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Post by liviman on Jan 10, 2015 19:34:10 GMT 1
Its time Rankine & his merry men took the express bus out of town. They are killing our club like a slow death.
Time is up Mr Rankine.
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Post by livijimbo on Jan 11, 2015 11:52:34 GMT 1
I 'd prefer if Burchill went first. He hasn't added anything since McGlynn has left.
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Post by livijimbo on Jan 16, 2015 21:57:59 GMT 1
I see Rankine playing with the old heart strings. I want to leave, but I can't.
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Post by colcal on Jan 16, 2015 22:04:24 GMT 1
Livijimbo - please change your label to LiviNegative.
If you had your way and Burchill left after 4 ganes, please enlighten us all with your master plan about what you'd do instead.
I'm looking forward to hearing your strategy.
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Post by livijimbo on Jan 16, 2015 22:32:14 GMT 1
My strategy would be not to keep Burchill. I think he is part of the problem, but I have told you that before. No managerial/real coaching experience never mind with a team fighting for it's life in survival. He has just signed a striker that has a 1 goal in 18 games ratio - even you must see with that calibre of signing we're fecked?
I would have brought in someone like Danny Lennon he has done it previously with Cowdenbeath.
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Post by colcal on Jan 16, 2015 22:43:35 GMT 1
So how would you have funded Burchill's dismissal and Lennon's recruitment?
I'd have liked Bep Guardiola - but we're Livingston with no cash whatsoever and no prospect of getting any soon.
Regarding the new guy, I've never heard of him but in prepared to give him a chance. Maybe he'll get a new lease of life with us. Torres couldn't hit a barn door with a bazooka but scored twice for Atletico last night against Real Madrid at the Bernabeu.............so who knows what'll happen.
Face it - we've no cash, no prospects of new top quality players and little hope. But we have some loyal supporters and it'd be great if you put your energies into positive posts, which may be read by some of the squad.
So, squad, if you're listening, let's get stuck in tomorrow to that shower from Alloa and turn them over. We're better than them. Go out and prove them, and the doubters like Livijimbo, wrong. The rest of us are fully behind you!!
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Post by livijimbo on Jan 16, 2015 22:47:23 GMT 1
Good luck with you optimism colcal but it hasn't been there all season and Burchill is taking us down. There has been no points since McGlynn has left other than 1pt last week when it should have been 3pts easy
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Post by LiviLion21 on Jan 17, 2015 21:40:44 GMT 1
The team was poor under McGlynn. I don't think we've been too bad under Burchill so far. So, we lost to The Rangers and Hearts but we were in both games and played some good stuff at times - you'd have those games down as zero pointers beforehand so putting in a good performance was good enough for me.
I didn't make the QOTS game but going by comments on here and the highlights, we were in the game for long periods and squandered a lot of chances. You can't lay that at the feet of Burchill - we done enough to score the goals but just didn't take the chances.
Cowdenbeath - we didn't play poorly either, infact, we were probably the better side. Again, missed chances cost us but Burchill was working withg McGlynn's squad. He's added one extra striker with rumours of at least one other to follow - fingers crossed we can start making these chances into goals.
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Post by livimoaner on Jan 17, 2015 22:20:37 GMT 1
A child is a reflection of their parents.
A coach is made by the managers he seVerd under.
The thing is if football was truly professional then the manager would be learning his own paradym of coaching. He would have a grounding in professional develvet that enable to improve his coaching by all learning experiences not just direct observations of football.
alas we suffer from unprofessional coaches who are scared to apply expansive and revolutionary thought into their stlye.
football is Bach woods when it comes to original thought.
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Post by Papa Shango on Jan 17, 2015 22:24:45 GMT 1
There's maybe already the thought that we might be going down and the club want to have Burchill in charge for the promotion push next season?
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Post by Auldnick on Jan 18, 2015 1:14:14 GMT 1
That would be defeatist in the extreme, we are 5 points behind; that is only 2 wins; we have shown signs that we are better than results suggest but we need to stop feeling sorry for ourselves & start fighting for everything from start to finish. Until the league dock us more points for the Rankine fiasco & it becomes inevitable of course.
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Post by livijimbo on Jan 18, 2015 9:51:10 GMT 1
The team was poor under McGlynn. I don't think we've been too bad under Burchill so far. So, we lost to The Rangers and Hearts but we were in both games and played some good stuff at times - you'd have those games down as zero pointers beforehand so putting in a good performance was good enough for me. I didn't make the QOTS game but going by comments on here and the highlights, we were in the game for long periods and squandered a lot of chances. You can't lay that at the feet of Burchill - we done enough to score the goals but just didn't take the chances. Cowdenbeath - we didn't play poorly either, infact, we were probably the better side. Again, missed chances cost us but Burchill was working withg McGlynn's squad. He's added one extra striker with rumours of at least one other to follow - fingers crossed we can start making these chances into goals. You are having a laugh right? Rangers - by all accounts we could have taken something. They are a very poor team right now. Alloa have beaten them why not us and why would we have that down as a zero point match? Hearts- they were there for the taking we should have scored a goal at least. Cowdenbeath - a game we should simply have won! This is is a results business and being the better side and not walking away with maximum points won't see us stay in this league. The facts are Burchill had picked up only 1 point since it was solely his decisions and that for me is simply just not good enough. You talk about it being McGlynns squad Burchill has been the assistant manager here & has been fully part of the decision making/signings of McGlynns squad let's not forget that. |
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Post by drwho on Jan 18, 2015 14:21:16 GMT 1
I would agree a bit with LL21 in that performances have been better, but results have remained static in as much we keep losing games.
