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Personally think and hope Clarke stays for the qualifiers
I’d be ok with him staying but he has to change.

A few of the old guard need to call it a day.

There’s a 352 out there that is sort of in his mould that could be effective - if he chooses to use McTominay as a second striker.

Any goalkeeper and any striker staking any sort of a credible claim would help him enormously. He also needs to accept that he can’t fit all of his best players into a team as they’re all central midfielders.

GK (I’m not even going to suggest anyone, nightmare situation).

Tierney
McKenna
Souttar

Robertson
Christie
Gilmour
Hickey

McGinn

McTominay
Hirst


Any number of alternatives to Hirst, the centre and right of defence are up for grabs and god knows what he does for a goalkeeper.

With the number of good midfielders he has at his disposal, he needs to form a much stronger unit there to dominate games.

We’re not short of either good players or players playing well at a high level for their clubs. Most of it is there (or should be), he just needs to find a bit of inspiration for the problem positions.

And give them a bit of freedom to play. Clarke teams often look like they’re playing with the hand brake on.