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Raskin has been very good

Davies not close enough. McGregor should save it.

The classic Hail Mary dive when a defender is in trouble

So many good performances. We lacked cutting edge as usual, and still scored 4. Cantwell is just a joy to watch. He’s just a totally different type of player to what we had before and exactly what we needed in this league.

There are 5 Celtic players in that list who play Kent’s position. The lowest score from those is 9. Kent’s is 22.

I just can’t get past this with Kent. Goals are too important to just sacrifice in his position. It’s like settling for a defender with a lot of qualities but who’s poor in the air. It’s an Achilles heel, not something we can just accommodate for.

Incredibly frustrating after the Hearts performance.

I’m just hoping we can get Raskin, Cantwell and Tillman playing together. We’ll be so much better to watch.

Loved that assist from Cantwell today. He’s exactly the kind of player we’ve been missing, a joy to watch. Tillman such a big player for us too, the combination of creativity and goal scoring is something we haven’t had in that position.

Morelos had an xG of 0.98 today. Pretty poor not to score from that.

Dont think we need Lundstram and Jack together for this game.

Nothing wrong with the tweet. That kind if thing is just normal with footballers these days. More important is that he is serious about working hard. Big few months ahead for him.

I think it’s fair to say that he can improve his stamina though. This is his first season of real football so maybe it’s to be expected.

The Goldson-Davies partnership was always going to end the chaos at the back. Our record with and without Goldson: Without 8 games, 1 clean sheet, 8 conceded, 4 wins Since return 8 games, 5 clean sheets, 6 conceded, 7 wins If you limit it to the Goldson-Davies partership that comes down to 4 conceded in 7, and 2 of those were to Celtic. Edit: Just checked pre Goldson injury and they were partnered 3 times in the league and got 3 clean sheets. I forgot cup games too, that adds 1 clean sheet in 2 games.

Amazing to see Kamara finding his 20-21 form under Beale. I think something just wasn’t working in Gio’s system, and it’s maybe taken a bit of time for Beale to correct it. If he can continue like that he’ll be like a new signing.

Well, the excitement is officially back! Suddenly we have an entertaining team, packed with creativity and flair. Slowly but surely, the bench is starting to look stronger too. Jack, Colak, Cantwell and Lowry on the bench last night. Raskin, Roofe, Hagi, Lawrence, Souttar/Helander and Yilmaz are all to be added to that. A run of three reasonably straightforward games now to bed in Raskin and Cantwell and to iron out the creases before the 26th!

Aerial attack is the route every team in this league except Celtic take against us. They try to win set pieces and then just get it in the box. Aerial ability is very important, it’s our main vulnerability domestically by a mile.

I agree with that. We are poor in the air and Raskin, Yilmaz and Cantwell coming in will actually make it worse.

From memory, I think Barisic caught form at that time. He’s also top for assists this season and doing well in a range of stats. Yilmaz impressed me though and I think he’ll improve us when he starts playing.

The stats I’ve seen on Sands as a DM are not promising. I do wonder if they erroneously included his games at centre back though, which would heavily skew the stats. But they basically showed that he is good defensively but has extremely low contribution creatively.

On this point, you could argue that the signings of Lundstram, Davies, Lawrence and Colak all improved the starting 11. But they are all in their late twenties with no real sell-on value. Raskin is the first signing of its kind arguably since Aribo potentially. Straight into the 11 and very young, with high sell-on potential. Yilmaz will hopefully be similar, and Tillman!

We've added two players who improve the starting 11 (hopefully). That is something we haven't done much in recent years, and especially not with players who have their best years ahead of them. As things stand now, Goalkeeper is the main priority for the summer. And the uncertainty around Kent and Morelos will determine what the next priority is. We still lack goalscorers behind the striker and that's hopefully something that we can address in the summer.

She isn’t trans.

That concludes a very good transfer window in my book. Two strong, long term signings made in January. Not often you can say that! With players returning from injury too, we hopefully have a better second half the season ahead of us.

Great idea though. It’s a win-win, great option for fans and good for the club.