IMMORTAL HOWDEN ENDER

I have just watched the game on Alba. I have not seen or watched a game fer weeks and I was expecting to come on here in a mega-critical manner. To me - that was encouraging - I thought that we edged the first half. We gave them two truly AWFUL goals - what the feck was Draper thinking. If you go 1-0 down early doors away to anybody it is an uphill struggle. 2-0 and you are fecked. And what the feck was Gary Warren feckin doing fer the second - that was a clearance by foot and he practically stumbled. I will head to the critique later but with a little rub of the green in the first half and a more precise final ball we could have been level at least. I did not see aimless possession in her own half - I saw patient build up most of the time against a very defence orientated Well side. At times I actually thought that we resorted to aimless hoofs too often We totally bossed the second half and the Mckay miss in added on time just summed up the nite. We could have won 6 or 7 - 2 fer fecks sake. We fought till the dying whistle and ya could see the togetherness and the spirit - encouraging to moi in itself. So let me be critical from a wholly personal persepective BRILL Simply does not float my boat. Is not commanding enuff and still feels like he could make mistakes on a regular basis. Plus he is too slow and too erratic in his distribution. RAVEN :smile: I don't think that he is 100% fit but he is a solid defender and can be a fairly accomplished wing back going forward TREMARCO A temporary cover fer me. A solid, rugged and reliable enuff defender but clueless going forward at the SPL level. I am convinced that opposition coaches ignore him going forward and that can cost us. DEVINE Again a squad player and nowhere near the pace and positioning of Meekings. Pretty reliant on Warren. WARREN :smile: :smile: Being asked to take on too much responsibility and misses pace recovery alongside him. DRAPER :smile: Again I like him but we need to decide what position he is more suited to. Pace wise he is a "hole in front of the defence" player but he appears to think himself of being an attacking midfielder. TANSEY :smile: If he is the playmaker which he appears to be he should be played in a system around that and him SHINNIE :smile: :smile: Best left sided wing back in Scotland fer me - and would be a shoe on cap if he played consistently in that position for a BIGGER team. If I was him I would move. if he chooses not to he is either that wing back or a left sided midfielder - not an emergency right back or a central midfielder WATKINS :smile: He played wide all the time and hugged the touchline. I think he suffers from the system but he will only get better DORAN :smile: Some fine touches and suits a roving role but can we stop him roving round the pie shops during the day. So much potential yet so much disregard for his body. Mckay :smile: Simply looks fecked and in need of a rest. But he will come good again but desperately needs support. CHRISTIE :smile: Great prospect and brought life to the team and the game when he came on. Really need to decide where we play him. To me he is an Andy Shinnie type player BUT Mckay and Christie do not equate. Tactically our defence was RIDICULOUSLY deep in the first half and you could have driven Terry Butchers ego through the middle in the first half. Now if Blobby Mann was in there we could play the cultured ball from the back BUT we do not have anything like a Blobby Mann. And we were far too square to boot. And the gap between defence and midfield in the first half was equally RIDICULOUS. If Hughes is looking at Barcelona it is not the possession aspect to me but it appears to be the concept of "total football". It appeared to me that he was looking fer Tansey, Draper, Shinnie and Doran to interchange and cover each other - It simply did not and will not work- that takes real structure, talent and experience - we aint got that. Go fer a compact but higher up the pitch defence - put a Busquet in front of it - or even a Russell feckin Duncan (who cos I don't think none of them suit that) - then we need the Ian Black type in central midfield beside them (I don't think any of them are suited to that either) - and then we have the Rankin type (that is Tansey - or perhaps Christie) and then we have the Cowie type (and that could be Watkins). Then we have the front two. Personally I would prefer a more traditional centre forward (Brewster / Ritchie) with a Dargo (Mckay) in support.

Let's hope the Messiah will be heading to Petries Abatoir at the weekend.

A penalty and an own goal simply has to be blamed on John Hughes.

No Hibee Chants on here please HTG

And they also like to have more possession. This sounds similar to the recent Villareal v Barcelona game.

Did you watch it in a byre ?

No feckin chance - it would be too dangerous.

Ignore the Chorley FM at your peril.

Chorley

What a horrible, horrible disease - Elena vowed to give it her all but succumbed within a couple of months. Let's hope that the Rally for Bally makes a mint for the Elena Baltacha Foundation and helps us find a treatment. RIP

Square go ? Name the place ?

There must have been a typo - I meant 3

The judge, the judge, the judgehe said to me "You are the scum of society" But I said No for this I can not be Cos I'm just a Drunk and Disorderly So drink,drink wherever you may be Following the ICT And drink with me and you will see, I'm just a drunk and disorderly.

Good report - only needs smileys And what is wrong with not knowing exactly where you are at a game - it has happened to me on several occasions.

Cant end this on yet another morbid comment - Bring on Europe in 2015/2016

You are just another "victim" caught in the crossfire Nick Ross - to me - is the most annoying player that we have - he can look like a real winner one week and go to the other end of the scale the next. He has the experience, he has a bit of pace, he can certainly pass and score BUT I cant believe that he has not muscled up over the years - he looks the feckin same. Poor Nick has turned in to a bit of a squad player and a good late substitute - and that is all down to inconsistency.

Unfortunately we have many posters who are clearly suffering from the aftermath symptomatology of the narcissistic influence. Co - dependency can fester.

That is fifteen feckin quid towards a new drum.

At least Renegade usually comes up with a rationale fer his comments - and if you read them instead of pre-judging then they are often a mix of good and bad. Again if you read through this thread the majority of posts are mixed - becos there have been many that have been simply only sniping and criticising I suspect that many are being protective and defensive and overly complimentary. I have been missing in action fer a few weeks but am I right in saying that we do have a Plan B and more. It takes time to adapt to a new system and the team have to adapt to a mix of patient build up and swift counter attack. Am I wrong or is that summat that we deployed whe we had Niculae entrenched? My concerns are that slowing it down becomes habituall but that is where Latapy should be an influence. My other concern is that we have a wealth of talent that play on the touch lines. It looks like Yogi is either getting rid or changing. That is the type of football that I pay to watch. The final and major concern is that we could materialise into a structured, organised and solid unit - but minus that important entertainment ingredient. By the way - did anyone notice how many goals Cellic scored yesterday ? Did anyone notice what is happening in Leith and Tinkerville ? I would far rather be whingeing about performance in the safe haven of the Top Six than be scouring the table trying to figure out all the permutations. Great to see Dungdee back and come on you Queens - may even travel to Dumfries if the Messiah is in the manure

Mostly related in a 2+2=5 formulation aimed at John Hughes ?

Bring on Tom Cruse.

Wow sign of the times - reckon I am due at least a feckin grand.

Five on the bench ?

I think that we should throw the book at the Black Pudding man from Gigg Lane.

A Glaswegian named Tom-Tom has been snared and found guilty of a beating. The bass is to be chastised and the courts hope that the case will be a symbal for similar future offences.