dead_ball_specialist

We could do a lot worse than that big Kevin Kylesque montrose number 9 yesterday. He gave rosco a torrid time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uda7zvBkjOU

Absolutly dreadful today. Where do you even start? We were matched for 120 minutes on a perfect pitch (no excuses) by a part time 3rd division team. If there were doubts about Butcher before, surely we should be asking serious questions after todays debacle. It was afterall, a penalty shoot out away from being the worst result in our clubs history. Esson :) :) :) :) :) The man who saved us in the end. Still don't understand why Butcher decided to drop him for Fraser for those key games last season. Thank feck he's still at the club. Stratford :021: :021: Assume he was number 2? Looked physically lightweight and technically poor. His passing and crossing was laughable. On todays showing nowhere near good enough. LDZ B) B) B) Solid if unspectacular. Didn't really get forward enough, we need to use him more as an attacking option IMHO. Nice goal celebration. Tokely. :huh: :huh: :huh: Struggled to mark Montrose's big number 9 throughout. Montroses goal came from Rosco and Munro being beaten to a 50-50 ball over the top (as when he was sent off against falkirk) by a striker who looked about 12 years old. FFS BUTCHER, TOKELY IS NOT A CENTER HALF!!! Get him out on the right, imagine how much damage he could have done with the space and time that Stratford had!!! Murno B) B) B) Fairly solid. Didn't really put a foot wrong. Duncan :( Absolutly shocking. The less said the better. Ross :021: Too lightweight, didn't pose any threat to montrose whatsoever. Not ready for the first team. Nowhere near as good as Zander Sutherland IMHO. Hayes B) Looked like a lost wee boy at times but had a few good touches and dribbles before he was injured. Cox :) :) Hard in the tackle, some decent passes. But nothing special. One of our better outfield players today, but mainly because everyone else was shocking. Foran :) :) :) :) Worked hard and made things happen. Bad misjudgment by Butcher to take him off. Barrowman :huh: Didn't really do anything of note. Rooney :( Carried on where he left off last season. Slow, sluggish and totally one dimensional. McBain B) Ended up playing up front. Ridiculous. Not his fault though. Hastings :) :) :) Came on late and looked sharp. Hopefully we see more of him this season. I hope todays showing was just a blip but i have my doubts. If we don't improve drastically in the coming weeks we can forget about mounting a title challenge and should start worrying about another relegation dogfight.

I don't buy the 'he wasn't getting a game for Scotland' argument. If you're getting on a bit, and you know you aren't going to get picked for your home nation (i.e. don hutchison, ray houghton, lorenzo amorouso (almost played for scotland :D) then fair enough. But he made the decision when he was still a teenager, as did McGeady. There's nothing wrong with being proud of your ancestry and heritage. But if your personal identity and national loyalties lie with Ireland (or ANY other country) over Scotland, as is the case in some communities in the central belt, then that's an unhealthy state of affairs IMHO.

I read today he's done a McGeady and chosen to play for Ireland over Scotland. Makes you sick.

I think we should impose a 5 year moratorium on Scottish teams playing in European competition, out of sheer embarrassment.

Ricky Gervais

Craig Hignett, Anthony Stokes, Craig Bellamy.

The miserable doric muppets in the background are more entertaining than the game.

http://www.soccerway.com/media/video/?v=n6YiCZLtV9E http://www.soccerway.com/media/video/?v=wV5dnHNOLoY

-----------------------Buffon--------------------- Puyol------Ferdinand-------Vidic----Djebi-Zadi ---------------------Gerrard---------------------- Ronaldo--------------Arshavin--------------Pirlo ------------Torres-----------Podolski------------

Wow, I didn't realize he used to be black. That was an epic fail Dornoch. Stop digging.

Good stuff. Nice to see the amateurs stuff the pros. Well played the welsh.

Portugeezer

Good stuff, nice to hear the SPL gravy train shuddering to a halt the year we won't be in it, I guess we won't be falling all that far behind financially. And hopefully some free signings coming our way as clubs cut their cloth.

Daisey Ross will tear us apart.

There's always Ross Tokely.

He was a brilliant player and will be hard to replace, but we said the same thing when Wilson, Xausa, Sheerin, Robson, Wyness, Bingham etc etc etc left and we managed ok. Until he actually signs for someone else surely there's always a chance that he may decide to play for us next season? There can't be that many lucrative offers on the go in the current financial climate.

We should have given Zander Sutherland a chance.

1) Paterson - Amazing eye for talent, great football, great entertainment, great success. Left when we were top of division 1. Couldn't have asked for more. 2) Robertson - Carried on from the above but not quite as entertaining. 3) Brewster - Made some decent signings, improved fitness levels and professionalism, some spells of good football and success, but lost the plot in his final season. 4) Christie - Poor record in the transfer market, long ball football, blew a great chance to reach a cup final against a crappy Partick Thistle, bottled under pressure, left us rock bottom with zero points, below gretna. 5) Baltacha - Apparently he didn't have much to work with player-wise, but his philosophy of football was guff. Too early to place Butcher.

Would have to go for... Our best ever defender, Ian McArthur Our best ever midfielder, Barry Wilson and our best ever striker, Paul Ritchie

He isn't quite the 'bomb scare' that some of his more excitable detractors like to make out. In fact he's probably the most composed defender under pressure that we've got, and certainly the hardest to beat. How often do you see attackers skin Lionel? Hardly ever, he is a far better tackler than Bambi, Hastings, Murno and Tokely, he never shirks a challenge and more often than not he wins the ball. On top of that, his distribution from the back is a class above the mindless hoofing that we are used to.

He had his chance in an ICT shirt, and while he showed some brief moments of skill he never really lived up to his 'former Scotland international' billing. Overall his contribution was pretty underwhelming. I would go as far as to say that if he'd never arrived at all, and Russel Duncan had played in his place for the post split run-in, we probably wouldn't have gone down.

If he was a biggot would he have signed Richie Foran? Can't argue with anything else the guy says though. Terrible team selections, shocking football, and releasing quality players for no apparent reason. Sounds about right. :D It wouldn't suprise me if Butcher finds himself struggling in a "Is Butcher worse than Brewster?" opinion poll towards the end of next season.

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