21 Apr 2016 18:59:37
ED007 regardless of who gets the managers job do you expect a few players being shipped out.
My guess is Johansen, Lustig, Cole, Commons (unless Lennon comes back) Mulgrew, Forrest, do not know about Scepovic, if he applies himself better he must be better than Kazim Richards.
{Ed007's Note - I definitely think Johansen will move and I wouldn't be surprised to see Bitton leaving now. Forrest has already rejected a new deal and hopefully in the chaos surrounding a new manager coming in that stays like that. Mulgrew's an odd one, I expected him to be offered an extension after Simunovic's injury but now what happens if he gets a new deal and the new manager doesn't want him when he arrives? Mulgrew could see this as his last chance to have a crack at England and with the changes at CFC he must be rightly worried about his long term future.
As far as I'm concerned the only three players from the first team squad who are 100% safe are Tierney, Sviatchenko - who for me is a future CFC captain in the making - and LG, the rest can go if we can move them on AND find better quality replacements, which for some of them wouldn't be hard.
Even Brown's jacket is on a shaky nail, first of all he has to prove his fitness and if he hasn't improved by January we will need to look at replacing him - after so many years of solid service I don't think it's fair to write him off after one poor season. I didn't believe for a minute that the situation between him and Collins was ever resolved and I still don't.}
21 Apr 2016 19:52:20
To be perfectly honest there are not many players at the club today, I would miss if they shot-a-craw in the summer.
The goalkeeper position needs improvement and of all the defenders at the club, only Schiavchenko and especially Tierney have impressed, while Janko and Simunovic have been long=term 'sick'.
We have a surplus of very similar lightweight tippy-tappy midfield players, but very little muscle, leadership or goal snatchers.
Griffiths has carried the line almost single handed and although GMS was beginning to impress - he was back to his usual on Sunday.
Guys like Izzy, Commons, Stokes and Forrest and to a certain extent, Mulgrew had been out of favour for most of the season and may feel a change of club is their best option, while misfits like Cole, Ciftci, Scepovic and Allen may also be ushered out the door?
There is no doubt the majority of our players could have done better all season, but for one reason or another, they struggled and a new manager may get more out of them or replace them?
Whatever happens, the culprits, have five more games to win and try to make amends for getting the club into this situation.
21 Apr 2016 20:00:41
Simunovic will be pretty safe after the money they paid for him.
21 Apr 2016 19:48:01
Ed, surely Rogic deserves to stay mate?
I agree fully with the rest and what you say RD IMO could never ever have known the history between JC and SB had he had am sure something would have had to give @ the start
These things very rarely resolve themselves fully and the slighest hint of aggro/ attitude usually just triggers the whole thing off again! (y)
{Ed007's Note - Mmmm Yeah maybe I'm being a bit tough on Rogic but he needs to knuckle down and get fully fit. There's no question about his ability but he's still struggling to play 90 mins or even a couple of games in short space of time, we've not had 90 mins out him since the defeat to Molde at CP on Guy Fawkes night.}
21 Apr 2016 20:17:14
Do you agree that the thing most people have against Allan is tht he was boyhood supporter of the other lot, would a midfield of Roberts, Allan, Christie, and Rogic with Richards and Griffiths up front have done any worse than Ronnies regulars.
{Ed007's Note - People hype Allan up because they're desperate to see him succeed because they see it as getting one up on the Zombie hordes, it's certainly nothing to do with football.
Scott Allan is player who turns 25 this year and has had one good season in the Scottish lower leagues. Any time he's played for us he's done nothing except cost us a goal against Ajax and someone on here is adamant that he played a cracker of a pass to LG during a game. It wasn't an assist but it was supposedly a nice pass.
In 16 appearances Scott Allan has scored no goals, had no assists, cost us a goal against Ajax and played ONE killer pass that I must have missed - so no it's nothing to do with who he used to support and more to do with him being garbage.
The midfield you mentioned would simply have got bullied and gave no defensive cover at all. The CM is powderpuff with Allan and Rogic in there and the left hand side would be particularly weak because of KT's tendency to always push forward would leave us exposed to balls played into the LB position. If we play with an attacking minded RB we'd be exposed on that flank as well and you don't want to play any DMs?
21 Apr 2016 20:49:22
Can't forget Scott Allan as well ed lol.
{Ed007's Note - And Aindoh's post came in before yours! Has anyone mentioned Scott Allan for manager yet?}
21 Apr 2016 20:58:56
Lol - Scott Allan, whatever next.
I can't see us getting a good striker in so any thoughts on Griffiths and Scepovic as a top 2?
{Ed007's Note - Scepovic never wanted to be here and I expect he'll return to Spain permanently in the summer.}
21 Apr 2016 21:36:12
Don't know if any one in Spain will want him. His record the last two season pretty poor.
{Ed007's Note - His agent will dig something up for him.}
21 Apr 2016 21:44:04
Point i was trying to make was if Allan, Christie, Rogic, were used would they have been any worse, suppose Biton, Johansenn or Brown never made a mistake all season did they Ed?
{Ed007's Note - That's your prerogative to suppose that but I'd disagree with you.}
21 Apr 2016 22:25:39
Think you're being unfair on Scott Allan Ed, for a start of those 16 appearances some of them have been on the pitch for 1 minute and 6 minutes at a time. He's not been given a fair shot unlike constant poor performers such as GMS, Johansen and Armstrong have.
He's also been pretty effective at times and he does have assists, he's got 5 assists in such little game time.
He made assists for Griffiths against Inverness (3-0 to us) , Griffiths against Stranraer (3-0 to us) , Forrest against Hamilton (8-1 to us) and Callum McGregor against Hamilton (8-1 to us) , Griffiths against Hamilton (1-1) .
Let's also not forget his top class through ball for Griffiths against Ajax in which he should have finished and we would have been 2-1 up and also his pass for Griffiths against Hamilton away in which won the penalty which Griffiths scored. He has not been given a fair crack at the whip. His combined minutes on the pitch for Celtic equates to about 5 full games of football. Shocking when constant under performers as I've mentioned keep getting games.
I'm not going to write him off yet as that would be unfair, however, what I will say is that I have little faith in Scottish footballers in general because in the main I think most Scottish players are poor which is why I don't want to stockpile them like we have done these last couple seasons.
For me Armstrong, Mulgrew, GMS, Brown are all poor players. McGregor, Forrest, Griffiths, Gordon average and I can't judge Allan and Christie as of yet, same goes for Nesbitt and Henderson.
I'm not going to count Commons and Tierney as Scottish as they weren't born in Scotland.
{Ed007's Note - We've been through it all before about the myth of Scott Allan, off the top of my head his average appearance time is about 30 mins. Try the search function because I'm not going through it again.}
21 Apr 2016 22:54:26
I would keep johannsson. I think he's under rated. Granted he's had a poor season but was our player of the year and puts in some shift. Never stops running and You need that in your team. A new manager coming in might invigorate him to perform again especially if the new manager doesn't want his other players closing down as much as Ronny. You always need one man that will always be kicking at the feet of the opposition players. Depending on what our formation would be i'd play him further back though as he doesn't score enough goal for me.
21 Apr 2016 22:56:22
I also like mackay-Stevens but he he needs to prove he's capable of holding down a place.
21 Apr 2016 23:28:15
But he's still got 5 assists mate and you said he had zero.