Summer 2021

[King Street Loon]

Do we need to have our centre backs being right or left footed?

No harm on both being right or both left.

 

[Ten Caat]

Just now, aberdeen1970 said:

We're not doing this left foot, right foot stuff again are we? 

I thought we'd consigned that to the bin some time ago. 

Totally irrelevant as none of us have any say in who Glass might or might not go for. But my preference is for a right footed/left footed CH pairing. Won't deviate from that opinion

 

[aberdeen1970]

2 minutes ago, King Street Loon said:

Do we need to have our centre backs being right or left footed?

No harm on both being right or both left.

 

Exactly. 

 

We gave him a long list of right footed centre halves who played on the left of a two. 

We even gave him a long list of right footed left backs. 

We also told him his theory would have meant looking to replace Miller or McLeish. 

Yet it still isn't put to bed. 

It appears he'd rather sign an inferior player because they've got the correct 'foot'. 

[aberdeen1970]

3 minutes ago, Ten Caat said:

Totally irrelevant as none of us have any say in who Glass might or might not go for. But my preference is for a right footed/left footed CH pairing. Won't deviate from that opinion

 

Total nonsense. 

[Ten Caat]

1 minute ago, aberdeen1970 said:

Total nonsense. 

I value your opinion about as much you value mines

[Don_Corleone]

I've never understood why people who are paid thousands of pounds a week to play football every single day can't use both feet. 

Really annoys me when they balloon the ball miles over the bar and the commentator says "it was on his weaker foot" as if that's okay. 

[aberdeen1970]

3 minutes ago, Ten Caat said:

I value your opinion about as much you value mines

I normally do respect your opinion but this one is bonkers 

[Ten Caat]

11 minutes ago, aberdeen1970 said:

I normally do respect your opinion but this one is bonkers 

Why? We have one recognised left back in MacKenzie, who is in and out of the side (I don't recognise Hayes as one, honestly think he's a fucking liability there)

Considine has filled in there in the past, not too disastrously. A left sided CH would give us that option. And also the option to play as a back 3 when required. And as I already mentioned....Considine cannot be expecting a further extension beyond this season. If we signed Kerr we'd have 3/4 right sided centre backs in Gallagher, McCrorie, Devlin and then Kerr (or any other right sided CH that might be signed). To me that is an unbalanced squad.

Kerr is also slightly undersized as a CH in modern day terms (although he is very mobile as an upside). 

 

[aberdeen1970]

2 minutes ago, Ten Caat said:

Why? We have one recognised left back in MacKenzie, who is in and out of the side (I don't recognise Hayes as one, honestly think he's a fucking liability there)

Considine has filled in there in the past, not too disastrously. A left sided CH would give us that option. And also the option to play as a back 3 when required. And as I already mentioned....Considine cannot be expecting a further extension beyond this season. If we signed Kerr we'd have 3/4 right sided centre backs in Gallagher, McCrorie, Devlin and then Kerr (or any other right sided CH that might be signed). To me that is an unbalanced squad.

Kerr is also slightly undersized as a CH in modern day terms (although he is very mobile as an upside). 

 

We should get the best centre halves we can as long as they can play in a pair.  Regardless of preferred foot. 

Centre backs shouldn't be confused with left backs.  Totally different skill set required. 

[Betty Swallicks]

6 minutes ago, aberdeen1970 said:

We should get the best centre halves we can as long as they can play in a pair.  Regardless of preferred foot. 

Centre backs shouldn't be confused with left backs.  Totally different skill set required. 

Correct! The fact we pricked about without a proper left back for years under McInnes is mental. 

 

[The Gee Man]

3 minutes ago, Betty Swallicks said:

Correct! The fact we pricked about without a proper left back for years under McInnes is mental. 

 

We had a proper LB, but he was in midfield 

[slippers]

10 minutes ago, The Gee Man said:

We had a proper LB, but he was in midfield 

We also had Mckenzie who is now 22 in the youth all those years. Dont think he would be at club had Mcinnes still been at club and he could well be our first choice LB. Are we to believe he wasn't good enough up until now? 

[StandFree1982]

20 minutes ago, The Gee Man said:

We had a proper LB, but he was in midfield 

To be fair, he was a very good player to have in midfield. His influence would have been wasted at LB. 

