Firstly no intention to wind up Rico ( but it is a bonus) by starting this more than forty eight hours ahead of January window closing BUT as a squad we are all over the fucking place and even at this early stage I would imagine we all would have opinions on what need to happen over the summer.

Appreciate that certain things might be addressed in the remaining forty eight odd hours of the winter one BUT given our performance to date, coupled to us being manager less, I wouldn't stake any money on it

Thoughts lads and lassies 

3 hours ago, TheDonbytheDee said:

Never, ever said Celtic were likeable or anything like it. 

Aye I was being a cheeky wee prick with that one 😆

35 minutes ago, Panda said:

Aye I was being a cheeky wee prick with that one 😆

The sort of behaviour has previously seen members of staff returned to ashtray duties. 

3 hours ago, redordead said:

I said many times that I didn't think he was a good natural footballer. Needed a written invite to shoot too often and shirked physicality. Yes he was the best of a bad lot and a decent finisher but nothing special. In fact I think duk helped him hugely.  For a man that tall he never scored a header either. 

God I took stick for it but since he left us the proof has been in the pudding. 

I don't think he's any better than nesbit and I don't think he'd improve the mentality of the squad as I don't remember him ever really putting his body on the line for the team. Nice to have in a winning team but not someone you can rely on. 

Gotta love a bit of healthy revisionism 😜. I think we can all agree he’s a rat bastard but to suggest he wasn’t that great anyway when at Pittodrie is some impressive psychological management. 

5 hours ago, BigAl said:

Back to the point of the thread

 

Signing confirmed.

Five in now if you include Ronan?

Another signing with character and leadership clearly mentioned. Plus much needed height. I wonder if this is the end of molloy, especially since he cannot win a header.

not concerned, but keen to see  some creativity signed. Obviously Ronan is one if that’s a done deal, but wingers would be nice.

It is reassuring to see that Robinson immediately realised - right, whole new defence. Also, 6 foot 6 tank signed up - this guy might even overtake Gogic in my/Moog's mancrush rankings. No way this guy disna win a few heiders, right?

4 hours ago, Ajja said:

Gotta love a bit of healthy revisionism 😜. I think we can all agree he’s a rat bastard but to suggest he wasn’t that great anyway when at Pittodrie is some impressive psychological management. 

Oh mate..

Type Miovski into the search and use "search by author" and @redordead

He hated that boy long before it was fashionable 😆

5 hours ago, Panda said:

Aye I was being a cheeky wee prick with that one 😆

That is just so not like you...... 😉 

32 minutes ago, Panda said:

Oh mate..

Type Miovski into the search and use "search by author" and @redordead

He hated that boy long before it was fashionable 😆

Ahead of my time. 😂

10 hours ago, OrlandoDon said:

Another signing with character and leadership clearly mentioned. Plus much needed height. I wonder if this is the end of molloy, especially since he cannot win a header.

not concerned, but keen to see  some creativity signed. Obviously Ronan is one if that’s a done deal, but wingers would be nice.

Molloy is a decent back up but probably shouldn’t be a first pick. He’s useful as a back up LB in certain games where you don’t expect to be forcing the game and more likely to be defending 

Hopefully he does the job for us, but signing players from the lower leagues in England worries me. We’ve been burnt too many times. It’s a bit uninspiring, I’d expect players to be going to the o’s rather than from them. But fingers crossed he brings some much needed leadership.

29 minutes ago, manc_don said:

Hopefully he does the job for us, but signing players from the lower leagues in England worries me. We’ve been burnt too many times. It’s a bit uninspiring, I’d expect players to be going to the o’s rather than from them. But fingers crossed he brings some much needed leadership.

I'd argue that defenders from down South are generally a good fit for the SPFL. We've had some bad ones, of course, but we've had decent success too. Being 6ft6 is a very good start, and could be the defining starting point of the Robinson era. A very Robinson signing. 

The interesting part is that he's left footed. That suggests no room for Knoester, if we're going for a back four. That would be a boost for Milne, who could be allowed the space to develop alongside a guy who'll most likely target everything entering our box. We could very easily have opted for a right footed giant to accompany Knoester.

6 foot 3 right sided CH - Mayo

6 foot 6 left sided CH - Happe

Back-ups in Tobers (if finally fit) and Knoester unless we get a good offer in which case he could be away.

Cheerio Milne & Molloy at CH.

Proof of the pudding will be on the park of course, but its a resounding yes from the Moog jury so far in that Robinson has identified a glaring weakness (wasn’t hard tbf) and has has done something about it early doors.

