29 Dec 2016 13:32:33
3 things for me pertaining to Warburton

#1 - he has been unlucky Crooks/ Rossiter/ Kranjcar have been injured, gambled with Joey Barton and lost.

#2 - blinkered - his tip tap tip tap passing style is nice to view however without the players to play this style but continues to play a game unsuited to the squad

#3 - signings - hasn't sorted "the spine" and hasn't bought physicality (a pre-requisite in Scotland) . Garner may well be effective but gets no service - "wide players" MOH, Taviener, Waghorn are actually not wide players and produce no end product.

Discuss.

1.) 29 Dec 2016
29 Dec 2016 15:09:53
#1 - he's not unlucky those players are injured, if you buy injured players they will be injured from time to time, you could say he's unlucky that's the market we are in just now.

#2 - I would rather have tippy tappy style than none, hit and hope under mccoist, you say he's blinkered but he did change formation from the 4-3-3 because he had to.

#3 - there is something missing someone in mid that can take the ball hold it then find a pass, and if that person is a natural leader even better.

What I think we are missing is a club legend (no not looking to bring back ex players for the sake of it) thru the years we have always had players who had been with the club played at highest level and new players respected, but we don't have that we can't buy that only time will fix it.

2.) 29 Dec 2016
29 Dec 2016 16:17:11
The middle of the park is the problem. Holt and Halliday offer zero protection to defence, they don't break down play. They don't create chances or chip in with enough goals. They offer nothing.
Against full time players they have struggled, last year fitness was only diff, they won't and can't dictate a game or change pace of game. Crooks and Rossiter were meant to be engine room and I sympathise with MW fir there lack of availability. Middle of park is priority for signings as it's heartbeat of every successful side.

3.) 29 Dec 2016
29 Dec 2016 18:33:11
Davie Weir!