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I think its likely to be his brother who is on a free and was previously on trial with Franchise

it does say on the report Jerel Ifil playing at centre back, Phil is a right back, oh and the fact it says Jerel not Phil :)

The praise for Ifil on RedTv was unreserved.

Ifil is nicknamed The Beast? Got to be a good sign, we desperately need a few hard bastards.

according to Red TV Ifil looks a good player

text from my loon saying that Ifil is getting stuck in, playing pretty basic football but doing it well.

Considering he was on the bench for us yesterday, it seems quite implausible that he's in Aberdeen today.

This surely can't be true?  Ifil isn't as bad as some make out, short memories hey and seeing as we did let in 5 yesterday, I wouldn't be letting any central defenders go anywhere until we know whether what we currently have can make the grade.

So that is 3 strikers, a left back, a creative midfielder and now a pacy centre back we require.

Well we coped the whole of last season with a decent "pacy centre back", so what makes you think we need one now?

If Ifil goes then who do we have with any pace at the back ?

Second half we passed it really well, Ifill was excellent, and must be signed up immediately!!! The Dons fans, of whom there were a good 500 or so, even started singing his praises, with a rousing chorus of 22,22,22,22,22 to the tune of Here we go! Nobody had any info on him, apart from mates' texts, so most Dons fans didn't know who he was, but as someone said at half-time.
"I dinna care, fa he is, he can bide!"

I dont understand the infatuation with Morrison ok he has a decent throw and is good in the air but he is slow and has the turning circle of the QEII, Greer has no pace either I just fear that we are going to get outdone time and time again this season with teams have a pacey striker which is probably everyone except us and Carlisle!! I can only think that DW is going to use Cuthbert there when he is fully fit as celtic fans all said he was a CB.

Hes 18....going to learn..a very good temperament...at his age he will have bad matches,its to be expected......Cox aside he was our brightest prospect last season,...you cant honestly think Ifil would have made a difference yesterday Lambourne?

Why Aberdeen, and why so out of the blue.

As mentioned before, I can't help but think that they have a striker or two that we are looking at.

I understand why Jerel will leave just think the timing is fucked up.Jerel will always get my respect and tbf the cuntish comments towards him are bang out of order.

Always gives it everything and deserves more respect than some give him.

He lives in Swindon, so I guess he'd just move the family up north.

Because he's shit

No matter how fast a turd is, it is still a turd.

I'm sure ifils a lovely man, and the service he's given to the club has been brilliant. He hasn't progressed though, so its probably best he moves on, and i wish him all the best in the future.

just out of interest, what do you class as progressed? and who in recent years from our team/squad would you say has?

on his day he,s our best defender but why do we always leave him last man to distribute the ball,one bad pass and the moans sap all his comfidence.That said i still think he,s better than morrison.

Can people stop it with the "Aljokefree" attempt at a humorous name please, it really is bad.

Can people stop it with the "Aljokefree" attempt at a humorous name please, it really is bad.

So was Morrison yesterday, doesn't stop people creaming their pants about him on here though does it?


Yeah, but a quick turd is better than a slow turd, even if the slow turd has a long throw ;)

hasney isney goin anywhere whilst he is injured....unfortunately

I thought it was just me who thought along those lines, I know he is only 18 but I really do not see that he stands out as anything special. I really do fear we could ship as many goals as last season if SM is our first choice CB the difference is we do not have a 32 goal striker banging them in the other end. I have been feeling positive about this season all summer and I felt sure that Ifil and greer would be our starting pair but I am now starting to worry that last season may be a recurring nightmare

ive always been critical of Sean since i seen him in the youths 2years ago and thought he wasnt good enough, but i thought end of last season and this pre season he has been awesome, didnt go yesterday so cant comment but hes a hell of a player

Morrison is a good player.You wont find many better 18 year old centre halves at the moment unfortunatly he is still learning which means we will see mistakes.

I think the abuse his wife got last season which happened down in front of me in Arkells was the last straw for Jerel, I would not be surprised if it is him looking for a move as much as it is DW wanting to ship him out and to be honest I dont blame him that event last season was an embarrasment and not something a players wife should have to endure.

If Cuthbert has been brought in as a CB and not a RB then this surely means in an ideal world we still need a RB and LB.

