Celtic frittered away another two points at Kilmarnock this afternoon after a performance which ultimately showed depths of determination but was marked by shockingly bad organisation.
Kilmarnock’s opener in 25 minutes could not have been simpler. An 80 yard high ball was collected on the edge of the Celtic penalty area by Heffernan, who turned and picked out the onrushing Dean Sheils, who was initially being marked by Beram Kayal but the Israeli failed to match Sheils run, allowing the Killie player time to pick his spot and score.
The home team were encouraged by the opening goal and continued to press forward. Fraser Forster did well to turn over a blistering shot from Kelly which was destined for the top corner. Kilmarnock’s pressure was rewarded on 40 minutes when Kayal and James Forrest stood off a ball conceding possession. Sheils crossed for the offside Heffernan to score but the assistant referee didn’t flag so the goal stood.
Seconds before half time Charlie Mulgrew was short with a back pass and James Fowler chipped Forster to give Killie and three goal half time lead.
The first 28 minutes of the second half were miserable for Celtic as the team appeared resigned to a fate similar to the Celtic team which visited St Mirren Park in March 2010 but Anthony Stokes had other ideas. Stokes missed what was surely the worst chance of his career early in the first half when the scores were still level, and saw a good penalty claim denied on 71 minutes, but instead of hiding he stepped forward.
James Forrest, who also stood up to be counted throughout, ran at the Killie midfield and was fouled 25 yards out. Stokes struck the resultant free kick perfectly into the top left corner.
Two minutes later Stokes collected the ball from Ki 28 yards from goal in what seemed like a safe position but his swift turn and inch-perfect shot beat Jaakkola in the Kilmarnock goal.
Kilmarnock were now rattled and Celtic were level on 79 minutes. Daniel Majstorovic got on the end of a long free kick at the back post and squared for Charlie Mulgrew who headed home.
Having scored three times within seven minutes and with over 10 minutes of the game remaining the Celtic support had reason to feel confident their team could collect all the points but it was Kilmarnock would should have tied up the win in the final minutes when Heffernan found himself unmarked inside the Celtic six yard box but headed over, however, the home team will be happy to have collected their first point in four games.
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gary caldwell covering himself in glory with wigan today on MOTD……………not!
what an awful football player
Our next guest is the talented Mr George Michael:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ymiX0g9_LU (thumbsup)
Moonbeams WD.
Thanks for the offer to copy for me but Ulster-Celt did so for me earlier. If you see repeat posts on the same page from me you’ll know i have mastered the copy and paste :-)
Thanks again lbb
finbar42 is Neil Lennon @ 23:18
Interesting. (and that’s one of the memorable scenes for me).
The story itself is clever as feck, and as a film you automatically put it down to the director. Will watch out for David Peoples’s name in the future. Good to know.
Fortunes Favour
“legal system which is already corrupt”.
There reaches a point when biting my tongue is no longer an option. Comments like that are a direct attack on many who are part and parcel of that system who support Celtic.
Why don’t you take your nonsensical comments and views and drown them in another bottle of buckie…
Fortunes Favour
“legal system which is already corrupt”.
There reaches a point when biting my tongue is no longer an option. Comments like that are a direct attack on many who are part and parcel of that system who support Celtic.
Why don’t you take your nonsensical comments and views and drown them in another bottle of buckie…
Not read back any posts however at Half time I was not happy to say the least, however was fully aware that we could turn it around we do have quality players. we also do have a good manager however my missus asked why my mood was so fowl I said listen to the score, she asked will we do anything or that is it I said yes once we get 1 we will get 3 or 4, the time has come for the players to show their character and they did that! The team showed up 2nd half showed a resilience this could be a big turning point we do have a team!
leebozbhoy
No worries. Your welcome.
MWD
SOAL- Aye, them too.
“Are you in or out?”
Vmhan
you called sharkey’s. I had gone over the cashy.
use my mobile.
Hail hail
Estadio
philvis,
Here’s one for you…
Rocket Man
Thumbs up!
wee lenny has hit the huge learning curve, if he survives it, then ill be both surprised
and ecstatic.
me,?? this management team is gone in my eyes…
the only thing i know for sure, is that one day, the celtic will be great again.
its only a matter of time when.
NL at half time…”Another defeat and the manner in which we were playing would have been pretty difficult for me to take…”
What does that mean?
Does it mean he would have resigned if we would have lost the game?
I think it does. He has no confidence. He admits the fightback was nothing to do with tactics or thta…
NL “Thankfully we did respond but it was nothing to do with tactics or anything like that it is about motivating the players and pushing them to dig deep to get something out of the game.”
