It was an unfamiliar Celtic starting line-up at Pittodrie this afternoon which resulted in the visitors dropping league points for the first time in four months. Andre Blackman and Mikael Lustig made their Celtic debuts at left and right back respectively, while Charlie Mulgrew played central midfield alongside Joe Ledley.
Neither full back got forward as often as we are accustomed to see Celtic play, which perhaps contributed to the disjointed performance.
Charlie Mulgrew almost opened the scoring on 5 minutes when his swerving free kick rebounded back off the inside of Jason Brown’s far post in Celtic’s only genuine chance before the 28th minute goal. Mulgrew was key again in the move that counted, controlling a difficult ball before twisting his marker and knocking the ball forward to Kris Commons. Commons spun before playing a perfectly weighted pass into space inside the box for Anthony Stokes to run onto. Stokes first touch took the ball past Brown in the Aberdeen goal before he slotted his shot into the net.
Aberdeen were well out of the contest in the first half and had to wait until near the end of the half before they managed an attempt at goal, a Fyvie shot which was blocked. Then, only seconds from the break, a long ball forward to Fallon brought Aberdeen level. Fallon turned and his forward run drew Blackman, Wilson and Rogne, leaving the right back space unattended. Gavin Rae ran 70 yards to fill that space and fired a shot which was going narrowly wide before Blackman’s block bounced over Forster into the net.
A minute into the second half Ryan Jack almost reached a cross from the right as Aberdeen seemed to take encouragement from their goal.
Anthony Stokes looked Celtic’s best player but whenever he linked with strike partner, Gary Hooper, the ball invariably bounced out of play or to an Aberdeen player, most notably on the 55th minute when Hooper failed to control on the edge of the six yard box.
Aberdeen’s best chance to win the game arrived on 63 minutes when Meganson evaded Lustig but shot wide when clean through inside the box.
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Bhoys & Ghirls
Please stop typing “bored” when you mean “board”.
There is nothing “boring” about Lenny and the thunder he is currently bringing us.
HH
DBB
‘crushed nuts?’ ‘Naw, Layringitis!’ on 4 March, 2012 at 00:17 said:
Seems a fair enough argument…only thing is…the Catholic faith,and Christianity in general,seems(rightly or wrongly)to be fair game.
There would have,and rightly so,been uproar if he had said the same about Islamic objects of faith.
Do yer own thing,believe in what you want to believe in…but don’t pish all over other people’s beliefs…be it Catholic,Protestant,or whatever.
Aggressive atheism?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4A4UnFi2C8
Jim Diamond
DEDICATED TO (sIR)DAVID
Phil tweeted look out for mr three contracts next week?
Gets better n better
Hail hai cqn
2 bigots arrested at snake mountain according to the sun
seen a few clips on you tube and could hear way more than that
Think the Glasgow polis need a hearing check
Havingapartywhenthehunsdiex csc
pauloantony on 4 March, 2012 at 00:48 said:
Phil tweeted look out for mr three contracts next week?
Is it Mr Versace?
It’s incredible how this story keeps running…eh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s3vHFyybxk&feature=related
Latest hit from the Brox
tomcourtney on 3 March, 2012 at 23:51 said:
Sent to espn.co.uk via the link ‘help and feedback’ at the bottom of the homepage….
Good on you.
Read here something about him allegedly being….. eerm “bevied”..while doing an English radio commentary a few weeks back.
roy croppie on 4 March, 2012 at 00:47 said:
Hahahahahahahahaha!
Powerful!
Paddy Gallagher on 4 March, 2012 at 00:23 said:
‘crushed nuts?’ ‘Naw, Layringitis
uuuuuuuuuuuu
yes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZCOwnMEVvE
HMRC have had enough-it’s the Time for Action
roy croppie on 4 March, 2012 at 00:54 said:
naw not action auction
AoW,
Like every other team member he will get plaudits when he performs and dogs abuse when he stinks.
I prefer to give plaudits but don’t shirk from telling it how I see it.
Today I expected him to perform as he has the last few games, rubbish, the manager chooses to play him through the bad patch, I disagree with that decision, we have players waiting for a chance, who deserve a chance, I did not like it When WGS stuck by his favourites regardless of their form, and I’ve no changed that opinion just cause we’ve changed manager.
It is not in the interest of the team to play favourites at the expense of results.
Oiche mhaith coladh sámh.
Árd Macha
Sixteen roads to Golgotha on 4 March, 2012 at 00:46 said:
‘crushed nuts?’ ‘Naw, Layringitis!’ on 4 March, 2012 at 00:17 said:
Seems a fair enough argument…only thing is…the Catholic faith,and Christianity in general,seems(rightly or wrongly)to be fair game.
eeeeeeeeeeeeeee
It is fair game!!! that’s my point, the only way to live (according to Christianity) is by example, not force or coercion. People should be persuaded by example, not by force.
Livin’ in the jungle – Black joe lewis and the honeybears
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD8tu77WxXA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrUB0g8Vjgg
Simply Red
Soon there’ll be no more honeybears, so enjoy them while you can…
Fair point Margaret, and the first lot is the bicycle!
