Margaret. The system is bad but no excuses. M Platini has helped us. W just needt to defeat dross each year. Sadly our board are too conservative.i Am tired ofbeing patronised about our great support. I want folk to admire our team as well
The whole board could resign tomorrow and DD would replace them another bunch of place men. You need to raise your eyes beyond our boardroom to find the real culprit. One day the support will waken from its slumbers and realise that Desmond is no better then the Whites or Kellys.
Art of War on
VVD was at fault at the last corner. He got nudged and once he regained his position charged at the ball ….took late..nudging NIR ot the way, ball then dropped to Berget who again finished well.
m6bhoy on
Delia has had over a year to sus out Ambrose yet throws him at the end of this most importnant of ties. Anyone who thinks that Efe Ambrose is a defender either knows nowt about the game of football or is the world’s greatest optimist.
beatbhoy on
Jim Mc
I know the speed you’re running at these days is probably changing the fabric of space time, but how can Sevco “return” to somewhere they’ve never been??
Turkeybhoy on
THE GREEN MAN on 19TH AUGUST 2015 11:00 PM
FFS will you stop all the greeting like weans.
If we are not good enough, that’s the way it is.
And if we cant beat Malmo, well we shouldn’t be there.
Europa League it is.
We threw that away tonight with woeful defending.
Malmo are not a great team, but either are we.
And what about their defending on our goals?.Thats football.Sometime the ball lands at your feet,sometimes it does not.
So we have ,RD to blame,PL to blame,anyone but the guys on the field that did not really play that well.
I thought that when we went 2-0 up,we did not know what to do.Stick,or twist.They scored,and we came back well,only to be hit with a ,dare I say it lucky goal,couple of bounces,so what.
Would you back Celtic to go to Aberdeen with a goal of a start ,and lose?.Neither would I.This team are not as good as The Dons,so dry your eyes.A few eating humble pie on here next Tuesday.
Surrender monkeys.I thought Jo Hansen was absolutely terrible tonight.I do not normally pick out players who dont perform,but he has his head up his ass,from last season.Needs dropped.Armstrong looked much better.
b) Peter Lawwell (Sydney Tim, I’ve already counted your vote)
c) Efe Anbrose – thank goodness he got on or some would be struggling
d) Celtic/the SNP/ Institutionally racist Scotland (Neganon. I’ve given you 10 votes for option d)
Get voting guys
glendalystonsils on
Turkeybhoy on 19th August 2015 11:27 pm
Agreed. Too many of our passing moves broke down with a misplaced pass from Johansen.
Turkeybhoy on
M6BHOY on 19TH AUGUST 2015 11:25 PM
Delia has had over a year to sus out Ambrose yet throws him at the end of this most importnant of ties. Anyone who thinks that Efe Ambrose is a defender either knows nowt about the game of football or is the world’s greatest optimist.
I agree with you,but the majority on here love him !!!!!!!!.Look back at the posts.
I have always said,”He should be nowhere near a back four”
You talking to me? As Travis would say…it’s not Jim but never mind.. You may well be right but believe me when I say our board will welcome any mob from Govan , playing in blue with a large support back to our ground. I take no pleasure in saying that.
An Dun on
A couple of years ago, Paul wrote an article emphasising the importance of not making mistakes in the CL.
The team that makes less mistakes will win the match. Tonight we gifted Malmo two goals which I suspect could hurt us in the long run.
Plenty of time for recriminations on Wednesday morning next so at the min we have to look towards second leg. Salzburg missed a lot of chances out there. Hopefully we don’t. I’m very fearful of Efe and Izzi. 50/50 for me which considering where we were after 10 mins tonight is very disappointing.
The proof is in the pudding 6 cheap goals given away in the last 3 games against pretty average maybe even poor opposition
Maybe it’s better that we don’t make the group stages of the Champions League where we may meet one of Europes bigger and more accomplished clubs and be on the the end of a hiding that we would find hard to forget
Night Night
Rummybhoy on
BCW.
