Reputation from Edinburgh ram - Page 5

Edinburgh ram reacted to roboto in Louie Sibley August 26, 2021

Not a dig, but Texasram having a moan about TikTok and social media culture on a football forum, then having a go at other members who want to discuss further and telling them to wind their neck in is a bit annoying. Not having a dig though, sometimes like his posts, but he needs to stop digging a hole for himself with this one.
Once again, not having a dig. Tongue in cheek.

Edinburgh ram reacted to Day in Supporters Charter Group Apology August 10, 2021

I just want to apologise for the delay, my absence, my handling of the situation and try to explain what has happened.
The meeting on Wednesday was scheduled to end at 8.45pm, my last train home was 9.33pm, I slipped out just after 9pm as I didn’t have clothes, medication, toiletries with me as I wasn’t planning on staying overnight.
When the meeting had finished, an agreement was made where one statement would be written and signed off by all groups, this is the first time anything like this had been agreed, I was under the impression we would be allowed to report back as normal.
Being completely unaware of this, whilst waiting for my train I saw a conversation take place on my Twitter timeline discussing the meeting minutes, when would they be out.
I replied, that the meeting minutes were not taken and we would be sharing the information ourselves, which as I say I was under the impression would be allowed, why else attend? I thought I was being helpful.
Now I can see on reflection I was clearly naive in not appreciating the number of fans waiting online for what was said at the meeting, would see the tweet whilst was part of a conversation, which was also public and could be seen and shared by others. The tweet blew up online having been retweeted, I’m not exaggerating when I say maybe hundred or more replies, some abusive to the point where I had to turn notifications off as my phone was freezing with as I came back into an area with phone signal.
On the forum I did pre warn members not to expect anything Wednesday evening, the minutes can sometimes take a few days to a couple of weeks before being released. I was going with the intention of asking the club if the minutes could be released within 24 hours or that we could release the information immediately. Obviously once we was told the minutes would not be taken all that went out the window and believed we was free to report back immediately, and that was the plan.
Again, I was clearly naive to the fact fans on Twitter would not be aware of this, so when I wasn’t replying to all the tweets with thumbs up or down if it’s good news, or are we going to have a club next week the levels of abuse increased, despite my plea for being understanding I wasn’t in the position to do so.
With my write up, I had no intention of adding any personal opinion, it would be just what was said and allow you all to read and take it as you will.
As you will be well aware, all fans see things differently and I didn’t want to raise any expectations or disappoint fans, then receive more abuse as it wasn’t what they were expecting.
I put myself in this situation through naivety, but I don’t accept that the abuse was warranted at all, I have removed the twitter account from my devices and will no longer be active on that account, opting now for a private account as I have no interest in twitter fame.
I would seriously urge anyone that did send me abusive tweets to have a think how they talk to people online and their demands, if this is this what celebrities have to deal with on a daily basis, I’m glad I’m just a nobody!
Punjabi Rams, who I honestly can’t thank enough stepped in and put some tweets out from their account to give some information in my defence. You guys are awesome, didn’t need to do that but again, I honestly can’t thank you enough. Quick plug www.punjabirams.co.uk, @PunjabiRams on Twitter, go give them a follow if you are on there.
On the train home I started to do the write up on my notes app, realising I need to get this out asap, first thing to defuse the situation I felt I had created.
Thursday morning, as I was consulting my notes and finishing off the write up, there was a few things I wanted to fact check with the club were totally accurate, there has been times where things have been misheard in the past (Boycie ahem) and needed correcting, I didn’t want this to happen. We’re human, mistakes can happen, I believed I had time to ensure there were none.
I decided, and this was not requested by the club but to send my write up to them, asking if they could read it over and everything I had written was totally accurate, leaving ??? <—— fact checks where I was a little cautious over.
They agreed and I again naively yet again assumed that this would be back with me in a few hours……despite the previous night listening to just how busy they have been.
Now whilst I understand and totally agree that this meeting is important, the club staff are as I’m sure you can imagine really busy, now I need to really stress here that this is in no way the fault of the club, this is on me 100%.
No tweet, no forum post, none of this situation exists.
Meanwhile The Supporters Charter Group are scratching their heads as to why I’ve gone it alone, I can only apologise to them also, as I say I was under the impression that we would all be reporting back ourselves which I have explained privately with them.
A single statement isn’t something I would have been personally happy with but that is what was agreed in my absence.
I haven’t felt comfortable coming back on the forum if I'm honest, ignoring the fact I insinuated what was said at the meeting would be out Thursday on the forum, I feel like I have let you all down and for that I’m sorry.
Just to add, this apology wasn’t asked for, it's something I feel is owed to you all.
Should someone have gone that could have stayed all evening? Ideally yes, although Paul (Boycie) was unavailable to attend. Since the formation of 2017 it has only been either myself or Paul that has attended, I didn’t feel it would be right to send someone new which in hindsight was the correct call, they may have also not been able to attend until the end of what I’m led to believe turned out to be almost a 4 hour long meeting, putting themselves unwittingly into a similar situation I have.
I know you are all frustrated, the accusations of attention seeking, sitting on information, teasing, trying to get more views, followers etc. and even censorship on the forum are simply not true, they come from people that do not know me or how the forum is run at all, which is disappointing hearing it said by members that have been on the forum for a number of years now.
Finally, I do want to say thank you to those who have sent supportive texts, PM’s, DM’s, tweets you name it over the last few days, despite asking to be given time, it’s you who I put the hours in for, I will learn from this and work on handling things better in the future.
I would also like to thank the moderators who have been trying their best to keep on top of the situation, without them this forum would have crashed and burned over the last few days so please be respectful to them, even if at times you do not agree with decisions they have made.
David

