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Hickey and Hepburn to Bayern
craigkillie replied to Carnoustie Young Guvnor's topic in Tartan Army Ramblings
Taylor has started 10 times for Celtic this season, Hickey has started 13 times in his entire Bologna career. Taylor is also only 23 himself but seems to be talked about as though he's some veteran jobber. That's not a judgement on their relative merits, just a quick note. Hickey is really nicely suited as a wing-back in our system. He wasn't great defensively when he played here and from what I've seen at Bologna he plays so high up the park he hardly has to defend. However, he is technically superb and would offer a lot as a wing-back option in our squad. I don't think he's remotely as good a defender as Doig, who I see as quite Tierney-like. I'd quite like to see him in the next squad with a view to potentially giving him a go off the bench in the Faroes. Taylor has less to offer in these two games than he would in away games against better teams. -
The Hibernian Thread
craigkillie replied to Mon Dieu's topic in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
The standard in mid-table in that league isn't great as we've seen with the likes of Hickey and Henderson. Can't imagine he'll do any worse. -
Gilmour, Hickey and Patterson are all in the 19-21 age bracket. Calvin Ramsey too, who will most likely be going to Liverpool to be part of the first team squad.
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Hickey and Hepburn to Bayern
craigkillie replied to Carnoustie Young Guvnor's topic in Tartan Army Ramblings
Have you ever seen Hickey play? All his strengths are about attacking and technical ability, he's not a very good defender at all. Every single Bologna game I've seen him spend most of the time in the other team's half of the pitch. -
Hickey had two caps before the Ukraine game, coming on as a sub in the second half. Didn't seem to do him much good.
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I'm not sure I understand the point in this question given that it is fairly obvious who is responsible for the tactics, and the rest of it was basically answered in the post you replied to. The gambles in the starting line-up (Hickey, Cooper, a half-fit Gilmour) didn't work out, and we should have stuck with the 3-4-3 system rather than going back to a front two. We ended up having less out balls from defence, and only two defenders ever willing to play a pass into midfield (Robertson and McTominay) and that left the others just slinging it long. The changes at half-time tried to move away from that but we still couldn't play through them. Then we thrived a bit when the game got chaotic, but couldn't create a proper chance, which I put more down to the players. After that had calmed down we should have flung one of the forwards on for the last 10 minutes even if neither of them are likely good enough.
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People will just say any old shite on here in the aftermath of a defeat. The starting tactics were wrong, and the way we finished was wrong when we could have had an extra forward on the park instead of slinging it to Hanley. However, claiming we didn't try to change it in the first half is nonsense. After about 25 minutes McGinn dropped deeper into a three to try to get more of a grip on the game, and for a bunch of that period Gilmour and McGregor swapped places to try to put someone with legs on the right hand side to cover Hickey, who was getting roasted every time they went near him. The fact they didn't work as intended doesn't mean they didn't happen.
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I'm a massive fan of Hickey, think he's an exceptional player. My only previous issue was folk saying "he plays there for Bologna all the time" when he'd done it about twice. He's had about six or seven decent games there since then so it's less of a risk, but still a risk nonetheless IMO. However with Patterson out and O'Donnell not fully fit I get it.
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I could be wrong, but I can't see this being the case with the current group. Robertson (27) has 43 caps, McGregor (27) has 29, McGinn (26) has 32, McTominay (24) has 22 and Tierney (23) has 19. Barring major injury or similar, I'd expect all of them to get to 50 caps, and all except McGregor to get to 70. That's a really nice core of guys who are roughly of a similar age, and Adams has obviously thrust himself into that group now too. I fully expect the likes of Turnbull, Hickey and Gilmour to represent the next group breaking through into the squad - all of them are excellent prospects, and I think would have been capped over the last few months if we'd had any friendlies. Patterson might be the same, but I still feel like I've not seen enough from him to know if he's up to it - he has still only started two Premiership games for Rangers and I felt he struggled in the European games. More likely for me is that Hickey ends up being our RWB (or RB if we revert to a back four).
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Hickey could easily get the nod at RWB given that he's started playing there a bit at club level and O'Donnell missed about two months with an injury.
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The fact there is no Pedri (or Aaron Hickey) on there means I'm struggling to take it seriously.
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You've got something which is not provably wrong, and about which more people agreed with me, something that is basically standard manager waffle (given that he started that player in both games), and then something I didn't actually say. My questioning of Hickey was purely about people suggesting him for RWB, which isn't where he played.
