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19 Apr 2016 05:17:44
Chances missed, shots at goal, unfortunate, all only cloud the real issues. The possession was 60-40 in Rangers favour mainly due to:
a. We seemed clueless how to work together in pressing a team with the ball (coaching/practice) .
b. We seemed clueless how to pass the ball properly when we did have possession, so kept losing it (coaching/practice) .
These are two basic principles of modern football we seem to be incapable of doing.
How many hospital passes did we play?
How often did we punt the ball up the park to a lone striker, hoping?
Why did so many of our players appear to have cramp, are they not fit?
Simply, we were outplayed by a team from a lower division who did all the things we should have been doing far better than we did, and deserved to lose.
So what do we do, accept it and learn, or make excuses? The board's choice really, and if they go with the latter, then they should simply go away and don't come back! We sing, "to play football the Glasgow Celtic way". Is that it?
The Champions League: Do you really think I'd want us to be in that, getting stuffed 4, 5, 6-0? We finished bottom of our Europa League group, remember!
The entire coaching staff should be sacked immediately, along with a quite few of the players as they are simply not good enough. We had a gilt edged opportunity 4 years ago and wasted it.
We don't need a big name coach or players, we need a 5 to 10 year plan to change the face of not only Celtic FC, but Scottish football. To do that we need coaches, lots of them, and good footballing technical coaches at that. Don't waste money on mediocre players, get coaches.
I hear we have around 80 kids, but we need around 800, and if out of that we get 1% or 2%, then that's a good return (do the maths) . If we sell a few, so what! Build, progress, build, progress, getting better all the time. Get a style of play that's effective, and stick to it, but continually be prepared to analyse and adapt.
Then maybe we can go into the Champions League and compete, and maybe even dream!
{Ed001's Note - you would destroy the chances of any making it if you have 800 kids. If anything, 80 is too many. What you need is to work with a small group of players and a large number of coaches, like they do in Germany and Spain.}