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- Three in a row
- ‘THANK YOU,’ BRENDAN’S HEARTFELT MESSAGE TO CELTIC FANS
- TEARIO: ‘I NEVER DREAMT THIS COULD HAPPEN WHEN I SIGNED,’ LARSSON’S EMOTIONAL FAREWELL
- LISBON REWIND: DAY ONE: LET’S GET READY TO PARTY
- KILMARNOCK 0 CELTIC 5: O’RILEY MASTERCLASS IN CHAMPS’ COMMAND PERFORMANCE
- CONFIRMED: KYOGO OUT, IDAH IN
- CUP FINAL REF REVEALED
- REVEALED: NEW SFA REF BOSS NAMED
- ‘ELEVEN STUD MARKS ON MY LEG – YOU CAN COUNT THEM,’ JOHNSTON
- BRENDAN DELIVERS O’RILEY MESSAGE
- ‘WELL UNDERWAY,’ RODGERS PLANS SIGNING SPREE
- TOMMY BURNS’ CELTIC FAREWELL – CUP SHOCKER THAT ENDED THE DREAM
- TOMMY BURNS TRIBUTE: ‘AN INSPIRATION,’ DAVIE HAY
- BOBBY MURDOCH TRIBUTE: WHAT THE LIONS SAID
- TITLE FEVER: DAY CELTIC LEGEND KEPT HIS PLAYERS IN THE DARK
- KILMARNOCK v CELTIC: 5-MINUTE QUIZ
- Brendan with a point to prove
- CELTIC TARGET IN DEMAND
- BIG PHIL AND THE SPECTRE OF CELTIC
- CAESAR AND THE CELTIC CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS
- BITTON’S FINAL FAREWELL: ‘I TRIED TO GIVE MY BEST’
- ROGIC’S FINAL FAREWELL: ‘I WILL MISS EVERYTHING’
- TITLE FEVER: ‘BRILLIANT’, THE 29-POINT TURNAROUND
- Elite thinking and game management the difference
- ALEX’S ANGLE: MARGINS FOR CONCERN
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GG
Hope you’re ok health-wise…did you mention another regimen of medicine you need to take…
and on that note I’ll say goodnite bhoys n ghirls…as the delightful Dena is wont to say…play nice
H.H.
GLENDALYSTONSILS on 14TH AUGUST 2018 9:48 PM
Gordon
Tierney
Brown
Ntcham
Rogic
McGregor
Forrest
Edouard
Dembele.
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This is why I’m not despondent tonight. We’ve a real opportunity to bring in a CB or two, a RB and a year to gain experience at Europa level. Ideally I’d like to see some competition brought in for the wide areas as well.
What’s happened has happened. All about the next few weeks. First order of business – punt Boyata.
Fundamentally we are setup to attack , we are very open , and with the various chopping and changing with the centre halves , the defensive problems are largely how we are setup as a team.
The reason we can’t sign / get centre halves is that our requirements are for ball playing , build from the back types rather than a big lump to sit in the middle of a tight 4.
If you were playing us which wing would you attack , correct not Kieran’s , so obvious most stuff will come down our right flank , Mikeal is steady , experienced big ghuy but he does give away that yard to get a cross – we should get help out there and force the oppo back in field …. seems to me we don’t really do anything in these Games to counter the likely opposition tactics.
A couple of better centre halves will help but a more pragmatic approach is needed
This is the first day of the season. Let’s recruit and get stuck in. Poor tonight, the club was outplayed.
light relief from Bob Mortimer on Atletico Mince
‘Andrew, true or false did Karl Marx have a sister called Onya?’
night night
When Brendan demands that Lawwell open the biscuit tin he will discover that it contains 2 kit kats, a penguin and 3 Tunnock’s tea cakes…
Not had a drink but there is serious problems at Celtic,
Garngad to Croy
That comment has got me thinking……
THELURKINTIM on 14TH AUGUST 2018 9:42 PM
I’m as much a Hun as you are. Sitting there just accepting the party line like the lawwel gullible that ye are. No amount of we are Celtic or hail hails will change the fact that the defence is an embarrassment especially with toure and Big John Kennedy the team sheet holder there.