WHAT?
I’m sorry Neil but you have not got a clue. You are telling us that your game plan is a dice roll.
Look at it this way. if we would have not got the draw, what could he say? “…I din’t have any tactics, I thought they could have done it on spirit alone.”
A comedy of errors.
malceye – Yup.
The legal system in the UK isn’t perfect, but it sure aint corrupt as a whole.
Our next guest is the fabulous Mr Cliff Richard, with a message for the Celtic board:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htZir_Taizg (thumbsup)
finbar42 is Neil Lennon @ 23:26
You got me on that one…i haven’t…but have been in the locale…with a few funny stories to recall :) That was 8-10 yrs ago, and you’ve reminded me that i need to see it !
Just watched the last episode of season three of breaking bad. Flawless TV
and now for something completly different. The Stranglers with Something Better Change.
http://youtu.be/ohRbJJohv6Y
starry plough
Bury My Heart, I tried with the book, too much for me, I still have the book, one day I will finish it.
Geronimo, aye, the American Indian’s facinate me, they imo, were the last true race of people who lived their life as true as life could be lived, and then the white man came along.
And the same whyte man is going to have an effect on our club sometime soon.
Fortunes Favour Mibbes,
“Fingers crossed” he’ll get the message :O).
Remember this?.
As it appears that Aiden is for the off I thought I have a look at the reaction and have spent the morning reading through this thread.
I went back and found a long-ago e-mail showing the date as 14th December 2008.
As you can read below I received news on that morning of the dressing room bust up between Aiden and Gordon. The text message suggested that it might just be the end of the road for Aiden as a Celtic player.
I got my head together and hurriedly replied with the following.
Hi ????
I surfaced this morning to the sound of ‘We are Celtic Supporters faithful through and through’ blaring out from my phone as your message arrived.
I read it and put my head back under the quilt.
If the worst happens, perhaps you might pass this message on to Aiden.
For approaching half a century, I have been watching and playing football in places as diverse as Brighton and Boston, San Francisco and Swansea, Coatbridge and Canberra and Riyadh and Rutherglen.
In all that time I can count on the fingers of a six-fingered hand, the number of players who have got me on the edge of my seat, not by their ability to go by the opposition, not by their sudden burst of pace and definitely not by their muscle-bound bodies that can run and run for forty eight hours a day, but instead by those few players who have the ability to do the totally unexpected, to surprise even the most cynical of observers, and to utterly clam up the mouth of the arsehole who sits in front of me in block 103.
Charlie Tully, Jimmy Johnstone, George Connelly, Henrik Larsson, Shunsuke Nakamura, and without any shadow of doubt – Aiden McGeady!!
In the last match against Villa Real, Naka had a smashing game as he brought the ball under control in an instant and distributed it across the field for other players to do their thing, but VR were ready for that and simply closed down the space that the Celtic Players were trying to move in to.
But when Aiden got the ball, you could see the looks of concern, you could sense the apprehension and you could smell the confusion as he ran directly at them, twisting and turning, winning fouls, picking out unseen passes, and generally ensuring that firstly Villa Real did not get a look in and secondly generating in the crowd an atmosphere that perhaps a ‘dead rubber’ didn’t warrant.
Aiden is the best player to come through the ranks at CP since George and Jinky.
If he stayed, he would have become a legend and there would have been another pedestal required outside the front entrance.
I will always be a season ticket holder, but Aiden like those others mentioned enabled me to hand over my cash with a smile, and like Charlie, George and Jinky he is even more special because he’s one of us.
Pass on my best wishes to him.
Hail hail
My views still stand to this day and while others can and will disagree with me as to Aiden’s capability and skill, I find it astonishing that some feel it necessary to virtually deny his presence never-mind his contribution by simply drawing a line under his career and urging everyone to ‘forget him’.
Somehow the concept of the common thread that enables Celtic supporters to share ‘the History’ and sees flourishing outposts in a green and white mosaic across the planet, seems to have escaped their notice.
We have a CELTIC supporter going to ply their trade in a new culture where probably the only knowledge of Celtic is as a football club. Aiden, his family and friends will meet many new people from many places (have a look at the Spartak Squad) and I am sure that in off duty moments they will all have the chance to regale their new pals with tales of the initially tragic and poverty stricken seeds from which Celtic – the whole Celtic movement – grew and ultimately flourished. I am sure that like many people I have the pleasure to know across the globe, some of those will become enchanted by the history and pass that affection on through their own families and friends.
