Newman a strange one for me. Goodwin has shown many times he will bin players he doesn’t think are up to it. So he must see something in Newman. Also could be he is still young for a keeper.

But if he does rate him why wasn’t he played at all last season (I don’t think) even at the end when we had won the league ?

Either way, great chance for the boy if he gets and takes his chance. He could be our first choice GK next season if he did well with ICT.

Kristijan Trapanovski officially signed.

Two year deal with Utd holding option of another year (i like this new system).

Like most unknown signings from abroad it's a shot in the dark.

Could either be the new Jerren Nixon or the next Emil Lyng. Praying he's more like the former.


His English is fantastic, that's helpful.
 

David_Blunkett wrote:

Breaking down his contributions statistically, he attempted 70 more dribbles than any other Prva Liga player

Absolutely buzzing after reading this, I was worried out lack of dribbles, would affect our XG, forcing us into a lock block more often and relying on our false nine and inverted wingbacks.

Looks like we'll be more of a high pressing team and decent once we crystalise.

You're right David, it's getting worse. Your quote is an absolute belter.
Football hardly resembles football any more.
It's all Sky's fault & I would ban all punditry with immediate effect.
I feel for the younger generations of football fans who have been weaned on the utter pish that gets spouted.
If I'm watching a live game on TV which isn't all that often (even Scotland v Hungary I was flicking over to the golf) I watch from the kick-off, never the monotonous preamble nor half time & full time garbage speak & also I mute the commentary, you should give that a try.

Anyway Kristijan, dribble on.
 

Finn Seemann wrote:

I think there is a secret lobotomy programme led by the Professor of Sporting Directorship at Manchester Metropolitan.  There is no other explanation for Tam Courts.  How could a boy fae Fife spout such total footballing bullshit bingo otherwise?

Football is a simple game played, generally, by fairly unintelligent people.  Money has utterly ruined it to the extent that people who know virtually nothing about the game are changing the vocabulary simply to hoodwink their way to their pound of flesh.  In the meantime the actual product on the park gets worse to watch.  The Euros this year have been turgid.

 
I was quite enjoying summer before you raised that topic again! I’ll tell you what I would like to see. All channels should make it a condition of employment, that all pundits be bilingual. The majority of British pundits are just ignoramuses trying to be comedians. I blame Sky for this.

Slotbadger wrote:

Newman a strange one for me. Goodwin has shown many times he will bin players he doesn’t think are up to it. So he must see something in Newman. Also could be he is still young for a keeper.

But if he does rate him why wasn’t he played at all last season (I don’t think) even at the end when we had won the league ?

Either way, great chance for the boy if he gets and takes his chance. He could be our first choice GK next season if he did well with ICT.

IIRC Newman was contracted for this season prior to Goodwin being put in place (edit think I have this wrong on reflection). Agree the loan is good news for him  because there will be an Expectation of promotion too but it will take him away from the Utd, he needs to play.

you could argue he has less experience (bar the handful of games he played in the last prem season) than Adams who has already played League 1 and whose contract was extended in the summer so I suspect that was definitely a Goodwin decision to keep.

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SlatefordArab wrote:

Re the co-commentators.  I was over in Germany for a week and watched a couple of games in our hotel.  Whatever German channel it was on they only had a commentator, no co-commentator; I obviously could not understand them but got me thinking how refreshing it would be to go back to just having a commentator and not have some wittering half-wit making a comment about every other thing that happens.

Should have the option to mute either or both commentators.

SuperMario wrote:

Goodwin stating after game we are still after 4 or 5 new players, good news.

“Striker, right winger and a few centre mids”

Sounds like odonnell will be going back out on loan

Brilliant news.

And that is exactly the positions we need.
 

Arabdownsouth wrote:

Tek wrote:

SuperMario wrote:

Goodwin stating after game we are still after 4 or 5 new players, good news.

“Striker, right winger and a few centre mids”

Sounds like odonnell will be going back out on loan

Brilliant news.

And that is exactly the positions we need.
 

 
This might end up being the first season in quite a while that we will actually have a balanced,competent and dare I say... exciting squad of players. I just hope Goodwin can get the best out of them is all.

 
Correct Grieve and possibly Grimshaw have been Goodwin’s only questionable signing. Goodwin had a good record at Aberdeen on recruiting players let’s hope it’s similar here with the exception being that he gets the best out of them. Optimism building!

Tek wrote:

SuperMario wrote:

Goodwin stating after game we are still after 4 or 5 new players, good news.

“Striker, right winger and a few centre mids”

Sounds like odonnell will be going back out on loan

Brilliant news.

And that is exactly the positions we need.
 

 
Correct. And like I’ve said before, I think Jim sees the game the way we all see it, without the  usual managerial bullshit and bluster. I mind hearing a post match interview with him when he was up at Aberdeen and was impressed with how honest he was when analysing what they’d done wrong in the game, rather than making excuses for them.

We’ll also need another centre half if we’re set on going 3 at the back. 4 boys for 3 positions is too light for a full season. The left side is sorted with Graham and Holt, but we need at least one more right footer that can cover the right side and the middle of a back 3.

Sounds like we’re going 3-4-3 rather than 3-5-2 going by what Goodwin says about getting another winger in.

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SuperMario wrote:

Goodwin stating after game we are still after 4 or 5 new players, good news.

“Striker, right winger and a few centre mids”

Sounds like odonnell will be going back out on loan

 
Great news but i think a few will have to leave before we add another 5.

Grimshaw can leave from what I've read and I can see both McLeod and O Donnell going out on loan.

I really hope the guys who are in the starting blocks ,waiting on the first bad result just pause and reflect the amount of new bodies coming in. It will take time for them to settle in.

JerryDungle wrote:

Doesn’t sound like anything’s imminent going by Goodwin’s interview in the tele tonight.

On another note, the fact that Mochrie, Meekison & Glass have ended up at Airdrie, Cove & the League of Ireland respectively pretty much justifies the fact that none of them were near good enough to warrant another deal. Our youth system over the past decade has been an absolute mess. Now that the boy Cowie’s away, we should be extending an olive branch to Stevie Campbell to try and coax him to come back, whatever he was doing worked, as every man and his dog could see at the time.

 
Can anyone copy and paste Goodwin interview from tonight? Can’t access it online

JerryDungle wrote:

Doesn’t sound like anything’s imminent going by Goodwin’s interview in the tele tonight.

On another note, the fact that Mochrie, Meekison & Glass have ended up at Airdrie, Cove & the League of Ireland respectively pretty much justifies the fact that none of them were near good enough to warrant another deal. Our youth system over the past decade has been an absolute mess. Now that the boy Cowie’s away, we should be extending an olive branch to Stevie Campbell to try and coax him to come back, whatever he was doing worked, as every man and his dog could see at the time.

 
Don’t really agree with all of this. The young guys that weren’t given much of a chance were always going to have to take a step back this season.  But football is littered with stories of young players who were dropped by a ‘big’ team and went on to have brilliant careers. Robertson is obvious one for us. I still think Mochrie could end up a right good player if he gets a couple of seasons as a first choice player and the right coaching.

Do however agree totally with the overall point - our youth system is not working and if we could get S/C back it should be done.