Kelty Friday

[GUNBOAT]

If so we are DOOMED ��

He's an FN Funster mate come on tae phuck.

[BudMill90]

A very poor performance overall. I get its the 9th July and the players are still getting up to full fitness but f uck me. Harkes, Pawlett and Clark all hold that team back. Replace them (for now, we need new signings) with Chalmers, Mochrie and Neilson or K Smith (putting Butcher back into midfield, and we might actually create chances and get Shanks the service he needs.

Credit to Duffy and Freeman. Duffy first half and Freeman second half, both very good and quality from Freeman for the goal. He actually looked better at left back even though he is right footed. Hope L Smith injury not too serious but in Freeman and Neilson we have plenty cover there.

Team for Wed assuming no change with injuries etc:

Benji
K Smith Mulgrew Reynolds
Freeman Butcher Fuchs Duffy
Chalmers Shankland Mochrie

You can see tonight the style Courts 'wants' to play. Clark, Pawlett and Harkes are not good enough for it. 1 out of the 3 in an 11 maybe. But all 3 of them were very poor tonight.

[Noddydog]

A wins a win. Better in the second half wie a the young lads.

Major improvement needed. And signings that we all know are needed.

Kinda where I am (and Arabiain). Yes, a lit of it was poor, but a bit better 2nd half. The younger players showed up well and showed they could have an increasing role to play as season goes on. I thought I could see some differences between TC & MM. He managed to change things at half time and make reasonable subs at reasonable times. A lot of the problems were poor tempo and loose passing etc. so hopefully that can be improved in the next few weeks (lets give him some time to make his mark). We do need hose 2 or 3 faces in pretty quick though.

[tHeArAb]

Nae shyte here boys true story from someone who works at Kelty,mega fallout in the dressing room at Halftime first of all Tam bawling and shouting at the players which in my opinion is fair enough however players started shouting back at him which is very very worrying.As was posted earlier PP failed to shake Tam's outstretched hand when subbied which is bad as he fully deserved to get hooked.
I am getting right behind Tam and some of them players shouting back at him need to take a long hard look at themselves because they were poor in the first half and deserved a kick up the erse.

I voiced my concerns on here not long after the appointment about whether Courts could command the respect of the dressing room at this level and this is exactly what I meant. Would be interesting to know if it's true and who it was.

[BudMill90]

It has been posted online so that is it gospel now.

[GUNBOAT]

It has been posted online so that is it gospel now.

It was texted to me tonight,why would i lie?.It is not from anyone at DUFC its from someone who works for Kelty and no its not the janny,FACT.

[GUNBOAT]

I will post the exact words of the text sent to me apart from who heard it as soon as possible.

[GUNBOAT]

Ken what really pysses me aff about this board or its posters now and again?,there are times when you just want to let people know the very little that comes your way and it gets trashed if its not positive news.
Is it meh fault our club is a bit O a basket case?,i can only post what i get telt,would you prefer if i just made up positive shyte for you to read?.
BTW i'm FN delighted we escaped Kelty with a win tonight it could have been a hell O a lot worse,FACT.

[GUNBOAT]

It has been posted online so that is it gospel now.

You never said i lied but it was insinuated which is annoying because i was only posting what i was told.

[stokearab]

A very poor performance overall. I get its the 9th July and the players are still getting up to full fitness but f uck me. Harkes, Pawlett and Clark all hold that team back. Replace them (for now, we need new signings) with Chalmers, Mochrie and Neilson or K Smith (putting Butcher back into midfield, and we might actually create chances and get Shanks the service he needs.

Credit to Duffy and Freeman. Duffy first half and Freeman second half, both very good and quality from Freeman for the goal. He actually looked better at left back even though he is right footed. Hope L Smith injury not too serious but in Freeman and Neilson we have plenty cover there.

Team for Wed assuming no change with injuries etc:

Benji
K Smith Mulgrew Reynolds
Freeman Butcher Fuchs Duffy
Chalmers Shankland Mochrie

You can see tonight the style Courts 'wants' to play. Clark, Pawlett and Harkes are not good enough for it. 1 out of the 3 in an 11 maybe. But all 3 of them were very poor tonight.

Agree. There were a couple of positives in a night of mostly negatives. Freeman, and Chalmers who changed the dynamic of the game when he came on. Plus Shanks all round game was great to watch.

I can only guess Courts set us up 352 because that's how he's going to play in the league games. But the problem with that system is you're losing a 4th man in midfield and you'll need a very good 3 to make it work. We don't have that yet. Might have been better going 451 tonight, getting the creative players we do have like Chalmers Fuchs and Mochrie behind Shankland and looking to create space on the flanks.

If Courts persists with Pawlett and Harkes in midfield we're going to struggle. (The body language between Courts and Pawlett at the substitution looked bad) We have to add a midfielder and a striker.

Giving extensions to Pawlett and Clark was a disaster, no clue what Asghar was thinking there.

But...a win is what was needed and we move forward.