JimMc
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Too early to be panicking but it is plain to see that the aside of a few exceptions the team has not been great or even effective for the last dozen or more matches. Celtic have generally looked predictable and static and constricted by too much emphasis on pass-stop-pass-stop supposed Barcelona tactics. Things will be a concern if BR does not see and address some specifics soon.
It's highly unlikely anyone at Celtic pays any real or effective attention to any Celtic forum or Celtic grouping (excepting a few big shareholders who I suspect do not even regularly watch Celtic). Maybe BR and the team might listen if enough fans have the same message delivered somehow to them direct, but it would have to be specific and reasonable to achieve.
I don't for a minute think a new manager is the answer, I think it will be a disaster. BR has shown he has it, and even today specified the errors, so he knows so he needs support not more stress.
So imagining they might listen, what would you ask to be addressed right now in 2018, before the new year opportunity to sign some new players?
Specify things that can be changed in 2018
1. Lustig becomes a bench player , if BR can't pick the obvious player for whatever is his imagined problem, then pick a youth player he can do no worse. Lustig has no legs and is now getting in the way of attacking play.
2. Hendy is a bench player (at best)
3. An experienced Defensive coach employed or existing sent to learn and quickly, one who understands basics, and tells the defence what to do, like having players on the goalposts for corners, to hell with what Craig Gordon or any other keeper imagines they can do best, it is a obvious reality seen time and time again that players on the line often stop schoolboy level goals like todays.
4. Midfield reorganized and given specific tasks and roles, who primarily defends first and who primarily attacks first, for example both CalMac and Rogic in the last few games have been all over the place and neither seems to know where to run to or who to support.
5. Unless it is for fans benefit like charity appeals, Players generally told to shut up about work on twitter or giving their pre match forecasts to the press.
6. Brendan to stop talking to the media so much as they will only be using his words against him and Celtic, making up some negative from the more words he supplies them, and to definitely stop talking about comparisons with other clubs or leagues, be that more money available elsewhere or about states of pitches in Scotland as this only encourages the odds against us and especially if we have not got a result, just seen as a cheap excuse. Please stop quoting Suarez and Coutinho and who ever else is now ancient and irrelevant history to players at Celtic. He may have been misquoted for all I know! but this week he was quoted quoting those players as examples in training! For a smart man he must have forgotten how that makes the best players at Celtic feel, second best to his best! Does not make sense to do that!
6. Forwards stop talking and start scoring, and be reminded that we pay you very well to score, so doing so is not a surprise is it expected.
7. For the PLC to realise we could not care less about Pete's CV which will now show 100 million turnover! (wrote about this before the accounts were released, and am now convinced he has been targeting the figure come what may for his own CV or self awarded lifetime achievement award, and by default for Celtic PLC), that the vast majority of Celtic fans right now could not care less about other competitions, The League is all, so no resting or rotating players except for the possible benefit of any SPFL league match
It's highly unlikely anyone at Celtic pays any real or effective attention to any Celtic forum or Celtic grouping (excepting a few big shareholders who I suspect do not even regularly watch Celtic). Maybe BR and the team might listen if enough fans have the same message delivered somehow to them direct, but it would have to be specific and reasonable to achieve.
I don't for a minute think a new manager is the answer, I think it will be a disaster. BR has shown he has it, and even today specified the errors, so he knows so he needs support not more stress.
So imagining they might listen, what would you ask to be addressed right now in 2018, before the new year opportunity to sign some new players?
Specify things that can be changed in 2018
1. Lustig becomes a bench player , if BR can't pick the obvious player for whatever is his imagined problem, then pick a youth player he can do no worse. Lustig has no legs and is now getting in the way of attacking play.
2. Hendy is a bench player (at best)
3. An experienced Defensive coach employed or existing sent to learn and quickly, one who understands basics, and tells the defence what to do, like having players on the goalposts for corners, to hell with what Craig Gordon or any other keeper imagines they can do best, it is a obvious reality seen time and time again that players on the line often stop schoolboy level goals like todays.
4. Midfield reorganized and given specific tasks and roles, who primarily defends first and who primarily attacks first, for example both CalMac and Rogic in the last few games have been all over the place and neither seems to know where to run to or who to support.
5. Unless it is for fans benefit like charity appeals, Players generally told to shut up about work on twitter or giving their pre match forecasts to the press.
6. Brendan to stop talking to the media so much as they will only be using his words against him and Celtic, making up some negative from the more words he supplies them, and to definitely stop talking about comparisons with other clubs or leagues, be that more money available elsewhere or about states of pitches in Scotland as this only encourages the odds against us and especially if we have not got a result, just seen as a cheap excuse. Please stop quoting Suarez and Coutinho and who ever else is now ancient and irrelevant history to players at Celtic. He may have been misquoted for all I know! but this week he was quoted quoting those players as examples in training! For a smart man he must have forgotten how that makes the best players at Celtic feel, second best to his best! Does not make sense to do that!
6. Forwards stop talking and start scoring, and be reminded that we pay you very well to score, so doing so is not a surprise is it expected.
7. For the PLC to realise we could not care less about Pete's CV which will now show 100 million turnover! (wrote about this before the accounts were released, and am now convinced he has been targeting the figure come what may for his own CV or self awarded lifetime achievement award, and by default for Celtic PLC), that the vast majority of Celtic fans right now could not care less about other competitions, The League is all, so no resting or rotating players except for the possible benefit of any SPFL league match
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