Sam English
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Sacking Gerrard and starting over again would be a massive mistake.
Patience is the key
Patience is the key
do you think Gerrard is getting the right level of support from the likes of McAllister? I really think things will improve next season but have nothing to base that on. i guess it just has to.
Squandered a lot of points but definitely being hindered by match officials. Next season will be time to judge.
He's already earned the club 14m this season in unexpected European Revenue and he's taken Morelos' game to another level to the point were we could be talking about a 15/20m pound asset. Do you honestly think the board are regretting hiring him?
Of course there isn't. Who is saying there is?
Morelos was the same player last season, one week unplayable the next missing a barrowload, that is a ridiculous claim to make.
Aye and Gio and de Boer didn't want to come. And the rest are painfully average and/or unsuitable.
Let's try to support our young Gaffer.
I expected us to beat shite SPL sides far more consistently. I expected a cup final. I didn’t expect another late season collapse.
Don’t dare tell me either of those was unrealistic, especially given that we avoided the filth in both cup competitions.
Morelos has scored 29 goals this season while being assisted by a lot of rubbish outwith the occasional good ball from Tav.Morelos was the same player last season, one week unplayable the next missing a barrowload, that is a ridiculous claim to make.
There’s no chance the board will sack SG this season. None.
The board made a conscious decision in hiring him knowing full well he had no experience as a first team coach, was inheriting a culsterfck and what the demands of the support would be.
It would be a disastrous decision from the club’s point of view to bin yet another manager so soon and sets the image of a club with no idea what it’s doing or where it’s going.
Gerrard is a long long way from criticism imho. But his mistakes through inexperience are only what anyone should have seen coming. If we are in any way interested in embracing his appointment in the first place, we need to give him at least another season to prove whether he can learn from the things he gets wrong and make the changes needed for next season.
I still don’t buy into the tick-box approach of “EL/2nd place done”. I think expectations should adjust and adapt over the course once the games are being played and the oppisition’s performance is actually seen. In my opinion, we’ve wasted a genuinely good chance to win a title THIS season.
I think SG knows it and recognises his summer window is probably his biggest test yet.
Load of nonsence. When selecting a manager should all be about who's best for the job.as in gerrard you doughnut, we're not a marketing powerhouse, so big name coming will generate interest
Morelos has scored 29 goals this season while being assisted by a lot of rubbish outwith the occasional good ball from Tav.
Last season on 2 seperate occasions he went 10 games without scoring.
He is a much improved player this season.
Imagine how good he would be with a decent set of attacking midfielders behind him?
The usual agitators appear as if by magic. Don't like the board, don't like the manager.
Q - 'Which manager do you suggest? '
A - 'Don't know but I don't like this one'
...or the last one.....or the one before that....or his predecessor.
Q - 'Who do you use as an example of a great appointment'?
A - PLG....what vision from the board'
Q - 'Yes but he failed'
A - 'Yes he was total clown'
and round and round it goes
Mmm. Let's look at two games.
Aberdeen at Hampden in October.
Aberdeen at Ibrox five months on.
I don't get that he's learning.
For what it's worth, this season's title could have been won.
Well, we are hence we are 8 points clear of 3rd place so that's a bit of a silly comment.
Agree on the cup competitions as I referenced in my OP. We over-achieved massively in Europe though so that offsets the disappointment of the domestic cups for me.
Europa League Run was worth 14m to us as well it's far more important in the grand scheme of things certainly from a financial perspective.
More consistently as in more consistently than we are doing now. Our record against certain sides is truly pitiful.
The European run was great, I loved it, it made me feel serious pride, but it was a long time ago now, and the truth is, OF win aside, we’ve been crap since December. And because we went out in both cups to Aberdeen, I can’t say anything has offset that, particularly last week, that was just heartless garbage that I had hoped we’d left behind when we were on that Euro run.
This second half, although not as dire comparatively, is starting to provoke similar feelings as to what we had under Warburton and Pedro, which is what has more people worrying now. Even that draw against Kilmarnock, there was just a real sense of invitability about that shite performance, and I think when they seem inevitable, that’s when there’s trouble and a lot of unrest.
Is anyone seriously saying he should be sacked?
An argument for another thread but I don't think having a failed manager with no experience of the club or country is a particularly good idea.
Any conversation about Souness should acknowledge that he had Smith as his number two. When Souness left for Liverpool Smith took over and the rest is history. Anyone fancy the chances of being managed by McAllister at all?
Indeed. 0 wins in 5 wouldn't be good enough but again, in the grand scheme of things the club are on target to achieve it's goals from this season outwith winning a domestic cup.
People are nit picking at certain stats to suit their agenda ie how many times have we beaten Killie, Hibs and Aberdeen? That would only be a big problem if we were sitting 3rd or 4th in the league.
Too many of our fans are basing their hissy fits on simple stats and numbers. It's not black and white. We have simply drawn far too many games this season that we should have won. The mentally challengeds have won their last three league games with injury time winners, a 6 point swing.
The margins are fine.
True but that doesnt help the fanboy hysteria argumentI'm on most social media apps and follow all the Rangers pages. I haven't seen any Rangers fans say Gerrard should be sacked.
If this was Alex Neil in charge, would the attitude be the same, would people be saying we can't keep on changing managers etc?
Doesn't matter who it is, if the results aren't good enough, questions will be asked.
