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Porteous is only 21 and has bags of time to improve and I think he will, but he needs the right man alongside him and whilst Hanlon can certainly help his development I think Porteous needs a Rob Jones type beside him.
Get Gallagher in from Motherwell play a back 3 with him in the centre and Porteous hanlon either side. Mcginn right back and rotate left back. Problem sorted.
Kevin Kyle having a go at him on Open Goal and saying how Porteous is a ‘s***e bag’, pretend Hard man, puts in late tackles to look the hard man but when it comes down to the gritty stuff he goes into hiding.
Porteous wouldn’t need much more motivation than that.
Lots of folk seem to be trying hard to dent portos confidence, the comments from charlie adam the other night were way over the top.......almost looks like many are harbouring some kinda jealousy towards him.........
I hope Porto ignores the background noise and keeps that aura of confidence, it's one of his biggest assets!
Kevin Kyle :lolyam:
Kevin Kyle is a moron.
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Agree with this, instead of an extra midfielder this is the position we should add quality to, and Gallagher is quality, with 3 seasons at the top in him at least.
I thought Porteous did well breaking into the team having Efe to play alongside, again I'm not knocking Hanlon but they both need to be led by an experienced head, possibly even a vocal keeper would help?
This really tells you all you need to know about Kevin Kyle - for a man to speak about a fellow professional footballer on a media platform like that is actually disgraceful.
I think Hibs should be publicly pulling him up for this.
I think they’re right, and he’d be a better player if he screwed the nut a bit.
He needs to do a bit of what they’re saying if he’s to avoid going from a decent player who has potential to be a cracking player to a decent player who had potential to be a cracking player.
Have the majority of us not been saying similar over the past few days?
Ryan has all the attributes to be a top centre half. What he needs at this stage of his career is guidance and leadership from a top centre half to add the finishing touches and consistency to his game. He will not get that from Hanlon. Might be best for the lad to go and try find that elsewhere as I don't see Hibs replacing Hanlon anytime soon, which is a shame. One thing I really noticed was the communication from the saints team at the weekend. You could hear their big players screaming instructions and motivating. Hanlon is a dormouse, not captain material.
Because from my recollection he's had 2 spells out, the most recent of which was January last year which was an aggravation of a previous injury.
You haven't addressed my point, you've just gone back to your point which doesn't hold much water if the last year is anything to go by.
Go watch the clip of the knock he took on the knee from Saturday. He brought that on himself. You are correct Porteous was part of defence which didn’t concede a lot of goals at the start of the season. Which included clean sheets against Motherwell, st Johnstone, st mirren & Ross county.
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Kevin Kyle probably struggles to spell his own name. Shouldn't be taken seriously.
He really has to stop throwing himself to the deck even though the refs keep letting him get away with it. It's not being professional, it's just embarrassing.
I thought so too
I also said earlier in this thread that I thought it hampered him throughout the game as it wasn't a vintage Porteous performance by any means.
Having said all of that and having been critical of him earlier I am still very glad he is one of our players and we can all have of our off days.
I am not convinced he is going to reach the heights I initially hoped but he is still one of the better centre half's in the league on his day with years to develop
:agree: Recently some refs have not been giving fouls, and it has left us defending the ball in a few dangerous areas.
I think if he keeps improving like he has, he will be a fantastic player for club and country. He does need to cut out the odd mistake, but he's young and hopefully he will learn with experience.