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When they went a goal behind, St Mirren provided evidence they can play a bit.  They never actually made a chance worthy of the name, but they passed with speed and accuracy and forced Celtic’s more advanced players to work back and cover.

New manager, Steve Robinson, bemoaned their luck, “a ricochet” and a ball that “bounced off a face”.  Liel Abada may disagree.  The breakthrough came after he was pinned to the touchline by three opponents.  His control was so precise he broke free and forced a foul that led to the opener.  Tight games are so often won by a flash of brilliance from a gifted talent, we have a few in our ranks who can fill that role.

As Jota prepared to take the kick, I said, “It’s pointless sending in a high ball, we have no height.”  I promise to repeat this often until the end of the season.  What height we have is limited to two central defenders, the absolute entry-level attribute for any team.  Good deliveries, though, are hard to defend.

You will have noticed our passing seemed introverted at times.  Overhit or inaccurate passes have been a feature of recent games, sapping confidence which inhibits future outcomes.  A series of games on poor pitches, including a wintered-looking Celtic Park, has not helped.  The Plastic Pasta Pitch on Sunday will be no better, and it’s pointless sending in a high ball, we have no height.

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  1. Ray Singh-Carr on

    Can’t help but feel that we are missing a trick by not converting a much better percentage of our corners/free kicks. Even a 10 percent improvement would take a hell of a lot of pressure off us. I’m sure we must work on them in training but we are not getting much of a reward from them. HH

  2. IniquitousIV on

    AIPPLE @ 12:36

     

     

    “On the conversation about attending games it isn’t really quite fair. I’ve watched Celtic in maybe half a dozen countries, been to most major (ha!) grounds in Scotland, have, what I believe might be an unrivaled collection of Celtic t-shirts and ran downstairs with tears and snot dripping to tell my good lady we were spanking them 3-0 at half time.

     

     

    I do love it over here but the hardest part is not going to the games week in, week out. OK, that and family who all still reside in Scotland but……

     

     

    As maybe one or two of you know that is why I have been a regular lurker, occasional podium chaser since year 1, a Celtic TV subscriber since day one, and the first fan to build an app with the fastest goal and updates via push notifications, something I did for free.

     

     

    I know much of this seems to stem back to the ‘you at the game today caller?’ quips but while game attendance is the holy grail it is not the only measure of being a fan, more than a fan, part of our beating hearts.

     

     

    I’m on here because, well, we are a worldwide family now and us Scots and Irish get everywhere. Regular game attendance, while an obviously massive part and the 12th etc etc is not the only measure.”

     

    ——————————-

     

    Excellent, articulate summation of the emigrant fan dilemma. Well, apart from one possible exception……..if you have a family member you like to keep at 3,000 miles distance!🤣

  4. Coneybhoy on

    Burnley78

     

     

    We played Fenerbahce under Deila . 2-2 and 1-1.

     

     

    I watched the away game in a Dublin CSC and met some Fenerbahce fans. I mentioned that we had a Turkish player, Ciftci, and they couldn’t stop laughing as they had never heard of him.

     

     

    it was pretty sweet when we equalized!!

  5. Hot Smoked on

    “!!BADA BING!! on 3RD MARCH 2022 3:17 PM

     

    HS- my comment about Shelley Kerr was facetious

     

     

     

    Thank goodness for that……I thought maybe you had had a head injury :-))

  8. Coneybhoy on

    RAY SINGH-CARR on 3RD MARCH 2022 3:34 PM

     

    Can’t help but feel that we are missing a trick by not converting a much better percentage of our corners/free kicks. Even a 10 percent improvement would take a hell of a lot of pressure off us. I’m sure we must work on them in training but we are not getting much of a reward from them. HH

     

    ———-

     

    Starfelt was very unlucky with a lot of headers go got on the end of early in the seaason. Possibly, he is being marked more closely now. Did well at the goal last night

     

     

    We don’t seem to try the late runner into the box tactic, e.g. one CH hanging out to drag some people with him creates space of he gets a run on the markers.

     

     

    as a wee guy, I used to stay out the box so don’t know what I’m talking about😎

  10. EmeraldBee \o/ A Double Niner!! on

    !!BADA BING!! on 3RD MARCH 2022 3:17 PM

     

    HS- my comment about Shelley Kerr was facetious…….she is on Sevco TV every week…

     

     

    BADA, I’m sure we all knew that your remark was tongue-in-cheek. After all, your general standards are reflected in your devotion to Big Judith!😁

  12. An Tearmann on

    Badabing

     

    Don’t ye know your cult following o Judith has a cult following on cqn.:-))

     

     

    HH

  13. An Tearmann on

    Burnley78

     

     

    Good to here your stepping back to fitness at your own pace.

     

     

    HH

  18. Rock Tree Bhoy on

    Radio Clyde Super Scoreboard – Andy Halliday – anyone heard the amount of times he mentions ’The Old Firm” when he is on – definitely at the wind up.

     

     

    Being tagged along with them is a concern, Old Firm Fans – yeah – it was the Old Firm Fans that wrecked George Square recently – and you should have seen what they done in Manchester a few years back!

     

     

    Now that they know we don’t like the term – they (SSM) mention it at every opportunity.

