Team selection

Ozbear72 said:
No money for transfers like a Shankland that many people wanted, that's why dio was a obligation to buy out of next seasons budget.
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Diomande whether we pay it in the summer or in January will cost the club £4.5m. That is more money than the other lot spent in total on the 4 players they had playing in midfield today.

Silva and Cortes will be on massive wages in Scottish football terms so haven't cost nothing. We spent serious money in January, it just hasn't made us a stronger team.
 
We know he can only play who is available but…

He can install belief and confidence

He can drill the players in training and set a shape

He can also motivate these players and make sure they keep concentration

Didnt see much of the above today…
 
HarryBosch said:
Well I'll ask you then, what would you have done given the players at your disposal?
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Lundstam has been as good as a man down for how long now?

Dessers should have been off much sooner.

Yilmaz and Raskin should have started.

The midfield should have been set up to stifle them in the center, shut down McGregor and you have went a long way to stopping them.

No attempt to shut down Maeda, as usual that side is found wanting.

Target their weaker defenders.

There was multiple changes he could have made. Instead we watched them waltz through us, at will at points in the game, and we didn't seem to have any clue how to change that.

He has been here long enough to have some ideas about how to combat them.
 
Carsons Cat said:
Lundstam has been as good as a man down for how long now?

Dessers should have been off much sooner.

Yilmaz and Raskin should have started.

The midfield should have been set up to stifle them in the center, shut down McGregor and you have went a long way to stopping them.

No attempt to shut down Maeda, as usual that side is found wanting.

Target their weaker defenders.

There was multiple changes he could have made. Instead we watched them waltz through us, at will at points in the game, and we didn't seem to have any clue how to change that.

He has been here long enough to have some ideas about how to combat them.
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Lundsram was our best player in our last game.

Yilmaz is coming back from injury - you have no idea of how fit he is.

Raskin has been brutal when he's appeared as a sub.

Everything you suggest is with the benefit of hindsight..

The manager can't legislate for Silva watching his man run off him or for not converting chances. Nor can he legislate for Lundstram's performance?
 
HarryBosch said:
Lundsram was our best player in our last game. Smashing, he has been shite the vast majority of games.

Yilmaz is coming back from injury - you have no idea of how fit he is. He was fit enough be selected in the squad, he was fit enough to be subbed on. He could have started with Borna on the bench.

Raskin has been brutal when he's appeared as a sub. Still wouldn't have cost us what Lundstram has over the season.

Everything you suggest is with the benefit of hindsight.. As I said earlier, tactics ETC. Were discussed all the last week, so not hindsight at all

The manager can't legislate for Silva watching his man run off him or for not converting chances. Nor can he legislate for Lundstram's performance? None of what you mention is news or something that hasn't happened before this season. You don't select players that repeatedly cost you. The fact that has has and they did, yet again, is solely on Phil.
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You watch Harry, it will be the same shit at Hampden.
 
Ozbear72 said:
How many of them are football managers, Hampered by injuries and lundstram get's himself sent off not down to the manager.
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That "he's a football manager" bark is bollocks. I work with several people not worthy of their job title, let alone above criticism.

Hes played the same dire shite against them each time, and not been able to see how to change it, same way that useless prick in the service desk makes the same mistakes and asks me the same questions over & over again despite having been shown several times how to do his job.
 
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Lundsram was our best player in our last game. Smashing, he has been shite the vast majority of games. No he hasn't. That's just revisionist pish!

Yilmaz is coming back from injury - you have no idea of how fit he is. He was fit enough be selected in the squad, he was fit enough to be subbed on. He could have started with Borna on the bench. - That is nothing more than a guess.

Raskin has been brutal when he's appeared as a sub. Still wouldn't have cost us what Lundstram has over the season - More guesswork

Everything you suggest is with the benefit of hindsight.. As I said earlier, tactics ETC. Were discussed all the last week, so not hindsight at all - Discussing ideas and tactics online is so far removed from being the manager actually picking the team

The manager can't legislate for Silva watching his man run off him or for not converting chances. Nor can he legislate for Lundstram's performance? None of what you mention is news or something that hasn't happened before this season. You don't select players that repeatedly cost you. The fact that has has and they did, yet again, is solely on Phil. - so who, out of our fit and available players wins us that game?
 
