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  1. RobertTressell on

    We’ve just watched the easiest game we’ve played so far this season.

     

     

    Partly their players are either not good enough or spent.

     

     

    Partly their tactics are woeful. The only concession I could discern to their playing a superior team was to flood their own box when we had the ball to make space tight and close down shooting chances.

     

     

    Short periods of decent possession for them were easily matched by pressing them at the back and closing space around their midfielders. Mckays shot aside they bore absolutely no threat. But we should learn even from that and their goal. Both chances should have been cut off at source.

     

     

    A poor manager and poor players won’t do much for a football club, whatever age it is.

  2. ItaliaBhoy on

    Great result. Hugely satisfactory.

     

     

    Thought 1 goal flattered them. It was the only time they looked dangerous. Once again great sub from BR. Armstrong for Rogic was inspired.

     

     

    Apart from that one goal we were streets ahead. Surely even the dimmest Hun must realise they are years behind us. This is no quick catch-up job for the battered Magic Hat.

     

     

    Crowd were great too. The old place was flexing and bouncing with the thousands of joyous hearts beating as one…!

  3. GivehimthemoneyPeterCSC on

    New club, old supporters – easy game apart from 2 minutes (before they scored we were rampant)

     

     

    Brendan had game changing subs once again…I though taking rogic off was a strange one ….was he injured? (He was looking a bit more steely than normal which was good to see)

     

     

    Not a big fan of broonies men against boys comment …don’t react to the panto horse that is Barton

     

     

    Senderos or Toure? tough call

     

     

    Well done Moussa …great time to score your first hat trick …and all very composed goals

     

     

    Now on to the nou camp

  4. hendrix67 on

    Anyone else think Garner is a nutcase? I thought he took Bitton out intentionally. If you watch the replay he hits the ground then looks up then rolls about. Plus his antics with big Erik, trying to get him booked.

  5. Hot Smoked on

    I said to a Sevconian today: ” We wouldn`t have beaten the Old Rangers so easily.”

     

    ” No,” he replied. Then realised what he had said 0:-)

     

     

    JJ

  7. starry plough on

    Rogic had been across the world and back I’m guessing that’s why BR subbed him, BR said our squad on duty for Internationals had covered 60’000 miles:))

     

     

    SA had his best game for Celtic today since the Inter Milan:))

     

     

    Happy to see BR working his magic with the players..

  8. RobertTressell on

    Barney – rogic had travelled to Australia and then the Middle East over the break. Only back midweek. I took it the jet lag may have been a factor in his substitution.

  9. setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox on

    Apparently there have been a series of musical shows featuring that dick Barton:-

     

     

    Dick Barton Episode I, Special Agent,

     

    Dick Barton Episode II, The Curse Of The Pharaoh’s Tomb

     

    Dick Barton Episode III, The Tango Of Terror

     

    Dick Barton Episode IV, The Flight of the Phoenix

     

    Dick Barton Episode V, The Excess of Evil

     

    Young Dick Barton

     

    Young Dick Barton Episode II, The Devil Wears Tweed

     

    Dick Barton, Quantum Of Porridge

     

    Dick Barton, A Fist Full Of Barton

     

     

     

    I am sure we can come up with a few more apt ones from today

  10. AuroraBorealis79 on

    PHYLLIS DIETRICHSON on 10TH SEPTEMBER 2016 2:46 PM

     

    SFTB – I thought exactly the same. The incident where he claimed he was stamped on was completely out of order.

     

     

    ___________

     

     

    The best thing to come outta that outrageous accusation was his face at the end of the game when he realized that his sleekit claim was beamed around the world for all to see.

     

     

    Huns attract horrible bstrd’s & horrible bstrd’s are attracted to the Huns.

     

     

    A fateful attraction!

  11. kevinlasvegas on

    See they wrecked the toilets again, No wonder the price hike.

     

     

    Sore losers, I bet there is a story in the wreckage they will leave this season no matter where they go.

     

     

    Anyway it’s not their day its ours. 5-1 Against the new team,

     

     

    I take it the hat has ran out of magic already?

     

     

     

    KLV

  13. RobertTressell on

    Hendrix – 100%. Said so to my son. He’s a faux hard man and a cheat – tried to get players booked.

