Scabby Dug
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15/02/2014 JAMES GOODWIN (ST. MIRREN F.C.) 2 SPFL FIRST TEAM MATCHES FROM 01/03/2014
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Isn't it the case that Newton was playing poorly in his "best" position?
This is often overlooked when this eternal "who should play where" debate arises.
I'm NOT saying Newton should be played at right back and IF there is some clause that he has to play, no matter what, then that’s a problem but to continually, and it is continual, to say this player and that player should be played everywhere really is missing the point that many of our players have periods of playing poorly.
When Newton played well in his original position, he had Concalves and Thommo in front of him, but when playing poorly he had Thommo and a load of similar midfielders, like Gowser, McLean and McGinn around him, so at least one of those was played out of position and the midfield didn't gel
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Newton's best position is an attacking central midfielder, and DL has played him in at least another 2 positions i.e. wide right mid, and now Right back. It's ludicrous to think that out manager doesn't know where to play him in his best position. On Saturday we should have brought in Naismith and put Newton into attacking mid alongside McLean, and dropped Wylde
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Wylde has loads of speed while Carey has none.
Yeh, I can see the similarity!
:IN Accuracy, ya numpty
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Wylde reminds me of Carey. Does a good thing and then over-hits from the wing. Yesterday was all wrong from the start with DL's team selection by trying to snuff out County's Kiss and Arquin and would've been better with Campbell with wayward knock downs from Magennis, homing in on goal.I don't know if anyone noticed (and I know some blame Djemba for the first goal) that it was a blatant foul on Djemba in which he lost the ball and cost us the goal
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I was quoting another forum members view that Ross Counties defence were big and strong, like Celtic.
Wasn't comparing skill.
Thanks for your input, you shouldnae have bothered.
Our problem is we didn't stretch their defence, or midfield, to do any damage. High balls to McGennis and Thommo were wasted.
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Great banter with the girls in the West stand also, they are at both windows.
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I had a paper round from Malky Martin's shop at the Skye Crescent shops. There was another newsagent there run by Dunky and Jimmy Jowett. Dunky was quite a famous amateur boxer in his day. I first read Roy of the Rovers in the Tiger. Loved it. You've got some mother if she was buying you Fiesta, Mayfair and Escort.
Dunky was the best Cuts man to have in your corner at boxing
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Our team is a combination of average youngsters and shite journeyman.Thompson is overpaid and hasnt kicked his arse all season,Teale is well past his sell by date and magowan couldnt trap a bag of cement.We should keep mcginn and free up a small fortune by binning the "quality" I would rather watch hungry shite youngsters every week than the superstars"played in the premiership you know"Let the new manager work from a fresh piece of paper without having to pander and show respect to once good players who are now living on memories.They are a liability and an expensive one
Go and watch the U20's then
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Lennon, since the cup final, has tinkered with the team so much that even the players don't know how they're to play. Sometimes it was necessary to change, but the performance levels on the pitch leaves a lot to be desired, some good performances and mostly bad. Good players being misused is one of his failings, and another is that he doesn't see where the problem is on the pitch till ten minutes to go. Sitting in the dugout for most of the game doesn't help his cause, but he probably thinks that TC looks after that side of things, but who's the boss?
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He's been carrying Newton, who has been abysmal the past few weeks.
Newton, IMO, is played a right mid, when his best position is centre mid. When Teale came on, Newton moved to his correct position, started to play a lot better, then gets subbed. The manager has lost the plot
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Looks like he'll be in Goodwin's position for the Aberdeen clash, and Goodwin moved to CB in place of Cheesy, as Cheesy's red card appeal was rejected.
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Kello
Naismith McGregor Cheesy Kelly
Goodwin Djemba-Djemba
McGowan McGinn Wylde
Thompson
Team and a half.
Unfortunately, Wylde is cup-tied for Sunday, as is MCgennis
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Anybody got the score for tonight's game against the Blue vermin?
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Noticed the Sheff Utd goalie is very shite.
Who is he ?
Another Tim
Tim Howard -
Watching Fulham is a bit like watching St Mirren. Slow from the back and totally predictable. Come on the Blades!!
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The wee 'Hitler', Muir hasn't booked anybody YET
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We're too casual with the passing to each other
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BBC gave his goal as top right corner, ehh ???
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IMO, Saints are appealing the red card 1.to have Cheesy available on Sunday and 2. Lunny will look at the whole game, rather than the incident, and will see the ref's incompetence.One thing regarding the card is that we had another player just off of Cheesy which would make it a yellow in the fact that Cheesy wasn't the last man., hopefully.
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Ok, so the club have taken a perfectly understandable and laudable position and they have re-stated that they will not go into debt to buy players, or pay them inflated wages that either unsettle existing players or destabilise the fine line of book balancing.
That having all been said, they have basically cleared a number of players out and without double checking, I think I'm right in saying that we are probably shorter this year in playing strength than last and we have brought in a number of younger players who theoretically will cost less than seasoned professionals.
The need to strengthen the defence, especially in the middle of the park is obvious to see to just about every fan. The goals against column is the 3rd worst in the league but only just and it wouldn't take much to be the worst (and that includes Hearts)
. That follows last year when again we had the 3rd worst goals against record.Yet the management rely on McAusland and McGregor. I like McGregor and I think between the two he has more football skills and is getting back to the kind of form that the fans saw when he came to the club. Pats on the back to the club for seeing him through two horrendous injury years.
However that still leaves us with a shaky defence no matter how you look at it. Any time I see the defence under any pressure, I squirm. I get the pretty constant feeling that McAusland is a mistake waiting to happen. As much as he may be a St Mirren fan, his father having influence in other quarters etc, I feel he is a large part of the problem. Take him out of the team and put in a strong, no messing about centre half and I'm convinced our defence would leak a lot less goals.
I probably hark back to days of Gordon McQueen, Jim Clunie, Bobby Reid, Jack Copland (two of which came out of Junior football) to name only four, but all of these mentioned commanded the box, read the line really well and coaxed the best out of those around them.
I've got to say I think the management have failed us on this one, BIG style. By failing to recognise, or act to shore up the defence we are sitting targets for the play-off place.
P.S. - that's not knicker wetting either - we are only three points ahead of Thistle and County and the latter has a game in hand over us and a better goal difference!
I asked this on the coach home last night about why we don't look at the Junior leagues, as there are some good youngsters coming through
The Swiss : Is Club About To Be Sold ?
in St.Mirren For Sale
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I am led to believe that the Swiss buyers have been in all week doing their thing