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8 hours ago, NeoGeo7 said:
Yeah I have very high hopes for him, it’s just our right side is a real pain in the ass. It was a priority position to get someone signed in January and we lost out to Brugge for Skov Olsen only to sign Diallo who is not built for this league and has been an utterly pointless waste of time and money, he may have ability but he’s not cut out for this league.
This is where I’d look to change formation to a 4-3-1-2 to drop the wide players and play two up top with one in behind (lowry) then jack and lundstram. As Bassey and Tav bomb forward jack and lundstram drift wider to cover the wings. You then have two strikers in the box and Lowry lurking on the edge of the box because the boy can hit a shot.
Wishful thinking as I can’t see the manager changing anything meaning we try to shoehorn players into a right wing role: Aribo, Hagi, Arfield, Sakala….we’ve been at this all season.
It's this sort of change that is needed imo. Been here so often before. Bringing in a couple of youngsters fixes it. Agree we need to go two up as well. Opposition have our system sussed.
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54 minutes ago, esquire8 said:
If Jack had enough leadership or fitness then he wouldve ousted Tav long ago.
On the subject of tav, there was a point in 2nd half where tav had lots of space. Rather than hammer forward he took what looked like fast jog. Of course opposition all got back and organised. Not the sort of example you expect when title on the line.
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5 hours ago, SonicWill said:
Clearly there's a lot of damage been done to GVB's standing with the collapse in the league, but I think it's more of a case of celtic getting their act together than our standard dropping under him - I think we're playing broadly in line with how we have all season, including under Gerrard. That said, the 3-0 Old Firm defeat was very, very poor.
However, our run in Europe gets him credit, as does his history of winning trophies in a higher-standard league than the SPL.
I'm definitely not completely behind him but it's not time to throw in the towel. Give him the summer, back him to build his own team and let's see where we go. We can't just sack a manager when we don't win the league.
Agree with this. Your first paragraph is the key point. Still reckon if we had not been on a decline Gerrard would not have left. Seeds for this were sown during summer and failure to freshen up.
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A few people seem to want to keep tav. Not me.
Importantly tho. It's not just personnel that need to change. It's our who approach to the game. We need to have more than one way to play ie crosses in hoping a lone striker can connect.
So fucked off.
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4 hours ago, Rangers_no1 said:
Not sure that's accurate at all.
McGregor wonder save, Abada missed a one on one, Maeda had two one on ones.
They created much clearer chances than us.
Reckon cause every team fires up the park when there is space faster than we do. Other teams know this I reckon. Our attacking play is slow turgid and always the fucking same.
9 time from 10 opposition will have time to get back AND fucking organized.
Fire crosses in all fucking day and its not going to help us.
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7 minutes ago, theclothmonster said:
Nope, go back and read the Dundee tarrier match thread. We came out sluggish as fuck for the second half, people were crying out for Gio to make subs. Wasn't until Arfield was hooked and the fresh legs came on that it turned into wave after wave.
Have to say arfield could have been more direct in 2nd half. Was at least two occasions he could have taken a shot but elected to knock it out to sakala I think.
Motherwell lap that sort if hesitancy up.
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26 minutes ago, McEwan's Lager said:
Madden is the fucking worst. He needs sacked. Utterly inept.
I keep hearing he is a bear. I do not believe that.
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Serious question. I keep hearing that cunt madden is a bear. Is that defo the case? If so a lot of over compensation going on.
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10 hours ago, TEFTONG said:
Another letter will end up the same as the previous one. Shredded and ignored.
And the spfl will tell lies that they are doing their best.
Still needs sent and publicly so.
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59 minutes ago, Jimbeamjunior said:
Tell you one thing, the tarriers dont get as much freedom last wed if he plays, type of player you need away in an OF game
Can't help but agree.
Balogan at ch and lundstrum protecting the back four and it would have been different game.
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47 minutes ago, psb07158 said:
How did Collum not give that foul on Sakala at the end? Absolutely ludicrous decision
Cause collum is a cheating cunt.
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8 minutes ago, crazy bob swollenbaws said:
Was the armband not taken of Amoruso mid season and given to Fernando? Memory may be failing.
I seem to remember it worked.
Just looked. Memory was failing. It was Ferguson that replaced him.
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1 hour ago, Laudrupsleftfoot said:
No surprise a couple of auld yins stuck decades back think this way.
Gullible young yins.
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1 hour ago, Laudrupsleftfoot said:
Too many of you put too much importance into who is captain.
