Everything about Celtic in Dingwall yesterday betrayed the fact they suffered a demoralising reversal on Tuesday night. The confidence visible in Perth 8 days earlier was replaced by hesitancy and misstep. Ross County did not make it easy for them; the home side packed their defensive lines tightly, Celtic would need to earn any breakthrough.
It was no surprise that the first goal we conceded of the league season was a penalty kick. Liam Scales arm extended and was struck by the ball as he faced a cross into the box. Kasper Schmeichel was correctly disciplined for moving off his line when saving the first effort, he was unable to do anything about the retake.
Despite having 80% of the ball in the first half, at the break, Celtic were a goal down and had yet to force a save from the Ross County keeper. Fortunately, Celtic had plenty reinforcements available. Brendan Rodgers introduced Paulo Bernardo, Luke McCowan and Kyogo for Engels, Hatate and Idah on the hour, but his key decision came seven minutes later, when James Forrest replaced Daizen Maeda instead of Nicolas Kuhn.
Daizen’s potency is his pace but unlike the vast open spaces available to both sides in Dortmund, there was simply no space available for him in Dingwall. All four substitutes had a hand in the goals which turned the game around.
Callum McGregor’s deflected shot onto the thigh of Alistair Johnston on 76 minutes was the break Celtic needed. County may well have held on for a point had they not ventured so far up field late in the game. A momentary lapse in discipline proved costly.
This late 1-2 win at Ross County didn’t have the vibe of the same result there three years ago, when Anthony Ralston’s 98th minute header kept us within touching distance at the top of the table. However, just as with that result, yesterday’s win is likely to be crucial come the end of the season.
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tb,
i know several footballers who have said that john kenneddys coaching is exceptionally good, try listening to the celtic exchange episode with the former celtic youth coach.
FAVOURITE UNCLE
It was, of course, Loch Lomond.
Bot exactly Dumbarton. £100,000 membership.
That reminded me of the time in Bulgaria when I overheard a Vale man describe Haldane as ‘a village on Loch Lomond’.
Nearly spilt my pint.
Not exactly.
The Herald @ ages ago
Of the regrets that may creep into John Kennedy’s career musings in the wee small hours, the path not taken isn’t the one that will keep him up at night.
At 37, Celtic’s interim coach has long been tipped as a manager in waiting. He had his first experience of it yesterday as he oversaw Celtic’s game over Aberdeen but had he picked a different route, Kennedy could have been well used to calling the shots as a number one.
On the shortlist for the Hibs job prior to the appointment of Jack Ross, Kennedy could have made the call to be his own man then. Similarly, his decision not to go with Brendan Rodgers to Leicester but to stay put at Celtic could yet put him out of a job this summer if there is an anticipated re-structure with any new manager given license to bring in his own backroom staff.
Ange Postecoglu @ ages ago
“John Kennedy plays a vital role. I give him a lot of responsibility. He’s got a lot of experience at this football club, part of a lot of success,” said Postecoglou, as reported by Football Scotland. “That isn’t by accident. It’s not surprising people are looking at him. And when the time is right he will make an outstanding manager.”
Who would win in a fight between a winger and a wide man.
Daizen Maeda CSC 👍
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so thats the question about Palma as well – to me he isnt a winger in the traditional sense of the word – he doesnt have that burst of pace or that quick footed bit of trickery when he is against the full back, so to me he is a midfielder that gets played on the wing, but isnt a winger and would be better playing more in the middle of the park.
maeda on the other hand does have that burst of speed to take him past the full back so that is winger material, even though his end cross cant be dodgy at times!
“This late 1-2 win at Ross County didn’t have the vibe of the same result there three years ago, when Anthony Ralston’s 98th minute header kept us withing touching distance at the top of the table”
What a wonderful memory.
I recall that evening vividly.
My feed cut out at 94 minutes.
Similar but different ….
Back then R2ngers fans were scunnered and worried.
Now they’re scunnered and resigned.
Luis Palma is very frustrating.
There is no doubt from his stats that he can unlock a defence and create assists and score some great goals. That’s why we bought him.
