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Celtic vastly better with McGregor in deep-lying role

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We have reached a point now where it is so obvious, it does not need to be said; Celtic are a vastly better team with Callum McGregor in the deep-lying midfield role.  From there he can see the game before him, which allows him to dictate where to move play, and how quickly.

Opponents are reluctant to get too close, as he has the control and speed to go past them, whereas, team-mates within 40 yards know when the ball is heading towards him, they better be on their toes, as a pass could be heading their way.

The difference between Celtic with McGregor in the deep position, and either McGregor playing elsewhere on the field, or not at all, is stark.  The former means we create a plethora of chances, the latter sees us try to pass teams into submission.

Saturday’s demolition of Hearts saw Callum at his creative best, but it was the previous week’s game at Murrayfield that was more informative.  Celtic were very ordinary before Callum moved off the wing to replace the injured Eboue Kouassi.

With Callum in this form, Ryan Christie is in the form of his life, Scott Sinclair can click through the gears, while Tom Rogic and James Forrest are under less pressure to carry the team.  At a different club, Callum would have been groomed for this role from an early age.

Founding Fathers’ Fast
Tuesday 6 November

Tomorrow is the 131st anniversary of the meeting convened by Br Walfrid, where it was decided to form a football club to feed the poor of the city.  To mark this occasion, the Celtic FC Foundation has invited Glasgow’s homeless to Celtic Park for a hot meal.

To mark the anniversary and recognise the on-going work on behalf of the homeless, the Foundation is holding the Founding Fathers’ Fast, where you are asked to fast for the day and donate £5 here in honour of those founding principles.

For most of us, a day’s fasting will do us no harm, and may even be a good thing.  More information here.

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  1. mike in toronto on

    MAH

     

     

    Good news. I think that has picked the blog’s spirit up more than a win over the zombies.

     

     

    :)

  7. !!Bada Bing!! on

    The shameless Gordon Smith, saying Neil Lennon should be punished for last week at Swinecastle, Michael Stewart in about him….

  10. Canamalar it looks like OCD obsession on

    MAH

     

    Hope and pray the good news keeps coming

     

     

    This Broony lay off could be the break he needs, as long as we keep performing he get fitter and stronger, Broony without niggling injuries , will be the first time in a long time.

  11. Saint Stivs on

    wiggy smiffy, quite unbelievable the shite he is coming out with tonight.

     

     

    not qualified to comment on anything , pwick

  12. Canamalar it looks like OCD obsession on

    Bada Bing,

     

    Oh well, Lennon’s torture for 18 years is fair enough then I suppose eh

  15. jimthetim53 on

    Why cant Gordon Smith go and find a new career away from football? He has failed at everything he has done since he stopped playing. No harm to him but he needs to think outside the box.

  19. !!Bada Bing!! on

    CANAMALAR IT LOOKS LIKE OCD OBSESSION on 5TH NOVEMBER 2018 7:19 PM

     

    Bada Bing,

     

     

     

     

    Oh well, Lennon’s torture for 18 years is fair enough then I suppose eh

     

     

    Smith is a total fud,always wheeled out to put forward a hun spin on anything

  20. Lennybhoy on

    Ghuys:

     

    I am sure MURDOCHAULDANDHAY will be thrilled with the posts you have put up. Hopefully not too long until he can post himself.

     

    Keep the Faith!

     

    Hail Hail!

  23. Saint Stivs on

    GENE on 5TH NOVEMBER 2018 7:41 PM

     

    Jimthetim53

     

     

     

     

    He needs to think out of the ipox

     

     

    he needs to think out of the syrup

  25. marspapa on

    WEETS

     

     

    Heartening news regarding you and MAH , along with Lionsroar and Eurochamps the club is in good hands with battlers like you….cap doffed .

     

     

    Hope the rest of the rest of the family are well.

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

    Back to Basics

     

     

    I have been advocating for a long time that our club cannot and should not maintain its silence over Torbett’s activities.

     

     

    Kenny Campbell is a brave man. The family of the late Andrew Gray were brave too. And the third victim who exercised his right to remain anonymous was brave too to give supportive evidence.

     

     

    Like you, I am not at all worried if Jock’s justice was of the rough kind.

     

     

    However, it was not sufficient for what was done and Kenny Campbell and others set some of that right today.

     

     

    Now that the trial is over, I hope our club can break its silence and acknowledge its inadequacies in handling these events. Even by the standards of the time, we did not do enough and what little we did, we did not do well enough. I hope we will offer support to the victims as, even though the club did not perpetrate the actions, we failed to discharge our duties to vulnerable young boys and their families.

     

     

    Torbett was the perpetrator but our club failed at many levels to see him brought timeously to justice.

  27. jimthetim53 on

    Its nearly 8 o’clock. Football coverage on the radio is coming to a close. Time to go over to the TV. I think I’ll watch a bit of Antiques Road Trip.

     

     

    I’m now 65 so its not unusual to see objects I remember.

  31. Hot Smoked on

    ” The Royal British Legion said “the decision to wear the poppy must be a matter of personal choice”.

     

     

    So is it just a coincidence that the entire staff of the BBC have made he same personal choice?

     

     

    JJ

  32. corkcelt on

    WWW, I know I was missing for a while but a lot of the time I was lurking, yet somehow managed to miss the fact that you were ill.

     

    I’m sorry to hear it but glad you are on the way back,

  33. Kev on

    Empty the park. √

     

    Install a new board. √

     

    Install Neil Francis Lennon

     

    as the chairman of the new board. √

     

    Much better than the invisible Bankier and co. √

     

    Get the trophies stripped. √

     

    Get Celtic oot of the Scottish snake pit. √

     

    Don’t dialogue with any media outlet

     

    all correspondance with the smsm will be

     

    through a sheet of A4 paper that’ll be

     

    pinned onto the ‘outside’ of the

     

    Lennoxtown training ground gate. √

     

    Build a new top tier above the Main Stand. √

     

    This new area to be utilized specifically

     

    to cater for the, homeless, the sick, the poor

     

    the unemployed, asylum seekers, universal credit victims etc, and this area of the stadium to be opened 24/7 to cater for the mentioned categories, and any other kind of victims that would be caught under the carefully constructed, societal net that would be employed, had Brother Walfrid’s Celtic of 1888 still been in existence. √

     

    Please Mr Santa. √

     

     

    MURDOCHAULDANDHAY, keep it lit fella. God Bless. √

     

     

     

    Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz √

  40. corkcelt on

    SFTB, I think I have a reasonably good vocabulary but timeously is a new one for me.

     

    I guessed what you were saying but had to look up the word to make sure it existed.

  41. THE EXILED TIM on

    Decided to have a look at the Hudds v Fulham game, no idea why, two of engerlands finest, they must be cos they are playing in the best league in the world, now forgive me here, but I would have thot that teams from the best league in the world would have players who at the very least were recognisable, I don’t have a feckin clue who any of them are, not a single one, these guys will be on way more than we are paying our players, you really have to wonder what the ef is happening down there, failed managers on squillions a year to buy second rate players and play garbage, we really are blessed at Celtic so we are.

  42. bigrailroadblues on

    Jim Craig talking about the hun supporters at Celtic Park a few years ago. “They really are the most horrible people. ” Says it all.

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