11 Sep 2016 01:07:28
We matched them in the first 25. We outplayed them the first 15 minutes of the second half. How on earth can't we do that over 90 minutes?! I'll be very honest Warbs job is on a knives edge right now. If we don't pick up 6 points in the next 2 games 2nd spot will be hard to achieve.

1.) 11 Sep 2016
11 Sep 2016 01:29:04
I agree in the first half hour. we looked comfortable even with Celtics possession they was not hurting us then of course sloppy goal from corner ruined it all. why MOH did not start ahead of Miller if that was our initial game plan is beyond me.

2.) 11 Sep 2016
11 Sep 2016 03:03:18
Dilusion always loses to reality and class.

3.) 11 Sep 2016
11 Sep 2016 03:18:49
5-1 without our best striker. coNfortable in some parts. Dominant in others😊, Time to ask why your defensive problems haven't been sorted. And that's just the start of it.

4.) 11 Sep 2016
11 Sep 2016 04:49:03
The so called blue chip signings of Senderos, Hill, Barton and Kranjcar are what are killing us since the start of the season and the 7 points dropped. It is highly unlikely that Senderos was high on Warburton's wanted list and my view is that all of those mentioned were acquired on the cheap in the hope that we would get the best available for the non existent budget that was available. It would appear that the risk has back fired since all of them are not fit for purpose. Add to that the fact that Kiernan is a total liability and Wallace is not leadership material and there you have a major part of the problem! There is no simple remedy. In fact the situation is now worse because we have people on lengthy contracts that are non performers and will cost money that we don't have to remove them! These signings are almost McCoistesque, in fact even worse since they will be earning substantially more than the donkeys that McCoist brought in.

5.) 11 Sep 2016
11 Sep 2016 05:35:19
Interesting comments and to an extent true but the sad fact of life is that as soon as Celtic found their feet we were under the cosh and every time they came forward we expected the worst.

We canot defend corners and in general we have too many mediocre or poor players in the team. Amazingly young Rossiter, one of our better acquisitions was not on the bench while the totally useless Hill was. Are we really that badly off for centre backs that this total liability is anywhere near the team.

There are some positives but a lot of negatives from our display today and from the players deployed.

The positives such as they are, Foderingham played well and saved us from an even greater defeat. He looked confident coming out to clutch balls and showed some very encouraging signs for the future. Both going forward and now defensively, Tavernier is our best defender, Windass and Gardner look to be good acquisitions. Holt will soon be match fit and in Rossiter we have one of the most promising young English midfield players and a lad that captains his International team. Crooks should soon be fit and the indications are that this lad will be a positive acquisition and we have young Dodoo to come back from injury and he is a young lad with potential. We also have the young Raith Rovers lad that is on loan with a view to a permanent signing. Forrester has looked more than decent in the games he has played and he has the potential to improve.

Unfortunately the negatives grossly outweigh the positives. Wallace has been poor since day one this season and he is not and never will be the captain we need because his leadership qualities are non existent. He has so far looked to be struggling in this league. Kiernan is simply terrible. His passing and reading of the game is poor. He fails to be a commanding centre half, poor positioning, poor defensive headers and poor tackling. He should be no where near the team. Hill, a total waste of a salary and a liability. Wallace, struggling big time in this league and simply not captain material. He is not a leader of men. Barton and Krancjar, both too slow and Barton seems to have lost that winning at all costs mentality that we saw previously.
Miller is finished and McKay has been poor in all our games so far this season. Halliday is struggling and Waghorn has been out injured.

We have little idea as to MOH ability because he isn't given a chance. He has to be better than what we are seeing from first team players at present.

So where do we go from here, well we have the nucleus of a good team, the problem is that the spine is broken. We don't have a quality centre back on our books, we don't have an effective leader on the parkland we don't have the quality needed at centre forward to compliment Gardner! We need to sign quality not quantity, starting with two centre backs and we need a striker. Perhaps we also need a left back and we certainly need aLeader on the Park. The problem is that even in the unlikely event that King provides funding we can't sign anyone until January, (unless they are on a free), If Warburton persists in looking only to Scotland and England we will not solve the problem.

6.) 11 Sep 2016
11 Sep 2016 07:50:35
alot of our players weren't fit, miss8ng a few aswell. 10 men no centre backs. don't bring our the we didn't have griffiths card because if he was playing you wouldn't have scored 5 because he isn't half the player dembele is.

7.) 11 Sep 2016
11 Sep 2016 08:14:36
Think Rossiter was injured. Agree the team is in a mess and at certain points of the game we were in complete disarray. We may have competed for parts of the match but we created next to nothing during that time and their keeper and defence had nothing to do. The reality of the game is we were swatted aside by a vastly superior side. It was like they were playing Partick Thistle at home yesterday and sadly at the moment we are an irrelevance to them. We will struggle to be top 3 and can any of us truly say we would be confident of beating any premiership team away from home.

8.) 11 Sep 2016
11 Sep 2016 10:40:03
You matched us in the first 25 minutes? Really guess you didn't see the game we had 92% of position admittedly could not get a good shot at goal with you playing 9 men in the box not slating that but really take the blinkers of you were out played the full game we let you have the ball in your half at the start of the second half but once you crossed the line we just took it off you.