The reason he gets the blame for every defeat is simply because he's been here so long he, along with Goldson and now Lundstram have become the poster boys for repeated failure, which is a bit unfair for a few reasons.
Nobody is arguing that they are world beaters, but they're decent players. Certainly capable of playing in good Rangers teams, having already done so. They can blow hot and cold with regards to form but then, that happens to world class players, so expecting 9/10 performances every week is ludicrous.
There's only one reason we haven't won more in the last few years and it's dead simple.
It's not lack of "winning mentality."
It's not because we don't have enough Rangers supporters that "just get it."
It's not because we don't have "a core of Scottish players."
It's not because we don't have "a Gough type captain."
It's because, in general, over the last few years celtic have had better players and a better management team than we've had, as uncomfortable a truth that is to many.
People looking at Tav, and to a lesser extent the other two as the reason we don't win more are daft. Of course, they can have poor performances, poor form, make mistakes, cost goals but the reason they remain here so long is that we can't afford to replace them with better quality, or we'd have done it by now.
Tav is our best, most productive player. Has been for years. We aren't losing games and trophies because he's in the team, it's because he's playing in teams with Garner, Wright, Dessers, Lammers, Cifuentes, Kiernan, Pena, Martin, Beerman, the list is endless. People cry that he's not a captain like he can rally Silva into becoming a winger or inspire Dessers into Alan Shearer, it's crazy.
Tav, Goldson, Lundstram. When they make mistakes, it costs us goals and games. But as I've said on here repeatedly, Our defence is functional for Scottish football. We don't concede an excessive amount of goals.
All our issues are at the top end of the pitch.
We don't have a reliable striker on the books.
Matondo, poor return.
McCausland, poor return.
Silva, poor return.
Sima, good return on the left, now on the right.
Cantwell, poor return.
Lawrence, poor return.
Dowell, poor return.
Wright, no return.
This is our attacking options. Where's the goals coming from?
Some even say Dessers has had a decent return despite having a very similar return in the league to Alfredo Morelos final season when he phoned it in. He's been mediocre at an absolute push.
The only one out of the above you can rely on isn't even our player. The only one I'd be happy to see here next season.
The Ross County result doesn't happen if we kill it off earlier. The Motherwell and Dundee games we created nothing substantial.
We don't even look like scoring goals.
How does the backline keep getting the blame?
