The.Moog

Nah, just nowhere near good enough. Canna beat a bunch of Armenian goat herders, at home. Pish Frankly, we are just not a good team and not a good watch. I really don’t enjoy watching us at all, its painful stuff. We’re slow, ponderous, disjointed, we have no clear style or pattern of play. Too many players are just played in the wrong place or not capable of playing the formation he wants. Almost every time we break forward we end up checking back and losing any attacking momentum. We dont ever get the ball in the box quickly enough. Its frankly a mess. We’re pretty much halfway through the 3 year project that’s supposed to make us “competitive in Europe”. Your having a laugh, we’re absolutely miles off it. Motherwell have put an attractive footballing side together with basically no cash. They have a clear style, shape and football philosophy - plus players capable of playing in that setup, so our current situation is pretty embarrassing. Lutz has a fair job on his hands & lets hope Mowbray can work his magic again cause this team just isnt ever going to cut it.

Sorry but that Milanovic is absolutely gash. Aussie player of the year? That league must be Sunday Welfare level…

Midfield all over the shop. Acres of room in the middle. Then Devlin just lets their boy run away from him. Just honking stuff…

Nice goal, well done Topi (first time I think Ive ever seen him body someone) and a very tidy finish fae Nisbet - hopefully that’s him up and running. Outside that it’s been pretty dismal though, it’s genuinely incredible how few chances we create in so many games, I really don’t get what JT’s setting up to do a lot of the time. Still, a good goal and something to build on second half…

Excellent win, the effort and application were spot on so credit for that to all. Real shades of the Killie game there today though. First half we were decent, second half was a bit of a no show - again. The defence is much more solid than earlier in the season, but fuck me, we’re still massively vulnerable to balls over the top and set pieces into the box. saw this scenario several tines. Mitov goal kick goes straight to their defender, no challenge, free header back over the top we didn’t deal with well and they had a chance & attempt on goal. Happened 3 or 4 times. Rode our luck there. Mitov coming for that ball and getting nowhere near it again - he needs to cut that crap out. Midfield put in a shift, Aouchiche especially, though Polvara and especially Armstrong were decent. Lazetic did ok, would like to see a bit more from him though. I get we’re trying to be hard to beat, but this sitting back stuff (like Killie) does my head in. We should not be getting dominated at home like we were second half. JT goes on about transitions and how important they are, well Jimmy, yer nae gonna do much in transition if your players are just gonna constantly hoof it back to the opposition every time they pick it up in our half. Need to sort that out. Still, it’s always great to beat that mob and their deluded minker fans, so very happy tonight, though lots of work still to be done…

We’ll miss Karlsson. A genuine goal threat (we don’t have many) & creative spark. They’ll miss Shankland and Halkett so that balances out tbf. Not sure where the goals will come from here tbh, & the diets could really bully that midfield (where the game will be won). I’ve said for a long time we lack physicality and aggression - that midfield is a good example of why. Prove me wrong Dons but I’m not feeling good about this one…

Even if we don’t get him, like Lyall Cameron (going well for him at snake mountain so far) these are the types of players we absolutely should be going for. Young, proven Scottish talent with definite sell on value. Got to be in it to win it so good stuff AFC…

Got some talent, but wholly unsuited to Scottish football as he lacks physicality & needs time & space on the ball you don’t get here in order to be effective. If he leaves (& personally I wouldn’t offer him a new deal for the reasons stated above) he’d be absolutely mental to stay in Scotland (again for the reasons stated above). He would go with my best wishes though, primarily for that utterly class cup final penalty (fair play, showed a level of bottle I didn’t think he had) and also for his brilliant reaction when the winning penalty went in…

He’s actually worse - the John Brown, Ian Ferguson, Durrant types are born & (in)bred into it - they can’t help themselves. Novo is a Spanish Catholic ffs. Someone who, just like the likes of Goram, has absolutely no family or cultural links to that disgusting embarrassment of an organisation but sold their souls and bought into the whole bigotry schtick just to make some coin. Utterly repulsive vermin, the lot of them…

Agree 100% with this. Our squad is just not very good. We were absolutely played off the park by Motherwell - again. There are fundamental basic issues. Too many players not suited to the rigours of Scottish football Too many players not suited to the style the manager wants to play Too many players who lack basic tactical nouse and technical ability. Too many “project players” and reclaim projects - guys who only see us as a stepping stone to bigger things. Of course they miss the point that “bigger things” only come if they deliver here, but fundamentally most don’t really give a fuck. A manager struggling to implement any sort of style of play & who doesn’t react well to in game issues. We sit too deep, don’t press high or aggressive enough & as such our forwards are totally isolated and out numbered. Key squad issues for me: We are too small and lack physicality at the back. See ridiculous amount of goals we lose from set plays and balls into the box for evidence. We are too old and/or too weak physically in midfield for Scottish football. Means we don’t get forward quickly or often enough (hence lack of goals) & lose out on far too many second balls (overrun in the middle) We sold our only genuine physical presence (Gueye - not replaced), & our only genuine pacey wing threat (Morris - not replaced) though Karlsson is a real talent, but not the same type of player. The wingers in general just don’t create enough - its all Karlsson who mostly has to create for himself. Our forwards either aren’t suited to one up front (Nisbet) or aren’t getting supported well enough (Lazetic) all for reasons mentioned above. Frankly, its all a bit of a mess so hopefully Lutz will be the spark and missing piece to start sorting it out because frankly, the current incumbents have proven incapable of doing so…

Well lets start with the positives: We didnt lose. Cracking finish fae Karlsson Young Lobban was decent again. Er, that’s about it. Motherwell, like us, have absolutely nothing up front. Good job, cause they are a significantly better football team than us. All with a squad constructed for probably less money than we paid for Keskinen alone. Let that sink in for a minute. The 3 at the back has worked well and been a necessity recently, but we had 3 defenders on 1 ineffective striker all day today - basically two players wasted. Combine that with the lack of forward threat from midfield (who were also outnumbered often - see 3 at the back for that) and it seems obvious why we create basically fuck all. If we can see it, Jimmy can see it, yet he changes nothing, baffling. As for 3 subs in the 90th minute, WTF is that? Yet ANOTHER comedy goal conceded from a corner, though this one was an absolute doozy. Honestly, just embarrassing stuff. So another disappointing, predictable and fairly tedious performance - to be followed by exactly the same in Thelin’s post match interview no doubt…

As mentioned, a character fae 70’s kids show Willo the Wisp - basically a not particularly bright, but perfectly harmless, hard of thinking creature that has great difficulty in mustering coherent thoughts & communicating them effectively to others. Quite apt for me then I thought. Someone gonna give 57Vintage a shout to see if he wants to sign up here? I enjoy his musings so would be good to see him onboard…

So despite my best attempts to screw up registering, I seem to have succeeded so just wanted to say fit like everybody & look forward to joining the fray & posting without the ridiculous carry on that AbMad has become. COYR!

Its ok, I’ll just go with The.Moog if that works (which it seems to)

Hi, another Ab fab defector who just tried to sign up, but basically made an arse of it Any chance Admin could go in and delete the account just created for The_Moog as I had a typo in the email address used, so cant validate the account via email as the email address doesn’t exist. Ta muchly…