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They are all horrible peepil but the fact remains that we lost to these
awful goats today.
John Kennedy don’t heehaw
‘We have to be a lot more physical going forward’ – Neil Lennon BBC post match.
Thanks to the poster of the link.
There you have it – the front four were powderpuff.
Eddy is an exceptional talent. You can’t have players around him who blow hot and cold.
Hit Smoked – I don’t think anyone was saying that about Neil. What I did say was he said he didn’t think we deserved to lose.
And we did deserve to lose.
I also said I think he has decided this season not to criticise the team publicly, something he was doing a lot at Hibs.
John Kennedy DONE heehaw .. he just looked at the Sev back room staff guy going nuts
MJ completely powder puff; way too light weight.
Why is Sinclair shut out?
Eddy has no support currently.
KC VIC on 29TH DECEMBER 2019 6:08 PM
Theoriginalsadiesbhoy
From the upper jock stein section, it looked like a rangers sub who went round to pass a message to MacGregor.
Straight away he went down with an injury. All the rangers players then went over to the sideline and got instructions from the coaching staff. It looked preplanned.
Thought it was a different person ,one of the coaches who was then sent to the stand at the end but couldn’t be too sure due to distance.
…………….
I could be wrong given the ages of McGregor, Defoe and Davis but I thought he looked too old to be a player.
I saw Morelos doing the slashing gesture, that was caught by Sky, what I couldn’t understand was why their bench were frothing at the mouth. I assumed it was about the red card but Gerard said he had no complaints about the red.
Didnt watch game…but seeing highlights…ah did say about our CH’s
Howeva…ah also say…nae worries….
Sorry to have to say this but I think Ajer is a dud. He is slow and for someone at 6 ‘5 he is hopeless in the air .Hope Leicester come in for him.
EBT Thompson is a prick and another Hun apologist, no mention of the slashing neck gesture from morelos either.
If you take a drink ( I do not ) go and sit and chew the fat,have a laugh about old times,about old friends.Remember who laughs last laughs loudest.
Come what MAY………..see what I did there!
If we’d “celebrated” in the manner that the huns did, following today’s defeat then the scoddish meeja would have gone carpet-bitingly bearserk……………………
Instead “Awwwwy – along-for-the-journey- Wammont” gives thum a kleverly worded get-ooooot.
All punches pulled. Shameful.
Celtic have not had a dominant cenre-half since Sviachenko. I never understood why he was sent away by Brendan. Not a great ball player but a gritty central defender who was not afraid and good in the air. What was needed today.
Is this were ersies become experts?? Including me.
Everyone of our players were pish. We did not feed our centre forward. Nough said.
Shiite
Let’s shake hands end the decade and move on.
God bless one and all, except well you know who…
D. :)
Bankiebhoy1 – ignore, switch off for a week, and wonder why any Celtic supporter would vote for an independent Scotland.
It’s interesting how the rise of the SNP coincided with the liquidation of ‘Rangers’.
A ‘we are the people’ ‘resurgent ‘ ‘Rangers’ in an independent Scotland.
Can you imagine.
Yep . Sickening and sad to see the best and most lethal player on the pitch (Eddy) rendered impotent by the lack of quality round about him today Both wingers cutting inside to clutter up Eddy’s patch in the middle and not making the runs which might have drawn the 2 or 3 defenders constantly policing Eddy to give him some space.
Sevco used their more modest talents more effectively today.
Maybe Lenny thought MJ might turn in a match winning performance on the back of his new 5 year deal but it certainly didn’t work out that way.
Today is a major set back. For first time, I feel our league winning run is in genuine doubt. This is not like last year. We do not have a game in hand with a nice run of home games after the split.
I have them as favourites given their run of home games and the next derby being at Ibrox.
Neil has two months to put together another ten match winning run then it’s Ibrox. He needs to come up with a line up and strategy for their press. First things first, win the next ten games.
We can have no bad days when we come back.
GM……………..
Aye. Shudder at the thought.
Re the meeja, I do mostly for all others but I retain an interest in the national broadcaster.
The Shortie football wing is horrible but should be shown-up at every opportunity.
HH.
Julien by far the best of our back four, not brilliant but who was?
As for those hoping for the return of the Kenyan Fenian? Have any of you seen him play recently? Why do so many think that he’s the answer? We have a strong skillful central midfielder already on the books in ON, but despite hitting a good run of form recently, the tactical genius that is Lennon thought that we would be better off with Mikey ‘mr muscle’ Johnston. Only took NF 70 minutes to remember that MJ is a waste of a Jersey but by then it was too late for Ntcham to make a difference…
Adi
Can’t copy and paste feel free to repost my previous if you wish
I’d also add that we need to practice defending corner kicks.
