Devil's advocaat

40 minutes ago, BlackSocksRedTops said:

Many of our goals against last season happened when we had the ball or were in "control" of a situation. The two that come to mind were the 2 at Parkhead in the game that effectively ended our league challenge. Ben Davies terrible defensive header and Jack/Souttar/MacGregor pissing about in defence.

It's still the same root cause, our use of the ball was pish, otherwise we wouldn't have got into the situation.

FWIW I'm not a Davies fan, and Greegs was done. Hopefully both of those situations won't be an issue come the start of the season.

1 hour ago, BlackSocksRedTops said:

I get what you are saying but much of goals against last season were avoidable in so many ways. During the 55 season we conceded 13 goals. Last season we conceded 34. Those stats don't lie. 

They would have been avoided if we had the ball, you've kinda proved my point there buddy.

22 minutes ago, BlackSocksRedTops said:

The quality of our defence will make or break our season

I get you, but I don't think it's quite as simple as that. We hardly conceded any goals in our 55 season, which wasn't down to how good our defence was per se, it was down to how we played, constantly stretching teams, possession based defence, tiring out our opposition to the point when we did give the ball away, they were less of a problem.

I hope with a full pre season, and more of *his* players, MB will work in a similar fashion.

The vermin don't have a great defence, they did something similar last season.

Where your good defence is under more scrutiny is in Europe, obvs.

4 minutes ago, Bluedell said:

It seems to be from a "journalist" who has made 17 tweets, has 21 followers and whose first tweet was that Donald Trump was going to invest £100m in the club.

 

Best ignored.

Hence my use of the term wild rumours buddy.

Wild rumours flying around that Stevie G is gonna swoop for Scott Wright, bonkers money 'Quoted'.

We live in hope.

45 minutes ago, craig said:

You see what they tell you.  For every Jota they have a Barkas, Ajeti, Duffy on high wages - don't be fooled that they always get it right because they don't.

Absolutely, they've a few Japanese players that are utter gash as well, but you don't hear about those....

29 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

Gonzo is literally a pedant

And then made an arse of his next sentence. 😆

46 minutes ago, Gonzo79 said:

 

Just thought I'd those in there too, for any confused parties

1 hour ago, Scott7 said:

We can but hope.

 

Looks like a complete new team next season. They may need the whole season to get it right. Well over buster’s four decades ago a club which interests me bought the stars from their league. 0-5 at halftime in the first match, 5-5 final whistle. They won nothing that year, everything next year and most things for a good number of years after that.

 

Patience, dear friends, patience. Unfortunately I have very little. How about you?

Remember the first half of Advocaats first game, he turned out not bad.

No 'e' in Whisky my friend, unless you really want to get off your tits. 😉

I'd take Killie at home first game, or St Mirren, at least both of them would maybe have a go, Killie don't usually but they've made a couple of decent signings.

Yep, as much as some hate the idea of it, this is very much social media.

3 hours ago, ranger_syntax said:

Many among the support don't know what it takes to win though

Agreed, but what doesn't help you win is howling derision at a new signing when his first few passes are back or sideways. And a lot of our support is very good at that.

That's it Compo, positive for the season ahead.

You wonder why some folk support Rangers.

Good stuff.

By the time he's had a year here, he's only a year left on his contract, so hopefully should we wish to explore buying, Brighton may not be too hard to deal with. 🤞🏼

We shouldn't give these people what they want, or crave, best ignored. 

1 hour ago, JohnMc said:

I imagine it's partly due to the precarious and public nature of a manager's job. In England the average tenure for a manager is now 477 days, I can't imagine it's very different in Scotland. If you know at the outset that you've pretty much only got 18 months in the job then I imagine the people who have the greatest affect on your role are the ones you're most likely to come into conflict with. Players cost manager's their jobs, it's probably easy to blame the person who chose those players, rather than yourself. Add in the public nature of a manager's job, constant scrutiny from the media and clueless fans waiting for the kettle to boil before starting work writing about them as if they have the first idea what they are talking about. Few jobs are so public and watched by people who think they know better. It's a wonder managers aren't in conflict with everyone all the time. 

 

in American sport the average MLB baseball coach tenure is 3 seasons, and in American football it's 4.3 seasons, in the NBA it's 3.7 years. It's not always easy to compare sports but structurally the American system seems to be what's coming into European football, so maybe we'll see a time where managers are given longer. 

I'm not a US sports fan, so forgive my ignorance, but they don't really do relegation, do they,?.

I went to baseball twice, only went the second time because I thought it couldn't be as dull as it was the first time....

What we need is another Mols, pre injury obviously. Colak is a good finisher, but he isn't that player sadly.

8 minutes ago, ChelseaBoy said:

That's Americans for you. 

Aye, carrying on the work of the Russian before them.

2 hours ago, Rousseau said:

They're making a move for Portuguese side Rio Ave next. 

 

Which club can we buy?

I assume this is some kind of creative accounting to negate FFP?.

Chelsea really have become a vulgar, grotesque shell of a club.

Where's this plenty evidence?

Our record European goalscorer?....

1 hour ago, compo said:

Holiday they're is work to be done and he's on holiday FFS holiday my arse 

Get a grip.

59 minutes ago, Malangsob said:

Yeap. Never have understood that aspect of the tribalism. If a guy is good enough, then he is. Who give's a rat's where he has played previously? 

So silly. 

Absolutely, never done Super Mo or Kenny Miller any harm.

No club anywhere allocates their whole stadium as season tickets.

Superb result, not entirely deserved, but then when we deserve a result that kind of thing usually happens to us!.

I'm still not a fan of Dykes, but you have to give him his dues at both goals.

I couldn't give fuck if his uncle was the pope, as long as long as he does the business.