Just need Gogic back there now to complete the set… 😉

Edited June 6Jun 6 by The.Moog

Was there any estimation as to how long Knoester would be out? First thoughts were it was a really bad one.

Said he’d be out a couple of months so will miss the league cup group games but might be back for start of season proper, though that might be a wee bit optimistic…

Orient fans have mentioned a lot about fitness and injuries. Made of paper and AI pics of him signing on at Dons with a cast on his leg type stuff. Some saying he would have played at a higher level than them if he could stay fit. He did play 40 games last season so maybe he is strengthening and conditioning in the right places. Fingers crossed. 

52 minutes ago, Ajja said:

Orient fans have mentioned a lot about fitness and injuries. Made of paper and AI pics of him signing on at Dons with a cast on his leg type stuff. Some saying he would have played at a higher level than them if he could stay fit. He did play 40 games last season so maybe he is strengthening and conditioning in the right places. Fingers crossed. 

Abz just did a podcast on him with a guy from an orient podcast (his last name is pronounced happy btw). Injury was mentioned but hardly to a Scott booth or Paul Bernard level.  The thing that really pleased me was he is apparently very tidy on the ball, not one for hoofing it at all and particularly good at finding a right winger with a crossfield pass from the left side of defence.  Certainly not a hammer thrower.   

Interesting that no gossip about briedl, happe, or Ronan until they are pretty much a done deal. Club does well to keep things quiet, which makes it less fun for us!

who is next?? I’d like to think we could find a cheaper equal or better ability player than olysagna, although you can’t deny he was effective in the games he played, plus I think we’re more inclined to try and find the next Miovski instead of paying a chunk of money for the current one. 

1 hour ago, Ajja said:

Orient fans have mentioned a lot about fitness and injuries. Made of paper and AI pics of him signing on at Dons with a cast on his leg type stuff. Some saying he would have played at a higher level than them if he could stay fit. He did play 40 games last season so maybe he is strengthening and conditioning in the right places. Fingers crossed. 

If you took the majority of “online” dons fans’ opinions of anything then you’d be in for a pretty wild ride. I assume (hope) most club’s fans will be the same so will cross my fingers that this guy will be decent.

Edited June 6Jun 6 by wee toon red

SR is clearly going for the concrete just now. Strong CMs and muckle CBs. The central spine is starting to take shape but it’s never the exciting part of building a team and is probably what we are all expecting him to be handy at. Hopefully we start to see the flare being added soon. Much harder bit to get right. 
 

Lutz needs to step up. 

Edited June 6Jun 6 by Ajja

Talk about a complete 180. Kilmarnock and Leyton Orient versus AC Milan and some other continental clubs.

Will be interesting to see if it’s better or worse (I’m not prejudging) but it couldn’t be more different. Suggests the club has no strategy.

1 hour ago, Don Julio said:

Talk about a complete 180. Kilmarnock and Leyton Orient versus AC Milan and some other continental clubs.

Will be interesting to see if it’s better or worse (I’m not prejudging) but it couldn’t be more different. Suggests the club has no strategy.

Or...decided that the previous strategy failed miserably so they binned it.

Not convinced on lower league englandshire recruits but let's just see how it goes

1 hour ago, Don Julio said:

Talk about a complete 180. Kilmarnock and Leyton Orient versus AC Milan and some other continental clubs.

Will be interesting to see if it’s better or worse (I’m not prejudging) but it couldn’t be more different. Suggests the club has no strategy.

 

8 minutes ago, Brochred said:

Or...decided that the previous strategy failed miserably so they binned it.

Not convinced on lower league englandshire recruits but let's just see how it goes

Or maybe it might be a mix of the two.

Almost three months until the window "slams" shut 

14 hours ago, Brochred said:

Or...decided that the previous strategy failed miserably so they binned it.

Not convinced on lower league englandshire recruits but let's just see how it goes

The point of a strategy is it isn’t set in stone. It outlines the vision and targets so everyone can understand what you’re trying to achieve and their part in it - but it also is intended to be revised and amended as time goes along.

Now our strategy was clearly massively flawed, but it appears that’s been recognised and they’ve changed course - so credit for that.

Hearts have signed 2 lower league CH’s from down south, and paid over a million for one of them allegedly, so clearly Jamestown doesn’t have an issue looking there.

Every signings a gamble, especially with us, but it will be interesting to compare our new CH’s and how they get on with the Diets new guys.

One thing for sure, on paper they are definitely more suited to this league than any of the recent CH signings have been…

23 hours ago, tlg1903 said:

Scott booth

Badly mis-managed by our physios at the time. Went to Europe and got a “special sock” or something which seemed to resolve things.