biggordy 0 Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 We had a great opportunity to humiliate and demoralise our main rivals yesterday. They are a team close to imploding and a good victory yesterday would have sealed their fate. We could have walked tall for the rest of the season and faced all teams with the confidence of champions. What a great run-in it could have been. Wee Jimmy Krankie knows the game's up and would be delighted that he didn't lose any more ground to the only team capable of taking the league from them. The message Smith gave our players was " we are not good enough to go and beat this poor and dysfunctional team because they are better than us " 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankie 8,552 Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 I agree that far too often our negative approach means we give other teams confidence instead of ensuring they worry more about us than we do them. However, even if we did win yesterday, we were far from guaranteed that we'd walk tall for the rest of the season. After all we've won many important games over the last couple of years under Smith and still played poorly afterwards. See the end of last season when we won 1-0 at Ibrox and even this season after we won 4-2 at Parkhead. As such, one of the biggest questions that remains about our team (and manager) is that of bottle. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gisabeer 409 Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Negativety is a word tht jumps to mind at the very mention of Walter Smiths name. We have the players to play attacking football yet we opt to play no football at all. Infact its fair to say we set our stall out not to play football at all and even worse stop the opposing team playing it as well. On thing is for sure. No matter how much we complain there is absolutely no chance whatsoever that Walter Smith will change his gameplan and tactics. This is our lot im afraid. get used to it. god help us if this guy stays another season, win or los the league. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ascender 352 Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Well done everyone, great result, we're only two points behind Celtic now! Just think, if we'd been more positive against them and Aberdeen, we could have been 4 points clear at the top. Like Frankie says, we've struggled to beat many of the other teams in the league, so I don't understand why we haven't gone for it in those two games. And like someone else pointed out yesterday, its very worrying that even with more attacking and creative players in our team now, WS seems to be doing his best to shackle their creative urges. I think WS should have come in, steadied the ship last season, then stepped aside in the summer for someone else to take over, especially as there was money there to rebuild. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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