After giving his players a week of rest and recuperation Brendan Rodgers will have his best opportunity of the season to work on tactics and systems this week. We watched our passing game disintegrate in recent months culminating in the reversal at Tynecastle.
The manager can talk to his players for hours, but time on the training field is limited with rest days, game days and recovery days. Any tactical work also needs to be balanced with the need to maintain endurance and speed training.
The squad are together in Dubai and will put hours into working on positioning, decision making and set plays. For me, the critical outcome of this winter break will be in central defence. This area of the field is pivotal to what the manager wants to achieve in possession. Our central defenders are also subject to more transfer speculation than anywhere else in the team, a fact which may have contributed to recent decline in performances.
I have not watched Marvin Compper (try to avoid highly selective YouTube videos) but suspect Brendan could end the month with his new German recruit partnering Kris Ajer.
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Hunderbirds are Gone on 9th January 2018 11:01 am
BMCUW
My wife is English and drench is her favourite word from the thirty odd years she has spent in Scotland.
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Many years ago, as a Electrician I went to a job ( minor repair) in a so called posh part of Glasgow. I was in my early 20’s, and the job line stated ” Faulty light in LOOBY”.
This middle aged posh woman opened the door and I immediately said….” Electrician missus, it’s about the faulty light in yer LOOBY” ?
Back came the rather posh and snappy rude reply from this wummin….” I do NOT have a LOOBY…..I have a HALL” ”
I responded immediately with…”
From above post…
I responded immediately with…..” Well missus…it looks awfy like a LOOBY” !
The wummin was NOT AMUSED.
True Story.
HH
Another so called Posh wummin in Glasgows west end back in those days, came at me with a paint Brush and a Pot of Emulsion after I had left a couple of tiny wee dirty paw marks on her living room ceiling after fixing her light………………/
I directed her to the painters Dept….stupid wummin !
HH
new article posted.