Lancaster Rover

As I've said many times half my family are Celtic fans so I go up a fair amount. The thing is with Nancy, like Amorim he's tried to play a system (3-4-3) that is can be complex at the best of times with the right players. Celtic currently do not have a single full back who can play wing back in the club, when Scales is fit, all the back 3 are left footed and add in to that we sold our only 2 strikers in Kyogo and Idah. It's been an awful appointment from start to finish and whilst I think the guy is a total dud, he has been totally set up to fail given the board knew the system he wanted to play and the players he had at his disposal.

I said between the north west clubs, if you look at the selections for England age groups teams in both boys and girls they're heavily weighted toward top 6 clubs in the PL. Case in point re that, on the folding of Rovers Ladies, two U17's (who had never received England call ups) moved to Chelsea and City respectively, within 3 weeks of being there they're both in the national set up

I've said this before but Pasha's line about the academy not knowing he was that good is absolute tosh, from U14 onwards everyone knew he was a joke of a player and was talked about across north west academies as the next big. It's just another lie from Pasha.

It's slim pickings as a 2, you'd have to be looking at McLoughlin and O'Riordan I think. We may as well count Wharton and Carter out for the season at this stage such is their (unfortunate) injury history. Sadly neither of their bodies is capable of having a system built around them.

This is the thing that confuses me most. Ismael was reticent to move to a 3 back when it looked fairly obvious to everyone that it was a sensible move and now is absolutely wedded to it when a 4 would be much more natural given the players available. I'd need to look it up but I don't think he's a 3-4-3 die hard in his career

We’re also terrible on set pieces so it’s a bit of a waste trying to draw fouls

I’m fairly confident he had a hand in them all going. He’s the regimes man, otherwise why would he still be in a job. He’s complicit, of that there is no doubt

Unless he’s signalled he can’t continue it’s a strange sub, looks one of the few players capable of making something happen

He’s done well there to anticipate the drop and attack the space they’d left open

Good finish

We have a terrible approach of virtually emptying the box with players working together out wide to fashion crosses, etc. With no natural striker or wingers it’s taking greater numbers to overload wide areas leaving us short elsewhere

Arrogance. Same could be said of someone claiming their opinion as gospel when possessing very few facts as to why a fanbase is at odds with their ownership

I wasn’t aware that you couldn’t be successful (at a time when the competition has been at am its lowest) and at the same time unhappy with how a club is run. My mistake.

Got very luck again then with De Neve giving zero cover.

We’re so under loaded in attack, constantly 2 at best 3 players against 5. By the time we have support they’ve settled into a compact 10 behind the ball