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Scott Wright wasn't even close to being one of the worst players for us in the first half but he's still nowhere near good enough and given the issue Tavernier has with Maeda I would be looking at having Sterling RB away to Celtic with Tavernier up one.

He could terrorise Taylor if he wasn't being terrorised by Maeda.

Obviously having Sima back and Matondo doing his best to force his way into the team over recent weeks it's not necessary in the other fixtures.
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I don't think we will see Tav move position but can foresee in the next one Sterling starting in the wide right position. The big man is a machine and would basically give us a player in 3 positions as he could tuck in to midfield to make a 4 on the right side and drop back to let Tav overlap as well as playing his starting role.

I think he would have started there yesterday if Ridvan was fit
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Yeah exactly sterling Infront not in place of.

Or you know we could maybe drill in training how to deal with a long ball down the middle. Controversial option but it might just help.
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Agree but difficult one to train. Clement wants us to press and play high up the pitch but we don't have the pace in the backline to manage transitions. Goldson in particular looks terrified of the ball going in behind and getting in a foot race. A centre back with pace in the summer is a must.
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It's just so frustrating seeing the same goal so often. Particularly the 2 Aberdeen games in quick succession.

comment by Gersmid (U22273)
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POV - there's no dancing around. Every referee who has commented on it has agreed and explained why its a pen. As has every neutral pundit. You have chosen not to accept it which is your right but at some point surely you have to ask why none of the experts agree with you?


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Apart from watching the game, I haven't listened to or watched any pundits or refs. I went out pretty much right after the final whistle yesterday and apart from seeing the incident again on twitter, haven't watched any highlights. I've read on here that Michael Stewart didn't agree with it, and I'm wondering why he's not classed as a neutral pundit now though?

It's my view of it, and my questions for any of them would be exactly the same as I've said on here. As Ghod pointed out, there's even clips of rangers fans looking right onto the incident telling Silva to get up.

I don't believe there was sufficient force in the contact to warrant a penalty. I've no explanation - and neither does it seem does anyone else - as to why that contact made Silva be unable to plant his left foot down and make it go the way it did, causing him to fall over.

I seriously doubt there would be this level of understanding of the rules if it happened against rangers.

Wait you think Michael Stewart is neutral?

Ok I've heard it all now.

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What obtuse lengths? I've been totally consistent talking about force, and when you and Smid have danced around being able to answer it, you've brought in some wild theories - such as 'there's no written rule' (of course there isn't - but if we're suggesting that a ref doesn't take that into account then that's either naive or a lie) and Silva believing that AJ has some kind of telescopic leg that meant Silva had to collapse his left leg to avoid any contact from a foot at the other side of his body.

Ffs man - if you can't answer tor don't want to then don't try and deflect. It's too obvious.
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I don't even know what you are asking at this point. Just leaping to weird interpretation after weird interpretation.

Let's go back to the start then.

Silva has wrong footed him. He contacts Silva's knee, enough to bring him down or impede him. The contact he makes with the ball is not enough to disposses Silva.

Straightforward penalty.
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So you believe that there was sufficient force in the contact to both impede and Silva and bring him down?

If that's where you're at then that's fine. There's been no weird interpretations from me, only seeking clarification of why folk believe that there was sufficient contact to make Silva do what he did and justify the penalty. If you genuinely believe that, then I'm not going to convince you otherwise.

Like I said, I've been consistent with my side of it - it's others like yourself that have brought in other interpretations like 'it could have been x,y, or z'. You've finally decided it seems to go with the contact was sufficient to make a young, healthy athletic person fall in the manner he did. That's fine with me.

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Wait you think Michael Stewart is neutral?

Ok I've heard it all now.
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True - he does have an affiliation with rangers. Forgot about that. He's got none with Celtic.

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Wait you think Michael Stewart is neutral?

Ok I've heard it all now.
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True - he does have an affiliation with rangers. Forgot about that. He's got none with Celtic.
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Apart from being an employee of Celtic's.

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Wait you think Michael Stewart is neutral?

