FrontRow

On 6/14/2021 at 10:15 PM, FrontRow said:

Anyone heard anything about Raith’s Duku joining us . Overheard a conversation in a bar this afternoon. It all went quiet just after half time 

 

so my boy in the pub was absolutely spot on!  

Anyone heard anything about Raith’s Duku joining us . Overheard a conversation in a bar this afternoon. It all went quiet just after half time 

pretty sure there's a starting fee agreement for players that have come through the ranks. Have a figure of £90k in my head but could be nonsense...and that's the base line 

I see on P&B that Hibs fans expecting to see Dan McKay with them this week. 
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/football/7057960/hibs-win-transfer-race-inverness-daniel-mackay/amp/

10 hours ago, RiG said:

Agree with most of this. Carson only played half the season because of injury so you would normally think it's a bit of a joke to have someone like that up for PoTY but he was excellent in the second half of the season when he featured especially considering the position he had to play in the team. Mackay and Toddy as you say only really hit a good run of form in the second part of the campaign. Allardice started strongly but I think he faded a bit as the season wore one, especially after McCann came in where he seemed to drop off a lot. I don't have him picking up too many MotM points for the last few months. We have a few players who had a strong first or second half of the campaign but none I would say were truly consistent throughout with the possible exception of Ridgers?

And people are more likely to remember the good run of form of recent weeks than the barren run where we secured one win in thirteen games a few months back which will almost certainly skew votes towards the likes of Carson.

Not to say he wouldn't be worthy winner of course, I'm hovering over the vote button for him as well, but I don't think it's a particularly straightforward choice.

This reaslly was a season of two halves. You look at the goals of the season at the beginning and we were really hitting form and the performance against QofS on TV was superb. At that stage there's no Carson, Toddy or Dan in the mix atall. Few weeks later its all mixed up and some folk on here and socials are suggestign Dan is absoltuely woeful and should never be near the team. Roll on a few weeks and he's a world beater. Brad McKay went from donkey to stalwart. Really tough one this season. Where are we in the mix for MoM stats from this site? That might give us a better balance?  

Well this time 6 weeks ago (or so) we were worried about relegation. There’s a good team spirit there. On reflection we’ve now had three of the youth academy embedded into the team, gained Allardice (ok not his best today) Deas and Duffy look like they can be decent at this level, Danny Devine looks like he could become a leader, and Toddy looks like he could be a target man. There’s times when you see neat pockets of play. More positives than negatives 

Who is meant to be helping defend down our left? It’s wide open again and again. 
 

Poor Harper he is getting zero protection 

Wow we are being picked off so easily. Hearts looking dangerous every time they go forward. 

Jeez that indirect free kick was bizarre - no wonder Morton guys are spewing! After he heads it surely it’s not a direct pass back?  However Great finished from Allardice - there’s not a lot of space there. Need a third to finish it off. These commentators are really good. 
 

I stand corrected on the pass back rule! 

57 minutes ago, Hearach said:

Apart from the fact that we won the commentator alone was worth the £10. Comedy gold.

I was in tears of laughter at the boy. 'Jings almechty' being my favourite. I loved the no nonsense approach to commentating he took and the complete disregard for the oppostion team, not in the slightest bit bothered by trying to be neutral. 

I love this commentator. He make IM Jolly sound like Billy Graham! He has absolutely no interest in the opposition which is fine! His idea of what constitutes a free kick is very interesting. Weather looks and sounds awful. We look a lot better when we don’t just hoof it up front - have to move them about to get some space. It’ll come. 

We looked knackered and I’m not surprised. Great effort by everyone of them. Perhaps not the silkiest of games but all that mattered was 3 points. Delighted for Dan MackAy to score tonight. 

1 hour ago, Alan said:

A good performance from most of the players but Carson and Sutherland were the pick of the bunch. Daniel Mackay I'm afraid was poor and Macgregor wasn't much better. I feel that any of the youngsters on the bench could have been an improvement on these two.

What are you basing that ‘feel’ on? We haven’t seen any of them this season and you think taking them on in a knife edge game with a team with little confidence is a good idea? Tonight we at least developed a shape. Ofcourse passes aren’t as slick as they were when we looked decent earlier in the season but that’s what happens when confidence drains and pressure comes on. People snatch at things, flicks don’t work and people making runs aren’t seen - that’s the problem when you’re losing. The trick is to keep believing as a player that it will come back. If you don’t have that that’s when the real trouble starts. I don’t think I’d have thrown any of the kids onto that one 

This is a season for surviving, rebuilding and getting youngsters in. The first of those three is most important. 

Living very dangerously 

really hope Robbo is doing ok. I normally think of myself as a ‘soldier on nothing will get me down’ kind of person but these last few months have been awful. By the sounds of it Robbo had it much worse than most of us. 
I think this is a great appointment. Although the guys who were there (barry and ESS) could easily have taken the club along,  just think of the ‘new manager bounce’ that helps so many teams. 
Everyone  knows Neil, Neil knows the scottish game inside out. Can you imagine the kick it’s going to give the players - they’ve got to prove themselves again to a man that is known not to enjoy the company of ‘slackers’. I’m excited. 
 

quick question re streaming....if for some reason you can't make it at 7pm can you watch as live from say 8pm? 

Great result. Not a day for playing football but effort levels were 100%

Toddy should have scored that one from MacGregor pass. Great shift from Carson. Some save from Ridgers there! 

Commentator did say that MacGregor was the top assist provider I’ve no idea if that is correct, however it’s strange that he’s been  on the bench for the last three games after playing well. 
 

He’s actually embarrassing. 

1 minute ago, caley100 said:

Jeezus this commentator... feckin clueless

Someone please help Andy Barrowman. He seems to have swallowed a stats book. He really needs someone to sit beside him. 

Fantastic. Restored your faith in football 

13 minutes ago, Robert said:

The commentators keep picking him out as our key player.

Decent effort by Harper. Possibly our best player tonight. 

The commentator also said it’s because he’s bald and can see where he is. Not a lot of creativity in the second half which was disappointing. I just don’t see our midfield driving at the opposition although Allardice played well when he came on.  Hellish weather again though!