If for no other reason, we should not only fervently and honestly wish Aiden all the best, we should keep a wee eye on how he gets on.
We are more than a football club after all. Aren’t we?
Hail Hail
Estadio
Auld Heid,
On the same page – with one exception.
If you are waiting for Bangura to prove he is a Celtic I hope you have a packed your essentials, because you will have a long wait.
There is not one single thing – not one – in all the games he has particpated in that suggests he is anywhere near Celtic class, never mind his fantasy EPL move in a year.
He has no first touch, his second touch is frequently followed by lost possession, he has no aerial ability, no obvious positional sense and thus far hasn’t even fired anything to merit the “firing blanks” accolade I was going to give him.
Given the choice, and I know I don’t have that choice, but given it, I would choose Rasmussen. He could at least find space in the box and colud bundle goals. Bangura has thus far brought nothing to the team, apart from a nice bright pair of boots and massive question mark over whomever recommended him.
As always with Celtic players, I hope he delivers big time and stuffs it down my throat. But he won’t. There’s nothing there.
James McFadden is suddenly looking like a seriously necessary option, as the strategic framework has left us short in the striking department. And son’t start me on central defence.
I would suggest that the first strategic principle goes something like this:
When you need a fork, buy a fork. Don’t buy a spoon as an alternative.
philvisreturns 23.28- I take it the Cliff song is not “Congratulations”?
Why did Neil not do the pre-match ESPN interview.
Árd Macha
goldstar10
Kayal should never play again.
But it did remind me of a certain two players at Ibrox
MMMMMMMMMMMMM
Slan Abhaile
“I’m sorry Neil but you have not got a clue. You are telling us that your game plan is a dice roll.”
No, he told you that the game plan was not the main factor in producing the turnaround.
It’s a fairly simple, uncontroversial point unless you deliberately misunderstand it.
Philvis,
Somehow, you had to bring GM to the table eh? Sad thing is, i know it’s not a gay thing with you, it’s an 80s thing. THAT is disturbing, only because you go for the pishest 80s songs…sorry..tunes. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLhYxLE8uCA
fortunes @ 23.28
Here’s a wee trailer for you:
Bull McCabe
finbar42 is Neil Lennon – William Shatner is a living legend.
Actor, singer, raconteur, the man has it all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9ae2EZ18dU (thumbsup)
THE EXILED TIM says:
15 October, 2011 at 23:39
It’s a tough book for sure and their struggle goes on, I was fortunate enough to spend some time over there and meet some good folks if they had the choice I believe they would follow Celtic they have those kinda hearts…
Are we Celtic supporters faithful through and through ?
We are blessed to be supporters of the greatest football club
in the world.
And we are the greatest supporters in the world.
I’ve seen worse and been through worse.
And we came out stronger.
malceye @ 23:34
Ok, i’ve hit a nerve here. You want me to shut up, or do you want to discuss the failures of the Scottish legal system…sorry, …Justice System??
It’s never my intention to anger anyone, especially when they work in fields like this….but it’s rotten to the core. Don’t care how long you might have worked in it, myself and family and friends have grown up with it and it’s a feckin sham. Or is it something more specific you’re defending?
SOAL 23.42- McGregor & Capt Unbookable?
They are just daft wee boys who had a few days on the buckie.
Phil @ 23.24
Musically I think he was upstaged by his Star Trek co-star, although I have to defer to your opinion of Shatner’s skills as a ranconteur:
Leonard Nomoy
goldstar10 – Guessed it in a oner. (thumbsup)
Fortunes Favour Mibbes – It’s definitely not a gay thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7wwZVB4yMI (thumbsup)
Slan_Abhaile……….Sack Lennon and Lawwell. says:
15 October, 2011 at 23:38
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To be honest, I don’t think anything Neil Lennon said after the game would have satisfied you.
Estadio
100% concurr.
One day soon the mouths of all the Aiden haters will be welded shut.
The Bhoy is a star. At Celtic Park he was a unappreciated star.
MWD
Árd Macha says:
15 October, 2011 at 23:41
Something about that Southpark cartoon upset Lenny:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QnjexWLMTE
Apologies,that one of the maddest things i have ever seen.
finbar42
Yep, one i need to see soon. Did see a film about 15 yrs ago actually, like all Irish and Scots film, raved about in Europe but ignored here, one of the man’s last films, set in Ireland, where he plays a “Grandad” gangster….Outstanding film, with more realism than the UK establishment could cope with.
Try again:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY39fkmqKBM