08 Apr 2013 20:00:08
To move onto something else other than Green and Whyte. I was quite impressed with Queens young left winger Spittal and their left back Robertson. Both looked confident and attack minded. Maybe looking at guys like this would be an option. Could be picked up for little money, minimal contract and possibly good potential or the future. To be honest I'd rather that than looking to places like Panama etc. One of Walters strengths was building a team with a strong Scottish core an I think that should be a focus for us for the next few seasons.
Parky
You are deluded my friend if you think we will sign players from queens park or any other 3rd div team never going to happen we need quality and i'm sick of hearing give youth their chance we have and majority havnt stepped up simple as
At last a bit of realistic thinking maybe not 3rd devision but on the right path and to 2nd poster what do U want fling even more money down the pan at spl players and foren ones demanding bug bucks because they can't seem to kick there own ar55 ether. Good to see a post that's a bit comensavy parky
@ 1. Why am I deluded? Yes I do think we should be giving youth a chance but I am not suggesting that we play a whole team of youths. We need a good balance of youth and experience in the team. At the minute we are paying thousands of pounds a week on the likes of Cribari, Argyriou and Kyle. What do these players actually offer? Take Cribari, in my opinion he has been absolutely terrible. He’s also 33 years of age, so is it likely he will still be with us come the SPL? Would we really want him to be? At his age his footballing talents aren’t going to improve but instead will steadily decline. Surely there is a young footballer playing in our league structure, or indeed any British league structure, that could do the exact same job as Cribari? Even if at worst this young footballer performed exactly as badly as Cribari has this season the difference would be that he is 10-12 years younger, costs a fraction of the wages but crucially he also has the potential to improve. Whether you like it or not we are a Third division club and next season we will be a Second division club. This is the level of football that we are at and we need to be realistic about it. However don’t get our current football level confused with our club’s stature. A club of our stature should be in the top division of our country without question and we will get back there. However when we do we need to be in a financially strong state to allow us to be competitive in that division. Currently we do not need a team that will make us competitive in the SPL. We need a team that will allow us to challenge for and win the Second division, who are able to keep improving and learning as we go so that at the end of next season we are in a position to challenge for the First Division title. That is our footballing level at the minute and that is what we must concentrate on. To rule out any player simply because of the league he plays in is incredibly close minded of you. From your statement about us never signing a third division player I assume you believe that players at this level have nothing to offer us. If that is the case then why would we and indeed other SPL clubs regularly loan out our youngsters to this level of club? The reason we did so was to get them regular first team experience. How is that any different to looking at two under 21s playing regularly in the Queens Park first team? This is just my opinion and you are entitled to your own. However perhaps rather than just brand me deluded you could engage in a meaningful discussion and put forward your vision of how the club should progress.
Parky
Parky, do you know the contract situation of the 2 players you mentioned? If they are not out of contract at the end of the season, then there was no reason at all to bring your point up, we can't sign them. As for the point you make about looking to the lower leagues of Scotland and England for players, don't you think other top clubs will be looking at them aswell? So then we would need to pay them inflated wages to come to us in the lower leagues, makes that point void aswell
You are deluded we need a bit of quality not bloody 2nd and 3rd div players yes we need to get rid of few duds to but be realistic
Hear hear an excellent post. these divisions are battles and i'm afraid the young guys you have and your "SPL Quality" players are just not up for it. Ian black the hardman of the spl has been shown for the hardman he really is by countless 3rd div journeymen. not a rangers fan but have seen QOS on a number of occasions and imo that is your model to rise through the leagues. ICT and Ross county also. i'm not sure if the majority will agree but some of ally's marquee signings are stealing a living out of rangers and will be no better next year
If you read my original post properly I said that I was impressed by these two players and that maybe we should look at players LIKE these. I think you are failing to understand my point. I wasn't stating that we should only look at these two players, merely highlighting them as an example of talented youngsters who may be out there. Now, with regards to your comment about paying inflated wages making my point void. I really don't understand where you are coming from with this. Competition for players will always mean that wages will be forced up due to how in demand the player is. Do you think that if we try and sign say Jon Daly or Tom Hately that Championship clubs won't be looking at them and willing to offer more money? As far as I'm concerned we have been paying over the odds for the so called SPL quality players we signed this season.
Parky
Well said Parky we are already losing 1 mill every month yet people want us to pay premier league wages to free transfers. who is going to bankroll this?
The holiday time is up time to realise that nobody wnats to watch the drivel that McCoist puts out every week 4 5 bl--dy 1 the average crowd has now dropped to just over 30,000 from nearly 50,000 so by that so has the revenue. So keep dreaming we have another 2 long hard years in front of us before we could think of signing SPL Players