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‘Gone backwards’… Andy Halliday names three Celtic players that have got worse under Brendan Rodgers
‘Gone backwards’… Andy Halliday names three Celtic players that have got worse under Brendan Rodgers
Watching Celtic this season has been a bit of a hard slog. Especially over the last few weeks.
Long gone are the days of Ange Postecoglou’s swashbuckling football. It has now been replaced with a slow, snails-paced game that the Celtic fans have not seen since Rodgers’ final season at the club.
What is also missing is those individual players who would light up a game at a moment’s notice. Jota has been replaced with Luis Palma.
And whilst Palma is doing ok, he’s just not got the electric pace and dribbling the Portuguese ace had. Aaron Mooy has been replaced by Odin Thiago Holm.
Whilst I appreciate Mooy wasn’t a dribbler, he could pick out moments of magic that could unlock the best of defences.
But the bulk of the treble-winning squad is still there and Andy Halliday has named three players he says that are playing worse now than they were under Ange Postecoglou.
Halliday said [Clyde SSB], “Kyogo for me, as it stands right now, he’s been a shell of the player we’ve seen last year. What was it, 35 goals?
“We’re now sitting in December and he’s scored one more goal than Dessers who has had nothing but criticism for months.
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“And I think again, I could go through a list. Alistair Johnston for me has went backwards. I think Greg Taylor is the same.
“I think there’s a right few players that, right now, Brendan Rodgers not getting the best out of.”
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I hate to say it, but Halliday is correct. These three have regressed under Rodgers and it’s hard to see how they going to get out of it.
Normally ever reliable, this trio of players look to be suffering from a crisis of confidence brought on by trying to play a system that is completely alien to them.
Rodgers must do something and quickly to change that because with the next two games coming up, the Celtic gaffer is going to need them performing if he wants to pick up all six points.
James McCarthy to stay on with Dublin footballers for 2024 campaign
McCarthy is one of three Dublin players, along with goalkeeper Stephen Cluxton and defender Mick Fitzsimons, whose All-Ireland medal count sits one shy of double figures.
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All-Ireland-winning football captain James McCarthy has indicated that he will continue with Dublin in 2024.
McCarthy was asked about his Dublin future after lining out for Shelbourne FC Legends in a charity football game over the weekend to raise funds for Breast Cancer Ireland.
“You’d have to give it a crack, don’t you, I suppose. We’ll give it a belt and see what happens,” he told the Striker Online blog of going again with Dublin in search of a 10th All-Ireland SFC medal.
McCarthy, who turns 34 next March, had been far less emphatic when quizzed on his Dublin future in the aftermath of the county’s All-Ireland final win over Kerry at the end of July.
“Look, this isn’t a bad way probably to wrap it up, but there’s a lot of guys have to make decisions in the next couple of months but we’ll enjoy this now and see what happens,” he said at the time.
McCarthy is one of three Dublin players, along with goalkeeper Stephen Cluxton and defender Mick Fitzsimons, whose All-Ireland medal count sits one shy of double figures.
Kilkenny’s Henry Shefflin is the sole male Gaelic games player to win 10 All-Ireland senior medals.
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