I wouldn't like it to be a thing at all, but if you genuinely dont think those named players would improve us considerably I dont know what to say
How's that exactly when you're adding so much more quality to the team? The team is unbelievably weak at the moment and adding 5 players into the starting 11 would obviously have made a difference.
Dot understand your comment.
Sima, Cortes, Danilo, Goldson, Balogun, Matondo and Jack were all missing and Yilmaz wasn't fit to play a whole game. That meant we had a makeshift central defence, one of whom went off injured at HT, Barisic at LB who has struggled against Celtic for a while now and a striker & RB playing on the wings. We also ended up with McCausland and Wright playing as wingers when neither are good enough. I think Dessers has done reasonably ok this season but we haven't been in a position to rotate the main striker because of Danilo's absence and the need to play Silva on the wing.
Cortes, Sima, Ridvan, Goldson, Balogun and Danilo = 6
My comment is we had a full sqaud to pick from a think its a diff game
If my auntie had baws.
None of them stop Celtic running the midfield because Clement once again went with 2 CMs and a number 10 which hasn't worked once against them.
That's an excuse they would have used , if the roles were reversed, plain and simple we weren't good enough.
We've always got injuries to the point that I don't even know if anybody knows what our best first team is anymore. We should have a string enough squad that injuries don't matter but therein lies the problem.
You mean like we did on 30th December last year and also got beaten by a weaker Celtic team than today. Jeez we have so many fans living in some kind of pretend land today. Our very best team still couldn’t win. We are way behind them still.
A major factor and More needs to be looked into these injuries and time taken for recovery compared to other teams.
100% mate. The amount of first team players we have out is mental.
Sima, Matondo, Cortes, Danilo, Goldson, Balogun, none of those would have made a difference? FFS - two of them scored against them and turned a loss into a draw in the last one.
Injuries don’t compensate for same players making constant stupid mistakes that cost us and others that are incapable of even wanting to make a tackle
Robby McCrorie has never been in a losing team against Celtic has he
Davies coped better yesterday than goldson has done in previous games
Having Sima, Cortes, Danilo, Goldson, Yilmaz would have made a huge difirence to these OF games this season. This season has been an absolute nightmare from day 1 with injuries.
The OP needs to go and latibulate tbh
Yes. It was embarrassing how easily they were able to pass into any of their midfield 3 and how much space all of their midfield were able to get around edge of our box.
Having a fit Cortes, Danil and Sima would have seen up tactically set up to press them harder. That's a complete forward line missing.
100% 6 definite first team regulars and a couple who needed dropped. Plus players needing minutes plus Cantwell makes a difference to that team but if your starting front 3 all out that’s the biggest miss
Wait a minute - you're saying you thought Sterling was poor yesterday?
And yet we were again 2 down at that point.
Well an extra reason to pack the midfield, Mentally scared players and clements tactics is what gave us no chance from the off
Although it’s not ideal, it’s only really an issue for a game, if it’s a sudden thing. Players being out for a long-time as most of those are mean you have more than enough time to try work around it. That team that played yesterday is not a “new” team.
I think it would have if we’d had Cortes, Sima, Danilo etc fit. But it’s absolutely irrelevant as we lost and we blew a brilliant position. There’s been bad luck and there’s been self inflicted wounds.
Of course they do, without question they make us better, it also allows us to play Sterling in the middle, but enough to win? Maybe, maybe not.
You're spot on Grigo. I'd argue our main front 3 were missing yesterday in Danilo. Cortes and Sima. We've even got Goldson, Jack, Matondo etc out too. These guys are starters or first team regulars. They would change the way we play entirely . Clement isn't immune to criticism but the alternatives to the team yesterday were just as bad.
No but I don’t think many in our starting 11 are that good and that is due to the number of injuries in key parts of the team.
Sima coming on in the last old firm totally swung it in our favour they can't handle pace
