Todd Cantwell

[The Specky Forum Organiser 65,093]

1 minute ago, Laudrupsleftfoot said:

How so, specifically?

He has spent 95% of his career playing from out wide

[esquire8 42,996]

Manager said he knows his best position is as a 10 but due to what he has available there is no one apart from McCausland who can play wide right. Didn't want to throw McCausland in but had to now. 

Totally get where he is coming from but if the squad don't fit the system you want then you modify it. Stop the square pegs in round holes. 

Lammers ain't a player let alone a 10. Sima ain't a left winger. Cantwell ain't a right winger. Danilo can't play up top himself. Cifuentes can't play. Tav can't do shit. Centre backs can't defend.

He's got to change it for the sake of the remaining games and then bring in players he wants for that system and dump those who don't fit.

[steven33jackie 1,942]

Clement post match interview, says he took him off  because he was cutting inside to often. Yet that's exactly how he scored against Sparta, cutting inside onto his left foot. Just hope an ego measuring exercise is not the basis for weakening the team. It's an absolute no brainer that Cantwell in place of Lammers is best for the team yet game after game we seeing Lammers start games and contribute nothing.

[Unionblue 3,672]

I think PC has given him a platform to show character and take it on the chin and up his game or look in the mirror and admit he can't hack it

 

great man management

[Loyal72 11,379]

When I first saw the podcast with him, I wondered what he was meaning about his attitude and why manager's didn't fancy him and why he got bombed out of teams.

I get it now, he clearly still doesn't.

[MacBoyd 5,492]

Cantwell isn't good enough needs sold in January. Understand he's not playing in preferred position but he won't contribute enough as the number ten.

[Laudrupsleftfoot 11,023]

2 minutes ago, The Specky Forum Organiser said:

He has spent 95% of his career playing from out wide

Not on the right, he said himself in that recent podcast it’s a position he’s never played before.

He’s comfortable on the left, drifting inside into the middle. It’s far easier as a right footed player to protect the ball cutting in from the left than it is on the right, before even thinking about angles for through balls etc.

[JackAlex93 11,372]

27 minutes ago, SkylineBlue said:

I'm starting to really go off him. Contributes next to nothing 90% of the time, petulant as fuck and spends more time running his mouth on social media than he does contributing to Rangers.

He doesn't have the personality to hack it when things aren't going well. Sell him to the English championship.

Bang on the money

[WATP84JRL 1,084]

1 minute ago, Bad Robot said:

3 times he tried a trick instead of a simple pass and we were punished for it with a goal.

The trick as u put it, Just before the goal almost paid off and would have put us in a goal scoring position, there was more than enough time for the team to recoup to stop the goal. 

[KingKirk 25,696]

21 minutes ago, sausagetrunks said:

the manager just explain his decision to take him off and it was because Cantwell wasn't doing what he was supposed to be doing. altho he should be playing where Lammers is supposed to be playing. 

That's second part is my point put him in his position and you'll see the best of him. He isn't a winger imo it's horrendous from the manager. 

[The Specky Forum Organiser 65,093]

5 minutes ago, esquire8 said:

Manager said he knows his best position is as a 10 but due to what he has available there is no one apart from McCausland who can play wide right. Didn't want to throw McCausland in but had to now. 

Totally get where he is coming from but if the squad don't fit the system you want then you modify it. Stop the square pegs in round holes. 

Lammers ain't a player let alone a 10. Sima ain't a left winger. Cantwell ain't a right winger. Danilo can't play up top himself. Cifuentes can't play. Tav can't do shit. Centre backs can't defend.

He's got to change it for the sake of the remaining games and then bring in players he wants for that system and dump those who don't fit.

Not true though is it?

[Inigo 32,534]

Just now, Laudrupsleftfoot said:

How so, specifically?

He doesn't plays like a 5s showboater because of his position. He plays like that because he appears to have a lack of a sense of when to release a ball. When he's done enough to open space and then use it. He needs to learn how to be quicker, more direct, more efficient. Make better decisions. He needs a manager to tip the shite out of his head and find a way to get him to use his undoubted ability properly.

Until then he'll float around football never quite being a success, as he has been doing.

[CR3 12,707]

22 minutes ago, SkylineBlue said:

Maybe if he'd done what we was asked he wouldn't have been hooked. He has no one to blame but himself.

if you got asked to play a different instrument in your band and then canned because you didn't play it that well whilst you've got big Lammers playing yours fucking honking, is it not at least a bit of the same comparison?

[Bad Robot 21,318]

7 minutes ago, WATP84JRL said:

The trick as u put it, Just before the goal almost paid off and would have put us in a goal scoring position, there was more than enough time for the team to recoup to stop the goal. 

