Three weeks after putting 8 goals past South Lanarkshire’s top team Celtic struggled to demonstrate their superiority against the county’s least decorated SFA member
We’ve seen these games before, East Kilbride looked no weaker than the Arbroath team who took us to a replay after drawing at Celtic Park a few years back, but neither performance was an endorsement of Celtic’s football.
I’m getting an uncomfortable feeling that teams know how to play Celtic. For most, this knowledge will not affect the result, but some, like Ross County and Aberdeen, will figure they can give us the ball all day, and as long as they stick to task, they’ll have a chance.
The only resolution to the ills of the last three outings is to get back on the field and boss a game the way we did several times last month. Ross County and Inverness both visit Celtic Park in the next two weeks and both need to feel a backlash. Let’s hope.
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The green man…
Got you down for the guilotine. ;)
The refereeing er fraternity, will be delighted how things are panning out.
They will be right at it, in the run in.
We need to be strong and ruthless….and command.
Right from the off…Blood and Guts.
Grrrrr
HH
RE EK game
Was very pleased to see young Matt McGinley play a stormer.
He’s a great Celtic supporter, lovely fella and according to my son a great PE teacher. I caught up with him last year to have a bite to eat and watch a Celtic game ( a European disappointment!) when he was teaching in Cults. He was playing for Buckie Thistle at that point – who would have thought a year later he’d be facing Celtic?!?
It’s a funny old game right enough.
Well done Matt!
Am I alone in wondering if last night’s shambolic draw was deliberately done to prepare the SFA’s excuses, that they’re incompetent rather than corrupt, when their cheating is exposed in the course of the year?
SIPSINI
Ive already constructed several mobile guillotine’s.
We can wheel them around from place to place.
Better to be prepared:)
HH
CultsBhoy…
I take it young matt paid as your on crap money the same as me :))
sipsini on 9th February 2016 11:16 am
I totally agree that msm will try and it something it isn’t and that the games will sell out.
For me it’s perhaps personal, I don’t know. I’ve always stated that their eventual rise to the premiership was inevitable, presuming they stayed afloat – like or not they’re too big not too but if they did I’d treat them as any other team. Unlike Rangers I won’t be ensuring I can’t possibly miss they game. If something’s happening that means I miss the game so be it. I wouldn’t move hell and earth to make a Killie game. RIFC will get the same treatment.
By the same token I won’t be deliberately boycotting.
By the way, I don’t think they are guaranteed promotion. Stokes might be the difference. He’s scored in each of his starts in that division
Traditionalist88
Re GMS I hear you but of all the Scottish signings we’ve made lately he and Griffiths looked like safe bets.
GMS probably has most natural ability.
He’s looked good linking with Leigh in a few games.
I believe he’ll come good but if it doesn’t show by the end of the season time will have beaten him… Patrick Roberts is the threat to these guys. He’ll play because he is higher quality and because we need to keep Man City sweet but I wonder what impact he’ll have on a few players opportunities.
In my opinion you need to build a team around regular likely to stay guys not loan players…. As we are now finding out in central defence..
TIMALOY29
If there was any justice.
On the day that they were promoted.
A massive sinkhole would open underneath ipox…..and the Circus of Horrors would sucked into the bowels of Hell….incinerated.
I mean…is that too much to ask:)
Would save us a lot of trouble.
HH
GMS & Armstrong are good enough to win SPFL games for us. Europe? Wait and see…
If Sevco make their maiden voyage in the top tier of Scoddish Football next season after their delay-filled journey from tier zero, armed with officially acknowledged World Record titles and 1872 foundations, at least the kick-off times for all games will be standardised.
No more of this noon, 12:30, 2:00, 3:00 rubbish.
All matches shall commence at Farce o’clock.
We all want a new owners to move the club forward and investment. I have came up with a cunning plan.
With all the bragging on here about how rich some posters are. Why not all get together and buy the CELTIC.
