Alfred Johansson

But when your hand's out there like that, he's always going to get penalised for it.

But I just feel they do everything right up until maybe the final third, where even Alfred Johansson spoke about it.

He wants to see more quality.

better decision making in the final third I think sometimes even last season at stages I think they were guilty of that of passing up too many opportunities but I mean for what Dundee's done at the start of the season to go into this long international break I think they're fourth in the league I mean they'll be very happy Fourth in the

And I think... there's an element that you do just have to trust the process in that regard, and especially when you've got a relatively new player in that setup with Finlay Marshall, and if anything, he's actually probably one of the players that the high press has really suited the best, because as you kind of alluded to, Richard, there's a number of occasions where it's been his um again anticipation and and reading the play that has allowed him to get in front of a player and do that and and in fairness he's managed to be able to do that one or two times as well it's just that i think some of the times with his decision making it's a little bit more hit and miss um while with someone like conor ronan i dare say that's not necessarily the strong part of his game but again he just needs to be good enough and connected enough with the other players in the team in order to be able to make that work and again it's not just a midfield press it's obviously what the two centre-forwards do as well and it's undoubtedly why Steven Robinson's been persisting with Toyal Olusanya to start up front over maybe a Dare I say, I don't think it's controversial, I'm a technically better centre forward in Ayub Maloua, but he's looking for something very specific in relation to those setups and especially away from home.

And I think we've been banging this drum for a while that I'm actually quite... relieved, or I don't know if there's a better word for that, that Steven Robinson has kind of got back to his managerial chops, certainly during Good Spells, it was time with Motherwell, and at the back end it was time with St Mirren, where if you're going to go away to teams that are looking to dominate the ball and put you under pressure and trying to play out from the back like Motherwell is.

He's been very successful.

He was very successful as a St Mirren manager against that set up the League Cup semi-final, a really good example of that, where again, his team ends up scoring four goals with, you know, a significant lower share of possession.

There are rivals across the city and there's now maybe talk of you know, a Belgian being kind of in the running for the job here, it does seem to be, you know, whatever's fashionable.

Obviously, you know, as Ewan mentioned, the various appointments Mother of Well have made, and then Alfred Johansson being in the door there.

I think, to be honest, the big thing for me as well, mate, is it speaks to the lack of quality Scottish or Scottish-based candidates that we're looking abroad.

Like there's no one in, you know, I know obviously the name Valakari has kind of been mentioned, but there's no one really in our league or the leagues below, or even maybe in sort of broader, you know, England that you'd look at and go, that excites me.

So I just wonder whether they might look continental.

They'll have seen the success youth clubs had, Gordon, with the likes of, you know, Michael Wimmer and Jens Bertel Askheim, Alfred Johansson this season.

They'll look at the work that Wouter Vrancken is doing across Edinburgh with Hearts just now.

I just wonder if Malky Mackay and the owner, Ian Gordon, will start to look at European candidates.

Nobody saw that result.

Four-nil home to Aberdeen.

Alfred Johansson, like Steven Pressley, has been given a lot of praise for carrying on the good work of James Bertolasco in terms of the style.

However, successive defeats to Rangers and Aberdeen have clearly been a setback.

They get off w- by the skin of their teeth, really.

Um, Motherwell, more disappointment for Alfred Johansson.

I wonder if the Motherwell fans on the line just a bit concerned.

Is it, is it a blip, or can you call three games in a row all lost a blip? And St Johnstone, what a finish to their game.

But as a goalkeeper, and you're there, Gordon, you've got to be 100%.

The, see, the point to you about the, the, the football's not as exciting, it's a bit more boring.

I think this is where Alfred Johansson's like the guy in the karaoke bar who takes the mic after-

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