Johansen gives the ball away far too many times. For every blind pass that comes off like the one for Griff, there are 3 that put us in trouble. He shoukd have been hooked for Commons early in the 2nd half.
I mean a big head on the park….as in he seems to think he is a better footballer than he is. Obviously I do not know him as a person…..he may be very humble.
glendalystonsils on
6 goals conceded against poor to moderate teams in our last 3 games shows where our problems lie.
lynott67 on
Just back in, disappointed with the final result. The way we are losing goals every game, i feel we will have to score over there to go through now.
I thought the fans were great tonight.
I don’t buy into Ciftci is a project, every time i watch this guy, it feels like we are playing with ten men.
Taking van Dyke out of this defence, is a scary prospect.
Still a draw over there takes us through.
glendalystonsils on
6 goals conceded against poor to moderate teams in our last 3 games shows where our problems lie.
Not our problem actually……..Ronny’s problem.
beatbhoy on
Jmccormick
Oops! Apologies for the moniker error, mate. Not intentional.
The Battered Bunnet on
Champions League final qualifying, scores after the first leg in order of outcome for the home side
Man U 3 – 1 Brugge
Valencia 3 -1 Monaco
Sporting 2 – 1 CSKA
FC Astana 1 – 0 Apoel Nic
BATE Bor 1 – 0 Partizan Belgrade
Lazio 1 – 0 Bayer Levkn
Celtic 3 -2 Malmo
Basel 2 – 2 Maccabi Tel Aviv
Rapid Vienna 0 -1 Shakt Donsetsk
Skenderbeu Korce 1 – 2 Dinamo Zagreb
Keeping it at 2-0 would have been the best score from the 10 matches.
Holding out at 3-1 would have placed our chances equal with Man U and Valencia.
Losing that final second goal places us in the bottom half, better off than Basel granted,but longer odds than Astana and BATE.
That goal is hugely significant. That’s why it’s such a dull yin.
mullet and co 2 on
A salmon like leep from wee Leigh tonight, I didn’t expect him to score.
Gutted by that goal but the drive home helped me realise we won and didn’t leaders lose.
The battered bunnet, it’s deliberate that we press high up the pitch and then drop off as soon as the ball gets to the centre of the pitch.
You are more likely to concede important space behind you if you continue to press near the middle of the park. My opinion though so don’t take my word for it.
Johansen is a frustrating fellow. Took up space very close to Griffiths at times almost a second striker.
Think we will win over there but I’ll be drinking away my nerves.
Rummybhoy on
Efe is not a scapegoat, just a terrible terrible footballer.
Blame for the ………….what do you want to call it…………narrow victory from the jaws of a resounding triumph. Or the continued decline of Celtic since 2003 high water mark..
The Battered Bunnet on
Ooops, ought to have placed Sporting below the 1-0 scores.
Apols.
the glorious balance sheet on
Johansen gives the ball away a lot, gets involved in needless niggles with opponents and referees, passes up a lot of one on ones with only the keeper to beat…..,
But the flip side is that he is liable to score in Europe and set up two goals tonight
The trouble with him is that he flits between being really poor then does something really good, all in the same game. For tonight’s inconsistent Johansen performance see also Maribor away and Salzburg at home last season
I think he will be important next week but I’d be surprised if 22 players are on the park at the end of that game. Seems to be bad blood between the teams and Johansen needs to keep the head
BGX on
But Back in the Real world, Its Half time……Amen…
Pogmathonyahun aka Laird of the Smiles on
Schoolboy errors have turned this tie from being comfortable into squeaky bum time. At 2-0 we should have gone for the jugular they would have capitulated. As regards the subs, Ronny had 2 of these forced upon him because of injury and possibly the third. I thought Wee Jamesie was MOTM by a mile but was disappointed in both Broonie’s and Bitton’s performances. I also think VVD was responsible for their 2nd goal – if we are playing zonal why did he leave his zone and knock Bitton out of the way when Bitton was about to head the ball?