Tav seems universally liked and respected by the squad. He represents the club well.
He's also ever-present in the way that Jack and Arfield can't be.
You don't need the armband to lead men, whether it's Tav or Jack or Arfield or whoever there is room for multiple leaders and multiple players to take the team or game by the scruff of the neck.
Replacing him mid-season is just a ridiculous call that would be embarrassing as fuck and would have no good come from it.
Any cunt who thinks otherwise is deluded.
So your saying every cunt is responsible so no cunt is. Right.
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So back in Barry Ferguson time, 2nd spell I think, we were in similar position. Performance poor, looked slow , pedestrian, lacking in confidence. At that time I said to drop ferguson to howls of derision on another board. I said if he was dropped we would go on to win the league. Ferguson was dropped and we won the league.
We need another major change to wake the players out of this lethargy. For me the obvious one is to make someone else the captain.
That wont fix it on its own, but that plus using CBs at CB and FBs at FB (eg bassey), along with a ramsaay/jack charged midfield should be enough to give players the feeling that there has been a change and they are starting with a new slat and that they themselves can see a reason why performances should improve.
Dont underestimate the psychological/confidence problems. A vocal , aggressive captain is vital to us now.
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7 minutes ago, Juniorsparkie said:
We went in wi a narrow midfield, no cover for full backs, naive in the extreme.
Didn’t have an out ball either.
But the worst was not playing as a team and showing a bit of fight , not maiming them that gets you sent off, but track, cover, harry.
All of what u say is true. Last para stands out tho. Not smashing the masked price and putting him out for longer says it all.
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5 hours ago, beararse said:
It's about marginal gains to improve your chances. We can't not consider it just because it's not the biggest problem, which incidentally it could well be.
One example as to why it could be:
He's a defender who cant really defend. So our captain is tasked with carrying out his playing duties and cant. He's a full back now being asked to concentrate more on defending yet time and time again he fails to cut out crosses, or switches off and loses his man.
How can a captain command respect in the dressing room if he cant execute his role properly in the team he is captaining? Does he inspire, lead by example, role his sleeves up and get stuck in even when things aren't going well?
Anyway, he should have been stripped of the captaincy after THAT match program interview.
Remember at one point he was getting played further up the field with another guy behind him as the attacking fb role was seen as to much fir him? May have been hodson behind him.
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43 minutes ago, tm91 said:
We don't play the same way.
Under Gerrard, we played a 4-3-3 with attacking full-backs who provided width, a flat midfield 3, a false 9 who dropped deeper, and two 'number 10's' who played off the main striker. With the midfield 3, two more defensive minded players would cover the space left behind by the full-backs and recycle possession while the remaining midfielder tried to break the lines. The focus was on high pressing, interchanging of positions, and fluid-passing.
Under Gio, the full-backs are tucked in, the wingers play wider. We have 1 defensive midfielder (usually Kamara) and 2 more attacking midfielders who take turns breaking through the lines. It sometimes changes to a 4-2-3-1 with a midfielder (usually Aribo) in the number 10 role. The one striker is supposed to hold up play and be a focal point/target man. It's far more structured and the team sits deeper.
The fact that both managers use 4-3-3 means little. There's a reason every major team plays a variation of 4-3-3 - because it's the most effective formation. The days of 4-4-2 being common are long gone unless you're playing defensively and setting out to frustrate and counter attack.
Tbf in the first half we were playing very defensively. Just not well.
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9 minutes ago, CoatbridgeBear said:
Canny believe we just played an old firm wae their captain started the game wae a protective mask and not one Rangers player smashed him or even made it uncomfortable. A fuckin joke.
I said that as well in the first half. Even smash him with the ball.
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Just now, McEwan's Lager said:
Writings on the wall? It's his first defeat. Exactly the same as Gerrard. That day they hammered us and we were lucky to keep it to 1-0.
We got taken to the fucking cleaners by Venglos' team at Parkhead and we came back and won the league there.
The 3-0 defeat to them at NY in 2004 was as bad as today. McLeish lost every OF that season and we came back and won the treble the next season.
Ridiculous stuff to be writing off a Manager now.
OK. You agree that he needs to make changes tho? Can't be in players do it needs to be in terms of aggression and pace.
Alfie season over
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Correct. All these players are not shite. They are not 100% capable of ALL aspects of the game tho.
We either choose players whose strengths match the system or change the system to match their strengths.