But….. he’s up against the toughest competition in our team. We are rife with wide men- Kuhn, Maeda, Jamesie, Yang, and last year, we had Mikey J and Rudy Vata too.
Luis would walk into any other SPFL team and would be Serco’s most dangerous threat if he played there.
But he suffers from a few deficiencies in his game.
1) He does not work hard enough at the defensive/closing down part of BR’s game- in fact he sometimes shirks on effort.
2) He can be flashy and selfish. He has flair and wants to display it so, too often, he won’t play the simple pass to a team mate if he can do an outside of the foot bend or a Ramona instead. Great when it comes off but very frustrating for a coach if he sees a promising attack fade out.
3) He has confidence in abundance in taking set pieces but spoils it with the flair frills of stutter steps with his penalties and going directly for goal rather than picking out a team mate, again resulting in chances being wasted.
And so far, he has not cottoned on to the fact that Brendan’s not kidding about his deficiencies. When given a chance as a sub, he will make the effort for 5 minutes before reverting to flash & lazy mode.
Now, I like the guy and want him to stay and be a success, but he has this season to prove he can be more of a hard working team player. His skill and ability will not suffer if he works harder and at 24 he’s not a kid anymore. This season could be his last with us unless he steps up the effort. He’s a better player than he’s showing so far.
Ramona???- you know- the thing Lustig did
LETS ALL DO THE HUDDLE
Totally agree, wingers in the true sense went out with Stanley Matthews.
Nicolas Kuhn is one of the more modern variants that play on the ‘wrong wing’ cut inside onto their good foot, Paddy Roberts previously springs to mind. Daizen is a ‘one off’ phenomenon IMO but he’s right footed, playing on the left.
Wee Jamesie now excelling on the wrong wing for him, could only dream about crossing with his left peg.
It’s a funny ole game 🤷♂️
SFTB
Lustig did a rabona not sure about anyone else 👍
Totally agree, wingers in the true sense went out with Stanley Matthews.
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not so sure.
from a purely celtic point of view, you mention paddy roberts, definitely. but mcgeady as well, kuhn now too. and provan.
if you have a trick (pace or skill etc) that gets you past your full back more often than not then that is winger material.
but they are a dying breed.
Morton Wieghorst did it – maybe against Dundee
Bob Dylan and Jim Reeves did Ramona.
Superbru Round 7 update
This week’s set of fixtures seems to have been collectively difficult to predict, resulting in a very compressed field, a low points total to win and a huge load of punters contesting and narrowly avoiding bottom spot.
The top performers this week, saw a few mid-table residents given a chance in the spotlight.
1= Disco Deek, hairlikespaghetti & SFTB- all on 7 pts
2= Slick71, Auldheid, Apple, Hamiltontim, mckenna_88 & Raploch bus- all on 6.5 pts
at the bottom, we had
58th= Call me Gerry, fitbabhoy, Gutenberg, 18 yard Man, Johnny the Tim, Pannysbhoy, Mouldy67, Chalmersbhoy, Koln Celt, Belmont Brian 63 & Hot Smoked- all on 2.5 pts
But… managing to limbo under this low bar, we had….
69th- BMCUWP- 2pts
70th- kelvinbhoy- 1 solitary pt- If it was Philippe Clement he’d be celebrating that.
The overall picture is now:-
Gaz- 60 pts (the only man with the correct score from Dingwall)
The Token Tim- 59.5 pts (Well Done Julie!- showing up sir man again)
Leggy- 55.5 pts (just biding his time before he strikes for the front)
And those with a lust for wooden spoons are:-
67th- An Tearmann- 30.5 pts
68th= Jonny the Tim & maccargo- 29.5 pts
70th- BelmontBrian63-on a mere 27 pts- outperforming every competitive dunderheid in the field
We are now entering a boring fitba period but a fractious blogging time with the International Break. Superbru returns on 19th October with an unheard of five SPFL Premiership kick offs at 3 pm with Sevco due to lose to Killie on Sunday 20th (inside info from BelmontBrian there- so just bet what you can afford!😀)
I think Wieghorst’s Rabona was vs Aberdeen.
