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Good signing. Strengthens the squad and clearly a leader. We still need another quality, energetic ball winning midfielder in though.
If he's as solid and reliable as Paul has turned out to be then it's a thumbs up for me. As far as cover/back-up goes thats pretty decent.
Hopefull the next signing is another midfielder
If it means moving on Hallberg, who has ultimately been a disappointment, a fit SM, will be an upgrade IMO.
We can’t afford one singular player with all those attributes, but we can afford a collective midfield that between them have those attributes. Gogic is the ball winner and one piece of a midfield unit. There’s another two positions to get that midfield blend of attributes correct you list above.
Sure, it is fact based. Dunno if playing 350 games at 31 is anything amazing, though. McGregor has over 400 and we all know his story being a late starter and having 2 full seasons injured. Hanlon is a year younger, had a good few injury spells and has many more games. Stephen McGinns fitness could be an issue, especially as he hasn't played in many months and had a bad injury recently.
Difference of opinion. I've seen both Slivka and Omeonga play for us already. Slivka was almost always anonymous while Omeonga ran his socks off without much end product. My opinion is that we'll see a better player in McGinn than both of the before mentioned. You've already written McGinn off before he's kicked a ball in earnest for us.
Is blindly following him better somehow? No need for this smart arsed pish reply really. It is perfectly reasonable to have some doubts over a signing. I very rarely make any judgements on signings before they play for us but I think it is quite right to question this one. Do don't think Hecky saw loads of Josh Vela? Or Yogi saw loads of Graeme Smith?
I haven't written him off at all. I'm questioning the signing, which many others have done as well. My first post in the thread said he would get my full support and he will.
Slivka wasn't always annoymous. If McGinn manages 3 winning goals against the old firm like Slivka did, I'll be delighted.
Omeonga was raw, but has a ceiling far higher than McGinn. 30 odd games in Serie A and a Belgian u21 international recently. Thats a CV I'd be after.
You wont see much end product from McGinn either, not his game at all.
I can only speak for myself, but yes. Mid-long term we need two new centre mids to compliment Gogic. I don’t think any of Allan (this time round), Mallan, Newell or Hallberg have the athleticism and drive we need. They are all too static and part of the problem of why we struggle to keep the ball against the better teams.
There’s many ways to skin a cat. Some might prefer having two ball winners in the middle like Aberdeen and Killie. Others want a bit of everything e.g. ball winner, energy and midfielders getting into the opposition box, like Motherwell.
Most folk seem to generally agree that Gogic solves our defensive protection issue but is limited to a degree in attacking attributes, and our midfield is too static and lacks energy & drive of which none of the other midfield options particularly have.
Cringing reading some of the ***** being spouted on this thread.
My first post was welcoming Stephen aboard the club and I'll still hang fire on properly judging Stephen until I've seen him play in a green and white top. He deserves that at the very least and I'll be hoping he makes a better impact on the team than especially Slivka.
Welcome Stephen.
Genuinely think we could sign Ronaldo or Messi and some hibs fans would find a negative [emoji85]
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Yeah, I somehow doubt that.
I will be the first to admit I'm wrong, and do so happily. Will all the ones giving me pelters on here do the same?
I doubt think, even if it shown to be a good signing here, that this is anything like the mold we should be going for.
You’ll always get 110% from a McGinn and that’s better than a Hallberg/Slivka for me.
Give the boy a chance. He’s hardly going to be the highest paid player in the squad.
Experienced player who knows the Scottish game and is well known by the gaffer. Ross must think he has something to offer the squad so that will do for me for now.