Was anyone surprised at yesterday’s result? You shouldn’t have been. I don’t think I’ve ever before written two articles against taking a result for granted. Celtic are ridiculously inconsistent as Kilmarnock, Hibs, St Johnstone, Inverness and now St Mirren will testify, even Arbroath left Celtic Park with a draw. The intensity which has been self-evident on Champions League duty has been posted missing far too often.
Defeat yesterday was entirely possible as is defeat away to Raith Rovers in the Scottish Cup on Sunday. There will be entirely different tactics and attitude when Juventus call next month but right now you’re feeling sore because, against all odds, we’ve conceded a League Cup final place and we’ll find an equally brave opponent at some point in the Scottish Cup unless a solution is found.
Speaking at the funeral of Sean Fallon last week, Sir Alex Ferguson referred to need for a manager to be a hard taskmaster, generating a corresponding need for the assistant manager to be plugged into the dressing room. I’m sure this is not the only way of managing a football team but it was how Jock Stein and Sean worked, and it’s how Sir Alex has worked for the last three decades.
Millionaire players need an edge in their lives to deliver on a lesser stage.
I had to be in Paisley all morning, which did not help my mood.
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Pulling the Jersey on should guarantee 110% effort at least.
Didn’t see that yesterday.
Players can have an off day, I understand that.
But 9 or 10 to have an offday at the one time does not compute.
Hope there is nothing wrong behind the scenes.
The LC should be used to give fringe and youth players experience. We very rarely win the thing so, and to be honest it is an irrelevant bauble, I would think it is ideal for giving
some of the lesser used and burgeoning talent a run out.
The holy grail that is the treble is just a distraction and should be treated as so. If there is any confidence in our youth system then the LC is the format for giving some of them a chance. And just to add my tuppence worth regarding yesterdays game the three up front is not for me. Not when we have attacking fullbacks with the ability of AM and EI.
woeful yesterday, and the gaffers comments
re kilmarnock and hearts performances at hampden
were decent also stuck in my craw.
in all three of these matches we never competed enough
to win.
samaras was shocking yesterday.
lassad who i had hoped would be a player, may
have technical ability ala sammy but does not look
like he’ll cut it.
commons is dreadful when coming off the bench.
mulgrew needs to stop believing the hype and try harder.
hooper couldnt trap a beach ball in a phone box.
8m….i’d bite yer arm off if wed spend it, but we wont.
wilson and browns positioning for the first goal was schoolboy
at best.
thankfully juve are playing like nuggets at the moment too.
Moon,
You appear to have dismissed the management teams season as a failure on the back of one result, maybe it’s your toupee you should be worried about :o)
I was sitting in the lower section I of the south stand yesterday. To actually see what was going on I watched the game on the big screen at the Celtic end whilst getting soaked for my troubles.What a tip. I posted earlier that I lost my CQN badge just to rub salt in my wounds. Bad day CSC. HH.
Why do we never win the League Cup????
I want us te win the League Cup!!!
Whits wrang wi me???
Harry,
Someone found your badge, look back earlier posts, forget who it was.
The “young team” tag is wearing a bit thin for me now,before someone starts posting the ages of the team yesterday,they have been assembled over 3 seasons.Guys with decent international experience too.If the manager thinks the group is too young,get more experienced guys in now.
harryhoodsdugbitme
somebody posted earlier that they found a cqn badge
Top Tip ——– keep a note of your CQN password by disguising it in another carrots67 sentence
For me two simple changes would have won yesterday’s game
Ledley off, move Charlie into his place, bring Lustig on to partner Wilson.
Replace Vic with Kayal, job done.
Kayal 33-Pressley surprisingly is the favourite,i think he and Jackie McNamara who is also quoted,might cost compensation whereas McInnes won’t.HH
canamalar – I’m dismissing nothing, I’m suggesting that just maybe the management team combination we have right now is not getting the best out of the playing staff.
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14:13 on28 January, 2013
I was sitting in the lower section I of the south stand yesterday. To actually see what was going on I watched the game on the big screen at the Celtic end whilst getting soaked for my troubles.What a tip. I posted earlier that I lost my CQN badge just to rub salt in my wounds. Bad day CSC. HH.
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get my email from Paul mate and get intouch.
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moon
for what its worth i am with you on this one.
!!Bada Bing!!
14:20 on 28 January, 2013
They will be able to afford to pay the small compensation required for Pressley, or Jackie Mac, from the first instalment they will get from us on Thursday for Russell & Mackay Steven. ;-)
My worry on this rumour windae is that we lose..hooper, victor and fraser,,,, or a combination of our better players on or near the deadline…giving us next to no time to bring someone in for the rest of the season. Imho,,, we need a winger, a play making midfielder,, and another centre half…and that’s keeping our big name highly touted players.
Moon,
Better read your post again then, it was very general and not specific to any game, had you said it failed yesterday I may have agreed but it did not.