FOD
You may well be right
A successful pre-season, first derby win of the new campaign, sparkling performances in the SPFL and the excitement of the new Champions League start with a resounding victory ………….and then the smash into a massive German yellow brick wall which left us in little pieces last Tuesday night.
Little wonder the team was suffering the mother of all hangovers in that first half yesterday.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen Calmac in such a subdued state and of course he wasn’t alone with confidence completely shot. It took an almighty effort and the performance has to be commended to turn this game around and get full points. Jamsie, Paulo and our Roger Daltrey lookalike, young McCowan were terrfiic. The young Barca loanee did ok .
WE don’t become a bad team all of a sudden.
The subs yesterday came at the right time and a good manager knows when and who to take off. Young McCowan will do for me. He never holds onto the ball for too long and draws the players into him before he plays that pass and moves again to be an option. I think he willbe getting a lot of encouragement from Calmac.
Aberdeen game should be a cracker. They have bought some pretty good players and their manager seems to know what he is doing. I am glad that Aberdeen went a down a different road than most Scottish clubs when it came to recruiting a new manager. Don’t get me wrong, I am glad that Brendan came back, but how many times is a Levein, going to be touted to another team.
Hope the Bhoys have fun in beautiful Sligo.
Sean
Even the DR are querying what clemente’s up to
Good stuff SFTB.
Joint second place for one week shall be celebrated!
someone mentioned could we not have used the international break to get some games in.
i too am curious why we do not do this,
3 games in a week. a mini tour of ireland maybe would have been worthwhile for team and support alike.
or a home friendly on the season card to give something back
I don’t think that the absence of wingers argument post Matthews holds much water. From a Celtic perspective we had excellent wingers in Jimmy Johnstone, John Hughes and Frank Brogan, all in the post-Matthews era. In fairness, the original Ibrox club had one or two wing men who were none too shabby such as Willie Henderson and the sometimes rabid, Willie Johnstone.
It’s interesting that Celtic started Sunday’s game with two wingers, each operating on the ‘wrong’ side of the park. Maeda’s crossing remains sub-optimal. If it was on the same level as the rest of his game I doubt he’d be at Parkhead. Kuhn gets better and better. Enjoy.
An Tearmann on @11:19am
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Even the Gallant and Hearty Professor knows were truths are spoken.
She retweeted this 👇️ only days later.
https://x.com/georgegalloway/status/1839676511688814645
Ah mean, if the grand old Professor can days later retweet from the only person electable to speak such truths…how long until the average Tim realises that in a political sense you’ve been had for 17 long lie packed years by folk who shouted from the rooftops that they wanted to put Tims in jail and then the Tim response – vote the nat jakals back into office!!!!
And then they use smear campaigns from the Daily Record who hate ANY political party who dares to speak truths that the DR will not print and Tims use this rag to build a case against the only politician who’s party will – without fear – rip up the economy and write out a new economy based on workers rights – which the DR also smears with other lies.
When is the day that Timmy gets over itself and grows the fck up?
Genuine question, I cannot remember Frank Brogan being an accomplished winger for us. Jinky, without a doubt, yes( The bestest ever) , Big Yogi too, and I know wee Henderson was a cracking wee winger for the deid team. But i genuinely can’t recall Frank Brogan starring.
Frank Brogan was brilliant game after game for the reserves. He never seemed to be able to do it consistently for the big team.
!!BADA BING!! on 7TH OCTOBER 2024 3:45 PM
Johann Neeskins RIP
*the Big Mhan rated him the real star of that Ajax and Dutch national side.
VALE BHOY on 7TH OCTOBER 2024 5:26 PM
FAVOURITE UNCLE
It was, of course, Loch Lomond. Not exactly Dumbarton. £100,000 membership.
*and also, in Luss which is in Argyll
That reminded me of the time in Bulgaria when I overheard a Vale man describe Haldane as ‘a village on Loch Lomond’.
*The Mill of Haldane, NOT the scheme where I grew up, is older than the Vale itself.
Neeskens was a great player along withCruijff and Van Hanegem, who was the brains of that Dutch team. He destroyed Milan in the semi final before he inspired Feijenoord in the Final against us.
