22 Nov 2020 11:58:41
Well it's official, we are in crisis. The same mistakes repeated every week, and much the same from Lennon in every presser. Now i don't know what we do in training, but our shape and style of play, is so easy to break, every team will get chances to score. We do not have the players to play a three, for the moment at least, so why persist with it?

Players are being asked to do jobs that are not helping them or the team. Ajeti is a penalty box striker, and we have needed one since Hooper, but needs to play off someone. Eddy is the same, let him play a bit more off the cuff, but he needs a foil to drop and play. Griff and Eddy looked really sharp and might have had the making of a really good two up, they are fit now, get them in.

Christie takes too many touches and seems to think he must beat a man every time, Rogic drifts out because we never get the pass to him in space, and Calmac is wasted sitting too deep. We also play too far apart, passes are travelling 40 yards and this slows at all down. opponents defences just shuffle across keeping their line and their man. We get wide and can't cross because no one offer a proper threat in the air.

Sadly sevco are the total opposite. they know how to defend, they break quickly and they all seem to know where they should be at any time in a play. This only comes from coaching and drilling teams. So what are we doing? In three years gerrard has continued to improve sevco. he has made players better by simply playing a system that suits them, again the opposite of us. Man for man i believe we have better players, in some cases much better, but our shape is wrong.

Looking at it dispassionately, yesterday probably lost us the league. Between C.V., with its no doubt twists and turns, and a fixture backlog i cannot see us pulling it back. They will not lose another four games of that i am sure. I really hope at the season end i get pelters for writing it off. but.


1.) 22 Nov 2020
22 Nov 2020 12:04:27
Good post GJb, think you have said it all mate.


2.) 22 Nov 2020
22 Nov 2020 12:17:29
Even if they did lose the required amount of points for is to get back into it I'm not confident we can keep a sustained run going to even catch them up as week in week out we've been terrible and look likely of dropping more points.


3.) 22 Nov 2020
22 Nov 2020 12:50:39
Good post jhedi.


4.) 22 Nov 2020
22 Nov 2020 13:30:39
Not sure we can even say man for man we are better anymore. Who are our players that are better. Other than Eddy I don't really see it. Our midfield has been out played and out fought for the last 3 Derbys. They are defending better than us. Scoring more than us and have a depth of squad now as well.


5.) 22 Nov 2020
22 Nov 2020 13:47:19
Absolutely turns my stomach to say it but I think we have left it too late, they’re playing far better football than us and won’t drop the points they did last year. We need to plan for the future rather than get a steady hand in to see out the season. Even if we beat them 3 times we will drop daft points anyway but I’ve seen nothing to say we would beat them. It’s criminal to have let them overtake us, heads must roll.


6.) 22 Nov 2020
22 Nov 2020 13:48:11
I dislike all things sevco, but im man enough to admit they are by far the better team this year so far, the sheep are pretty woeful today, but we need to win games for ourselves, not rely on other teams. If the wantaway players don't want to play for him, he shouldn't play them, but is lennon or lawell who picks the team, i have my doubts, why eddy didn't start yesterday after scoring 2 for france only they will know. Ajeti looks like he couldn't score in a brothel.


7.) 22 Nov 2020
22 Nov 2020 13:52:49
Fact is Rangers are getting the results that led us to the last 9 championships; we're getting the results that saw their so-called challenge collapse each time.

If we don't twist now, with just a few ify results, we'll be out of touch; maybe even before Christmas. The team don't look like they are chasing the league leaders at this stage: will they when its 8 points, and 10 points?


8.) 22 Nov 2020
22 Nov 2020 15:05:35
Cavalcanti we can’t count our games in hand as 3 points, we’re more likely to drop points.