A friend who has been to a few American football games told me about a difference in crowd behaviour there, compared to our own game. Here, a home crowd gets noisy during an attack by their team. In American football, the home crowd noise peaks when the visiting team have the ball. Their focus is to disorientate the visiting players in possession.
Think back to the Leipzig game a few weeks ago. Leipzig are a composed side in possession and very capable of playing out from the back. In the final seconds of the first half, however, seven Celtic players and 60,000 fans completely disorientated them. They were unable to think clearly, or act as a team.
Together, we hounded the ball off them. The noise fuelled Celtic players and destroyed Leipzig’s. Even after Celtic won the ball back, Greg Taylor was able to point tell Reo Hatate where to put the ball, with no defender able to react. It was an extraordinary few seconds of play, which perhaps determined the outcome of the game.
With that game fresh in his memory that this week, Alistair Johnston spoke about Champions League nights at Celtic Park. “When you walk out there and you hear that anthem, the noise that the fans make is almost inhumane. It’s guttural and animalistic in a way, just the scream when the Champions League anthem happens.
“You can see it with the other team, the reactions when they hear it for the first time.
“You can just see what it gives that power to the players, that extra level of sprinting and just everything that they give to the game.”
For 23 years in this competition we have typically been productive at home and ineffective away. Celtic Park performances truly are a team effort, all 60,011 of us are required. When Brugge are in possession tomorrow night, let them know why Celtic Park is such a difficult place to visit.
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Happy Wednesday eve!
4 day weekend ahead, act accordingly. Not that I do the whole turkey thing.
Will 3 points tomorrow see us through with 3 games to spare?
https://theanalyst.com/2024/09/champions-league-group-stage-how-many-points-qualify-knockouts
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Instructions understood Pablo.
Pre-game: Drown out the anthem with a roar that Shrek would be proud of.
In-game: Repeat the above at third down (inches, long, or anything in-between)
Broadsword calling Danny boy
Broadsword calling Danny boy
Decent parallel with Gridiron.
Brendan speaks often of connecting the game / not forcing the game.
Best offences in the NFL do exactly that.
Build a succession of plays to get the team down the field to create a scoring chance.
They don’t go backwards to go forwards of course.
And assorted fatties execute physically for just 3 to 12 seconds in between much longer recoveries ….
… whereas our guys (except Kasper and CCV) run constantly.
Patience and all that.
P67
An interesting read for me there re: difference in crowd behaviour.
I love to be vocal in my support for Celtic and try never to be negative, even with a sloppy “simple” pass.
I’ve always refrained from booing when the opposition are in possession also (unless they have not returned the ball after us putting it out for an injury etc) as I have never wanted this to impact negatively on our players for them to think they have to win it back asap.
Thinking about it I guess this made sense when we weren’t a high press team as we’d often give up periods of possession to be compact and counter but I made need to re-think, though my voice is normally fubar after a match just with singing / chanting – not sure if it will cope.
Sounds like a good excuse to have a pint or two before hand to lubricate the old vocal chords :)
QB
BACK TO BASICS
our guys (except Kasper and CCV) run constantly.
Daizen does enough running for the three of them !
roared on by 58,000 ish.
SS
I regret to inform you that although there were 10,022 at the Vale last night there were plenty of empty seats. But it’s all about who was there not who was missing.
‘ Rangers thug who violently snatched a drum from a St Johnstone supporter has been ordered to attend all of their games for the next two years ‘
“Own a piece of (virtual) paradise. Purchase a 1 year subscription for £29.99 or purchase a 3 year subscription for £49.99. Of that subscription fee, a whopping figure of….wait for it! …. £1 goes to the celtic fc foundation ()()
Reminder for this taking place this weekend. Anything at all whether it be a bag of messages or a couple of quid into a bucket is hugely appreciated.
Some of the food banks we’ve been speaking to are in desperate need with empty shelves – this could help see them through next few weeks at what is always one of their busiest periods.
These collections have been genuinely unbelieavable at times. As far as I’m aware, the biggest of its kind in Britain with some the volunteers reduced to tears when they see the volume of the response and they feel the love of the Celtic support. It’s humbling to witness.
While last couple have still been amazing, they’ve probably not been as huge as others. I’d put that down to maybe a couple of reasons – cost of living is obvious one and people not having what they once did. There was also a sort of novelty to bringing a few bags of tins to a game which isn’t really there anymore. On a cash front, since Covid less people carry change to throw our way. There’s also about a hunner collections every weekend with dance schools and the rest of it competing for donations.
If you’re not making the game but would like to donate – you can send it to paypal (greenbrigade@hotmail.co.uk) with the reference ‘Food Bank’ in advance. We’ll total the money and split it as far and wide across Scotland as we possibly can in the days after. We will have 7 different food banks there on the day to take the food away immediately to their users that evening. If you can help us get the word out by sharing the poster on your chats, with your mates, with your CSC, on social media etc etc then that would be really helpful.
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AIPPLE on 26TH NOVEMBER 2024 12:00 PM
4 day weekend ahead, act accordingly. Not that I do the whole turkey thing.
Same for us Aipple – we always celebrate Thanksgiving with Sichuan hotpot, to remind us of our years in Asia. On the rare time we stay for Christmas, we do turkey then.