[RED_JOHN]

Why we wasting our time contemplating which defenders we are signing. We are an attacking team now….we don’t need any more defensive players in our squad. Let’s try and change the fan’s mindset. Attack attack attack!

[G31DON]

8 hours ago, Dons79 said:

Franky my dear, I don’t give a damn

That was Clark Gable, not Humphrey Bogart.

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[aberdeen1970]

1 hour ago, Betty Swallicks said:

Correct! The fact we pricked about without a proper left back for years under McInnes is mental. 

 

Aye. 

That kind confused thinking between centre and left backs ends up with the likes of Greg Leigh being signed. Someone who is useless in a number of positions rather than being useful in a position you actually need someone for.

[Dons79]

36 minutes ago, G31DON said:

That was Clark Gable, not Humphrey Bogart.

?‍♂️

A know but it wouldn’t have fit, ??? 

gone with the wind was a good film, preferred Casablanca ???

Old bastard ?

[Torry Tosser]

4 hours ago, Dons79 said:

A know but it wouldn’t have fit, ??? 

gone with the wind was a good film, preferred Casablanca ???

Old bastard ?

Where's @Dad

[fine-n-dandy]

5 hours ago, Dons79 said:

 

gone with the wind 

Old bastard ?

 

1 hour ago, Torry Tosser said:

Where's @Dad

Last seen shuffling rapidly (relatively speaking) with his hands ? pressed up to his arse on way to shitter 

[RED_JOHN]

10 hours ago, fine-n-dandy said:

 

Last seen shuffling rapidly (relatively speaking) with his hands ? pressed up to his arse on way to shitter 

He has certainly been away for a while. Maybe someone should call a doctor for him

[Kilgore Trout]

25 minutes ago, RED_JOHN said:

He has certainly been away for a while. Maybe someone should call a doctor for him

Ask him to bring along a psychiatrist for good measure

[RED_JOHN]

1 hour ago, Kilgore Trout said:

Ask him to bring along a psychiatrist for good measure

I haven’t had much in the way of conversation with @Dad . Maybe my boring posts have actually killed the old fella. RIP @Dad

[Rico1903]

23 hours ago, Don_Corleone said:

I've never understood why people who are paid thousands of pounds a week to play football every single day can't use both feet. 

Really annoys me when they balloon the ball miles over the bar and the commentator says "it was on his weaker foot" as if that's okay. 

Completely agree. Amazes me that kids aren't (properly) taught to play with both feet as a matter of course. Crazy that players get to pro level and still have a 'weaker foot'!  

[RED_JOHN]

1 hour ago, Rico1903 said:

Completely agree. Amazes me that kids aren't (properly) taught to play with both feet as a matter of course. Crazy that players get to pro level and still have a 'weaker foot'!  

What’s worse is when we sign a player and both feet are bad.

[Don_Corleone]

1 hour ago, RED_JOHN said:

What’s worse is when we sign a player and both feet are bad.

? yup, sometimes hard to work out which foot is the “weaker” foot with some of the dross we’ve signed in the past.

[AyrshireSheep]

I wonder what the announcement that Dave Cormack has just teased on Twitter will be about? Says him an Simmy will do it live at 10.15 tomorrow morning. Stadium development maybe? Can't see it being a player as it'd certainly be a 1st ?

[NEM]

6 minutes ago, AyrshireSheep said:

I wonder what the announcement that Dave Cormack has just teased on Twitter will be about? Says him an Simmy will do it live at 10.15. Stadium development maybe? Can't see it being a player as it'd certainly be a 1st ?

new role for Simmie maybe?  Was rumours of him moving in to another role overseeing link between development squads and the first team, not sure if it was ever confirmed?

[AyrshireSheep]

8 minutes ago, NEM said:

new role for Simmie maybe?  Was rumours of him moving in to another role overseeing link between development squads and the first team, not sure if it was ever confirmed?

Quite possible. A formal link up with Real Madrid too much to hope for? ???

[ThomohawkKid]

1 hour ago, AyrshireSheep said:

Quite possible. A formal link up with Real Madrid too much to hope for? ???

Well I seen most there reserve players Sunday and they sucked.. so no thanks

[StevieT1986]

1 hour ago, NEM said:

new role for Simmie maybe?  Was rumours of him moving in to another role overseeing link between development squads and the first team, not sure if it was ever confirmed?

Already been announced has it not as he’s the “pathways manager” or whatever its called