dl1971 Posted August 2, 2019 Report Share Posted August 2, 2019 It's simple for me. If we continue in the same form that we showed from January to May, we will be play offs at worse. Has GC improved the squad since May I'm not so sure. Dont think it is too different in many ways. We will know where we are heading after first 11 games. Hopefully we are not subjected to hysteria if we do start slowly. I'm more optimistic than last August where I witnessed the poorest jags team at ayr.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westertonjagfan Posted August 2, 2019 Report Share Posted August 2, 2019 On 8/1/2019 at 1:13 PM, Third Lanark said: I’ve been seriously underwhelmed at jones cameo performances so far, albeit the league hasn’t started. Hopefully he will prove me wrong though I think there's a good player there waiting to get out. But I thought that about Big Pogba too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlsarmy Posted August 2, 2019 Report Share Posted August 2, 2019 19 hours ago, Ancipital said: Think we'll be 3rd or 4th, the only clubs I think will finish above us are the Dundee clubs & maybe Inverness. Hopkin obviously did very well with Livi but it's easily forgotten he got them relegated first and then had to rebuild a team and the fact Morton have had to re-register a coach that retired a year ago... imagine if that happened to us, would be heads on fire everywhere. I'd be very disappointed if we finished behind Ayr who have lost pretty much all of their best outfield players from last season (Shankland, Rose, Crawford, Smith) and would have finished bottom if you'd started last season from any point from about December onwards. I'm sure there's a precedent for an Ian McCall managed team in this league after losing their best players and I don't remember it being pleasant. Dunfermline finished below us last season (yes they did) and have signed a bunch of untried kids, Paul Paton who is beyond done, and Kevin Nisbet who might make us rue our decision to let him go- but his performances for Raith vs Queens in the playoffs last year and the % of his goals that were penalties vs part time players suggests otherwise. Queens themselves still look to be overly reliant on one man who is injured for the first few weeks of the season, and while Alloa and Arbroath might cause annoyance in individual games- hopefully not Saturday- I think they're a safe bet to be 9 & 10 in whatever order you prefer. Think you’re wrong re Kevin Nisbett, he’ll score 15 - 20 goals this season in an attacking team Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty Posted August 2, 2019 Report Share Posted August 2, 2019 Well looks like two things are set to be the story of this season's championship campaign. The Dundee teams are the media's favourites and the referees are going to be sh1te! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heppy C Posted August 2, 2019 Report Share Posted August 2, 2019 I think we missed a chance to bring Nesbit back thats him now scored 6 goals in 5 games this season. Although I have to admit I didnt think he was good enough when he got his first team chances for us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elevenone Posted August 2, 2019 Report Share Posted August 2, 2019 Personally would have Nisbett over Mansell any day but it is what it is now. Dundee look rank rotten. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lady-isobel-barnett Posted August 2, 2019 Report Share Posted August 2, 2019 I did say in this thread (or maybe another thread on here) that one of Nisbet's strong points is his positioning. Think that was self evident tonight. What I didn't say then was that if there'd been a choice of who to keep between Nisbet or McLaughlan, beyond any doubt I'd have plumped for the latter. Even taking the slight age difference into consideration the difference in fortune since both left us is quite amazing. Looks like Nisbet will hold his own in this division and we may well be regretting letting him go but then again I've no great faith in my judgment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firhillista Posted August 3, 2019 Report Share Posted August 3, 2019 If Nisbet had played as well with us as he has with Raith Rovers and Dunfermline, we wouldn't have released him. He's on record as saying he blew it with us because he thought he'd made it and he stopped working hard enough. He's not so much the one that got away, as the one who screwed up his first chance as a professional footballer, but worked hard to rectify things. Should we have signed him? Who knows? We're we ever in the running? I suspect we'd have been happier with Rudden over Nisbet - a move that's beginning to look a possibility. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlsarmy Posted August 3, 2019 Report Share Posted August 3, 2019 1 hour ago, Firhillista said: If Nisbet had played as well with us as he has with Raith Rovers and Dunfermline, we wouldn't have released him. He's on record as saying he blew it with us because he thought he'd made it and he stopped working hard enough. He's not so much the one that got away, as the one who screwed up his first chance as a professional footballer, but worked hard to rectify things. Should we have signed him? Who knows? We're we ever in the running? I suspect we'd have been happier with Rudden over Nisbet - a move that's beginning to look a possibility. What you have said is spot on , Archie etc told him he didn’t work hard enough in games , looks a different player now , fitter and stronger ,and watching him last night there is definitely a work ethic there now . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auld Jag Posted August 3, 2019 Author Report Share Posted August 3, 2019 With only 1league game played some are already writing off our chances of getting a top 4 place. I wasn't at Alloa so I cant comment on how we played. I think the league doesn't really start taking shape until every team has played all the other teams. So I think we should know better when we have played 9 games just what sort of season we are going to have. Of course if we haven't won any after say 6 games we would need to look at things. Meanwhile next weeks game V Dundee Utd might also give us an idea of where we are going. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fearchar Posted August 4, 2019 Report Share Posted August 4, 2019 On 8/3/2019 at 7:53 PM, Auld Jag said: With only 1league game played some are already writing off our chances of getting a top 4 place. I wasn't at Alloa so I cant comment on how we played.... Meanwhile next weeks game V Dundee Utd might also give us an idea of where we are going. I was at Alloa: no pace, no shape, occasional panic but a bit of luck. Dundee United will dole out a lesson. Will even Uncle Dick be laughing at this team? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auld Jag Posted August 4, 2019 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2019 15 minutes ago, Fearchar said: I was at Alloa: no pace, no shape, occasional panic but a bit of luck. Dundee United will dole out a lesson. Will even Uncle Dick be laughing at this team? As you say Fearchar you were at the game and seen how we played. I just think it is to early to write us off after 1 league game. We will need to improve vastly and I hope to see that improvement at Firhill Friday night. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenziejag Posted August 5, 2019 Report Share Posted August 5, 2019 6 hours ago, Fearchar said: I was at Alloa: no pace, no shape, occasional panic but a bit of luck. Dundee United will dole out a lesson. Will even Uncle Dick be laughing at this team? Of course, that analysis only has the negative view of the game. We were “unlucky” with Alloa’s goal. With a bit of luck we could have 3 more goals, but for good saves and the crossbar. Yes we were slow and cumbersome for much of the game, but there was a spell in the 2nd half when we upped the tempo and could have scored those goals. Friday night will be a test no doubt, but so will the other 34 games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thistle88 Posted August 5, 2019 Report Share Posted August 5, 2019 On 8/2/2019 at 11:01 PM, lady-isobel-barnett said: I did say in this thread (or maybe another thread on here) that one of Nisbet's strong points is his positioning. Think that was self evident tonight. What I didn't say then was that if there'd been a choice of who to keep between Nisbet or McLaughlan, beyond any doubt I'd have plumped for the latter. Even taking the slight age difference into consideration the difference in fortune since both left us is quite amazing. Looks like Nisbet will hold his own in this division and we may well be regretting letting him go but then again I've no great faith in my judgment. Nisbet looked awful a few times when he got into our first team then he had an absolutely great game up at Perth I'm sure. Shouldve started the next game but didn't then hardly really involved. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeanieD Posted August 11, 2019 Report Share Posted August 11, 2019 After 2 games the league looks pretty much how it might finish - I thought I was being a bit pessimistic with 6th but only 2 out :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Semi Nurainen Posted August 11, 2019 Report Share Posted August 11, 2019 I think we'll come somewhere between 5th and 8th - but much closer to 10th in league points than to 1st. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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