Len Brennan, no news, sorry.
ASonOfDan, yes, we’ll just have to do the Wembley treble.
estorilbhoy, agree, the manager will know what to do.
Kilbowie Kelt, the League Cup is one tournament I sincerely want us to do well in. We have underachieved in it for decades.
The Moon Bhoys, could be but I honestly don’t know. I’m sure motivating the players will be a challenge, though.
Ten Men Won The League
14:22 on 28 January, 2013
Chris McLaughlin @BBCchrismclaug
#SPL chief exec Neil Doncaster says 12-12-18 model agreed by top clubs. Now over to #SFL who meet on Thursday. #BBCSport
Doncaster, Longmuir & Regan…….The Funboy 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRNYqsMIbg0
Timhorton – I suspect that was what Paul was suggesting in the final paragraph of today’s article.
Was at the game yesterday, dreadful performance all round. Think everyone is scratching their heads, players included at how such a performance could materialise. A shocker completely out of nowhere.
We have been under par in previous games domestically this season but yesterday was in a different category. Wanyama looked as if he had just came out of a meeting with his agent who told him your going to be earning so many millions. Hooper the same up until his goal. Zaluska, my god, how this guy is trusted to be our goalkeeper is beyond me.
Mulgrew needs a rest, Wilson had his poorest game so far this season. Lassad looked as if he had taken mogadon and his feet were injected with valium. The rest huffed and puffed their way through without ever threatening to blow st mirren’s goal down.
These guys better take a feckin look at themselves and ask if they were in the stands would they accept that performance.
As for so called fans boycotting the game because of some f@@@ing stupid one man crusade to bring down the sfa, or because of hampden being a midden or it was too wet, get a grip of yourself clowns, your critisism of fans & the atmosphere is beyond the pale. Where the f*** were you lot when the team needed you? Oh aye that’s right, in your comfy armchair with a beer shouting insults instead of belting out songs at the game….jokers and fairweathers the lot of ye.
backtolurkingcsc
Could have been worse and gotten a parking ticket for parking up at the No;10 Gazebo like ole Goldstar10!
In fairness to Mulgrew, he was left with two men to cover.
Matthews was stranded up the park when Sammi lost possession at the edge of the Buddie’s box.
Wilson was caught out and the Brown and Wanyama were nowhere to be seen.
Significantly, soon afterwards, a similar situation arose with Adam caught upfield, but this time, Scott fell back and covered.
Apart from that, Charlie had a female horse.
Today’s Herald quotes NL as saying that he is going to analyse yesterday’s performance to identify what went wrong. Also shutting the door on a long bolted horse, he talks of recruiting in what remains of a fast vanishing transfer window.
Probably a fair number of fans feel that they could save him the bother.
There is nothing to be analysed.
In a now an alarmingly recurring scenario, when it comes to the boot swinging, elbows flailing, crunch tackling environment of cup tie, and other Scottish football occasions too many of Celtic’s current squad are found not only wanting, but simply fail to show up.
Yesterday’s lack of commitment was such that Samaras, far from being the worst offender, did not even give us a rendering of his customary despairing head in hands act.
Alarmingly too many posters appear to simply dismiss yesterday as one of those things. The old League Cup jinx! Thon soulless Hampden! Some unforgivably are taking up a Hun mantra of yesteryear, that for ‘Big Clubs like us’ performing in the Champions League, have bigger fish to fry than Scotland’s diddy domestic cup competitions.
Really. There can be no doubt that winning the SPL must be the main event. However, how many remember the winning of three points at say Rugby Park on a driech, windswept winter’s night.
On the other hand, most of us will take to our grave the memory of our first sight of a Celtic skipper holding aloft a cup on a sunny afternoon at Hampden. Soulless or not soulless.
Diddy competitions or not, the reaching the finals of, and winning our two domestic trophies can represent the acquiring of perhaps upwards of £2,000,000. A sum not to be sniffed at by a club where stringent fiscal prudence, even at the expense of pragmatism is rigidly the order of the day.
One wonders since WGS’s last season, just how much failure to win domestic cups has cost Celtic.
12-12-18 format unanimously backed.
Bye bye The Rangers 2012
Ruthless managers bag a player and buy a player after a result like yesterday.
Will Neil do that and who gets binned and where do we need to strengthen?
LB
Ole Sammi’s ‘misplaced’ pass in the first half was St.Mirren’s best move all day.
Graham Spiers @GrahamSpiers
I’ve received scores of tweets re Rangers. I repeat: I love Remembrance. But I’m embarrassed by the sort of military circus seen at Ibrox.
IMO Charlie Mulgrews hairdo made him look like Stan Laurel, he played like him too !!!
Dark , satanic mood lifting a bit, should be cleared by Wednesday.
Could be worse i suppose, could be a Sevconian!!
