Jeffrey Schlupp has been preferred recently to Greg Taylor. They are different types of player; Greg is more comfortable drifting inside to receive a pass, which aligns to the shape Celtic have played this season. If we were going back to Munich, I would pick Jeffrey, games like that are more about defending than progressing the ball, but domestically, Greg is a better fit to how we play.
On this topic. Kieran Tierney is a totally different type of left back to Greg. Kieran is happier getting up and down the wing, he is less comfortable playing inside. Alistair Johnston is another who is most comfortable charging up and down the line.
I expect to see a tactical shift when Kieran arrives in the summer. This will play into Kieran and Alistair’s natural roles, it will also have consequences for what we do in the middle of the park and how the wingers work. For now, though, we should stick to the shape we are prepared for, which means playing Greg Taylor on Saturday.
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Fanks for having me.
OOFT
Aupa Atleti
Greg spent his youth development years as a centre mid. Kieran was a winger.
The instincts remain, even if their function has changed.
Intelligent and interesting look ahead Paul.
Pitching purely at Tactics For Dummies level
… ending full back inversion immediately reduces our numbers in deep midfield areas.
It’s also the final large piece of the Ange jigsaw that Brendan is removing/replacing.
.. can we assume the deepest midfielder role will be a key recruitment priority?
Is KT definitely coming ?
TT
TINYTIM
Yes, announced and all that good stuff.
Brendan wanted to keep Taylor. The Club weren’t willing to meet his wage demands. I wish GT all the best. Given the unique role he played, perhaps the club should have met his wage demands.
Then again, maybe not. He fundamentally is a poor defender regardless of his obvious benefits when inverting.
Part of the reason Jeffrey did so well against Bayern was that he’d played against his former Palace team-mate and now Bayern winger, Michael Olise many times before (okay at least in training). He kept Olise in his pocket.
As for changing our shape entirely cos an injury blighted ex-hero is returning seems not right; I mean, does that mean our B and youth teams need to be entirely re-drilled to play in this new style anaw ? Can’t see it.
We will miss GT a fair bit. Mibby we can do a swap for Cerny (a decent Kuhn replacement – skooshy stuff aside) as part of Greg’s written up return to The Ragers ?
AD- With KT coming back on big money, I don’t think the club would want to pay ,basically a reserve player, 15k plus a week
Whatever way we play we need to do it faster, that has been the main issue in why we have lost games, slow build up teams doubling up on our wingers because we are playing so slow, fullbacks who then can’t overlap/underlap, leads to no threat from Celtic, so up the tempo up the workrate all need to rise significantly for us to get back on the rails. No passengers required.
Something in my eye watching that….what a gesture
https://youtu.be/YtPFl2oYFWQ?si=hQd9p324w_ny1tbh
We should get Bilbao over for a charity game
dessybhoy- absolutely, slow pitches like Sunday, make games a leveller, some games need a change of tactics and get the ball up the park earlier
Worth remembering that while we’ll have to adopt, so will our opponents. For years now we’ve seen sides launch high balls into the left back position- good luck doing that with KT as left back.
!!BADA BING!! on 10TH APRIL 2025 1:23 PM
We should get Bilbao over for a charity game
If they put the YouKnowWhos out of the Europa League we should arrange for them to be carried over in Sedan chairs…
🤞🤞
Hopefully Athletic have done their homework. The number of European clubs that seem completely bedazzled by the Sevco football tactics time machine is hard to fathom.
!!Bada Bing!! on 10th April 2025 1:23 pm
Something in my eye watching that….what a gesture
https://youtu.be/YtPFl2oYFWQ?si=hQd9p324w_ny1tbh
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Brilliant. Would like to see them win the Europa, in their own stadium.
We are always a better team with a good goalscoring midfielder. O’Riley, Armstrong, Ledley, Petrov, Burley…..
Callum has fired in a few long-rangers and Engels a few penalties, but you need somebody who can get double figures with the bread-and-butter arriving late in the box types.
Hopefully it’s something Engels can add to his game – MOR didn’t have it to begin with.
Oh, and I think Tierney has looked pretty good going forward on the inside when he has played on the left of a back three for Scotland.
AD
The Bilbao manager is well aware of how they play descibing them as an effective counter attacking team so I doubt he will be gung ho, I hope Bilbao tow them, but I’ve wanted that all along even when they lost they went through
MON couldn’t defeat big EBT McLiesh’s Huns until he went to a flat back 4 blocking all the usual spaces that the diving Hun front 3 would mug us in.
