Match Thread Livingston 2 - 1 Aberdeen

[don corleone]

Might scrape a draw. I'd drop Ojo, brown and Ferguson and bring in, ahh who fucking cares. This season is a disaster. 

[sooth_stander]

1 hour ago, don corleone said:

Might scrape a draw. I'd drop Ojo, brown and Ferguson and bring in, ahh who fucking cares. This season is a disaster. 

I agree about dropping them 3. Never happen, though

                      Lewis

Ramsay Gallagher Bates McKenzie

                 McGeough

             McCrorie   Barron  

       Vinnie    Ramirez   Hayes

[Byrne Baby Byrne]

If we are playing Brown and Ferguson together I think it is clear we need someone at least remotely creative in with them. I'd like to see Barron get a run too. 

Hopefully McKenzie or Young Monty are at left back so Hayes can play further forward and Ojo isn't on the pitch

[sooth_stander]

McCrorie, the more I watch him, is yer modern day midfielder - classic number 8. Like Scott McTominay.

People will argue, and with some justification “break up our best central defensive  combination?” but is it that good? The goals we have lost in the last 2 games? 

The current setup ain’t working so let’s shake it up a bit

[don corleone]

28 minutes ago, sooth_stander said:

I agree, about dropping them 3. Never happen, though

                      Lewis

Ramsay Gallagher Bates McKenzie

                 McGeough

             McCrorie   Barron  

       Vinnie    Ramirez   Hayes

That's pretty much exactly the line up I'd like to go with. I think McCrorie is wasted at the back and would offer us more of a spark at the other end. Brown needs rested, he's been poor in the last 2 games. Ferguson should have gone in January, he clearly doesn't have the appetite to play for us anymore. Ojo is useless, the fact that glass seems obvious to this is frankly baffling. 

[RED_JOHN]

30 minutes ago, sooth_stander said:

I agree, about dropping them 3. Never happen, though

                      Lewis

Ramsay Gallagher Bates McKenzie

                 McGeough

             McCrorie   Barron  

       Vinnie    Ramirez   Hayes

Who would be captain?

[RUL]

Surprised about the ferguson comments. Think he's been playing well. Glass woukd rather get sacked than drop ojo, brown or ramirez. I suspect Montgomery will be shoe horned into the team somehow. 

[dazzy_deff]

7 minutes ago, RED_JOHN said:

Who would be captain?

Given Lewis is vice captain i suspect him

 

[RAZOR]

1 minute ago, dazzy_deff said:

Given Lewis is vice captain i suspect him

 

Isn't he still the club captain and Brown is the matchday captain or some nonsense?

[dazzy_deff]

2 minutes ago, RAZOR said:

Isn't he still the club captain and Brown is the matchday captain or some nonsense?

Aye something like that. He had the armband though when Brown missed those games with supposed covid. 

[NEM]

53 minutes ago, Byrne Baby Byrne said:

If we are playing Brown and Ferguson together I think it is clear we need someone at least remotely creative in with them. I'd like to see Barron get a run too. 

Hopefully McKenzie or Young Monty are at left back so Hayes can play further forward and Ojo isn't on the pitch

This is a must going forward.  Ojo is central to how we're playing at the moment i.e. shite.  

Either turns back slowing play right down, gives the ball away or just blooters it out the park killing every attack stone dead.  Hopeless

[Byrne Baby Byrne]

11 minutes ago, NEM said:

This is a must going forward.  Ojo is central to how we're playing at the moment i.e. shite.  

Either turns back slowing play right down, gives the ball away or just blooters it out the park killing every attack stone dead.  Hopeless

Turning back is actually the one that offends me the most. Its the last thing you want a winger in a good position to do when he gets the ball. He just shouldnt be playing in that position though, its bizarre from Glass. How can it still be happening into February

[sooth_stander]

5 minutes ago, Byrne Baby Byrne said:

Turning back is actually the one that offends me the most. Its the last thing you want a winger in a good position to do when he gets the ball. He just shouldnt be playing in that position though, its bizarre from Glass. How can it still be happening into February

Given the type of player that Glass was too, it’s all the more bizarre that he should be picking a square peg in the round hole of which he strutted his stuff.

The Ojo affair will be what ultimately brings him down so on his head be it 

[Granite95]

25 minutes ago, sooth_stander said:

The Ojo affair will be what ultimately brings him down so on his head be it 

Hopefully Ojo doesn't get a new deal. Utterly hopeless player on a sizeable wage who contributes little to nothing most games 

[RED_JOHN]

1 hour ago, dazzy_deff said:

Given Lewis is vice captain i suspect him

 

 

1 hour ago, RAZOR said:

Isn't he still the club captain and Brown is the matchday captain or some nonsense?

Lewis normally blows up when he is the captain.  Give it to Jonny Hayes

[Ten Caat]

McCrorie only ended up in midfield because sevco thought he was shite as a central defender. His preference is to play centre back but obviously would play wherever he's told to. On this season's evidence, him and Bates are unquestionably our best CH pairing so I think it unlikely he'll be returning to midfield any time soon.

Any competent manager would have sussed Ojo as being a reasonable squad player but not a starter unless the club had a bit of an injury crisis. It's evident that Glass isn't a competent manager however.

Fuck knows what will come out of the tombola but we do have a better record at Livingston than most, in spite of the shitty pitch. The performance might not be great but we usually find a way to get a result.

