Pre-Season Friendlies

[der Berliner 3,744]

25 minutes ago, compo said:

And as we’re playing friendly matches about half the league is playing competitive matches in the league cup 

Comes with the success. Back in the day, we were still waiting for football this time of the year (80s and 90s). Or, during the dark years, had to fight it out with the dross of the lower leagues for a place to meet the Premiership "elite". We've picked some quality opposition for pre-season and yesterday wasn't too bad, given that the gaffer said that the team was put through heavy training before.

 

More general ...

 

Dunno the bother people have with Dessers and Cantwell. The former is the one striker who puts the ball in the net, and probably would have hit 30+ had he taken all of Tav's penalties. Lawrence played some shadow striker role yesterday, though I wish we would play with two strikers more often. Danilo and Cortes will hopefully contribute as much as Sima did last season, they are effectively two new signings. No-one knows what Igamane will be like, or what will happen to Lammers, so for the time being, Dessers remains our only reliable/proven striker. Despite being played against packed defences with not that much support.

Cantwell remains the only player that brings a spark, the unexpected bit of creativity. Lowry (who I didn't notice at first because of his new "hairstyle") has that in him too, but we shall see how the Hearts trip changed him. Cantwell is the mercurial character that is disliked by quite a few. But really, I'd rather have three of him in the squad than all those these new 90 kg well-muscled footballer-imposters who fall at the ground at minimum contact (really a plague) to grab a free kick or get a fellow player send off. Or slow-motion thinkers who try well worked channels all game with little or no progress,

Yesterday, especially some of the younger players, tried decent enough one-touch fast thinking football. Gives us hope, and one wonders whether Clement will blood a few of them in the lesser league or cup games.

[Gonzo79 15,294]

Any news on Raskin's injury?

[compo 7,042]

We’d better be on our toes on Saturday the United boys will be looking to make amends for the defeat against Rosenberg 

[CammyF 8,097]

Lammers starts for the B-Team against Leeds today. The 18s lost 3-0 to Leeds earlier that's after an impressive 5-0 win over Arsenal at the weekend.

[CammyF 8,097]

0-0 at half-time and Lammers substituted.  There goes any chance of Leeds putting in a cheeky wee bid for him.

[CammyF 8,097]

1-0 to Leeds with circa 15mins left to play 

[CammyF 8,097]

As a side-note, Andy Websters son is captain of our B Team today. 

[Sutton_blows_goats 5,337]

Good prospect that lad.

[JohnMc 2,754]

Andy Webster? The Andy Webster who we went to all sorts of hassle to sign and then never played, that Andy Webster? Hope lad takes after his mother. 

Last I heard Webster was involved in the Hearts youth academy. 

[Sutton_blows_goats 5,337]

1 minute ago, JohnMc said:

Andy Webster? The Andy Webster who we went to all sorts of hassle to sign and then never played, that Andy Webster? Hope lad takes after his mother. 

Last I heard Webster was involved in the Hearts youth academy. 

Aye the lad does.

 

Webster Snr is working in a football operations role for St Mirren now I think.