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No man of the match thread? (I know)

He mixed it up, he played the christmas tree formation too with Kent and Roofe tucked in. Same in Europe, it made us difficult to break down.

We have 3 centre mid positions. If you go with say Ramsey, Aribo and Jack you have Kamara, Arfield, Davis, Lowry, Lundstram and Sands on the bench. Compare that to only Scott Wright and Sakala (a centre forward to trade) covering the wing positions. One position clearly has stronger competition than the other.

Yeh I'd thought of that. Sands and Bassey are both fairly well suited to playing either side of the 3.

I was just watching the game back there and there was a move which absolutely summed up what I said pre-match about GVB's system. Under Gerrard, Kent would tuck in and block the passing channels and Celtic really struggled to build attacks. In this move, the ball is with Carter-Vickers, Kent is wide (in no man's land), Carter Vickers passes through to a centre mid who then plays it out to Juranovic who is now miles away from Kent (who is still in no man's land watching the ball), Barisic is also ball watching and is drawn to Juranovic and leaves Abada to run off him and he then receives the ball in acres of space and gets the by-line and they nearly score from the cut-back. Individuals do need to take responsibility but tactically, you have to wonder what they talk about before games and how GVB didn't see that coming.

It’s a day for opening cans of worms

I was just angry that with total control of the second half we still couldn't score. It added to the humiliation that the score remained 3-0.

I've no idea what his plan is. Ramsey has provided even more competition where we already had strong competition whilst we still don't have enough competition on the wings. Roofe has to start when he is fit but he's not a winger so will the system be changed to accommodate him? A 3-5-2 based system would do that, and also get more out of our full backs. A 4-4-2 based system would too but we have way too many centre mids to play it.

Haha, I can't get on board with that at all. Would have denied them the clean sheet, a 3 goal win and given us a bit of hope for the final 20 minutes or whatever it was.

We have this problem with Ramsey, Jack, Roofe, Arfield and soon Helander. All are at risk of being rushed back.

It isn't much of a consolation but Ryan Jack. He was pulling us back into single handedly and was inches away from scoring a worldie. He had no help at all from the attacking players.

He deserves that after last night tbh. Ross County I put squarely at McGregor’s feet though. GVB can’t legislate for two inexplicable goalkeeping gaffes in one game. Never mind the one from Bassey.

When I looked at GVB’s record, it just didn’t merit the level of excitement for me. It seemed based on who he was as a player, which I am always very wary of. One incredible season followed by several average ones (maybe even a little below average). He has time to turn this around though so I’m not writing him off by any means, there are just some worrying signs there, and they have it together, so there isn’t much room for error now that we’ve handed them a 7 point swing in 2 weeks.

I'm just concerned that GVB isn’t as good a manager as Postecoglou, and I’m not saying that just after last night I was cautious about GVB from the beginning. Even new additions to their team look like they know exactly what their role is and how the system works. I'm just not sure I've seen anything like that with us. There's a long season ahead and hopefully the new signings + the returning players (Jack, Roofe, Helander) can give us a boost.

Not dissimilar to Nacho Novo

We have a very frustrating lack of competition in the wing positions. Kent’s competition is Sakala (a CF) and Scott Wright. That is literally it. We barely have a chance to mix it up.

He should have started. Reputation over form as usual.

My biggest worry tonight isn’t the players but the manager. I said before the game I was concerned GVB wouldn’t learn lessons from Gerrard and wouldn’t set up as compact. Gerrard’s Rangers wouldn’t have shipped 3 goals like that tonight. It felt like one manager schooling another.

Tavernier isn’t being dropped. He’s being criticised for his defensive play and that’s where Zukowski is weak. I’ve only seen highlights but trust me, he’s got a lot to work on defensively going by the goals he cost his team. Better at dribbling than Tavernier and faster but he’s a backup.

Definitely, he’s not Tavernier’s standard.

1 out of ten for GVB. The 1 is for making 3 subs at half time.

Even though we’ve controlled the second half we’ve done nothing with it because we’re toothless up front. It would have at least been some sort of consolation to deny them a clean sheet and reduce the deficit.

Aribo is passing the buck here

Kent every time, get someone else on

Certainly helps to have Ryan Jack back on the pitch.