No passion, no heart

[eejay the dj 31,964]

58 minutes ago, BlearyEyedBear said:

Failed to score in the first Old Firm derby

Failed to score in the Semi Final at Hampden

Failed to score in a must-win European game

Our records all over the place in must win games is a disgrace for a club like ours .

For me . It all points to losing mentality and lack of  quality

[Bears r us 30,826]

6 minutes ago, eejay the dj said:

Our records all over the place in must win games is a disgrace for a club like ours .

For me . It all points to losing mentality and lack of  quality

I have been convinced for a while that as well as lack of quality, that losing mentality is a HUGE problem, but it is only a few of us who seem to agree. Maybe more quality will improve the mentality problem, but still not totally sure if that will happen. 

[onefootwillie 1,518]

Mince it's a lack of quality in midfield that cost us. The team worked hard but just did not have the quality to make a difference

[theiconicman 2,992]

The players try hard but the lack of belief is there for all to see. Deep down, they don't believe they are good enough.

[theiconicman 2,992]

The players try hard but the lack of belief is there for all to see. Deep down, they don't believe they are good enough.

[theiconicman 2,992]

The players try hard but the lack of belief is there for all to see. Deep down, they don't believe they are good enough.

[King_gazza 1,065]

1 hour ago, eejay the dj said:

Considering the quality we were up against . I thought it was a pathetic performance tbh

The stakes were massive and the desire was not even remotely good enough

I agree it's still not up to the standards it should be but it definitely was an improvement not only defensively but also created a bit more going forward.

Now we're out the EL then I'm hoping we stop changing the team every week and get some consistency 

[beararse 6,386]

13 hours ago, Ger_onimo said:

Absolute bollocks. We were battering them and they sucker punched us. We deserved to win the game. But to reiterate: utter bollocks.

Spot on.

i actually thought we played quite well last night.

the pitch was horrendous and our finishing let us down but other than that we bossed the game and looked comfortable.

if it hadn’t been a bit of a dodgy clearance from McGregor we probably wouldn’t have conceeded.

 

 

[Smile 26,610]

13 hours ago, bluenoz said:

McCrorie grew into the game after a shaky start.

McCrorie had a very good game but switched off completely at the goal and didn't track his man he has to be switched on all the time this lapse cost us the game.  

Gerrard needs to give players more game time if he's going to throw them into matches like last night.

[Smile 26,610]

I thought Rapid were shite last night and there for the taking but we kept players on too long who were not performing.

[rfc_watp 1,503]

Don't agree with this at all.

We looked the better team last night but as usual we lacked the cutting edge and good decision making in the final third.

Punched well above our weight this European run, hopefully Gerrard can add that quality we are lacking in January. 

[josmc 525]

When you get to this level it’s very small margins. Rapid weren’t a great team but their goal had a bit of quality about it. If Goldsons header goes in first half, it’s a different game. 

The one thing I wouldn’t level at this team is a lack of effort. I think it’s down to effort and hard work that we got this far in Europe. We are seriously lacking in midfield quality, but you can’t say that our midfielders didn’t bust a gut tonight. The Moscow games home and away again showed that we putin the effort but didn’t have the nouse to take more than one point off a team I feel we were better than. I don’t know if we have enough money to strengthen the squad with real quality( I doubt it ), but until we do no amount of hard work and trying will be enough to take us further at this level. 

[cushynumber 25,178]

We've lost a little of the spark that we had earlier in the season. Couple that with injuries to the likes of Kent, barasic and Grazda, suspensions to the likes of Candieas, Arfield and Morelos and our level has dropped. The manager needs now settle on his back 4, bring in some quality to the middle of the park and above all, get as many points before January as we possibly can

[insider 123]

I don't think we played well at all.

We just seem to continually cross the ball into the box it seems very 1970's.

I think the tactics will make the players believe that they are not good enough to play a more modern style.

[Thermopylae 15,287]

Unfortunately we just couldn't beat a decidedly average team when we needed to although we were also a bit unlucky because if  it had been home and away we would have eliminated both Villarreal and Rapid, Anyway lets try and take something positive out of it there are no more distractions from number 55 and that's what really matters 

[Sket 13,610]

On 13/12/2018 at 20:15, theiconicman said:

The team seem to have suffered from vertigo. Got to the top of the league, played well in Europe, then shat it.

 

 

Shiting it is something we have mastered over the last few years.

[Amato 3,016]

Not a lack of effort we just have a chronic lack of creativity. Probably got up out my seat (couch) about 3 times the whole 90 minutes. We need a midfielder or two who can best their man, create space and drive forward