Neil Lennon accepted responsibility for the tactical decision to start yesterday’s game with three at the back, saying, “We thought the three would suit us, but that didn’t seem to be the case. We looked a little bit flat the first 10-15 minutes and I don’t know why.”
Hibernian scored during this period, which may or may not have been a result of the defensive line-up, but if anything, Celtic were even flatter after they went to four at the back. The game was a throwback to the days when Gordon Strachan’s teams worked hard but seldom inspired.
The midfield didn’t dominate enough of the ball to prevent Hibs creating several good chances and was unable to craft a clear-enough opening. With Charlie Mulgrew on the field we are always dangerous, and Kris Commons has a better sense of where the goal is than anyone at the club, but without them we grasp to Paddy McCourt, who only seems to get the call when we’re in trouble.
So where do we need to strengthen next month……………?
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Bournesouprecipe,
Ha that could be taking it too far. :-)
Kayal to score on Wednesday?
During the night while sleeping everyone swallows aprox 4.5 spiders . They run into your open mouth and are then eaten by the sleeper.
goldstar10
11:07 on 31 December, 2012
kev- Oh well the fans won’t take control then.
Carry on Dermot & Peter, steady as she goes.
HH
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Aye – But the apathy will grow to the extent that
there will be no fans left to scunner…oot the stadium !
There are as many – Celtic fans in the team as there are on the bored ! imo
Vmhan
11:05 on 31 December, 2012
Re other day, I will sponsor you my friend.
Looks like Fat Bhoys -“For it’s a grand old team to slim..” 4 will be on the cards in the New Year, as the previous 3 attempts died because of too much alcohol liquidation :-)
This time its serious. Hoping to get the exercise going with 5s twice a week and just maybe a cycle run to Belfast for Wee Oscar!
HH
CRC
Bamboo,
not exactly a cure for insomnia but handy to know. :-)
bournesouprecipe
as an ex Betterware bhoy from the 80’s (first job when I was at school), as this is an emergency, roll up your Betterware magazine and hit the intruder as hard as you can.
That was the policy then prior to H&S, spiders rights etc but the family will be able to use the facilities again.
http://www.celticfc.net/newsstory?item=3518
The story of the year
goldstar
It’s bigger and it’s still in there somewhere
steinreigned
That said, there were a few that couldn’t hit the proverbial
bovine’s etc
bmcuw
Typical moon howling suggestion (⊙_⊙)
Vincenzo
I’ve a good recipe for soup, I got it from CQN’s answer to Egon Ronay – The Battered Bunnet
Be careful with those spiders. I hear 10 of them caused The Rangers a lot of trouble on Saturday.
So when the bells sound at midnight tonight raise a glass and send the assailant on its way. Slam the door behind it and welcome in a New Year that can surely only be kinder and more considerate to our national sport.
We simply can’t do with another year like the last one. None of us.
Since 2011 – or whenever the first crayon-scrawled death threat dropped through Neil Lennon’s front door – football in Scotland has been poisoned by a nasty air of malevolence. It has become a stinking madhouse, dripping with suspicion and paranoia. And we should take no more of it.
Yes, 2012 will be remembered fondly by some. They will cherish the memories of how Rangers were savaged by a foaming-mouthed pack and then ripped limb from limb.
These bloodthirsty ghouls would gladly watch it all happen again tomorrow, such is the depth of their hatred but it is time now for the more gentle, civilised and decent minded among us to rise up and to quietly take our ball back.
Why must Scottish football belong only to the angriest of men? Why should the rest of us stand back any longer and watch them ruin it, motivated only by their ingrained bitterness and resentment?
Have we not all suffered enough?
Something has gone badly wrong in this country. Good people are turning their backs on Scottish football in their droves because they no longer feel welcome. They have no wish to live their lives in such a furious and rancid environment.
That’s why my heart sank just a little further last week when news emerged of serious misbehaviour on the terraces of Dens Park on Boxing Day, when Celtic were in town.
Hands up, I wasn’t there to see it but plenty others were and some of the eye-witness accounts of what went on among sections of the travelling support paint an utterly disgusting picture of drunken neddery.
No wonder chief executive Peter Lawwell and manager Neil Lennon were quick to condemn those involved because this was a highly embarrassing end to what has been an otherwise sound year for the club.
The progress made on the pitch by Lennon and his players has enhanced Celtic’s reputation and international standing. Lawwell spoke eloquently at the recent draw for the last 16 of the Champions League in Nyon about how the rest of Europe was so pleased to have Celtic back at the top table, almost like the prodigal son.
Okay, maybe he was laying it on a bit thick but he also had a point because Celtic Park on a Champions League night can be a special place. Maybe even one of Europe’s finest.
This season’s competition has been all the richer for the story of Celtic’s remarkable successes in the group stages, even if Michel Platini has been trash talking Celtic’s chances of hanging around with the big boys for any longer than it takes for Juventus to deal with them.