Timley intervention, were you another rubbish supporter who gave us armchair supporters a showing up yesterday, never heard a peep out of you so called faithfully through and through brigade, except to squeal derision at the team, away and bile yer heed.
bsr,
A world class mistake :o)
Delight as Celtic sign Irish Under-15s captain
By: Mark Henderson on 28 Jan, 2013 12:20
THE Celtic Youth Academy are delighted to announce that they have completed the signing of highly-rated Republic of Ireland Under-15 captain, Brandon Payne.
The 15-year-old, who currently plays with Dublin-based side, Lucan United, has penned a pre-contract agreement with the club. He will join the Hoops in January 2014 on a three-year deal.
A box-to-box midfielder, Payne had attracted interest from a number of clubs on this side of the Irish Sea but Celtic pulled out all the stops and won the race for his signature.
The club brought the teenager and his family over to Glasgow, and Neil Lennon and Chief Executive Peter Lawwell were both involved in helping to convince the youngster that his future lay in Paradise.
Speaking to the official website, Celtic´s Head of Youth, Chris McCart said: “We had been monitoring Brandon, and there had been real interest in him from a lot of the English clubs, so it was great credit to get someone of his calibre signed.
“He is a very good standard, with being captain of the Republic of Ireland Under-15s, and is the type of player we want to bring to Celtic.
“Peter Lawwell and Neil Lennon were both involved in the signing process. We brought his family across and they were absolutely delighted with that, and the manager also brought him in for a small part of the training.
“His father and family are massive Celtic fans so it was a dream come true for them to come over and meet Neil Lennon and the first-team staff. It´s a great selling point for us in Ireland that there is that attachment to Celtic there. He really is signing for his boyhood heroes.
“Brandon is still young and has a lot of hard work ahead, and everyone appreciates that, but considering the amount of English clubs who were trying to sign him, this is an excellent signing for us.”
Payne will initially be part of the club´s Under-17 set-up and will work under Professional Academy manager, Tommy McIntyre, and U16 Academy manager, Michael O´Halloran.
And his capture fits in with the Celtic Academy´s recruitment strategy of only bringing in players from outwith Scotland who are of an exceptional standard.
“It´s been a long while since we have signed a captain from any age group within the Republic, so again we are setting out the benchmark in the standard of player we are looking to sign now,” explained McCart.
“We want to make sure if we are bringing someone in that we raise the bar. Brandon is a box-to-box player. He can receive, pass and score goals. He models himself on one of the current Celtic players but I won´t mention who as I don´t want to put pressure on him.
“But he is one we are excited about getting. We only want to bring in players who will add to the growing amount of Scottish internationalists we have in the Academy, and we feel he will certainly do that.
“We also have to say a big thanks to Lucan United, particularly John Doyle, their chairman, and Ciaran Masterton, their team manager, who were excellent to deal with and very professional.
“But the major factor in it was the father being a huge Celtic fan,” he added. “His house is a shrine to Celtic, and his mum and dad travel across every couple of weeks. That was a major influence in getting him, and we are absolutely delighted.”
canamalar
Not sure yet if Sammi reminds me of Lassad, or if Lassad reminds me of Sammi.
But not in a good way ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) CSC
12-12-18 Approved by the SPL
SFL to vote on Thursday.
Division 1 will no doubt all back it as at least 4 sides in with a better chance of promotion and more money.
Division 3 sides will all back it – they get to play against Sevco again getting more money (unless they all get boycotted as well)
Division 2 – 8 teams will play Sevco and 2 go into the middle mix.
We know how Turnbull Hutton would vote for starters – hee hee
I think this will pass.
So much for SSB it will never pass garbage.
At least there was something to smile about.
Regarding Celtic in general, Neil Lennon must stop playing the exact same players who provide this kind of inconsistency. Kids give you inconsistency too but that kind of thing can be accepted by fans more as they are learning. Seasoned first teamers putting up that kind of performance are short changing us the fans.
Neil needs to fix this or we’ll keep on seeing this kind of nonsense at least once a season in a crunch game.
I gave my ticket away for yesterday so that I could pay a visit to my mum down south.
I did manage to see the game and was less than impressed with what was on view. I’m not going into gross exaggeration and I’m not calling for the sackings of players or management.
However, what concerned me most was Lenny’s post match interview. Yes he said all the right things and seemed willing to take some of the responsibility for yesterday’s performance on his own shoulders. No, what concerned me was that as I listened intently, I was accutely aware that I’d heard it all before from the same man.
After similar abject displays, both this season and last, the same phrases were being spouted again.
Yesterday was a big game. Of course we have biger fish blah blah but yesterday was an opportunity to get to a national cup final and again we witnessed a team bereft of ideas and lacking in shape, cohesion and discipline.
This has happened too often, it’s time for lessons to be learned.
Sounds like the highlight of Goldstar’s day…