Ok I've heard it all now.
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True - he does have an affiliation with rangers. Forgot about that. He's got none with Celtic.
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Apart from being an employee of Celtic's.
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Was that Celtic tv?

Yep, done a few Celtic podcasts as well. Accept those aren't club official but does negate his position as a neutral.

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What obtuse lengths? I've been totally consistent talking about force, and when you and Smid have danced around being able to answer it, you've brought in some wild theories - such as 'there's no written rule' (of course there isn't - but if we're suggesting that a ref doesn't take that into account then that's either naive or a lie) and Silva believing that AJ has some kind of telescopic leg that meant Silva had to collapse his left leg to avoid any contact from a foot at the other side of his body.

Ffs man - if you can't answer tor don't want to then don't try and deflect. It's too obvious.
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I don't even know what you are asking at this point. Just leaping to weird interpretation after weird interpretation.

Let's go back to the start then.

Silva has wrong footed him. He contacts Silva's knee, enough to bring him down or impede him. The contact he makes with the ball is not enough to disposses Silva.

Straightforward penalty.
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So you believe that there was sufficient force in the contact to both impede and Silva and bring him down?

If that's where you're at then that's fine. There's been no weird interpretations from me, only seeking clarification of why folk believe that there was sufficient contact to make Silva do what he did and justify the penalty. If you genuinely believe that, then I'm not going to convince you otherwise.

Like I said, I've been consistent with my side of it - it's others like yourself that have brought in other interpretations like 'it could have been x,y, or z'. You've finally decided it seems to go with the contact was sufficient to make a young, healthy athletic person fall in the manner he did. That's fine with me.
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There you go again, where have I said anything about force.

A tap or clip can be enough to unbalance someone, unbalanced trying to avoid the players boot

You've finally decided it seems to go with the contact was sufficient to make a young, healthy athletic person fall in the manner he did. That's fine with me.

Youve seen kyogo play right?

mad how such feeble contact resulting in a penalty hasn't resulted in more against rangers...

they seem to get them though.

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Yep, done a few Celtic podcasts as well. Accept those aren't club official but does negate his position as a neutral.
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Really?

I get rangers fans don’t like him-not a massive fan of himself-but I’d suggest he’s still fairly neutral. Hearts seems more his Achilles heel.

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Yep, done a few Celtic podcasts as well. Accept those aren't club official but does negate his position as a neutral.
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Really?

I get rangers fans don’t like him-not a massive fan of himself-but I’d suggest he’s still fairly neutral. Hearts seems more his Achilles heel.
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You have had some wild takes but this might be your wildest.

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Yep, done a few Celtic podcasts as well. Accept those aren't club official but does negate his position as a neutral.
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He genuinely hates rangers , doesn't even try to hide it anymore. Anyone who heard his commentary on the league cup final or recent Hibs game found it embarrassing.

‘ There you go again, where have I said anything about force.

A tap or clip can be enough to unbalance someone, unbalanced trying to avoid the players boot

You've finally decided it seems to go with the contact was sufficient to make a young, healthy athletic person fall in the manner he did. That's fine with me.

Youve seen kyogo play right?’

I never said you did-I’m asking do you believe there was sufficient force to cause him to go down the way he did. And of course there’s other things like tripping a player, etc that can cause something else to happen-but we’re talking about a specific incident-not ‘what about IF this happened?!’ The issue here appears to be you want to deflect from what we’re actually talking about-the incident yesterday.

And yes I’ve seen Kyogo. He’s our centre forward. Goes down frequently with minimal contact. Wtf though does that have to with Silva yesterday?

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Yep, done a few Celtic podcasts as well. Accept those aren't club official but does negate his position as a neutral.
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Really?

I get rangers fans don’t like him-not a massive fan of himself-but I’d suggest he’s still fairly neutral. Hearts seems more his Achilles heel.
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You have had some wild takes but this might be your wildest.
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Not as wild as ‘refs don’t take into account the level of force used in an incident.’, but ok.

You’ve not heard him when it’s a hearts game then?

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‘ There you go again, where have I said anything about force.

