Eleven years ago today....

[DWH]

We were top of the Premiership..

A series of really bad decisions/ appointments have us now struggling to compete with the Annan,  Alloa and Arbroaths oif the footballing world.

Really hope we can start a reversal of form soon..

 

 

 

 

[buckett]

  On 9/28/2024 at 11:22 AM, DWH said:

We were top of the Premiership..

A series of really bad decisions/ appointments have us now struggling to compete with the Annan,  Alloa and Arbroaths oif the footballing world.

Really hope we can start a reversal of form soon..

 

 

 

 

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Don't remember ever leading the Premiership tbh, but I'll take your word for it.

That's quite a scary tumble though - from best team in Scotland to one of the worst, in 11 short years.

[Yngwie]

  On 9/28/2024 at 12:13 PM, buckett said:

Don't remember ever leading the Premiership tbh, but I'll take your word for it.

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We certainly were, I recall us being top in October.

[STFU]

We beat Motherwell 2-0 to go top. Foran and Mckay the scores.

[Robert]

We started 2013-14 very well with 5 wins and a draw with Celtic. We then lost to Aberdeen before winning our next game. Celtic had missed one round of games for some reason, so we were top on this date on goal difference, although Celtic had a game in hand. 

[IBM]

I do remember being top of the Premiership for a short time but not when it was though, happy days.

[+Hiro]

2013-14 Premiership after 8 matches, slightly different to this season after 8 matches.

[CaleyCanary]

The outstanding stat in that table is the Goal Difference - quite incredible!

Eight games in today and we’re F6 A6 GD 0

… and that’s in a league of 3rd tier part-timers!

[bishbashbosh]

  On 9/28/2024 at 4:35 PM, CaleyCanary said:

The outstanding stat in that table is the Goal Difference - quite incredible!

Eight games in today and we’re F6 A6 GD 0

… and that’s in a league of 3rd tier part-timers!

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Yes but the players we have today are 4th and 5th tier players.

if we weren’t  in the predicament were in most of them would be farmed out to the highland league. 

[STFU]

  On 9/28/2024 at 5:02 PM, bishbashbosh said:

Yes but the players we have today are 4th and 5th tier players.

if we weren’t  in the predicament were in most of them would be farmed out to the highland league. 

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It's all relative. We didn't exactly have a squad full of top Scottish premiership level players back in 2013 but what we did have was a manager who played to their strengths and made them greater then the sum of their parts. Something we could desperately do with now.

[bishbashbosh]

  On 9/29/2024 at 6:13 AM, STFU said:

It's all relative. We didn't exactly have a squad full of top Scottish premiership level players back in 2013 but what we did have was a manager who played to their strengths and made them greater then the sum of their parts. Something we could desperately do with now.

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You must be talking about Terry Butcher.

When Hughes took over in December that year the football was as boring as it is now, if not more. Remember one home game it took 70 minutes to have a shot on goal ( not on target, an actual shot). Passing the ball to death going nowhere. John Rankin on stv news preview, playing for DU said, we can’t give possession to ict you will never get the ball back. 
 

wonder when the cash rolls in if Dunc could also win the Scottish cup. But then he hasn’t been passed on the level of players Hughes got when EL TEL left. 
( all the Dunc critics, only joking about winning the cup again )

Winning games is now the goal, but I don’t think if we had a manager that could get this team to be greater than the sum of their parts that would happen. It is was it is. We have what we have.
Last week brooks missed 4 sitters, what can the manager do about that. Yesterday he was dropped to bench. only one team looked like scoring yesterday and it wasn’t ict.

[STFU]

It wasn't Hughes who took us top of the table so he's irrelevant to this discussion.

You argue that the players are not good enough regardless of the manager. As this is a squad largely assembled by Ferguson and given the obvious lack of goalscorers then that sits with him. He is the one who prioritised signing defensive players ahead of attacking players.

Either way the buck stops with him.

[bishbashbosh]

  On 9/29/2024 at 8:44 AM, STFU said:

………..assembled by Ferguson and given the obvious lack of goalscorers then that sits with him. He is the one who prioritised signing defensive players ahead of attacking players.

Either way the buck stops with him.

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I think it’s the way it works, managers build a team from back to front.

dunc tried to get bavidge from Aberdeen , last week he tried ? to get the striker from Motherwell but he went elsewhere. I am sure behind the scenes he has been and still is trying. Every team on the planet is looking for a goal scorer, they are gold dust.

RC have got a cracker from Northern Ireland league, Ronan Hale. So they are out there, but you need cash to get one. Unfortunately we shop in the bargain basement if we have a few coppers to spend. 

read DD post on yesterdays game, save me typing. 

i still don’t think we have the players that can create chanceees for the striker. Most of our attacking yesterday came from longstaff. A couple of north stand boo boys were onto him early on, but he persevered. Unfortunately he would go up to the full back, refuse the cross with his right foot, turn back onto his left and lay the ball off. By that time the big Stenny players had flooded the box. Not a chance of hitting billy or brooks.

mackinnon designated free kick taker first half. All our defenders up for the crosses. High floaters into the box. The GK caught a couple he could, food and drink to him. Another couple sailed over everyone’s head for a goal kick.

we could sign harry kane tomorrow but how are we going to get the ball to him.

ps…. I would have played a proper left back yesterday, strachan if he was fit, and played Nolan wide left. Attack stenny from both sides.

but I don’t know the fitness state of the squad so won’t criticise Dunc for not doing it.

not rubbing it in, just showing what’s out there. Nearly as good a Kane Hester’s strike for Montrose against us a few weeks ago

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/videos/c8690jv7g94o

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[+Hiro]

  On 9/28/2024 at 3:59 PM, Hiro said:

2013-14 Premiership after 8 matches, slightly different to this season after 8 matches.

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We did get cuffed 4-0 at McDairmud Park in match 9 mind you.