Just catching up on the post-Ibrox analysis after a busy weekend. A few observations:
Celtic opened very well but our passing out of defence fell apart after 10 minutes and didn’t get back on track until Scott Sinclair decided he was taking control at halftime. If I wanted to make an excuse, I’d say we were rusty due to the formation only just returning to normal for the first time this season, but this may be over-generous.
Scott demonstrated why he was Player of the Year last season. He has what it takes to swing big games. The game can be divided into two parts: times when Sinclair had the ball inside the Newco box, and all other times. You could sense the terror in blue at the former.
On the Newco penalty claim: I’m not sure. Jozo pulled out of the challenge, which I suspect is why the referee didn’t give it, but I would have claimed if it was the other way around.
It was clear to everyone in the Broomloan Stand that Leigh Griffith was claiming for a penalty in the first half, although none of us knew why. Young Beckenbauer in the Newco defence extended his arms and made his body big as the ball dropped onto his hand.
The rules are clear on this one, allow your arms to leave the confines of your body and you’ve transgressed if the ball strikes a hand or arm. Sky Television viewers were then transported to an alternate universe, where they were told, “Leigh Griffiths is claiming for a corner kick”. There is an intellectual pain experienced when you are part of a group treated to ‘expert’ analysis like this. I was embarrassed as a viewer.
While Scott Sinclair was the custard in your doughnut, the second goal was a product of crisp passing down the right. Callum McGregor was worthy of an honourable mention here. He has the craft to compliment Patrick Roberts’ level of astonishing-ness.
There will be quite a number of people who are walking around Lennoxtown today full of the joys because of the save Craig Gordon made with the score at 0-1. This was not a normal reaction save, it was the result of a planned and practiced manner in which to close-down an opponent who is about to head the ball. Look again at how Craig moves his body.
It was a big moment and speaks of the technical preparation of the goalkeepers.
Scott Brown remains is in the form of his life. He waltzed around Ibrox like he owned the place. Although with the alleged condition of the structure, that honour may be an onerous one.
The knives are out for Brother Pedro, who spent millions but has not noticeably improved his team. This is a little unfair. Newco’s problems run deeper than Pedro, and let’s face it, they would be in a far worse situation if he had not banned green boots.
This guy knows what he’s doing, no way is he an hopeless imposter, no way at all. And, if they ever score an important goal, Pedro’s instructions to congregate to celebration will also prove invaluable.
Let’s not get too carried away with ourselves. Ibrox was the aperitif, as they say in Europe. The main course is in Brussels on Wednesday, and that will prove to be a far greater challenge.
Enjoy the new podcast…
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Watched the game back.particularly the first half
The sevies had a few attacks 3. 4?
I didn’t see any dominance from them .
Celtic could and should have been 3or 4 up by half time
I watched some numpty rangers thing on YouTube where the guy said it was
A game of two halves
I don’t see the point in self denial
JimBob1943
Correct me if I am wrong, but I think you are Timbhoy1-2 and 3 :-)
HH
30 secomds on Ross Cty no other football on Shortbread….oh dear
Thom
So you reckoned that she didn’t think of they questions either :-)
They must think we all zip up the back, well I suppose their target audience does
HH
Bada
If they had gotten a result it would have been headline news
HH
Cosy corner bhoy
Jim Diamonds dad was a firefighter
I missed working with him
But back in the day, the older guys told me that when he passed,Jim took his cap badge and wore
It at his gigs
Ho Ho Silver
Good video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxdFLNlMo_g
I think I may have offended some posters I respect on Saturday by prioritising a result against Anderlecht over the result against the current Govan mob. I was accused of everything from ignoring our bread and butter right up to emulating the hun attitude of the 90s.
So, it is with some risk that I will repeat the view.
Firstly, I do prioritise our bread and butter, which is winning the league regardless of who we beat to do so. Lose all 4 matches to any top 6 team and still win the league is ok with me. You get no extra points for beating them 5:0 or 1:0. They are currently 5th in the league and much longer odds than Aberdeen to win the SPL so I don’t see them as our main rivals for the bread and butter target. But just try charging £49 to get our fans to go to Pittodrie and the complaints and boycott threat would not be long in coming.
I have gone to Ibrox to watch my team many times in the past but I have watched no games involving them since 2016, either at CP or there- just my wee bit of gesture politics. My ticket gets used by someone else for our home games.
I will genuinely be more delighted when we beat our nearest league rivals, whether that remains as Aberdeen, or whether Hibs, Motherwell, St. Johnstone or Sevco emerge as runners up contenders. And it is that attitude, coupled with my focus on CL matches which makes the 2nd accusation both more relevant AND hurtful.
I genuinely believe that it is borne out of a different feeling that they displayed towards us in the 90’s. At that time, they felt the rightful order had been restored in this land, that the time of Big Jock was an aberation that they would never have to face again. They saw no way out for Celtic and felt we would be no more relevant to them than St. Mirren or Partick ever again.
