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21 hours ago, ErsatzThistle said:
Bannan, Darren Fletcher, Naismith and Snodgrass should be dropped. Got to move on from them.
Drop Darren Fletcher? He puts in an absolutely solid 90 minutes in a win against Arsenal, and you think that's the perfect time to drop him and move on?
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16 hours ago, andyD said:
Bit of a joke article imo.
1) I don't care what Strachan 'quips' about in interviews. It makes zero difference to whether we qualify or not. If he picks rubbish squads, or crazy starting 11s or qualification is out of sight in 3 games time, then those are reasons to complain. "Journo's" complaining about WGS being mean to them in interviews could not matter less.
2) Seems the most obvious thing in the world. In terms of form he's a mile behind Fletcher and Griffiths. But he didnt have much to work with and didnt have his customary glaring miss against Lithuania tho. Hopefully he doesn't start on tuesday, but he has put a shift in for the cause and did battle best he could against 2 big centerbacks, making space for others, especially the Paterson header.3) "Play 2 strikers".. away from home against the 2nd pot team? Aye, genius idea. The guy suggests playing Naismith and Fletcher. C'mon.. really? Fraser Wilson, you're a Clown.
4) "The pressure might be holding Burke back, so drop him altogether." Or.. give him a free role behind the striker and put Snoddy back out wide to see if that suits them better. He looked dangerous in the last game, dropping him would be bizarre.
5) "Win the game" .. Go home, Fraser. There's no point being a "journo" if you're insight amounts to stating that winning games will help us qualify.
Agree with all of this.
Sutton makes some more interesting points:
Quote"He has been rude, he's been cantankerous and I just feel he doesn't want to be there any more and he is showing that in every interview," Sutton said of Strachan on BBC 5 live.
"That's his body language and I think he wants out.
Or maybe he's just fed up answering the same daft questions over and over ("is this a must win game Gordon?" before every game)
Quote"He said that Scotland were a nation of scared footballers and I think of the impact that would have had on the players at that time - they would have been totally disgruntled by that.
Possibly.
Quote"I think he's losing credibility with the fans. I don't agree that a lot of fans are still on his side.
Judging by some of the posts on here, he might be right about this.
Quote"Here's the biggest problem - that Gordon Strachan the other night played Chris Martin, a centre forward who hasn't scored in 20 club games," he said.
Nail-on-head.
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23 hours ago, aaid said:
Big problem for me in the first half particularly was that Bannan and Fletcher sat too deep when we had the ball and Burke, Ritchie and Snodgrass were too far forwards. The Lithuanians congested the middle between them so it was difficult to pass through them. That meant the resort to hitting longish balls, not hoofball exactly, but 20-30 yard passes, in the air that were more difficult to control rather than simple 10-15 yard passes to feet. The Lithuanians were picking the second ball all night.
Spot on.
Also agree with the comments that Patterson looked a little out of his depth.
Surprised that Hanley seems to be getting most of the blame for their goal. Looking at the replays I would say Bannan should have done a lot better. The guy who provided the assist just jogged past Bannan, and Bannan made no effort at all to go with him.
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The trick was to make the majority of members red bull employees, then make it a closed shop.
The German league later forced them to allow new members, but they got around this by denying new members a vote (TAWG already mentioned this)
22 hours ago, TA-West Germany said:the membership costs far more than an average one (1000€ compared to about 80-100€ average in other clubs) and you don't get the right to vote anybody in there
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9 minutes ago, deecie said:
No, the difference is that only one of them is being bankrolled by their parent company as a marketing exercise.
so playing your home games in the Volkswagen Arena, and putting the Volkswagen emblem on all your shirts has nothing to do with marketing?
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13 minutes ago, deecie said:
Their situation are nothing alike.
All clubs owned by large companies. So their situations have something in common.
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22 minutes ago, deecie said:
You clearly don't understand German football is you're comparing RB Leipzig with Wolfsburg or Leverkussen.
Because?
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On 03/10/2016 at 11:43 PM, PASTA Mick said:
There are a few positions that I wouldn't be too bothered which option we go for -
GK. Gordon / Marshall
RB. Patterson
CB. Martin
CB. Hanley / Berra
LB. Robertson / Tierney
CM. Fletcher / McArthur
CM. Bannan
RM. Forrest / Burke
AM. Snodgrass
LM. Ritchie
CM. Griffiths / Fletcher
Apart from Forrest, this is spot on.
