Chachi
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2 hours ago, milhouse said:
Playing the ball out from the back only works if you have technically good players with good ball retention and accurate passing. It seems to be a very modern approach but it won't work in the Scottish second tier because we will never have a squad of that kind of player. We need more graft in midfield and more directness in attack, it should be simplified.
I’m pretty sure this is what Scott Allison means by becoming a ‘championship’ side, and he, as are you, are correct.
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59 minutes ago, a f kincaid said:
Just when you're trying to erase the memory banks, these "highlights" crop up! The more I see of Fox the more I believe this he is unconvincing at getting down to low shot/headers. The first goal was hardly a strong shot. Should he have reached it? He got lucky with the one he got down to late and the ball broke off him and was cleared. Even at the 2nd goal (admittedly absolute Cartoon Caper defending) it might be argued he should have made a better attempt. Discuss.
He’s shite.
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1 minute ago, Anniesland Jag said:
Played reasonably enough for first 25 minutes,however, ultimately huffed and puffed in front of goal and were predictably picked off as our old defensive frailties surfaced .After we went 1 nil down our collective bottle seemed to crash and no one seemed willing to step up to the plate and reverse the trend .Too many players played below par,excuse the pun, .however, Penrice in particular played one of his worst games and looked decidedly disinterested and pedestrian .
They all looked disinterested and pedestrian!
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We’ve been out played on many occasion in recent times, heavily beaten on many occasions, sickened by many late goals, but that today was horrendous on a new level.
A shameful effort, particularly 2nd half.
Absolutely zero effort from the players, and a genuine 0/10 rating.
We’d have to go back a long way to find such an abject pathetic ‘performance’.
For anyone not present, it honestly had to be seen to be believed in its woefulness.
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Absolute shambles. 1st half especially.
If there was a tactic and game plan being implemented, I'm clueless as to what it was.
Maybe it was to look lost, disjointed, uncomfortable in possession, uncomfortable without possession, aimless and passive just to confuse ICT and lull them in to a false sense of security.
The starting line up was bizarre at best.
We're ****** unless luck goes our way.
The ever diminishing amount of light emitting from the floodlights reflects the club in general. Bring your torches to the next Friday night horror show. (that's if you're brave enough to want to watch it)
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Whilst he may turn out to be good, as uninspiring signings go this about as uninspiring as it gets.
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Good suggestion.
I'll be migrating over, as will my brother.
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17 minutes ago, Yellow & Redneck said:
We will moan and grumble on the forum, yet come Saturday nothing will happen. Unless the fans are actually willing to take action either by boycotting, protesting, or having banners, nothing is going to change.
Surely good old fashioned chants of 'Caldwell must go' and 'sack the board' are a good start to get the message across.
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5 minutes ago, Garscube Road End said:
Baffled by the dummies being spat out. Erskine has done almost zilch in almost 2 years. Part of the disgraceful run so CE making top 6. I am not defending Caldwell, he is a fud, but if we have some money coming in and frees up a wage,then fair play. Admittedly there is no confidence in Caldwell in who he brings in. As Sandy said, that announcement last week confirms that the club are run by a bunch of incompetents.
One of the most creative players we have. One of the most committed players we have. A fans favourite.
All whilst we fling in duds every week who have demonstrated they have little to nothing to offer.
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The statement may be mostly correct, but being part of the plans in so much as being as squad player only, and heading for league 1 working for Caldwell versus premiership football for (presumably) the next 18 months or so would be an absolute no brainer for Chris.
Who could blame him.
I hope he's allowed to flourish there and enjoys it.
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If this is true, I'm totally scunnered (as if I wasn't already!)
Releasing Erskine whilst playing Storey every week beggars belief.
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2 minutes ago, laukat said:
Next week's game against Stranraer in the Cup is a chance to bring about change. I don't believe any of the fans are naive enought to suggest that we should priortise everything to keep our league place and therefore the result doesn't really matter.
So next week we have a chance to make our feelings known in a way that may force the board to act with minimal effect to our relegation battle. We desperately as a club need real leadership and something to rally around. If the board and the management are unable to provide it are the fans willing to?
I'm no extremist, but that's a good suggestion. Any ideas? Stay away as not on season ticket? leave at HT? Stand at bing gate instead?
