No time to rest, we're back in action in the League Cup tomorrow night against Raith Rovers!

Match day PPV passes are available from the Raith TV site and are (apparently) priced at a mere £9.99 which is pretty decent after Hearts shocking price for Saturday's game.

Snap RIG

 

10 hours ago, CaleyTennis said:

You can add John Robertson, Barry Wilson and Scott Kellacher to that as well!! Laugh or moan all you like lol but, I'm entitled to my opinion and that is it, its getting ridiculous how bad we defend and lose games, one win all season is just unacceptable for a team that ended 2nd last season, and don't give me pish about a new team, its basically the same team with some good, and disastrous additions!

How the hell did our so called manager think Danny Devine is better than any other CB that was available!! I do, however, applaud him for finding gems like Allardice, Deas and Kennedy though ;-).

Its time for a new manager imho because this one just doesn't learn from his past mistakes and can't change things when its going wrong.

Its going to be a long season, one where we will be battling to stay up, which for a club like ours is totally unacceptable!!

Rant over hahaha.

That's being a little unfair of John Robertson IMO (but obvs your entitled to yours) ….he has had to entirely reconstruct a defence after last seasons exits, plug gaps in the midfield (that lost the creative influence of Polworth and Vigurs in recent seasons), and try and add firepower up front. All on virtually no money, suffering a large number of injuries to key players and of course a disjointed start to the season.

Clearly our first choice CB would be Toshney, but presumably we only got him because of the 'fragile' label. I'm guessing that Deas and Toshney would be the go-to pairing. Carson would surely walk into the midfield if fit. Likewise I get the feeling Sutherland will be our first choice forward

I am a firm believer in the notion that a squad that is effectively new, needs time to get the right balance and blend, level of understanding, and get key people into form, and that is not done in a few games in my view (however inconvenient that is). Of course it's the same for many teams but if shorn of key players the margins of success soon edges against you. Raith of course have the momentum from a successful promotion campaign as we can see in the league. Hearts despite relegation seem to have the financial and hence quality edge.

That said my overall impression is that we have played pretty well in most games. Happily guys like Deas, Allardice and Kennedy seem to have done well, and we have bedded in some younger players. No one seems to be complaining about Duffy, and Todorov seem to be contributing more.

I think with a few more players back from injury, we stand a decent chance in a competitive league. Obviously we don't want a season long battle against relegation, but I'm not sure what advantages we have that would make it unacceptable if we went down, it certainly isn't money, if Partick and Falkirk can go down, no reason why we should be immune.

Edited November 11, 20205 yr by Eagle4Caley

10 hours ago, CaleyTennis said:

Its time for a new manager imho because this one just doesn't learn from his past mistakes and can't change things when its going wrong.

Let's be realistic.  The name of the game this season is survival.  Not just avoiding relegation from the Championship, but survival of the club itself.

Paying compensation to terminate the contracts of the manager and assistants, and hiring new ones, would be suicidal.

Not going to happen.

Excellent highlights package from Raith available now.

 

Great highlights, it seems that more fans paid Raith Rovers for the viewing than paid Hearts.

1 hour ago, IBM said:

Great highlights, it seems that more fans paid Raith Rovers for the viewing than paid Hearts.

I did and really enjoyed the game. I skipped the Hearts game due to their rip off pricing. Is our game on Saturday being streamed? If so, presumably our season tickets won’t count?

On 11/11/2020 at 12:34 PM, Eagle4Caley said:

That's being a little unfair of John Robertson IMO (but obvs your entitled to yours) ….he has had to entirely reconstruct a defence after last seasons exits, plug gaps in the midfield (that lost the creative influence of Polworth and Vigurs in recent seasons), and try and add firepower up front. All on virtually no money, suffering a large number of injuries to key players and of course a disjointed start to the season.

