Playing Adam Matthews and Emilio Izaguirre as wing-backs with Kelvin Wilson, Charlie Mulgrew and Mikael Lustig as a back three looked a bit clumsy and didn’t last the 90 minutes but that was to be expected. New defensive formations are not supposed to operate as smoothly as familiar systems.
I’m far from certain three at the back is a good idea, or if we have the correct personnel for this formation, but Neil Lennon should persist with the experiment. We will not learn and grow if we don’t take chances, which was one of our abiding frustrations under both Martin O’Neill and Gordon Strachan.
No experiments on Tuesday, of course!
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Pie and Bovril @pieandbov
There was 9,464 at Tannadice on March 17th when #DundeeUtd last hosted #Rangers. There were 13,538 there today for the visit of #Dundee.
This Armageddon lark isn’t too bad really!
bournesouprecipe 19:49 on
THE WEAKEST LINK (BBC2)
Anne Robinson:…………………….. Oscar Wilde, Adolf Hitler and Jeffrey Archer have all written books about their experiences in what: Prison or the Conservative Party?
I thought they were all on: I’m a celebrity – get me out of here!
:-)
goal Barca 3 minutes.. Puyol
Anybody think we could maybe get ole Puyol on loan for a season. What a player.
Ghents
McKenna accepts they can’t do a diligent and honest job because of the need to keep up the circulation figures…..a brave admission although I don’t believe that was the purpose of the piece
They are toadying , disingenuous rat bags and he just admitted it
No wonder their industry is in terminal decline
First games of the season and lots of empty seats at Madrid and Barca,
It’s a well known fact (in my household) that very few footballers can understand talk of formations. Bear in mind that our coaching staff, messrs NL & others, were also players and probably don’t understand it all either despite gaining badges. I can’t see why they don’t just stick to something most people understand (say 4-4-2 or 4-3-3) and then quietly explain to each player what they’re required to do in each match depending on the opposition.
Any variation in tactics will depend on who is available to do a specific job. So, if Adam or Emilio are asked to make forward runs, Victor and Joe (for example) are asked to cover back if they see them going on a run. It’s exactly the same with man to man marking which can take a man out of the basic formation and needs to be tactically balanced.
Eyes Wide Open 17:20 I’m not far off your position on this except that I don’t think the team could cope with all the players being freed of the instructions they need about where to go in a dead ball situation.
The whole Commons debate today revolves around whether an individual player has the initiative to do the right thing all the time. For most of them the truth is that they don’t, in fact they all make mistakes and we all have our pet loves and hates. He showed a lack of initiative at one critical time in yesterday’s match but loads of initiative at other times, especially to get into a position where he could score a goal.
fanadpatriot 15:47 I think you’re taking a really hard line on Commons. Players have different personalities and preferences just the same as we do. He may have made a mistake at that point in the game but imho cheated no-one, he treated us all to a priceless goal.
btw Sammi is the best centre half in the squad.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS 14:57 Thanks for the post, I read the article with interest. Now I think I need help.
‘stevenceltic81’ is an inspiration to us all, thanks for the various links. I’ll be dropping in a response to his blog. The lack of a ‘ph’ isn’t a disqualification from being a Celtic supporter. An all-inclusive community is what we are and what we should always be.
Paul67 / kevinjohn Is there any way threads like the ‘Irish War of Independence’ can be separated out and linked via a ribbon or sidebar? A lot of useful information is placed on this site that I’d like to follow up on at other times. It would be great if you could make access easier than making notes and trawling back through other statements and responses to get to what you want.
HH
1-1 Barca great goal from Sociedad
roy croppie
20:03 on 19 August, 2012
Pie and Bovril @pieandbov
There was 9,464 at Tannadice on March 17th when #DundeeUtd last hosted #Rangers. There were 13,538 there today for the visit of #Dundee.
This Armageddon lark isn’t too bad really!
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Superb.
v Huns 9,464.
v Huns’ replacements 13,538
4,074 UP.
But what are the chances of that FACT being detailed in the MSM this week?
Exactly.
Gordon_J backing Neil Lennon
19:53 on
19 August, 2012
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That is the chat among some of the SNP gang they know the game is up and dont want to get beat.
It would then be up to the UK Govt to fulfill the SNP manifesto commitment and run with the referendum with the one question, the Nats will implode with the divisions you described their discipline from 2003 will breakdown and the factions will blame each other. Also that would be the time for Salmond to vacate the leadership and the battle between the Fundies and the rest will spill over (well I hope so)
Sturgeon, Swinney and Neil would fight for to be his replacement and AS will go to the European Parliament and he can go back to the lifestyle he could lead at Westminster and nobody reported on, that would be possible in the Euro Parliament, a much bigger goldfish bowl with no pesky journos to tell tales on AS
2-1 Messi
the_huddle
20:09 on 19 August, 2012
First games of the season and lots of empty seats at Madrid and Barca,
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Aye, saw that.
