Team/Tactics for Sunday v Aberdeen

[spikeontheright]

Last 20 minutes papered over the cracks.

4-1 down before we start playing shows a total lack of character.

[CarlisleArab]

Shocking 1st half, better in the 2nd half.

Drop Flood & Lewis & we could have the makings of a team that could compete...in the Championship.

If there is any truth that we have to play Lewis otherwise we have to play his wages, then we should see if we can send him back to Southampton. IMO at fault for all 4 goals. First - poor positioning and for someone supposedly 6’3” his lack of height is alarming. Second - poor positioning again made it easy for GMS to score. Third - if he was in the middle of his goal he could have taken a step to his left & saved the header. Fourth - enough said. He appears to be so short of confidence he is not what we need in our current predicament.

[TerryTheTerror]

I actually thought Flood was our best player. 🙂

[JUSTaway]

if you are going to play one up front away from home go with McMullan ahead of MacDonald, it was quite effective early in the season, and at least he has the pace to get in behind defences.

The space all over the park today for Aberdeen when ever they went forward was frightening. The Jan signings not really addressed the problems we had (Ling and Slatter anyway). Slatter is leightweight and similar to what we have, and Ling, besides not looking very good (nice pass for goal), might be big but is not physical and can win headers.

[JUSTaway]

cant win headers

[spikeontheright]

Shocking 1st half, better in the 2nd half.

Drop Flood & Lewis & we could have the makings of a team that could compete...in the Championship.

If there is any truth that we have to play Lewis otherwise we have to play his wages, then we should see if we can send him back to Southampton. IMO at fault for all 4 goals. First - poor positioning and for someone supposedly 6’3” his lack of height is alarming. Second - poor positioning again made it easy for GMS to score. Third - if he was in the middle of his goal he could have taken a step to his left & saved the header. Fourth - enough said. He appears to be so short of confidence he is not what we need in our current predicament.

Would excuse him for the third but the rest were his fault.

Aberdeen were very poor today and did nothing much to get their 4 goals, a familiar tale this season. I'd like to think we could take something from a positive last 20 minutes but I think that just came from throwing caution to the wind with nothing to lose.

[JamesMcClean]

To be fair, the tools could have been really downed at 4-1 and that could have ended up as bad as, if not worse, than the Funsters last season. To their great credit, they didn't capitulate and I thought did pretty well second half. Had that chance their keeper saved on 86 minutes gone in to make it 4-3 then it would have been an interesting last few minutes. To summarise, I would suggest that first half we saw a team that would struggle to stay in the Championship, second half was a mid table Premiership team. Much,much, more of the latter, and much less of the former may yet give us a chance this season.

To his credit, McInnes in his post match interviews was questioning United's current predicament on the basis of the second half performance.

[Arabs4ever]

See all the loan signings we have get them away tae phuck. Never been a fan of loan signings. Thus along with transfer windows is what is wrong with football. You do well for the first part of the season, then January window opens then all your good work is undone. Not that we have done well from the start of the season for a good number of years now. As has been said who does the scouting? They do not know how do address the positions that have been glaringly obvious. If we have scouts they couldn't scout shoite floating in Tay, thats how bad they are.

Why did we recall Cammy B from Montrose? If he isn't going to play let him go back to Montrose and get playing time.

[JUSTaway]

we scored two cracking finishes, and I expected much worse today, but no way in a year of sundays is that a mid premiership team even on 45 mins

[Chick A Saw]

I actually thought Flood was our best player. 🙂

Did we watch the same game? I thought he was actually playing for them at one point!

Pass marks today for Gillespie, Stanton and McMullen, then after them King did ok but when are managers gonna realize that if you loose a defender, you dont have to move the one who has done ok this season. Felt for Durnan today as he in no way is a left sided defender. Should have kept him on the right side and allowed him to do what he has done all season and cover the gaps left by others!

And if we have made any money from this, we should use it to either drop Lewis or let him go back home. Yes he did have some fine saves, but he was at fault for at least 3 of their goals.