He obviously has no issues with moving or he would of turned the offer of a trial down wouldn't he.

I would say if Ifil wants to go, he will go, Aberdeen's official website sings his praises, Sadly Jerel's career at STFC is over by the looks of it and good luck to him.

"Ifil Proves To be Tower at the back"

http://www.afc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/clubNewsDetail/0,,10284~1748566,00.html

Lee Millers name was mentioned a few times during the summer, makes sense

Mulgrew is a very good player with very good delivery with crosses and at set pieces.
Great shame we couldn't get him last summer from Wolves.Rangers like him and Celtic
would have him back in an instant.

What happened with Ifil's family? I must have missed it when it happened as I don't recall anything.

Long balls over the top can be countered with a good defensive line and aerial ability. Through balls by closing down through the midfield. It sounds like none of that happened.

Sorry but you have to have some kind of pace in the defence, if it isn't the centre backs then it needs to come fromt he full backs. I'm not saying Ifil is the answer, far from it in fact but if your back line is slower than sunday morning driver then your going to hit problems. We saw it with Viveash and Reeves, and we've seen it on Saturday, there needs to be at least one person in the back 4 who can keep up with the majority of attackers. Morrison and Greer are both very similar and I think that is the problem, everyone says you can't have very similar players up front and I'm saying you can't at the back either.
Only time will tell but if Morrison and Greer are to be our first choice centre backs then we need some pace either side of them.

then again, if he could consistently perform at that level he wouldn't be playing at swindon town

Put Amankwaah at right back then, he's been decent there, certainly got better than when he first joined.

Greer really picked the defense up when he joined last year**, we became more solid and results show that.

Cuthberts played right back and Lescinel left back.

Anyway, my take on this is Wilson has been told before he can bring in a striker on a permenant contract he needs to get rid of someone. One in One out.

Cuthberts played right back and Lescinel left back.

Anyway, my take on this is Wilson has been told before he can bring in a striker on a permenant contract he needs to get rid of someone. One in One out.

look at the goals conceeded on saturday.none of them are due to lack of pace on our part.all of them are due to poor positioning and losing markers.

It wasn't just the goals though, if you were there (I'm assuming you weren't but sorry if you were)

look at the goals conceeded on saturday.none of them are due to lack of pace on our part.all of them are due to poor positioning and losing markers.

yeah and ifil does that often dv, in fairness to him.

 from the 5 goals conceeded on saturday,only the second might have had a chance of one of our defenders getting to the striker, after both morrison and greer were caught flat footed.

it appears to me they need to work on keeping their line and not losing their players.they have had plenty of chance to sort this in training and the pre season friendlies.
as a defender postioning is far more important than pace.infact our best defenders have not been the quickest imo.

tim parkin,ross maclaren,jon gittens,tom jones played rightback a fair bit,phil king,none were that quick

The strikers they were up against were much slower back then though weren't they? More old fashioned centre-forward types.

Lescinal the new Casal? Looked alright/pretty good in pre season then in a competitive game go's to bits.

Gittens was quick...he needed to be to cover his mistakes. Saw somewhere, can't think where a young player called Gittens recently, don't know if it's son of.

Lescinel does have a decentish touch. He just didnt have a clue what he was doing saturday.

Absolutley right.

He also had the benefit of playing with the best centre-half this club has seen in the last 20 years.

I've always liked Jerel and when on form he is a terrific centre half at this level.  There does come a time though when players just need to move on, and it looks to me like Wilson doesn't fancy him much.  This would be a great move for him, I would would join Si in wishng him all the best.

Diamond is one of the club's highest-rated players and is a candidate to replace Severin as skipper. A possible replacement if he does go is Swindon defender Jerel Ifil, who McGhee will snap up on a free if the board can meet his wage demands.

The experienced stopper is just what the Dons boss needs to shore up his leaky defence for Saturday's SPL opener against Celtic.

McGhee is hoping his under pressure directors will back his judgement with cash after missing out on Stephen Hughes, Jim Paterson, Steven MacLean and Reda Johnson.

Now he's desperate to add Ifil, who was outstanding in Sunday's win at Hull.

He has a year left on his Robins contract but boss Danny Wilson will let him leave for free as he has cover.

