PoohBear

Nothing I like more than signing two exciting players and not watching either of them.

I have no idea what the true value of the guy is, but perhaps 2m is a snip of his true value. If so then it would be money well spent and perhaps the only way we can afford someone like him. Hope he's worth it 👍

9 minutes ago, Sutton_blows_goats said:

Failed a medical at millwall supposedly so we probably are.

Yes, I’m incredibly suspicious of anyone who travels to a club to sign when everything is agreed and then has a last minute change of mind. 

Holy shit, is this real? Bye bye Goodwin, it's been a shocker of a month or two for him.

Good punditry as Rangers are 1-0 up in the last minute, "I think Rangers have done enough to win the game".

How much do you get paid for that pearl of wisdom?

Is there no VAR?

😲

jesus

Why does Michael Stewart keep fiddling with his baws in front of the camera???

We have scored first, that's progress.

Borna can shoot!!!

Brilliant attempt from Sakala and a great setup from Tillman.

24 minutes ago, buster. said:

Mibbes aye, mibbes naw...

 

More money is usually the key.

Possibly, but why would Goldson be more attractive to an EPL side now? 
 

Anyway, I'd probably take money for him. He'd be a big loss but we need to churn the squad, buy in a younger defender.

I’m not sure Goldson would leave, he chose to stay with us after his contract expired so I doubt he wants to move on now.

That's the spirit

3 minutes ago, the gunslinger said:

the idea that McLaughlan is better at crosses and with his feet must surely be dead now. 

 

 

He's better at looking like a ballet dancer when going for a cross, that must be worth something?

I know the old mantra is often repeated that 3 points is all that matters, but if we keep going with these performances then we won't be getting 3 points from some future matches. We are getting by by the skin of our teeth at times. We need signings so bloody quickly it's just not funny anymore.

What the fuck was that from McLaughlin at the end there? Pass it straight to their player?

Get in! 
 

Glad we never made any changes, I had complete faith in this side 🥸

Good to see there are no changes

Good goal!

Genuine question, how is it we’ve ended up in a situation where Sakala is our most effective player? I like him, but wow, what has happened to the squad?

Feels like it’s every time.

Goalkeeper looks like he’s dancing

Me no likey that midfield

35 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

I think we have; we just haven't follwed through by selling them. 

 

Morelos, Kamara etc. should/could have been sold ages ago. 

I think you're agreeing with me, you just opted to leave out the last part of my first sentence 😆

Reality is that we need to sign young players with potential or rough diamonds, train them up and move them on. We haven't done that with much of the team that's let us stagnate. Whittaker may not improve the first team straight away, but looking to the future he may well be worth the effort. We need to keep up the turnover of squad, polishing the rough and selling on for profit.

30 minutes ago, ascender said:

Barisic is a bit like Morelos in that no matter how well he's been playing, you know there's going to be a costly error or a period of below-par performances just around the corner. I'd still like to see us start next season with two new fullbacks.

 

Why do we seem to have such indecision in our back line whenever the ball comes in to our box? Every single game we end up with a few scrappy games of pinball in our box where the ball could end up anywhere.

 

Re Barisic and/or McGregor, round about the 15th minute, a ball came back to Barisic's area and the pass to make 99 times out of 100 was to play it back to McGregor which he chose not to do and instead tried to play a long ball forward. I just thought that was a bit telling of where we are at the moment.

When you look at the team in the stark light of day it's hard to see who isn't replaceable at the moment, maybe the central defence pairing, Sakala and Tillman? Our past best players are now in decline, for example Jack, Tav, Morelos, honestly we've held on to some for too long and we are paying the price for that. Even players that have plenty of skill seem to have really dipped recently, Kent being an example. I wonder if we held out for too much money for players like Kamara, Morelos and the like. Even Tav, I love the guy, but the more forward looking option would have been to try and move him on and hold on to Patterson. 
 

Of course, there are so many caveats there, teams may have had no interest in Tav. Still though, it's left us where we are now, not enough of the team have been turned over in the last few windows.

What's with the controversy around the Kent/Scales coming together? It looked like Kent was running and turned to get to the ball without realising a player was there and they clashed? Didn't seem anything in it when I was watching.