Edinburgh ram reacted to Ravabeerbelly in Trusting Sibley and setting up to attack or defend August 9, 2021

Here’s the plan….
Imagine the pitch divided up lengthways into 5 strips….
1 2 3 2 1 with 3 centrally being the widest one.
You don’t want players in the same strips occupying the same lines.
He is asking his CB to play a little more narrow than the conventional set up for playing out from the back where the CBs split and leave themselves exposed on turn over. So the CBs come short in zone 3 drawing forwards in for a press.

The CMs then split and drop deeper but in zone (line) 2 and the FBs push on very high in zone (line) 1.
The 10 now drops into spaces left in zone 3 and the 11 and the 7 come inside and play in zone (line) 2 and get closer to the CF.
Almost like this :-
   1
5.    6.
4.    8.
   10.
2. 3.
7. 11.
   9.

The aim is to give width with the full backs and an overload with the 4, 8, 10, 7 and 11 in central areas but also to provide defensive strength centrally on the turn over. It’s an alternative or an evolution of Peps inverted full backs.
One of the problems we had yesterday with this working was the 7 and 11. Joz and Watson. Joz wants to play more as an orthodox winger and stays too wide and he blocks off the areas we wanted to expose for Byrne to get forward. Watson did similar and never quite got into the game enough to enable us to retain possession and get close to CKR. The only real time it worked was for Birds through ball where’s Watson's movement inside was timed perfectly.
It’s why Sibley looked more effective as he is happier playing in those inside areas, getting in good areas and also stretching the game giving centre backs more to think about allowing CKR more space.
Ebosele didn’t do it as effectively on the other side and my feelings on Festy are that he is going to suit the system far better coming from the full back position working in line 1 than he will as the 7 or 11 and being asked to play in the pockets.

Morrison will also suit this system however the jury for me is out on how effective he’ll be and whether he will do the required work out of possession or whether he will change history and perform for longer periods of fine now he has secured a contract.
In summary, at the moment, Joz may well suit a role from the bench and exploiting tired legs and stretching teams. My front three midfield players would be Morrison / Sibley / Lawrence in any rotation. Watson for me may well be better suited to the Bird role and I see him as his back up ahead of Thompson and the reason Carrol isn’t really needed.