Greg Taylor played at leftback in Stevie Clarke’s flat back 4 at Killie looking good and earning a move to Celtic who haven’t at any time played a flat back 4 since GT arrived at the club, with some fans saying GT has always been a weak link.
GT played out of position by various managers is not GT’s fault. Pointing out how many trophies GT won does not answer why he was played out of position, and then targeted by virtually all opposition teams that GT has faced as a Celtic player.
Is the new WEF, NWO, Smart Cities, Smart Phone = Spyware, etc approach being applied to all 4 SCSF sets of fans, or just the Timmy Guinea Pigs?
PS, I wonder if the ticket pallaver would have been deployed had the Huns and their animal fans been in the draw?
Or is it SFA revenge for brither Alan Muir?
PS, In NFL’s first game in charge of Celtic vs Ross County in 2010 SCSF when we were defeated, the SFA had another sly sleekit jiggery poakery thing going on at that semi final day as well, were only Celtic fans were charged £2 more than the other 3 clubs fans for the “North Stand” and only that area of the stadium, and to this day no one knows why?
Did Celtic PLC sleekitly sell their fans out to the SFA for some reason?
Hmmmm?
Maybe the reason for this was included in the yet to be seen John Reid “Dossier” which disappeared into thin air when JR disappeared in his PLC Rolls Royce down the Celtic Way for the last time. All of these nearly men, what are they like.
While we all have high hopes for Bilbao over the two legs, as the old joke said “never put all your Basques in one exit”.
GGH
Dearie me 🙄
Dessybhoy
I agree a fast tempo id the key to us scoring goals. You can usually tell a good performance is coming if the tempo is hign in the first 15 mins.
However, I have noticed that once we have a two goal cushion then Calum and CCV tend to slow the game. Stand on the ball kill the tempo. The subs tend to lift the tempo later in the game
Its all about speed
If true, that Celtic are refusing to pay 25 grand a week to keep Greg, then pay the guy, he’s worth it.
As they say, better inside the tent pissing out than outside the tent pissing in
KINGLuBO
I watched PSG last night , magnificent team , speed creativity and ultimately got more than a 1 goal lead, if they finish better they can win the CL.
Masters at Augusta
Basterts at hun mausoleum.
Athletic Club deserve all the plaudits for only playing home-grown players in this day and age, unlike their rivals Real Sociedad where for example Kieran Tierney played on loan recently. It´s a team which fluctuates between brawn and brain but under coach Ernesto Valverde, this is his third successful stint at the club and he was also a top player for them, the focus is now on the latter.
From a distance, i.e. from the banks of The Clyde, clubs like Athletic Bilbao or FC Barcelona are perceived of as being socially similar to Celtic in some way. Could be, but the bottom line is always economics and although these clubs support certain political agendas, which claim to defend the downtrodden, their regions, Catalonia and the Basque Country are traditionally the wealthiest two regions in Spain. Scotland and Ireland are not the traditionally wealthiest parts of the British Isles and all the historical circumstances we have suffered since the demise of Dal Riata are not comparable to those suffered on the Iberian peninsula.
!!Bada Bing!! on 10th April 2025 1:23 pm
When did all that take place? Quite remarkable.
I just had a tear in my eye as well watching that tribute to Mr. McNeil by Bilbao.
How blessed have we been with one club players throughout our time. Paul McStay, wow, a player that would grace the game today and still be a standout. Mr. McNeil was a unique man and always treated every player, I felt, the same way.
So proud to be a Celtic fan.
Sean
bada
No need to reply to the above, I Googled it. Remarkable response by Athletic Club..
HS- I think it was a couple of weeks after he passed
England getting a fifth team for the Champions League, while the guardians of the beautiful game are told to play a qualifier in August to join the so-called elite.
” ……toora, toora, toora, loo, they´re looking for monkeys up in the zoo…..”
https://jobsinfootball.com/job/99828/first-team-analyst/
Plenty applicants on here…
GGH,
Never mind that auld carmudgeon BRRB,😃,I thought it was a belted.
” Beat them at home,Bilbao,beat them at home,they’ll cry the whole night long
They’ll be the booing Hunnies,let their rage vent,saying Baz has done them wrong ”
Thats enough lyrical genius from me tonight.I” m.here all week.
Lots of Athletic BILBAO fans in George Square and the city center, many wearing Celtic tops and carrying carrier bags after visiting the Celtic shop.I wish them luck.