C’mon bhoys you know it makes sense. Please make it happen.
THE GREEN MAN SAYS SACK THE BOARD on 9TH FEBRUARY 2016 11:32 AM
I dream about it every night :-)
GREENSIDEUP-GBWO on 9TH FEBRUARY 2016 10:56 AM
Kevjungle, you forget one thing, the EPL
are miles ahead of us in revenues from tv
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Hail Hail fella, sorry for delay…was taking phone call.
Yer right and, I should have mentioned that Shearer did mention this.
HH
Cultsbhoy….
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Hail Hail fella.
Yeah, who would the manager be ?
HH
Weeminger…
I understand where you are coming from, I went to the cup game last season, I didn’t really want to go but all my mates were.
Initially, I had no intention of going to a game against thems but realised, why should I not support Celtic?
My team, your team, they b******s will be back in abundance, our club will need us, just hope the board realise we need them. HH
The Sevco ball is too hot to handle.
I think that Celtic signed Scott Allan to stump the huns.
Maybe they’ll do the same with McInnes ?
Think Warburton will be away in the summer.
CultsBhoy
I just don’t think he has the technical attributes to produce anything more than minimal end product. He wouldnt even be described as having a sweet left foot, in a game where 99% of left feet are described as sweet!
Hope I’m wrong of course but I think he’d be on the surplus to requirements list for a ruthless manager.
I have high hopes for Henderson – sprays the ball around well, gets up and down, scores goals, can mix it in midfield and the dying art of crossing a ball is in his locker. I really hope he is given a big role in the first team next season as he is quite a unique talent.
HH
TIMALOY29
There are alternatives.
How about this wee scenario.
The Bulldozers move in, and ipox is swept away forever…..The Last Exorcism in Scotland.
However…..They build a massive retail mall and car park…..and,…a Drive-In Rangers Heritage Museum…..video screens in the parking bays….so ra berz can watch all the best bits of their historical cheating….and then go for their messages:)
Job Done….everybody happy.
HH
Celtic should sign Paddybhoy1888’s bhoy….before EPL vultures swoop…imho
If, John Brown gets the deeds…..Celtic had better head for the hills….
Freddie Kroogrrrrrrrr – CSC
Liam Henderson is a better all round player than Scott Allan imo.
That said Allan does have a chance too but needs to step up and make himself a first choice.
HH
Ronny was being lined up to be an assistant manager. A combination of circumstances and an impressive interview process elevated him into the manager’s chair at Celtic Park.
He got off to a terrible start in Europe, just like WGS and Neil Lennon before him.
He won the league in his first season, as did WGS but not Neil Lennon.
He also won the League Cup and lost out at the semi-final stage of the Scottish Cup, although the referee played his part in the outcome that day.
He’s had loan signings thrust upon him and he’s seen his best players sold, starting with Fraser Forster and then the biggest loss in Virgil van Dijk who was Celtic’s most important player last season.
The loss of VVD and Jason Denayer – who was coming back if we reached Champions Legaue group stages, has been a huge loss for Deila’s side this season.
You can see in Europe, in the matches at Aberdeen and at Hampden the other week, that we have struggled to get our act together defensively. Our goal scoring has been fine, even in Europe, and in the defeats domestically we have scored each time.
The goalkeeping this year has been much poorer than last season. It took a year to realise that Craig Gordon is no Fraser Forster.
At left back Izzy has lost his place to KT who is surely the Young Player of the Year this season. Izzy lost his place because of failings in his defensive duties.
At right back our signing from Man Utd has been injured, Matthews sold (he wanted away) and ML has had a poor season by his own standards.
In central defence DB arrived from Manchester City and Efe has confirmed what we all know – he is error prone. That is costly.
But we lost players of the quality of Denayer and VVD and that is some gap to fill. Given the resources made available to Ronny, could we have expected anything other than what has happened?
Last season was Ronny’s first and it was hopefully the last season of the buy to sell on strategy. Now we are trying to build Ronny’s strategy and build a young and exciting homegrown team.
