Shane Duffy

Banjaxed wrote:

There's a lot of mention of confidence which is obviously true, but all the confidence in the world isn't going to change the fact that he doesn't have pace.

In the current era of high press he just doesn't cut it unfortunately.

Under Hughton, O'Neill, McCarthy Duffy makes sense. Under a new system, it has to be accepted that Duffy's past successes don't absolve him indefinitely.

Why did Celtic take him in? This was well known beforehand....

I know it’s only a loan move but his wages would be expensive for the Scottish league.

Think people are forgetting the mental side of things. The lad only lost his dad very recently. The move to Celtic was probably very much emotionally driven.

Danger here, OH NO

horsebox wrote:

Banjaxed wrote:

There's a lot of mention of confidence which is obviously true, but all the confidence in the world isn't going to change the fact that he doesn't have pace.

In the current era of high press he just doesn't cut it unfortunately.

Under Hughton, O'Neill, McCarthy Duffy makes sense. Under a new system, it has to be accepted that Duffy's past successes don't absolve him indefinitely.

We don't have any one who can put the ball in the net either.

Matt Doherty or Stevens are both deployed and neither fit the system.

You make the best out of the players you have avaiable.

I don't agree with fundamentally weakening a system (especially in centre defence) to include someone that gets the odd goal.

A centre back playing a high line while having no pace is not something you try and accommodate. That's a fatal flaw in a system that will be exploited again and again by any opposition that's clued in. In game...

A.) Duffy would continue to be done on the counter, eventually you would be punished.

B.) Duffy instinctively drops deeper to compensate for his pace, nullifying our high line, shape and over all system.

Surely, the cons outweigh the pros in this regard.

I really like Duffy when he's on song, but assuming Kenny continues his style, then I don't see much of a future for Shane.

Celtic seem to be better for his absence anyway.

celtic have still given up quite a lot of good chances in his absence, the difference is they have capitalised on their own chances while motherwell have been wasteful

Edited by Four-Four-Two - 08 Nov 2020 at 1:48pm

He was taken out of the firing line for 79 mins.

It was far across the sea,
When the devil got a hold of me,
He wouldn't set me free,
So he kept me soul for ransom.
na na na na na na na na na
na na na na na na na na.
I'm a sailor man from Glasgow to

No harm to bring him on once the game was safe. Maybe build his confidence a bit and realistically he couldn't do too much damage in less than 15 minutes on the pitch.

Trap junior wrote:

My guess is that he has been taken out of the line of fire for a while.

That's exactly why he was left out, and it would have happened a while back only for Celtics injury and covid problems. The last few weeks were very tough for Duffy and under normal circumstances he would have been left out for his own good. His reputation as a decent CB is in the gutter at the moment which is an awful shame. I hope he rebuilds his confidence and adapts better to life at Celtic over the coming months. His performances would certainly have giving Stephan Kenny plenty to think about

Not a single Premier League side wanted Duffy enough to go and get him during the summer, so it's even more unlikely they'd go for him now.

He's out of sight and out of mind in Scotland, I'd question whether he will play in the Premier League again. Maybe a newly promoted team might take him, but all the promoted teams this year play a reasonably expansive game, so didn't want Duffy. Might be a similar situation next season.

If he can't turn it around at Celtic it will be back to the Brighton reserves or down to the Championship I think. The Sheffield Wednesdays and Stokes of that division would take him alright.