soul71 wrote:

just had dicker in the work,don't think they'll be many !st teamers like,they leave for holland thursday,playing az alkmar&aw,10 spot bit on the pricey side.

 


When?

Is there a roof at Gayfield?

Smashing team. Smashing weather.

Well worth the equivalent of three Peroni's.

I'm sure those who have braved the weather and forked out £10 to watch a team made up of first teasers & development squad players will be over the moon to see that line up.

The trialist is supposedly Guido Gomez.

An Italian of Argentine descent who plays in Seria C.

bowers wrote:

1 nil arbroath

JACKIE OOT!
 

2 nil

2 nil Arbroath final score. Lichties subby just on the park scores their 2nd.

1st half
Arbroath had too much possession. We gave them the ba too much mostly thru poor and loose passing. We also sat too much of the 1st half in our own half, maintaining possession right enough but just no going anyplace with it. There was a period of about 15 minutes when Murray never got a touch of the ball. 1 good nearie by Murray just past the post tho. Thats aboot it for the 1st half.

2nd half
Jordan Moore struggled 1st half, and was subbed at half time by Brad Smith.
We were better 2nd half, but again we sat too much in our own half trying to keep possession, but no going anywhere. There was another period of 10 minutes when Murray never touched the ball, and he unfortuntely missed a sitter.

Our best players were nos 4, 5, 7 and 8 the whole game. No. 8 - think it was Scott Lochhead. was the MOTM for me. Best player on the park by far, followed closely by No. 7 who had the most number of attempts on goal.  Apologies for not being able to put names to these some of these laddies. If somebody could put names to numbers please do.

Last edited by Billy_Hainey (07/7/2015 10:37 pm)

Utd weren't up to much but still had about half a dozen chances compared to Arbroath who only had a couple. Their first goal wasn't really a chance, Harry Souttar won a header from a corner and their boy caught it flush on the volley from the edge of the box. Their second was a breakaway late on.

Murray was very isolated and missed two sitters when through both times. Jordan Moore did the same in the first minute. Moore sadly also looks about 1 and a half stone overweight (and thats being generous) and was subbied at half time after trying to play as a number 10.

The Italian boy looked good in flashes but was not up to much tracking back and was lightweight. He was unlucky with a couple of chances second half but was also guilty of being greedy late on.

Justin Johnston was hopeless. His passing was gash and a hospital pass to Euan Spark resulted in a really bad collision that Spark did well to recover from.

Who is 1st team ready? Jamie Robson for me is the only one who looks like he could go in and do well straight away at left back. He's been our best player by far any time I've seen the u20s.

Scott Smith looks not bad too and does well when he commits people but tbh is not any better than we have.

Harry Souttar clearly has lots of potential but is probably not ready yet.

Zwick was decent for the most part and looks better than the Polish boy.

One final thought. Thats a few times I've seen the development squad and have felt each time they look incredibly rigid in the way they play and as a result have no goalthreat. There is no real freedom to what they do and most of them look like they could do with the tactical straightjacket getting removed.

Last edited by lifesanocean (07/7/2015 10:55 pm)

Agreed Homer. We looked better when we changed to a diamond midfield with the Italian boy at the top. Adayemo went up front with Murray and did well. We actually got well on top for about 10-15 minutes but then they scored against the run of play.

The boy Lockhead was crap first half and continually gave the ball away but tbf looked better second half and started threading some clever balls through although nobody was taking advantage.

Last edited by lifesanocean (07/7/2015 11:08 pm)

Heartless bastard IMO

I thought the two at the back were good, as was Robson. What size young Harry is! Surely he can't have any growing left in him?

Also Smith and Lockheed both looked excellent.

The trialist definitely had something about him, would be interesting to see how he fared in a higher standard of game.