That may or may not be true. For what it’s worth, unlike Platini, I actually fancy Lennon’s men to be the last British side standing in the quarter-finals. But that’s for another day.
Either way, back in the here and now of it all, Lawwell will have been mortified by the disturbances in Dundee which did nothing to enhance the cuddly-toy image he is so keen to promote on a global scale.
Yes, in these times of whataboutery some Celtic fans will no doubt point to the arrests made at Hampden on Saturday among the Rangers support and insist the other lot are every bit as bad. But that would be to deliberately miss the point.
There is a problem here which needs to be recognised before it can be fixed and so, as badly timed and as unwelcome as it was, the latest flash-point in Dundee may actually have presented Celtic with a perfect opportunity to start the big clean-up on behalf of all of us.
To lead the way by beginning the process of clawing the game back from the clutches of the lunatic fringe.
It’s now a matter of how serious the club wishes to be about lancing the boil because if they are determined enough, then surely with the help of CCTV and the Tayside Police they will find a way of identifying some of the worst culprits from the other night – of hunting them down and banishing them from the Celtic family so this unruly minority can do no more damage.
Of course it’s a difficult task for Lawwell because he could be accused of turning on his own customers which is hardly good business. But Lennon was spot on the other day when he said that Celtic would be better off without them in any case. Also heartening was the response of those thoroughly decent Celtic supporters who were equally appalled by some of what went on in Dundee and who have subsequently contacted the club to name names.
They too have had enough and good on them for having the courage of their convictions and the gumption to do something about it.
They too want their ball back. And they are not alone.
Up and down the land, at almost every club, there are good supporters who have become tired, embarrassed and dismayed by the antics of others.
So now that 2012 is over and a New Year is upon us, Celtic have the chance to start a trend which could sweep throughout the football landscape during 2013, cleansing it for the rest of us.
It is time for Scottish football’s silent majority to find its voice. To stir itself and refuse to accept the unacceptable any longer.
And maybe this time next year the beautiful game will be smiling again and looking a damn sight more pretty than she does right now.
From Jackson in the Record
I watched the Dundee game on the TV and noticed the booing of Celtics coloured players from the off- I tried hard to think why Efe Ambrose was so unpopular in Dundee and could think of only 2 possible reasons- 1 he plays for us, or 2- he is black. As none of the white Celtic players got that treatment I can only surmise that it was racist abuse- completely ignored by the media of course. As for Salmonds role in the non reporting of this- he was behind the drafting of a law aimed specifically at providing opportunity to jail Celtic fans- which just encourages the MSM’s institutional bias against anything associated with Irish Catholocism
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I Once seen Ole Kev Jungle Play @ The Ole SydneyTim Burns Opera House Howwwwwffff..;-((((
Summa of SydneyJungleCSC
A very happy New year to all CQNers when it comes around.
My best mate and best man at my wedding departed for the ole US of A this morning to start a new job in California. A great Tim and a great mate. He will be missed.
Any guys based around San Jose? That is where he is headed and has already sourced a CSC in San Francisco but wondered if there was anywhere nearer?
LB
I’ve always had a soft spot for the ole Spiders From Mars myself…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N32uzSbTdgo
roy croppie
Remember those wee tiny tins of polish you used to get? – maybe I imagined it.
Anyway, if I get brave, and go back in and hit it with the CQN annual it wouldn’t even be stunned (ツ)
DONTPATMADUG
Is AWE NAW moonlighting for the record now?
That is an appalling travesty of an article.
With obvious apologies to AWE NAW for the slight…….
Gordon_J
I saw a Spider jump to head the ball, he missed but a bad man gave a corner from which Sevco scored.
Ho Hum CSC
celticrollercoaster loves wee oscar, our celtic warrior
11:13 on
31 December, 2012
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Thanks CRC
bournesouprecipe
polish was always a big seller but extendable clothes poles didn’t go down well in the flats in Airdrie…toughsellCSC
Phone Willie Collum he’s good at getting rid of spiders!
That’s Jackson’s analysis of Scottish football in 2012???????
Scumbag, a horrible hurting hun scumbag.
Let the people sing…..
“Since 2011 – or whenever the first crayon-scrawled death threat dropped through Neil Lennon’s front door – football in Scotland has been poisoned by a nasty air of malevolence.”
I had no idea it was Scottish journalists that were sending death threats to Lenny.
Here’s hoping you all have a great healthy happy and prosperous New Year.
Getting back to the game. It’s simple to see what the problem was, that bloody strip, that’s what!! I appreciate commercial reasons but we should be playing in the Hoops in all games. Call me a traditionalist but at worst we should be playing in maybe vertical green and white striped tops and NEVER EVER black socks.
Here we go again but bring back Marc Crosas, the best we’ve had since my super hero Lubo.
