Yer Sisters Yer Maw wrote:Echo the sentiments of above. Despite the dip in form when Alex & co left, 7th place is a great achievement. Special thanks to AN, Frankie and *22 for all your goals and for playing a huge part in what was an unbelievable 1st half of the season. Hopefully Canning is starting to find his feet now as manager and will be backed by the board to strengthen where he feels it's required to in the summer.
Don't think you can disregard MAC in all that. He did a great job til Neil left, scoring goals and linking play well.
The season has managed to be a success and failure at the same time. Canning shouldn't have been appointed and even if he was, he should have been backed with one or two good signings. Our front line needs a shake-up as Hasselbaink and Scotland have ultimately been poor. Andy Ryan is very lucky to be given a contract to next season and Brophy still hasn't overly impressed but he's still young so I'm hoping he can build upon his development league performances.
In midfield, Gills has really dropped off since Neil left and I was really hoping he could've shown the promise of being Alex Neil's replacement.
Lucas is good at the back but Jesus is a bombscare at times and very classy at others. Lyon and MacDonald haven't convinced me either. Happy to see the back of Hendrie and Ziggy is yet another player that's been poor since Neil leaving.
Keeping McGovern and Crawford will be big asks. They've been excellent with Crawford being a huge surprise package. Devlin's had a couple of slip ups but he's been my YPotY.