Leigh Griffiths

I am happy for him to have a new contract on a squad player rate. He can have the goal bonus incentive to the contract to ensure he stays fit and motivated and does what he is paid to do, which is score goals.

 

How many times have you seen the medics come on to the pitch and check over a player, then signal to the manager that they can't play on? I've must have seen it happen hundreds of times.

I don't know what you're going on about not thinking players have personal responsibility or some pish like that. The manager has a duty of care towards his players, just one of the many things that Neil Lennon failed to do during his most recent stint at Celtic.

 

And how do you think they find that? With blood tests and pish like you were saying before? Biggest part of it on the pitch is communication between the player and the staff, and the responsibility the player has there is to be honest about what he’s feeling injury wise, if he thinks he can play on, the level of pain, where the pain is etc etc.

Physio’s don’t just come on and automatically know all that, if you lie about that to play it down and stay on when you know fine well you shouldn’t and * the team over that’s on the player as well.

 

See this patter about him continually scoring goals? Since that 40 goal season back in 2015/16 (Griffiths' version of Lennon beating Barcelona), he's scored 56 goals. He's scored more than 7 goals in only one of the last three seasons.

Every manager he's played under at the club has criticised his lack of professionalism. What will it take for some people to realise the guy isn't the second coming? It's * madness.

What gets me is people get so defensive over a guy who couldn't be arsed getting himself into shape for one of the biggest seasons in Celtic's history. Imagine Edouard came back overweight and unfit? He'd be * despised by the fanbase.

 

Eddy is despised by allot even though he was available for the whole season and was the leagues top goal scorer

 

How many games did he start considering we've played one striker most of time and it was dembele and then eddie ?

We're the games in a row ? How many games in the period were sub apps ?

I'm not saying he's the 2nd coming but he's a good spl goal scorer we know this I'm sure I calculated his record as 1 in 3 games for us over the last 3 year which is pretty good considering his lack of minutes and problems

An incentive based contract offer may be the way

 

i find it weird that griffiths was texting lennon after he got the road to tell him he was fit and talking about hows hes gonna get an extension in the papers.if i was the manager reading that he would be gone in the morning

 

What are you talking about blood tests on the pitch? Obviously they have a history of medical analysis and scans done all through his rehab that they will have studied before he even steps onto the pitch. Or at least they would if we had a * in charge who had half a clue.

Do you seriously believe that the club doctor's only job is to come onto the pitch and ask a player if he's injured? They come on with detailed knowledge of the players injury history, the feel the muscle, try and get him to walk etc, then use their medical knowledge to diagnose it. It must happen at 1000s of games all round the world every week.

Imagine thinking that Mikey Johnstone knew he was injured and lied about it. Victim blaming at it's finest. The fact is he had a team of so-called professionals who are supposed to be managing him and they all failed him. Then the fat dishevelled * of a manager who was supposed to be in charge had the cheek to yell * off at him as he was being carried off, as if it wasn't his fault. In most workplaces Mikey would have grounds to sue for such a dereliction of duty.

 

I'd keep him if he can stay fit.

 

Victim blaming ffs

 

It's funny what potentially losing 2/3 of your weekly pay packet does for your motivation. Griff doing his own regime and in early doors but couldn't be arsed a year ago.

 

Is your quote button no working, or did you just want to post a snivelling wee emoji then * off back into the shadows because I've already shown you up for talking complete mince?

Roaster

 

Who even are you?

You’ve not shown me up for anything mate. I stand by what I said. “Victim blaming at its finest” ffs It is the job of club physios and doctors to know if a player is fit BEFORE a game. During it they have no way of knowing for sure what is going on inside a person’s body. Mental that you need this explained to you. If it’s not obvious that the player is crocked and the player is adamant he is ok to continue, you believe the player.

Roaster ooh la la ouch that hurt

 

Wee teacakes man lol. hh

 

I'm sorry but this nonsense about him being fit is absolute pish. You could * see he was overweight when he was on the pitch. playing an extra hour once a week isn't the reason he was overweight.

 

What do you mean who am I? Do you only reply to your wee buddies on here or something?

It's more mental that you've never seen a physio come onto a pitch and check out an injured player before telling the manager that they can't play on. Do you seriously think that went a player goes down injured the medical staff are just supposed to stand at the side of the pitch going, "there's nothing we can do, we can only assess an injury BEFORE a game". No that's idiotic.

If your doctor told you you were fine to go into work, then you went in and collapsed you wouldn't be posting your wee emojis going "guess that's my fault". You'd be bawling your eyes out down the phone to Digby Brown, claiming to be a victim of malpractice. Which is exactly what Mikey Johnstone was.

 

You're ignoring the part where a physio will ask a player if he feels ok to carry on.

 

Wee buddies? This is an Internet forum. I’m asking who you are because I want to know who I’m talking to. You’ve changed your username.

Physios come on and declare a player unfit to continue all the time. I’m not refuting that at all. In those situations it’s clearly something obvious, something recurring and a situation where the player has likely given the physio the nod to say “yep it’s gone again”. You are completely ignoring the part where the player verbalises his thoughts. You are entirely absolving Mikey of any responsibility or guilt in the situation which I disagree with. I agree that Lennon was out of order do berate him on camera. This argument is going in circles anyway and it’s boring.

 

Michael Johnstone Sr by the sounds of it.

 

Is Mikey Johnstone the person paid to determine a player's fitness or is it the physio?