Summer transfer rumours

Anyone who'd just come out of a coma, and looked at the forums, would think Donald and Methven had bought their shares back ...

... the entire club has needed sorting out from top to bottom and the mistakes of the past avoided.

We've had players to get out of the club and others, like Grigg, still to shift. We've had to line up possible replacements for McGeady/O'Nien/Hume/Emberton. Not only that, we're competing with other clubs all chasing the same group of players willing, and able, to play in L1.

I doubt any club is entirely happy with what they have ...

... except Wigan, according to the 'realists', who might have got it completely wrong.

 

Winchester is a better full back than those we had there last season imo ...

... even Sanderson who's a very good player.

 

I read somewhere that he is a former RB, so I have no worries at all about him starting there

 

Would be funny if he plays every game there and gets Player of the Season

 

Today's the day lads, 2 through the door. I'm not itk but can feel it in me water, mind you I am a diabetic so that could be it. C'mon

 

Tuesday is the new Friday.

 

In friendlies and when everyone else was just returning for preseason too.

They might have looked a little less settled joining two weeks into the season though.

 

I used the words "think" and "may", not because I want to sit on the fence over it or claim I meant either way, but just to indicate that its a gut feel.

I have no evidence for it - just from everything going on and everything they're saying, it just feels to me like they were expecting it to be smoother.

 

Taylor gone now too. Another one of Parkinson’s boys away from the club - good.

 

OK mate

 

At last we have a strategy which was highlighted a couple of months ago by the signing of a number of players mostly released by Premier League clubs to fit in to our U23 squad , the idea of having the team who narrowly missed out on promotion strengthened emphasised the change in our management style . At the time it was said that the players recruited would be able to play in the manner Johnson wants the first team to be styled - absolutely shocking having this amount of thought and planning appearing at our club isn’t it when we’re not used to it !!!

 

Where has the info come from? I can't get on to SAFC.com for some reason.

Edit: just seen it over the road from training ground guru. Why the **** do we find this out from other sources? Are they incapable of putting it on Twitter.

 

Lack of communication from the club has been a joke recently.

 

Cheers for that mate , if your positive and over the road are on melt down that will do for me

 

Don't worry mate even if he does Will Grigg is on fire, it just took him a while to settle in

 

I'd also be much happier starting this season with what we already have than what we finished last season with.
Yes we need more signings but even now I think we are already stronger than last year

 

We seem to have adopted an 'O'Nien strategy' with players.

Winchester is capable of playing midfield and full back, as he did in one match against Hull ...

... Corry Evans has played well at centre half, like his brother at Leicester and looked good in midfield.

Perhaps the friendlies were what they should be, trying out different positions etc.

I'd happily play O'Brien, wide right, opposite McGeady which would help the RB. Whatever you think of him I find his work rate excellent and he's decent at occupying defenders, making a pass and holding the ball. With the likes of Emberton running through midfield I don't think we need another McGeady wide right. It certainly didn't work when we had Jones there.

 

https://www.nottheoldfirm.com/news/...-courts-confirms-jamie-robson-transfer-talks/

Left-back

 

Never get the AOB grief me mate, most of our best team performances are when he plays.

Like you say, he’s so busy it frees up space.

 

Some people have just taken against him and that won't change. But I've noticed McGeady always seems happier when he plays. He's very good at receiving the ball wide, holding a defender off and playing the ball inside for Gooch or whoever.