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Andy Robertson

demotw said:
Forgot about Hutton, was about to pull out the Garry Brady trivia lol. I think we had 5 in total: Garry Brady/John Hendry/Jimmy Robertson/Steve Archibald and of course Alan Hutton.

At least thats all I can think of, probably more from earlier.
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Gordon Durie was Paisley...pretty much Glasgow.

(Don't come at me if that's offensive...I have no clue on Scottish tribalism)
 
Ace Face said:
I’d be very surprised if Robertson joined us being happy as second choice. He will absolutely push Udogie for a starting spot.
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Yeah I know the spirit is always willing, but the flesh does it's own thing after 30.

I keep thinking about Davies and how he was lauded for hard work and leadership....but his performance has been sub par and coincided with our long decline from the poch days. I know it's more factors at work, but fail to find evidence of his fabled contributions on the pitch. Context is a regular CL playing squad of course.
 
metalgear said:
Yeah I know the spirit is always willing, but the flesh does it's own thing after 30.

I keep thinking about Davies and how he was lauded for hard work and leadership....but his performance has been sub par and coincided with our long decline from the poch days. I know it's more factors at work, but fail to find evidence of his fabled contributions on the pitch. Context is a regular CL playing squad of course.
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Fair points but even if Robertson is in decline, he is starting from a higher point than Davies did.

Udogie has needed real competition for a while now imo. I believe he still has an extra gear or two left, but has been allowed to coast a bit bc of no one challenging him (and injuries). And there’s not many teachers to have at that position to learn about end product from than Robertson.
 
Ace Face said:
Fair points but even if Robertson is in decline, he is starting from a higher point than Davies did.

Udogie has needed real competition for a while now imo. I believe he still has an extra gear or two left, but has been allowed to coast a bit bc of no one challenging him (and injuries). And there’s not many teachers to have at that position to learn about end product from than Robertson.
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Or is he starting from a higher point? I played golf with a Pool fan yesterday. He said Robbo has been pretty poor defensively in the last couple of seasons. He said, like Trent, he was never a great defender but they always had the midfielders like Fabinho, Hendo and Milner that had an eye on the full-back areas as both had license to bomb forward. Now that Robbo has had to play more as an orthodox full-back, he's actually shown some weaknesses in a Pool shirt. Saying that, I never felt Davies was a great defensive full-back when he had runners coming at him anyway.

I guess we will find out at some point.
 
For me Robertson was not a priority. Can see he brings a winning mentality but likely his best days are long behind him. Won't get excited until we address our priority areas though, forwards and deep lying passing midfielder.
 
There is a rumour on the grapevine that Davies will be given a new 1 year extension. I am just not convinced we need both Robertson and Davies.
 
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