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    "Like having a new player" (Kevin McCann)

    Looking like Kevin McCann is on his way back to a full recovery and will be playing some footie soon enough..

    This is great news and it will be like having another signing...

    http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/sp...ing.6037730.jp
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    Great to see him back in full training after all the troubles hes had,as far as him in the team though,i don't rate him that highly.He's never really impressed me or made me think he will be anything special.This is not meant as an attack on him,just my opinion.
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    Quote Originally Posted by whereswallace? View Post
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    Great to see him back in full training after all the troubles hes had,as far as him in the team though,i don't rate him that highly.He's never really impressed me or made me think he will be anything special.This is not meant as an attack on him,just my opinion.


    Although like you, it would be great to see him "make it".

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    Quote Originally Posted by whereswallace? View Post
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    Great to see him back in full training after all the troubles hes had,as far as him in the team though,i don't rate him that highly.He's never really impressed me or made me think he will be anything special.This is not meant as an attack on him,just my opinion.


    He's nowhere near good enough to make the RB position his own, from what I've seen. Wotherspoon's attacking side fits more with what Yogi wants from his fullbacks and McCann couldn't fill that role.

    As with Whereswallace, tho, I'm not having a go at boy cause from what I've seen he's 100% commited. I just think the team has progressed and he's been left behind. Same as Stevenson IMO.

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    What age is he? still got time shirley..

    When he last played he was just a boy...I'm hopeful.

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    What age is he? still got time shirley..

    When he last played he was just a boy...I'm hopeful.
    He's very, VERY slow unfortunately.

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    He's very, VERY slow unfortunately.
    Maybe Yogi could try him at centre-half?

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    Quote Originally Posted by whereswallace? View Post
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    Great to see him back in full training after all the troubles hes had,as far as him in the team though,i don't rate him that highly.He's never really impressed me or made me think he will be anything special.This is not meant as an attack on him,just my opinion.
    I agree but there has to be some reason we've kept him on during his injury hell. Looked a decent player when fit but indont think anyone can judge him on previous games after so long out. Hopefully comes back to be a big player for us.

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    Quote Originally Posted by whereswallace? View Post
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    Great to see him back in full training after all the troubles hes had,as far as him in the team though,i don't rate him that highly.He's never really impressed me or made me think he will be anything special.This is not meant as an attack on him,just my opinion.
    I have to agree with your sentiments. Apart from one particular game a few years ago in which he shone, he has not developed or even come close to threatening to make the right back slot his own. A division 1 player in my reckoning.

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    Kev McCann played centre mid against the huns once, he scored an absolute raker.

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    Quote Originally Posted by .sean. View Post
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    Kev McCann played centre mid against the huns once, he scored an absolute raker.
    Game finished 3-3 Whitty also scored a great goal for us. We had Boozy at sweeper that day.

    McCann also scored against Gretna in a league game, and may have bagged another 1 or 2.

    He always looked solid and dependable at RB, and never scared of making a crunching tackle. Would love to see him make it.

    Agree with Doddie about him being played at RB with DW at RM. Would love to see that.

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    Wotherspoon McBride Miller Gow
    Stokes Deek/Nish

    That would be a pretty solid team in the SPL IMO.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GlesgaeHibby View Post
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    Game finished 3-3 Whitty also scored a great goal for us. We had Boozy at sweeper that day.

    McCann also scored against Gretna in a league game, and may have bagged another 1 or 2.

    He always looked solid and dependable at RB, and never scared of making a crunching tackle. Would love to see him make it.

    Agree with Doddie about him being played at RB with DW at RM. Would love to see that.

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    Wotherspoon McBride Miller Gow
    Stokes Deek/Nish

    That would be a pretty solid team in the SPL IMO.
    Forgot that Gretna goal. It was a great finish

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    Quote Originally Posted by LeithenHibby View Post
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    Looking like Kevin McCann is on his way back to a full recovery and will be playing some footie soon enough..

    This is grate news and it will be like having another signing...

    http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/sp...ing.6037730.jp
    Mcann if he turnips can be a great asset, dangle the carrot for potential buyers in the summer,Homemade talent that has the stock value to go onto grater things

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    solid in the tackle, never hides & decent going forward, glad to have him back.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hwuhibby View Post
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    solid in the tackle, never hides & decent going forward, glad to have him back.
    Might be a little on the short side, but makes up for it with good all round ability. One of the best tacklers in our squad, good passer of the ball and as you say decent going forward.

