Steven Gerrard must overule major alleged board decision

If one thing has become even more glaringly obvious in Borna Barisic’s continuing absence, it’s the increasing inadequacy of Jon Flanagan and Andy Halliday as deputies, and Steven Gerrard’s embarrassing excuses about their superiority to the one decent LB wasting away in the development squad.

The Lee Wallace Elephant in the Room saga is now starting to grate and hurt this team – while we know Halliday tries his honest best, it is also abundantly noticeable that Flanagan is absolutely horrendous as a left back now, and simply can’t cut it.

He began life at Ibrox looking quite decent in that slot, but it’s derailed badly, and now it’s a pathetic toss up between an attacking midfielder and a right back as to who gets the nod to take their turn this match.

Meanwhile a former Scotland international finds himself sitting idly by and unable to contribute to the team.

We’re not saying Wallace is Arthur Numan, but he’s a damn sight better than the only two options Gerrard appears to consider valid.

We hark once again back to the notion that his hands are behind his back, and this is a boardroom political decision and not a football one, because there is no way a man who’s ‘forgotten more about football than you’ll ever know’ truly believes either Flanagan or Halliday do that job better than Lee Wallace.

There have been ‘theories’ that Flanagan is picked there out of favouritism and a notion he and Gerrard are mates. Quite possible, because on form he absolutely doesn’t merit a place on the bench right now never mind in the team.

But this is all academic and conjecture – we need our best players, and Wallace’s continued forced limbo at Ibrox has become a complete eyesore.