My opinion obviously
I am kinda chuffed mind you to see the green teams in Scotland doing well and the blues sides, well, say no more..
All the best
Hail Hail
KINGLuBO
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Green (Brigade) Jumping Spider – Mopsus mormon
FAMILY SALTICIDAE
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Female, body length 12mm Yea And the Rest..
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NB.. One Green (Brigade) Jumping Spider reportedly tried to Jump from Brisbane to The Gold Coast on top of a Intercontinental Cement Truck..:-)
Summa of TheSpidersFromMarsCSC
http://www.celticfc.net/newsstory?item=3518
Great pics of year
Love the four horses banner
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
11:27 on 31 December, 2012
The sad thing it comes as no surprise that he fails to
mention the sevco supporters engaging in racsist,sectarian
and illegal singing.
Kinglubo 11:32
In your last sentence, the last 6 words could have been shortened to 4 by removing the middle 2.
I see jingle jackson has got some free time on CQN, he will be happy with that
Ban the rags
From the Official website review of the year
http://www.celticfc.net/newsstory?item=3518
APRIL
but Celtic followed that up with consecutive 3-0 victories – against Motherwell at Fir Park and in the last ever derby against Rangers at Paradise
Even Celtic are officially saying Sevco a new club
:-)
What a despicable and bias piece of ‘journalism’ by Jackson.
If this is his review of 2012 and I was his editor I would sack him.
To Jackson and the rest of the Scottish msm – taking into consideration the time of the year and the love and hope we should have in our hearts – girfuy.
Love Tom x
hehehe – stupid huns.
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MOST of Neil Lennon’s squad were able to enjoy some well-earned rest during the month of June, basking in the sunshine as champions. However, for Georgios Samaras and Mikael Lustig, there was more football to be played as they were both involved in the European Championship finals with Greece and Sweden respectively. And they enjoyed differing fortunes. Samaras helped Greece qualify for the quarter-finals from Group A, at the expense of co-hosts, Poland, and they Sammi produced a heroic performance in the last eight against Germany, with Samaras scoring, before eventually going down 4-2. Lustig and Sweden, meanwhile, finished bottom of Group D, only recording one win in their final group game against France. The fixtures for 2012/13 were also announced during June, and the Champions looked forward to an opening day match at home to Aberdeen, when the league flag would be raised over Paradise.
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The Highlight for Me was at a Celtic Q&A in Blantyre with Paul67.. Phil Mac and RTC.. In the Company of Jinks.. BT.. Martin42.. When Suddenly the Original Holy Goalie ran into the Main hall and Shouted.. “Sammi Jist Scored Against The Huns..” El Classico..
Summa of SammiTheHunSlayerCSC
As we approach the dying minutes of 2012 in The Cook Islands,etc,may I take this opportunity to wish……
A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR,WHICH BRINGS YOU ALL YOU COULD WISH FOR
to ALL posters on CQN.
PAUL67-a special thank you for the time,effort and expense you put into this site.
And to all CQNers who graced me with their company on 6 Oct-and 18 Oct-thanks,folks. It was greatly appreciated,two marvellous evenings.
HAIL,HAIL-AND KEEP THE FAITH!
Thank god I no longer buy that excuse for a newspaper.
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Ah the CQN Monday morning gossip colum.
Ok I confess me and Mags did live together for a short time. She left to go to America promising flight tickets etc. that never materialised. Yeah she just wanted shot of me I can now accept.
I was comforted by our flatmate at the time the well read highly tempramental and sexed Huberta. Remember her Mags ? A real looker. A sucker for Scottish culture and music. We had one of those relationships after Mags left me where we pretended to be sleeping together. Kept the bhoys away from her and she foolishly thought it would console me after Mags’s hurried departure.
Anyways Huberta dumped me one night in a pub in Manchester where she fell in love with a gay Irish folk singer called Stephen ..it was a pity I was there when she jumped all over him. This was in the days before English reality TV turned the young fighting Irish men into ones that walked funny with a lisp. Anyways I am digressing. Huberta and gay Stephen had 6 that is six babies together. She was always boss.
I recently heard she had left all of them in Manchester. Stephen being financially comfortable and had returned to Scotland to do a Scottish music and culture course at one of Glasgows universities. She has been seen and reported recently much to Stephens delight to be attending literaly evenings and art galleries while holding hands ..and the occasional public arse fumble from a well kent CQNer!!!! Would you believe it ? Small world …. Full circle etc.. but why the older model I keep wondering ????
I wont give the game away as I am not a gossip. A couple of hints though to help. He is a big fan of traditional Scottish music and loves to gossip.
Enough gossip for one day.
HH
Literaly=literary
RFC official on twitter saying it has been and up and down year for the and asking what their standout memories have been. ha ha ha.
These answer should be funny. I may just follow them.