Big Col Posted August 28, 2019 Report Share Posted August 28, 2019 And the goal machine Ade Azeez....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Gekantawa Posted August 28, 2019 Report Share Posted August 28, 2019 (edited) 2 hours ago, Big Col said: And the goal machine Ade Azeez....... Despite the lack of goals, I consider Ade a success. He played in every game up to the split in our best season in decades and ran defences ragged, creating opportunities for our better finishers. And we made a small profit on him. Not that it made up for his absence- while a lot is said correctly about how we missed Lindsay- I also suspect having Ade would have given us just enough to stay up. Our entire game seemed to slow down when he left. Edited August 28, 2019 by Duke Gekantawa 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARu-Strathbungo Posted August 28, 2019 Report Share Posted August 28, 2019 8 hours ago, Garscube Road End said: What? Seriously? You forget to mention that colossus Pogba!! Feck, I remember seeing that guy play for us … to me it appeared he had never seen a ball before!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garscube Road End Posted August 28, 2019 Report Share Posted August 28, 2019 Surely not! He is Paul Pogba's brother! He must be worth zillions. Mind you I preferred Mandron myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandy Posted August 29, 2019 Report Share Posted August 29, 2019 On 8/28/2019 at 12:47 AM, Third Lanark said: In the strikers department GC has not done too bad - true Roy was very poor and mansell and jones don’t look like they are great strikers- but McDonald, Miller And zanatta are all decent signings- the previous managers only decent striker signing was Lyle Taylor. Can’t count Kris Doolan as that was McCalls signing GC got lucky with Skippy, Archie tried to sign him last summer. Zanatta looks decent. Still, when GC takes us up and keeps us in the top flight for several seasons, we can start comparing him to Archie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Third Lanark Posted August 30, 2019 Report Share Posted August 30, 2019 (edited) 20 hours ago, sandy said: GC got lucky with Skippy, Archie tried to sign him last summer. Zanatta looks decent. Still, when GC takes us up and keeps us in the top flight for several seasons, we can start comparing him to Archie. Not so much lucky more he had a good relationship with skippy and persuaded him to sign with us - more to it than just luck. Shows McDonald had no interest in playing under Archie. Besides if it was down to luck then Archie had his fair share of it when he inherited decent players like Doolan, o Donnell, lawless etc besides I cannot see GC being here for 5 years no surprise you make no mention of the catastrophic year and a half left under Archie which financially impacted us and we are still paying him and his assistant off till the end of October. You don’t actually go to games anyway despite being the most most vocal critic on here so not sure how can comment on many games unless you were glued to all the text updates Edited August 30, 2019 by Third Lanark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hopeless Unbeliever Posted August 30, 2019 Report Share Posted August 30, 2019 Where did GC unearth these hidden gems McDonald, and Miller? And Zanatta for that matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Semi Nurainen Posted August 30, 2019 Report Share Posted August 30, 2019 9 hours ago, sandy said: GC got lucky with Skippy, Archie tried to sign him last summer. Zanatta looks decent. Still, when GC takes us up and keeps us in the top flight for several seasons, we can start comparing him to Archie. I'm not holding my breath ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonehJags Posted August 30, 2019 Report Share Posted August 30, 2019 9 hours ago, sandy said: GC got lucky with Skippy, Archie tried to sign him last summer. Zanatta looks decent. Still, when GC takes us up and keeps us in the top flight for several seasons, we can start comparing him to Archie. Archie got lucky that during those several years that there was no rangers, hearts and hibs. When they came back we lasted 1 season, with the mighty Hamilton finishing above us in the final doom laden season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Gekantawa Posted August 30, 2019 Report Share Posted August 30, 2019 (edited) 24 minutes ago, MonehJags said: Archie got lucky that during those several years that there was no rangers, hearts and hibs. When they came back we lasted 1 season, with the mighty Hamilton finishing above us in the final doom laden season. The reason there was no Hearts and Hibs is because Archibald's Thistle finished above them. Yes, Hearts had a points deduction, but that's because they ultimately cheated. Edited to add that, when we finished 6th, all but Hibs were back anyway. I don't see the point of denigrating a number of successful seasons because of later failures. Edited August 30, 2019 by Duke Gekantawa 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Third Lanark Posted August 30, 2019 Report Share Posted August 30, 2019 On 8/28/2019 at 11:52 AM, Duke Gekantawa said: Despite the lack of goals, I consider Ade a success. He played in every game up to the split in our best season in decades and