Colby Donovan

These are just, the point here is that you put together combinations of things that can lead to systemic failure.

So we know that we've got, we talked about, we might get on to Colby Donovan, who's been a great success story for Celtic this season and has many different attributes and it looks an incredibly promising prospect, one of the few in recent years to come through the academy that looks like he may have a long-term career at Celtic, which would be fantastic.

But he does go forward a lot and he's often out of position in transition.

So you've got that on the right-hand side.

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The point I'd make on this as well, Quinnie, is the absence of key individuals who should be in amongst us.

One of them being Colby Donovan, whose man you can see is also free at the back.

It didn't break to him, but Donovan's lost.

He's miles up the park.

Hassan not being strong enough and Cameron Carter-Vicker's not being strong enough when we're going to contest that second ball after the header.

And it breaks us into that.

I think if you remember against Ferris Varoche, when we lost the goal straight after half-time, Colby Donovan was caught right up the park as well.

He was virtually playing as a winger.

And, yeah, it's just a really odd spot to be.

So, like, starting lineups was Johnston in goal, Donovan scales, Carter Vickers and Tierney across the back.

Bauer, McGregor, Oxlade-Chamberlain got a start, which was good to see.

And then Hassan, Osman on the wing, and then Duran in the middle.

And Tierney's the other one for me.

Yeah, so KT was the third.

I mean, Donovan's been very good, don't get me wrong.

I could probably squeeze him in, but there's a couple of decent right-backs in the league, though.

Absolutely.

Because he's been sent off, and yet in midweek, Colby Donovan isn't, and at the weekend, James Penrice is.

I don't think Colby, I don't think Colby Donovan's a straight red, though.

But, but-

It's similar, but I don't think, I don't think he's-

And then, before you know it, he's surrounded by four or five Falkirk players all getting in his face, and there's not a Celtic player in sight.

And when the first one arrives, about 15 seconds later, it's Colby Donovan.

the youngest player in the team.

He was about the only one that looked as if he was wanting to go in and back up with Sam.

Calum McGregor was, yet again, trying to be a coach on the pitch, essentially.

You had Colby Donovan also pointing towards the dugout as well to say, come on, what are we supposed to do here in this situation? And I don't think that adds any positivity to the whole situation of it.

the players are perhaps not pleased with what's happening on the pitch as well and naturally wouldn't be because a lot of these guys are used to systems where they know exactly what they have to do and it works and everyone has specific roles in the team you can see how it's supposed to function whereas watching celtic recently you're not entirely sure of what people are trying to do where people are supposed to be runs that are meant to be made I think their pressing has decreased significantly recently.

I don't know the number.

That sounds like a solid defence to me.

Today we line up as Johnston, Donovan, Carter-Vickers, Skills and Tierney.

So I want to have a look at this because, again, for the last wee while, I have been looking at the possibility of changing the formation changing, the shape of the team.

And part of that was, of course, in the defence.

Hopefully he doesn't have to do that today.

Hopefully it's more comfortable than that today.

Right back, of course, we have Colby Donovan, who has been rewarded, and rightly so, with a new contract in the last seven days.

He will be contracted to Celtic in 2031.