OrlandoDon

We signed a young Lewis Ferguson, perhaps a year or two ago we could have gotten Lennon. My point is more that we missed the chance on him just like the ex Dundee boys. We are gambling on a sokler and Ambrose for example, why not gamble on one or two young Scottish Players. The buy Allie is an example too. Miller may never have been an option, we may have approached a year or two ago for all we know, but all I know is that he’s too far gone now.

I know and we’ve heard that many times, but what exactly can a club say about a player under contract with another club, not much. I think many of us are saying we could do a lot worse, and a fair few of us think he’d be a solid signing. We’re not signing much from clubs within the league, were miller, McGowan, and Cameron all missed opportunities? Perhaps hale isn’t one we should overlook?

Lazetic seems quite a technical lad, more than just a big lump. Some decent highlights on YouTube. Much like palaversa and adil, a young talent whose career stuttered. seems a better option than Ambrose and probably sokler, plenty of upside. At the same time, agree with whoever said, we’re signing a lot of projects/potential, but I suppose this is the player trading model.

Four signings, I’m thinking a left back given shinnie and molloy’s showings in preseason, winger, forward, and Ronan hale. It’s been beaten to death but I actually watched about 10 mins of hale tonight, I think Rooney is a decent comparison, although hale seems to have more pace, maybe a better version of sokler too. Similar in style to shankland? Watched him score some pretty decent goals too and he’s certainly more than a penalty box player. He’s proven he can play in our league and with better talent around him I say he’s an upgrade on most, if not all forwards we have. If lazetic is signed, very similar to Yengi, hale offers something else, plus can play with one of them in a two. I’m assuming he’s a junkie or wife beater given nobody has picked him up?

Maybe after impressing on Friday Ipswich offered £2m for Ambrose so he’s Ambrose replacement, and we still sign a star striker too?

Really interesting few minutes from Ambrose, did his chances no harm, although after a year of proving he’s not good enough, he has to be on his way out. Offered as much as yengi if not more. Not sure what the issue is with sokler?IF, and that’s a big IF, we sign a forward this week, he has to start against hearts. If we don’t sign anyone, no clue who we start at 9!

Were weren’t great and we weren’t bad. Ipswich are a decent side playing at a decent level, no shame in the game today. I do think we showed them a little too much respect first half and that cost us. Both first half goals on a good day don’t happen, 3-4 mistakes and they score two. They missed a very good chance second minute, but Jensen should have scored early too. One up would have made it interesting, but I do think they can play at a higher level. Shinnie isn’t the most technical and got caught in possession. Ideally he’s not our left back and that kind of thing doesn’t happen. Wonder even if devlin should start on the left instead of shinnie. second from the throw, drives me nuts when we cannot keep possession from throws, but I’d like to think with practice we improve from things like throws. It went to adil who was trying to knock it on when adil also shouldn’t be that deep. Mitov was also poor on the shot. On a different day we don’t lose either goal. third happens when you are two down and chasing a game, don’t really blame us for that goal. At the same time, I thought devlin looked poor in the second half and the goal came from that side, made me wonder if he wasn’t comfortable with milanovic ahead of him, something that should improve over time. a legit center forward is massive. Give topi (who I thought played well) adil and milanovic someone to link with and i think we could be good. Today we had no forward, almost playing w 10 as he gave us so little. Reminded me of playing with cosgrove where we just couldn’t get up the park at times because we had no outlet. Worries me that the plan maybe is to play like we did with Cosgrove, I hope not. Another winger is key too, once topi and morris went off we had no wide sub, molloy actually got into good attacking positions but has no attacking ability and opportunities were lost. Morris was the disappointing Morris we see a lot. If we’re offered 800k I’d def take that. I think kjartenson looks decent and may play more than we maybe planned. we played a team who played in the premiership last season and while we weren’t great, we weren’t bad and I thought it was a good learning experience. While they weren’t great, we won’t play teams that good every week.

