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| 1. Author: onandupthepars Date: Sat 25th Jan 2025. 18:15 Isn`t that how we got a result at Firhill? Press, and get out the blocks fast. I don`t like reading that Tidser wants us to play possession fitba. What`s the use o` that? Let Tobi get it up the park! Come on Pars, we`re not quite dead men walking yet! This result at Airdrie is shocking - humiliating but - GIRD YER LOINS! LOIN YIR GIRDS! Get stuck in noo and for the rest o` the season. Reply |
| 2. Author: 1985Par Date: Sat 25th Jan 2025. 18:32 I’ll stick my neck out and say that if Tidser thinks he’s going to pass his way up the table, at least with this squad, he is utterly deluded. This obsession with possession is a nonsense unless you have players who can carve out chances in the final third which we so obviously don’t. I think Bournemouth have one of the lowest possession stats in the EPL and they are flying. I’m literally praying that Tidser’s not going to have us plodding forward with pretty passing only to lose it when we’re trying to pick our way through 10 opposition players camped in their own half. Reply |
| 3. Author: Gaz3822 Date: Sat 25th Jan 2025. 18:40 See these managers who want to play a certain way but don`t have the right players to do it.... They really do my nut in. Amorim at Utd is the same. Not yet got the right personnel but still perseveres. I hope Tidser isn`t that man. Reply |
| 4. Author: GJS93 Date: Sat 25th Jan 2025. 18:42 might as well sack him tonight then cause from what he and McDonald have said in the past, they wont change. Reply |
| 5. Author: Berkey Date: Sat 25th Jan 2025. 18:49 Guess it depends on how many players he can get in next week who can play the way he wants! Trying to give the benefit of the doubt, maybe he’s tried possession today as he hasn’t got any decent players to attack teams? That’s certainly born out by results. The post below replying to me is by one of .nets finest champions of mediocrity! Reply |
| 6. Author: onandupthepars Date: Sat 25th Jan 2025. 18:54 Possession fitba is death tae us. Hope tae crivens that MT has the sense tae abandon his ideals and play ugly if it gets quick improvement in results. Actually I used tae like the way Wimbledon (crazy gang period) played. Didn`t they get criticism for "hoof ball" - but they got results. Ireland teams (N & ROI) had great success with counter-attacking also? We know it can work. Mix it up Pars! Play as a team, ignore the manager if necessary! ( I ken it`s early days but by God did we really think it`d have tae get this bad afore it gets better?) It`s jist ma pain talkin`... Post Edited (Sat 25 Jan 19:06) Reply |
| 7. Author: pacifist Date: Sat 25th Jan 2025. 18:58 We have had some reasonable results and much better fitba over the last 3 or 4 games. He watched some of them. That was working. Changing stuff into that mess today makes no sense. Reply |
| 8. Author: onandupthepars Date: Sat 25th Jan 2025. 19:27 As well as playing more direct, how can we get more fire in oor players` bellies? Get the wives and girlfriends tae go on strike! Reply |
| 9. Author: pacifist Date: Sat 25th Jan 2025. 19:30 We had that under the caretaker manager. He seemed to know exactly what he was doing and the players responded. Reply |
| 10. Author: 60yearapar Date: Sat 25th Jan 2025. 19:44 Just watched Man City struggle playing out from the back against Chelsea, a couple of long balls up to Haaland and boom 3-1. If it works for Pep, it must be worth a go surely. Reply |
| 11. Author: onandupthepars Date: Sat 25th Jan 2025. 19:45 I`ve got the doom an` gloom lurgy efter that today. The level of humiliation feels about equal to losing 5-0 at hame tae Accies. The spectre of gettin` ICT in the relegation play-off gives me the richt fear. (If not for the points deduction they would have been second in their league now, equal on points with Arbroath on top.) Is there a bright side? Post Edited (Sat 25 Jan 19:54) Reply |
| 12. Author: onandupthepars Date: Sat 25th Jan 2025. 20:27 Of course there is a bright side! Several! 14 games tae go. We`re in the league we want to be in right now. Our position is only dire! I believe in the tooth fairy! Post Edited (Sat 25 Jan 20:46) Reply |
| 13. Author: mars par Date: Sat 25th Jan 2025. 20:46 The tide is turning on possession football (finally, because it`s utterly tedious to watch. Especially at this level) Pep himself, who is largely acknowledged to have introduced this style, has said as much recently It does nothing for us. It allows the opposition to get into a compact defensive shape and we don`t have the skill or know-how to break through that defensive set up It clearly wasn`t working when McPake tried it with this squad so it`s concerning that we look to have hired a manager who wants to play the same way. Especially when results under McLaughlin suggested we are capable of far better with a more direct approach I hope he isn`t going to dig his heels in with this or it`s hard to see how we do much better than turgid football and potentially relegation Reply |
| 14. Author: d3monstrate Date: Sat 25th Jan 2025. 21:44 I started to feel iffy when speaking on Sportscene last week, Peter Grant said Tidser played the proper way... I hoped that he wouldn`t be so single minded,, only time will tell... Reply |
| 15. Author: onandupthepars Date: Sat 25th Jan 2025. 21:46 After the match with Falkirk I thought some o` oor players, particularly Bene, looked shattered. So although we could say all they need to do is give as much in each game, it`s maybe a bit like asking a good horse to run Grand Nationals repeatedly. Our players have shown they can clear high fences, but it`s beyond them to give that much of themselves regularly? Maybe they`re a bit mentally drained after the exertions of promotion followed by the chopping and changing they`ve been through. To plummet from the rewarding successes when we won league 1, to the unrewarding lack of success last season and this, probably has psychological effects. Post Edited (Sat 25 Jan 22:34) Reply |
| 16. Author: Parsfangaz Date: Sun 26th Jan 2025. 00:00 GJS93, Sat 25 Jan 18:42 where did they say that ? Reply |
| 17. Author: Bertie Paton Date: Sun 26th Jan 2025. 00:22 ``After the match with Falkirk I thought some o` oor players, particularly Bene, looked shattered. So although we could say all they need to do is give as much in each game, it`s maybe a bit like asking a good horse to run Grand Nationals repeatedly. Our players have shown they can clear high fences, but it`s beyond them to give that much of themselves regularly? Maybe they`re a bit mentally drained after the exertions of promotion followed by the chopping and changing they`ve been through. To plummet from the rewarding successes when we won league 1, to the unrewarding lack of success last season and this, probably has psychological effects.`` What the heck are you rambling on about? Reply |
| 18. Author: parsfan97 Date: Sun 26th Jan 2025. 00:34 Tidser said post match today he won’t be changing his beliefs. If he can’t see his style doesn’t suit what he’s got right now then I’d say we are nailed on for relegation. Set the team up like McLaughlin did and play to their strengths Reply |
| 19. Author: onandupthepars Date: Sun 26th Jan 2025. 01:29 Ref: Bertie Paton, Sun 26 Jan 00:22 Ah, "Bertie Paton". I knew somebody would bite. I`m in a generous mood, so I`ll just say that, as one Pars fan tae anither, ye might excuse ma haverin - efter a`, it could happen tae onybody who`s had a lifetime o` supportin` the Pars. Post Edited (Sun 26 Jan 01:32) Reply |
| 20. Author: Never10yairds Date: Sun 26th Jan 2025. 01:54 I honestly really dislike possession football and slow build up play. I find it boring to watch. I’d stomach it if it was getting results but I prefer a much more direct style of play. Reply |