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| TheDean | Feb 11 2016, 10:39 PM Post #16 |
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some interesting views emerging on McKay- his host club of course are still with a shout of promotion and perhaps he wouldn't mind shuffling back there. But on form I think he gets a raw deal here. He's there as a finisher but spends a lot of time with his back to goal in order to get any passes at all and I've been surprised at how well he can bring the midfield into the play. But he doesn't get the ball delivered to him when threatening the box that often. So I have noticed he's been coming deeper to get the ball and that's always a bad sign. I thought we'd be looking to him to be a predator in the box. Instead we've got him as a target man. We might not be playing to his strengths. Maybe that will ultimately be where Ofere comes in. |
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| Conan the Destroyer | Feb 12 2016, 01:46 PM Post #17 |
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I've stayed out of the McKay debate so far, but I'm ready to enter it now, so here goes. He's a wee wank and probably a Hun. |
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| Morvant's Finest | Feb 12 2016, 01:58 PM Post #18 |
Tommy McLean
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Someone mentioned the infamous Utd - Roma EC semi final this morning in work and it led me to stumble upon this post on a Liverpool forum which contained images of an enlightening interview with Jim McLean. So while we're talking lopsided formations, here's details of one that worked pretty well:    |
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| Barca87 | Feb 12 2016, 04:07 PM Post #19 |
Gordon Chisholm
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I agree that Mackay is having a hard time, because it's pretty clear he is a striker who is best working in the box. If I were at work and my colleagues kept asking me to do something I'm not very good at, I'd probably have a face on. However, as a team that is struggling to free itself of a relegation death grip, we really can't have someone stropping about the pitch when it isn't going for him. And if you're going to be a stroppy bugger, then best not keeping blasting all your 1 on 1s straight at the keeper, and put it in the net. Then you can strop about as much as you like. |
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| radger | Feb 12 2016, 06:56 PM Post #20 |
Craig Brewster
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Folks don't like McKay much it seems. Regardless, no danger would I be taking him out the team. By a distance the guy most likely the guy to put the ball in the net. His general play is also good enough to merit his place in the team. Couldn't care less if he isn't the smily-est. Also we haven't even seen this other guy yet. Riski has yet to impress, Bodul didn't score for us. Anier still haunts my nightmares. Hopefully Ofere does better but I wouldn't be throwing him straight in at the expense of our top scorer! I dunno where the notion that we'd drop Kawashima for Zwick comes from, considering Zwick wasn't even getting a game before we went to the considerable expense and effort to bring in Kawashima. We've only conceded once in the last two games, when was the last time we did that? I think we'll go with the same team again. I'd be happy with that. Decent options from the bench too which will help if it's a tight game |
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| Tom_Boland | Feb 12 2016, 07:46 PM Post #21 |
Ivan Golac
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Kawashima's been no well this week. Shingles or mumps or something. Gettkng better the last I heard. |
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| litljortindan2 | Feb 12 2016, 11:19 PM Post #22 |
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Grand. A lot of praise there for Dodds. I think the Italians write theses on how to play. Maybe Jim could post an instruction manual to Tannadice. |
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| zico | Feb 13 2016, 11:00 AM Post #23 |
Ivan Golac
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Doddsy was a brilliant finisher what more needs to be said?? Okay maybe he is a Hun at heart but he is still a tangerine legend wether he likes it or not, |
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| Naebody | Feb 13 2016, 11:25 AM Post #24 |
Twat
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As someone who finds most technical stuff about football insufferable, I really enjoyed that McLean interview. He makes sense in an unpretentious, deceptively simple way. There's an interview with Kevin Gallacher somewhere in which he says McLean coached him to take the scenic route. The best use of his pace wasn't to outrun defenders, McLean said, but to drag them out of their training ground formation with bezier-curve routes between where he was and where he wanted to be. That still strikes me as very nearly genius. Anyway. Any word on Kawashima? None of the match previews mention this apparent dose of scurvy. |
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| Barca87 | Feb 13 2016, 12:08 PM Post #25 |
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Gordon Chisholm
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I like that article, putting a bit of flesh on the bones about how McLean was ahead of other coaches at the time. It's quite rare, in terms of Scottish football, to actually read anything that provides genuine insight rather than statements of the obvious. I hope KAwashima is fit for today. Even allowing for the odd flap, he at least looks and conducts himself the way I would expect a professional goalkeeper should, rather than the glorified work experience stand ins we've had this season. |
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| Naebody | Feb 13 2016, 02:03 PM Post #26 |
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In terms of ability, he was crap. This was demonstrated by his time in Switzerland, where the manager couldn't believe he was a professional footballer and sent him back without a single start. But that interview flags up something I'd totally missed previously: Dodds was a centre forward who played off the centre, where his inability to turn or beat a marker didn't matter so much. This reversal of the standard big-bloke nippy-bloke arrangement is, again, almost genius. Kawashima in, so he's clearly recovered from the rumoured leprosy. Unchanged team I think. |
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| Setenza | Feb 13 2016, 02:05 PM Post #27 |
Knitting with only one needle
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[twitter=DUFCLive/status/698507001853308928] Same team again, good to see some consistency. |
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| TheDean | Feb 13 2016, 05:00 PM Post #28 |
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Subs brought on far too late and only a poor pen. Gives us a point. We fall further behind again. |
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| Cobardon | Feb 13 2016, 05:01 PM Post #29 |
Uncle Smurf
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A point obviously not good enough, but I don't think it's a cause for (further) panic. The penalty save at the close may well prove vital, and we have Well to play twice in a month so all is not yet lost. Two wins there and we'd still be right in it. |
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| Setenza | Feb 13 2016, 05:21 PM Post #30 |
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Knitting with only one needle
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Overall, our form is much better, we can't let a draw kill the momentum. But teams above us are all picking up enough points to make things seem like a mission impossible. |
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