I’m not sure how it will go in Malmö but we created both of their chances for them and the only times they looked dangerous was when we made avoidable errors.
I was going to go to Malmö but have decided not to. I’ve been on their ticket site for 2 days and it has been throwing up a message saying the sale had been postponed because of website maintenance then it put up a message saying the tickets were sold out!!?..
Go tell the Spartim on
Hareide, the tactical genius, that’s 3 times he’s managed against us and hasn’t won one. They have to win to go through, based on tonight 99/100 Celtic would beat them.
They created nothing themselves, bad choices and a couple of enforced substitutions gave them a lifeline. We’ve shown that we can create against them, so if they’re still nit worried bout us then they’re gonna find out. Charlie will play in the second leg instead of Izzy, Efe will prob get the nod as we’re away from home so the part time nuggets won’t have that much of a negative influence.
Fairly confident we will progress, bedwetters beware
Cowiebhoy on
Goooooood evening Celtic Fans
We won, and are ahead, all we need next week is a draw and we’re through :-)
BRTH, great to see you back on
Right my take on the game
I was dissapointed we sold Adam Mathews, tonight showed why, Lustig is a very good player, when he is on the park, he is unfortunately in the treatment room more often than on the park
Would we have lost the last minute corner if Lustig was still on the park ? a no for me
Now who plays right back next week ?
Incidentally big VVD was blocked for the corner, so unfortunate
Like many have stated we really must improve on keeping possession – that is a problem for us
And also where Neganon is correct, the quality of our players has dropped.
I struggled with gloating on us signing Scott Allan, Championship player of the year – downsizing to others
I though Boyata done ok, need to remember his lack of games for past 3 or 4 years, so he will only get better with games ?
As it stands we are through, need a drastically improved performance next week in defending and keeping possession.
Just to keep all informed – wee Shug the dug had another big operation today, large swelling lump removed from his neck which was infected, vet is hopefull he will make a full recover as young and fit, but kept in tonight and possibly tomorrow night at vet for observation.
KevJ your are also still being thought of ( as is Patricia and Dominic) and prayed for Bhud
Hail Hail
voguepunter on
MICKBHOY1888 on 19TH AUGUST 2015 11:35 PM
The proof is in the pudding 6 cheap goals given away in the last 3 games against pretty average maybe even poor opposition
Maybe it’s better that we don’t make the group stages of the Champions League where we may meet one of Europes bigger and more accomplished clubs and be on the the end of a hiding that we would find hard to forget.
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It’s not very often I agree with fascist bastard,but you are spot on regarding last 3 games…however we took a pounding from Barca a few seasons ago and I’ve kinda forgot it.hh
mullet and co 2 on
There’s 16 million reasons why we need to reach the Champions League. That defence is as rocky as a 1 year old learning to walk.
mickbhoy1888 on
just before I settle down to watch my recording of the World Pipe Band Championships
Is anyone really that shocked or surprised that Malmo were able to score two goals
No problems. Bedtime now…early morning run planned.
HH
BIG-CUP-WINNERS on
Rummybhoy
Do you mean last season’s Player’s Player of the year isnae very good ?
The Battered Bunnet on
Mullet
Yip, I get that, text book, but we seem to press over a 15-20 minute period, then back off for the same, then press for another 15-20 mins, and so the cycle continues.
I’m going to look a little closer at this over the coming games and see if there’s a trigger for it for the side lines.
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy on
Watching a recording of the game now that I’m back home. I love NIR BITTON! He’s sheer class.
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CAPTAIN BEEFHEART on 19TH AUGUST 2015 11:17 PM
Margaret. The system is bad but no excuses. M Platini has helped us. W just needt to defeat dross each year. Sadly our board are too conservative.i Am tired ofbeing patronised about our great support. I want folk to admire our team as well
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The whole board could resign tomorrow and DD would replace them another bunch of place men. You need to raise your eyes beyond our boardroom to find the real culprit. One day the support will waken from its slumbers and realise that Desmond is no better then the Whites or Kellys.
