Craig Gordon

Drop

 

His mistake tonight is the kind that should keep him awake at night. Has declined as a goalkeeper massively from the form that earned him his £9m move.

 

Was surprised that we went for him, and was * off as I thought he was trying to win a deal training with that mob..

Then he came in and was terrific, genuinely terrific in 99% of our game's last year. Looked assured, good at commanding his area, and fantastic at shot stopping. Our defence has changed and he was given the benefit of doubt but he's making at least 1 catastrophic error a game, most notably being capitalized on in Europe, as we are facing the quality to punish us..

A real likeable big guy, especially after watching his interaction with the kid's outside Celtic park taking pot shots at him, but back to his on field displays.....he looks shot of confidence, to the point he actually looks a big shitebag now..

Time for Bailly to come in and get a run, and for Stevie Woods to get to grips and the root of his/our problem....as it cannot go on like this..

 

Good keeper on bad form,maybe a week or two on a splfplfplf bench will refocus him.

 

Deserves to be dropped. As Wulliebad said, he is a good keeper on bad form but his form is shocking at the moment.

 

For me it all stems right back to last year when he foolishly took out the Caley player in the Semi Final and got sent off for it ( rightly). He has never looked the same player since that incident, and it has been all downhill since. it is only his name that is keeping him still in the team.

 

Did'nt watch the game tonight but id have dropped him tonight to send a msg.

 

Awful mistake, until the Inter game last season he was superb then he made the two blunders, sent off in the Cup semi, then this season couple more blunders in Europe.

Needs to get his act together, he looked better the night as well coming and collecting crosses and making decent saves but cant excuse a mistake like that.

 

Was he * tonight again??

 

Not really, he played well I thought but he let a ball roll under him was similar to the Inter game when he came out and let the ball go bye him for a tap in.

 

Made a good save after flapping at the first one and parrying it in to danger. Tapped ond on to the post, when it looked a * shot that he was down late for. Abysmal for the goal. Came out then ran back for a ball that was his and had Simunovic then in trouble..

Couple of good crosses he collected, which haven't been seen for a while but I personally thought he was pish. His kicking again was..

 

Drop him now. If Bailly doesn't start at the weekend then he'll never get a run in the team under Ronny.

 

He's coming across as a flapper and a big fearty. He is capable of much better.

 

I have lost faith in him, far too many errors in big games. Like a few others I am not sure he has the mentality to play for Celtic.

 

Brilliant shot stopper, capable of world class saves......but his decision making can be very suspect.

Sprinting out uneccessarily is a particular bad habit of his, I can think of a good few times off the top of my head when he has done this. Coming, or not coming for crosses when the defence needs him to is another thing that lets him down.

Celtic 'keepers for the most part have very little to do therefore concentration & doing the basics like collecting crosses are far more useful to us than a guy who can pull the odd world class save out the drawer. Need more consistency from him or I would be looking for a new number 1.

 

I don't think that's really true, Fraser Forster was immense for us and would never come off his line.

 

Gordon said in his post match interview that he was expecting the chip and was wary of fouling him as he would have given away a penalty. Most surprising thing was that their player never touched it. Still a howler though.

 

A bit more awareness and it wouldn't have been an issue, like WGS pointed out.

 

8/9 years ago he was brave as *. The injury is clearly in the back of his mind because he isn't anymore. He should see a sports psychologist.