Brilliant.
Huns trying to petition human pate Slalom to stop people calling them Huns.
Petted lips all round. Read some of their ‘reasons’. Magic.
Hopefully though, the Scottish Govt will do sometihng about this petition – maybe give the names and addresses of the signees to Care In The Community and
get some help for the psychotic retards.
http://www.change.org/petitions/alex-salmond-ban-use-of-the-word-hun-and-chants-of-up-the-ra-from-scottish-football
As you’ll see, they’re not far off their signature target of 10,000… fnar, fnarr.
At least they still have their crest…right?
Forgot to mention – Really DO check out the reasons list on that petition – superb comments by Father Ted Crilley, Chucky Arla, etc. Hilarious.
Lads who is this David Begg ?
establishment commentator on shortbread. Loves Rangers but I’ve got a soft spot for him. hurting like hell today though!
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on 4 March, 2012 at 00:56 said:
I know what you are saying but disagree with your endpoint.
A couple of cack passes and decision making do not make a bad player. Hoops was well off form but as top scorer is given some respite. I just ask that we don’t jump in too hard on our bhoys as it has been a remarkable run.
Supporting the hoops for a while now!
HH
Lads apoligise, can David Begg be trusted?
beggy is in with the bricks! probably bought a few.
Lads forget what I’m saying, I’m talking sh**e tonight.
This liquidation talk is making me not think straight lol.
Paul67
Hate to spoil the party, but me , you and the rest of the Celtic support (in general ) Have to move on and decide who will be our NEW biggest rivals ? After great consideration there are only 2 teams – Aberdeen or Hearts (end of).. Aberdeen I quite like their fans so not enough rivalry there, although a Highlands / Lowlands derby sounds like an option, whereas the Tynecastle mob are more obvious and fit the bill perfectly. A good old Edinburgh / Glasgow rivalry is ripe for exploitation for the changing times in Scottish football, its the only other option in both cities to put bums on seats and raise revenue. We have to move on to the next stage of the sequence unfolding before our eyes and have an alternative option to the Glasgow OLD FIRM failed option.
My perfect dream would be for Celtic to annihilate the last remnants of the Old Firm this season and for Lennie to invite Fergus to unfurl this seasons SPL flag and then for Fergus to commemorate everything from 1994 till 2012 to the memory of Tommy Burns. These are the things… these are the things ..that dreams are made of.
Some FF gems.
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I almost cried when I saw this interview.
to anyone who hasnt seen it, when ally delivers the last part”we wont be where we are for very long”he actually chokes up and wells up
id advise anyone who hasnt seen it to watch it means more than just the words
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ANGERS manager Ally McCoist fired a thinly-veiled broadside at Celtic last night – enjoy it while you can because we’ll come through these troubles times.
McCoist knows many Hoops supporters are revelling in Rangers’ misery after the Ibrox outfit, who lost 2-1 to Hearts yesterday, plunged into administration.
Celtic fans have been chanting about having a party when their Old Firm rivals die, while Hoops manager Neil Lennon has hinted Rangers should be retrospectively stripped of titles and trophies won when they failed to pay their due taxes.
McCoist said: “We’re wounded, there’s no doubt about it and there are probably one or two people out there enjoying it.
“Maybe one or two people having a wee fly kick.
“I would suggest to them to have a right good kick just now because we’ll not be where we are for a long time.
“I don’t want to elaborate on who has had a kick at us, it will just go down avenues I don’t want to go down.
“I am 100 per cent confident our football club will continue.
“I’m not sure yet in what way, shape or form it will continue. But every fan will continue to follow us in whatever form we take.”
McCoist has been locked in talks with the administrators over the past week as they strive to come to a solution over the cull of his squad.
He remains hopeful job losses will be kept to a minimum.
Margaret those are my dreams too. Greedily I want Depeche Mode to play at half-time and me to win the Paradise windfall…such a perfect day!
Margaret McG – I second that emotion.
Obviously our manager had selection problems to-day. Give him a break. He has done well so far. I don’t think he should have given two new full backs their baptism at a didfficulult away game like Aberdeen. We also went back to a system of two wingers which did not work too well in early season as it puts too much stress on the two central mid-fielders.. But what do we know when we haven’t earned a pound as football managers.
As to Burley – why don’t we help E.S.P.N. dump him along with Hateley. He was the barrack-room lawyer whom Fergus dumped from Celtic Park. Good riddance.!.
P..S.I thought that Gordon Strachan was good value as a pundit just as he was a good manager for us.
Boys any ideas what philmac was alluding to regarding mr 3rd contract?
Hooper off form?
We could’ve paid £50m for him.
Who feels worse today,AVB,or NFL
‘crushed nuts?’ ‘Naw, Layringitis!’ on 4 March, 2012 at 00:56 said:
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Get yerself a good dog buckshot,that’s the only advise that I can give to ye:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_orulnrjzFI&feature=related