James Forrest

Love the boy.always will HH

 

Think wee Jamesie at his peak was better than anything we have now. Always had a soft spot for him.

 

He's barely played and has scored 2 goals, and hit the bar in our draw at Easter Road. Not that bad for 325 minutes.

I'm not saying he should be ahead of Yang, Kuhn or Vata right now, but i respect his contribution. Scoring in 15 consecutive seasons probably won't be done again in my lifetime.

 

He has done it many times for us. Great player but now is the time to move on maybe a small coaching role in ayr united or so

 

He’s still young enough to player for another 5 years elsewhere

 

He’ll retire after next season and not move anywhere, as a one man club player, and a legend (might take 10/15 years for people to talk about that he 100% is) and fair play to him for that.


Don’t think he’s interested at all playing anywhere that’s not us. He’s had a lot of injuries in his career, played a lot of games from very young. Another 5 years would just be abuse to his body for teams he doesn’t give a * about. He’s always made it clear any wee snippet we hear from him, rare snippets, he’s not interested in anywhere else.

 

Brendan Rodgers has hailed James Forrest as 'Celtic's best winger' and claims the veteran could still have a role in their quest to land silverware.

Forrest, 32, has spent his entire career at the club - amassing over 300 appearances. However, his role has been limited since Rodgers return to the dugout, with the Scotland international struggling to make the match day squad during recent times.

Celtic face Livingston on Sunday, with the Hoops targeting a place in the Scottish Cup semi-finals. And speaking ahead of the last-eight clash against David Martindale's Livi, Rodgers claimed Forrest is still very much in his thoughts and believes the wide-man may be required throughout the final 11 games.

"James is available and he's training," the Northern Irishman revealed. "He has been an amazing servant to this club and I think in these final games he may well have a part to play.


For me, the thing is looking at the team, we need to have that intensity and that relentless mentality. There's no doubt about his ability. That's never in question. As a winger, in terms of ability, he's the best one we have.

"But how we ask the game to be played with the intensity and the constant running, as you get older it becomes a challenge. There's no doubt, I'm pretty sure there will be a point in these next 11 games when he will be required. He's training so well and he's keeping himself so well. He's a top professional. He looks after his body every day and if he's required to play then he will do

 

So Yang is suspended and Abada is away, and suddenly Forrest is 'Celtic's best winger' according to Rodgers.

No disrespect to Forrest, but BR is so transparent and completely full of BS. I get why he is saying it and you can call me a cynic if you want, but it wouldn't ring quite so false if BR hadn't pretty much snubbed JF the entire season to this point without reason, only to suddenly declare him the 'best'.

 

In fairness he made them comments before Yang got suspended and Abada was away he said James is the best winger in terms of technical ability etc but unfortunately can’t play at the intensity we’d like…… etc

 

Given that other options are khun or Maeda. He'd be 1 of the 1st names on my team sheet on Sunday.

* me what a state to be in, did we not have 8 wingers just over a month ago?

 

Brendan again saying he's the best winger at the club

 

Was very positive when he came on. Looked sharp, good to see.

 

He was alright TBF, he was aggressive and got an assist

 

He did well for his cameo appearance, Unfortunately I don’t think he could sustain that level of performance for 90 minutes.

 

Thats fine. 10 mins of that is all we need.

 

Enjoyed his wee cameo there. I still think he can be used more when we need his experience in there.