PoohBear

There are honestly very few I would keep, it's too hard to select just 5. And some of the players like Jack and Tav, I love them, but we need to freshen up and bring in a new mentality and ensure we aren't signing injury prone players in the future, I don't think it has ever worked for us.

Yeah, there is a difference between a club captain who has presided over years of being second best saying it, and a young player who has only been at the club a while.

He is saying exactly what I believe is happening. There are players in the squad that have cultivated this frail mentality and we need to cut them loose.

No one said we will magically become successful, come on....

How long are you willing to accept failure? I have backed them all the way, particularly Tav who I think is a fantastic football player. The reality is that they have returned little in way of trophies for the club. At some point you have to change things, you have to say that enough is enough.

If you can’t sell them and they aren’t good enough then you don’t play them and you still look for replacements. I honestly think their mentality seeps through the squad and infects new players. Look at what’s happened to Cantwell and Raskin for instance, they were completely different players when they first joined. I actually said this a year ago, the mentality gets spread through the new signings like a virus and everyone just ends up believing we can’t beat Celtic. I really think we do need a clean break fro, most of these players. Or we can just keep playing them and accept we will be second best.

You can’t keep repeating the same thing expecting different results. Some players have more than had their chance, no matter how much I actually like them, at some point you have to admit to yourself that they have some sort of mentality problem that is stopping them from achieving.

If he has I'm backing Clement, get rid of the players.

What I don't get is that we've looked completely knackered for weeks now, since the last Euro games. So many of our players look like they need a long rest. Is that because of the shite fitness regime the last two seasons, or is it a shite fitness regime now?

Will someone wake me from this recurring nightmare?

We can do it but I have no confidence we will do it.

Thats actually true, but I'm not sure that was the reason. I think Cortes is a huge miss for us.

The thing I don’t get is that befor Clement arrived all the talk was of how attacking his teams were, almost to a point of naivety. I don’t think I’ve really seen that yet? I guess I saw some naivety with our defending from corners, but I was hoping we might get some more energy going forward too…

Butland did this.

I’m actually shocked Davies is still at the club, I thought he had moved on! 😐

It doesn’t matter if we are stuck with players, if they aren’t good enough we have to find better. I actually like Tav and Goldson, but just like Morelos and Kent, we’ve let them stay too long. Individually I think they are excellent players, however they have been battered from pillar to post by Celtic for years and have barely put a dent in them. There is something wrong with their mentality. We can’t be starting next season with these guys in our strongest lineup.

The problem is that successive managers haven't even tried to replace these players, they have continued to build a team around them. Some of them have been at the club for nearly 10 years with one league title to show for it.

People will hate it, but we could have brought in Shankland, we would have scored goals. Players like Silva are a waste of time, but hopefully Clement has learned that.

Regardless, we've continued to build a team around these players rather than relegating them to part roles.

But they didn't clear the squad out. If Clement can't see that persisting with these players will cost him his job then he doesn't deserve to be here, just like the previous two. Like the old saying goes, "Fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me—you can't get fooled again."

Nothing much has changed really, we had a good honeymoon period under Clement but nothing has changed in as much as we need a squad rebuild this summer. Unfortunately the Jan signings have largely not worked either through injury, lack of desire or lack of skill.

I've got the kids and been out all day, just looked at the scoreline 😳 wtf

I think there is a good player in there if we can keep him fit and confident.

The stats show that we had twice the amount of possession and passes around the opponents box than Celtic did, but with a lower xg or whatever the fuck it's called. Seems like a very ineffective strategy.

I'm pretty sure Celtic were undefeated one season when we won the league. 96 or something?