Duke Gekantawa
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35 minutes ago, Lenziejag said:
Question regarding what is a foul. It happens week after week when a defender has his arms all over the attacker, manhandling with some force, but a foul is rarely given. When did that stop being a foul.
For as long as I’ve watched football certainly. Which is since the eighties. I did wonder when VAR was being introduced whether there would be a huge number of penalties given for this, forcing defenders to change their approach. It never happened though- probably for the best really.
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Typical end of seaon fayre- virtual dead rubber for us, and it showed. First half we made a few changes and missed a couple of sitters. Second half we settled for the draw and started experimenting in defence. One goal conceded in 6 is very useful, and an amazing turnaround from where we were a few weeks ago
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15 minutes ago, Albert's Ghost said:
Time we had a thread. Dowds out, from unreliable sources. A lot depend on Airdrie v DU on Friday night, as regards team & tactics. Bring it on I say!
Dowds is out because he's on loan from us and therefore is ineligble.
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1 hour ago, Dick Dastardly said:
Is the Highland league also "Senior" ?
Yes
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4 minutes ago, Dick Dastardly said:
Stranraer is the most southerly, by a margin, but might not be a senior club for much longer
The Lowland League is a Senior League; i.e., part of the senior setup
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47 minutes ago, Jaggernaut said:
I thought he was consistently awful when he was with us, and I wouldn't expect him to have improved at ICT.
He played the majority (30) games in 2016/17, which is comfortably our best season in decades in terms of finishing position. Suggests he can't have been all bad/consistently awful. Obviously, like so many others, he was poor the following season.
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44 minutes ago, exiledjag said:
I see this game very differently from much of the above.
I think Airdrie are in a much better place than we are. They are playing well and have some momentum. On the other hand we are a bit in and out of form, playing great stuff in patches and drawing as many games as we are winning. I don't think we have the same 'buzz' about us as Airdrie.
I suspect Airdrie will smell blood and go for it. We may well end up with a draw but it will be a hard fought draw with the Jags, perhaps holding on at the end.
Two wins v Airdrie and Ayr and 3rd place will be ours. If the Jags Team I love and cherish turns up we can do this but I feel the long injury list is starting to make an impact.
I wany and hope for two wins but.........!
The main difference in form was over 5 matches ago. In the past 5 games, the've the best form (12 points from 15) and we've the second best (11 points). Our form was very different to theirs prior to the past 5, granted.
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13 minutes ago, partickthedog said:
I can also remember Brian apparently scoring 3 away to Inverness in a 3-3 draw a couple of seasons back. I presume that one of them must have been re-assessed as an own goal.
Indeed- he clearly didn’t even touch it
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There’s a tweet on P&B with a snippet of video showing the penalty decision was a good one. Muirhead steps on their guy’s ankle.
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I actually thought that was a fairly comfortable win. It wasn’t fun to watch, but if the game was still going on I doubt ICT would’ve scored. We had the best chances (if not that many) while I don’t remember Mitchell making a save of note, nor them missing any decent chances. Suddenly being defensively very solid means we can get away with a lacklustre showing in midfield/attack
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The end of a poor run of results had made it less apparent that we may have turned a corner in terms of defence since Ayr. The 4 games up to and including Ayr conceded 13 goals. Doolan responded and made changes which have resulted in conceding 5 in the last 5. Not brilliant granted, but much improved and an improvement possibly going under the radar due to not actually winning a game in the next three even with the improved defence performance.
What I think (hope?) it shows is that Doolan can react to problems and address them
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9 hours ago, Jaggernaut said:
All 18 players listed for Thistle on Saturday were Scottish. Isn't that pretty unusual these days?
Ngenwya is a Malawi international though (Scottish born)
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11 hours ago, Barney Rubble said:
What was noticeable to me was that it appeared that McBeth was the dominant CB calling the shots with Aero falling into line.
I did notice Aero getting absolutely livid at McBeth for something near the end of the game (but before Morton scored). They spent a minute having a proper go at each other. Maybe Aero didn’t enjoy being schooled by the rookie?
He did look good in defence though
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1 hour ago, Thistle88 said:
Doolans recruitments been terrible, his game management is shocking. If we lose today I hope he walks away because it’s getting ridiculous.
Sorry but he had a new manager bounce and it lasted a bit longer than it should have, he’s now been found out as clueless. Always a Club Legend just isn’t a manager. Not going today no sitting watching it again.
Our midfield is absolutely shocking, the boy Macbeth’s just in the door from junior fitbaw, he might come good given time.
