I'm excluding Bogdan so that leaves 6 or 7 of the outfield players, in other words at least 3 non-performers in the starting line-up last night. Who are they? (And after what has been said, presumably highly unlikely to start v Hamilton.)
I'd go (in order):
1. Kamberi
2. Boyle
3. Mallan
A few other contenders for that fourth spot, but too many borderline cases that I can't distinguish. Some might say Lennon. But I don't blame him for last night's performance. All down to the players, not the selection or set-up.
Excused from my list (as well as Bogdan) are
Ambrose, Stevenson, Porteous (a few poor moments but the good outweighed the bad). And of the subs, Slivka.
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06-12-2018 09:27 AM #1
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If we were playing with 7 or 8 as Parker said, who's for the chop?
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06-12-2018 09:39 AM #2
Cant really argue with that. Boyle, to me, looks like he really needs a rest. Last season we had the options to do that, but we're hampered with injuries, so no real replacements available and I'll think he'll continue to start until the winter break. Slivka also seems better when coming on as a sub. He's athletic, which is a good attribute when the opposition are tiring, but when he starts he never really stamps his authority on the midfield as he should. Efe continues to be consistent. If he was better in the final 3rd he'd be world class!
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06-12-2018 09:41 AM #3This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
From last nights team the only ones that could have any complaints at not starting on Saturday for me would be Efe, Slivka and Porteous definitely and probably Bogdan aswell.
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06-12-2018 09:48 AM #5
Definitely not Kamberi. Do folk want Shaw and Maclaren dealing with those aimless punts?
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06-12-2018 09:57 AM #6
The fact Kamberi got hooked for not doing his job shows that Lenny and Parker are not best pleased with him
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06-12-2018 10:12 AM #7
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Horgan is so unfortunate. He gets no luck at all.
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06-12-2018 10:28 AM #8
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06-12-2018 10:38 AM #10
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06-12-2018 10:39 AM #11
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The depressing fact is the if we did drop Mallan, Horgan, Kamberi etc, who exactly are we going to bring into the team right now to replace them.
Our lack of summer transfer activity prior to the Livi game has come back to bite us in the derriere.
If only we could unearth a Riordan or a Brown like we did yonks ago when losing to Aberdeen years ago.
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06-12-2018 10:41 AM #12
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What does that mean - it means when we win the ball deep in midfield, last season the ball was quickly recycled to McGinn who would ping a 70 yarder into open space behind the left back for Boyle to run onto, the idea being Boyle just needs to take a touch and slide it across goal, to a Maclaren/Flo who then only needed one touch, goal. The opposition couldn't play too high up the field (leaving space) and it changed the whole shape of the game for us. We terrorised opponents that way.
Now, we play slow, daft, tip-tap across the middle, eventually slowly passing to Boyle on the halfway line, with 10 opponents in front of him, asking him to use some trickery (instead of pace). A ball goes into Flo, who lets it bounce off him. Maclaren doesn't even get on for 83 minutes. Mallan can play the McGinn hail-Mary 70 yarder pass, but isn't being encouraged to. We end up slow, ponderous, easy to defend against, looking clueless.
But that's not the players fault.
That's the manager.
Change the tactics. He has the players. He is just not using them to their strengths.
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06-12-2018 10:45 AM #13
Maybe we could get a A league team to take Milligan? He’s not good enough to start here and hopefully he does want to finish his career on the bench.
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Have to agree.
Boyle can still be one of the most feared attackers in the top division, but only if he is allowed/encouraged to utilise his main asset - his blistering pace.
The slow build ups just aren't working. We may retain possession a bit longer (sometimes) but there's no end product.
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06-12-2018 11:06 AM #16This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Dare I say it, the only striker who’s shown any signs of being able to lead the line is Lewis Allen at Livi.
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06-12-2018 11:07 AM #17
I've defended Kamberi before but I'm finding it harder to do that recently.
Passing a ball to him is like kicking it at a bouncy castle. You know it's going to bounce off but you can never be sure in which direction.
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06-12-2018 11:14 AM #20
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What we need to look at was when we were sitting in 2nd place in the league, we had a goal difference of something like +16, now we are only +6!
So its not hard to say that the defence needs tightened up, we cried out for Hanlon to come back and as yet he is nothing like he was before injury!
In midfield Mallan has scored some cracking goals but again they have dried up, and he's not infuencing the games like he was before!
Kamberi looked a world beater early in the season, yet again his form has dropped away and goals have stopped coming!
To me they make up the spine of the team, and until we strenghten that spine we will just keep on suffering!!!!!
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06-12-2018 11:24 AM #23This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
What have the players being talked about showed or offered?
Porteous was one of the few players last night to show any kind of fight and at only 19, lets give 2-3 youngsters a chance, getting fed up with some of these so called more senior players doing the square root of nowt.
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06-12-2018 11:29 AM #24This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote"I don't have any regrets about not moving during my playing career. I was born a Hibee, my dad was a Hibee, I will stay a Hibee and I'll die a Hibee." -Lawrie Reilly
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06-12-2018 11:34 AM #26
Boyle - out
Stevenson - out
Porteous - out
Kamberi - out
Shaw - out
Hanlon - in
Nelom - in
Maclaren - in
Allan - in
Slivka - in
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06-12-2018 11:36 AM #27
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So many of our players don’t look fit enough. I think we should be making better use of our reserve games for overall fitness
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06-12-2018 11:39 AM #28This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Dear god man we're not denying that, Parker stated that certain players are not doing enough and what they are told, we're speculating on here as to who he was talking about. I've given my views as to who it is and offered up some names as to who can maybe come in to replace them. I don't know if you've noticed but on the bench last night we had Nelom, McGregor, Milligan, Slivka, McLaren and Gullan as the outfield players to choose from. Hyndman, Agyepong, Gray, Hanlon are not available, so who do you think we have to come in and replace any of the 3-4 players who are not cutting it just now?
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06-12-2018 11:41 AM #29This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Why Porteous?
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