    Was exceptional in first SPL game of season versus St Mirren.

    All in all, good to have him back. Will definitely increase competition for places.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HibbyAndy View Post
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    Mcann if he turnips can be a great asset, dangle the carrot for potential buyers in the summer,Homemade talent that has the stock value to go onto grater things
    Thats a rather souper assesment

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    Quote Originally Posted by H18sry View Post
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    Thats a rather souper assesment


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    Yogi must rate him because he was in his first eleven for the first game of the season against St Johnstone (IIRC). Therefore I'd imagine Yogi will give him every chance. It's possible but I can't imagine him dropping DW for KM for league matches coming up, and if switching to a back three would your first choice not be Hogg Bamba and Murray? Ignoring whether they are attacking midfield or defending midfield we seem to have a lot of players who can play in there and players who would make it harder for DW to get a game. I presume that the story follows the remarks made in the papers about us saying we need a RB and the club not signing one. Yogi might throw KM in against Montrose at RB but I'd tend to stick with a fairly settled side at first and maybe take three off to rest if we get a good lead. We have to look forward to the Aberdeen and Rangers games too, maybe DW for KM would be something to change later in the game?

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    Does those who are criticising him remember the season he burst on the scene? Goal against Rangers, etc, a very attacking fb. If he replicates that, we have a quality player on our hands. However, he now has it all to prove.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bob12345 View Post
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    Does those who are criticising him remember the season he burst on the scene? Goal against Rangers, etc, a very attacking fb. If he replicates that, we have a quality player on our hands. However, he now has it all to prove.

    I think you're missing the point.Nobody is criticising KMs ability,its wether or not he can hold down a regular spot in our first team that i doubt.Have to agree with a couple posters regarding his tackling ability.Disagree with you about him being a very attacking full back though,i dont think thats his strength at all.
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    I was hot on the idea of strengthening the RB position because our only recognised right-back "specialist" - McCann (Spoony being a midfielder and McCormack a CB) has been plagued with injuries which we can't be certain he'll ever fully recover from. Hopefully he will of course - and if he does then he certainly will be like a new signing.
    RB is his position and going by the fact he scored a couple of goals in his twenty odd appearances there so far, I'd say he's got some attacking instict in his locker.

    I suspect that Yogi shared my concerns about KM's long term fitness and would have liked to get in a RB - but only a good one would do, which didn't come off. Here's hoping that McCann will make good his recovery and make strengthening this position superflous in the summer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LeithenHibby View Post
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    Looking like Kevin McCann is on his way back to a full recovery and will be playing some footie soon enough..

    This is grate news and it will be like having another signing...
    Let's hope he's on fire when he plays.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LeithenHibby View Post
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    Looking like Kevin McCann is on his way back to a full recovery and will be playing some footie soon enough..

    This is grate news and it will be like having another signing...

    http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/sp...ing.6037730.jp
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    I quite liked McCann's performance as a defensive midfielder in a few games.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Part/Time Supporter View Post
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    I quite liked McCann's performance as a defensive midfielder in a few games.


    Noted Sir, will try and do better.

    I would just like him to get a fair crack o'the whip when / if he returns to first team duty...

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    I think we'll see a stronger built player, when he returns. I saw him against East Fife and he really seemed to have bulked up.
    From what I've seen of him, he is a very good full back.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mike_in_munich View Post
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    I think we'll see a stronger built player, when he returns. I saw him against East Fife and he really seemed to have bulked up.
    From what I've seen of him, he is a very good full back.

    Now that sounds more like what we are looking for.

    Me thinks a lot of netters are writing him off at 22 years of age I would expect much more than we have had in the past..

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    Brilliant to see him back in training. Lets hope that, his injury crisis is away now and hopefully gets his fitness levels back and is very similar to the player that he already was.

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    Was on the bench against dundee utd

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    McCann had a brilliant game against Aberdeen in a scottish cup tie at pittodrie on a mud bath of a pitch, in my opinion he`s a defensive right back rather than an attacking one, he won`t have to worry about crossing the halfway line with either Wotherspoon or if need be Zemmama in front of him, i think Yogi sees him as giving the team a better balance, my only doubt is that he has been out of the game for a long time and might be used sparingly, good luck to the kid he deserves some.

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