Faddy in U20s

[jwok]

McFadden starts for the U20s against ICT this afternoon.

Some of his magic might be useful for the big team on Saturday!

[neillyboy]

Faddy's finished as a player.

[texaco cup]

Heaven help us if we have to rely on Faddy making another comeback to save our season! ��

[Handsome_Devil]

I hope it's because one/more of the U20s are being considered for the first team on Saturday.

Edit to add, though it's obviously way to early for them, Semple and Agyeman looked very impressive in the U20 highlights against ICT. Semple in particular, given his exploits with the Scotland age-group squad, should be on a Jim McLean contract.

[sieb1886]

Yes, hope it's to get some closeup views of the young talent on the pitch, rather than some ill contrived plan for him making a comeback on Saturday. Those days are deid n buried long ago.

[wellin]

He won't be any worse than the dross we have in our first team at the moment. At least faddy had talent.

[LawSteelman]

Yes, hope it's to get some closeup views of the young talent on the pitch, rather than some ill contrived plan for him making a comeback on Saturday. Those days are deid n buried long ago.

You would hope so but I wouldn't be surprised, given the club's obsession with living in the past with regards to players and recruitment. The pedestal that McFadden is placed on by the support and the club is utterly embarrassing considering he has had nothing to offer at this level for at least three years now yet he is still registered as a first team player and will no doubt be player/manager at some point next season when Robinson gets the boot. It just sums up the club as a whole, no interest in looking to the future, we just want to wallow in the past and with regards to Faddy, there are a number in the stands and in the club itself it would seem that still hold this romanticised picture of him being this 19 year old wonder kid with the red stripe in his hair and the only bright spot for our tiny little club in financial difficulty.

Living in the past never did anyone any good yet we as a club are utterly obsessed with it.

[WoodyG]

You would hope so but I wouldn't be surprised, given the club's obsession with living in the past with regards to players and recruitment. The pedestal that McFadden is placed on by the support and the club is utterly embarrassing considering he has had nothing to offer at this level for at least three years now yet he is still registered as a first team player and will no doubt be player/manager at some point next season when Robinson gets the boot. It just sums up the club as a whole, no interest in looking to the future, we just want to wallow in the past and with regards to Faddy, there are a number in the stands and in the club itself it would seem that still hold this romanticised picture of him being this 19 year old wonder kid with the red stripe in his hair and the only bright spot for our tiny little club in financial difficulty.

Living in the past never did anyone any good yet we as a club are utterly obsessed with it.

This is just silly talk. The club is NOT living in the past. We are just ****e at the moment. McGhee and Robinson were poor appointments.

The planning to replace stalwarts like Lasley, Hammel etc has to fit within a balancing of the budget and stability at the club

I don't accept the club isn't looking to the future. They have and they have paniced. Two poor managers in a row.

[LawSteelman]

Two poor managers in a row? I make it three.

Over the past three years the club has been on a downward spiral on and off the park and we have handed out decent contracts to Lasley, Hammell, Pearson and McFadden, all players well into their 30s and also re-hired a former manager who had one good season with us a decade ago. Oh aye, and we then replaced him with the assistant of a previous failed regime.

If that's not living in the past then I don't know what is.

[Wellup4it]

Two poor managers in a row? I make it three.

Over the past three years the club has been on a downward spiral on and off the park and we have handed out decent contracts to Lasley, Hammell, Pearson and McFadden, all players well into their 30s and also re-hired a former manager who had one good season with us a decade ago. Oh aye, and we then replaced him with the assistant of a previous failed regime.

If that's not living in the past then I don't know what is.

I don't know if its living in the past but it was certainly taking the easy option in terms of squad building. Looking at Lasley yesterday he's clearly past it but at least his contract ends shortly. Pearson's also ends next month. Hammell's has another injury riddled year to run year. I don't know what more faddy has to offer on the field. These contract extensions were handed out too easily to what seems like an old boys club.