Liam Scales

Criminal that we're going into a third season of him being first choice. He was Aberdeen's best player today, we're just fortunate they didn't have a decent striker playing.

 

Must have thought he was still on loan there with some of his passing. Really frustrating to watch and invited pressure as Aberdeen broke quickly after he kept giving the ball away. Really lazy foul for his yellow card card as well. With him being the left back for the last half hour or so of games at the minute he simply can't afford to be giving away stupid yellows like that. He needs to be 3rd of 4th choice CB at best here he isn't up to starting every week.

 

He was poor in possession. Gave it away too many times. Didn’t really do anything wrong purely from a defensive point of view though.

 

When will the Scales fall from their eyes?

 

This experiment should've ended about 2 and a half years ago.

 

Let's not forget he plays ahead of Trusty bcoz of his passing ability.

* Wow!!!

 

The patter in here is always about how critics of Scales "hate him".

No one hates him ffs. He gives his all and has a great attitude.
He's just * mince. The kid is a complete donut and gives fans the fear. Hes just simply not good enough. Trusty and Nawrocki should be well ahead of him, and fans are frustrated at Rodgers for gambling game after game with him, all because of this lunacy that he can play out from the back.

Running with the ball to the halfway line, stopping, checking his instagram and scratching his ball bag for half an hour before making a misplaced pass isnt what i would call "playing out from the back".

Alot of what he does domestically is solid. And 9o odd % of his play in a game is decent. Just that 5%+ window of indecision, poor passes or reckless challenges that puts us in danger, time and time again.

The majority of fans dont want to see his name anywhere near the team sheet. But there he is, week after week. A ticking time bomb.

 

Personally think he's a great defender. The problem we have is in scotland our defenders are the midfielders since the 2 banks of 5 fill up the midfield meaning they can't keep the ball. Weve bigger issues in the squad than scales. Hes faught off some amount of talent to stay in his position.

 

I don't think he's a great defender and think Trusty is better.
But I do agree our static, tippy tappy midfield is severely limiting options for defenders.
They also regularly kill opportunity to move the ball fast to forward players and make wide players look poor.
We shouldn't need defenders to be great passers, it's papering over the midfield cracks.

 

Hes not actually defensively putting a foot wrong. In the past where a defender would just punt the ball, he'd be brilliant. Obviously things have moved on though and defenders are basically midfielders. I prefer trusty aswel, and obviously id like a ball playing cb like VVD but I think scales does well.

 

I've made my feelings clear on Scales so I'm not going to slate him entirely. Agree with the fact he's been great the last two games defensively.
It's more the fact that his sideways passing always seems to go behind the man and not in front so they have to backtrack in their movement. It's incredibly frustrating. If he has one of these 'off' days with his passing when we play a better quality of opposition we will get scunnered. I think were lucky the boy up top fae Aberdeen was an utter diddy.
I think a lot of people can't get his performance at Ibrox out of their head which is why theres always moans whenever he starts. I've never warmed to Scales since he's been here but everyone has a player like that I suppose
I will state though that he's perfect as a squad option. I just don't think he should be our starting CB

 

I tell you what, he’s never a left back and if he’s the plan going forward to fill in we are *. He’s so stiff.

Imagine KT gets injured and Scales is lining up in the CL against a Yamal…

 

I 100% agree we need a new LB because Tierney can’t last 90 mins it would appear and we all know the lad’s injury record, unfortunately

 

If you had not seen the game yesterday and came on here, you'd think Scales had a shocker going by the comments. It was another solid display - with a certain section of our support he will never win - no matter how well he does.

He had a stray passes yesterday but that's completely normal for a defender, what I like about Scales and I think what Rodgers does and probably what puts him in ahead of Trusty is how comfortable he is taking the ball in. For the opener yesterday he was happy to push up and take in the ball about 35 yards from Aberdeens goal. He fed it out to Tierney and Nygren got on the end of his cross. 1-0.

He's a centre back, his passing is actually not bad on the grand scheme of things. I don't think its any worse really than CCVs.

 

Who was it that was pushed up 35 yards from the Aberdeen goal yesterday and found Tierney who assisted the opener? His distribution is no better or worse than CCVs or Trustys.

 

Lets look at the statistics yesterday and expose those with an agenda on Scales and him being rubbish on the ball.



He made 142 passes, 133 of them were accurate passes. He also had 75% completion rate on his longer passes, compared to 25% from CCV.

Those stats do not support the fact at all that Scales is awful on the ball or was awful yesterday. He had a few stray passes but overall he was good. Another clean sheet. It's just an agenda some people have against him because he is Irish and was signed from the LOI.

 

Thing that gets me is when he has a good game passing wise, it's completely ignored by a large amount of people. He was poor at first in this respect but it was noticeable start of last season that he'd worked on it, moving the ball on quicker rather than dilly dallying.

One of the pre season games this year (can't mind which one now) his passing was outstanding, yet barely acknowledged. As you say I think a lot remember that hun game and have written him off. No thought given to the steady improvements he's made or the games he's been immense, including CL games.

Again there will be times he's off the boil and concentration let's him down, but as part of the squad I agree he's ideal. Just wish folk would give him credit when it's due rather than just constantly berating the guy.

 

That bolded bit is utter pish.

He proved himself that he can play here. That makes the expectation higher. That standard has dropped significantly. So people are rightly criticising him.

Also banging out passing stats when he’s passing it 5 yards to CCV or KT isn’t supporting his passing ability.

 

Nobody gives a * about the stats when we watch the game with our own eyes.

At least three times yesterday he passed it straight to an Aberdeen player when he was under next to no pressure.

One of them at 1-0 and it effectively gave them their best chance to score until that point. There’s just no excuse for this dross at 5:17 in the video. Not only is it brainless decision making, the pass itself is powder puff.



A “few stray passes” is underselling it when he’s needlessly giving the ball away in our own half and inviting pressure.

And the agenda idea is pathetic. Couldn’t care less about his nationality or the league we signed him from. I would rather we had a player in his position who isn’t gifting opponents possession and asking them to get a shot at goal.

CCV isn’t very good on the ball either, but I feel more comfortable that he isn’t going to play a pass like that one Scales played. And CCV is also streets ahead as a defender.