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When we played against them last weekend we deliberately played the ball wide even more than normal. Not much of our game came through Newell and Irvine. The reason for that is Campbell in my view. We had a tactic to keep the ball out off the middle of the park where he plays. Other analysts have mentioned this before. He is stronger than a Newell or Irvine in the 50/50 situations.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andy74
I think you are wrong and doing the team and our back line a disservice.Quote:
Originally Posted by JammyDoidger
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You will see from this table we are stronger than St Johnstone over the piece.
Why do you have to pick particular players out too. So McGinn might to be the biggest but what about his 2 goals against them earlier in the season or his pass to Boyle to set up Nisbet or his cross for Doidge’s goal. Players have different attributes and they bring differing things to the team.
He has contributed loads, as have the other defenders.
I don’t see us being weaker mentality or physically. Our current league position tells you that!
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Granted, good replacements if Nisbet and Porto are off.Quote:
Originally Posted by JammyDoidger
Can't agree on Campbell for Gogic who in my book is a contender for POTY.
Probs not for Irvine either. Could Campbell link with Boyle and the strikers with slide rule passes? Not seen it. Allan gets in for that reason for me if Irvine does not sign on.
What's the latest on that front? I wonder if JR is waiting to see how Allan gets on with his run of games for ICT. Teuchter pal who supports them says he has been ok but not raving about him. If Irvine stays, will Allan go?
My issue with Campbell is the development fee that would be required. If we could negotiate with Motherwell for say £100k up front and a one third sell on then fair enough, but otherwise I'd look elsewhere.
Nah, there is no danger we were in any way scared of playing up against Campbell in the middle. He has been awful every time we’ve played them. Even when we played 442 with just Newell and Hallberg in the midfield away against them we destroyed them in the midfield.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brightside
If he was free I’d have him in the squad but not at the fee that is being talked about.
We will agree to disagree. :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Andy74
I thought he was excellent against us when they won 2-0 at our place...and decent enough in the draw at the start of the seasonQuote:
Originally Posted by Andy74
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Fair enough, I think we could definitely do with another centre half but they'd have to be pretty good to come in and immediately displace McGinn.Quote:
Originally Posted by JammyDoidger
We need one to push the incumbents anyway and improve our defensive options. Jason Kerr from what I have seen of him would boost our defence.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fergus52
How many games have you seen him in out of interest?Quote:
Originally Posted by Andy74
I haven’t counted.Quote:
Originally Posted by neil7908
McGrath rumoured to be of interest to Peterborough now who are Championship bound so he's probably out of our reach either way.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brightside
It’s balls into the box which end up in back of the net from headers that were partly our downfall in both semis and Tony Watt exposed the same failing againQuote:
Originally Posted by Aldo
Teams in the Cup will be waste of that and use it as a tactic
So somehow we need to work on finding a way to try not to concede from crosses Mcgregor if younger and fitter would be solution
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Would he? We lost plenty goals from crosses with him playing. Including the Scottish cup final in 2016. Working harder to retain possession and prevent crosses is the answer, not mcgregor.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronniekirk
That's a huge leap of faith there. We play the ball wide even more because we're concerned about a Motherwell midfield player? More concerned than about Scott Brown, Glen Kamara and Lewis Ferguson? I actually commented on Jonnyboy's match report that I thought we moved the ball forward more quickly than usual in the 1st 25 minutes. I very much doubt however that had anything to do with Campbell's presence & much more with letting our prolific front 3 get at their defence.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brightside
Stopping crosses has been our issue for years. We deal with 90% of balls into our box fine, the issue is when you allow so many, you are inevitably going to lose a few goals or chances from them.Quote:
Originally Posted by MWHIBBIES
I had genuinely never heard of Jamie McGrath until on this thread yesterday
What type of goals do our opponents lose?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronniekirk
We will agree to disagree.Quote:
Originally Posted by brog
He has been talked up a lot this season and appears to be a talisman for St. Mirren. Can't say I've watched him closely over the course of a game but from the the highlights I've seen he has good technique and has racked up some very decent stats for a bottom six club.Quote:
Originally Posted by .Sean.
St Mirren look like they have a cracking young player in Jay Henderson, was very impressed with him the other night and can see why they have him in the first team already.
I reckon we copy whatever st mirren do in their youth set up. Suppose being the third team in Glasgow has its advantages, some amount of players came through there over the yearsQuote:
Originally Posted by 04Sauzee
They play them on a regular basis, from a young ageQuote:
Originally Posted by Stuart93
He is 24 and won back to back titles for Dundalk in Ireland before signing for St Mirren 15 months ago. He is out of contract at the end of next season but teams including Peterboro and Aberdeen are interested according to the usual media which could obviously be total keek or agent leak.Quote:
Originally Posted by .Sean.
Because they have to. So it works out for them in some cases. Same goes for other teams lower down the league. Hibs dont have to take as many chances on youth as other teams do..... I know you know this by the way, just incase you thought i was trying to teach my granny to suck eggs! :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Billy Whizz
Have no idea an only concerned about my team trying to improveQuote:
Originally Posted by blackpoolhibs
But I do recall McGinn putting in a great cross that Doidge bulleted in with his head v Motherwell
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If that happens against us it’s cos Hanlon and Porteous can’t defend.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronniekirk
When it happens to Gallagher at Motherwell, it’s cos of the great cross and Doidges movement.
The difference with the one Motherwell scored against us was the ball was high in the air a long time but Boyle was behind Watt Although the difference in size of players was a mis matchQuote:
Originally Posted by easty
The Mcnulty goal v the sheep was a belter one v four and he won it easily
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Think it was the centre half Edwards rather than Mcnulty who scored the headed goal in that game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronniekirk
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