Whit!!!!!!! That would only slow things down - which is the last thing we want. Bannigan's strengths lie in passing backwards and fouling.
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1 hour ago, Gary Peebles Tackle said:
Rate him very highly.
Me too - he won't be long at Airdrie.
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If you were to put Graham in the Airdrie line up, they'd be a shoe-in for the Premiership. They were very unlucky to lose to an offside goal. Doolan needs to sort out the midfield - pronto, and somehow get them to run off the ball more effectively - a la Airdrie.
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Run out of likes, but I agree Megwa was the best player in both ties - fast, good tackler, very good positional sense and ran off the ball well.
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Megwa had Fitzy sewn up, and probably forced Fitzy to change wings. Megwa was the best player on show last night. What a find!
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Don't know what tonight's best line up is, but after watching the Dundee United game, Doolan should pick players who reliably can make a simple pass to one of our players from 5 - 10 meters. Are potential recruits to Thistle tested for colour blindness?
Anyway like others, I suspect Raith will be our first big test, and that the midfield is our weakness.
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Dundee United were lucky to finish the game with 11 men and a draw. Referee was abysmal and should have sent off at least two DU players in the second half. Horrible team that is obviously coached to play that way.
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Inverness CT chairman saying today that Club's cashflow is under severe pressure.
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2-0 up 3 mins left.
We can still win this!
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Jags vs Wasps
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Why did Doolan wait 10 minutes after the second Alloa goal before making a double substitution with 5 minutes of normal time left? He makes a habit of these multiple very late substitutions. Why?