Yes because Europe and other results from the season indicate progression, more than any other manager in recent years.
No one's saying that questions and concerns are not legitimate. However, the likes of you calling for his departure are premature.
Two out of the last three. Hibs we should have won and Killie we should have won.What games did we draw that we should’ve won?
This fine margins thing is a myth.
Margins only become fine if you aren’t good enough, making them matter. To an extent, you make your own luck.
I don't enjoy watching us struggle to beat Aberdeen, Killie or Hibs either but we've been consistent enough to be 8 points ahead of Aberdeen in 3rd place so we've clearly been consistently better than every other team in the league outwith Celtic.
If we had turned 3/4 draws against those teams into wins then we would be right in a title race which would mean we were exceeding the supports expectations massively. We can't have it both ways ie we are miles better than everyone else bar Celtic but we aren't ''better enough''. If we were slightly better this season, with a bit more luck we would be right in the title race with a team 3x our wage bill and a massive budget compared to ours.
You can't look at individual results in isolation when you are judging the bigger picture. We could nit pick individual results from any season, even seasons when we won titles and said ''it's a disgrace we didn't beat x, y and z team''. All that matters is where you finish at the end of the season and we are on course to be where we should be given the stage in our rebuild.
Yes because Europe and other results from the season indicate progression, more than any other manager in recent years.
No one's saying that questions and concerns are not legitimate. However, the likes of you calling for his departure are premature.
Is anyone seriously saying he should be sacked?
What games did we draw that we should’ve won?
This fine margins thing is a myth.
Margins only become fine if you aren’t good enough, making them matter. To an extent, you make your own luck.
We are looking at the bigger picture though. No ones interested in celebrating being ahead of what is a very ordinary Aberdeen side. We should be ahead of them, that should be a minimum requirement for any manager coming in with our budget and guys like Tavernier and Morelos already at the club.
The bigger picture also says that we’ll need to see a lot of changes to the squad once again, which isn’t really ideal. I think that Celtic have been fairly poor this season at times too and fans quite rightly hoped to capitalise on that, but we still look like the team who shits their pants when the big moments come along, that’s really disappointing. There’s just too much turd polishing going on for my liking. Expectations change throughout a season, it’s not surprising that they were so low going in after what we’d just been put through by Warburton, Pedro and then Murty. But the bulk of the positivity now seems to come from saying “look how much of a disaster we were under those guys, we’re a bit less crap now!”
Sacking Gerrard and starting over again would be a massive mistake.
Patience is the key
Two out of the last three. Hibs we should have won and Killie we should have won.
We had more chances, more possession, more shots and more shots on target. That would generally suggest we should have won that match.
Aren't Celtic roughly on around the same points at this stage as they were last season at this point? They've won about 12 games on the spin since January....
Aberdeen and Motherwell earlier in the season. 93rd minute and 94th minute equalisers.
Aren't Celtic roughly on around the same points at this stage as they were last season at this point? They've won about 12 games on the spin since January....
Our own slackness dictated otherwise. If we can’t concentrate to see out a win, do we really deserve it?
If this was Alex Neil in charge, would the attitude be the same, would people be saying we can't keep on changing managers etc?
Doesn't matter who it is, if the results aren't good enough, questions will be asked.
You questioned the idea of fine margins. I gave you two examples. Injury time equalisers that a little more concentration would have prevented. That's what fine margins are.
And it could have been lost by 30 points with another multi-manager season. .
The Aberdeen games; Hampden, Morelos banned and the team booted all over. Sadiq dives instead of scoring. I'm pretty sure Gerrard never told him to do that.
Last game we have a 100% stonewall of stonewaller penalties. Not only do we not get it, our player is neutered for the rest of the game. And by the rules of that particular match there is another 100% stonewaller against Defoe later on. We get zero decisions in both games. Maybe Gerrard is naïve in that he believes the refereeing might improve. Silly man.
Yes, I wish he would play McCrorie more. There are other things I would do differently but he will learn from this season. WE (FF) have learned some things so I'm sure he has.
There are zero sure things and this whole thread is devoid of any better alternatives. Pep or Klopp are not coming to the SPFL and anything else is as much of a risk as Gerrard.
We are still a wounded animal. We MIGHT have been better off with another manager but we know we could be a whole lot worse off with someone else.
As I've said before, TIAR doesn't matter to me. One of the reasons is that TIAR matters very little to your average tim. It is a short term stick with which to beat us. Timmy is much more focused on stopping 55 because timmy knows that 55 will be 1690, St Paddy's massacre at Neverland and Helicopter Sunday all rolled in to one. Then the house of cards falls.
If stopping TIAR is your thing, then maybe Gerrard might be a bad choice. Maybe.
Aren't Celtic roughly on around the same points at this stage as they were last season at this point? They've won about 12 games on the spin since January....
They aren't any worse this season than they have been. In Rodgers' first season they had the best season in their whole history, of course they were always going to dip from that and come back to a more normal level. The level they are at now is where they are at.
The amount of goals they have scored in injury time v the amount we've conceded. Games we have drawn but dominated, maybe been done by poor refereeing etc is not turd polishing it's just stating facts.
We are closer than you think to them. Are you worrying about taking a 5-0 doing going to Parkhead in a couple of weeks even though we are on a poor run of form ourselves just now? I know I certainly am not, which shows we've made massive strides since last season.