Bankie – Indeedee doo..
But in an independent Scotland… you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
I thought Lenny’s starting 11 was fine. He should have changed it sooner though. My one doubt about Neil is that he waits too long to change things, we’re usually behind before he tries a change of tactics.
Today though, he’s been let down somewhat by his players. This was not the Cluj qualifier again. Neil owned that result but today lies with the players.
An Dun 8.08pm
Serious question … do you just expect Celtic to win the league forever more ?
“Today is a major set back. For first time, I feel our league winning run is in genuine doubt”
I think Stevies Sevs will actually spur us on to another title … but we all see things differently
Sorry An Dun
I apologise this bit is the most worrying
“I have them as favourites given their run of home games and the next derby being at Ibrox”
Stevies Sevs have yet to win the games that matter (they win the sane fixture last season but are further behind now) .. if you were a bookie what price would you make the current champions if the Sevs are now favourites ??
AN DUN – ‘thought Lenny’s starting 11 was fine‘.
So did most of us.
It wasn’t.
He admitted it.
It has to change.
Stevies Sevs
Lost their last derby at Ibrox
Logic :-)
MJ starting was a a big mistake; Huns must have been pleased to see that.
He couldn’t hit the top off a rice pudden. ON was the obvious starter for me.
Lenny not learning.
I don’t think Eddy is an out and out number 9. We need to learn to use him in the way we did on the rare occasions he played with Moussa. It also gives us a 4-4-2 option.
Bayo isn’t going to do it and Griffiths is way off the pace and question marks hang over him.
Whether we go for the boy Sporar we’ve been linked with i don’t know, if he scores goals then great. Dare i say it, Cosgrove could be a decent foil for Eddy. He is a handful and knows where the back of the net is. Sure there are limitations but if it was Cosgrove and the boy Sporar that would give us more threat and physicality.
Folk will say its unrealistic to think we could sign two strikers but were going for 9 in a a row and we have two strikers who aren’t at the races.
GFTB on 29TH DECEMBER 2019 8:32 PM
Stevies Sevs
Lost their last derby at Ibrox
Logic :-)
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And hopefully their next :-)
No free fixtures dates before the next game on 15 March for them to play their game in hand unless they get knocked out of the Scottish Cup or Europe against Braga or play 2 midweeks game in a week.
HH
CRC
I think they’re favourites because they’ve got 9 games at home from 14 up to the split. We’ve got 5 at home and 8 away during that time.
We needed a cushion for the second part of the season and we didn’t earn it today. Clinging to being two points in front when they’ve a game in hand over Ross county at Ibrox is simply delusional.
We do ourselves no favours by underestimating their threat. They’re favourites for me but they were favourites at Ibrox in September. Bottom line, it doesn’t matter who the favourites are – we’ve two and half months to put things right.
Thanks for letting me let off steam today can. Dreadful performance we could have seen coming. The league’s not lost by any means but it’s 50 50 now .
Despite our stuttering play today, most of the key incidents which decided the result were on the goal line just inside the post.
Twice Rangers covered their post and cleared headers off their line.
We left our post unattended and Katic had an open door.
I played right back at school and was always taught to cover the post at corners. It reduces the target by 40% if both posts are covered but neither Neil nor Brendan deploy this tactic.
I would like someone who is more tactically aware than I am to explain why managers don’t do this.
Hrvastski Jim,
It’s just a defensive choice, like zonal marking or man to man.
If you do one you sacrifice another, men on posts means more space in other areas of the box which can be exploited.
When it goes for a coach he is a genius, when it goes against they’re a dud.
Still licking wounds tonight.
We need some hard shifts on the training ground in the next few weeks and to come back fresh and determined. And reinforced.
CRC 8.45pm
Definitely good to see you on here, even if after a wee drawback …
I must be getting old as big sister picked me & 3 mates up today at the Beefeater in Bailleston about a hour after the game … I suppose it helped one of my friends was her son-in-law, she actually commented “I have never known you so calm after Celtic getting beat by Rangers” she had no interest in football… my response was “we canny beat them all the time” and in fairness we have pumped them since their new incarnation … as other posters have posted … never get to high, never get to low tomorrow (hopefully) if we wake up we will still be Celtic fans … there is far too much to enjoy being a Celtic fan to let any defeat take that away :-)
Neil Lennon CSC
Hvratski Jim
I think the non defending of the posts is due to the fear that those guys on the posts will play attackers onside if the ball is partially cleared and then returned.
It’s a 50/50 thing.
I was annoyed with Christie and McGregor giving away so many sill y fouls with a jersey tug or whatever, especially in the last 15 or so.
Think the hun guy who came sneekily round to give their keeper instructions was on their bench and came on as the final substitute in the last few minutes.(not a known face previously)
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