VVD was at fault at the last corner. He got nudged and once he regained his position charged at the ball ….took late..nudging NIR ot the way, ball then dropped to Berget who again finished well.
Delia has had over a year to sus out Ambrose yet throws him at the end of this most importnant of ties. Anyone who thinks that Efe Ambrose is a defender either knows nowt about the game of football or is the world’s greatest optimist.
Jim Mc
I know the speed you’re running at these days is probably changing the fabric of space time, but how can Sevco “return” to somewhere they’ve never been??
THE GREEN MAN on 19TH AUGUST 2015 11:00 PM
FFS will you stop all the greeting like weans.
If we are not good enough, that’s the way it is.
And if we cant beat Malmo, well we shouldn’t be there.
Europa League it is.
We threw that away tonight with woeful defending.
Malmo are not a great team, but either are we.
And what about their defending on our goals?.Thats football.Sometime the ball lands at your feet,sometimes it does not.
So we have ,RD to blame,PL to blame,anyone but the guys on the field that did not really play that well.
I thought that when we went 2-0 up,we did not know what to do.Stick,or twist.They scored,and we came back well,only to be hit with a ,dare I say it lucky goal,couple of bounces,so what.
Would you back Celtic to go to Aberdeen with a goal of a start ,and lose?.Neither would I.This team are not as good as The Dons,so dry your eyes.A few eating humble pie on here next Tuesday.
Surrender monkeys.I thought Jo Hansen was absolutely terrible tonight.I do not normally pick out players who dont perform,but he has his head up his ass,from last season.Needs dropped.Armstrong looked much better.
Sell him,e the position to Armstrong.
– See more at: http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/celtic-v-malmo-live-updates/comment-page-20/#comments
You see it’s like this:
Malmo lost. They just didn’t lose by as much as they should have or we wanted them to. But they lost all the same.
Next week, if Celtic don’t lose, then Malmo will still have lost.
In the first half they looked as if they could lose all night and every week to that Celtic team.
THE LONG WAIT IS OVER on 19TH AUGUST 2015 11:18 PM
Rummybhoy
“Johansen is a bit of a big head who thinks he is better than he is”
I don’t know about that but getting involved in that nonsense at the corner at the death was stupid and
affected our concentration.
yes have said that and a few others after the game
he has been doing that for weeks.
BUT we won the game and still in the driving seat.
KTF
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Right tonight’s poll.
Who to blame:
a) Dermot Desmond
b) Peter Lawwell (Sydney Tim, I’ve already counted your vote)
c) Efe Anbrose – thank goodness he got on or some would be struggling
d) Celtic/the SNP/ Institutionally racist Scotland (Neganon. I’ve given you 10 votes for option d)
Get voting guys
Turkeybhoy on 19th August 2015 11:27 pm
Agreed. Too many of our passing moves broke down with a misplaced pass from Johansen.
M6BHOY on 19TH AUGUST 2015 11:25 PM
Delia has had over a year to sus out Ambrose yet throws him at the end of this most importnant of ties. Anyone who thinks that Efe Ambrose is a defender either knows nowt about the game of football or is the world’s greatest optimist.
I agree with you,but the majority on here love him !!!!!!!!.Look back at the posts.
I have always said,”He should be nowhere near a back four”
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BIG-CUP-WINNERS on 19th August 2015 11:30 pm
Blame for what we won FFS
HH
Turkeybhoy
Johansen set up the first two goals. The pass for the first was almost as good as Liam Henderson’s for Guidetti against Inter.
But I do agree, play Armstrong through the middle, move Johansen wider or deeper.
BEATBHOY on 19TH AUGUST 2015 11:26 PM
You talking to me? As Travis would say…it’s not Jim but never mind.. You may well be right but believe me when I say our board will welcome any mob from Govan , playing in blue with a large support back to our ground. I take no pleasure in saying that.
A couple of years ago, Paul wrote an article emphasising the importance of not making mistakes in the CL.
