03 Apr 2017 14:39:05
the result and the weekend draw to motherwell after having two weeks to prepare just shows how bad this squad of players are. this squad needs a massive overhaul of players not minor improvements here and there.

time for king and co to step up give pedro cash to rebuild the squad with players that will buy into pedros way of playing and training etc. as i can see a lot of these players not being happy with the amount of extra training they have to do over time and will not buy into what pedro wants to do.

and mackay saying he had no clue what formation they where playing is the first sign of this happening. We should cash in on certain players to also help the rebuild. mackay, tavenier, waghorn, garner, and wes could fetch us good money to re-invest.

only players that are good enough are wes, but would sell him if a good offer came in. garner, would sell him if we could recoup the fee paid. rossiter, windass, crooks, hyndman, doodoo, mackay are too inconsistent and lack of goals, so would take the cash for them.

the rest are just average and could be replaced by our youth players so could be beneficial to get some them involved sooner rather than later. And with money we raise for re-investing by selling the above players would really help pedro as i feel the board will let him down in the transfer market as our squad needs massive rebuilding job and will require significant investment from them.

this is one way to raise the cash for Pedro to improve us as i do feel he is the right man for the job with the changes he has made so far.

1.) 03 Apr 2017
03 apr 2017 16:16:38
we will never catch the sheep this year!
we need i'd say minimum 6 1st team players with much better quality two cb's a st, a cf and a cdm as well as another winger.

2.) 03 Apr 2017
03 Apr 2017 16:35:27
It's one thing saying, sell this one sell that one, who is going to buy them

3.) 03 Apr 2017
03 Apr 2017 16:43:11
Hyndman isn't even our player. Every player needs to be given a chance under the new management.

4.) 03 Apr 2017
03 Apr 2017 20:52:01
all these players mentioned above have been linked with moves to other clubs apart from fod and garner who i would prefer to keep anyway and build team round them along with rossiter, windass, crooks and doodoo and some of our younsters.

we definitely need replace the whole back four including wallace.

if we could sell mackay for 4 5 million with sell on value percentage i would take it
And would quote the clubs looking at waghorn and tavenier 1.5 million each
so that would get our manager a budget of between 7 and 8 million plus what ever board give him and first move manager should make is move for hyndman

As for giving these players a chance to improve they have had all season to do this and still haven't done it

5.) 04 Apr 2017
04 Apr 2017 03:28:28
Drivel, still.

6.) 04 Apr 2017
04 Apr 2017 09:43:54
I don't think the draw was a fair reflection when we lost 3players on half time and all of them were defense! Please take this in to consideration before slating them. Halliday was admirable at LB (after all he spent most of his playing career as an LB or LM) and the fact that they didn't concede was a plus when played out of position. A big thanks to FOD for that. We must be realistic here and focus on the positives. My hope is that we will now HaVE to see what young Bates can offer in defense and perhaps Houston as well due to injuries. This could be an interesting run in and we have to follow as always!

7.) 04 Apr 2017
04 Apr 2017 18:51:10
While we had three players that were clearly below par for the time they were on the park and that didn't help the team, what are the excuses that others have. McKay, as a prime example, looked like he was suffering from sleepy sickness. We need to stop carrying passengers

8.) 05 Apr 2017
05 Apr 2017 08:20:41
I don't think McKay is doing much wrong. He is passed the ball very often in a position where he could make little impact and is closed down by 2players. Every team knows he is our danger man. But for me he needs to be played on the right side of midfield. The whole cut inside on your Better foot isn't working for either waggle or McKay and garner is great at placing himself in the box for a cross so I don't get why we insist on this strategy. I can't remember the last time either managed to cut inside the full back and unleash a shot in to the net