A tap or clip can be enough to unbalance someone, unbalanced trying to avoid the players boot

You've finally decided it seems to go with the contact was sufficient to make a young, healthy athletic person fall in the manner he did. That's fine with me.

Youve seen kyogo play right?’

I never said you did-I’m asking do you believe there was sufficient force to cause him to go down the way he did. And of course there’s other things like tripping a player, etc that can cause something else to happen-but we’re talking about a specific incident-not ‘what about IF this happened?!’ The issue here appears to be you want to deflect from what we’re actually talking about-the incident yesterday.

And yes I’ve seen Kyogo. He’s our centre forward. Goes down frequently with minimal contact. Wtf though does that have to with Silva yesterday?
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Im talking about the specific incident. I have no idea what your talking about anymore.

Michael Stewart, that has floored me

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Yep, done a few Celtic podcasts as well. Accept those aren't club official but does negate his position as a neutral.
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Really?

I get rangers fans don’t like him-not a massive fan of himself-but I’d suggest he’s still fairly neutral. Hearts seems more his Achilles heel.
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You have had some wild takes but this might be your wildest.
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Not as wild as ‘refs don’t take into account the level of force used in an incident.’, but ok.

You’ve not heard him when it’s a hearts game then?
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Hearts have nothing to with his neutrality when it comes to Rangers vs Celtic.

The BBC literally took him off air and apologised for comments he has made against Rangers. He worked on Celtic TV. He does Celtic podcasts. How can that possibly make him a neutral voice in this fixture?

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‘ There you go again, where have I said anything about force.

A tap or clip can be enough to unbalance someone, unbalanced trying to avoid the players boot

You've finally decided it seems to go with the contact was sufficient to make a young, healthy athletic person fall in the manner he did. That's fine with me.

Youve seen kyogo play right?’

I never said you did-I’m asking do you believe there was sufficient force to cause him to go down the way he did. And of course there’s other things like tripping a player, etc that can cause something else to happen-but we’re talking about a specific incident-not ‘what about IF this happened?!’ The issue here appears to be you want to deflect from what we’re actually talking about-the incident yesterday.

And yes I’ve seen Kyogo. He’s our centre forward. Goes down frequently with minimal contact. Wtf though does that have to with Silva yesterday?
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Im talking about the specific incident. I have no idea what your talking about anymore.

Michael Stewart, that has floored me
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We’re now at he unbalanced him then? From kicked him in the knee to unbalancing him. Ok.

As for Stewart, I know the standard for rangers fans is if they disagree with their views, then they’re a hater. Fair enough.

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Scott Wright wasn't even close to being one of the worst players for us in the first half but he's still nowhere near good enough and given the issue Tavernier has with Maeda I would be looking at having Sterling RB away to Celtic with Tavernier up one.

He could terrorise Taylor if he wasn't being terrorised by Maeda.

Obviously having Sima back and Matondo doing his best to force his way into the team over recent weeks it's not necessary in the other fixtures.
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I don't think we will see Tav move position but can foresee in the next one Sterling starting in the wide right position. The big man is a machine and would basically give us a player in 3 positions as he could tuck in to midfield to make a 4 on the right side and drop back to let Tav overlap as well as playing his starting role.

I think he would have started there yesterday if Ridvan was fit
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Definitely more likely and will effectively be able to become the RB when Tav goes forward.
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Don’t think having Sterling as wide right helps, it’s on the counter against Maeda Tav has most of his problems.

Would go with Sterling as third central midfield over Lawrence/Cantwell away at CP. Our attacking midfielder seems to struggle in these games and think a clear 3 vs 3 would help against them.

Would also allow Sterling to help Tav more similar to how Jack used to sit in when Tav attacked under Gerrard

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Yep, done a few Celtic podcasts as well. Accept those aren't club official but does negate his position as a neutral.
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Really?

I get rangers fans don’t like him-not a massive fan of himself-but I’d suggest he’s still fairly neutral. Hearts seems more his Achilles heel.
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You have had some wild takes but this might be your wildest.
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Not as wild as ‘refs don’t take into account the level of force used in an incident.’, but ok.