No amount of we are Celtic or hail hails will cover the fact lawwel is an arse and should be sacked. You keep on denying. Itl get worse still but that’s okay coz u are a die hard and you can dream of new defenders, winning the piss Europa lge, green candy canes and a nice hotel you can walk by every fortnite and wonder what it looks like inside. So up ye tae.
Another painful watch tonight.
We flatter to deceive but when you listen to guys like Sutton, Petrov, and Hartson you would think Celtic played in quarter finals and semi finals of the European Cup during their time with us.
I remember games when we were generally a goal down after five minutes away from home in away games.
I remember one game where we were three down after 20 minutes.
During their time we were just about in touching distance of the giants of the game but that was fifteen years ago. That’s fifteen years of the top leagues getting an average of £15M-£20M a year and then they have their domestic TV money on top of that.
Do the maths and you see why we are on the end of 5 and 6 goal hammerings.
Having said that we should never stop having ambition but ambition can only take you so far.
For people to say Gordon didn’t have a save to make is nonsense! we lost the tie 3-2 so he had at least three saves to make. What I would say is that due to the dreadful defending in front of him he had no chance with any of the goals.
We should have ambition but to go with that there needs to be a clear strategic pathway for tactics, and acquisitions. This has been a huge let down from all concerned. Rodgers has improved the squad since his arrival but the loss of players to the World Cup, injuries to key players, and bad individual mistakes have done for us.
there now needs to be an internal discussion regarding what went wrong, an understanding reached on where responsibilities start and end, targets specified MUST have a price attached to them that we go no higher for. If a player that we want goes to another team for less than that upper limit then someone gets the sack and if that is Peter Lawwell then so be it.
There is no point in signing a massive deal with Dafabet if identified players within our price range and specified by our manager, regardless of who they are, don’t end up wearing the Hoops.
While Lawwell is in charge of the purse strings it is not his money. It is the clubs money, our money and sponsorship deals are signed on the back of improved team performance based on team improvement by the manager and our financial backing.
CYPBHOY on 14TH AUGUST 2018 9:40 PM
What can you say totally unacceptable from a champion league team ,board have to go 40m lossed ,we second rate will not be back
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When you say “…we second rate will not be back…”, are you actually meaning to say “…we ARE second rate, I will not be back…”?
If I have misunderstood – apologies.
If not – don’t let the door hit your arse on the way out.
HH
BGFC
Italiabhoy.
Yep, when we get a corner or free kick I can safely go and put on the kettle konowing nothing is likely to happen!
VALEBHOY 856
Our deficiencies,particularly in defence,have been glaringly obvious since early last season. Experienced no-nonsense cover required at RB,CH,LB. We got Izzy,and to be honest,I wish we had played him with KT or JH at RB.
I pointed it out a few times but I got louped on from a great height by the usual motley crew of micromanagers.
Thought Chris Sutton had a good point, Lee Congerton has come in but what has he actually done???
Gary67
If Terry wasn’t such a scumbag..it would be a no-brainer….however….
This season reminds me (not in a good way) of what happened after the Centenary League triumph and the year after Wim stopped the Ten
WEEBOBBYCOLLINS on 14TH AUGUST 2018 10:01 PM
When Brendan demands that Lawwell open the biscuit tin he will discover that it contains 2 kit kats, a penguin and 3 Tunnock’s tea cakes…
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Was he hiding the Teacakes from Griff…
no disrespect to J Kennedy but if he is our defensive coach and with the constant basic mistakes time and time again from our defenders who have been learning and would be better for it from all of their mistakes as we get told following games like tonights then sorry but he has to be relieved of his duties and gives a position elsewhere within the club.
