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We have missed Diomande over the last couple games. He's able to take the ball in tight spaces and move it on with either foot. 
Balogun excellent. Sterling did well but wasted at LB. 
The rest pretty average but a clean sheet and into the final so we'll take it!
Not sure why Hearts like to play with Shankland coming so deep to collect the ball  

Just back from the game. Strange game. Great start then I thought we were poor for long periods then we could have scored a few more at the end. I thought Balogun Sterling and Cantwell were good. Tav played better too. Anyway well done Ranges 

Clement can't come out and say aye he's right. 
Gerrard threw players under the bus all the time, it never works. 

I don’t think the manager who has won 3 league titles and cups is the issue. 
 
His head has gone   Ok. If anyone knows anything about league winning pressure it’s Clement. 
 
It’s the same players that are the issue. 

As a starting point any potential contract on the table for Lundstram needs pulled immediately. Be ruthless and get rid of the losers. 

Offers nothing. 

This is why managers often don’t want to come in halfway through a season.
They are judged with a team that isn’t theirs, and one that they haven’t had a full pre-season to change and mould.
I said the same with Gio and Beale and I’ll say it again for Clement - I don’t think it’s fair to overly criticise the manager until he has a full summer window and pre-season to put his own stamp on the team.

A few of the comments I’ve read (not yours btw) do concern me that some people’s view of him will be coloured going into next season, which I don’t think is fair (it happens all the time but I still disagree with it).
What gives me hope is that in his first summer windows at Genk and Brugge, he overhauled the squad then went on to win the league - if that means we need to sell the likes of Butland as well to fund it, then so be it.

I might be being naive here, he did talk a lot of shit in that interview 
but I think deep down he’s seething and he knows who he can’t trust.. ie tav etc but knows what can he do about it right now? All he can do is not throw them under the bus and try just keep them on side while where mathematically still in with a shout.
I think he will be ruthless in the summer (I pray) with out going’s.. 
as much as it’s gone to shit these last few weeks, I think he’s proven he’s capable of being the right man going forward.
He needs the summer to rebuild, I don’t have a fucking clue what resources we will be working with but non the less he needs the summer to rebuild and even then it’s not gonna be perfect in one window

Only fools would ignore what he done when he arrived getting this group winning on all fronts. 
No shock the players have let him down just like the previous 3 before him.
Back him and judge

We're falling into that same old trap again of giving dogs abuse to the manager when it should be directed towards the same group of players that have now flung 4 managers to the wolves. 
Until they leave nothing will change, honestly cannot stand the sight of them anymore, our captain and vice captain are died in the wool abject loser bastards and need shown the door by any means necessary. 
Clement has dragged us kicking and screaming to a league cup win, out of a Europa League group stage which was all but lost on arrival, and back into a title race only for the same old shitebags to do what they do best and chuck it. 
Back him. 

It’s not just that they’ve let us down season after season, though that is a major factor.
Almost every player has a shelf life at a club - how many players other than McGregor do Celtic still have from when Lennon was in charge? Taylor and Forrest are the only ones that spring to mind, and it’s not a coincidence that they’re Scottish. After a while, players (especially ones who aren’t from here) need a change of scenery or they lose their desire and hunger, and that is extremely apparent with our team. It’s too far gone with the fans as well now, we’re just sick of the sight of them.
Our squad management since we won 55 has been a joke tbh. Gerrard started this mentality of “keeping the band together”, Wilson and Beale continued it and it has held us back for years now. We just can’t seem to let go of players, which is mystifying considering how little they’ve won. Morelos and Kent going for nothing were the most egregious examples of that mentality.
What gives me some optimism is that Clement signed plenty of young, hungry players and got rid of plenty at Genk and Brugge, which won him leagues there, Postecoglou did the same and it won him leagues here. If the board don’t give Clement the opportunity to do the same thing here, then I give up.

As a starting point any potential contract on the table for Lundstram needs pulled immediately. Be ruthless and get rid of the losers. 

As a starting point any potential contract on the table for Lundstram needs pulled immediately. Be ruthless and get rid of the losers. 

He cant even make fucking eye contact. Classic sign of knowing you are talking shite/lying

We're not going to get any better than Clement. The problem is 100% the players. 

From what I’ve read from fans in Belgium, he likes to utilise his whole squad and rotate to keep them fresh and hungry. Postecoglou is similar.
Unfortunately he’s a got a squad of guys who have no hunger and aren’t good enough.

He's a league winning manager that has a big reputation of not accepting shit. All of the sudden that changes? Nah. He's got a squad of fucking pansies and is telling them home truths but not in front of the media like a proper manager would do.

He's hardly going to come out and say "Aye we're utter pish. Leagues done."
Pep could be in charge of this squad and these same losers would get him the sack. 

Not really, it shows a winning mentality.
Feyenoord fans warned us that Gio’s style of play was piss poor and that he was fortunate that the season he won the league Ajax were in the middle of a rebuild.
From what I’ve seen, there’s been nothing but positive comments about Clement from Genk and Brugge fans.
They did the same to Gerrard, Gio and Beale, they collapse when the going gets tough.
I just find it pointless that the manager is getting it in the neck when the core of our team is so poor. Like Clement said, he isn’t a miracle worker - the players have reverted to type.

Yes he misses chances but we create far more with him on the park in the first place. Roofe offers nothing..
 

Managers won't do that when they have games like a cup.semi in a few days.
When the seasons up I'm sure there will be home truths. 
Last thing we need is turning this on him, the board fucked him in January and so have the players. If tour angry vent it at the board

As @Bronzysaid. This summer will show what he really thinks. 
Highly likely he is fucking raging in the dressingroom at them.

He's hardly going to come out and say "Aye we're utter pish. Leagues done."
Pep could be in charge of this squad and these same losers would get him the sack. 

He's hardly going to come out and say "Aye we're utter pish. Leagues done."
Pep could be in charge of this squad and these same losers would get him the sack.