Connor Goldson finished at Ibrox? New quotes are damning

Connor Goldson’s reaction after the shambles at Hampden said a lot about him, and a lot about where the squad are right now.

Goldson slaughtered his team mates claiming they’d lost their hunger and their awareness, and said not a single individual can hold their head high.

Let’s take a look:

“The first two goals are from a corner. People are in the wrong position, which we have worked on yesterday. The second is from a throw-in and people are in the wrong position. If players don’t want to follow instructions, then we can’t blame coaches because they give us the information to do our job and players don’t want to take that on board.”

There’s a real arrogance here – he’s alluding to everyone else making the errors but not him. By stating ‘we have worked on yesterday’ he’s implying HE remembered what to do, but no one else did.

“We can be in there at half-time and say believe in ourselves blah, blah, blah but the game is over at 3-1 down at half-time.”

This is even worse – he’s now deriding the notion of a half time team talk as if no manager can ever have an impact with a powerful half time chat, and we know from experience that the likes of Sir Alex and our legendary own Sir Walter had exactly that kind of impact. Players CAN believe they can turn it around, but only if they want to. Connor didn’t want to.

“We know that the new manager was there today and you’d hope they [the players] would want to impress but after that performance, we need a change. We need a spark. I feel like – and I don’t want to say this – we have lost a bit of hunger. All of a sudden we are champions and we don’t need to work as hard, which is wrong and I feel like that has crept in this season. Hopefully, the new manager can come in and give us a spark.”

Again, he’s palming it off on his team mates, while equally (unintentionally?) admitting he too has lost his hunger.

In truth, if one player in the shirt has worked especially modestly this season, it is Goldson. He’s never been awful, but as we have discussed dozens of times, his work ethic has been middling.

So these quotes are both true, but deeply hypocritical, and also very arrogant in places.

Time for the stopper to move on too?