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Delighted with that team. I hope Aribo plays on the right of the central 3 though.

A bit skeptical of that stat. Helander is our tallest defender and has always looked very comfortable in the air, more so than Katic for defensive aerial duels at least. It looks like this stat is about quantity only instead of % of aerial duels won.

I would add Kent to that. Aribo has produced more than him in the final third and it wouldn't be fair to drop him for Hagi. I don't think it would be a bad thing to remind him of the competition either. I agree with you that Gerrard tends to stick with his men but I think Katic is the most vulnerable tonight with Edmundson chomping at the bit for an opportunity. Anyway, I expect a return to winning ways tonight and we'll get over this hump.

Saw this one too

Apologies from journalists are meaningless, they are only ever given when coerced by lawyers.

Where did you see that?

I would like to see that team but Gerrard is so reluctant to make changes I'm not sure it will happen. I'd like to see Stewart starting to get game time too ahead of Ojo.

To be fair, he's not that kind of player.... Interesting trend isn't it. Michael Stewart uses his position on Sportscene to set the tone of the debate around those kinds of incidents. That's two blatantly deliberate stamps on players from Griffiths and Michael Stewart plays it down and shuts down the debate before it can get going. The worst thing is those incidents are unprovoked. Morelos retaliates, whether that is to McKenna barging him off the ball or Scott Brown raking his studs down the back of his ankle off the ball, and Michael Stewarts whips the press up into a frenzy. That's not to mention the referees. Griffiths doesn't get booked for the Aberdeen stamp. That's the game Cosgrove for sent off in when he won the ball. Griffiths doesn't get booked for the Hamilton one either (we can only assume his booked was for the aftermath given that's what Gogic was booked for). Again this was in a game a Hamilton player did get sent off after Griffiths fell down from very minimal contact. Of course he escapes a second booking later for clear dive too.

So he gets away with it. What do I know, these guys are "experts".

The Griffiths one at the weekend is probably the most inexplicable. It is the most blatant red card you will ever see, not to mention cowardly intimidation of a man lying on the ground. Morelos got a straight red for a retaliatory kick at McKenna's shinpad which didn't even make him flinch. He got another straight red for a flick at McKenna as they tangled. It wasn't clear he even achieved contact from the replays. Griffiths pulls a man to the ground and stamps on him right in front of the referee. To add insult to injury the referee books Gogic who comes to the aid of his teammate and pushes Griffiths away. Absolutely astounding, he did well to push him and not punch him. There is no stronger argument for bias than the comparison of those incidents.

Absolutely astounding that Griffiths was not sent off that stamp. Not so astounding that Michael Stewart says it was a yellow card offence. Morelos would be crucified for that he has been sent off for things nowhere near as bad as that.

We’ve missed Helander but it’s surely time for Edmundson to be given a chance. His superior technique and passing could make a difference at Ibrox in particular.

On this form we need Hagi chucked in and we shouldn’t be afraid to rotate Kent out. 15 games and 0 assists just suggests he hasn’t had that final pass too often. For comparison Aribo has 8. That’s not to blame him but sometimes you Just have to try something different.

Most of his career appearances have been for Cowdenbeath pre 2014 where he primarily played up front, but since Dundee in 2014 he’s primarily been a winger or attacking midfielder. Ryan Jack used to be a right back and Graeme Shinie used to be a left back but players change over time. That said I’ve always said I’m fine with him a 3rd striker because you don’t need one very often.

That’ll be what he means. A lot of people felt we should have already had 3 as Stewart isn’t a natural striker. In our financial position I think 3 is fine. You can attract a higher calibre of player when they aren’t coming to be 4th choice too.

Midfield was their Achilles heel and they desperately needed to strengthen. They had to give us Kamberi to get Docherty and they managed to bring in a striker to replace him anyway. It’s a case of you scratch my back I’ll scratch yours and I for one prefer it when we are doing this with Hibs rather than Celtic.

“Always been a dream of mine to play for Rangers”. “Rangers fans are the best in the world”. “Ibrox has the best atmosphere I’ve ever played in”.

Definitely not.

As far as the Hibs fans are concerned he’d have been as well to sign off with No surrender, WATP, GSTQ, BJK.

No none mentioned. But going by his comments he doesn’t expect to go back.

He’s exactly what they need in midfield so I don’t think so. They’ve arguably come out ofnthe window stronger because their midfield was very weak.

Ooft, he’s fairly broken his bridges with the Hibs fan base with those comments. He sounds absolutely buzzing to be here so I hope he gets 100% backing from the fans.

Kamberi done

https://mobile.twitter.com/chris_jack89/status/1223367390853042176?ref_url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.followfollow.com%2fforum%2fthreads%2ftomorrow-will-be-even-more-exciting.106609%2fpage-54

People were saying that wasn’t true.