Lammers

[sassaaaa 11,406]

Showed a few nice touches in the friendlies and I thought we have a player here. Yesterday he was fuckin shocking , bullied off the ball misplacing passes and struggled the whole time he was on the park.

[MacBoyd 5,688]

Fucking terrible 

[SeparateEntityMyArse 54,511]

To me he looks like he's a player who could do well when we're camped around a team's box or dominating a final 3rd. A bit like Hagi.

But when most of our possession is with our CHs he's not got the speed.or guile to influence. And when you lack those you need physicality which he doesn't have.

Imo he'll play more regularly at Ibrox than away from home.

[TheKingObv 10,700]

Despite yesterday I still have a bit of a hope about him.

On the other hand, across multiple games, I've yet to see Dessers and Sima produce a single bit of quality that makes me think they will be decent signings.

[esquire8 43,856]

Can see quality when he gets the ball unlike the rest. Killie marked him out the game after 15 minutes and that was him. Very poor.

[LaudrupsPatrickBoots 13,540]

Poor yesterday but with the exception of Butland he’s probably the only new signing that’s looked anything close to decent so far.

[plumbGER 24,518]

5 minutes ago, LaudrupsPatrickBoots said:

Poor yesterday but with the exception of Butland he’s probably the only new signing that’s looked anything close to decent so far.

I have been impressed with Dowell but wasn't his best performance yesterday. However when he was subbed we practically stopped winning the ball back at all in midfield and looked more vulnerable to the counter attack.

[LaudrupsPatrickBoots 13,540]

Just now, plumbGER said:

I have been impressed with Dowell but wasn't his best performance yesterday. However when he was subbed we practically stopped winning the ball back at all in midfield and looked more vulnerable to the counter attack.

I’d agree with that actually, I’ve probably been harsh on Dowell there he’s also looked decent in preseason.

[RossS1873 1,837]

He actually started the better of them all. But as it became apparent we were a shit show he fell away. Far too early to judge him or any of the new signings 

[Super Ally Scores Again! 503]

He was terrible yesterday but was one of the few who looked ok in pre season

We have an enormous issue in the middle of the park behind the strikers (no.10 position in the hole)

I thought he was going to fill that - if he is then he needs to stay more central this floating all over the park won’t work and leaves the main striker isolated and there’s no linking of the play hence everything goes backwards….

[plumbGER 24,518]

7 minutes ago, LaudrupsPatrickBoots said:

I’d agree with that actually, I’ve probably been harsh on Dowell there he’s also looked decent in preseason.

He has more urgency in his pinky toes than alundstum has in both legs. Was a strange substitution imo

[the brown brogue 1,934]

I think at best he'll be like that trampy bastard McCourt the scum had who used to come on when they were 3 or 4 goals up and waltz through a knackered defence looking like a world beater.

Mentally he looks like another Barisic who's going to shite it at the first sign of a physical battle, I wasn't convinced he would suit us when we were first linked with him and I'm even less convinced now.

[Dado'sMulls 2,692]

Not entirely sure what he brings to the side or what his role is meant to be. Should be back up to Cantwell imo.

[OrangeRab 3,098]

Trying not to be too harsh because yesterday was mostly down to a shite formation and unfamiliarity between the players. 
 

I don’t know what Beale is thinking. But unless you are Messi what are you going to do surrounded by 4 guys in the middle of the park. 
 

You can’t just pack the middle of the park against 10 men. It’s hard enough to break them down without essentially cutting the width of the pitch in half.

Width and pace badly needed

[STEPPS BOY 75,413]

Looks every inch a striker who had a shit goalscoring record so we’re trying to make him into a ‘10’ instead of buying an actual 10.

Not the first time we’ve done this either.

[SeparateEntityMyArse 54,511]

13 minutes ago, STEPPS BOY said:

Looks every inch a striker who had a shit goalscoring record so we’re trying to make him into a ‘10’ instead of buying an actual 10.

Not the first time we’ve done this either.

Hagi can play a 10. Camtwell was thriving as the CAM and often occupied that area of the pitch. Fuck even Lowry could have done a job in there.

Instead we've invested in a guy who might be able to cover both roles, but do neither as well as we need from specialists in those roles.

And he looks paceless which is not good for an apparent high press team 🙄 

What's worse is that he's the least of the worries out of the outfield new signings.

[LaudrupsPatrickBoots 13,540]

29 minutes ago, plumbGER said:

He has more urgency in his pinky toes than alundstum has in both legs. Was a strange substitution imo

I think his substitutions are always poor mate. No imagination behind them whatsoever it’s almost always like for like and never a positive change.

[BlueAvenger 10,545]

He has shown a few nice touches but fuck all else. 

[Blues Brother 1,132]

We have a big problem tactically…. Dropping a midfielder (Lundstram) into a back 3 really fucks us up. It prevents the other 2  midfielders pushing to far up the pitch to join in with the strikers. 
if he actually stayed as the midfield holder, the other 2 can push forward more… 

This is not all Lundstrams fault, it’s clearly a tactic used to try to get the full backs forward, but they are pish 

[LegendofCoop 17,550]

Let's face it. 

We were all a bit concerned when Sima, Dessers and Lammers were linked. Not one of them had the sort of scoring/assist stats to get excited about.

So far, we were right to have concerns.

[AGM_72 3,737]

I hope he turns out good, but he has all the hallmarks of a neat and tidy player and we have collected "neat and tidy" midfielder/10s for years who are nowhere near incisive enough. 

[Broxi 11,760]

8 minutes ago, LegendofCoop said:

Let's face it. 

We were all a bit concerned when Sima, Dessers and Lammers were linked. Not one of them had the sort of scoring/assist stats to get excited about.

So far, we were right to have concerns.

Slavia Sima was exciting but Stoke should have been a red flag 

[Mols94 3,669]

Most of the players were shite in pre season so it didn't really take much for him to standout. His record with the exception of 1 season is shocking and we somehow thought it would be a good idea to spend 3.5 million on him.

[Laudrupsleftfoot 11,451]

2 hours ago, SeparateEntityMyArse said:

To me he looks like he's a player who could do well when we're camped around a team's box or dominating a final 3rd. A bit like Hagi.

But when most of our possession is with our CHs he's not got the speed.or guile to influence. And when you lack those you need physicality which he doesn't have.

Imo he'll play more regularly at Ibrox than away from home.

I’ll give him more time despite similar reservations about his pace and guile.

But you can’t be spending what we spent on him as our main creative player and then accept he won’t perform away from home.

[Laudrupsleftfoot 11,451]

16 minutes ago, Broxi said:

Slavia Sima was exciting but Stoke should have been a red flag 

It’s one competitive game so too early to make any fixed judgements, but anyone who raised eyebrows at the handful of “if we get him back to how he was playing 2, 3, 4 years ago” signings was crucified on here.

I understand why we had to make one or two of those, you can’t sign them when they’re going for >£10 million or when we’re up against someone like Brighton. But to expect them all to hit the ground running and not take time to get up to speed was a long shot.

If they don’t show signs of improvement quickly Beale is utterly fucked.