parathletic, Mon 10 Mar 10:46

Generally if you need to be busy in the January window then you are either having a poor season or having an injury crisis.
In the League One January window I was quite happy at not bringing too many in to upset the apple cart.Some folk were still crying out for us to bring in more players.
Continuity of team selection can`t be under estimated to get the best out of what you have. At some point you need to have a settled X1 and try and stick with it?

Falkirk have used the fewest players in the league this season(25). The 3 teams who have used most are Airdrie, ourselves and Queens Park(3 of the bottom 4). That could be purely coincidental and it`s obviously easier to stick with a winning team but if you have teams with roughly equal ability it comes down to how well organised and how you perform as a team-not individuals. It must become harder if you are playing with strangers every week?
Guardiola went into Man City spent a few hundred million and wasn`t close to winning anything in his first season at City. Liverpool came 8th in Klopp`s first season.Even with all the resources in the world you need to build a team.
I hope we see this season out and get some decent early recruitment in the summer so that we are ready to go come the start of pre-season friendlies and sharp by the time the League Cup starts. We have missed out on decent opportunities by treating those games as friendlies.

Par4ages, Mon 10 Mar 15:49

I think the recruitment has been, risky at best with all the young inexperienced players but team selection is awful in my opinion, against Falkirk we had 2 in midfield one playing in front of the back 4 and the other having to run about like a headless chicken trying to cover the whole midfield. For that system to work the two wide players have to fill in the gaps but tidser selects the two most inexperienced players to do that, both of which looked totally out of their depth surely when you play against the league leaders you fill the midfield to win the battle then go for it. I want to give tidser a chance but his failure to change his tactics to suit our limited options is going to get us relegated.

PARrot, Mon 10 Mar 17:02

parathletic, Mon 10 Mar 10:46

Generally if you need to be busy in the January window then you are either having a poor season or having an injury crisis.
In the League One January window I was quite happy at not bringing too many in to upset the apple cart.Some folk were still crying out for us to bring in more players.
Continuity of team selection can`t be under estimated to get the best out of what you have. At some point you need to have a settled X1 and try and stick with it?

Falkirk have used the fewest players in the league this season(25). The 3 teams who have used most are Airdrie, ourselves and Queens Park(3 of the bottom 4). That could be purely coincidental and it`s obviously easier to stick with a winning team but if you have teams with roughly equal ability it comes down to how well organised and how you perform as a team-not individuals. It must become harder if you are playing with strangers every week?
Guardiola went into Man City spent a few hundred million and wasn`t close to winning anything in his first season at City. Liverpool came 8th in Klopp`s first season.Even with all the resources in the world you need to build a team.
I hope we see this season out and get some decent early recruitment in the summer so that we are ready to go come the start of pre-season friendlies and sharp by the time the League Cup starts. We have missed out on decent opportunities by treating those games as friendlies.

It`s refreshing to read a well thought out, sensible post. Hang on while I check I`m on dotnet.

Unfortunately, a vociferous minority on here are still drunk on the 60s, and Masterton`s incredible bank robbery. They think we are "The Mighty Pars" and demand instant success using their tactics.