The signings with this in mind have been encouraging but it takes time, and Ronny has to deliver in the meantime. It’s no time to lose our nerve.
Ronny should deliver the league title and maybe the Scottish Cup this season, with us behind him and the team.
Next season will probably see THEM playing in our league for the first time. The MSM will do all they can – are doing all they can – to undermine Celtic and our manager and in doing so increase the intensity and generate stories. Pro new club and anti Celtic stories.
We all knew that VVD was using us a stepping stone. He got his move by playing well at Celtic but that’s not the way forward.
Let’s get behind Ronny and the young team he is building, and with a double in the bag come May, we will all be feeling a wee bit better about all things Celtic.
Sips..,
Celtic actually own the copy right for the phrase “old firm” so they could actually make it hard for ant media outlet that wants to use the phrase, maybe charge them for use, I mean they are always babbling about raising new income streams or do we already make money from that source and why its not been killed off.
Sipsini
I borrowed from the wife to cover the costs…
HH
CB
Winning Captains on 9th February 2016 11:48 am
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Good luck with that…
Hail Hail
….off oot….zzzzzz……
When some are acting like Huns, they turn on you like Huns, accusing you of being a Hun, funny that eh?
It’s getting way OTT with this big splinter group push, and some wanting to protest before Sat. Game, outside & inside, you see this is what I’v been saying for months, they set everyone up, and push they’r agenda, soooooo predictable, all the Wee boys will be hoisting the banners on sat. And the leaders? No where to be seen, as usual, splinter groups are Celtics shame. And unfortunately we have to live with it, this is what it’s come to, Huns and the SMSM at work with help from gullible Tims, divide and conquer oh take a bow .
If you look on the bright side, there’s not much chance of us losing centre backs this summer to lucrative offers from the EPL.
Continuity….
TD67
What splinter groups?
The Judean People’s Front….or, The Front for the People of Judea:)
Is it Anarchists, or Marxist Malcontents?
Or the Green Brigade…The Celtic Jihadis:)
Whoever they are….GET THEM OUT.
HH
If I had to pick a manager for Celtic right now it would be …
Alan Stubbs.
Firstly we’d get him. He is very inexperienced but I think has the attributes. He speaks well. He has authority. He’s done it at Celtic and in the EPL.
The fans can relate to him.
He improves players and builds a team.
The price would be the need for patience in Europe,
He’d definitely see off Huns..
Likewise, there is always a danger that when one of your players has a storming season, he will attract interest from other clubs.
After last year’s POTY award, Johansen has had a carefully orchestrated “shocker” this season.
Cunning.
Imagine that illiterate ambassador associated with your club.
Winning Captains
Good post. A change in strategy would be interesting and a homegrown team would get the fans on board PROVIDED they are of the required quality.
The fact remains that on the football side the bar must be raised and that starts with the manager – can he develop a ruthless streak that he has yet to show in nearly 2 years and cut loose the players that demonstrably do not have the mental or technical aptitude to play for Celtic?
No one will care for the average age or the nationality of the squad if the quality continues to decline.
A crucial few months coming up.
HH
TD67
Keep posting the links you find – most are of great interest to me.
Don’t agree with you on Celtic Board or your ironic accusations of hunnery. You object to being called a Hun yet call everybody a Hun?
All opinions are valid . If there was 100% consensus on CQN it would have died years ago
HH
Canamalar it looks like OCD obsession on 9th February 2016 11:49 am
Certainly nobody eg SKY or BT Sport can market ‘Old Firm’ without our permission.
The club have gone on record as saying that phrase has been retired. All we can do is wait and see.
Celtic started with 7 Scots against Aberdeen
THE GREEN MAN SAYS SACK THE BOARD on 9TH FEBRUARY 2016 11:59 AM
Maybe if they drill down under the surface they might find “ra deeds” buried in the secret underground lodge