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On 04/10/2016 at 0:23 AM, Bino's said:
McArthur is better than Darren Fletcher and should be in the team ahead of him, Bannan should partner him for creativity
You know, there's not much in it, but you might actually be right.
McArthur arguably has a slightly better touch, is better in a tackle, and scores slightly more often than Fletcher.
Fletcher has a slightly better range of passing, commits less fouls, and doesn't dive in as much as McArthur.
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4 hours ago, Batzek-osemba said:
They are not happy with it. Can you not see the fundamental difference? Bayern worked their way to the top. They werent even in the top flight when our Bundesliga started. We won it first and were in the driving seat back then(1.FC Köln) but with talent and good sense of business they rose to the top. I cant stand them and love to see them getting beat by most clubs. But they are a genuine well run football club which has been building its fanbase and power over 4 decades now.
And then a business man comes along and forms a club ONLY to promote his drink. For that reason only. Bo intetest in Leipzig nor Salzburg at all. Just strategic product placement by renaming a club and logo with no roots in that area.
You have to see the difference no?
I can respect Bayern(even Chelsea or Manchester City) and dont like them. They have become all dominant clubs in recent years and lost their soul.However I can not respect Leipzig cos they born out of commercial interest and not for the love of football.
But each to their own.
I've been thinking about this a bit.
It seems to me the list of possible reasons to hate RB Leipzig are:
they bought another club out of existence
they have no tradition
they found a way round the 50+1 rule
they are buying success
they were set-up to promote red bullIMO
Buying another club out of existence happens. Airdrie United for example. I imagine Airdrie aren't a popular club with neutrals.
No tradition. Every club has to start sometime.
50+1 rule. This seems to me like a reason to be concerned. But not that concerned, because it's still not easy to get around the rule.
Buying success. Not any different to Wolfsburg, or Bayer, or Hoffenheim is it?
Promoting products. Every club in the world promotes some kind of product now. Is this really any worse than Celtic promoting Magners?
Buying Markranstädt out of existence and bending all the rules seem like the only reasons to hate them to me.
But they seem to be mainly hated for having no tradition, buying success, and promoting drinks.
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20 minutes ago, davew said:
It's really weird comparing how many options we have at left-back and how few we have at right-back.
Hutton's 31, but you could be forgiven for thinking he was 35 the way he plays now.
Bardsley also seems to have suffered a massive dip in form.
Donald Love's career so far amounts to about 10 games of football. So too early to tell if he's good enough.
Palmer is now 25 and hasn't established himself in an average Championship side.
Caddis is either injured or frozen out at another average Championship side.
Our best right-back is a centre-half
Two names I forgot:
Whittaker - no getting a game for Norwich
Broadfoot - no getting a game for Rotherham
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12 hours ago, borojock said:
jack harper on bench for Brighton U23 i notice Bardsley and Adam playing for stoke U23
You can see the team lines etc. here http://www.seagulls.co.uk/fixtures-results/under23s/
Last night Harper was an unused sub, in the previous game he got brought on for the last 15 minutes with the team 7-0 up in the cup. In the game last week against West Ham he got brought on in the 91st minute.
It looks like either the Brighton U23 manager is totally clueless, or Harper simply isn't good enough for the "Under-23 Premier League Division Two".
btw Brighton U23s have won 1 league game all season.
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15 hours ago, andyD said:
Should he? He's looked pretty out of his depth at Sunderland when he was playing, and hasn't kicked a ball since August in the league. I'd have thought Bardsley and Liam Palmer were ahead of him. Caddis might have got a shout, but he's not kicked a ball all season bar a cameo on the right wing against Oxford in the cup before being taken off.
It's really weird comparing how many options we have at left-back and how few we have at right-back.
Hutton's 31, but you could be forgiven for thinking he was 35 the way he plays now.
Bardsley also seems to have suffered a massive dip in form.
Donald Love's career so far amounts to about 10 games of football. So too early to tell if he's good enough.
Palmer is now 25 and hasn't established himself in an average Championship side.
Caddis is either injured or frozen out at another average Championship side.
