Celtic have played lower league opposition three times this season but last night was surely the most ineffective performance we’ve seen from a football team in some years. Dunfermline limited Celtic to two goals and – to be fair – Jim McIntyre spotted a defensive weakness at corner kicks, which his team were able to exploit twice, almost leading to a goal on one occasion, but there was none of the coordination and skill we faced against Falkirk, Ross County and arguably, Peterhead.
How they had the audacity to walk onto a football field dressed as Brazil we’ll never know.
After the first Dunfermline corner ‘scare’ (I’m being generous) I watched the setup for their second half corner attempt. Celtic had 10 defenders inside the box, including Fraser Forster, against five Dunfermline attackers. Defensively, we looked well setup, but the delivery was particularly good, an in-swinger, dipping beyond the far post into a secondary zone.
Defending zonally (which I am in favour of with a small concession to man-mark one or two key threats) involves protecting the key areas in front of goal, where opponents are most likely to score from. This compromises peripheral areas, in particular the acute angles before the front post and beyond the back post. When you get a good delivery from a corner kick, as Dunfermline provided last night, forwards can attack the area in front of the near post looking for a glancing header, or rush to the back of the six yard box, from where they can deliver a reverse ball into the primary danger area.
For all their frailties, they figured out how to get the better of Celtic at corner kicks.
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CRC
“If you are now worried about me being worried about your worry, we could meet up for a pre-match beer on Sat?”
Don’t hold your breath mate. My SASH-otromoter (Spot A Stinking Hun) is off the scale………..
CELTIC ROLLERCOASTER
meet up no probs ! but maybe not this week end as i am giving my s/book to someone else still waiting on his reply !
I don’t want FF in england squad
Like 10 men won leagues alludes to: it will only increase the size & scope of the shop window
Twists and turns !
how have you come to that conclussion !
wonkyradar @ 11:29,
“So did i see a cracked crest or no?
Yep I saw it toooo – not 100% sure which programme – I think it was on Newsnight – but 100% sure I saw it.
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy says:
23 February, 2012 at 11:25
From last thread
ernie lynch says:
23 February, 2012 at 10:35
Ernie, I agree with you about Hugh MacDonald. He’s a self-confessed Celtic supporter. It might be difficult for him to come out and CCuse Ogilvie of being in an untenavble position but by doing what he has done, the followers of TFOD will be quick to pick up on it and our own people will then come out and indicate the historical position of Ogilvie during EBT introduction at Rangers and Hearts.
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Although Hugh Mac didn’t….
John McGarry, Scottish Daily Mail 23/02/2012:
“SFA President Campbell Ogilvie has, so far, not said anything on the demise of a club he served until 2005. Unless Rangers somehow avert their slide into the abyss he too will be duty bound to explain his role in what did, or more pointedly, did not happen while he was in the boardroom.”
The wolves are circling round although the real target isn’t CO is it David?
The kitman,Jimmy Bell,is one of the most bitter of them all.A really angry wee man,he couldn’t even raise a smile when they were “winning” trophies.It is not healthy for a person to carry so much hate within.
Ah well,the only person that his bitterness is hurting,is himself.
im neil Lennon tamrabam.
brother lives at no62 Chandlers takings down when he is on one of his jobs abroad,of late Singapore ,Australia
Chairbhoy says:
Also if you have been a Director of a club in the 5 tears …
Freudian dear boy completely Freudian
:-)
Where is whyteys foxhole?
Shane o’Doirebhoy (Lenny’s brother from another mother) says:
23 February, 2012 at 08:56
My little sister is in Beijing, with the DFA, also from Doire. I can get you her details, as her Gaelic club would definitley know where the games are on.
ernie lynch @ 10 18 -previous thread.
Re Johnstone —-
‘He’s either a liar or an idiot ”
Not necessarily – maybe he was merely repeating what someone had told him to be the case .
Maybe he had seen documents which led him to believe what he had been told. Maybe he couldn’t conceive that someone might be lying.. Maybe he truly couldn’t conceive the true nature of who he was dealing with.
Chairbhoy says:
23 February, 2012 at 11:38
When SDM was still owner of Rangers but no longer the Chariman, was he still a director? Can you own a business without being on the board?
Billy’s Bhoy says:
23 February, 2012 at 11:35
Hugh MacDonald is a Celtic fan…fact. He is not a self-confessed Celtic fan. This suggests something to be ashamed of. It is not a sin to be a Celtic supporter. He is a proud Celtic supporter.
