SOME OF THE PROBLEMS:
- many players just not nearly good enough for Champs. League level
- many players seem to lack fight, guts, fitness? to compensate for lack of talent
- poor recruitment with no real improvement in our best eleven from last season, in fact we look weaker
- seems Gio not in charge of recruitment otherwise we would expect 1) our most expensive signing Yilmaz to start, and 2) player(s) to have been recruited from Holland and/or China where he had prior management experience
-unrealistic fans' expectations....please drop this 'Back to the top of European football where we belong' ...arrogant blinkered nonsense
- manager's unwavering faith in under-performers...Kent, Barisic, keepers maybe?
- Is Gio hard enough to take us further....seems a really nice, gently- spoken, reasonable guy....is a different management style required?
- Is Ross Wilson the problem?...is the board the problem?
- or is there no real problem and we are simply doing the best we can with the level of resources available?
POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS:
1) suck it up....with our resources we can be a half-decent Europa League side with occasional attempts at Champs' League qualification
2) serious fact-finding mission to clubs like...to name but two... Club Brugge (city of 120k, stadium 30k) or to RB Salzburg (city 155k, stadium 32k) and there are others from the smaller countries who have had a fair degree of success in Champs. League despite limited populations/capacities of city, country, stadium
3) at least ensure we have excellent fitness-levels, strength and power, desire, work-rate and the rest, to compensate for our failings elsewhere
4) more frequent examples of the original declared player-trading model.....getting good money for Patterson, Aribo, Bassey -positive....holding on to Morelos and Kent for too long - negative
5) take chance in January to recruit young legs in midfield, couple of centre-backs
6) if the feeling is that the Champs League is a level too far for our current resources, and that thought is too depressing, now could be the time to consider all the risks and benefits of selling out ownership of the club to buyer/s who'd be prepared to inject huge amounts of capital to get us where many of our fans expect us to be
The calm after the storm.....
posted on 14/10/22
the defence is arguably the most important part of a team and our defence has been decimated by injuries this season.
posted on 14/10/22
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posted on 14/10/22
comment by puyolsnohadahaircut (U6410)
posted 19 minutes ago
comment by whodunnit (U22710)
posted 3 minutes ago
"Ajax will be a great tie and is the game I am looking to try and get to, can do Amsterdam in day, prob wont even book accommodation. I know the city pretty well and have friends that stay there that I have seen in about a year. If we can get a result against PSV we can get a result against Ajax. if we had played PSV in the groups there that would have been 4 points.
Hoepfully Ten Hag can take a few of their players off them at 23:59 on deadline day!
Liverpool is a case of how much of a good day or bad day they have even on a bad day we will struggle to match them. Hard to see any points from they two games. We all know their strengths dont need to go over it too much.
Napoli : another very strong side who over the last 10 years or so have been close to winning Seria A quite a few times. They were again in the title fight last season. They lost Koulibaly who has been outstanding for them however still kept a hold of Osimhen who is one of europes most wanted strikers and Raspadori their no 10 who has massive potential. that team is littered with top players.
I actually fancy Napoli to top the group, Liverpool to get 2nd with us and Ajax scrapping for 3rd.
Every game is huge which is what you want at this stage, defo one of the glamour groups IMO."
my comments right after the draw was made ...... just saying
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Was wondering there, read the first paragraph and thought
Does whodunnit know we got ajax at ibrox left 😀
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I wasnt able to get a ticket for Ajax away ... thankfully !!
posted on 14/10/22
Zzz
posted on 14/10/22
comment by whodunnit (U22710)
posted 50 minutes ago
comment by Mummy's Hairy Growler (U10045)
posted 1 minute ago
We need a total rebuild tbh
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i disagree. there is still a stong core there IMO. injuries have destroyed us. seen our physio posted a squad of injuries we cant play right now.
Helander -- Souttar -- Goldson
Oforbhe --- Jack --- Kamara --- Hagi
Lowry ---- Roofe ---- Lawrence
and a few others on the bench annol ! thats a lot of first team and back up players out.
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Defence aside, we lack some real quality and depth in midfield. We need a playmaker and desperately need goal scoring midfielders.
posted on 14/10/22
comment by Mummy's Hairy Growler (U10045)
posted 7 minutes ago
comment by whodunnit (U22710)
posted 50 minutes ago
comment by Mummy's Hairy Growler (U10045)
posted 1 minute ago
We need a total rebuild tbh
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i disagree. there is still a stong core there IMO. injuries have destroyed us. seen our physio posted a squad of injuries we cant play right now.
Helander -- Souttar -- Goldson
Oforbhe --- Jack --- Kamara --- Hagi
Lowry ---- Roofe ---- Lawrence
and a few others on the bench annol ! thats a lot of first team and back up players out.
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Defence aside, we lack some real quality and depth in midfield. We need a playmaker and desperately need goal scoring midfielders.
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we badly need to replace Davis. Lawrence, Tillman & Hagi can get goals but two of them are injured and due to still not having a regular RW Tillman has been sacrificed out there.
posted on 14/10/22
Agree with that
posted on 14/10/22
Look at our squad now and think how much work needs to be done next season then decide if Gio is the man to do it, he's not.
GK
McGregor - Final season
McLaughlin - No2 at best
McCrorie - Dunno what's going on he needs to play but signed a new deal. If he's good enough he should get games soon.
Full backs
Barasic - Will be in his last year and needs sold because he's a schitebag.
Yilmaz - Interest in taking him back to Turkey, we need to see more of him but potentially off too.
Tavernier - Will be around
Devine - I don't think he's good enough
CBs
Goldson - Keep
Davies - Keep
King - Keep
Souttar - Permacrock
Helander - Permacrock but at least in his final year
Sands - 5m buy out. No thanks.
CM
Lundstram - Keep, he's not as good as some say but we can't get rid of them all.
Jack - Crocked too often, no new deal
Davis - Finished
Kamara - Dunno whats going on, i would be using him but i think he's off at the first chance.
Arfield - will be 34 but we're gonna need to keep him around for experience.
Ofobohr - Pay him off
McCann - Keep in the squad
AM
Tillman - It's a no from me, so lazy.
Hagi - Sell next summer or lose on a free if he doesn't re-sign. Good player but who knows when we next see him.
Lowry - Keep
LW
Kent - Just go
Lawrence - Keep
RW
Matondo - Pure schite but we're gonna be stuck with him
Wright - Keep as a back up if we have to, more pressing priorities i suspect.
FW
Sakala - Sell if you can but again bigger priorities.
Roofe - Sell next summer or lose on a free, not sure anyone buys him with his record so probably ends up staying.
Colak - Keep
Morelos - Don't even want him to sign a new deal anymore, 6 months to see if he picks up if not bye and if so also probably bye on a free anyway
It's a fooking total shambles.
GK McCrorie* / McLaughlin
LB Yilmaz*
CB Goldson / King
CB Davies / Souttar
RB Tavernier / Devine*
CM Lundstram
CM Arfield*
LW Lawrence
AM Hagi* / Lowry
RW Matondo* / Wright*
FW Colak / Sakala*
*Future not really certain either.
posted on 14/10/22
We will need a minimum of 10 players in.
Would i fook let Gio or Wilson anywhere near that. Get it wrong and we're fooked for years.
posted on 15/10/22
Problems is simple
He lost the dressing room a long time ago