On the NFL comparison, I beg to differ a little. The crowd noise on third down defence is mostly to disorient by disrupting helmet comms to the QB from coaching team. If the offense calls a time out, the crowd celebrate a win to them.
My only point being it is strategic (agree) but lacks the passion our fans truly have – if you look around the NFL ground, most fans are just half heartedly clapping on 3rd down.
Virtual Con
Oh, the greed of this board knows no bounds, an utter disgrace
KINGLuBO
AuroraBorealis79 on 26th November 2024 1:10 pm
“Own a piece of (virtual) paradise. Purchase a 1 year subscription for £29.99 or purchase a 3 year subscription for £49.99.”
If I were a rich sugar daddy / petrol state football club owner with more money than sense and had EUFA trying to prevent me throwing cash into a club even via my cunning inflated sponsorship payment shenanigans I would love stupid “virtual” things like this as it seems the perfect way that I could effectively donate money to a club as (presumably) valid income, assuming the club run the scheme themselves and get 99% profit after transaction etc.
For all other intents this just seems like the most stupid pointless thing ever?!
QB
A point tomorrow night would be a very good result, we’re maybe getting ahead of ourselves just now ,given our record at this level.
Paul67 et al
“For 23 years in this competition we have typically been productive at home and ineffective away”
You must have been following a different Celtic FC to the rest of us Paul. A Virtual one perhaps?
Looking forward to the game tomorrow night
A lot of Celts I know coming from Ireland,England and afar.looking forward to catching them pre and poss post game.
Not taking nothing forecasted,respect to Brugge,they are a worthy opponent and again I would be happy with a point.
Hoping for the same uptempo start from the same team who started vs the pretendyhuns
Same bench too.
So wish it were this time tomorrow
C’mon the Celtic and sage journeys to all setting out.
Hail Hail
Safe :-))
What is a Woman?
You creep.
Anyone know where B game is getting played tomorrow afternoon?
HH
AT- The City Stadium, which I think is the old Lesser Hampden
Really good analogy Paul.
I get the primary point in NFL is to disrupt the coms (as made by earlier poster) but as someone who witnessed 2 amazing defensive Super Bowl wins by great defense I do recall the Ravens in 01 and Bucs in 03 support making a huge disruptive racket knocking the Giants and Raiders right off their game.
The fans and team aligning when they were in their own defensive 3rd at the RBL match 3 weeks ago really did remind me of that. Hopefully more of the same tomorrow night.
Let’s have a look at the ole CL scoreboard.
Overall Home Record Since 2001: W19 D9 L13
@CQN
Brugge
after tomorrow have
Sporting Lisbon H
Juve H
Man City A
Suspect they will see us as best chance of qualifying for next round
A good few years ago, I met a guy, who was a mate of my pal, and he started a company called A Square Inch of Scotland.com
He bought a couple of fields and sold the idea to the ex pats in the USA and other countries for around fifty dollars. It was a genuine system with titles and stuff, wonder where he is now.
KINGLuBO
Laphroaig distillery do this too.
People who don’t want to buy a wee bit of turf just go about their business without coming on the internet to moan about it.
Not directed at you Kinglubo……
Weeron
JC2
Agreed. It’s why their fortunate win v a weakened Villa 3 weeks ago was annoying.
If they had drawn or lost that night then they would have been desperate tomorrow.
As it is a draw would be the minimum for them tomorrow and probably not really enough. They will need a win.
bournesouprecipe
I noticed you sneaked in the two home wins from the present CL campaign….
but when Paul67 referred to (the) ‘twenty three years in this competition’ he was referring to the period from , and the seasons, 2001 to 2024, surely? 17 home wins, 9 draws and 13 defeats, a victory % of less than 44%…
Hardly Fortress Parkhead now was it?
Agree with Paul, Leipzig had a serious bout of the jitters with the intensity of the Celtic attack and the fanatical crowd support in the dying minutes of the first half in that match. Equally when Celtic played Dortmund they were completel y spooked by the famous massive yellow wall of German supporters in full cry and the floodgates opened conceding an avalanch of scores. Celtic Park will no doubt be the same tomorrow night.
Celtic Mac on 26th November 2024 4:56 pm and other posts.
Hazarding a wild guess, I would say that positivity is not your strong point.
Interesting chat all round.
GDT – agreed. Would love to see Daizen’s numbers.
SS – 58,000. Lol.
I think the crowd/environment contributed to the sucking of energy out of the Leipzig team.
Clearly the running we made them do was a bigger factor but every little helps.
To me they looked like they’d chucked it as we entered added time.
Presser CCV.
https://youtu.be/p1OavT_e63Y?si=sZ61pBkoeLu4bL-d
Presser Brendan
https://youtu.be/iQiSWvVdIUs?si=R9VKNbxF0Lhnnxw2
HH
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Thanks 👍
HH
Celtic Mac
I wasn’t giving an opinion, on Celtic’s home record in the CL, it was Paul67 and you that did that. I’m very sorry that was so naughty of me “ sneaking in ” two home wins to make it try and make it look like Fortress Parkhead.
Silly me
i was up the city centre all afternoon and had a wee wander around the merchant city, doing a wee bit of research as i do.
i did encounter several brugge supporters, mainly husbanbs and wife, i directed one group to george square.
however, getting close to St Enochs there was a huge police contingent, and a few dozen, ugly looking mean types.
do they have a hooligan element, i havnt really looked at them before at all.
we have never played them have we ?