Quote Originally Posted by TheDeeDon View Post
Clarkson is a clearly talented player, so what is stopping him doing what he does best. Who is playing alongside him?
The opposition stopping him finding space?
Form?

Him alongside Polvara yesterday was never going to work, but I get why Jimmy dropped Palaversa.

Okkels is a player we have because he has struggled with injury for a few years and it has shown when he plays for us.
By playing Okkels, we then put Topi on the right, which weakens us further and have seen this time and time again over the past few months.


No danger that midfield four was getting us points at Ibrox, but would Palaversa in the middle. Topi on the left and Shayden on the right been any better?

McGrath is gone, but the lad has just recently came back from injury. Four months out is not a period you bounce back to your best after some minutes.
He is a good player and won't be easily replaced and should do well for Hibs.

Despite spending money, our squad is fairly poor and clearly players who either just aren't good enough or can't play Thelinball.

Our season changed last year with the siging of Hoilet.
The boy had a quality about him, despite his age, that is clearly lacking this season.

Even having a player like that in training or on the bench, helps others in the team raise their game and is a far better option off the bench than some of what we've got.
As far as Clarkson goes he has the build of a kid so if the opposition put anyone on him to stop him from dictating the play he is going to struggle.

With Scottish football being so physical he might not be suited to play up here and maybe get on better playing abroad.

McGrath has been decent in spells here this season and last season but has gone missing in games a lot of the time so I suspect he will be the same at Hibs.

You could argue that the players we have arent suited to Thelin ball but a lot of these guys struggled under Robson and Warnock last season and the excuse for them was they werent suited to playing hoofball.

Maybe they just arent suited to Scottish football and Daves process of signing players isnt working.