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  1. Almore on

    Very low scoring in second half but Mayo showing the most promise. They are only one point behind now

  2. cliftonville celt from belfast on

    Some wayward passing in this game by both teams

     

     

    Think Mayo will regret those last couple of wides

  4. jimbo67 on

    It is five weeks since I last contributed to this blog and wish all of you well. It may well be a further five weeks (at least) before I contribute again. I have lurked only occasionally during my absence and have studiously avoided it since last Tuesday evening’s meltdown in Malmo [with that kind of crummy alliteration I could get a job on the Record] as I would imagine the blog has not been a happy place.

     

    I would imagine that the ‘Moon Howlers’ will have been having a field day as they believe their perennial opposition to Peter Lawwell et al’s strategy with respect to signing players has been vindicated whilst the so called ‘Happy Clapper’s’ will be telling the Howlers that they are Huns and that Tuesday was just a ‘blip’. As is usually the case there is something to be said for both stances but what strikes me about the strategy is that it has failed and that Tuesday will be seen as a turning point in our club’s history- from now on qualification will be looked on as major surprise (rather like Scotland qualifying for the finals of the World Cup would be). Between 2003 and 2008 we qualified for the Champions’ League five times out of six missing out only after the Artmedia collapse but in this decade we have only qualified twice in five attempts and in the last two seasons have failed against opponents who were no stronger than those we overcame when Neil Lennon was manager. This is failure and no amount of domestic success- welcome though it is- can disguise this reality.

     

    I understand why the Board has acted as it has during each of the last four summers (at least) but ultimately if the team is worse than it was then it has to be acknowledged that the strategy is at least heavily flawed though – and I consider Sydney Tim to be a personal friend- I do not believe it has been conceived purely to boost Peter Lawwell’s bank account. PL and his colleagues have I hope acted in a way that they believed would make Celtic more successful and I would criticise them far more for the way they have responded to the Media’s lies about the demise of Rangers (and more recently the openly biased anti-Celtic coverage since this season started – a bias that sees the Petrolhead Cup deemed to be of at least equal significance to the Champions’ League) than the way it (the board) has handled Celtic’s financial affairs. Even though those deeply cautious financial policies have led to us being worse than we should be on the field some of the alternative strategies on offer do not seem any wiser. I think we should have been a bit bolder than we were during the summers of 2012 and 2013– especially when it came to signing strikers- and would not now , as a result, be in a worse financial position than we are but I will never know if that will be true. What has happened has happened. Only what we are and will be is important now.

     

    And what we have is a really disappointing team into which players arrive periodically , sometimes look good in the first few weeks and then go into a decline – in the case of Gary MacKay-Steven rather a steep one and in Dedryk Boyata’s case a remarkably quick one. Watching the game yesterday I was appalled by how poor so many of our players are when it comes to the basic skills. Our passing is woefully haphazard even over short distances, the first touch of some of our players is absolutely unacceptable for professional players, our defending is chaotic and there is a dreadful lack of willingness to shoot. I accept that games after a European loss are rarely scintillating affairs and that we did win comfortably enough but other than in the first half hour of the matches at Firhill, Rugby Park and Tannadice and the first fifteen against Malmo at Celtic Park the actual standard of play has been pretty poor in comparison with even the second half of last season. I know I was spoiled in my childhood and adolescence because the players I saw were the best who have ever played for the club but right up until the very late eighties I expected our attacking players to possess the basic ball skills. Right now the one player in an attacking position that we have who looks truly comfortable on the ball is the much maligned James Forrest- when his eye is in at least. Watching the game yesterday and in passages of play in every game we have played this season – other than at Firhill and, perhaps, in Iceland- we have looked really ragged for long spells against opponents who will , almost unanimously, be paid substantially less than ours are. At times yesterday I thought that it was simply the fact that our team is the famous Glasgow Celtic and the other was, er, St Johnstone which meant we were winning as there was so little quality on display. Some serious graft from Leigh Griffiths, flashes of brilliance from Rogic and – when moving forward- undeniable class from Izzy and Van Dijk were of course substantially superior to anything the Perth side had in their ranks but mostly when it came to actual football there was not much in it. I am not the greatest fan Virgil Van Dijk will ever have but his likely departure means that things may get worse in the short term. I have no great expectations either way for our Europa League campaign and would imagine we shall again win the league (apparently) comfortably but I am not optimistic about our longer term standing in the game. As I suggested earlier last Tuesday may well be a tipping point- mistakes have been made in the recent past and opportunities for advancement frittered away. Blaming one man for our failure to be where we should have been capable of being is simply not good enough- and most worryingly rethinking our strategy now may be too late.