Obviously due to the Huns Div 3 apocalyptic placement… Jabba to write article linking the two.
The Spanish economy is in terminal decline, unemployment at 20% plus.
How long can Spanish football continue in it’s present form?
Shame.
3-1 Messi 15 min
If you can’t be good be lucky, 3-1 Messi :O)
!!Bada Bing!!
20:17 on
19 August, 2012
3-1 Messi 15 min
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Messi looking sharp. Wonder how many goals he will score this season.
Dan
the huddle
As Arnold Palmer said “the more I practice the luckier I get”
Do you not think Neil should be taking a look at that bhoy messi, think he could do a turn at paradise… Wee loan deal for a year ;-)
Wish I could win the lottery as well
HH
Gene…..
….it was Gary Player, I think.
Gene’s
Was that Gary Player? Or Paddy McCourt?
have a good evening bhoys and ghirls am away to watch some csi before bed.
hail hail
Kevin McKenna does make a number of valid points- including issues of copy being subjected to scrutiny before being published etc-However his argument that as a sports editor he needed to feed his readers the views of Murray because he was worried that another paper would gain the ‘scooop’ only serves to highlight the vice-like grip that Murray had on the ‘free press’. Comparing and justifying this approach with how the Westminster political press operate in itself undermines the credibility of his argument. The one main reason that citizen journalists have so many readers and the print press is in decline is that online blogs do not have their presentation of events in Scottish football clouded by issues of profit – the pages in the newspapers devoted to preserving Sevco in SPL then Div 1 being the most recent example
Skateboard CSC
Gourock
as Jabba might write “Messi in end my Barcelona hell – come and get me Neil”
Dan -Barca look like scoring every attack,could be 6 or 7.
leftclicktic
If you lead a man by the short and curlies his mind is sure to follow.
It was definitely Gary Palmer or Arnold Player
Where is McKenna’s article? I looked on the Observer site but couldn’t find it.
Gene’s
The quote will be on BBC i-Palmer
Gene….
….it wisney Arnold!
Bada Bing,
Yes, another one and I think it will be all over. Slowed a wee bit in the last 5 minutes. Very warm over there at the moment though, so I guess they will pace themselves.
Dan
Maybe I’m missing something with this whole newspaper thing but wouldn’t circulation be higher if you printed stories which interested both sides of the football divide as opposed to constantly showing one team in a positive light and the other in a negative one?
This leads me to believe that most writers are simply just Sevco/Rangers fans or that their editors are.
gene’s a bhoys name
20:24 on
19 August, 2012
Gourock
as Jabba might write “Messi in end my Barcelona hell – come and get me Neil”
Ha ha, we can but dream lol
HH
Just looked at yesterday’s highlights on BBC – Thompson is looking right at the challenge on Samaras – a clear trip – he is either a cheat or incompetent or both
Gene….
He’s a cheat.
Or a competent cheat, even.
My dear dear dear dear frauds same azmazel @ad infinitum
Az youse maze knowz or not I’z been sufferen the AZ 67 Alkmaar allzy poos fur quite sum time noo. Zee laatste nieuws is that as jokolism goez I’ll be pounding more of zee pish on the zenile ol keyboard as I cannae make up my mind if mee vernacular is pre industrial rezoloution dutchmeister or some Sir Walter Scott Red Clydesider amalgam. Doo (funny hehehe like ma pijun English) to zee progressive deterioation o ma condishun
I will ocassionally lapse into mee oan true right wing fascismo obliterato defaulto personalito and sputteringz of Lennonism even though he didny get rubberstamperism at the outkast mandy mammy bowler hat eating mincerooni schizo mates.
However, I will endeavour to continue illicit fondness fae awe mah beloved colleagues here on CQN by submitting the most inane repetitive drivel possible in my imaginary vernacularizmo.
Yer pal who loves ye awe a stoater
ParkheadcumsalfordwhoisNeilLennonand PaulMcBrideandTrishGodman
Try page 6 of CQN.
Thin Dime Bhoy
Free speech and free will are the two greatest chaotic influences that Government of whatever shade actually fear.
They are ‘frees’ that comprise our greatest private possession outside the love of our family, privacy of conscience. The privacy of reasons and our reason.
That is uncontrollable but Governments as I say of all shades will do whatever they can to minimise this latitude. By the use of ‘fear’. Every variation, every alternative, every deviation from Their plan, means that they have to think. Therefore deviation, contemplation, compromise and most of all honesty are subjugated to the constant hypnosis….’things will get worse if…..!
They will pretend, connive, collaborate, and con in any way they can to stay in power. That means controlling ‘free’! And speech and will are right at the top of ALL governments targets. They just can’t say it.
Hail Hail
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