Edinburgh ram reacted to San Fran Van Rams in Trusting Sibley and setting up to attack or defend August 9, 2021

Completely agree. Think we'll see more of Sibley when Bielik is back, or at least thats when there'll be more comfort in playing him. Bielik is going to be the key for us and I just hope he's going to come back strong before the end of September. It'll give the rest of the attack so much more leeway defensively, and should also give us that much needed creativity. I do think a midfield of Bielik, Morrison and Sibley with Bird and Shinnie available on rotation will be a force in this division.
The current defensive mentality does worry me a bit. Our defense isn't particularly strong and is an injury away from a crisis. However, it feels as though it's out of necessity at the mo - we can't really afford to concede more than 1 a game.

Edinburgh ram got a reaction from mike93rh in Trusting Sibley and setting up to attack or defend August 9, 2021

I can’t for the life of me understand why Sibley never gets a solid run of starts within the side. As others have mentioned he’s clearly our most threatening attacking player and for us to reap the rewards he can bring, he needs that time to settle into the team and build confidence.

Considering how thin our squad is, surely we should be trying to find a system that suits most of not all of our best players. Rather than playing this defensive system which results in some being played out of position and others being left on the bench.

We tried the tentative defensive system in the 2nd half of last season and look where it got us. I’d say revert back to 433 and have a go for once. We’re already favourites for relegation so what do we have to lose.

Edinburgh ram got a reaction from DavesaRam in Trusting Sibley and setting up to attack or defend August 8, 2021

I can’t for the life of me understand why Sibley never gets a solid run of starts within the side. As others have mentioned he’s clearly our most threatening attacking player and for us to reap the rewards he can bring, he needs that time to settle into the team and build confidence.

Considering how thin our squad is, surely we should be trying to find a system that suits most of not all of our best players. Rather than playing this defensive system which results in some being played out of position and others being left on the bench.

We tried the tentative defensive system in the 2nd half of last season and look where it got us. I’d say revert back to 433 and have a go for once. We’re already favourites for relegation so what do we have to lose.

Edinburgh ram got a reaction from Deej in Trusting Sibley and setting up to attack or defend August 8, 2021

I can’t for the life of me understand why Sibley never gets a solid run of starts within the side. As others have mentioned he’s clearly our most threatening attacking player and for us to reap the rewards he can bring, he needs that time to settle into the team and build confidence.

Considering how thin our squad is, surely we should be trying to find a system that suits most of not all of our best players. Rather than playing this defensive system which results in some being played out of position and others being left on the bench.

We tried the tentative defensive system in the 2nd half of last season and look where it got us. I’d say revert back to 433 and have a go for once. We’re already favourites for relegation so what do we have to lose.

Edinburgh ram got a reaction from Carl Sagan in Trusting Sibley and setting up to attack or defend August 8, 2021

I can’t for the life of me understand why Sibley never gets a solid run of starts within the side. As others have mentioned he’s clearly our most threatening attacking player and for us to reap the rewards he can bring, he needs that time to settle into the team and build confidence.

Considering how thin our squad is, surely we should be trying to find a system that suits most of not all of our best players. Rather than playing this defensive system which results in some being played out of position and others being left on the bench.

We tried the tentative defensive system in the 2nd half of last season and look where it got us. I’d say revert back to 433 and have a go for once. We’re already favourites for relegation so what do we have to lose.

Edinburgh ram got a reaction from DCFC Kicks in Trusting Sibley and setting up to attack or defend August 8, 2021

I can’t for the life of me understand why Sibley never gets a solid run of starts within the side. As others have mentioned he’s clearly our most threatening attacking player and for us to reap the rewards he can bring, he needs that time to settle into the team and build confidence.

Considering how thin our squad is, surely we should be trying to find a system that suits most of not all of our best players. Rather than playing this defensive system which results in some being played out of position and others being left on the bench.

We tried the tentative defensive system in the 2nd half of last season and look where it got us. I’d say revert back to 433 and have a go for once. We’re already favourites for relegation so what do we have to lose.

Edinburgh ram reacted to kash_a_ram_a_ding_dong in Lack of multi ball August 8, 2021

We can only afford one and that's on a six month loan from Man United.