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Post by thejudge on Jan 18, 2015 22:38:23 GMT 1
Rankine may have no alternative come Feb court case, but to leave Livi FC
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Post by afro on Jan 19, 2015 12:40:09 GMT 1
The team was poor under McGlynn. I don't think we've been too bad under Burchill so far. So, we lost to The Rangers and Hearts but we were in both games and played some good stuff at times - you'd have those games down as zero pointers beforehand so putting in a good performance was good enough for me. I didn't make the QOTS game but going by comments on here and the highlights, we were in the game for long periods and squandered a lot of chances. You can't lay that at the feet of Burchill - we done enough to score the goals but just didn't take the chances. Cowdenbeath - we didn't play poorly either, infact, we were probably the better side. Again, missed chances cost us but Burchill was working withg McGlynn's squad. He's added one extra striker with rumours of at least one other to follow - fingers crossed we can start making these chances into goals. You are having a laugh right? Rangers - by all accounts we could have taken something. They are a very poor team right now. Alloa have beaten them why not us and why would we have that down as a zero point match? Hearts- they were there for the taking we should have scored a goal at least. Cowdenbeath - a game we should simply have won! This is is a results business and being the better side and not walking away with maximum points won't see us stay in this league. The facts are Burchill had picked up only 1 point since it was solely his decisions and that for me is simply just not good enough. You talk about it being McGlynns squad Burchill has been the assistant manager here & has been fully part of the decision making/signings of McGlynns squad let's not forget that. Not posted on this forum in a long time, but I read it from time to time, between this and the other two (nonsensical in the extreme for a club with a support of <1000 but that's a debate for another thread). You really don't like Burchill - we all get it. We probably can't even rub two pennies together at the moment, so what other option would you suggest on the managerial front? It's clear McGlynn had to go, yeah, but no manager realistically would've touched the job with a bargepole given all the shit going on in the background. I'll not even pretend to be a fan of Burchill as a player, given the fact he's been total dross for us since the get-go, nor his antics from his time at Dunfermline, but realistically speaking he was probably the only one who could've took the job. As LL21 says, I don't think we've done too badly. I can't comment on the away matches but the two home matches I've seen, it's been night and day compared to McGlynn's tenure this season. Was impressed by us against Hearts at home, pressed well, good energy throughout the game and should've got a draw. Cowden at home, by far and away the most chances we've created in a game this season. First half we absolutely rode them and we should've been out of sight. Second half granted, they came into it a bit more but we had more than enough chances to win by 3/4 goals comfortably. If you can't see that there has been a noticeable change from McGlynn's total shitball, then I despair. Burchill can only piss with the c*ck he's got. He's already practically got one hand tied behind his back with pretty much no budget, and another one with a mediocre group of players. I'd be far more worried if we were getting outplayed, but I wouldn't say we are. Just doesn't help when pretty much our only striker can't finish, and our most experienced defender (!) is chucking daft own goals in every second week. EDIT: Should probably add so that I don't come across as a totally seething mess that at the end of the day, we all want the same for the team and for the club, and that shouldn't be forgotten, especially given the current hoo-ha going on behind the scenes. |
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Post by livijimbo on Jan 19, 2015 19:57:12 GMT 1
So as long as we're all happy aburchill is taking us down then so be it. There is cash in the club the point is it's been spent on lawyers fees rather than a coaching team that will keep us in the championship.
Burchill is a novice when it comes to coaching and therefore there is likely only going to be one outcome.
I have made my views known about aburchill, but I don't expect him to get the sack (yet!)
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Post by livimoaner on Jan 22, 2015 14:04:25 GMT 1
McGlynn went. Why? If you actually checked what he was doing and how he was doing it, then he was doing exactly the same as any other coach or manager. He could actually say that he was doing it more so than most.
But it was not working?
If a manager any manager is doing all the right things, all the things that any others would do in the same place.....The conclusion has to be that the player group is where the issue lies.
Now I have seen players hitting Lidls after training, and have been told that the way they use weights in the gym etc is poor. Again this could be squared off onto the manager but their comes a time when the finger has to be pointed at the right people.
So some points, if the obvious issue is the player group, why have members of that group promoted to run the team?
What will these do differently and how will it get better if they are less skilled and experienced at doing than the previous manager?
How do we fix the player group?
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