You’ve not heard him when it’s a hearts game then?
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Hearts have nothing to with his neutrality when it comes to Rangers vs Celtic.

The BBC literally took him off air and apologised for comments he has made against Rangers. He worked on Celtic TV. He does Celtic podcasts. How can that possibly make him a neutral voice in this fixture?
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No idea. But, again I now know what the standards are going forward.

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‘ There you go again, where have I said anything about force.

A tap or clip can be enough to unbalance someone, unbalanced trying to avoid the players boot

You've finally decided it seems to go with the contact was sufficient to make a young, healthy athletic person fall in the manner he did. That's fine with me.

Youve seen kyogo play right?’

I never said you did-I’m asking do you believe there was sufficient force to cause him to go down the way he did. And of course there’s other things like tripping a player, etc that can cause something else to happen-but we’re talking about a specific incident-not ‘what about IF this happened?!’ The issue here appears to be you want to deflect from what we’re actually talking about-the incident yesterday.

And yes I’ve seen Kyogo. He’s our centre forward. Goes down frequently with minimal contact. Wtf though does that have to with Silva yesterday?
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Im talking about the specific incident. I have no idea what your talking about anymore.

Michael Stewart, that has floored me
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We’re now at he unbalanced him then? From kicked him in the knee to unbalancing him. Ok.

As for Stewart, I know the standard for rangers fans is if they disagree with their views, then they’re a hater. Fair enough.
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Quite a broad generalisation. I don't mind criticism at all but when your employer has to remove you because your views about a club breach editorial standards then you have to accept your credibility will take a hit along the way.

Taking away the emotion however and still not sure how someone who has been employed by Celtic or Rangers as a pundit could ever be classed as a neutral when offering a view of incidents within the fixture.

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Scott Wright wasn't even close to being one of the worst players for us in the first half but he's still nowhere near good enough and given the issue Tavernier has with Maeda I would be looking at having Sterling RB away to Celtic with Tavernier up one.

He could terrorise Taylor if he wasn't being terrorised by Maeda.

Obviously having Sima back and Matondo doing his best to force his way into the team over recent weeks it's not necessary in the other fixtures.
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I don't think we will see Tav move position but can foresee in the next one Sterling starting in the wide right position. The big man is a machine and would basically give us a player in 3 positions as he could tuck in to midfield to make a 4 on the right side and drop back to let Tav overlap as well as playing his starting role.

I think he would have started there yesterday if Ridvan was fit
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Definitely more likely and will effectively be able to become the RB when Tav goes forward.
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Don’t think having Sterling as wide right helps, it’s on the counter against Maeda Tav has most of his problems.

Would go with Sterling as third central midfield over Lawrence/Cantwell away at CP. Our attacking midfielder seems to struggle in these games and think a clear 3 vs 3 would help against them.

Would also allow Sterling to help Tav more similar to how Jack used to sit in when Tav attacked under Gerrard


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Think the reason for me I'd have him there is he can effectively get across 3 positions with his athleticism. He can play wide right whilst but when we don't have the ball tuck in to the midfield as an extra body as well as cover Tav when he goes forward. He's not a winger by any means but gives you various options on and off the ball in that area.

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‘ There you go again, where have I said anything about force.

A tap or clip can be enough to unbalance someone, unbalanced trying to avoid the players boot

You've finally decided it seems to go with the contact was sufficient to make a young, healthy athletic person fall in the manner he did. That's fine with me.

Youve seen kyogo play right?’

I never said you did-I’m asking do you believe there was sufficient force to cause him to go down the way he did. And of course there’s other things like tripping a player, etc that can cause something else to happen-but we’re talking about a specific incident-not ‘what about IF this happened?!’ The issue here appears to be you want to deflect from what we’re actually talking about-the incident yesterday.

And yes I’ve seen Kyogo. He’s our centre forward. Goes down frequently with minimal contact. Wtf though does that have to with Silva yesterday?
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Im talking about the specific incident. I have no idea what your talking about anymore.