It was his 3rd trick where he gave away possession and ‘almost paying off’ falls apart from the fact the goal came from him losing possession. 

[CR3 12,707]

I would have thought 90% of our fanbase would have thought Cantwell was our best player before the game, just shows you 'you're only as good as your last game/pass at Ibrox.' I guess.

[ayro 3,024]

Thought he was shite but there were about 9 other players who were as bad and in some cases worse, but if he wants to sub him then fair enough but why do it with 10 minutes to HT?

He gave the ball away for the goal but the two CBs were howling and shortly afterwards Lammers gave the ball away and they raced up the park so why wasn’t he subbed?

Looks like he doesn’t fit in with what PC is wanting.

[rossco87 691]

I don’t think PC handled that correctly tonight. Not defending Cantwell in any way (especially if he has been specifically asked to stay wide and is choosing not to) but taking him off when he did:

- singles him out when the whole team were underperforming

- puts massive pressure on McAusland coming on in those circumstances

- takes away one of the “windows” to make a sub in the second half

 

He could have taken him off at half time and it would have had a similar, if slightly less pointed, message.

 

As it stands that decision is going to be a massive talking point and used to frame future selection / performances over the next few weeks - hopefully we are looking back on it at the point where it sank in for Cantwell and he kicks on, but if he keeps performing at the levels he has been this season it is just another layer of discussion and pressure that we have (relatively) needlessly put on him.

 

Going forward I think we have established that Cantwell can’t (won’t) play RW the way PC wants so the shirt has to be McAusland’s; I don’t think Lammers has done anything to deserve being near the team so would give Cantwell game time in the 10 and move Lawrence to the left (Sima has offered very little since his purple goal patch but that was a while ago now).

[Inigo 32,534]

1 minute ago, CR3 said:

I would have thought 90% of our fanbase would have thought Cantwell was our best player before the game, just shows you 'you're only as good as your last game/pass at Ibrox.' I guess.

He's been poor this season tbh. 

[Inigo 32,534]

Just now, ayro said:

Thought he was shite but there were about 9 other players who were as bad and in some cases worse, but if he wants to sub him then fair enough but why do it with 10 minutes to HT?

He gave the ball away for the goal but the two CBs were howling and shortly afterwards Lammers gave the ball away and they raced up the park so why wasn’t he subbed?

Looks like he doesn’t fit in with what PC is wanting.

To make a point. His sub was because he was playing as an individual, not a team player, as well as being shite. It was man management.

[Bakbear 3,586]

7 minutes ago, Bad Robot said:

It was his 3rd trick where he gave away possession and ‘almost paying off’ falls apart from the fact the goal came from him losing possession. 

Last season he was being celebrated for those tricks. 
Midfield and Center halves should be more than capable of preventing a goal from that loss of possession. 

[The Specky Forum Organiser 65,093]

1 goal

1 assist

By the end of November

[gmcf 34,339]

43 minutes ago, STRUTH82 said:

Cantwell may find himself at a cross roads come January, i think he needs to take a look at himself, but not actually sure he will.

Yeah , there's only going to be one winner in this and its not Cantwell . 

[ayro 3,024]

1 minute ago, Inigo said:

To make a point. His sub was because he was playing as an individual, not a team player, as well as being shite. It was man management.

So how did it make it better?

The atmosphere was already flat and getting narky due to being 1 down, for the next 10 minutes most fans around me were going WTF as if a sub was needing made it could have been Cifuentes, Sima or Lammers as they were all worse than Cantwell.

The 2nd half was pish with the exception of McCausland goal (yes I know he replaced Cantwell).

We have blown a great opportunity to qualify by drawing at home to one of worst teams I have seen at Ibrox in Europe which is down primarily to the team but the manager didn’t help with some questionable tactics and substitutes.

[Drunk and disorderly. 14,514]

26 minutes ago, esquire8 said:

Manager said he knows his best position is as a 10 but due to what he has available there is no one apart from McCausland who can play wide right. Didn't want to throw McCausland in but had to now. 

Totally get where he is coming from but if the squad don't fit the system you want then you modify it. Stop the square pegs in round holes. 

Lammers ain't a player let alone a 10. Sima ain't a left winger. Cantwell ain't a right winger. Danilo can't play up top himself. Cifuentes can't play. Tav can't do shit. Centre backs can't defend.

He's got to change it for the sake of the remaining games and then bring in players he wants for that system and dump those who don't fit.

We don't have the players to field this imaginary goal scoring outfit.

Our squad is dire mate. Beale spent 15 million and we are no better off.

[CoplandStandBear 995]

We were going to have more of the ball and needing to create a goal and he sticks with shite like Lammers and Cifuentes instead of playing Cantwell in a more natural position. It's stupid and pig headed management.