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Just thinking about jmac and his statement about not selling our best players and am sure it's just a ploy to get us all to sign up for the season tickets - so here goes months of will he won't he chat on ciftci, which will invariably end up with ciftci leaving. For the record, I think he already has something lined up and we just have nor been told..... anyway - back to my point
Next seasons strikers will be Jordan Moore, Simon murray, Robbie Muirhead and Henri anier. Cannot see jackie spending money on a 5th striker Moore and murray never played top flight football and Muirhead it far ahead of them... Our only experience is anier and he's louping
Hope the young lads can do the business but have reservations
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Bilate is on a 2 year contract so could be an option depending on fitness
Reminds me of the late 90s when we saw Brewster, Winters, McLaren, McSwegan, Olofsson then Dodds all leave in a relatively short space of time, then had to put up with Alex Mathie or youngsters who just weren't ready. Recent years we've farewelled a lot of goals in Goodillie (2009-2011 version, not the sequel), Russell, Daly, Gauld, GMS, Armstrong and now possibly Ciftci
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Think Anier can be good for us if played in his prefered position etc. Not every striker/forward that comes to can be shite, given most have previously good records. How many do we need to go through before its realisd the setup we play doesn't suit.
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i watched a video of anier for motherwell and it appears he needs the ball in behind the defence to get on the end of.....and we are playing him up front on his own and pumping balls into him .
I also said the same about goodie - he didn't lose his talent and wasn't that he didn't try but hes neither a winger or a lone striker..... Interestingly, he played well for the sheep alongside rooney (big lump o a striker)....
BUT good or not - they have to be able to fit into jackies system, if he insists on playing that way.....otherwise its just a waste of time and money.
As it happens i completely forgot about Bilate - but think hes going to prove to be too injury prone to make any real difference to our side - id guess at 15 games max next season in which he will never get a run which will let us see what he can do.....