Garngad Aye right Yur are……
Lustig was poor on both goals for sure and the defense on the second goal was like we are when we have corners and frees ie passive and statuesque.
But the first goal was a mirror image of goals we conceded against them in first leg and Hearts with a late runner not being tracked in the most vulnerable area.
Whose remit is this?
And if no ones why is it not.
The same thing causing us problems 3 games in a row .
What are the coaches paid for?
AN DUN on 14TH AUGUST 2018 9:59 PM
Hear hear.
We go on, somethings need sorted but I think they will be.
Hail Hail
Good night from me and my grandson Sean P
Big man that’s what’s wrong with our club you accept that I don’t 40 mil
Not read back.
Take this as read:
Doesn’t come much easier in terms of ‘tough’ CL qualificaqtion ties than that.
Insipid effort.
AEK are not even an average CL team; they’re a bunch of well-organised scrappers who play the margins; they’re hardly much more of a challenge than Hibs.
They got the break of the ball big-time tonight – FIRST goal, Lustig blocks the cross, it spins ridiculously on the spot, and back into their winger’s path to make the ‘killer’ cutback half our team watched trundle across the box.
However, depite the ineptitud eof our defending for the second – young Hendry WAy out of his depth – we should have won the game alone around 5-2.
Why don’t we?
Because we seem to have adapted a VERy casual approach to matches wher ea sharp edge makes all the difference.
In the CL under Strachan and Lenny our players were at tit form the first whistle, like starving greyhounds out the traps, high tempo, relentless pressing, shifting the ball as fast as their ability allowed; it was the ONLY way to counter the natural class we faced.
Whether Brendan lacks that ability to set his team up propelr yto win at this level is STILL up for debate.
Soon as the whistle went tonight I felt my heart sink; winnable game, inferior opposition, asking to be pummelled; we sit back and let them settle.
The talk of investment and the condemnation of the board is moot.
THAT was opposition we should have taken care of with any squad of the past two seasons.
That route to the CL was a GIFT.
We appear to have developed a worrying complaceny that TOP sides do not carry.
The whole two legs has been a regressive Deila-esque. All talk, infrequent flair, waiting for the players we know to actually show up, ultimate mess.
Either BR has been found out at this level or the players are not good enough.
Couldn’t care less about their wee personal psychodramas – they represent Celtic, and a body of people desperate to back real commitment to the cause.
Either way, the malaise needs bursting soon.
I have as much enthusiasm for rating the team as they have for for the fight.; i.e I can’t be f###ed.
And that big pussy Dedryck can. Get. To. F###.
“Lawell can GTF… the sooner the better’
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so im not saying i agree or disagree with that comment
but the flaw in it is that he is ceo of a plc
so he leaves and you have to replace him with another ceo
me and loads of others on here work for plcs
and we all know that the only show in town for the ceo is to make themselves as much money as possible through wages, bonus and shares
everything else they do is purely window dressing
shareholders, customers, staff, and in a football clubs case, supporters are secondary thoughts.
its all about their remuneration package
i challenge anyone on here who works for a plc to tell me different
WilL Dafabet be entitled to a refund now?h
Sloley
Now you put it like that.
Need to visit Poland soon to get my Polish passport. A Celtic visit there could kill two birds…
YNWA
SLS…my mind is my own and it is free…no amount of noise apportioning blame, however misguided, will change that…but if u don’t want to be seen as hun….don’t act as hun…
Well Sky now debating BR to go as no competition in Scotland
Perspective needed…….Tonight and this week has been painful.
But only because of the brilliant past two seasons work and hence expectations set by Brendan Rodgers.
I love him and I am thankful and grateful he is Celtic manager.
We have no automatic right to be in the Champions league and collect a pot of gold.
We play in a very minor footballing league who’s national team have not qualified for a footballing major championship for over two decades.
Brendan will get his team ticking again sooner than later.
This season still has plenty of promise and potential.Yes the Europa league is second best but I will be glad to qualify and look forward to some fine midweek Euro ties.