Mr glass is half empty, get out the wrong side of the bed?!?? it was preseason, good experience to learn from, but not the best if it’s our final preseason game. Think we gave Ipswich far too much respect for 3/4 of the game, never really got going until mid/late second half. think milanovic is an upgrade on okkels, probably better than morris who again does little when he starts. think adil is capable, once he gets up to speed could be a very good creative signing, something we did not have last season, and have lacked a 10 for a long time. though palaversa and clarkson were poor, sivert had a positive impact, and kjartenson didn’t see the ball much but looked tidy. I’d consider starting those two next week had we been playing at home. don’t recall Boyd touching the ball, not sure how he was an upgrade. Polvara was better than him, he always looks tidy, just don’t know where we play him from the start of a game. just throwing it out there, what’s stopping Milne being our starting right sided central defender? He only improves with game time now at this stage of his career, why develop dorrington by starting him when Milne appears talented and good enough. id start devlin over shinnie at left back, although thought we weren’t great on the right in the second half, and it’s where they scored from. as I said before, we need another preseason game Tuesday, plus very clearly need two more players. Topi played well but when he went off we had no left mid. Plus yengi up top could not have played much worse today and I don’t see many/any enthusiastic about him after that.

Good preseason game but not great for a last preseason game. Wouldn’t be surprised to see us do something Tuesday night. clearly we need a 9 and another winger. Morris the Morris of last year, and Ambrose outshine yengi!

Like a new signing……

Said it already, we don’t look sharp. And agree, you still win tackles!

And 3. More attack minded in the second half but caught on a counter.

First real run from yengi and he looks like Ambrose. I’m sure I’m like many, high hopes and want him to do well, but not much patience!

More joy in the second half? I hope but we’ll make subs too and Ambrose is our only forward on the bench unless we play milanovic up top which is unlikely. I’m disappointed so far but agree about aouchiche.

Very much a preseason game, they look decent at times and gifting two goal from mistakes certainly doesn’t help. They should have scored first minute, but Jensen should have scored shortly after. We’ve not been bad, topi and adil look lively, but pretty much zero from yengi and morris doesn’t help.

Any attack comes from our left and topi. Morris with his usual performance as a starting player unfortunately.

Similar to the first goal, we give away possession in our own half and we’re stretched. Mitov should have done better, either hold the shot or get it wide.

Too many mistakes, I don’t think we look very match sharp, perhaps a concern with the lack of preseason games..?

Pretty much nothing from yengi so far too. Really want a 9 who gets involved. New signing by half time?

Bit of a meh performance so far, not really gotten going and gifted a poor goal. Would like to see more from Clarkson and adil to get us up the park.

I’m sure I’m wrong but so far yengi doesn’t look much better than Ambrose!

Hoping Boyd is Adil’s back up at 10, would be nice to see a Scottish player break through or at least be a squad regular. Yengi and Milne are big boys!! Keen to see adil and milanovic, hope we upgraded the creativity.

Been debated more on other sites than here, but a hat trick tonight….relative to the opponent…..made me wonder, could Ronan hale be the next Adam Rooney? Ambrose clearly isn’t our level, yengi unproven, and sokler hasn’t taken the opportunities. He’s a known that I think has shown he can perform at this level. Would be an underwhelming signing, but Rooney was no super star when we signed him. Given the wingers and a creative 10, I expect our center forward to get chances this year and hale is a decent finisher…..maybe?

Likewise, it’s nothing against dorrington, good lad and solid player. Even has me wondering if Tobers has settled or is he on his way? If we’re playing alfie it’s less minutes for Milne and polvara (even though he’s a midfielder) and we’re not developing our own players as you’ve said. Good player and he probably makes us better, but at what cost?

I suppose we should expect 3/5 at the back against Celtic again, maybe rangers, plus Europe, so bringing dorrington back helps that. Assuming ruby leaves plus maybe injury concerns with tobers?