Well, as anyone knows from my Indy Ref views I don’t buy those end of History views; a trend is just a short term projection not an inevitable fixed destiny. The Ibrox club , if they pursue sensible policies, and maintain their fan base can slowly grow to become genuine rivals in, who knows really?, a 5, 10 or 15 year period from now. They certainly won’t win one of the next 2 or 3 leagues unless we go mad in our approaches but beyond that , we are back in the land of empires which rise can also fall and top dogs can be displaced by a lean hungry competitor.
I can understand those of us who work alongside huns and who have suffered at their hands, relishing an opportunity to gloat and lord it over them. That I have no trouble with. But, to make beating Brer Hun a more important target than european credibility, even second tier European credibility, is, I think, holding on to a past, that is not currently relevant.
When we were chasing the truth about events leading up to mid-2012, we were told that we were internet bampots, an irrelevant minority even anongst Celtic fans. I did not think they were right in 2012 and 2013 when our fury about their cheating was at its height. However a few years ago at a semi-final at Hampden, I heard a couple of young Celtic fans say “I can’t wait till they get back; it’s no the same without them” and not one voice was raised in dissent. I knew then that the urge to have the Rangers itch to scratch was still too strong amongst too many of ours.
And that desire for us to see them as currently relevant has sustained them and it has sustained our enemies in the SFA. When Daryl Broadfoot was asked about whether Celtic, and other clubs, needed a form of rangers in the league, he said to them- “Just wait and see how many will want to see them once they are back (sic)”. Regan has used a similar argument.
For a time , I thought they were dead wrong about us and that they were basing their views on the Radio phone-in fans and the Record readers but, I have to conclude now that it was me that underestimated the nostalgia we had for the Rangers itch and it was us who could not get used to seeing them as merely another Top 6 club, for the time being.
I still hope the internet bampots win but we haven’t half made it easy for Regan and Broadfoot to feel smug and vindicated. There are many who want to tie a scarf to their posts. I still want to beat Anderlecht more even though I don’t hate their fans.
Tom English saying Celtic and “Rangers” (as he calls them) is no longer a rivalry.
“Accidentally forgets” (ahem) to mention that the old Rangers wouldn’t have been competitive if they had lived within their means.
Scotty Sinclair didn’t really tun up on Saturday, P67.
And that’s a FACT – cos I’d lumped on him for anytime, a brace and the 80/1 hat-trick, so scrutiny upon him was forensic.
If he had turned up, we’d have eclipsed the April 5.
Quietest I’ve seen him against the Penny Dreadful for a while.
BR/Neil Lennon confronts an opposition player on his way off the pitch, there’s cops turning in their badges and the skies cracking open to reveal sleekit wee Salmond and his merry band of summiteers riding their sky-chariot of staunch presbyterian goat-pumping righteousness.
But the Portuguese zumba instructor tries to face-down the (unfazed) Celtic captain and we’re hearing it laughed off because he’s a ‘quirky’ foreigner?
Throw the book at him. In fact, ram it up his arse, the rambling, babbling, egotistical fckwit.
Wednesday – a draw would do fine, with half a chance of pulling a point out of one of the 2 Munich games, then showdown with Anderlecht at CP in December for Europa in 2018.
Good grief. McLeish on now.
Not what you would expect of a “Rangers” team playing Celtic.
Not like your team, eh Alex? The one you said couldn’t have competed with Celtic without EBTs!
THETIMREAPER on 25TH SEPTEMBER 2017 7:05 PM
Thanks for posting the link. Great view of the goals.
The amount of missiles thrown on the park after our second goal is disgraceful. Not a mention in the papers or radio.
Is this now acceptable behaviour? Is it going to take an injury to one of our players before this is challenged.
BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 25TH SEPTEMBER 2017 3:19 PM
The scale of Rangers cheating just shy of £50m paid to at least 80 employees over a decade, to unfairly win 14 trophies.
The tip of an iceberg and only what the they have owned up to, when raided by the London rozzers.
#stripthetitles cactus
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that would make a brilliant banner.
Tom English…dear oh dear..
Ira chanting at game….but no mention of any other chanting…assume it doesnt affect u Tom….?
Embarassment.
Auldheid
Why do you think that there is a possibilty that Celtic will hold fire now the SPFL and the SFA have refused to hold reviews? To me it clears the way for Celtic to take this to UEFA.
COSY CORNER BHOY on 25TH SEPTEMBER 2017 5:17 PM
On holiday in Benidorm and reading the book IRISH by John Burrowes about the Great Famine and the ‘flight’ to Glasgow.
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its a brilliant book Cosy.
i dont know that its easy to soften what the famine was, but glasgow politicians have for many a year. but read this, and your back in time to what our ancestors really went through. the opening passages describing well off locals in greenock wandering up what became lyle hill, to look at “the boats of many faces” has me welling up everytime.
i dont find it demoralising, i find it uplifting.
keep it lit.
I agree with Sandman.
