After so much slow build-up play this season, and so many misplaced passes, the sight of Roberts, Christie, Allan and Griffiths pinging the ball around the field was a revelation. I know the game was won before the three substitutes grabbed hold of things, and that there are vastly more challenging scenarios than Inverness at home, but the new blood have asked a big question of the incumbent three attacking midfielders.
The comfort on the ball the three substitutes brought was also contagious, Lustig looked less like a panicked fawn as he confidently back-heeled the ball into space.
The balance in the team has shifted damagingly in favour of players who can run, or perhaps jump, but who are unconvincing with the ball at their feet. So much so, Craig Gordon clears the ball up the field, instead of playing-in Bitton or a central defender, more than we’ve seen from a Celtic keeper in decades.
Christie, Roberts and Allan will not change this overnight (the latter’s misplaced pass against Ajax was costly), but they are doing enough to justify some faith in their selection. New Douglas Park should be an ideal opportunity to strut their stuff.
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GREENPINATA
Who would you like to see flanned….just for fun of course:)
John ‘Where’s Ra Deeds’ Brown would be a contender.
FlanFlingersCSC
HH
Probably for the best that Forrest may be off, Roberts to make the right wing berth his own over the next 18 months.
Lots of talk about Christie and Allan, both big prospects, but the one I would be most excited about is Henderson. That boy has got the lot whether hes stuck out wide or plays in his more natural role he is a better bet for us than Armstrong, GMS, or Johansen.
HH
The Battered Bunnet@ 4.09.
No need for shock or surprise.
The Rega deck belongs to the woman from Padova.I have a Linn Sondek LP 12 bought in 72.She bought the Rega in consequence of her irritation re my constant – ” be careful , please ” .We have a Pro- ject Debut 3.Bought when the Linn needed a wee repair.For what it’s worth – I think the Pro – ject is a far better deck than the Rega.
G67-I was going to ask about that too,I heard its been moved to the Sunday?
TinyTim
I share some of your reservations on recently signed players.
But was your mind not already made up about Ryan Christie? – because you didn’t see enough of him as a substitute on Saturday to have drawn such a hasty conclusion.
Most bhoys of his age have the same physique and they can’t all be Carlton Cole, and Aiden Nesbitt is so ‘lightweight’ he’s battling for a place at Partick Thistle.
The attendances are, what they are, we buy within our budget you know the game in Scotland is gubbed, and you know why.
The internet is about users telling us about ‘downsizing’ and how it’s all not the same, as when “they used to go”.
Keep it lit.
Breaking news:
James Forrest signs 3 year deal with Italian 2nd tier side, F.C. Sciatica.
Green man
its good to look back on those stats of 43 anti catholic societies outnumbering catholics in glasgow,
its even better to look at where we are now.
improving and gettin a wee bit better all the time,
who would have thunk it,a club started for the poor in Glasgow goes onto become the finest example of the irish diaspora at work,on the planet.
socially economically and politically we have improved,yes there are hills still to walk but we are always looking to improve,all the best in your research.
HH
!!Bada Bing!! on 22nd February 2016 4:27 pm
Would be the least likely of the four ties to be on TV so would have expected a 3pm kick off on Saturday.
Kev J
your hero :-)
https://twitter.com/ScotsFootyCards/status/701789230545108992
HH
hairenvyCsc:-)
The Green Man says SACK THE Board on 22nd February 2016 4:24 pm .
“Who would you like to see flanned….just for fun of course:)
John ‘Where’s Ra Deeds’ Brown would be a contender.”
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Yes, plus Kyle Laff at me and the flying porker for starters. Always hated the extremely aesthetically challenged Terry Hurlock, so flan him.
Dont really know any of the new huns so I would also flan Loaf. Just for being a banker.
HH.
I was one of Forrest’s biggest fans when he first broke in to the team. There is one invaluable quality for a forward that can’t really be coached – Pace, you either got it or you don’t, and he has genuine pace.
However, his injury record and his lack of dig, have lessened him as a player. I think he had better qualities in his first couple of seasons, he could cross the ball then for a start (from the right wing, which is where he belongs), and Celtic’s current formation and the way opponents line up against us in Scotland, mean that he has no pitch to use his pace. After 5 years with us, pace now seems to be his only attribute.
As a poster mentioned earlier, Europe perhaps offers a better stage for his one and only talent, but his fitness issues mean the start of the season, when we need him, is generally the time he is most likely to be injured.
On balance its time to say bye James, in my opinion he isn’t worth a new contract. However, it is his prerogative to turn the contract offered down. What he makes in the next 10 years, has to do him the rest of his life.
Squire …. much of what you say makes sense … but when has common sense ever played a part in football?
most owners and players live off the fact that fans are exactly that … fanatical …. which usually means lacking in common sense when it comes to their team ….
which allows the owners to similarly act in ways that dont make a whole lot of sense by overpaying for players … why? because, ultimately, it is the fans (not the owners) who pay for it …..