The team that makes less mistakes will win the match. Tonight we gifted Malmo two goals which I suspect could hurt us in the long run.
Plenty of time for recriminations on Wednesday morning next so at the min we have to look towards second leg. Salzburg missed a lot of chances out there. Hopefully we don’t. I’m very fearful of Efe and Izzi. 50/50 for me which considering where we were after 10 mins tonight is very disappointing.
BCW
All of the above
HH
The proof is in the pudding 6 cheap goals given away in the last 3 games against pretty average maybe even poor opposition
Maybe it’s better that we don’t make the group stages of the Champions League where we may meet one of Europes bigger and more accomplished clubs and be on the the end of a hiding that we would find hard to forget
Night Night
BCW.
Johansen gives the ball away far too many times. For every blind pass that comes off like the one for Griff, there are 3 that put us in trouble. He shoukd have been hooked for Commons early in the 2nd half.
I mean a big head on the park….as in he seems to think he is a better footballer than he is. Obviously I do not know him as a person…..he may be very humble.
6 goals conceded against poor to moderate teams in our last 3 games shows where our problems lie.
Just back in, disappointed with the final result. The way we are losing goals every game, i feel we will have to score over there to go through now.
I thought the fans were great tonight.
I don’t buy into Ciftci is a project, every time i watch this guy, it feels like we are playing with ten men.
Taking van Dyke out of this defence, is a scary prospect.
Still a draw over there takes us through.
6 goals conceded against poor to moderate teams in our last 3 games shows where our problems lie.
Not our problem actually……..Ronny’s problem.
Jmccormick
Oops! Apologies for the moniker error, mate. Not intentional.
Champions League final qualifying, scores after the first leg in order of outcome for the home side
Man U 3 – 1 Brugge
Valencia 3 -1 Monaco
Sporting 2 – 1 CSKA
FC Astana 1 – 0 Apoel Nic
BATE Bor 1 – 0 Partizan Belgrade
Lazio 1 – 0 Bayer Levkn
Celtic 3 -2 Malmo
Basel 2 – 2 Maccabi Tel Aviv
Rapid Vienna 0 -1 Shakt Donsetsk
Skenderbeu Korce 1 – 2 Dinamo Zagreb
Keeping it at 2-0 would have been the best score from the 10 matches.
Holding out at 3-1 would have placed our chances equal with Man U and Valencia.
Losing that final second goal places us in the bottom half, better off than Basel granted,but longer odds than Astana and BATE.
That goal is hugely significant. That’s why it’s such a dull yin.
A salmon like leep from wee Leigh tonight, I didn’t expect him to score.
Gutted by that goal but the drive home helped me realise we won and didn’t leaders lose.
The battered bunnet, it’s deliberate that we press high up the pitch and then drop off as soon as the ball gets to the centre of the pitch.
You are more likely to concede important space behind you if you continue to press near the middle of the park. My opinion though so don’t take my word for it.
Johansen is a frustrating fellow. Took up space very close to Griffiths at times almost a second striker.
Think we will win over there but I’ll be drinking away my nerves.
Efe is not a scapegoat, just a terrible terrible footballer.
BUTSYBHOY on 19TH AUGUST 2015 11:33 PM
BIG-CUP-WINNERS on 19th August 2015 11:30 pm
Blame for what we won FFS
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Blame for the ………….what do you want to call it…………narrow victory from the jaws of a resounding triumph. Or the continued decline of Celtic since 2003 high water mark..
Ooops, ought to have placed Sporting below the 1-0 scores.
Apols.