  19. Hot Smoked on

    “Hoops supporters made their views clear as they unfurled an expletive-laden banner from the Green Brigade section ”

     

     

    `Expletive laden` ? Hmmm… as with the BBC`s second goal for Sevco, I must have missed the laden expletives .

  24. Larkin1907 on

    TOSB 12:24

     

    This is the best entertainment I’ve had in ages.

     

    ……………..

     

    🤣

     

    Totally agree

     

    Our board should hang their heids in shame mind.

     

     

    A question I posed before the game thread started was…

     

    no matter opinions re the zombies we have to acknowledge we would be nowhere near an automatic CL place for Scotland if the proper rules were applied when they were liquidated.

     

     

    Eyes on the CL prize

  25. spikeysauldman on

    burnley78

     

     

    now who’s bragging ! 10K !

     

    btw if you’d got the jabs, you might have beaten your PB ;-)

     

    When’s the next booster due folks ?

     

    Or will it be conscription the feckers try next ?

  29. TheOriginalSadiesBhoy on

    LARKIN1907 on 3RD MARCH 2022 5:05 PM

     

    TOSB

     

     

    I hate the term Old Firm and don’t think we should work with Sevco in commercial ventures but I have no objection to Celtic giving an opportunity to our fans living abroad an opportunity to see them play. I’m sure it will be a great morale booster for those Celtic fans. I’d rather we weren’t playing Sevco though but I won’t lose any sleep over it.

     

     

    I did enjoy reading Herald Sport today though. I’m finding it difficult to accurately identify a word that sums up the sheer vehemence of Chris Union Jack’s article. Maybe WORDLE can help. 🤣

  30. Saint Stivs on

    that chris jack, I wont use the real words but the old saying how do you know he is a hun comes to mind ………..

     

     

    —————–

     

     

    Chris Jack

     

    @Chris_Jack89

     

    Author of ‘Going for 55’.

     

    @HeraldScotland

     

    and

     

    @Glasgow_Times

     

    Senior Rangers Writer

  32. itscalledthemalvinas on

    Big Wavy.

     

    You were underestimating the effect Nick Walsh will have when “taking charge” of the Livingstone game.

     

    He gave the monkeys three (3) penalties in one game in Paisley a couple of seasons ago.

  33. bigrailroadblues on

    Bada I think big Tony Ralston has scored more goals than that snivelling tnuc.

  34. Tom McLaughlin on

    AN TEARNAN

     

     

    I apologise for posting the BBC link. Someone sent it to me in a text. I also confess to having watched a recording of Sportcene last night even though I had been to the game.

     

     

    Maybe if you send me your email address I can seek your permission before I post any Celtic news links in future.

     

     

    Thanks in advance.

  35. marspapa on

    CELTIC announce major deal with Australian group (SEN) entertainment network…….

     

     

    MELBOURNE MICK……?? SYDNEY TIM ….??PADDYMACOZ …??

     

     

    How are you coping with all this good news coming to you …..

  36. Larkin1907 on

    TOSB

     

     

    Maybe Wordle can help.

     

    ……………..

     

    No spoilers

     

    Well maybe he’s *****ing (todays word)

     

    But for sure he’s angry (not todays word)

     

    He is above all else an eejit (will never be a word)

  37. Celtic Mac on

    Let me get this straight, just four weeks after helping pack out Celtic Park when we played the Rangers, the Green Brigade display a home made banner opposing us playing the same club in er Australia?

     

     

    Just wait till their Ma finds out she’s missing her best linen….

  38. Saint Stivs on

    cmon Celtic Mac,

     

     

    surely you can see why the objection ?

     

    We have to play something called Rangers here in Scotland to fulfill our obligated Fixtures.

     

     

    An exec once said “we manage our business on our own, we are not half of anything, we are a stand alone business model” or words to that effect.

     

     

    now we are actively promoting a “friendly” match with thems, which probably increase both entities fees.

     

     

    if we went looking for games in Aus, we could do it stand alone.

     

     

    If NSW picked up the phone to celtic plc and said we have an idea what about a tournie as a “homecoming for Ange” during the world cup, we will pick up all the expences and even give you a fee worth a whole season of SPL proze money,

     

    Sounds Bonzer

     

     

    only thing is you have to play rangers ?

     

     

    what would you do if you owned the business ?

     

     

    stand alone, or old firm together ?

  40. Greenpinata on

    The Tories want to get rid of the BBC.

     

     

    Pretty ironic as millions of ordinary Russians are now tuning in to get their information.

     

    Do we have a list of links we can c/p or does it depend on who is posing it.

     

     

    I did notice links to the Daily Mail the other day, but I guess the poster was in the in- crowd.

  41. An Tearmann on

    Tom

     

    Thanks for reply,v funny :-)) An Tearmann thanks

     

    I was coming more from the angle ,you go most weeks you trust what you see with your own eyes,why bother with what beeb say.its biased.trust yourself Tom.Thats a real view.a Celtic one.

     

     

    HH

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    They face a daily struggle against sectarian and homophobic abuse and violence among the West of Scotland underbelly.

     

     

    It’s not all doom and gloom though. There are heartwarming episodes of great kindness and compassion from the most unexpected of sources.

     

     

    A terrific read.

     

     

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