McEwan's Lager

I’ve made a further post. I’d made the comment after reading a summary. I’ve just watched the video and Clement does say he’d been informed.

Actually this is wrong from me. It’s just the way it was reported by someone it made it sound like he didn’t know until he was asked the question.

The biggest issue here for me is that our media team seems to have not briefed the manager what other players have said prior to today’s conference.

We are in his second season now. For the most part he's been injured. Last season and most of the first half of this season when he actually played he was very poor. He had a good run of form and is now injured again. We cannot keep carrying players like this in the squad.

I think it would be even worse to have them in a squad and not playing.

Tav and Goldson are on two year deals. It’s not going to be easy to sell them and it may involve someone above Clement sanctioning a pay off to make up their wage difference or something like that. People keep saying if he continues with these guys next season he will be sacked, it will be his own fault etc, but he may not have a choice. I doubt he will get the budget to get everything he wants next season either. He’s going to need to be unanimously backed in the summer in order to turn this squad around. I’m not convinced it will happen.

Ryan Kent isn't Scouse

Aye I remember Gerrard was one game away off meeting some terrible record set back in the early 80s.

Goldson is basically the v/c of this team and a senior leader though. After the Hibs game he was admitting that he didn't have it in him, whereas Sterling looks like he's saying it about others?

Is that domestic games? Because I vaguely remember Gerrard going on some run like that back in 2022. But that included Malmo, and maybe Dundee United?

Or more likely, I think Clement knows the answers, but will he be allowed to fix it.

I think the question is will Clement be allowed to fix this and find the answers.

In days gone by you’d print it out and nail it to the wall in the dressing room but Tav would probably agree with it.

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Who are the morons going to beg to come in this time now that Beale has been and gone?

A lot of our support deserves everything we get served up to us.

Let’s face it, if anyone told these guys what they think of them they’ll just chuck it on Sunday and lose by 3 or 4.

He’s got to try and keep the players on his side until Sunday and then hopefully a final. After that the gloves should be off.

He may not have a choice. Goldson and Tav got Gio sacked. The board put one of them in the fucking HoF ffs. We’ve got them on two year deals and no one is going to buy them. Board need to step up and pay them off if that’s what it takes. We absolutely have to back the manager over the players.

Gio clearly had a tactic and a system. It wasn’t as effective in the end as we would have liked but domestically it was a control based possession system where we prioritised holding on to the ball until the opposition made a mistake in their low block that we could exploit. It fell down when we didn’t move the ball quick enough and players like Tav and Lundstram got caught on the counter.

Did you put your Rangers number in when re-setting the password? I think if you use your email address instead its causing problems like that?

Check your spelling of Balogun.

The jist of the article is that Clement had basically fixed this when he came in with a tight squad due to injuries, but subsequently more injuries has lead to a rotation of players and that rotation has lead to a subsequent breakdown in roles, communication and structure.

It's pretty much spot on and something @psb07158 and I have been chatting to each other about for months. Funnily enough I remember going back 7 odd years ago when we played Hamilton away and we won 5-3 or something and Murty after the game criticised our players not respecting opponents enough, basically alluding to getting ourselves in the sorts of scenarios like we see here, and the hard of thinking in our support were going mental over the phrase "respecting opponents".

Ah so it's the Saturday the 18th. Rangers there have it as Sunday 18th