Couple of signings in the correct places and we can go again.The team in general is pretty young and will learn.
We also have at least 4 games against Stevie Pee and his hyped up superstars…..now there’s some fun to be had bursting that bubble.
Given what BR has said over the last week there must be a decent chance he’ll resign.
His own managerial reputation will have taken a serious hit tonight, and Lord knows he won’t want the humiliation losing to a SlippyG-inspired Sevco.
But unless there is serious money spent on the team right now, this season is going to be touch and go domestically. We saw last season that even the SPFL dross could shut us out on occasion. Hearts and even Livi have caused us defensive problems this season already.
But will PL loosen the purse strings – or will we batten down the hatches, sell Boyatta, and make do with what we’ve got.
That option must be unpalatable to BR. Just as spending big now will be unpalatable to PL.
Well played Celtic,bad luck.
Considering the backdrop of injuries,long term,short term,and imagined,plus an unstinting barrage of negative publicity,I felt the team put in a good effort against a team whose biggest asset was defending.
Although it will be stated as a disaster we have lost CL money,is it, we do nothing with it,so what we have done tonight is lost a pot of money we wouldn’t use,and potentially avoided a few embarrassing hammerings,which undermines morale in the team and supporters.
Once we adequately staff the team, that is when we should go forward into the big time.
The consolidation of BR as Manager should be the priority,not CL,Europa League,or Hotels.
Gary67 l=)
Well my head was right I posted earlier my head says we will be glorious in defeat – and I think we were
I thought we played really well tonight away from home we are a much better football side than Athens and I thought the players gave it all they had
But we are out because we gave away 3 very defendable goals
I just want to point out that if we need to look at a full back doing his job look at the Athens left back – I don’t think JF got past him once – as good as James has been their Right Back played him well
Frustrated but no surprises
67ECW
Agreed. We were better team over two legs, they are no better than Hearts. We were mugged to be honest.
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all 3 statements correct
unfortunately we mugged ourselves
Why is it when you hear about teams punching above their weight it’s never Celtic but always teams playing against Celtic. The last thing I ever want to hear a commentator say during a Celtic game is…..”the oppositions no 10 hasn’t scored for 2 and a half years”
This perrenial problem of CBs is choking the life out of CL attempts, injuries happen, when was last 2 good CBs we had in Europe, VVD and Denayer? Heid and McManus were better than we have just now ffs
@ SANDMAN on 14TH AUGUST 2018 10:07 PM
“AEK are not even an average CL team; they’re a bunch of well-organised scrappers who play the margins; they’re hardly much more of a challenge than Hibs.”
Sorry Sandman, but you can’t just put down AEK in order to build momentum for the false argument that Brendan is out of his depth and this all rests on his shoulders.
AEK won the greek league last year and only conceded 12 goals in 30 games. They qualified for the Europa League beating Club Brugge 3-0 on aggregate. They picked up 8 points in the group phase (5 draws and 1 win) in a group containing AC Milan. They went out 1-1 on aggregate (away goals) to Dynamo Kiev. They are unbeaten in 12 European games.
Thought that was a really good effort from the Hoops tonight.
Very soft goals to concede, choose your own escape goats from the on-field players. Or blame it on those who weren’t on the field, players and non-players. It doesn’t matter which, they were soft goals.
The real problem as far as I was concerned was lack of goals. We spurned chances that were as easy as those we conceded. We gave it everything but the goals eluded us.
I’m upbeat about it. Though we do need to get back on track starting on Saturday.
LEFTCLICKTIC
Good night and God bless you and yours. HH.
@ LAZYDYNAMITE on 14TH AUGUST 2018 10:10 PM
“We have no automatic right to be in the Champions league and collect a pot of gold.”
Precisely why investment was needed. We rested on our laurels. We gambled needlessly and we lost. We have also pissed off our manager and large swathes of our support in the process.