ABERDEEN v Hibernian

[RED_JOHN]

Who wants to admit they wanted to show Scott Wright the door when the young lad was out injured? He is one of our best players and along with Hedges gives our team a fair bit more attacking positivity than what The Anchor Man would prefer.
The lad missed a few chances and the knives were out again but the likes of Cumbersome get away with costing us goals and matches but go relatively unscathed.
I reckon you lot must be Tory voters, No voters and stay in a Stewart Milne dwelling. His positivity (Milne) has rubbed off on you to let you think that you are a cheerful individual.
I will stick to what I believe in....McInnes is inept, Milne was a fraud of a chairman, Tories are w@nkers and No voters are tories.

I will still continue the dream of seeing my once proud club lift silverware regularly, play good football and fear no one. Hopefully whilst in an independent Scotland.

[Don_Corleone]

Who wants to admit they wanted to show Scott Wright the door when the young lad was out injured? He is one of our best players and along with Hedges gives our team a fair bit more attacking positivity than what The Anchor Man would prefer.
The lad missed a few chances and the knives were out again but the likes of Cumbersome get away with costing us goals and matches but go relatively unscathed.

I've championed Scott Wright since seeing him in the under 20s - I just don't think he was played in the right position and the system didn't suit him in previous seasons. As a winger he would just drift out of games - but through the middle he is much more involved, and has more license to roam and find pockets of space. The change to a 3421 system has been ideal for him, and his inclusion has made for much more exciting football to watch this season. The same could be said of Hedges I think. It's great having 2 players with pace and skill to open up defences, in addition to two wing backs, and 2 central midfielders who can get box to box.

I think Wright has improved in terms of his work rate and seems to keep his head up a bit more when things don't come off than when he was just getting the odd 10 minutes here and there out on the wing in previous seasons. He should be one of the first names on the team sheet at the moment, and he should be due a new contract. If he keeps up his current form he won't be far off a Scotland call up by the end of the season - the national team lacks that type of player when guys like Fraser and Forrest are missing - it seems the national side are going to play a similar system to how we are operating, so he could find himself a spot in there at some point.

[57vintage]

Jack Ross raving. Chortle.

Not a mention of Wright being dragged down by some plodding fanny and that wrong ‘un merely getting a yellow card, I note.

https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.c...ns-3028561?amp

[RED_JOHN]

I've championed Scott Wright since seeing him in the under 20s - I just don't think he was played in the right position and the system didn't suit him in previous seasons. As a winger he would just drift out of games - but through the middle he is much more involved, and has more license to roam and find pockets of space. The change to a 3421 system has been ideal for him, and his inclusion has made for much more exciting football to watch this season. The same could be said of Hedges I think. It's great having 2 players with pace and skill to open up defences, in addition to two wing backs, and 2 central midfielders who can get box to box.

I think Wright has improved in terms of his work rate and seems to keep his head up a bit more when things don't come off than when he was just getting the odd 10 minutes here and there out on the wing in previous seasons. He should be one of the first names on the team sheet at the moment, and he should be due a new contract. If he keeps up his current form he won't be far off a Scotland call up by the end of the season - the national team lacks that type of player when guys like Fraser and Forrest are missing - it seems the national side are going to play a similar system to how we are operating, so he could find himself a spot in there at some point.

I agree with what you say. Wright is currently one of our best players on the ball. Other teams are struggling against him and Hedges. If it wasn’t for our manager being such a negative chunt we could have seen more of this play a lot sooner.

[blowupsheep]

It must eat away at blowupsheep when his donkey scores a goal like that.

haha, nice to see that my opinion of Sam has a lasting effect on people and when he does score I'm the first thing that you can think of cheers
As i've said time and time again i will give him credit when its due and he took his goal very well so fair play.
Other than that he contributed fk all else all game, folks may argue that his goal was enough contribution as in effect it killed the game, i don't see it that way. I still think he is a lazy tw@t of a player with limited footballing ability, goes down to easy and we have far better starting options than him.
But hey ho lets hope we sell him in the next window and make few quid and to me that will be his best ever contribution to the dons.

