Holmes_and_Watson

Still can't find a 'keeper - SR remix

Defeat

Keeps us up, or gets us up?

Metal

Or the next manager taking more of a liking to him. Wait it out on a big contract. Slightly different, if they go down and he loses 40% of his wage. Even then, quite high for us. More so, if we're staying in this division.

Fisher really stood out as the man moving the ball into our wealth of attacking riches, and controlling the game. Lovely to see, and Gabriel being so versatile and getting the goal.

Double

A tale of 2 fragile clubs. 6 out of 8 defeats for one of these 2 is the end for the manager. Just as Martin's lack of wins was the end for him. Yet, Celtic were miles better in that first half. The striker, Iheanacho, they brought in late is injured. From what I've seen of Kenny, he's incredibly wasteful. A finisher would have made all the difference to all those first half attacks. Rodgers left because of the lack on incoming quality. Nancy can look to how many chances they can create under him. Yet, as Rohl executed in the second half, over complicating things in Scottish domestic leagues can be counter productive. Martin O'Neil knew that when he came in and brought wins with the same squad. Rohl ditched a lot of pitching his system against Celtic's. Take off an attacker, win the midfield, support a flatter defence and trust in the physical attributes of your forwards. Physical strength is something Celtic have none of up front. Rangers were able to use it to go more direct in behind and use their extra midfielder to support. Celtic were pushed back with their iffy defence repeating blunders of the first half and now conceding goals. Nancy coming out with an equivalent to Martin's it's not the winning that counts isn't going to work there. Changing so much, without the squad in place to see it through, isn't going to work either. Despite that first half, there were chants against the board, and Nancy walked off down the tunnel alone. With the window open, and having not invested as many felt they should have, in the summer, there's pressure on the Celtic board. Rangers have had an uptick since they changed at the top, and are looking to recruit.

Unlike Martin, Rohl ditched a number of things from the first half. All level.

Rangers getting taken apart by Celtic in the Old Firm match. Only a goal in it, and Celtic are poor enough to have conceded a couple of chances. But they should have been out of sight. Interesting to see a 3 at the back Rohl team, assembled by Martin, get hammered when playing it out. Poor decision making and taking too much time against a team playing at a higher tempo. Although, nominally 4 at the back, Celtic are a 3 when supporting their wingers you are causing all sorts of problems. Remember the deliberate gaps we would leave at full back under Martin? Those are getting exploited. Celtic 3 on 1 from Rangers own corner was another flashback. A game showing how to pass through a team at pace, with a plan. One for Tonda to watch.

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It would be interesting to know if there was friction over picking Stewart for that third game. From Stoll's perspective, Stewart was his best option. He could say to SR that they were the ones that lumped him with Downs. Then left him with small strikers to get on the end of crosses. I'd have thought any medical team would have raised flags over the load on Stewart. If not in immediate fitness, then in consideration of his injury record and recent maximum playing time. From a club perspective their manager has possibly helped get one forward crocked again, while not wanting to play their new, keenly rated by someone in the club, asset.

There's one in France, where someone has drawn an auroch over it in disgust. 🙂

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