who would you rather scott brown or kevin thomson

You obviously didn't see Brown when he was playing in a three man
midfield of Thomson - Brown - Guillaume Beuzelin with Hibernian.

Brown was the dominant force in that Hib's midfield which took Hibs to a League Cup Final win in 2007.

Play Brown in a hard working and industrious three man midfield, with the correct personnel beside him, and you will really see the true worth of Scott Brown.

 

But the problem is, we aren't that hibs team, we don't play that system, and we really aren't going to switch to it just to try to get the best out of brown, for his pricetag and apparent potential, he should have been able to improve and learn how to play in this team.

 

Scott Brown.

 

Brown's utterly useless. He's meant to be a player with passionate, lung-bursting, box - to - box runs and drive from midfield. Instead he is a highly paid 'player' with no real pace, shot, passion, drive, dig, guile and is a complete * ( only have to look at Ibrox in Feb. - 30 mins left for us to save our season and this * idiot decides to put his head towards Lafferty) He let our team down big time that day and, for me, shouldn't have the honour of pulling on the hoops for the reserves let alone be club captain.

Thomson is better than Brown but thats like claiming to be a better tennis player than a man with no limbs - they are both rubbish

 

Brown was never expected to dominate or control the midfield and the match in a counter-attacking Hibs side. The demands and expectations are different at Celtic - you are expected to run every game, especially if you are a central midfielder. Especially if you are a central midfielder CAPTAIN.

Brown doesn't have it. On a technical and mental level, he doesn't have the capability to control a match. There are only a few players who can make the transition to more demanding expectations, and Brown isn't one of them.

 

Think some folk on here are doing the usual!

Cant admit Thosmpson is a decent player because he's at Rangers....!!!

Did the same apply to the likes of Gazza and Laudrup etc.... ???

I know there are some people on here who simply dont fancy the boy as a footballer, but for me, he is a far tidier player then Brown, and when fit, is a good player for rangers, and has done better tahn Brown has at celtic when he is fit!

Better of the 2 in my book, reads the game a lot better, stronger in the tackle than Brown, and a far better passer of the ball. Would have been a good sitting midfielder for us if we bought him

A fit Thomson in a good footballing side could be a good player.

I was actually excited when we signed Brown, thought he would be a presence in the middle of the park, and show the drive he had at Hibs, but sadly, I cant see what he offers our side.

 

Is Brown useless without Thomson ? Did thompson make him look good ?

I think we bought the wrong one.

 

If Kevin Thomson has done so much better at Rangers than Broony has done at Celtic then why has Broony won a Players Player of the Year award and Thomson hasn't?

To me this is just another example of people thinking the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. If we'd signed Thomson and the Huns had signed Broony this thread would probably be full of people saying 'Wish we'd signed Brown he's much better than Thomson. Thomson's pish get him tae f***'

 

I dont rate brown anymore, I would sell him in a minute now. thompson is a animal, he might have had abillity at hibs but once he signed for rnagers, he decided just to kick anything that moves, im glad we never got him. whittaker is the same!

 

I honestly dont think so mate

i always rated thomson, thought he was a player at Hibs too. the season Bown won the player of the year, he did have a decent season. As I said, when thomson is fit and in the Rangers side, he is a good player.

What does Brown offer now, what has he offered the side over the past 2 seasons.

i think thompson has been unlucky with injuries

(sound like a bit of a current there, unlucky wae injuries) :icon_mrgreen:

 

What has he offered us over the last 2 seasons!? He was voted Player of the Year in Scotland by his peers last season. So he must have been offering us something!

I'm not saying Thomson is a bad player. I rated him when he was at Hibs as well and to be honest he's a player I'd have liked to see us sign. Since he's went to the Huns he's started kicking anything that moves and I'll never forgive him for that dive against us at Ibrox, cheating *.

 

I know where you are coming from mate

I just personally think he has a better footballing brain than Brown, reads the game better, and is a lot tidier with the ball at his feet.

At the time I was happy we signed Brown, but of late, I do not think he has offered anything.

 

Thompson has been the better buy out of the two.

 

I thought we signed the wrong one ,personally i would have went for both because they did have a good understanding in that Hibs team ,but hindsight is a wonderful thing and basically we shall never know what one would have done better at Celtic .

 

I wouldn't say either has been better than the other but didnt they pay nearly half what we paid for Brown. At the time it seemed an excellent bit of business and had the potential to be the most important transfer Celtic have made in years but it certainly hasn't worked out that way, he will need to go some to prove he is worthy of playing for Celtic never mind being our captain.

 

Scot Brown Remindes me of a * Thomas Gravesen, running about like a * nutcase.
Only thing is Gravesen would score you a few goals.
Anyway the answer to the question is none of them there both *

 

I certainly agree with you that Thomson is tidier with the ball at his feet. His passing is much better as well.

Thomson and Broony linked up well at Hibs and it would have been great if we could have got Thomson instead of Paul Hartley. We could then have paired up Thomson and Broony in our midfield and I would have quite liked to have seen that.

 

Over the last few years, I was gutted that we didn't sign Thomson, Whittaker & Fletcher from Hibs.
I think Brown has badly missed Thomson in the middle, they were a great partnership at Hibs, & I always felt we should have bought both of them at the time.

 

Wouldnt disagree mate at all, they linked up well

Only thing that is bothering me is Browns slight demise. For me he came to Celtic Park and hit the ground running, I thought he looked the part, but his game seems to have nulified,

 

I seem to remember the story at the time was that Celtic thought they were getting Thomson. Rangers then nipped in and nabbed him from under our noses. Rangers were then going after Paul Hartley from Hearts as well and Celtic obviously decided '* that you're no getting both of them' and made Hartley an offer, as a Celtic fan, he couldn't refuse.

So I'm pretty sure Celtic were interested in Thomson at one point.