Michael Stewart, that has floored me
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We’re now at he unbalanced him then? From kicked him in the knee to unbalancing him. Ok.

As for Stewart, I know the standard for rangers fans is if they disagree with their views, then they’re a hater. Fair enough.
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He did kick him in the knee though? What are you waffling about

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Scott Wright wasn't even close to being one of the worst players for us in the first half but he's still nowhere near good enough and given the issue Tavernier has with Maeda I would be looking at having Sterling RB away to Celtic with Tavernier up one.

He could terrorise Taylor if he wasn't being terrorised by Maeda.

Obviously having Sima back and Matondo doing his best to force his way into the team over recent weeks it's not necessary in the other fixtures.
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I don't think we will see Tav move position but can foresee in the next one Sterling starting in the wide right position. The big man is a machine and would basically give us a player in 3 positions as he could tuck in to midfield to make a 4 on the right side and drop back to let Tav overlap as well as playing his starting role.

I think he would have started there yesterday if Ridvan was fit
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Definitely more likely and will effectively be able to become the RB when Tav goes forward.
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Don’t think having Sterling as wide right helps, it’s on the counter against Maeda Tav has most of his problems.

Would go with Sterling as third central midfield over Lawrence/Cantwell away at CP. Our attacking midfielder seems to struggle in these games and think a clear 3 vs 3 would help against them.

Would also allow Sterling to help Tav more similar to how Jack used to sit in when Tav attacked under Gerrard


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Think the reason for me I'd have him there is he can effectively get across 3 positions with his athleticism. He can play wide right whilst but when we don't have the ball tuck in to the midfield as an extra body as well as cover Tav when he goes forward. He's not a winger by any means but gives you various options on and off the ball in that area.
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You can’t play wide right and cover for the right back. Just wouldn’t work.

Your saying play wide right but cover when Tav goes forward - can’t do things at once. Would simply leave us without a wide right.

He can definitely play there, no question. But can’t help Tav given the problem he had with Maeda is generally on the counter

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Scott Wright wasn't even close to being one of the worst players for us in the first half but he's still nowhere near good enough and given the issue Tavernier has with Maeda I would be looking at having Sterling RB away to Celtic with Tavernier up one.

He could terrorise Taylor if he wasn't being terrorised by Maeda.

Obviously having Sima back and Matondo doing his best to force his way into the team over recent weeks it's not necessary in the other fixtures.
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I don't think we will see Tav move position but can foresee in the next one Sterling starting in the wide right position. The big man is a machine and would basically give us a player in 3 positions as he could tuck in to midfield to make a 4 on the right side and drop back to let Tav overlap as well as playing his starting role.

I think he would have started there yesterday if Ridvan was fit
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Definitely more likely and will effectively be able to become the RB when Tav goes forward.
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Don’t think having Sterling as wide right helps, it’s on the counter against Maeda Tav has most of his problems.

Would go with Sterling as third central midfield over Lawrence/Cantwell away at CP. Our attacking midfielder seems to struggle in these games and think a clear 3 vs 3 would help against them.

Would also allow Sterling to help Tav more similar to how Jack used to sit in when Tav attacked under Gerrard


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Think the reason for me I'd have him there is he can effectively get across 3 positions with his athleticism. He can play wide right whilst but when we don't have the ball tuck in to the midfield as an extra body as well as cover Tav when he goes forward. He's not a winger by any means but gives you various options on and off the ball in that area.
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You can’t play wide right and cover for the right back. Just wouldn’t work.

Your saying play wide right but cover when Tav goes forward - can’t do things at once. Would simply leave us without a wide right.

He can definitely play there, no question. But can’t help Tav given the problem he had with Maeda is generally on the counter
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You can, it can be fluid. Tav goes forward he sits in. No different to when Souttar goes on a wee adventure and Lundstram tucks in.

At the moment I think a lot of Tav's forward play is nullified because he's stuck between being able to go and keeping an eye on Maeda behind him. Shouldn't be too difficult for the two to interchange and make sure Tav can go with the confidence there are enough legs behind him on the counter.