Angry Shanks..

[RustyRightPeg]

1 hour ago, Paul Shark said:

Agreed. Devlin has been pretty average for most of his Hearts career but had hit a real purple patch earlier in the season when he was constantly played 30- 40 yards further up the park and did what he's very good at harrying, hassling, being a pain in the arse and turning the ball over. He will never be a playmaker, getting the ball from the goalkeeper and continually starting attacks, why McInnes & Leonard allowed him to do this on  Sunday is beyond me.

He lacks positional awareness and gets sucked towards the ball. That’s one of his bad habits. Safe passing and getting involved in things he shouldn’t. 

[Agentjambo]

8 hours ago, Wee Mikey said:

 

If you need Devlin's attributes explained to you, then, for you, there's not much can be said ... other than ye need tae get tae Specsavers.

 

🥸

A quote from McInness re conversation with Sir Alex…

 

"Cammy went, 'He never said that'. So I said, 'He says you need to pass forward more, you need to switch your play more and you need to shoot more'.

"He actually didn't but now he thinks he did!"

 

Why would he say that in particular?

[Paul Shark]

3 hours ago, RustyRightPeg said:

He lacks positional awareness and gets sucked towards the ball. That’s one of his bad habits. Safe passing and getting involved in things he shouldn’t. 

To be fair to him he's been excellent when he's been pressing and breaking up play high in the opposition half. Possibly worth fitting him with a collar that omits a high piercing sound, activated when he goes anywhere near our box .

[Fozzyonthefence]

17 minutes ago, Paul Shark said:

To be fair to him he's been excellent when he's been pressing and breaking up play high in the opposition half. Possibly worth fitting him with a collar that omits a high piercing sound, activated when he goes anywhere near our box .

We would have lost 3-2 with that on Sunday as he wouldn’t have been able to stop a goal with that last ditch tackle in the second half (no idea where the back 4 were on that occasion).

[Robbo-Jambo]

41 minutes ago, Agentjambo said:

A quote from McInness re conversation with Sir Alex…

 

"Cammy went, 'He never said that'. So I said, 'He says you need to pass forward more, you need to switch your play more and you need to shoot more'.

"He actually didn't but now he thinks he did!"

 

Why would he say that in particular?

Tbh any professional football player should be able to have a shot at goal. 

 

Unfortunately Cammy and Beni have a nose bleed when they get near the 18 yard line.

 

Surely they can be trained to do it? Maybe Shanks could do the honours. 

[Paul Shark]

36 minutes ago, Fozzyonthefence said:

We would have lost 3-2 with that on Sunday as he wouldn’t have been able to stop a goal with that last ditch tackle in the second half (no idea where the back 4 were on that occasion).

No because we would have been 3 or 4 up at the time because we would have pressurised Livingston far more if we didn't have him pissing about in our box. 

[busbyfth]

Your point re the words Match Fit...spot on ! If you note - Shanks/Devlin/Halkett/Kingsley/Chesnokov.....none properly fully "match fit" eg having their eye in through both mental and physical fitness/timing ....and it was blatant....its all very well players coming back in - but when theres so many at the one time , they need to be at it quickly, or we drip feed them back....  - 2 month absences need 2-3 full games for this to happen. 

Kingsleys crossing was off....Halkett was a yard slow (like he was before coming back this season) Devlin looked just out of the game and shanks missed chances as if his timing was slightly out eg the sitter header. Chesnokov looked like he was playing a different sport 

[Wee Hamish McDonald]

4 hours ago, busbyfth said:

Your point re the words Match Fit...spot on ! If you note - Shanks/Devlin/Halkett/Kingsley/Chesnokov.....none properly fully "match fit" eg having their eye in through both mental and physical fitness/timing ....and it was blatant....its all very well players coming back in - but when theres so many at the one time , they need to be at it quickly, or we drip feed them back....  - 2 month absences need 2-3 full games for this to happen. 

Kingsleys crossing was off....Halkett was a yard slow (like he was before coming back this season) Devlin looked just out of the game and shanks missed chances as if his timing was slightly out eg the sitter header. Chesnokov looked like he was playing a different sport 

 

Excellent post