He bought Scott Cuthbert from Celtic in the summer and will pair him with ex-Kilmarnock defender Gordon Greer.

Wilson said: "Aberdeen have made a formal approach for him and it's up to Jerel to see what can be agreed."

Ifil was one of five trialists against Hull and only ex-Fulham striker Mazin Ahmad has been rejected so far.

French defender Idrissa Alassane, ex-Spurs winger Rohan Ricketts and ex-Hibs midfielder Craig Rocastle will be assessed at Pittodrie this week.

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McGhee said: "I'm optimistic that if we get some of these lads in we will be improved considerably.

"I've been saying for long enough that we needed more players so to have these sort of boys in would be great.

"It's clear Jerel does what we need as he defends well in the box by winning headers and making strong tackles.

"Jerel is also a great talker and defends aggressively."

who McGhee will snap up on a free ..

Still the best defender at the club.

Has had plenty of good seasons down the years in both L1 and L2. If we could have used him in the play offs all those years back who knows!

Good Luck Jerel.

On that note, if it really is a case of 1 out before we bring 1 in something has gone seriously wrong in the wage budget!

yeah and still nothing has happened since he said that. i dont think hes going to bring in a left back now. we also need a creative midfielder but he never mentioned me needed 1 of them did he?

that's not the way he's set his teams out in the past (with an attacking midfielder) so i doubt he'd change now

im sure he hasnt started a season with only 1 striker but he broke that trend this season

As an aside I note that David Noble is yet to sign for anyone.

I feel he could be a valuable addition to the squad.

First we must get some strikers in though as we are short up front.

I doubt anybody has ever started a season with 1 striker before, or at least someone you can bung in an emergency...take 95/96...after 2 games both Thorne and The Chief were out injured, but we could still get a goal out of Edwin Murray, who played up front with Steve Finney..

As an aside I note that David Noble is yet to sign for anyone.

I feel he could be a valuable addition to the squad.

im sure he hasnt started a season with only 1 striker but he broke that trend this season

good comeback

Good luck Jerel...................i think the trouncing we got on Saturday has made us realise that the inormally unflapable Gordon Greer is human after all and he and the defence can be terrible, Jerel knows he is low in the CB pecking order and wants 1st team football and who can blame him........Sean Morrison 18 years old has been awesome but very young lets not forget that and i hope he doesnt read these forums how easily some fans turn on their own, i heard he turned down a chance to go to Everton to stay at Swindon will he be now repayed by us tearing him to peices on here...............

What's your user name on this is arriba?  :)

stfc romain

just out of curiosity and in no way racist, do many black players play in the scottish leagues?

That is totally racist - how very dare you talk about the Scots is such a way... I'm totally offended by your anti jock comments

just out of curiosity and in no way racist, do many black players play in the scottish leagues?

I don't wish to be a harsher critic than I already have been but I agree with arriba, Ifil's had the odd brilliant game for us but has followed it with his usual Ifilness. I can't help but feel Aberdeen will soon find this out.

He's marked the likes of Knight and Lita out of games so he is capable, he is just very susceptible to the mistakes we're all familiar with. If he's really upped his game then good luck to him and we will definitely think what might have been.

The end of an era....the last Kingy signing  :cry:

maybe you could send him a card

that wont be necessary.i'll just bottle him outside the townend on saturday

Ifil what a class act :) clearly hated Malpas

“There were times when it was tough, and I’d like to say a big thank you to the Swindon fans,” he said.
“They showed me a lot of support, especially when (Maurice) Malpas was dropping me unfairly. They seemed to be the only people that could see it was unfair.

“There were match days when I was a sub and they were cheering really loudly when I was warming up. It’s never forgotten.”

Won't he be playing Cally Thistle this season with Malpas & Butcher at the helm  - maybe he can let Malpas know what he really thinks of thim

I understand why Jerel will leave just think the timing is fucked up.Jerel will always get my respect and tbf the cuntish comments towards him are bang out of order.

Always gives it everything and deserves more respect than some give him.

*bump* Got his debut against Celtic today, in some ways not a great game to make your debut in. 3-0 down and not even half time yet. Chin up, Jerel, it'll be a different matter when you're marking Danny Invincible out of the game