Danny Majstorovic

Good points there.

 

Spot on and get a right back aswel.

Big danny does alot of cover in defence hes our only defender in the squad its embarrassing that hes our only centre back.

 

It is definately partly the shape. i think the way we are set up is absurd. Also the one thing that might help is pace and Maj has none. I dont understand why we go for slow CHs when the typical Celtic style needs pacey CHs. I would say if you want 2 wingers and 2 flying FBs then we need 2 DMs. I am not sure its worth it though. Last night we got a ton of crosses in using this tactic but none of our strikers are both decent in the air and goal scorers so its a waste.

 

got to agree with the last statement.

Caldwell and Mick were inconsistent but they have done it in big games the CL, EPL/championship (Mick got rave reviews at Boro last season), internationals etc. They were better than Loovens and Loovens is better than Jos. Overall. the standard has dropped. Another thing is it looks like we just cant afford the sort of pacey quality CHs that allow the all out attack style that Mogga and now Lenny seem to favour. Lenny needs to realise we will never be able to afford the sort of world class defenders that can hold the fort when about 7 or 8 of our players are attacking.

 

I cannae believe what I'm reading here so far, bar the post I'm quoting.

He is slower on his feet than my 82 year old pal, and he suffers from Parkinsons.

Here in Holland they were getting their fucken kill that we played him, and his donkey bro, Jos, in the UEFA disgrace that was played out in Utrecht.

Get rid of, asap, and buy a real (2) centre haufs.

 

Best post in the thread, end of.

 

I tend to disagree. Big Mick was steady last year and most Boro fans wouldnt have minded if they never bought him. In the end up WGS forked out 2million for him and gets sacked a few month later cuz his defense were leaking goals all ways. Big Mick is an honest player - but limited.

I dont beleive for one second we cant afford a pacey quality CH - more players than not playing football these days have pace. We just tend to buy players that dont have any.

Maj .....
Hooiveld ....
Loovens ....
McManus .....
Caldwell ......

Our last five CB's really and not one of them has a good turn of pace - proofs in the pudding. No wonder we've been crap in defense since MON left - no pace. And we all know what defenders hate.

 

You should really watch the game of yesterday. Though there was no real pressure in the first halve the striker of Killies had some (little) opportunities. Halve time i already wasafraid of extra pressure from that striker. Onfortunately my fear was proven very fast in second halve. Also look at a situation some minutes befor the end of the game (just 1-1). Ball of Killies coming from the left, Dan is not heading the ball (actually does not do anything!!!!). Striker passes goalkeeper and is trying to make his goal. Danny made a sliding and there was no second goal. Good sliding but he ONLY WAS ACTING BECAUSE HE MADE A BIG POSITION FAULD JUST BEFORE. And believe e, there where much more situations yesterday in a game in which Killies even could or would not make much pressure. Just thinking on a moment in first halve in which he shoot a ball at about 50 yards high just to nobody.... Want more about your hero??

 

He did "save" us after making an terrible mistake just before the striker passed the goalkeeper: he just did not make a header (could and should have) and JUST DID NOTHING. That is the reason the striker was going to our gaolkeeper. So don't thank him for coorecting his own faults.

 

disappointed about the big man tbh thought he was going to be great he is not the best imo hopefully he can get better but can't see it

 

I'd like to see Lennon telling the full backs not to bomb forward as much and see if Maj plays as poorly has he has been doing recently.

He should be in the box defending not out wide trying to block crosses coming in.

 

he is so slow kilmarnock players kept beating him for pace last night

 

i agree with this. there were stretches last night where we were playing a 2-2-6. and we are asking questions about how we leaked a goal on the break

 

I've been saying that since Gordon Strachan was in charge. We expose our centre-backs too much by the cavalier fashion in which we use our full-backs.

It's great throwing your full-backs forward if you have a sitting midfielder and two solid centre-backs who can hold the fort, but it's pretty obvious that we don't have those things. Until we get our defence tightened up I think our full-backs should concentrate on defending first and attacking second.

 

Our system is heavily flawed, as pointed out by several posts in this thread. It's obvious that we're setting up too offensively, this is one of the reasons that central defenders with good previous records are failing miserably here and being made to look like amateurs.

 

unless we replace him with puyol or pique, whoever else they bring in to replace him will have the same result. they seem to be the only two who can deal with the same sort of kamikaze all out attack strategy....and they have busquets, so i guess we'll have to replace ledley with busquets

point being, we could give him a little help before we bash the * out of him. he's low on confidence at the moment but lenny hasn't done much to bolster it

 

this is very negative, full backs should always go forward when opportunity comes, what we need is a good defensive midfielder who covers for them when they are up the park

schoolboy stuff really.

 

I don't think it's negative at all. In fact I would go so far as to say it is common sense in our current predicament.

I'm not saying our full-backs have to be sellotaped to the centre-backs shoulders but I think should be reigned in a bit more than they are at present.