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Feels harsh to be overly critical given that it's a friendly, but Hickey lashing it across the box rather than taking it to the corner in the last minute was a mistake.
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I can only presume that people who want Hickey to play centre-back haven't actually watched him play. He is a supremely talented footballer with great technical ability, but he is not a very good defender even for a modern full-back. When I've seen him play for Bologna he spends most of the game in the opposing half, even against better teams. That means he's really well-suited to the wing-back role in Scotland's 3-5-2, but he has absolutely none of the attributes required to play in the back three. I could see Taylor playing there more easily, that would be a better fit, though his only issue is his height.
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Hickey and Hepburn to Bayern
craigkillie replied to Carnoustie Young Guvnor's topic in Tartan Army Ramblings
He is already costing himself opportunities with this petulant stance though. Look at the November fixtures when a few players dropped out and we ended up chucking Anthony Ralston on at LWB for the last couple of minutes against Denmark. If Hickey hadn't pretended to be injured so he could pull out of the U21s then that could easily have been him. We haven't had a proper friendly in years, so playing in the U21s is more or less his only chance to impress in a Scotland strip. If he'd been turning up and doing that there might have been an opportunity to seize with these two friendlies coming up, but instead he has put himself in the position of looking disruptive or as though it would set a bad example by calling him up. He is clearly being terribly advised by someone in his life. -
Hickey and Hepburn to Bayern
craigkillie replied to Carnoustie Young Guvnor's topic in Tartan Army Ramblings
Is he actually better than Greg Taylor? They're both first choice for roughly similar clubs and both having very good seasons at those clubs. It's very easy to look at him playing in a better league and confuse that with him being a better player, but Bologna are probably not better than Celtic. I'm sure most of Celtic's squad could play in the bottom of half of Serie A too. Taylor hasn't been in a Scotland squad since the summer either. Absolutely, Hickey has more potential to go on to be a Scotland player, and therefore should be in with a shout of getting picked. But regardless of whether he has given an explicit interview about it or not, it is very clear that he can't be arsed with the U21s, and I have had more than one source with Hearts connections telling me that he's pulled out of U21 (and other youth squads before it) because he thinks he should be in the full squad. -
Hickey has played twice for Bologna at RWB this season. The first time he and the team played poorly and lost. The second time they were losing again and he was switched back across to LWB at HT. So as usual the reason he hasn't been in the squad is that he isn't as good as the two players who play the position he actually plays. Once you factor in his very obvious lack of commitment to the national team, it's no great surprise he hasn't been involved.
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Hickey and Hepburn to Bayern
craigkillie replied to Carnoustie Young Guvnor's topic in Tartan Army Ramblings
I think Hickey started at RWB again for Bologna today, but got moved back across to the left at half time. Could be wrong, but looks that way from the line-up. They got spanked 3-0 by Lazio and are sliding down the table, 4 points from 9 games. -
Hickey and Hepburn to Bayern
craigkillie replied to Carnoustie Young Guvnor's topic in Tartan Army Ramblings
Greg Taylor's return to fitness and excellent form might mean Hickey has another U21 squad to pull out of in March. -
Joe Jordan managed to get relegated with AC Milan and ended up with a worse goals per game ratio in Serie A than teenage full-back Aaron Hickey.
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Hickey and Hepburn to Bayern
craigkillie replied to Carnoustie Young Guvnor's topic in Tartan Army Ramblings
The one thing all of those players have in common is that they have much better players already in the squad playing in their position. How can Hickey be "demonstrably worthy of inclusion" when the other two left wing-back options are a country mile ahead of him, and indeed are probably two of the best in the world in that position, for example? Jack Hendry didn't have any issues getting picked from a foreign league, because our other centre-back options were limited. Of our current squad, only four players are playing in the English lower leagues - McKenna, Christie, Brown and Dykes. Of those, Christie will almost certainly be in the Premier League next season and is a Championship player in name only. McKenna, Brown and Dykes are all in our weakest areas of the park in terms of squad depth. Remember that even at the absolute peak of his powers, Johnny Russell never played above Championship level in England. -
Hickey is more likely to end up as an attacking midfielder than a centre-back given what his actual strengths are as a player. I have no idea where people pluck some of these notions from - maybe Football Manager or FIFA lists him as being able to play there or something?
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Hickey has a total of four career games at right-back, all of them around 3 years ago.
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Hickey is a left wing-back.
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Hickey and Hepburn to Bayern
craigkillie replied to Carnoustie Young Guvnor's topic in Tartan Army Ramblings
Hickey played 33 games for Hearts too.