Robert88 if that is how you feel set out the case for your defence. Auldheid whereabouts in Espana are you? I’m in Elviria from 11th March for a week ,could meet for a beer if you are close, I’ve got transport. H H Hebcelt
AN TEARMANN
Cheers for that.
Ive no agenda…apart from a historical one.
Im basically studying people like me and you, and where we are from, and how we got there.
Standard stuff really for a historian….Yet,..There is a very dark side indeed, only briefly touched on.
I was talking earlier for example, about the demand for inspection of Catholic convents in mid 19th Century Glasgow…Furious petitions from the Glasgow Stock Exchange…800 signatories.
I will keep chipping away though.
HH
If James Forrest leaves, as seems likely, my abiding memory of him will be sitting on his erchie with his arms in the air after running into a defender, instead of tracking back.
Mind you, the odd time he did track back it was to give away a stupid foul around our box just to make it look like he was ‘defending’
Such a waste of talent.
HEBCELT on 22ND FEBRUARY 2016 4:38 PM
Robert88 if that is how you feel set out the case for your defence. Auldheid whereabouts in Espana are you? I’m in Elviria from 11th March for a week ,could meet for a beer if you are close, I’ve got transport. H H Hebcelt
Nearly a dreadful typo there,i thought it said Elvira……….:}
have a good night Celts :-)
no worries Green man,its how we improve,we learn :-)
til soon
HH
Cultsbhoy – I read an article recently that put English League 2 average wages at about £1k/week. That’s likely to rise with the trickle down (both real and imagined) from the new tv deal.
We’re about 1-2 seasons away with SPL teams outwith Celtic and Sevco competing with the Conference for signatures.
GREENPINATA
High on the Splatometer….Double flanning,…Jim White and David Tanner.
Followed by a mass flanning of Keef Jackass, Hannibill Leckie….and those foolish hunguffery merchants on Radio Clyde and Radio Snivelling.
Flans Away:)
FlanFlingers CFC
HH
!!Bada Bing!! tres droll!!! H H Hebcelt
BBC 1 Scuddland 9.30
Mark Warburton on Marx.
This week, the ex-financial wizard turned management trainee Mark ‘Magic Hat’ ‘Aye Bready’ Warburton, provides a searing analysis of Capitalism in Scotland…based on his million selling figment of his own imagination…’Karl Marx, What the feck did he know’
Warburton provides a wealth of evidence that shows that he is Magic, and that anyone who disagrees…can feck off.
Stirring stuff indeed.
Tune in next week, when Gordon Smith presents a 9 hour lecture on Football entitled…..’Im Gordon Smith, and my hair is unfeasibly Black, who gives a feck’
HH
SoT
Ah, I see you’re well decked out.
TGM,
Aye wasps nests were a source of great entertainment for a few summers, became quite adept at dealing with them.
Elsewhere, re Tiny Tim’s point that we’re often to apt to big-up new signings, the most insightful and optimistic comment I read when Ciftci signed was.. “Eh?”
GARY67 on 22ND FEBRUARY 2016 4:20 PM
Rumours on other blogs is sky want the game on the Monday night.
Robert88,
My point was, there are plenty of folk who spend too much time condemning people for discussing their chosen subjects on here.
If they put as much effort into opening their own subjects for discussion they might attract some input from others and discuss what they want, problem is they appear to want to spend all their energy bumping their gums about what other people are talking about rather than getting on with their own preferred subject which for me means they don’t actually want to talk about anything in particular but simply want to be spoilers.
Canamalar
The old stick in the wheel spokes:)
I remember being really young, and telling the rest of the kids, that Santa wasnt real:)
Didnt go down well:)
HH
Can’t blame them, don’t start that rubbish on here or we’ll be falling out :)
LP-Hibs v Sevco live on the Monday night…..
Canamalar
I still get dirty looks from my cousins for that one:)
HH
Remi Garde watches side of Aston Villa first teamers lose to U21 team
@skynews
The green man
Think my niece was at your niece 21 Thursday night if it was in St Luke’s Calton
BT
Yeah…Im sure i said hello to your niece.
Wasnt your daughter there?
Yeah…Cara and Rory my Brother’s kids.
Good party by all accounts…us auld yins got off early, left then to it.
All good kids.
HH
First we had Vidar Riseth’s skew-whiff view getting run up the flagpole, but now Tony Cantscorino on Leigh Griffiths!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TooFar CSC
The green man
My niece is Rory’s girlfriend , my daughter not there , that I know of. ;-)
Napoli vs Milan tonight, none of that FA Cup nonsense.
Unless Shrewsbury skelp the once great Man Utd, then may be worth a look:)
HH
Was in Troon for the weekend heard a couple of lads mention Coatbridge to a waitress at breakfast.
Wasn’t any one on here was it?
BSR
I liked auld Darth Vidar when he did his talking on the pitch rather than on the pish.
As for Cannaescorenane…………………