PARKHEADCUMSALFORD on 7TH OCTOBER 2024 10:45 PM
Frank Brogan was brilliant game after game for the reserves. He never seemed to be able to do it consistently for the big team
*hmmmm me and my high school mates loved him, he could play either wing but he didnae have the heart of his brother, ironically he took over from Alec aka Alice Byrne another talented winger with he same timid disposition, he was often to be seen in hiding against the huns, but in all fairness that thug that was shearer who had put Johnny Higgins out of the game dished out the same to both talented guys.
He did have the celebrated honour of scoring our landmark 5000th league goal following in the footsteps of such luminaires as Adam McLean 2000th, James Edward McGrory 3000th, and big John Kennedy’s grampa Jimmy the 4000th and for what it’s worth the 6,000th was scored by “when Bobby plays Celtic play” Murdoch.
By gallant and hearty professor I take it you mean Jeanette Findlay,university lecturer and Celtic trust member,give her a name you misogynist racist.
I don’t not believe the grifter when talking of his presence there in 1982,The slaughter at Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps,when Israeli forces overseen twice the number murdered/slaughtered on 7/10 last year and in a shorter time period-4hrs,than the slaughter perpetrated by Hamas.
Most with any knowledge of Mid east chaos know Hamas and Hizbollah did not exist in 1982,the camps were full of woman and children as the men had sailed to Tunisia,this shows the virulent and the violence the slaughter brought to lebanon so with the grifter it is a case of the more highlighting it the better as we know in western media the sanctity of life is not in balance,the value of a Palestinian life is not any less or more than a Israeli life,but I am sure the grifter would agree Zionism is a cancer on Israel,resulting in it being a religious apartheid state which has ambition from the euphrates to the sea.
The Grifter is not the only one.i would take Jeremy corbyn over him on any stand.He kept his seat too whilst your grifter is back taking money of saps like you.
Yup the Daily Record of “the vow” but it’s not the paper at issue is it? It’s the hidden anonymity of a racist scumbag who was caught being a racist troll whilst purporting to be a member of the grifters ‘workuz perty’ you especially along with the other gobbleteer on here Darwin/cloud9/jhb/andrena know the value of being hidden,anonymous,as I said earlier both of youz should get back to boat chasing,you both supported it in Brexit and lauded the grifter when he shared a stage with the fascist scum.
Timmy is doing fine,seeks not and never will step on the 2shites shed from £brox.Yir ol frim is a memory and a symbol of how unionists in this country do business.So you can skweam n skweam Timmy backs his club and has done since Mar4 when Dippers Kelly and white were lifted over the exit gate and kicked out for good.
Keep the focus on your own ignorant racism,your post on Anas and Humza was outright racism,but gimps like you are easy,ignorance has grown into fear,fear of refugees and your sick post on invasion/brown skin has no place in Celtic,todays refugee are tomorrow’s Celtic fan it is a natural follow on.
At Celtic
Refugees are welcome
Racist boat chasers like you gobbleteers is not
God bless and look over the 120,000 slaughtered by Israeli bombs
God bless and look over the 1700 slaughtered by Hamas
Johan Neeskens rip
https://youtu.be/jL-ZGImvjBA?si=IMkpnbRxOBHjRpJ_
HH
Jobo’s summary of the Ross County games and votes:-
*SENTINEL CELTS PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2024-25*
*RESULTS FROM GAME #11 ROSS COUNTY 1 CELTIC 2 (JOHNSTON A, KUHN)*
Good evening, friends.
In recent seasons our trips to Dingwall seem to have been peppered with close results and late winners and it was no different yesterday as the Champions had to come from behind to secure the 3 points with a very deserved 2-1 win.
Celtic started well enough in terms of possession and 13 minutes in we were told that we had completed 113 passes to Ross County’s 10. But without creating any real goalscoring chances.
Valle replaced the injured Taylor and played the inverted left back role in an almost identical fashion but with a bit more skill and end product. And whilst Kuhn was also positive down our right hand side we still remained ineffective in front of goal. Our best chance came just after the half hour when our then top scorer Maeda had a free header but failed to hit the target.
