Accies Match thread blah blah blah

[Aldo1983]

I'd managed to erase them from my memory. I've nothing against Joe, he seems like a nice guy, and he is a good keeper. He's just not a captain, he's not a leader, he doesn't inspire, he doesn't fight the team's corner, he doesn't get in the ref's face and argue in our favour - some of these things he can't do so well simply because of his position, but I'm not convinced he's the right character to be a captain anyway - is he a real winner? I'm not so sure. Shinnie was a winner, he was determined, fought for everything - Ferguson is a winner, Hayes is a winner - they hate losing. Some of our players just seem to accept it - Lewis looks like he has a sort of resigned look on his face when we concede a goal and when we don't get a result - there's no anger, passion or determination that it's not good enough. That's what i want from a captain - but we need a few more players like that throughout the team generally.

I think you can be a good captain without being a total ******* and getting in everyone's face. There's nothing wrong with others stepping up and telling Taylor he's absolutely pish.

[nice1simmy]

I'd managed to erase them from my memory. I've nothing against Joe, he seems like a nice guy, and he is a good keeper. He's just not a captain, he's not a leader, he doesn't inspire, he doesn't fight the team's corner, he doesn't get in the ref's face and argue in our favour - some of these things he can't do so well simply because of his position, but I'm not convinced he's the right character to be a captain anyway - is he a real winner? I'm not so sure. Shinnie was a winner, he was determined, fought for everything - Ferguson is a winner, Hayes is a winner - they hate losing. Some of our players just seem to accept it - Lewis looks like he has a sort of resigned look on his face when we concede a goal and when we don't get a result - there's no anger, passion or determination that it's not good enough. That's what i want from a captain - but we need a few more players like that throughout the team generally.

Hayes is a winner but he's not the type to get in a ref's face like Ferguson and Shinnie would

[57vintage]

This is the kind of thing we're missing - who in the current squad has any kind of aggression? Only ones i can think of are Hayes and Ferguson. The rest are all too nice. It's why we still miss Shinnie - he's probably not a better player than Ferguson or McCrorie, but we miss his aggression and leadership. Joe Lewis is quite possibly the worst captain we've had in living memory. Good player, but the definition of uninspiring when you hear him speak and see him on the park, plus from goals he can't influence the majority of the outfield players.

No longer allowed though. Last season, Cosgrove was sent off at Celtic Park for blocking at close range clearance from one of their fanny-dancing defenders, who made a miraculous recovery from a series of shattered lower limb bones once the card had been shown. The season before, at the very same venue, the Compliance Clype intervened post-match and felt McKenna's collar for clearing the ball and stiffing another hooped fanny in the follow-through.

Shinnie's rap sheet was Tolstoyan in its magnitude, and sometimes I questioned if it was worth giving him 90 minutes every week.

"There was contact".

"He was entitled to go down".

"He was over-zealous in the tackle, thereby endangering a ****ing fanny who would have been devoured as a half time snack by Simmie".

And that's fit I think.

Fannies.

****ing filigree-framed feart fannies. Your lessons on alliteration have not been in vain, Jake Arnaud.

[neilthedon]

No longer allowed though. Last season, Cosgrove was sent off at Celtic Park for blocking at close range clearance from one of their fanny-dancing defenders, who made a miraculous recovery from a series of shattered lower limb bones once the card had been shown. The season before, at the very same venue, the Compliance Clype intervened post-match and felt McKenna's collar for clearing the ball and stiffing another hooped fanny in the follow-through.

Shinnie's rap sheet was Tolstoyan in its magnitude, and sometimes I questioned if it was worth giving him 90 minutes every week.

"There was contact".

"He was entitled to go down".

"He was over-zealous in the tackle, thereby endangering a ****ing fanny who would have been devoured as a half time snack by Simmie".

And that's fit I think.

Fannies.

****ing filigree-framed feart fannies. Your lessons on alliteration have not been in vain, Jake Arnaud.

Well, there`s quite a bit of that , for sure !! Mind Cosgrove also got sent off against the blue scum for daring to get kicked on the foot by one of their defenders ? The nerve of the boy ?

however, there are somoe subtle ways of being aggresive these days. Mainly by being good at reading the game and being right on top of the play and theplayer. " Aggresive" closing down. Ferguson manages this well, as does McCrorie. Shinnie was a bit dramatic about his version, and often a little late in getting there ?

Ojo on the other hand is about six foot away from it all most of the time. We just ( !! Just , ha !! ) needa few more sharper players. Campbell did well-ish against Accies, but only in the Rat style passing sideways game. ( Although tbf he is usually better at picking a decenr forward pass ) Think we sliiped back into the hoofball last game . due to a combination of a slow midfield , and nobody wanting to run with the ball from defence/mified. Kennedy and Hedges were picking the ball up way too deep as a start ?

Ok, meandering off topic maybe now ? time to go.......

[donsdaft]

For f’uck sake rico min.

I was just trying to have a relaxing friday night* when you go and mention Foster.

Foster the Hun.

You know, there were people on here defending him being made captain.
If it happened again, I know who would be defending him now.

B’astard.





* Relaxing and Friday were never two words I could have put together back in the day.