Simply doesn't work with the players we have, we always seem to play worse with Stokes and Murray both on the park IMO. Thought there was a real imbalance in the midfield today.
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18-11-2017 06:44 PM #1
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4.4.2
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18-11-2017 06:56 PM #2
Time for a spell of 3-5-2 and play Porteous as a CB alingside Efe and Hanlon.
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18-11-2017 08:01 PM #7
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18-11-2017 08:02 PM #8
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Didn't seem to be a problem accommodating stokes when he won us the game against Dundee
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18-11-2017 08:04 PM #9
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18-11-2017 08:06 PM #10
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Yes, he made mistakes, and today they were costly.
He's played enough first team football for us so far that he was overdue making a costly mistake.
He also made some invaluable contributions.
All of his more experienced senior colleagues have flogged goals - players shouldn't be dropped as soon as they make a mistake.
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18-11-2017 08:19 PM #13
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He’s not currently in our best 11 though and someone above suggested he should be.
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18-11-2017 08:22 PM #14This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
After the Dundee game there were threads suggesting Stokes must start every game. Now today it's all his fault that we lost.
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18-11-2017 08:22 PM #15This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
The biggest issue for us today was being without Dylan. He makes us tick.
With Dylan out of the team, I think a very strong case can be made for playing 3 at the back and having Porteous in the team.
I certainly don't think Stokes made anything like a case for playing in that type of role regularly, as good a player as he is.
We weren't just unlucky today - if we played again tomorrow with that same team we'd probably get the same outcome.
Therefore a debate as to what we should do when Dylan is missing is fair enough, and I think the suggestion of playing Porteous in a back 3 is just about as good as any other, if for no other reason than it allows us to play both Murray and Stokes in positions in which they are comfortable.
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18-11-2017 08:27 PM #17
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I don’t think Porteous is far away either and of course younger players will make mistakes. I accept that. I still don’t believe our strongest 11 at the moment should include him
But it will do in time I believe that
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18-11-2017 09:26 PM #18This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
This, if McGeouch wasn't starting surely Slivka was his natural replacement and not Stokes, you cannot ask a lazy type player to play in midfield when there's a natural one sitting on the bench, Lennon got it all wrong today.
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A bit of savvy gamesmanship there and we get a point IMO.
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19-11-2017 10:13 AM #20
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I didn’t say it was a problem I simply stated a fact. We changed the formation to accommodate him. Pure and simple.
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