St.Mirren v Celtic, Premiership, Wed 3rd April 2019, KO 19:45, BT Sport 1

The way we're playing, I don't think we'll win that game.

 

Think Rodgers saw these performances coming. He was instrumental in some of his dealings etc but no doubt he saw it coming. Burke is a prospect nothing more and he isn't even ours. Weah much the same tbh. No real cover for all the injuries, working on what would seem to be a shoestring with some players not able to play at top level anymore i.e Izzy, Lustig. We still have some exciting players in Christie, McGregor, KT, Eddy, Ajer and even Hayes and Bain. We could clear a lot out and not miss them. Cham I fear isn't as good as he thinks he is in his head and neither is Boyata. We only have half a working defence. Injuries have blighted us all season not mention Dembele going. Lenny is left with a real challenge here.

 

Yeah mate. Believe we have the full four qualifiers.

 

Geezo! That escalted quickly

 

Sportscene from last night

 

He has left us in a bit of a mess tbh, though surely people higher up than him knew we needed a big rebuild. This summer is massive for us.

 

We may not be firing on all cylinders but we are certainly good enough still to win that game.

 

1st half wasn't too bad last night but the 2nd was brutal. We really need to start getting a settled 11 together and giving them a run of games to get some sort of rhythm and understanding into our play. Injuries permitting of course but also Lennon needs to cut out the daft team selections. Benkovic is the best CB at the club, use him. Give Weah more game time and play Burke out wide where his talents will be best exploited and his weaknesses less telling.

 

Without saying we were great by any stretch of the imagination I didn't think we were as bad as some pasts made us out to be. Last night especially in the first half it was more about abysmal finishing in front of goal. Some really bad misses in there too with the pk from Ntcham and Burke's first miss being really bad. You can maybe give Ajer some leeway he is not a striker. But we had gone flat in the second half by the time Christie came on and what a performance he put in. Almost scored right away and was just such a breath of fresh air with his movement and real threat in the final third. Having him back fully fit for the semi-final will be a massive boost.

 

think its because he is still playing rogers formation and style

who would you drop for burke ? sinclair ? or move forrest or rest him, agree about benkovic but hes off end of season and although were all fed up with jozo he has proved before he can play well, although i dont know whats wrong with the guy or if he was just always * but had fooled me with some good games

just to add great to see christie back when we play him or a fit rogic we can break down these "park the bus" bore assed teams but without them we dont seem to have enough as has been the case a lot of games away this season

for sure old celtics from the past would have mixed it up more, we very much are a passing posession based team these days and it would be good to have a center forward to attack crosses or long balls at times though as a plan b

 

Would try Burke wide left. Still got the option of Sinclair from bench. The team i would like to see getting a run of games would be. Bain, Lustig, Benkovic, Ajer, KT, Forrest, McGregor, Brown, Christie, Burke, Edouard.

 

I think Stewart is spot on again.