The 8 Cup finals

[weegiearab]

Tifoney from Partick, the striker from Ayr and Scott Bain on loan from Celtic.

[Shedboy_Shimmy]

Tifoney from Partick, the striker from Ayr and Scott Bain on loan from Celtic.

Next Season’s Shopping List WeegieArab?

[weegiearab]

..should have been this Januarys shopping list but big Tony lost it down the back of the couch!

[TerryTheTerror]

Be great if we could get another keeper in...

[ahlltanyirhide]

Would take some freak result for Killie to win in Paisley.

Yes, but when yir on the cheeks of yir erse suddenly everything is phukkin freaky, wouldn’t surprise me at all if teams near us start beating the bigot brothers

[stokearab]

We need to beat Hibs. One win and the mood will change slightly. But first we need to do it.

[Arabs4ever]

..and here is where the problem lies! Football is not a game about individuals, it's about building a team, it's about creating partnerships. Our recruitment has been abysmal. Butcher, Watt, Benji, Clark...they should have all been pretty simple to get improvements in. You ask Levitt what he needs to play his best football...and you find a player that suits. You ask Fletcher what suits his type of play...and you go and get it in. The warning signs should have been there since we tried to kill Lawrence Shanklands career when we didn't get the players around him to create the chances...if you don't get the right balance and partnerships...you will never get a team. Andy Webster and Gary Kenneth being a good example . Kenneth was never the greatest footballer but with the partnership that he formed with Webster, he went on to play a key part in that united team. Recruitment these days looks like its a game of football manager where you only look at stats and not the player.

Yet TA thoughts were very much like the snakes. Buy cheap then hope to cash in on them. If it was that phuckin easy everyone would be doing it. First and foremost you should live within your means. That means paying wages that you can afford with no outside help. Players are aplenty it is just our recruitment and Revolution taking their cut that stinks to high heaven. As mentioned above you need to coach the players to play as a team. United look alright on paper, when they get on grass or plastic they are absolutely honking.

[weegiearab]

To state that we were trying to get players in that were out of our price range..but at the same time taking players in on trial that have youtube clips of them playing in a tattie field in some war torn country! There are plenty players in the championship that could have done a job for us without breaking the bank. The whole thing stinks!

[JUSTaway]

..and here is where the problem lies! Football is not a game about individuals, it's about building a team, it's about creating partnerships. Our recruitment has been abysmal. Butcher, Watt, Benji, Clark...they should have all been pretty simple to get improvements in. You ask Levitt what he needs to play his best football...and you find a player that suits. You ask Fletcher what suits his type of play...and you go and get it in. The warning signs should have been there since we tried to kill Lawrence Shanklands career when we didn't get the players around him to create the chances...if you don't get the right balance and partnerships...you will never get a team. Andy Webster and Gary Kenneth being a good example . Kenneth was never the greatest footballer but with the partnership that he formed with Webster, he went on to play a key part in that united team. Recruitment these days looks like its a game of football manager where you only look at stats and not the player.

Yeap. I've had quite a few supporters of other teams say to me they are surprised we are down there and that we have some decent players, but as I say to them, we have some decent (not brilliant) players, but an abysmal squad. First team definitely not the sum of its parts. No defensive mids to protect defence and push Levitt further forward, no foil for Fletcher etc... and of course you add to that Spaghetti Birighitti.

[bannon_ftd_83]

Ive written and deleted several posts on several threads in the last couple of weeks or so, I just can't muster up the energy for our club anymore. The transfer window is the single worst transfer window in our history. I would pay mega bucks to see a fly-on-the-wall documentary of how our club was being run and, in particular, our transfer dealings of the last window.

Regarding the keeper, surely we are still looking and surely in the big world out there there is a keeper that could come in and save shots that go directly at him.

Whether its someone retired as a coach or someone who is sitting at home doing nothing but going to the gym for his fitness. Honestly he doesn't really even need to be that fit, just a competent goalkeeper, if it doesn't work, then so be it but id rather take a risk with almost anyone else other than Newman of course(who looks equally as ****e). The club should speaking to everyone and anyone that has contact for this sort of player but honestly i doubt they are.