Ange Postecoglou

I honestly think any manager at this point in time will struggle here. We are an absolute shambles.

 

I said from the start I wouldn't have a problem with Ange as manager but he was coming to the club at the wrong time.

If we had an excellent infrastructure he could come in and coach the team to success. We needed someone hugely experienced in European football to help revamp the club. Someone that had worked at several modern clubs and seen how things are done well and could help guide us through a modernisation programme.

A Rodgers, for example.

Ange is the guy that comes after that, when everything is a well-oiled machine. In that scenario, a Yes-man no longer becomes a negative trait.

The board must go or we will continue to shrink as a football club.

 

With all this being said, we can still turn this season around. It will take a huge effort but at the end of the day they * are * * too.

It changes nothing though. We are a shambles as a club and being slightly less or slightly more shambolic than the huns is irrelevant.

People need to wake up. This club is no where near where it should be in European football, both on and off the park and it's because the support have the mindset of a mid-table championship outfit looking for a year or two in 'the Prem'.

 

We need players back pronto, but it looks like we've also signed players that don't suit the football Ange want to play..

With a full squad you can see how dangerous we are..

But there's such an onus on McGregor to provide intensity in the midfield its not true. When you add the static Ajeti up front, it compounds it even more.

 

If this continues he will be away by christmas.

I get he wants to play his way but its insanity when players are injured to shoehorn players into a style they arent used to, he needs a plan b.

I said the same last week, throwing balls into the box is * useless when Ajeti is surrounded by defenders, our midfield dont venture into the box at all.

At the minute we are so * one dimensional.

 

Of course they would. Imagine actually wanting Gordon Strachan to come in No wonder our board get away with the * they pull. Bring a guy from the other side of the world and don't allow him to bring any staff in with him. Then when * hits the fan, go out and bring in a guy that hasn't done anything in management in about 20 years and some of our fans will lap it up.

 

All those critical to it are out or sold, McGregor, Kyogo, Christie.

The link Kyogo offers as a striker is astonishing, he was the key.

 

It’s all unravelling for him. A few injuries have completely derailed the season as the board have left Postecoglou high and dry in terms of the squad depth. We are going to finish miles behind a shocking hun team, and all because we are run by charlatans and rogues. Plenty seen this coming a mile away. We are a shambles, there’s no other word for it. Totally fed up with the club just now.

 

Spot on..

That's the galling thing as well, we should be taking advantage of them being miles off it and stuttering, but we're even worse. They're gonna win it under little pressure, despite being pish..

It's mind-blowing the state we're in already..

 

Imagine the feeling of getting that call from a club like Celtic that they want you to be their next manager, then the * realisation of the situation 2 months into your tenure and you see that the clubs being ran like a junior side. Must be heartbreaking. The boys on the pitch are not even playing the football he's trying to teach them, is that because they are not buying into it? Or the fact that many are incapable of that style of football due to lack of talent?

 

Spot on and the Board are * themselves that they got another 60k season tickets away to a support that talks big about not renewing then caves every time the renewal forms come out. The Celtic support must like getting treated like contemptible idiots otherwise they'd do something about it.....

 

The board have * us big time again and Ange is part of that. A cheap panic appointment as they made a * of chasing the manager they wanted

 

Agreed. Why all these expectations that McGregor will solve all the current problems once he plays again ? Too much responsibility for one player who may do too much once back and injure himself again. Everybody needs to step up and do their bit.

 

4 out of 5 of our last managers have been yes men.
He took the job because he thought he could do it, who would turn down a job in Europe at a big club after managing in Asia?

 

With the amount of injuries we have to key players, it’s impossible to fully judge Ange on what we are seeing at the moment.

Do I think performances and results would be significantly better if we had McGregor and Kyogo starting every game? Yes.

Add players like Forrest, Jullien, GG, Johnston, Taylor and Dembele into the mix and all of a sudden we would have great options from the bench too.

Once we have some of these key players back that is the time to judge Ange.

However, at the moment, he should be doing better with what he has. Even with our injury crisis taking 1 point out of a possible 4 against Livi and Utd is unacceptable.

Not bringing Moffat on and trying to change up our attack was very frustrating today. It was clear once again that Ajeti wasn’t influencing the game. Moffat would have at least provided a different threat with his pace and trickery.

 

He should use the Gladbach game as a chance to give other players opportunities, I didn't think we would win that with a full strength team, and there's no chance with our current team.

For me, he should

- Play Shaw, Soro and Rogic in midfield, obviously not ideal but gives Shaw a chance to impress. Could give McCarthy one more game to try and impress over Soro. Turnbull needs dropped alltogether
- Play Abada at ST, Jota on the right and Montgomery on the left, or play Jota left and Moffat right, no more Ajeti
- Play Welsh over Starfelt, mistake at Livingston aside he's been our best CB this year
- If he's fit, play Juranovic at RB over Ralston, Ralston is, very clearly, not match fit
- Play Scales at LB.

 

We were playing good football up to and including the old firm game.
Noone has answered the question, how could he have done things differently today with the personnel available??