ran defences ragged, creating opportunities for our better finishers. And we made a small profit on him. Not that it made up for his absence- while a lot is said correctly about how we missed Lindsay- I also suspect having Ade would have given us just enough to stay up. Our entire game seemed to slow down when he left. Can’t agree he was a success- loads of energy and plenty of enthusiasm as well as being a genuine guy but he scored a total of 3 goals- Kenny Miller has already scored more than that. His misses had to be seen to be believed and I believe if he had taken them we would have finished 4th not 6th Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Gekantawa Posted August 30, 2019 Report Share Posted August 30, 2019 6 minutes ago, Third Lanark said: Can’t agree he was a success- loads of energy and plenty of enthusiasm as well as being a genuine guy but he scored a total of 3 goals- Kenny Miller has already scored more than that. His misses had to be seen to be believed and I believe if he had taken them we would have finished 4th not 6th Yes, no doubt that if he had been a competent finisher, we'd have finished higher. However, it's a team game and his input directly led to a top 6 finish. His forward play, other than finishing (i.e., in terms of harassing defences, driving forward, creating space, and holding up the ball -the latter particularly when defending a lead) were excellent. Therefore, I think he was definitely a success. It doesn't matter if you don't actually score the goals provided that your contribution is positive and the team as a whole is performing well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lady-isobel-barnett Posted August 30, 2019 Report Share Posted August 30, 2019 No doubt Azeez was was infuriating on the goalscoring front. His decision making was also very poor. On the other hand he knackered defences ,creating space for other attackers. Would be very hard to argue he wasn't a success in our most successful season. He played far too many games to say otherwise. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinhead Posted August 30, 2019 Report Share Posted August 30, 2019 Azeez a success? Bloody hell how time can romantacise things...he was awful! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Third Lanark Posted August 30, 2019 Report Share Posted August 30, 2019 11 hours ago, Hopeless Unbeliever said: Where did GC unearth these hidden gems McDonald, and Miller? And Zanatta for that matter. I presume if we had shown last summer we could have got zanatta? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stillresigned Posted August 30, 2019 Report Share Posted August 30, 2019 On 8/28/2019 at 6:35 AM, Garscube Road End said: What? Seriously? You forget to mention that colossus Pogba!! Perish the thought that anyone with any kind of footballing knowledge could overlook the great Pogba. Who in his own way is as great an enigma as his brother Paul. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stillresigned Posted August 30, 2019 Report Share Posted August 30, 2019 On the face of it this seems an excellent acquisition and I wish Dario all the best in his career in Maryhill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jagsman Posted August 31, 2019 Report Share Posted August 31, 2019 from the way jagzone been sounds like we have a new hero Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lady-isobel-barnett Posted August 31, 2019 Report Share Posted August 31, 2019 Talking to a Jambo mate tonight and he's both annoyed and amazed Levein didn't try to keep Dario at Tynecastle. On today's display alone it looks like a major blunder by Levein. Even more crazy when you consider his input last season at Alloa. Very pleased with this signing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted August 31, 2019 Report Share Posted August 31, 2019 I caught up on the Jagzone pre match interviews. Listened to GC and thought he'd lost the plot when talking about DZ. Nope, spot on! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
West Ender Posted September 1, 2019 Report Share Posted September 1, 2019 Might just be the most exciting player I've seen in years in a jags shirt. Here's hoping we don't bring him down to our level. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobbyhouston Posted September 1, 2019 Report Share Posted September 1, 2019 Zanatta looks a class act but seriously unfit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macaroon Posted September 1, 2019 Report Share Posted September 1, 2019 Potentially an effective partnership down the left side with Penrice, James likes to get in to the forward areas so I wonder if he will now play a more defensive game? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyprusjag Posted September 1, 2019 Report Share Posted September 1, 2019 Why didn't Goodwin go for him? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weebaw1 Posted September 1, 2019 Report Share Posted September 1, 2019 31 minutes ago, macaroon said: Potentially an effective partnership down the left side with Penrice, James likes to get in to the forward areas so I wonder if he will now play a more defensive game? But is Penrice going to Killie? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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