Stanway should be starting before anyone in that midfield he’s a least mobile. Anytime we give the ball away and the other team break we are the so slow getting back in the middle of the park, it just puts an already shite CB pairing under more pressure.
I don’t agree with most of this. If Doolan truly was that bad at both recruitment and tactics we would not be third. If our midfield was that bad we wouldn’t score so many goals.
I’m not even sure recruitment is as bad as made out. I quite like Robinson, Neilson, McInroy, Adeloye, McBeth, Ngenwa and even Williams (I think I rate the latter more than Doolan though). Yes many have been patchy, but most have made a positive impact on at least a few games (even Alston despite being a strange, superfluous signing) and have contributed to our point total. Only McDonald and Stewart look truly terrible.
I’m not pretending that everything is great or that mistakes haven’t been made or that recruitment was brilliant (none of the recruits have been outstanding either). I just don’t agree it’s anything as bad as you’ve painted.
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14 minutes ago, westertonjagfan said:
Agree with most of the thoughts about this one. Imrie will fire them up and they'll be as physical as they can get away with. Maybe it's time to think about the way Luke McBeth plays-he has that 'kick the fecker hard' Juniors approach ( though it very nearly got him sent off on Tuesday) and some of our other players could maybe learn a bit from him. Let Morton know they're in a physical game from the first whistle.
I was in the JL stand so might of missed something, but I thought McBeth’s booking was for pulling a player back (albeit rugby style) to prevent a quick counter attack rather than any kicking hard. If anything it was to me the very definition of a professional foul typically described by pundits as a good booking or taking one for the team
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1 hour ago, JAG1970 said:
As for those who “would be happy to finish mid table this season”, it raises an interesting point. Let’s imagine Doolan was tasked with just that as a minimum based on whatever his budget was. The fact that we have been sitting quite comfortably in 3rd for so long, if we were to mis out on a playoff would undoubtedly feel like failure regardless of any alleged mid table “target”. And that could result in fewer ST sales next year as the earlier “feel good factor” diminishes. But hopefully we get back on track today.
As soon as we took on Doolan, I was of the belief we should give him at least two seasons unless relegation was a very serious threat. I still believe this, and also think the team isn’t far away (obviously defensive strengthening).
But as you say, falling away now would feel like things are happening the wrong way round and would put much more pressure on Doolan to make a strong start next season.
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1 hour ago, exiledjag said:
With Dunfermline winning last night we now have another rival for a play-off place.
We need to find our mojo and quickly.
I agree we need to stick with the team and the manager and give all the support we can.
We are after all a special bred - we are Jags!!
It does go to show how quickly a bad run can end. The Pars looked in real danger and couldn’t buy a win, now they are the form team. Morton’s promotion form has turned to nearer relegation form. Almost every team (top 2 apart) has had a really bad run at one stage now.
In other words, there’s no reason to believe our form won’t pick up soon
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3 hours ago, javeajag said:
4 tactics…..we have been averaging 1.5 goals a game all season but doolan only changed personnel and formation in February
I think a reason for some of the delay was some defensive improvement in January, during which we conceded 4 goals in 5 games (and two of those where at the very beginning of January in a 3-2 win). This is presumably why O'Reilly wasn't introduced when a soon as he signed. By the time our defense took a catastrophic turn for the worse, O'Reilly was crocked. Then when things were changed (albeit a couple of games later than was ideal) there was some improvement- but then Williams was injured.
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Penalty decision seems perfectly reasonable also
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15 hours ago, exiledjag said:
Callum Davidson, in his post-match comments, is very critical of the referee. He is saying Graham was offside at the first goal and for the penalty his defender had his hands behind his back. In summary the Ref's decisions cost QP the game.
Thoughts anyone.
I don’t think it’s offside- it’s certainly close enough to be a reasonable call.
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15 hours ago, Fawlty Towers said:
Looks like we got one going for us after the two that went against us against Dunfermline as looks offside from the flick on - unless my eyes deceive me.
I’m not that sure- I think it’s a good decision
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7 games without a win is clearly not good. However, we have only lost two of them, so we are still hard to beat. Of those 7, 5 have been away games. In fact most of the draws have been reasonable results taken in isolation.
I thought we looked more solid with Williams- hopefully he’ll be available sooner rather than later.
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13 minutes ago, elevenone said:
Williams clearly unfit. Unfortunate.
Should 'Play-Off Winners' be included in our honours list?
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Not for me- no. Simply because they have not won anything. It was once the case that finishing second won promotion, but no there would be no ”honour” in the proposal. Yet now finishing fourth is potentially worth official honour should we succeed in the playoff. Not for me.