SuperMario wrote:

100% going three at back, both full backs we’ve signed a proper attack wing backs, looking forward to watching this team

Will we not need 5 at the back, it's gonna be tough in the top division.
6 at the back for Celtic at Home.
 

CCX2 2010 wrote:

Happy with the latest two additions, build from the back.

Time up for Grimshaw?

Would like to see us get a goalkeeper in as a priority and I am sure that's what Jim will be focused on.

After that some energy at the other end of the pitch would be welcome.

 
Grimshaw will be back up,we need a squad after all.

I think Gtimshaw gives 100% and is a decent pro but that's it.

Feels like ages since the last few league games but I can still remember how shaky he us I'm possession and how bad he was at decision making at right back.

I would doubt he will see out the end of this transfer window without leaving in some capacity.

Any time I saw Grimshaw last season he was pish. He’s punching at Championship level. Replace with better and exit please.

Finn Seemann wrote:

Any time I saw Grimshaw last season he was pish. He’s punching at Championship level. Replace with better and exit please.

 
He really isn't as bad as you're making out. Was part of a very successful defence last season. He'll be fine as back up in my opinion.

Finn Seemann wrote:

Any time I saw Grimshaw last season he was pish. He’s punching at Championship level. Replace with better and exit please.

he has been told he is not in the managers plans and can leave.

Thompson has just had a hernia operation


 

dufc2019 wrote:

Finn Seemann wrote:

Any time I saw Grimshaw last season he was pish. He’s punching at Championship level. Replace with better and exit please.

he has been told he is not in the managers plans and can leave.

Thompson has just had a hernia operation


 

 
That’s one thing I like about Goodwin. He is ruthless when it comes to players that aren’t at the required level. Culled nearly all the shite from the relegation season (bar one jobby that refused to flush), then again this season, let go of a lot of the academy players who have flirted with the first team for years but ultimately couldn’t step up to the required level, even in the Championship. He done the same at Aberdeen with some of their big earners and big personalities like Scott Brown

Even with his own signings, Denham as an example, played a couple of games, was absolutely hopeless, and was never seen again. Goodwin recognised he wasn’t up to it, signed Gallagher to replace him and that was that. How many managers have we seen persist with shite game after game, purely out of ego, when we can all see they aren’t up to it?

Goodwin for the most part actually seems to see the game the way we all see it, and isn’t too proud to admit when he’s made a mistake. He’s since admitted that he got things wrong when he was tinkering with the team around the Airdrie/Dunfernline games in February/March time. You  can’t expect perfection from any manager, but there hasn’t been many, if any United managers in my lifetime that would hold their hands up when they made a mistake, so you have to give him a lot of credit for that.

Grimshaw seems a nice lad, and a good pro who works hard, but he is extremely limited as a footballer. He cost us goals and gave up chances from poor positioning and giving the ball away on a number of occasions. This would only be amplified at Premiership level against better players. Shame cause he seems a good lad, and is popular in the dressing room, but just doesn’t have the ability to cut it at the level we’re looking to be at.

Arabdownsouth wrote:

Finn Seemann wrote:

Any time I saw Grimshaw last season he was pish. He’s punching at Championship level. Replace with better and exit please.

 
He really isn't as bad as you're making out. Was part of a very successful defence last season. He'll be fine as back up in my opinion.

I've nothing against Grimshaw.  Seems like he works hard and definitely put in a shift last season.  Problem is he's not a great footballer.  He seemed passable on grass, but on the plastic his first touch was worse than mine which suggests he's a not very good footballer.  He is not good enough to play in the top league.  He would get targetted at right back and he's so far off a competent midfielder at that level that it really isn't worth holding on to him.

Goodwin as others have said appears to understand this.  He'd be better playing week in week out for Morton or the like.

I watched Bonnyrigg Rose a few times last season and they've got better midfield options than Grimshaw.

As posted a bit up the page, Goodwin isn't shy of moving a player on who he deems not good enough and that's a good approach.

Grimshaw mostly was solid, but he was limited, but played his part, so thanks and good luck.

The Morton fans were upset when he left them, it was meant to be a good signing for us, maybe he's just a better player in a team where his main job was to defend, rather than to be on the front foot?

The signing of Strain and the emergence of Miller Thompson who can fill in there if needed, suggests he'd see very little game time anyway.

I just hope he wasn't put on a decent contract, as we might struggle to shift him.
 

If we're assuming Trapanovski gets his permit, then i'd like at least....Keeper, left sided CB, a ball playing midfielder and a Jon Daly type striker.

David_Blunkett wrote:

As posted a bit up the page, Goodwin isn't shy of moving a player on who he deems not good enough and that's a good approach.

Grimshaw mostly was solid, but he was limited, but played his part, so thanks and good luck.

The Morton fans were upset when he left them, it was meant to be a good signing for us, maybe he's just a better player in a team where his main job was to defend, rather than to be on the front foot?

The signing of Strain and the emergence of Miller Thompson who can fill in there if needed, suggests he'd see very little game time anyway.

I just hope he wasn't put on a decent contract, as we might struggle to shift him.
 

Is Goodwin ruthless ?   yes

Can Goodwin set a team up to play football ?  absolutely  not 
 

CCX2 2010 wrote:

Rumour on twitter that Jack Newman to Inverness for a season long loan.

That would be a great move for him.

new no1 incoming shirley?