Scott Sinclair and for that matter, Patrick Roberts were not as totally effective as they can be.
I have my own theory as to the reason.
Before and at half time, there appeared to be an over emphasis of watering the wing areas.
Those were the areas where our players slopped at crucial times.
Another thing I noticed was at full time, during the post match summaries, the ground staff were out with the lawnmowers.
I can understand rolling the pitch post match, but I would have thought that cutting the grass would be a pre match task.
Was the grass overly long for the game?
Between that and the watering, were those the reasons for our, to my mind. below par performances from our wingers?
They may have “slopped”, but they also slipped.
When Thomson did not give the penalty that wasn’t as the cheat dived i think he had a Gene Wilder moment of clarity.
When the sheriff took out his gun to shoot Mongo and Wilder said to him don’t do that it will just annoy him.
Why face scrutiny for a lost cause?
http://celticbynumberscom.ipage.com/derby-delight-for-dominant-celtic/
Rarely hitting the heights, Celtic nevertheless extended their unbeaten domestic run to 57. A couple of scares apart, Celtic enjoyed Derby day. A look at team performances.
I seemed to disagree with many commentators on what unfolded, so expect plenty of comeback! HH
About time to ☘️
https://twitter.com/celticfc/status/912346707358371840
THOMTHETHIM FOR OSCAR OK
I noticed their tactic of heavy watering the pitch before match & at half time and mentioned it in comments in various sites.
Disgraceful… but I was also shouting at players to get their studs changed … schoolboy stuff… as they were slipping & sliding all over the place.
Heve also read that they reduced the width of their pitch to try and curb our wing threat…
Don’t know if that’s true but wouldn’t be surprised..
In any case, Celts coaching byoys should be aware of these durty deeds going on… before and not after the match.
SFTB
I understand your position and I do think its the right one but for many many fans like myself you just can’t beat the feeling of ramming it down the throats of these so called peepl that they are f***** and like you say there will be no end to their misery in the near future.
As far as european football goes after the PSG game my own beliefs are that if we can keep reaching the group stages of the champions league secure the finance that goes with it we will achieve my main hopes of 10 in a row. That money will also finance an attempt on Europa league glory.
I still vividly remember the feelings I endured during the season we stopped their 10 attempt.
I still cannot put into words the fear I endured in my head that season. I was even considering immigration.
When the final whistle went on that day, I was sitting on the couch in my house with my then 17 year old son facing me on the other couch. It was the first time my son had ever seen me cry. I just could not contain the releif. My son got up from his couch remember he was 17 and crossed the room sat on my knee and put a consoling arm around my shoulders and said” yer awright da yer awright”.
I have pretty much been awright from that day to this so please don’t take it that other fans don’t see your point I know I do but I can never forget they demons from that time.
KEEP THE FAITH
we should put a bid in for mcrorrie – that’ll really pi** them off- he’ll be a decent squad player in a few years
Is Morelos the South American Kris Boyd?
Don’t believe the hype McCrorie was minging on Saturday wouldn’t get near our bench
He was at fault at both goals, leave him where he is, perfect fit for that Klub :-)
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An opportunity for Celtic to refuse to allow SFA to use our players ass a response to their refusal to
Carry out a review?
THETIMREAPER on 25TH SEPTEMBER 2017 7:05 PM
Good video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxdFLNlMo_g
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thats quite brilliant for those of us who were not there.
look at
how technically brilliant Tom Rogic is at striking a ball, he does it time and time again.
how our english paddy plays with a head up, everytime he gets into that old fashined inside right position, again quite brilliant.
griff and broony are hated by them ugly huns, buit Michael Lustig is the biggest wind up merchant of them all, he reminds me of a cross between the mad irish king in bravehears & a first world war german. quite unique so he is, i might have a man crush.
brave ears was the follow up to brave heart.
next year the trilogy is finished with brave feet, a film about calum mcgregor
jobo,
can you count me in please.
same email as usual.
no access to it till tomorrow.
I wrote a post with a couple of expletives aimed at Buicks post, the post content mind, not Buick, grand poster, regarding FtSFA honouring the Lions. I’ve tempered it somewhat. I do understand the pride in seeing the Lisbon Lions honoured.
Its just that I don’t care whether a hugely corrupt organisation honours the greatest Scottish team to have played the game. 50 years too late. In fact, not caring is such an understatement. Tell them to ram it!
That is the most edited post I have ever posted and I have had many’s an argument with Awe Naw:-) Sincerely hope not to have offended Buick, but that needs said.
FtSFACSC
DOC on 25TH SEPTEMBER 2017 8:17 PM
100% in agreement, sadly.
HH
The referee Bobby Madly (name rings a bell!) definitely disney want WBA to beat Arse-nil.
DOC
Good post!
FTSFA!
C’MON THE CELTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Watched the BT highlights there and didn’t even show the pen incident!Saving that tube wa*kers embarrassment no doubt
too fuppin right doc – honouring the lions in 2017- f off – they don’t need you
in my humble opinion of course