     

    And now I shall bid you good day.

  12. Gerryfaethebrig on

    Jimbo67

     

     

    Don’t disagree with anything you have typed, the only way we can keep the blog about Celtic is posting so don’t leave it another 5 weeks, like your good self I try to stay away from the blog if we don’t get a good result, then does that make me part of the problem, as Celtic fans which I think 98% of us are, just post and keep posting its the only way to keep the blog vibrant !

  14. THE EXILED TIM on

    Auldheid

     

    I agree.

     

    I would rather you would have addressed this tho :-)

     

    HH

     

    THE EXILED TIM on 30th August 2015 4:14 pm

     

    Auldheid

     

    You said

     

    “One thing for sure if Celtic get divided we will regret it”

     

    I agree with that 100%, my problem is, our custodians imo, don’t seem to be doing anything that is uniting the support, they are doing the opposite in fact.

     

    HH

  16. the needle in the haystack on

    Slaven Bilic’s tactics / formation / man-management from Anfield yesterday should imo be the way for RD to set up his Celtic teams from here on in.

     

    The parking of the bus doesn’t mean that you have to go the Wattenacio way.

     

    Tony Mowbray did this to good effect at Hibs, then when he became Celtic manager he fell into the trap of that old un-written rule about Celtic teams that, the fans want to see football played the Celtic way at all times. Can’t be done unless you have Celtic class players at your disposal.

     

    I mean, Celtic’s best collection of players since the Lions was the Seville team imo.

     

    But, who could argue or, was disappointed with the way that MON parked the bus at ibrox on beachball Sunday?

     

    Who knows, if MON played the beachball Sunday tactics / formation / team-selection in Seville, we might have had another European Trophy in our cabinet?

  18. Gerryfaethebrig on

    Almore

     

     

    Former star pupil ?

     

     

    PedanticCSC

     

     

    Glad he is doing well, hope he reads CQN and realises Mr Almore thought so highly of him as a pupil

  29. quonno on

    Perhaps the most positive thing to be going on is that THEY seem to be getting THEIR act together.

     

    This means less mocking and jeering at THEM on forums such as CQN and a much needed concentration on out own shortcomings.

     

     

    For the last four years PL and DD have had too easy a ride.

  33. cliftonville celt from belfast on

    Draw

     

     

    Cracker match Diblin seriously hanging on at the end

     

     

    Some terrible decisions by the officials

  34. Almore on

    Dublin play for draw and get it. FT: Átha Cliath 2-12 Muigh Eo 0-18.

     

     

    WITS will have match report in a few minutes!

  36. 16 roads - Celtic über alles... on

    20 minutes of complete madness there lol.

     

     

    Draw is a fair result.

     

     

    Well done both teams.

     

     

    Powerful.

     

     

    HH.

  37. South Of Tunis on

    Kozak?

     

     

    Remember him at Lazio. Struggled to score in Serie A but scored lots in the Europa League. Never a popular player,, a lot of the support thought he was a slow / clumsy big lump.

  38. Dexter says PAY THE LIVING WAGE CELTIC PLC on

    Great end to the all Ireland semi. Amazing commitment. I wish some soccer players, including our bhoys had half the spirit

  40. blantyretim is praying for the Knox family on

    Auldheid

     

    Thanks for the update

     

    im a shareholder and was hoping to have it resolved pre agm

  41. sipsini on

    Jimbo67….

     

     

    A good post mate and probably how quite a lot feel at the moment.

     

     

    Let’s see who comes in on the transfer window, hopefully we will get the lift that is needed. Chin up. HH

  42. 16 roads - Celtic über alles... on

    Soccer players pretend that they’re hurt.

     

    Gaelic footballers pretend they’re not.

     

     

    HH.

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