Clearly our first choice CB would be Toshney, but presumably we only got him because of the 'fragile' label. I'm guessing that Deas and Toshney would be the go-to pairing. Carson would surely walk into the midfield if fit. Likewise I get the feeling Sutherland will be our first choice forward

I am a firm believer in the notion that a squad that is effectively new, needs time to get the right balance and blend, level of understanding, and get key people into form, and that is not done in a few games in my view (however inconvenient that is). Of course it's the same for many teams but if shorn of key players the margins of success soon edges against you. Raith of course have the momentum from a successful promotion campaign as we can see in the league. Hearts despite relegation seem to have the financial and hence quality edge.

That said my overall impression is that we have played pretty well in most games. Happily guys like Deas, Allardice and Kennedy seem to have done well, and we have bedded in some younger players. No one seems to be complaining about Duffy, and Todorov seem to be contributing more.

I think with a few more players back from injury, we stand a decent chance in a competitive league. Obviously we don't want a season long battle against relegation, but I'm not sure what advantages we have that would make it unacceptable if we went down, it certainly isn't money, if Partick and Falkirk can go down, no reason why we should be immune.

To be fair, he does deserve some credit for finding gems like Allardice, Deas etc and by showing faith in youngsters like Harper, Mackay and MacGregor, but he is susceptible to the absolutely ridiculous signings to, such as Danny Devine! As I said, surely there were better CB available than him, or even one of our youngsters, at least that way we can say, "he's young so mistakes should be tolerated, but hopefully he learns from it", or words to that effect :-).

What I will say is that I don't think John is a bad manager, I'm just thinking we need new direction.

 

i do agree with you regarding being "stronger" once injured players return vut but how far behind the play offs will we be by then?

Surely you peeps can understand that I want us back in with the big boys before too long otherwise I'd be happy to be mid table and happy with our current manager, so long as we didn't get relegated. I get that I'm public enemy number 1 at the minute, ive I've been putting up with that tag for years but my posts are because im I'm sick of failure to deliver when I know we're capable ;-). 

 

Hope that clears up any confusion and we can move on but I won't hold my breath hahahaha (note sarcasm lol).

31 minutes ago, CaleyTennis said:

To be fair, he does deserve some credit for finding gems like Allardice, Deas etc and by showing faith in youngsters like Harper, Mackay and MacGregor, but he is susceptible to the absolutely ridiculous signings to, such as Danny Devine! As I said, surely there were better CB available than him, or even one of our youngsters, at least that way we can say, "he's young so mistakes should be tolerated, but hopefully he learns from it", or words to that effect :-).

What I will say is that I don't think John is a bad manager, I'm just thinking we need new direction.

 

i do agree with you regarding being "stronger" once injured players return vut but how far behind the play offs will we be by then?

Surely you peeps can understand that I want us back in with the big boys before too long otherwise I'd be happy to be mid table and happy with our current manager, so long as we didn't get relegated. I get that I'm public enemy number 1 at the minute, ive I've been putting up with that tag for years but my posts are because im I'm sick of failure to deliver when I know we're capable ;-). 

 

Hope that clears up any confusion and we can move on but I won't hold my breath hahahaha (note sarcasm lol).

Out of curiosity if we were to get rid of Robbo, which I personally dont think we should, who would you like to come in? 

17 hours ago, IBM said:

Great highlights, it seems that more fans paid Raith Rovers for the viewing than paid Hearts.

And rightly so as the price was ridiculous although I believe the Hearts PPV offering was of very good quality. 

Looking back at those highlights you can see why Robbo was straight on the pitch at the final whistle to remonstrate with the referee. Three blatant penalties for handball not given in our favour although the one we did get was arguably the weakest shout of them all and it was still a good claim.

Didn't watch the game live but from the highlights Kai Kennedy looks a really exciting player. Cant wait to see more from him. Let's hope we can do a deal to keep him for the full season.

1 hour ago, SteveA said:

Out of curiosity if we were to get rid of Robbo, which I personally dont think we should, who would you like to come in? 

I remember when a few on here wanted Stevie Aitken 😂

30 minutes ago, ICTPAISLEY said:

I remember when a few on here wanted Stevie Aitken 😂

Out of interest, what made the suggestion of Steve Aitken for manager back in 2017 so funny?