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7 hours ago, north stander said:
I caught the post match interview on the radio, it was excruciating. Like you, don't know the lassie, she may even not be overly experienced and a couple of her questions could have been better phrased, but in the main she asked the right questions, in a polite and reasonable manner. In response, I heard a defensive rudeness, arrogance and unedifying condescending manner (towards a female, simply doing her job), that came across as him thinking "why am I having to speak to this stupid woman".. All in all, totally unprofessional and unbefitting of a PTFC manager.
She was as awful an interviewer as Caldwell is a manager. Woefully worded with a confrontational tone.
Back to media school for her and back to management school for him.
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1 minute ago, Auld Jag said:
Agree with most of what you say. But I in no way feel sorry for Caldwell. I take it he put himself forward as being able to get us promotion. I wouldn't trust him to get promotion from league 1, never mind this one we are in. The guy had a good half season when the board gave him loads of money to buy the league at Wigan. Apart from that he has been a failure. When he is no longer our manager I don't see any decent level team employing him as manager. But I don't care where he ends up after he has left us. What I do care about though is what state Thistle will be in.
I don't care about him either. Maybe it's Stockholm Syndrome?!?
We are looking utterly doomed under him, and our only chance is to sack him. It's very grim just now.
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As things remain we will definitely be relegated, so Caldwell needs to be sacked asap. I can't see any logical reasons for expecting am improvement in results under his management.
As for the BBC interview, I felt the questions were quite annoying at times and many of the questions were basically repeats of previous ones using different words. She even asked at one point " is the referee the reason you lost?" I'd have been curt with her aswell if I was the manager, and inclined to highlight that we didn't lose. Though it did feel like a loss.
Despite the hopeless results and likelihood of relegation, there is a slither of me that somehow feels sorry for Caldwell. It's entirely the fault of our board that we are in freefall and Caldwell (and the fans) should put out of our misery by sacking him. He's clearly out of his depth.
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1 minute ago, Big Col said:
Just what I was thinking. How Bell, Storey and Spittal all get a start is beyond me.
That's what we are all thinking!
If Storey keeps playing I'd prefer he was in goals.
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26 minutes ago, Pinhead said:
Elliot, McGinty, Keown & Bell need to go in January
Storey has to be added to that list
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So, lets say we sack Caldwell this week - what next??
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3 hours ago, laukat said:
Yip. That's where I'm at. The signs are there and having watched this all before there is only a short window of opprotunity to fix it so quick judgements are unfortunately required.
To be clear, you want Caldwell sacked immediately on the basis of the last three matches?
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Whilst a concerning start to his job, some of the condemnation aimed at a guy after just 3 games is embarrassing.
He may well prove to be the wrong manager sooner or later, but isn't a bit of time the least a new manager should expect? If he is the wrong manager, the blame lies squarely with the board.
The 18 month shambles prior to now can't be undone in 3 months never mind 3 weeks, although granted we did all expect some improved form which hasn't transpired.
Its a difficult job for anyone to come in to, and at least 2 transfer windows are needed.
What concerns me is it took 2.5 games to realise Mcginty is honking, but that can be couched by the fact we have zero defensive cover and maybe he was forced to give him a go.
Why Sorey hasn't been banished from the squad completely is beyond me.
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One transfer window won't be enough for Caldwell, he'll need the summer aswell to root out the deadwood.
30yrs, the worst defence I've seen. Cant win headers, weak in the tackle, poor distribution.
Let's hope for 8th, and go again next season.
Ps. Storey needs dropped to never return. He's so bad.
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In context to the club's sole aim for the season and general rhetoric, the assembled squad somehow feels less than the sum of its parts.
Disjointed by way of short term deals, loans, inexperience, fitness concerns and ability concerns.
Imbalanced by way of heavy cover in some positions and limited cover in others.
The squad still lacks a real spine and a real leader (we'll miss Tam O'ware)
It's basically feels like we have a squad of past failures and unwanted dregs with little vested interest, all chucked together through necessity rather than choice/selection.
It will be a minor miracle if we have a good season (reaching play offs imo).
Cue Thistle 4-0 Morton!
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Would you be interested in the managers job, should a vacancy arise?!!
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Archie, Shaggy and all of the fitness/sports science team need to go.
Whoever scouts, deals with and/or negotiates the players deals need to go too.
Now is the time to act or this season could be worse than last.
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Dunfermline Game
in Main Jags forum
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I didn’t see that game. Based on those I have saw he’s stopped little, flapped at quite a lot and generally left me uninspired.
I’d play Sneddon before him, but realistically we need better options in this position.