Kyogo Furuhashi, Daizen Maeda, Reo Hatate and Yosuke Ideguchi were our original players from the east, recruited during Ange Postecoglou’s first season in charge. Kyogo was transformational, a truly special player. Despite injury midway through that season, his influence over Scottish football was profound.
Like Kyogo, Daizen made a blistering start, scoring four minutes into his debut against Hibs. A few weeks after arriving, Reo demolished Newco, scoring twice and assisting with a third.
Yosuke had the opposite introduction to Scotland. He was assaulted during a brutal Cup game at Alloa, the resultant injury saw him used sparingly on his return. The 28 minutes he got in the final league game of the season, against Motherwell, was more than the sum of all bit parts he played in other games following injury. This season has been a wipe-out.
If asked to give your view on the player, you would struggle. An alarm bell may have chimed for Yosuke when he discovered he was cover for captain, Callum McGregor. Across football, captains and central defenders are seldom shuffled. Callum has the added attribute of being almost indestructible, although he was a fellow assault-ee that night in Alloa. If the captain is never rested, his understudy is not going to see action.
The world moved on in January and Tomoki Iwata, our sixth Japanese player, after the recent addition of Yuki Kobayashi, joined the most profound Japanese influence on western culture since the Plastic Ono Band co-opted John Lennon and Eric Clapton (don’t bother troubling your streaming service for that lot).
Tomoki was crowned Player of the Year in Japan in December, he is a talent who should be given the opportunity to flourish. Can you see Ange resting Callum, even home to St Mirren on Saturday? Me neither. A reputation for improving and propelling players has to be a part of the story. If we ‘waste’ them, supply of the good ones will dry up.
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Why in the name of the wee man woould our captain need a rest?
We’re playing an in-form Premiership team on Saturday, not a League 2 outfit.
Ange will start with a strong 11 and make his usual changes second half, or if and when the tie is in our hands. If that includes Callum making way then so be it.
My starting team would be:-
Hart
Johnston CCV Kobayashi Taylor
Mooy McGregor Hatate
jota Kyogo Maeda
at 60mins:- Hatate, McGregor, Maeda off; O’Reilly, Iwata, Forrest on
at 75 mins:- Kyogo off; Oh on
Allthough Brendan and Ange get much praise for individual great first season contributions, nothing for me beats the Blessed Martin. That team, 6-2, the treble, Henrik at the peak of his powers, Lubo, and on and on.
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My only change would be OH on from the start .
Give the bhoy at least the first half to get into the swing of it …..
Thanks for response Bhoys, I’d like to see one of Oh, Iwata or Kobayashi start.
Quite obviously Ange sees all 3 in training on a daily basis, he quite rightly doesn’t give a toss what any of us thinks, he makes the decisions.
Shouldn’t stop us chatting about the options though,
Personally I’d love to see Oh starting, just have a feeling about the ghuy that he could be a big hit.
I’m banned for life from Follow Follow, I wonder why.
Just read on etims, that we are paying £10,k so VAR can be used on Saturday.
But Dundee Utd and Livingston are not paying it. So it won’t be used at their games.
Can anyone confirm this.
BIG JIMMY
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Corkcelt
Stop showing off.😃
and nobody has came back from the dead after being wrongly executed
not even rangers
CANAMALAR IT LOOKS LIKE OCD OBSESSION on 9TH FEBRUARY 2023 11:30 AM
That’s a good point…. The UK is mirroring the US in that regard, an illusion of democracy but on all the major stuff the two parties agree.
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You seriously deleted those posts? Let’s discuss this like adults on the blog.
St Tams
True i believe,if the game is going to be on telly.
Morton contributed last time(i dont mean wi efe’s pen for us).disnae provide goal line tech either.wish uefa would intro a uniform system throughout Europe
HH
FRANKTERRY on 9TH FEBRUARY 2023 11:43 AM
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You seriously deleted those posts? Let’s discuss this like adults on the blog.
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Not allowed Frank,wouldnt waste your time mate.
Its gone
HH
Bloody hell, I was enjoying that discussion
AN TEARMANN on 9TH FEBRUARY 2023 11:51 AM
Wise advice as always!
It’s just a pity as It was a good joke that was deleted:-)
Hope you’re keeping well, pal.
Just taken stock.
How lucky are we now to have such a brilliant team, really, and a fantastic set of players.
Blessed we are.
KINGLuBO
new article posted.