HarryBosch said:
Mcausland was dreadful when he came on, and has been for months.

So, that team you've picked. What difference does it make, given their opener came from the other side and their second a long ball from their right(our left) hand side?
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Folk still saying McCausland should have started - why? what would he have brought to the team?
 
HarryBosch said:
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Lundsram was our best player in our last game. Smashing, he has been shite the vast majority of games. No he hasn't. That's just revisionist pish!

Yilmaz is coming back from injury - you have no idea of how fit he is. He was fit enough be selected in the squad, he was fit enough to be subbed on. He could have started with Borna on the bench. - That is nothing more than a guess.

Raskin has been brutal when he's appeared as a sub. Still wouldn't have cost us what Lundstram has over the season - More guesswork

Everything you suggest is with the benefit of hindsight.. As I said earlier, tactics ETC. Were discussed all the last week, so not hindsight at all - Discussing ideas and tactics online is so far removed from being the manager actually picking the team

The manager can't legislate for Silva watching his man run off him or for not converting chances. Nor can he legislate for Lundstram's performance? None of what you mention is news or something that hasn't happened before this season. You don't select players that repeatedly cost you. The fact that has has and they did, yet again, is solely on Phil. - so who, out of our fit and available players wins us that game?
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Lundstram has been pish for months, a tantrum is not going to change that. If you think he has been decent for the majority of games then there really is no point discussing it further.

Not a guess, you asked what I would have done. But you need to move the goalposts to attempt to make a point, at some stage. Facts are that he was selected to the squad, he was also selected to come on. So no guesswork, sorry.

Completely agree but again that Wasn't what was asked. You said what I posted was with the benefits of hindsight, i pointed out it wasn't. You must keep fit to keep moving the goalposts so much.

Are you going to just keep asking the same questions then going back when your questions are answered but not to your liking?

At the end of the day we saw another defeat by that mob and we saw another poor Rangers performance and another game where our manager is incapable of making any positive changes.

This is all starting to feel like the beginning of the end of our last manager.
 
blue genes said:
Folk still saying McCausland should have started - why? what would he have brought to the team?
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It’s not what he would’ve brought to the team it’s how he would’ve allowed us to play.

By playing McCausland you can play Sterling in midfield and take control of the game.
 
If Ridvan was fit enough to be on the bench (and he looked sharp when he came on and caused them a lot of problems) why wasn’t he starting instead of the serial shitebag who hides and is scared to be in possession every single time we face them?
 
Allowing mcgregor to do whatever he wants is beyond frustrating, he will barely touch the ball for scotland in the summer.
Sterling would run over the top of him but we wasted him in rw . That's not looking good on the manager.
 
Davie Weir said:
Weirdly we created far more chances with 10 men but questions must be coming to Clement regarding his team selection.

Yes, you can only piss with the cock you have etc. However, anyone could see that we had to change our selection and tactics today. Anyone could see that we couldn’t go into a 3rd old firm with the same midfield that got ran over in the previous two.

The selection of Diomande, Lundstram and Lawrence in the 10 was terrible. Midfields win Old Firm games and it’s no surprise that when we’ve played with that midfield 3 we’ve won 0.

We need to take control of these games and that just doesn’t happen with our best midfielder playing on the wing and then playing at center half.
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Where you been for the past 3 months?
 
Davie Weir said:
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Of course all these issues have hampered him but he’s hardly helped himself today. It’s head in the sand stuff not to question his decision making today. Same setup as our previous 2 OF games and again we found ourselves 2 goals down.

Let’s just not criticise managers when they’re wrong though!
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Seeing barasic was bad enough but lawrence as part of the three instead of sterling meant we got what we deserved.
 
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