     

     

    They must go looking for wee nyaffs like him specifically – forester is another. Novo-esque in their scummery

  14. Hot Smoked on

    There was something on here yesterday about the Tiffo to be displayed in the standing area. What was it?

     

     

    JJ

  15. Tallybhoy on

    Tom Rogic had a great first half.

     

     

    One of the things that stood out for me was his constant harrying of Barton, and how he easily dispossesed him on a few occassions without breaking sweat.

     

     

    HH!!

  18. Hot Smoked on

    Re Armstrong.

     

    I think he is a very good player who has not been very good with us. The part he played in today`s game might just be what he needs to reunite him with the confidence he lost after he arrived.

     

    Playing for Celtic seemed to unnerve him. Now, after playing in such an atmosphere as he experienced today, he may feel more relaxed in our ` normal ` League games and show us his true ability.

     

     

    JJ

  20. Phyllis Dietrichson on

    I thought Nir Bitton played well today, in fact it was hard to pick out negatives. At 2-1 in the second half I said Sinclair was quieter than I would like – guess what happened ten seconds later?

  21. corkcelt on

    Rogic had a great first half, Armstrong a great second half, couldn’t have worked better. In fairness I think all the team played well. First 10 minutes of second half was the only period that they were any way threatening. Once we weathered that we simply took them apart.

     

    I said it in an earlier post and I’ll say it again, look at the 4 goals that Dembele was involved in, Larsonesque.

  22. vfr800a8 on

    Well it was very easy. To those who didn’t think it would be, I bet you are relieved you were wrong!

     

     

    Jobo, good to meet you today!

     

     

    FAC the Act

     

     

    KTF

  23. AuroraBorealis79 on

    I thought there was something wrong with my Sky as every time Senderos came on screen it seemed to pause & everything stopped. I only realized it wasn’t an issue with Sky when I remembered I was watching it on a stream.

  24. Barney67 on

    RobertTressell on 10th September 2016 2:52 pm

     

     

    I forgot about that. Makes his 1st half display even more impressive. Also I know Bitton has his crtics, but his through ball to Dembele for 2nd goal was excellent.

  25. Bob O' Baldy on

    Congratulations to the Rangers on their 3rd best result against Celtic in their history. #progress

     

     

    ;)

  26. AuroraBorealis79 on

    HOT SMOKED on 10TH SEPTEMBER 2016 2:54 PM

     

    There was something on here yesterday about the Tiffo to be displayed in the standing area. What was it?

     

     

    Tri-Colour , I think. If not then I miissed it due to Sky ad’s

  27. kevinlasvegas on

    Anyone got the Celtic TV link so I can watch that again?

     

     

    would appreciate any links Bhoys.

     

     

     

    KLV

  29. Phyllis Dietrichson on

    I was at the last game when a Celtic player scored a hat-trick against a team from Govan – Harry Hood in the 1970s. Any CQNers attend today, Harry Hood, and Stevie Chalmers hat-trick in 1966?

  32. 'GG on

    From Tom English BBC

     

    So much for all the bum boosting rubbish they have been pouring out

     

     

    Celtic’s Mikael Lustig and Moussa Dembele celebrate

     

    Moussa Dembele is the first Celtic player to score three in a league Old Firm derby since 1966

     

    Moussa Dembele scored a hat-trick as Celtic hammered Rangers in their first league derby for four years.

     

     

    He rose above a static defence to head in from a corner then pounced on a Rob Kiernan mistake with a deft finish.

     

     

    Joe Garner headed a reply before the break, but Dembele set up Scott Sinclair for a finish off a post.

     

     

    Rangers’ Philippe Senderos was sent off after a handball led to a second yellow card, before Dembele and Stuart Armstrong exposed the 10 men.

     

     

    Victory lifts Brendan Rodgers’ Scottish Premiership leaders – and reigning champions – four points clear of their city rivals, who started the day in second place, with a game in hand.

     

     

    Mark Warburton’s visitors, who won the Championship title last season, rarely looked like rescuing even a point once Dembele, the summer arrival from Fulham having started in place of the injured Leigh Griffiths, opened the scoring after a fairly even first 33 minutes.

