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Callum McGregor

Discussion in 'Celtic Chat' started by greengrocer, Jul 5, 2014.

Discuss Callum McGregor in the Celtic Chat area at TalkCeltic.net.

  1. honda Gold Member Gold Member

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    Is that not for when you have a hairline crack thats left the area weak and needs extra support until healed just incase? I'm pretty sure if your cheek bones wobbling about in your face while you run about won't help it heal.
     
  2. Mr Shelby Administrator Administrator

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    Its the point I've been trying to make.

    I'm not saying rest the entire 11 and play kids. But mcgregor is the player who plays the most games for us every season. Out of everyone he's the guy who needs to be treated particularly carefully if we can.
     
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  3. JC Anton Get yer, hats, scarfs badges & tapes

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    It's a massive blow, no doubt..

    But, we've signed 3 CMs already in the window, we're going to find out pretty quickly if that recruitment was sound.
     
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  4. GreenLeanMean

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    The league won't be lost due to one player being injured.
     
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  5. honda Gold Member Gold Member

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    Players who pick up injury easy need taken care of. Forrest for example cant play every game or his hammy will go. Mcgreggor can play 60 a season and apart from mental fatigue his body doesn't give up, doesn't get injured. This will actually give him a nice we rest and he can come back playing qaulity again. Scroll back to the start of the game. Posts about how mcgreggors been * for weeks now etc so that means we will be completely fine without him. A bigger loss is kyogo and jota.
     
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  6. Cringer67

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    How long was Larsson out for when he did his? I’m
    Pretty sure he wore a mask against Liverpool after only A few weeks?
     
  7. Hammy89 Gold Member Gold Member

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    No but it may be with two or three being injured for long periods at one time and players being called up for international duty during a patch of tricky fixtures.
     
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    I disagree. But fair enough.

    We will see how much we miss him.
     
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    Boys a freak of nature right enough, just keeps going season after season.
     
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    He is but that's us just taking it as a given he won't get injured.

    Under postecoglou especially our players are being asked a lot of. Was just an unnecessary risk for me at a time where we don't need them. But it's done now let's see how it impacts us.
     
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    He was put for a month or so. He didn't wear a mask against Liverpool but Maloney replaced him against Stuttgart and scored.
     
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    and I get that we’ve just come off a winter break and I suspect the plan was to only give him 45 as we would of been 2-0 up at that point. Just back luck it happened before halftime
     
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    Off a winter's break, with a player who regularly plays 60+ a season and isn't injury prone. And is the captain.

    I get the need to rotate, specially with the high intensity we are playing at, but McGregor has never been one of the players that looked to be on the edge.

    He's gonna want to play last night and we want to play him to lead that side. No issue at all with it.
    The injury he took, you can't account for that.

    Could have happened last night or in a European qualifier.

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  14. honda Gold Member Gold Member

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    Couldve happened in training if we happened to finally practice getting on the end of crosses :fear: just one of those bad luck things.
     
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    Got to say this is a major balls up by Ange. Don’t think anyone really expected McGregor to play! Although Ange will say McGregor wanted to play your the boss and you need to make decisions even if a player doesn’t like it.
     
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    Feel like Hatate is as close to a ready made replacement as you could get for him anyway. At least there's that.
     
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    Rest well my Captain.
     
  18. JC Anton Get yer, hats, scarfs badges & tapes

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    Don't think anyone will disagree, Ange has had 2 howlers with McGregor last night and Kyogo v Betis..

    Don't really understand why our bench didn't include some Colts either, was raging that Jota was exposed to that mob too.

    So when he says he's never had a fully fit squad to pick from, some of that is on him.

    Still, all in all these mistakes don't detract from the utterly unbelievable job he has done in such a short time frame.
     
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    Not Anges fault could of happened first game back could of happened first 2 minutes against Hearts.

    Just back from a winter break McGregor didn’t look great against Hibs could wanted another 45 in his legs get him ticking over as opposed to stop start game wise didn’t need a break just come off a break, one of those clashes that can happen in any game
     
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    Not having him for the Rangers game is a real kick in the bawz. The injuries this season are worse than I can ever remember and we will have more come the 2nd of Feb.

    Could be out for 2 months I heard.
     
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