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Tsunoda too, in different circumstances, and maybe Adams, but King and Isaak Davies are ones I'd expect to be in contention next season, yes. I've seen JR Hartley saying that he thinks Davies has played his last game for us but we'll see. I wonder if Burnley will come back in for him on their relegation or has that ship sailed?
Tsunoda, Davies and Ojo all playing for Kortrijk today. 3-1 down against the league leaders at the moment. Davies with the goal.
Not our loan any more, but Jonathan Panzo seems to be struggling at Liege.
https://www.nottinghamforest.news/20...forest-loanee/
Fagan-Walcott with another goal for Dunfermline.
2 in 2. Unheard of.
https://twitter.com/AboutScotlandd/s...26417004146872
Love the celebration, good stuff.
Not much else to report. Starts for Adams and Rinomhota plus 90 minutes for Isaak Davies and Tsunoda but all in losing causes. Kortrijk lost the battle of best named subs too. They confidently brought on Kings Kangwa only for Mechelen to hit them with Nikola Storm, Boli Bolingoli, Bilal Bafdili and Patrick Phlucke. What can you do up against weaponry like that?
Keiron Evans started in another good win for Gateshead. Up to fifth now, just 6 points off second place with a game in hand (and now only 26 points off top spot with a game in hand. Stranger things have happened, although not that many).
James Crole has gone off the radar at Queen's Park. Having got a minute under his belt against Inverness he hasn't been in the squad since. Eli King was back for Ross County though, coming off the bench in a vital 3-2 win over Livingston. Having outplayed every Old Firm player in recent away defeats, according to the BBC reports, it should have been pretty straightforward to do the same against the bottom team, even with only twenty odd minutes on the pitch. And so it proved. The reporter gives a knee jerk man-of-the-match to someone just for scoring two goals halfway down this report but when it comes to the ratings at the end he realises his mistake and rightly gives it to Eli instead.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68324335
If the guy who does the BBC ratings was picking the team he'd be captain here already. I'd like to think Eli will be there or thereabouts next season but the central midfield situation will take a bit of sorting out.
Siopis lost his form quite early on, Wintle hasn't had the best of seasons and Ralls never seems fully fit these days. Even so, Adams and Rinomhota weren't able to dislodge them but the fact they've been picked up by (and are starting for) clubs not far below us on the EFL 'ladder' shows they're not total patzers. They both have a year left on their contracts, Wintle and Siopis two, Ralls' is up at the end of the season.
I've no idea how this will get resolved. It feels like we need a refresh there but I also feel King and Joel Colwill (if that ends up being his position) will have to show a lot from now and into pre-season if they want to make a spot their own. If Bulut's still here it's hard to imagine him blowing all the other five out to make room for them. I think I'd rather bet on Gateshead making up the 26 points gap on Chesterfield.
Xavier Benjamin at Dunfermline:
https://dafc.co.uk/xav-continues-his-scottish-tour/
Interesting article here on our two lads at Dunfermline (if you can access it, The Courier isn't too user-friendly)
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/?post_t...0moves%20north.
I haven't seen Fagan-Walcott play but all the reports I've read make me think of Semi Ajayi. What Purse says about him in this article is pretty much word for word how you'd have described Ajayi when he came here from Arsenal (basically, remember what Darren Purse was like as a centre-half then imagine the complete opposite).
I'm pretty sure those ratings are voted by the public - so it could be a large proportion of Ross County fans who have scored that.
Yes, I noticed this in the week and someone mentioned it in the Academy thread too. There's a public vote which is open for about half an hour after the final whistle. I suppose it could be open to manipulation by Ross County fans and Eli's family and friends but I'd like to think it's only being used by knowledgeable football fans who've been at the game and are voting according to what they've seen. Jimmy the Jock will agree with me on that, I'm sure.