     

     

    The French striker thus became the first Celtic player to score a hat-trick in an Old Firm league derby for 50 years.

     

     

    Celtic are now unbeaten in 17 games in all competitions and their dominant performance sets them up nicely for Tuesday’s opening Champions League group game against Barcelona.

     

     

    Dembele steps up

     

     

    To lose a striker of Griffiths’ quality – he will not play in Barcelona either – was a blow for Celtic. The job of leading the line fell to young Dembele, playing in his first Old Firm game at the age of 20.

     

     

    Dembele was utterly magnificent. A close-range header from a Sinclair corner for the first, gorgeous composure when cutting inside Senderos and coolly beating goalkeeper Wes Foderingham with the outside of his right boot for the second – and then a precise pass to Sinclair for the third.

     

     

    A Celtic star was born, but he completed the hat-trick just to reinforce the legend, the first by a Celtic player in an Old Firm league match since Stevie Chalmers half a century ago.

     

     

    Mikael Lustig’s cross dipped over the head of Joey Barton – in the midst of the crisis, the midfielder went back to centre-half – and Dembele smashed home Celtic’s fourth.

     

     

    Celtic’s Moussa Dembele scores his third goal

     

    Joey Barton could not prevent Moussa Dembele completing his hat-trick

     

    Rangers’ self-inflicted wounds

     

     

    The Scott Brown versus Barton dynamic was a major part of the build-up. The first significant clash between the pair of them was won, critically, by Brown when the Celtic captain came out on top in an aerial battle that led to a Sinclair attack that brought a corner and the opening goal for Dembele.

     

     

    A free header from such close-range was dreadful defending from Rangers – and it got worse. Kiernan gifted the ball to Tom Rogic in the preamble to the second goal and they were sliced open again for the third.

     

     

    Celtic are too clever and too ruthless to look such gift horses in the mouth.

     

     

    Senderos’ 75th-minute red card was another illustration of Rangers’ travails. David Weir, Rangers’ assistant manager, was sent to the stand soon after.

     

     

    Psychologically, they were gone by then, on and off the pitch. Out-classed – and how Celtic Park basked in it.

     

     

    A yawning gulf

     

     

    Rangers’ Joe Garner heads in at Celtic Park

     

    Joe Garner gave Rangers hope just before half time at Celtic Park

     

    Celtic had chances to add to their goal tally. Foderingham saved from Armstrong, who was terrific when he came on, and saved again from Dembele.

     

     

    Brown went off to a rousing ovation after a performance that might have Barton recalibrating his opinion of him.

     

     

    The fourth eventually came – and it was a historic moment for Dembele. The fifth, a neat finish from Armstrong, brought further joy for Celtic and more humiliation for their visitors.

     

     

    One way traffic and a giant chasm between these sides.

     

     

    Line-ups

     

    Match Stats

     

    Live Text

     

    Home TeamCelticAway TeamRangers

     

    Possession

     

    Home57%Away43%

     

    Shots

     

    Home20Away6

     

    Shots on Target

     

    Home9Away2

     

    Corners

     

    Home3Away1

     

    Fouls

     

    Home12Away13

  33. fieldofdrams on

    Take a bow, Stuart Armstrong. I feel that his main (only) problem has been self-confidence which was plenty high when he first arrived, but got eroded steadily by being played in a position where he is not at his most effective.

     

     

    Brendan seems to be adept at deploying players where they will be most effective, and Armstrong’s excellent performance was testament to that. If he can kick on from here he will be an excellent player for us.

     

     

    Great finish for his goal, too. What a great day.

  34. Hot Smoked on

    Aurora

     

    Thanks.

     

    The post yesterday suggested it would be something quite different from the norm.I am not sure a tri-colour would be considered thus !

     

     

    JJ

  37. Ray Winstone's Big Disembodied Heid on

    BRTH. That’s a score for the charidee ( £5 for each goal more than the chumps )

     

     

    Worth every penny. Can you please put up the donation site again?

     

     

    Salve salve!

  40. 'GG on

    Phyllis. That was when Ting Wharton dummies a ball for Bobby Murdoch to score.

     

    What a day that was 5-1 with Big Yogi dancing on ice.

     

    I also saw Bobby Lennox score a hat trick at Ibrox. Charity cup match.

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