Johansen gives the ball away a lot, gets involved in needless niggles with opponents and referees, passes up a lot of one on ones with only the keeper to beat…..,
But the flip side is that he is liable to score in Europe and set up two goals tonight
The trouble with him is that he flits between being really poor then does something really good, all in the same game. For tonight’s inconsistent Johansen performance see also Maribor away and Salzburg at home last season
I think he will be important next week but I’d be surprised if 22 players are on the park at the end of that game. Seems to be bad blood between the teams and Johansen needs to keep the head
But Back in the Real world, Its Half time……Amen…
Schoolboy errors have turned this tie from being comfortable into squeaky bum time. At 2-0 we should have gone for the jugular they would have capitulated. As regards the subs, Ronny had 2 of these forced upon him because of injury and possibly the third. I thought Wee Jamesie was MOTM by a mile but was disappointed in both Broonie’s and Bitton’s performances. I also think VVD was responsible for their 2nd goal – if we are playing zonal why did he leave his zone and knock Bitton out of the way when Bitton was about to head the ball?
I’m not sure how it will go in Malmö but we created both of their chances for them and the only times they looked dangerous was when we made avoidable errors.
I was going to go to Malmö but have decided not to. I’ve been on their ticket site for 2 days and it has been throwing up a message saying the sale had been postponed because of website maintenance then it put up a message saying the tickets were sold out!!?..
Hareide, the tactical genius, that’s 3 times he’s managed against us and hasn’t won one. They have to win to go through, based on tonight 99/100 Celtic would beat them.
They created nothing themselves, bad choices and a couple of enforced substitutions gave them a lifeline. We’ve shown that we can create against them, so if they’re still nit worried bout us then they’re gonna find out. Charlie will play in the second leg instead of Izzy, Efe will prob get the nod as we’re away from home so the part time nuggets won’t have that much of a negative influence.
Fairly confident we will progress, bedwetters beware
Goooooood evening Celtic Fans
We won, and are ahead, all we need next week is a draw and we’re through :-)
BRTH, great to see you back on
Right my take on the game
I was dissapointed we sold Adam Mathews, tonight showed why, Lustig is a very good player, when he is on the park, he is unfortunately in the treatment room more often than on the park
Would we have lost the last minute corner if Lustig was still on the park ? a no for me
Now who plays right back next week ?
Incidentally big VVD was blocked for the corner, so unfortunate
Like many have stated we really must improve on keeping possession – that is a problem for us
And also where Neganon is correct, the quality of our players has dropped.
I struggled with gloating on us signing Scott Allan, Championship player of the year – downsizing to others
I though Boyata done ok, need to remember his lack of games for past 3 or 4 years, so he will only get better with games ?
As it stands we are through, need a drastically improved performance next week in defending and keeping possession.
Just to keep all informed – wee Shug the dug had another big operation today, large swelling lump removed from his neck which was infected, vet is hopefull he will make a full recover as young and fit, but kept in tonight and possibly tomorrow night at vet for observation.
KevJ your are also still being thought of ( as is Patricia and Dominic) and prayed for Bhud
Hail Hail
MICKBHOY1888 on 19TH AUGUST 2015 11:35 PM
The proof is in the pudding 6 cheap goals given away in the last 3 games against pretty average maybe even poor opposition
Maybe it’s better that we don’t make the group stages of the Champions League where we may meet one of Europes bigger and more accomplished clubs and be on the the end of a hiding that we would find hard to forget.
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It’s not very often I agree with fascist bastard,but you are spot on regarding last 3 games…however we took a pounding from Barca a few seasons ago and I’ve kinda forgot it.hh
There’s 16 million reasons why we need to reach the Champions League. That defence is as rocky as a 1 year old learning to walk.
just before I settle down to watch my recording of the World Pipe Band Championships
Is anyone really that shocked or surprised that Malmo were able to score two goals
beatbhoy
No problems. Bedtime now…early morning run planned.
HH
Rummybhoy
Do you mean last season’s Player’s Player of the year isnae very good ?
Mullet
Yip, I get that, text book, but we seem to press over a 15-20 minute period, then back off for the same, then press for another 15-20 mins, and so the cycle continues.
I’m going to look a little closer at this over the coming games and see if there’s a trigger for it for the side lines.
Watching a recording of the game now that I’m back home. I love NIR BITTON! He’s sheer class.