TerracingTomas wrote:I enjoyed Dougie’s goal but that’s about it. It’s been a pretty awful finish to the season and I’ll be glad to see the back of it. At least we go to Motherwell with more or less the monkey off our backs. For me it’s always been the defence that’s let us down and I would love to see what little resources we’ve got aimed in this direction.
porcupine wrote:TerracingTomas wrote:I enjoyed Dougie’s goal but that’s about it. It’s been a pretty awful finish to the season and I’ll be glad to see the back of it. At least we go to Motherwell with more or less the monkey off our backs. For me it’s always been the defence that’s let us down and I would love to see what little resources we’ve got aimed in this direction.
Never a truer word spoken, TT. Despite MC's career as a defender, he has never managed to produce a settled competent defence for a couple of seasons, at least. This year we have leaked goals on almost very game, and which put us down there in the dog-fight. I suggest that MC looks at the total lost at home in particular, 35, YES 35 at home, plus another 30 lost away. 65 lost is the worst of all the SPL teams by far. We were just lucky to have scored more goals that our relegation rivals this season otherwise it would have been the automatic drop.
If that doesn't prove TT's point to others, the what would?
Yummy Fur wrote:So a leaky defence is Canning's fault but being the top scorers in the bottom 6 is just luck?
Tonight was certainly our last few games in a nutshell if not our entire season - another narrow 1 goal loss in a game where we probably worth at least a point and another couple of defensive mistakes / bad decisions leading to soft goals.
Positives - Templeton's determination to play on despite being barely able to walk, Miller's cameo showing promise and maybe even a player to get us off our seats next season.
Negatives - more poor defending, Redmond flattering to deceive again, 3 strikers tried and not one getting a shot away in 90 minutes, Jenkins, Lyon, finishing with 3 central defenders on the pitch and Jenkins.
Despite the anti-climax, we are staying up and despite the critics what an achievement - 5 seasons in the top league, amazing! This season Canning has had everything thrown at him and still kept us up - starting the season without a striker, our best defender (Devlin) not kicking a ball, our best midfielder (Crawford) barely kicking a ball, £1m fraud, cost cutting, a terrible January transfer window, losing Docherty, losing McKinnon at the same time for 3 months, the Sarris debacle, our only right back walking out after the window had shut, etc................. - it hasn't always been pretty and I think Canning can be tactically naive at times but to keep that squad together and united despite all that has been remarkable.
It's going to be a tough but exciting pre-season with a real challenge to build a squad, however let's enjoy upsetting the odds again and maybe every Accies fan can have a think about the small part they can play in trying to restore a feel good factor to a club who get a lot wrong but a whole lot more right.
Yummy Fur wrote:porcupine wrote:TerracingTomas wrote:I enjoyed Dougie’s goal but that’s about it. It’s been a pretty awful finish to the season and I’ll be glad to see the back of it. At least we go to Motherwell with more or less the monkey off our backs. For me it’s always been the defence that’s let us down and I would love to see what little resources we’ve got aimed in this direction.
Never a truer word spoken, TT. Despite MC's career as a defender, he has never managed to produce a settled competent defence for a couple of seasons, at least. This year we have leaked goals on almost very game, and which put us down there in the dog-fight. I suggest that MC looks at the total lost at home in particular, 35, YES 35 at home, plus another 30 lost away. 65 lost is the worst of all the SPL teams by far. We were just lucky to have scored more goals that our relegation rivals this season otherwise it would have been the automatic drop.
If that doesn't prove TT's point to others, the what would?
So a leaky defence is Canning's fault but being the top scorers in the bottom 6 is just luck?
Tonight was certainly our last few games in a nutshell if not our entire season - another narrow 1 goal loss in a game where we probably worth at least a point and another couple of defensive mistakes / bad decisions leading to soft goals.
Positives - Templeton's determination to play on despite being barely able to walk, Miller's cameo showing promise and maybe even a player to get us off our seats next season.
Negatives - more poor defending, Redmond flattering to deceive again, 3 strikers tried and not one getting a shot away in 90 minutes, Jenkins, Lyon, finishing with 3 central defenders on the pitch and Jenkins.
Despite the anti-climax, we are staying up and despite the critics what an achievement - 5 seasons in the top league, amazing! This season Canning has had everything thrown at him and still kept us up - starting the season without a striker, our best defender (Devlin) not kicking a ball, our best midfielder (Crawford) barely kicking a ball, £1m fraud, cost cutting, a terrible January transfer window, losing Docherty, losing McKinnon at the same time for 3 months, the Sarris debacle, our only right back walking out after the window had shut, etc................. - it hasn't always been pretty and I think Canning can be tactically naive at times but to keep that squad together and united despite all that has been remarkable.
It's going to be a tough but exciting pre-season with a real challenge to build a squad, however let's enjoy upsetting the odds again and maybe every Accies fan can have a think about the small part they can play in trying to restore a feel good factor to a club who get a lot wrong but a whole lot more right.
Yummy Fur wrote:This season Canning has had everything thrown at him and still kept us up - starting the season without a striker, our best defender (Devlin) not kicking a ball, our best midfielder (Crawford) barely kicking a ball, £1m fraud, cost cutting, a terrible January transfer window, losing Docherty, losing McKinnon at the same time for 3 months, the Sarris debacle, our only right back walking out after the window had shut, etc................. - it hasn't always been pretty and I think Canning can be tactically naive at times but to keep that squad together and united despite all that has been remarkable.
accies1874 wrote:Look at last night's starting eleven. That team shouldn't be anywhere near the top flight, and Templeton is probably the only one that would get in another team.
Canning keeping that squad up is miraculous.
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