In 38 minutes Valle was still playing the Taylor role to such a high standard that he found himself caught in midfield leaving our left back position exposed as Ross County broke down their right. Scales moved across to try to cover the cross but when the ball hit his outstretched hand a penalty was correctly awarded, not by the ref directly but via his Video Assistant. Schmeichel, who had already made a fine stop earlier in the half, saved the weak penalty only to find that he had encroached from his line. The retake by the same player, Hale, was more firmly struck into the bottom corner and Celtic went into the break one goal down, the first goal we had conceded in the league this season.
As the teams emerged for the second half I realised the DJ had been spinning ‘Hands Up’ by Ottowan, so 10 points to him (or her) for a decent wee bit of humour.
The second half didn’t show much improvement in our lethargic play and when Johnston gifted a slack pass to Ross County just inside our half with Kaspar well off his line, we were nearly on the end of a worldy chip which fortunately sailed just over the bar.
Shortly after that, I felt we had a decent claim for a penalty on Maeda but I now assume that tackling from behind with both feet off the ground is perfectly legal!
On the hour, as usual, Brendan rang the changes with the ineffective Engels, Hatate and Idah replaced by the soon to be effective Bernardo, McCowan and Kyogo. The tempo increased, the link up play was slicker, and the confidence in this old man’s heart started to grow. One further change saw wee Jamesie replace Maeda.
We finally drew level with just 15 minutes left on the clock. We learned from his post match interview that Alastair was actually trying to jump out of the way of Calum’s shot but it’s just as well he failed miserably, with the ball deflecting off AJs thigh and into the net for a well deserved equaliser. And 12 minutes later we secured the clincher, taking a quick free kick in our own half to Johnston who played a fine path into space for Kuhn to cut across the box and place a beautiful, passed shot into the bottom corner. Cue bedlam as Nicolas ran over to the terracing to celebrate.
There was some post match fall out from this with regard to whether Nicolas should have received a second yellow. Notwithstanding the fact that it’s highly unlikely that a red would have altered the final outcome, being so late in the game, here’s the actual wording extracted from the Laws Of The Game (Law 12: Fouls and Misconduct) – “Leaving the field of play to celebrate a goal is not a cautionable offence but players should return as soon as possible. A player must be cautioned, even if the goal is disallowed, for (among other things…) climbing onto a perimeter fence and/or approaching the spectators in a manner which causes safety and/or security issues……” . From memory I don’t think Nicolas climbed onto anything so it’s then a judgement call by the referee who must have concluded that there were no serious safety issues. Case closed.
A rather generous 7 minutes of stoppage time was added (no lengthy VAR checks or injuries and just the usual substitutions?) but Celtic kept possession well and secured the 3 points.
We have now played 11 games this season, winning 10 and losing 1. We have scored 36 and conceded 12, 8 of those being in Europe.
A slight upturn in voting numbers for this one, the highest since we hammered you know who 3 nil. So a big thank you to all 75 who took time to vote.
The total votes cast for each player are as follows, with my own nominations asterisked.
Schmeichel: 1
Johnston: 18
Trusty: 6
Scales: 9
Valle*: 51
McGregor*: 18
Engels: 0
Hatate: 1
Kuhn*: 60
Idah: 0
Maeda: 1
Kyogo: 2
Bernardo: 21
McCowan: 34
Forrest: 3
And so, the players receiving POINTS for the game against Ross County are –
Kuhn – 5 points
Valle – 4 points
McCowan – 3 points
Bernardo – 2 points
Johnston A and McGregor – 1 point each
And the overall positions after 11 games played are –
23 points – Kuhn
20 points – McGregor
19 points – Maeda
17 points – Scales
15 points – Bernardo and Hatate
12 points – Engels
7 points – O’Riley
6 points – Johnston A
5 points – Kyogo, Schmeichel, Taylor and Valle
4 points – Carter-Vickers
3 points – Forrest, Idah and McCowan
1 point – Yang
0 points – Holm, Johnston M., Nawrocki, Palma, Ralston, Trusty, Turley, Welsh
A wee bonus for you this week – here are the players who, so far, have been Man Of The Match in those first 11 games. Good to note that the award has gone to 7 different players
2 – Engels: Hearts (H) 2-0, Slovan Bratislava (H) 5-1
2 – Hatate: Kilmarnock (H) 4-0, St Mirren (A) 3-0
2 – Kuhn: Falkirk (H) 5-2, Ross Co (A) 2-1
2 – Maeda: Hibs (H) 3-1, St Johnstone (A) 6-0
1 – Bernardo: Sevco (H) 3-0
1 – McGregor: Hibs (A) 2-0
1 – Scales: Borussia Dortmund (A) 1-7
We now go into the October International Break and are due to resume on Saturday 19th October with a real cracker; a 3pm home tie against our neck and neck top of the table challengers, Aberdeen.
