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    Lyndon Dykes

    McBurnie's scored 3 times as many goals at home this season than Firminho.. Firminho's trash! If he was Scottish, I'd not have him near the team! Roll on Dykes!
  2. It's logic if Gilmour is not going to be in the full squad. If he is going to be in the full squad (which takes about 1 minute to find out on the phone, so should have happened already), then it would be more logical to leave him out of the U21s, rather than have to call up a replacement next week after the senior side is announced.
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    Lyndon Dykes

    Paper talk that Clarke's been trying to get him to choose Scotland. Bit of an odd one to me. A very average striker, having i guess an exceptional season for him. 9 goals in 25, up from 2 in 36 last season. He's got some height about him, which was a reason I had suggested Ross Stewart a little bit ago. But Dykes only seems to score unmarked tap-ins from what I can see. The odd header. He does seem to make chances for others which is good.. but.. Griffiths, Shankland, McBurnie, Naismith, Rhodes, Hornby, Brophy.. It feels like Dykes would be bottom of this list (whatever order you want to put the other 7 in)
  4. It's probably our weakest positon, yeah. Wednesday have been weird. 3rd at xmas.. but have only won 2 games since and so plummeted down the table. The manager has frozen out 3 of the biggest players and Fletch got injured at the same time. the manager seems to be the problem, tho as is always the case when a team is struggling, the players could do more than they are. Don't think Palmer's had a notably good season, nor a notably poor season. He did seem to be linking up well with Ryan Christie last time out, and put in 3-4 balls that should really have been put away. So in the absense of any season competition, I figure he keeps the shirt until he actually does something wrong, much as Hutton did (for about 5 years).
  5. Wednesday's problems are not down to Palmer. That they held Man City to 1 goal and then ship 5 to Brentford kinda signposts the issue. There's a lack of organisation and lack of coherence to the team, it's not a question of individual ability. I wouldn't drop a guy just because his club side lost one game.
  6. McLean is garbage, so no. 10 caps in and he's proved he's not good enough. Forrest has probably the worst return of any player in the national team I can remember. For the caps he's had his influence on games has been dire. Scored in just 2 caps and only has 3 assists. From 34 caps as a forward player. He's player against Lichtenstein, Malta and Lithuania twice, Qatar, San Marino twice.. from all those games together he has 1 assist. He had 2 matches where everything just dropped for him, and since then he's reverted to normal and not looked a threat in 8 appearances since. Compared to Ryan Christie.. who has 1 goal, 5 assists from 8 competitive games. So the inclusion of Forrest tells me we're not playing our strongest side and we're not giving ourselves the best chance of a result. We have better players than James Forrest. Shinnie actually hasn't spent much time on the pitch. 104 minutes of competitive football for Scotland. 6 caps in total. Just 2 starts. One of those was at left back, which is no longer his position, and yes was at fault in the Kazakh debacle. But he came on in the win against Israel and showed drive and energy in midfield. He's also an actual defensive midfielder which is something we've lacked. We've been crowbarring in McGregor , McGinn and Armstrong into that role and while Armstrong's not let himself down in that position the other two have, with McGinn cementing his spot further up the pitch. Shinnie would be a square peg in a square hole. Playing a role that he plays for his club and which could benefit us as he's Aberdeens former captain and we could use some organisation in the middle of the park. In my view Shinnie is a viable candidate for a starting spot. 2 from McTominay, Gilmour, Shinnie and Fleck. Shinnie and Forrest are essentially opposites. Forrest has a couple of freakishly good games which seem to have made people forget how awful he's been across the piece, while Shinnie has one awful game (along with everyone else on the pitch in dark blue) and so everyone takes that as the sum total of him as a player. Shinnie makes more sense in the 11 that Forrest does, tho Forrest has to be in the squad due to our complete lack of available wide players at the moment.
  7. Yes, because in your scenario you need a goal.. ffs. 😄 If you're 2-1 up with 10 to go you'd want Shinnie or McLean.. well ok not McLean, he's a bombscare. You're stating the obvious and comparing apples and oranges for no apparent reason. Back to the actual topic. Gilmour makes himself available, he's calm on the ball and accurate with his passing. This cannot be said of several of our supposedly wonderful midfielders. Most notably, McGregor and McLean. Both have been in the side and repeatedly failed. I would put Gilmour in ahead of them, with no reservations.
  8. You seem to be offering Forrest as the only attacking option and touting him because he's the only attacking option. 😄 I honestly can't think of a situation where Forrest would be the best option to bring on if you wanted a goal. He literally never scores. We play 1 up, there will be two strikers on the bench, probably McBurnie or Brophy or Naismith.. You'd bring one of those on, not Forrest. The only time I'd ever bring Forrest on is due to injury.
  9. Or to put it another way.. 34 caps.. 32 of them without a goal. 😁
  10. He's not that bad technique-wise. He's just much better running at people than stationary with the ball at his feet. He's a wide forward, not a center forward. When he plays up front he doesn't really look like he knows where he should be and what he should be doing. Understandable as he's 22, hasn't had masses of game time and was just kinda thrown up there by Lennon and expected to perform. Out wide he looks better and has more of an idea of his role. Fortunately he's playing wide in La Liga, so he should get better at it. Haven't seen much of him in La Liga this season, and he's only really played up front for Celtic in recent years (benched at Leipzig and West Brom), and I don't think he knows what is expected of him as a center forward. He's not experience playing there, didnt seem to be getting much instruction from Lennon and had no senior forward to learn from (it was Weah and Edouard, who are both young. Griffiths was away at the time). Spain seems to be doing him good tho: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/nov/29/oliver-burke-i-feel-like-a-proper-footballer-again-really-good-in-myself
  11. He had a great start to his career in the Championship to be fair, was going past people and scoring for fun. Things only derailed a bit after his Leipzig move. He hasn't really had regular starts anywhere since, even at Celtic he never got more than 3 starts in a row and he was out of position there to boot.
  12. Strachan capped Oli Burke at 18 iirc. Any more recent than that?
  13. It's disrespectful to drop a player for a better player? Good grief. I hope the management don't have that view or we're properly screwed of the forseeable future. As for McLean, he's been a liability in just about every game he's played for the national side. He can't defend and doesn't have the workrate or quality needed for international level central midfield. He's a decent championship level player, nothing more. That's not disresectful, it's reality. He's never going to play for Real, and it's not disrespectful to say so.
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