26 Sep 2015 18:51:13
I See on Celtic Web Site that Rd is saying we must convert chance into goals, somebody needs to tell him that he should not play 4,3,21,somebody should tell him he should have bought a Striker,not a cheap skate option from Dundee,and now maybe somebody has,and we are trawling around out of contract players,it's not all his fault,I am sure the Board pressure is great,But,if you come on a "Yes Man" deal then you know what you are getting.Off the field he should Fire John Collins tomorrow
26 Sep 2015 19:24:10
This is by far the worst strike force I have seen in my 30 years going to games. Even in the dark dark days we had at least 1 top striker. Nicholas, McAvennie, McInally, McClair, Cadete etc etc, - every one of these guys would walk straight into the team, well obviously, they are a level up from what we currently have, never mind being better. I honesty don't know who is choosing who we actually buy, we know Park is heavily involved, I'd be amazed if Lawwell wasn't at least poking his nose in, but I don't know who has the final say! It's nothing to do with the system though, 4231 is just another version of a 433 or a 442, - you still technically have 4 attacking players, it's just that our no 10 and 2 wide players in the 3 are all very average, and so is the options for the single striking role. Last year I liked Johansen, and I like Armstrong, but the rest like Forrest, GMS, Commons, McGregor I'm not overly fussed about. The whole team lacks real quality. The current situation isn't down to the formation or John Collins though, - last week it was Ronny, it's the bloody players, and whoever is signing them. I said last week that for me Ronny's only faults for me were he was a little naive, not ruthless enough, and someone contradicted that, what I meant was he has to tell Lawwell etc about the quality of player we have, and also leave them out the squad altogether if they aren't doing it. I like our Manager, and have always backed him, for the life of me I don't know what Forrest brings to the team, in the 5 years watching him I can hardly think of any top top performances from him, his only one in the last year or so was away at Kilmarnock in the 2-2 draw.
26 Sep 2015 19:30:36
Ronny Deila is blameless for me today and I am by no means a Ronny apologist, I call it as I see it and always have done. He played the right team at this moment in time, nowt wrong with the formation we were just unlucky not to convert our many, many chances and were not clinical enough. All it takes is for Forrests' shot to go in off the post or for Rogic to take an extra touch and a bit of composure to finish his chance first half and we've got 3 points. It was just one of those games when nothing comes off for you. In saying that Ronny would have been under massive pressure had Aberdeen won today and stretched it to a 7 points gap.
He played the best of a bad bunch with our strikers which currently is Griffiths(Who was on a 6 in row league goal-scoring run and has a decent record v Hearts), but I agree he's not the long term solution as he's nowhere near clinical enough, especially in Europe. Is Carlton Cole the answer? I've no idea but surely he'd have put some of those chances away today. I know for sure that both Ciftci and Stokes are not the answer and Ronny needs to take some criticism for the signing of Ciftci as he wanted him in his squad and had a big say in his signing as he was impressed by him against us.
I'll finish with this, Ronny did something today that I never thought he would do, and that is be brave enough to drop the under performing Johansen and bench him. This was the correct decision and the three behind the striker was spot on, Forrest caused them problems, Rogic too in the first half and Commons was ok but Johansen most definitely deserved to be dropped. Special mention to Efe as well for taking one for the team with his red card, he played really well today as well.
26 Sep 2015 20:13:34
GMS Armstrong Forrest Allan etc all very average players.
Yet RD won't play a proven goal scorer at his disposal in a 442. Stokes and Griffiths would have tore Hearts a new 1.Managers fault full stop.
26 Sep 2015 20:55:45
TTTS he won't play Stokes unless he has no other option. Stokes is never a wide player but I think he can hold the ball up and bring others into play but RD won't go with him.
26 Sep 2015 21:47:47
Do you not think that the fact we can sit and argue about Stokes Griffiths and Ciftci is the actual problem?
{Ed007's Note - That's far too sensible!}
26 Sep 2015 22:29:27
Simple fact Jim, anyone that plays ciftci ahead of Stokes,shouldn't be about, not ideal by any means, but a better option.
As for GMS and Armstrong, this is Lawwell way of winning the league, not by strengthening his own team but weaken the opposition.
I can't mind a Celtic outfit as poor and I travelled regularly in the 90s.
27 Sep 2015 09:45:11
Johnason is getting a bit of stick just now but he can pop up and score important goals or create the odd one
29 Sep 2015 12:13:53
Johannson doesn't appear to be very happy just now . I heard that a German team made a decent bid for him in the summer and it was turned down .
Player of the year last year , seems he is getting a bit of abuse from some loud mouths . Could it be he is a bit sensitive and allowing that to affect him .
Whatever the case, we all need the all action pressurising Johannson that pushed opponents into mistakes .
Last season he was very valuable