0-1 ( Besuijen)

[Durrant Dived]

I'm actually amazed we have sold about half our tickers for this one. Saying that I only know this because I was on the website, considering it. Not committed yet though.

[dazzy_deff]

19 minutes ago, Ten Caat said:

McCrorie only ended up in midfield because sevco thought he was shite as a central defender. His preference is to play centre back but obviously would play wherever he's told to. On this season's evidence, him and Bates are unquestionably our best CH pairing so I think it unlikely he'll be returning to midfield any time soon.

Any competent manager would have sussed Ojo as being a reasonable squad player but not a starter unless the club had a bit of an injury crisis. It's evident that Glass isn't a competent manager however.

Fuck knows what will come out of the tombola but we do have a better record at Livingston than most, in spite of the shitty pitch. The performance might not be great but we usually find a way to get a result.

0-1 ( Besuijen)

I thought it was the opposite way about with McCrorie in that he wanted to play CM.

[aberdeen1970]

Just now, dazzy_deff said:

I thought it was the opposite way about with McCrorie in that he wanted to play CM.

Aye so did I 

[King Street Loon]

2 minutes ago, dazzy_deff said:

I thought it was the opposite way about with McCrorie in that he wanted to play CM.

It is.

Preference to play midfield I believe. 

[WesthillWanderersFC]

Almost past caring.

We won’t win.

 

[Don_Corleone]

3 minutes ago, WesthillWanderersFC said:

Almost past caring.

We won’t win.

 

Aye, I'm not sure how many more afternoons / evenings I'm going to bother wasting watching this garbage on RedTV. Zero signs of improvement - it's as clueless as ever. No excitement, no quality, it's just a total borefest watching our matches. They're basically just battling performances and you know exactly how it's going to play out.

[The Gee Man]

Season done already, let’s move on to a title challenge for 2022/23, run in the cups and 4/5 players in the Scotland squad 

[sooth_stander]

31 minutes ago, dazzy_deff said:

I thought it was the opposite way about with McCrorie in that he wanted to play CM.

My understanding of it. SlippyG also said there was no way he was playing CH in his setup, and couldn’t understand why The Bread Man and Pedro played him there.

[Hagi's pubic hair]

Has Ojo played CH yet?

[Ten Caat]

1 hour ago, dazzy_deff said:

I thought it was the opposite way about with McCrorie in that he wanted to play CM.

Definitely not. McCrorie's preference is, and always has been, to play at CH

He started out as a CH with sevco but they thought he was a liability there, they sent him to Portsmouth to try to improve him but they quickly sussed out that he was pretty hopeless at CH too. So they dropped him. But then suffered such an injury crisis they had no option but to bring him back. At right back where he stayed till his loan was up

Sevco then pushed him into defensive midfield where he wasn't disastrous but obviously once they signed Kamara and Davis...with Jack already there...his chances of a regular game were minimal hence why they were ok about letting him leave

[Ten Caat]

1 hour ago, King Street Loon said:

It is.

Preference to play midfield I believe. 

you believe wrong

[WesthillWanderersFC]

1 hour ago, Don_Corleone said:

Aye, I'm not sure how many more afternoons / evenings I'm going to bother wasting watching this garbage on RedTV. Zero signs of improvement - it's as clueless as ever. No excitement, no quality, it's just a total borefest watching our matches. They're basically just battling performances and you know exactly how it's going to play out.

Yip that’s about the long & short of it.

Just want them gone & hit the reset button. 

I’ll not be watching Livi TV or any live stream. 

It was all fairly predictable unfortunately… to all but Cormack. 

[dazzy_deff]

1 hour ago, Ten Caat said:

Definitely not. McCrorie's preference is, and always has been, to play at CH

He started out as a CH with sevco but they thought he was a liability there, they sent him to Portsmouth to try to improve him but they quickly sussed out that he was pretty hopeless at CH too. So they dropped him. But then suffered such an injury crisis they had no option but to bring him back. At right back where he stayed till his loan was up

Sevco then pushed him into defensive midfield where he wasn't disastrous but obviously once they signed Kamara and Davis...with Jack already there...his chances of a regular game were minimal hence why they were ok about letting him leave

Im fairly certain he gave an interview when he signed and he was asked where he saw himself playing and he thought of himself mainly as a CM. Seems im not the only one. 

I remember Gerrard saying he thought his career was almost ruined by playing him at CH - but that would make sense if they thought he was being played out of position and they decided to let him leave when he made it clear he wanted to play CM but wasnt good enough for them in that position. 

I'll bow down to your superior knowledge - interesting if you can show any evidence that he wants to play CB. Not only player salaries you're an expert on it seems ?

[Ten Caat]

40 minutes ago, dazzy_deff said:

Im fairly certain he gave an interview when he signed and he was asked where he saw himself playing and he thought of himself mainly as a CB. Seems im not the only one. 

I remember Gerrard saying he thought his career was almost ruined by playing him at CH - but that would make sense if they thought he was being played out of position and they decided to let him leave when he made it clear he wanted to play CM but wasnt good enough for them in that position. 

I'll bow down to your superior knowledge - interesting if you can show any evidence that he wants to play CB. Not only player salaries you're an expert on it seems ?

Theres an interview with him in the Peenj from last September where he alludes to it

Going further back, when he first broke into the sevco side under Caixhina, the bold Pedro was quoted in the national press as saying that McCrorie wouldn't just be one of the best Centre backs to ever represent sevco, but also for the international side. 

Slippy G seemed to disagree strongly