You forget sometimes his age and he should get better

In our recent history we seem to have a track record of signing players with long term medical issues that either never achieve the heights expected or are out injured for long periods of their contract costing the club money.  Are there plans to improve the medical testing pre signing players and the treatment of players so they are able to return on schedule.

Our whole club has been built on bringing through youth players to the First team yet with our drop down to the Championship there has been few players who have been able to make the step up to the first team.  What are the short, medium and long term plans to bring our youth structure back up to the levels we have been used to?

shedboy wrote:

Tek wrote:

What one are you Chalmers?

The Kenny Dalglish lookalike?

Or the Jimmy Saville lookalike?? 

Is he watching the kids or the flag???

Now seems to be national news - sure club will act expect fine, suspension and education programme will be the road they go down

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6486833/Footballer-20-quizzed-photo-man-blacked-sunglasses-seller.html

Loemba seems like a luxury player for me, can have a game but will only play well in 1 out of 4 games - although after last night I don't see how he could have been any worse than King or Curran

Increasing find signings in January dubious, been racking my brains trying to think any that have been great for us and i reckon some have caused disruption to the squad - although someone will no doubt prove me wrong.

I agree we need players but now more than ever they need to be the right player!

if we can't offer more than a team in our league Financially and in terms of potential then we have sunk further than I thought!

this quote for me says it all about how he views himself and Livingston:"I always wanted to get into management and it was always going to be that next step for me," he said."This came up a bit out of the blue. But I want to get to the top in the management game and you need to start somewhere."
On that basis I would stay well clear.

No one of the knee jerk reaction brigade but we need answers from the club.

Last year the poor performances were down to Csaba not having his players in the team, he's made a lot of signings brought a lot of players in, his players. I could see the point of using the league cup games as a pre-season, don't agree with it as winning breeds confidence, but understand the approach.

So yesterday and our first league game at home and we get beaten by a team that hasn't beat us for ages, we collapse and concede 3 goals.  Our tactics are terrible and no different from when ray was in charge, everyone has worked them out and they clearly don't work when the teams we play against just sit in behind the ball and we can't break them down.

For me the performances are so poor very disorganised and utterly gutless!!

The board have to be sitting Csaba down and asking a couple of fundamental questions:
1. what is your overall game plan and strategy for the team and sqaud
2. When the f@ck is it going to start working and we see the results

 If not satisfied with the plan and timeline - Csaba has to go  

Why would they work now they have not worked for the last two seasons, everyone presses high and our tactics give every team time to get back and defend in two banks while we play it sideways.

Got to ask is it our tactics or our players that have cost us the promotion in the last two seasons!!!

Arabnophobia wrote:

We've given 20 plus reasons to get Csaba tae fuck on another topic. Ken this will go down badly to maist fans but just for balance and playing devils advocat with the situation...

1. We (hopefully) don't have the full squad in yet and might have more incoming players that make a difference.

2. We've had players missing so far.

3. We have 11 new players and we need time to gell (again) 😩🔫

4. We are going for super fitness for a better timing and start to the league campaign that has impacted on fresh legs, player availability and fatigue in the league cup.

4. We've had mair penalties against us than normally.

5. Cannae find a 5th.

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5.  He's treating the cup as pre season and him and his strength and conditioning coach are still brutalising the players in training which is carrying over into matches to get them used to playing fatigued.

not saying I agree with that, but is only reason i could excuse the massive drop off in the second half

SuperMario wrote:

Scott fraser signed for burton

as he's under 24 and we offered him a new deal are we due a development fee?? - won't be much i'd expect