[mondo_notion]

haha, nice to see that my opinion of Sam has a lasting effect on people and when he does score I'm the first thing that you can think of cheers
As i've said time and time again i will give him credit when its due and he took his goal very well so fair play.
Other than that he contributed fk all else all game, folks may argue that his goal was enough contribution as in effect it killed the game, i don't see it that way. I still think he is a lazy tw@t of a player with limited footballing ability, goes down to easy and we have far better starting options than him.
But hey ho lets hope we sell him in the next window and make few quid and to me that will be his best ever contribution to the dons.

Well said Mavis.

[Don_Corleone]

haha, nice to see that my opinion of Sam has a lasting effect on people and when he does score I'm the first thing that you can think of cheers
As i've said time and time again i will give him credit when its due and he took his goal very well so fair play.
Other than that he contributed fk all else all game, folks may argue that his goal was enough contribution as in effect it killed the game, i don't see it that way. I still think he is a lazy tw@t of a player with limited footballing ability, goes down to easy and we have far better starting options than him.
But hey ho lets hope we sell him in the next window and make few quid and to me that will be his best ever contribution to the dons.

I agree with much of that - compared to someone like Watkins who puts in a lot of work, holds the ball up well, has good close control and links the play, Cosgrove is way behind. I think it does affect the way we play - the ball doesnt “stick” up front as well with cosgrove and we revert to long ball more often (thankfully not as much as last year or two though). Cosgroves first touch is still dreadful and his running off the ball etc isn’t great.

He does however seem to have a nack of scoring. When I saw him running through on goal the other night it felt like he was running in slow motion and took the ball away from goal - watching back the replay some of his touches look clumsy and he could very easily have overrun it with any one of them - then the finish goes flying into the roof of the net - I can only imagine it caught the keeper off guard because most players would have taken the shot with their left foot from that position.

If he keeps scoring you can’t complain too much, but I’d still cash in it we get an offer of £2m or more.

[Aldo1983]

I agree with much of that - compared to someone like Watkins who puts in a lot of work, holds the ball up well, has good close control and links the play, Cosgrove is way behind. I think it does affect the way we play - the ball doesnt “stick” up front as well with cosgrove and we revert to long ball more often (thankfully not as much as last year or two though). Cosgroves first touch is still dreadful and his running off the ball etc isn’t great.

He does however seem to have a nack of scoring. When I saw him running through on goal the other night it felt like he was running in slow motion and took the ball away from goal - watching back the replay some of his touches look clumsy and he could very easily have overrun it with any one of them - then the finish goes flying into the roof of the net - I can only imagine it caught the keeper off guard because most players would have taken the shot with their left foot from that position.

If he keeps scoring you can’t complain too much, but I’d still cash in it we get an offer of £2m or more.

He looks awful but the goal sums him up. He's slow, looks like he's made a **** of it then scores with a stunning finish.

[RED_JOHN]

Blowupsheep is spot on with his assessment of Cosgrove. His strike at goal was decent but only that. He just hit it with the outside of his foot (nothing spectacular about that) and it hit the net....it’s what he is paid to do. The rest of his time on the pitch was dreadful. He will need to up his performances a notch or preferably two if he wants to be taken seriously. Now Ferguson is on the penalties it will be interesting to see how many Cosgrove scores in a season.
For what it’s worth I don’t dislike the fella....I just think we as a club try to make him sound better than he actually is. He is a donkey but he has scored a few goals. The penalties will be an issue though.

[blowupsheep]

I agree with much of that - compared to someone like Watkins who puts in a lot of work, holds the ball up well, has good close control and links the play, Cosgrove is way behind. I think it does affect the way we play - the ball doesnt “stick” up front as well with cosgrove and we revert to long ball more often (thankfully not as much as last year or two though). Cosgroves first touch is still dreadful and his running off the ball etc isn’t great.

Aye DC you are pretty much spot-on with that and the reason that thankfully we have not reverted back to long hoofball so far this season is that thankfully big Sam has not been playing.
His first touch is worse than dreadful and his second touch is normally a tackle, and not a very good tackle either ffs