Our best right-back is a centre-half
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2 hours ago, vanderark14 said:
I didn't realise S.Fletcher had only scored 100 goals in 12 years of playing.
As I read elsewhere thats Darren Mackie style figures.
That's league goals, and 53 of them were in the EPL. If you add in Cups and International games, I think it's more like 130.
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3 hours ago, PASTA Mick said:
It's a shame Brown isn't an option anymore. He's in great form and would improve our team.
"Great form"? Cost Celtic a goal last night.
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Players that missed out: Mulgrew, McDonald, Phillips, McCormack, Watt
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2 hours ago, Parklife said:
He did go straight in to the team. Came off the bench and set up a winning goal.
He'll maybe not start every game initially. That's natural with a young player moving abroad and up a level. I can understand that the manager would want to give him time to bed in, train with the squad and get used to a different style of play before picking him in the starting eleven. I wouldn't read too much in to him not getting any game time this week.
His manager came out and said this the day after the Dortmund game. Roughly "he has no positional sense when his side isn't in possession, so it will take time before he's up-to-speed and able to play 90 minutes for us'.
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The Leipzig manager Ralph Hasenhüttl was on telly saying that they paid a huge amount of money for Burke because he has huge potential, but that as far as his positional sense when not in possession, he's like a blank slate; he's been taught nothing. Hasenhüttl is known to have his teams press the opposition when they don't have the ball, so players switching off when not in possession is not something he'll accept. He went on to say that it will take a little time to get Burke up to level that he can contribute for 90 minutes.
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4 minutes ago, ProudScot said:
Agreed.
People seem to be forgetting that there were baffling squad selections as always and if the referee hadn't had a shocker it would have been a difficult evening.
I think by "get behind the manager" he means stop comparing WGS to Levein, and give the "Strachan has lost it" pish a rest.
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1 hour ago, Orraloon said:
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the goal was Paterson's fault. A lot of mistakes were made leading up to the goal. We had chances to clear the ball and we didn't. We didn't close the guy down quickly enough and allowed him to get his wee chip into the box. By that time Martin and and Hanley were out of position. By the time the ball was heading into the danger area the only Scotland player in a position to get his head on the ball was Paterson. Maybe Martin could have tried a wee bit harder to get back but he couldn't see what was going on behind him. Paterson could see everything from his position and needed to be a wee bit more aggressive in going for the ball. It wasn't Paterson's man who scored but by that time, the guy he was marking was about 15 yards away. By the time all the other mistakes had been made, and the ball was going towards the Matleeser's head, I think the only guy who could have stopped it was Paterson. That doesn't mean the goal was his fault, but I still think he could have won the header or at least done more to put the goalscorer off.
For their goal Martin was caught ball watching. If he'd been paying attention to where the man he was supposed to be marking was, he would have given himself a chance get a flick on the cross and maybe prevented the goal. There's no way Paterson could have got to that ball first.
However, I think our midfield was more to blame for the goal than Martin. Ritchie, Snodgrass, Fletcher, and Bannan are all standing still marking no-one when the cross goes in.
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He's 22, left-sided, and he played (and scored) on the left-wing against Villa in Bristol's last game, but he seems to be more of a left-back.
If we try to put out a whole team of left backs one day, I think we'll need him.
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26 minutes ago, Dalgety Bay TA said:
A lot of people picking Paterson and Burke. While I would like to see both start, I will be surprised if either do.The team I think will start, note wouldn't be my choosing, will be
Marshall
Hutton
Martin
Hanley
Robertson
D Fletcher
Morrison
Ritchie
Snodgrass
Forrest (on the wrong/left wing)
S Fletcher
Although it also wouldn't surprise me if Naismith featured in starting line up somehow.
I think you're not far off the team that will start.
WGS will only start 2 from Fletcher, Bannan, and Morrison. So probably Fletcher and Morrison.
Then it's 1 from Fletcher, Martin, and Watt.
I don't see WGS picking McKay (too inexperienced) or Anya (not much point playing a pacey winger against a team sitting in).
Then for the remaining 3 midfield places, it has to be Burke, Forrest, Ritchie, Snodgrass, or Naismith. None of them plays on the left, but one of them will probably get asked to.
Maybe we'll see Naismith instead of Forrest on the left?
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Agree with all of this. Only thing I would add is how unbelievable I think it is that McGregor didn't make the squad.