Hail Hail!
An Tearmann on @11:54pm
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You don’t believe truths that blow your kult think to bits.
Jeremy Corbyn didn’t get the extra votes in the back door to block his election in the way that Mr Galloway did – who do the deep state fear most?
1. Flowery words Corbyn who in 8 years of zio lies and smear campaigns still hasn’t called the evil ones the lying slime that they are.
Or,..
2.Nuclear truth bombs from Mr Galloway “No country has the right to exist” when he explains what he means…the zios fly in the vote rigging machines.
https://youtu.be/aue77XZJGbw?si=VDNCBzWB-BdJ0X22
https://youtu.be/J7p7CAyxHgg?si=ZL2RYpeKfL8GE4Zc
Will you still be pom pom waving for zio vaxxeen genocidal program monsters Moderna and Pfizer and AstraZenica or will you deny that as well?
https://x.com/KateShemirani/status/1843385252204687411
Ordinary racist
I am no member of no cult,I point out that you are a confused uneducated racist and in defence of the grifter I would suggest he too, would object to your ‘brown people’ islamaphobic essay that you wrote under the now banned 418/9 moniker.Shoit about being invaded,your head is an empty space.
Now Jeremy is a man of socialist principle, you would not catch him whoring himself to the racist and fascist skank Farage,an act of treachery to every working class person as the Tramp goes on to lead deform who are more right that Truss et al.No conspiracy Jeremy got elected your tena recipient got papped out back to his telly show from his lavvy..but all that does not detract from you posting brown people/islamaphobic racist post as the now banned 418/9
Oh there you go deflecting your own racism and only highlighting how much you are confused about vaccine,for every c&p you give I will give 2,but it does not answer why you sit typing bout brown people,Anas or Humza,doesn’t answer why you sit vomiting bout being invaded,it does not detract one iota from your own racism,it’s there and the racism is a cancer on you,and it’s virulent to the core of your uneducated head.its a bowl of jorries.
Refugees are welcome Racism like yours is not.
An Tearmann on 7th October 2024 11:57 pm
Johan Neeskens rip
https://youtu.be/jL-ZGImvjBA?si=IMkpnbRxOBHjRpJ_
……………………
R.I.P. JOHAN NEESKENS…
A VERY fine Fitba player who could use his right and left foot….and ” The Heid” to score Goals.
YNWA JOHAN.
COLD KEYS ?
My Granny and Grandad ( Both R.I.P. ) both brought me up until I first got married in 1977, when I bought my 1st Flat and moved out.
As a young Bhoy, whenever I had a ” NOSE BLEED”, one of my Grand parents would get the BACK DOOR KEY to our Hoose in Easterhouse.
The ” Back Door Key” was bigger than the Front Door Key, and my Grand Parents would put this Key inside my shirt and on to my BACK. I can still feel that Key Coldness on my skin all those years later.
I NEVER had Cotton Wool etc stuffed up my nose at any time….Just that ” BACK DOOR KEY” as a quick fix !
Was I alone or did anyone else face this ” REMEDY” when they were young ?
Nowadays whenever I see a Fitba Player having a Nose Bleed and different Physios stuffing the Players nose with Cotton Wool, I am left to wonder WHY those Physios DON’T have a Large Cold Key in their Medic Bag ?
I seem to remember the ” Cold Key” down your back being quite a successful remedy.
Maybe my Grandma and Grandpa were onto something back in the 1960’s ?
LOL.
HH.