Dessers

[gazza27 15,746]

Second finish was class 

[Laudrupsleftfoot 12,228]

10 minutes ago, King Jela said:

That's crazy, considering all that supposedly separated us between 2nd and 1st was Shankland.

Aye but if Shankland was playing for us he’d be on 15 with the chances Dessers has had…

[Jakes Pal 5,917]

7 minutes ago, King Jela said:

Big Serial Dessers again. 2nd finish was outstanding tbf

I really do like the Big Guy,  and apart from his ability to stick the ball in the net, on a few occasions with incredible skill and talent (remember Betis), he seems to be a very genuinely nice individual. Unfortunately for him, he is a striker at a Club with the likes of McCoist, Haetely, Mols, Johnstone in lifetime memory and as such has huge boots to fill in the proverbial sense. If only  he would go with instinct and hit for goal first time instead of that extra touch due to over thinking, then he would be a true penalty box predator.

[KeyserSoze 15,264]

30+

[Hadron Collider 32,355]

40 minutes ago, gazza27 said:

Second finish was class 

Was a cracker mate. 

[JackAlex93 12,547]

Very good finish for his 2nd goal 

[King Jela 21,639]

52 minutes ago, Laudrupsleftfoot said:

Aye but if Shankland was playing for us he’d be on 15 with the chances Dessers has had…

Bold claim to make when he's taking none of his chances at Hearts. 

[esquire8 45,189]

What a player. Goal machine.

[lau03143 139]

Two well taken goals, could have got a couple more. Decent game for him.

[Laudrupsleftfoot 12,228]

49 minutes ago, King Jela said:

Bold claim to make when he's taking none of his chances at Hearts. 

[BlueSuedeSambas 56,382]

Will always do well in games like the one tonight, don’t think many people doubt or question that. It’s the bigger games where his limitations and wastefulness will prove to be the difference.

[.Williamson. 87,239]

Good today and great second goal. Can get right in the fucking bin for old firms though 

[Jamie0202 13,068]

49 minutes ago, BlueSuedeSambas said:

Will always do well in games like the one tonight, don’t think many people doubt or question that. It’s the bigger games where his limitations and wastefulness will prove to be the difference.

Can we not just praise the big cunt for what was a very well rounded performance and leave it at that without still having to criticise? 

[shaka 1,835]

He had a very good game today.  Deserves a lot of credit for still playing so well and staying so motivated even with the relentless negativity he's faced.

[Ross-Gazza genius 2,040]

7 hours ago, King Jela said:

That's crazy, considering all that supposedly separated us between 2nd and 1st was Shankland.

Exactly, a lot of shouts for "Shankland would have delivered us the title" last January 😳😬. 

As much as i think Shankland could be useful squad player, he is pretty shite and Dessers all round game is better. 

Unless we sign Shankland for nothing, thank fuck we didn't spend anything on him last January. Called it at the time he is a limited football player exactly like Boyd and he got a lot of abuse. 

 

[bluenoz 32,431]

Thank God we never had social media back in Ally's days. He missed as many as he scored. In my lifetime, no one will break McCoist's records.

But big Cyriel is doing just fine, and I've always thought that.

He's no Ian Rush or Baggio, but he's decent. I'm glad he plays for us.

[Bluekev 47,092]

I think he’ll have a decent season. Some of his passing last night night was really good and I think having better players around him this season such as Jefte and Bajrami will really help him.

[The Ibrox Derry 9,226]

Shankland will come to us for nothing in the summer.

In hindsight, good business by the club waiting and not spunking 4 or 5 million for him.

 

[The Ibrox Derry 9,226]

Plus the "Shankland will win us the league" patter is only that. There was no guarantees of him actually doing that.

[rbt1548 1,896]

11 hours ago, gazza27 said:

Second finish was class 

Indeed, and the delivery was the same.

[Badger 9,096]

4 hours ago, Ross-Gazza genius said:

Exactly, a lot of shouts for "Shankland would have delivered us the title" last January 😳😬. 

As much as i think Shankland could be useful squad player, he is pretty shite and Dessers all round game is better. 

Unless we sign Shankland for nothing, thank fuck we didn't spend anything on him last January. Called it at the time he is a limited football player exactly like Boyd and he got a lot of abuse. 

 

January was a different need. 

A lack of fire power was one of the main reasons we failed last year.

We needed a striker that knew the league and would come in, hit the ground running and score goals. Shankland, IMO, gave the best chance of that.

After January the Shankland ship sailed. I think we can do better.

[Colin Traive 23,833]

Would hope that, given how desperate we’ve been for striking options (e.g. EL final with Aribo up top and then totally dependent on Dessers alone) for so long, the management team have a few really promising youngsters getting ready to burst onto the first team picture in the coming months.

 

[Jamie0202 13,068]

1 hour ago, Badger said:

January was a different need. 

A lack of fire power was one of the main reasons we failed last year.

We needed a striker that knew the league and would come in, hit the ground running and score goals. Shankland, IMO, gave the best chance of that.

After January the Shankland ship sailed. I think we can do better.

Agree we needed more fire power in January but for me it had to be alongside Dessers on the pitch rather than as a replacement. Lack of goals from elsewhere was a problem and to be honest this season doesn't seem to be much different. We need far more from the other forward players and needed the same in January. I felt we tried to address that in brining in Cortes and Silva but for different reasons neither of them worked out the way we had hoped. Obviously Shankland is mostly a centre forward but has played wide and as an attacking midfielder before, especially in his first season with Hearts, so could have done a job there, but as a direct replacement for Dessers then it would have been the same outcome. We can't rely on one guy to do all the scoring because when that guy has an off day and the chances aren't going in it makes it difficult to win games. 

[ayro 3,514]

1 hour ago, Badger said:

January was a different need. 

A lack of fire power was one of the main reasons we failed last year.

We needed a striker that knew the league and would come in, hit the ground running and score goals. Shankland, IMO, gave the best chance of that.

After January the Shankland ship sailed. I think we can do better.

Signing Shankland in January would have given us a boost, took pressure off Dessers and Tav as the only goal threats,

Would we have won the league, who knows?

If we are 3-6 points behind the tarriers after the New Year game the same shout will happen IF Shankland starts scoring again.

I agree with you the time to sign him has gone, focus should be elsewhere.

[BelfastWillie 1,743]

13 hours ago, Jakes Pal said:

I really do like the Big Guy,  and apart from his ability to stick the ball in the net, on a few occasions with incredible skill and talent (remember Betis), he seems to be a very genuinely nice individual. Unfortunately for him, he is a striker at a Club with the likes of McCoist, Haetely, Mols, Johnstone in lifetime memory and as such has huge boots to fill in the proverbial sense. If only  he would go with instinct and hit for goal first time instead of that extra touch due to over thinking, then he would be a true penalty box predator.

He is that.  He came up to the two grandkids of a friend of mine after the game yesterday when they were singing Nice One Cyril, spent ages chatting to them