No mealy-mouthed I support St. Mirren, Partick Thistle, Falkirk or other tosh that Leckie, Waddell et al come up with.
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Semantics, shemantics. I know he is a proud Tim but it’s still early in the day. My brain hasn’t woken up yet. I’ve been a Herald reader for decades and I’m a fan of Hugh’s.
Celtic have also scored with the swinging corner to the back post. Perhaps the ball favours attacking places who can get a running jump at the ball. The amount of players in the 6 yard box has stopped keepers coming for these.
Reading through the various posts on last night’s match, Celts seemed to be in freeflow and obviously should have scored more than a couple.
It’s beginning to look like the hay will be saved early this season and we can all sit back and put the feet up.
SAVERANGERS.com?
I thought it said
SCAVENGERS.com
Ah,well. Wrong again…..
The Original Sadiesbhoy
No offence intended.
I just find the term self-confessed a bit as though someone has to get something off their chest.
Was delighted to see Kris Commons play 90 mins last night. Thought he played very well. I think too many of us may have wished him a goal.
I think once he gets one he will quickly weigh in with a few more.
well done Celts for another very professional and enjoyable display.
It is great to see the high regard in which many hold Fraser Foster these days.
He has had a similar reversal as Mulgrew and probably Sammy.
Fair play to all of them. It shows a strength of character that will be valuable for the future of the team.
It’s good to be talking of the future of the team and not of the club isn’t it?
John McGarry is possibly alluding to the fact that those on the Board of Rangers did not put the brakes on Sir Minty. He surrounded himself with yes men.
Thise who questioned were jettisoned, such as Hugh Adam.
neveralone says:
23 February, 2012 at 11:46
Thanks for posting John McGarry’s item from the Scottish Daily Mail. Good on him for going straight for the bullseye!
I don’t know if it’s easier for him (is his paper based in England?) but Sir Minty seems to have an iron grip on what gets printed up here.
As a matter of interest, can anyone remember why such a died-in-the-wool Rangers man as RC Ogilvie (I love his initials) left Rangers for Hearts in the first place. Was there some sort of fallout?
I love to think that the whole EBT shenanigans were started by RC ogilvie but will be finished by hmRC. It sort of squares the circle if you know what I mean.
Timabhouy says:
23 February, 2012 at 11:43
Please don’t tell me you’ve lent it to ticketus? :-)
give me a shout when you are free and we can drink away your worries
HH
CRC
Sir Walter turns down Wolves job!
Presumably realised he couldn’t bring his star men from his previous club with him,the likes of Thompson,Brines,Collum,etc
Anyone think he might be waiting for the call from Newco?
I know it is the custom to be deceased before you can be canonised but could the Pope not make an exception for the Blessed Craig Whyte of Motherwell? Surely this man needs to be recognised for his great works against Satan and his hordes.
Billy’s Bhoy says:
23 February, 2012 at 11:58
No worries. No offence taken. I don’t mind being kept on my toes from time to time! :-)
Hail! Hail!
‘There still a lotty questions the ranger fan want answers to,Jim!’
Chairbhoy:
Maybe the media are using a subliminal drip feed techique in order to prepare the general for full scale 3D cracked crests.
This whole hun soap opera- despite what sanguine adminstrators propogate- will go on for weeks from now
No let up in sight
Cracked crests will appear with increasingly regularity
Heres hoping- wishful thinking can be therapeutic.
new article posted.
weeminger @ 11:52,
“When SDM was still owner of Rangers but no longer the Chariman, was he still a director? Can you own a business without being on the board?”
Good question – you certainly can own a Club without beoing a Board Member, you can’t be an owner if you can’t pass the Fit and Proper person test.
My thoughts would be the 5 Year* rule would be included in the Fit and Proper person test.
What happens if you have a minority share holding might be a grey area though – I’m sure the RTC guys could sort that one out.
*neveralone @ 11:49 – Opps, mind you I had tears rolling down my face when I saw James Forrest described oor Hero as a Certifiable Lunatic – Just after I had read his statement.
‘Eh,how was the media supposed to tell everybody when Craig Whyte was lying to our faces when we asked him question?’
Indeed Dallyl.
Paul 67
A very, very comfortable win last night, IMO the defence just nodded off at the corners, as they were getting very little practice!
We would have won by a barrel load last night, if we could have got both full backs going forward more effectively. Cha is a willing horse but too often the final ball hits the first defender, and at the moment Izzy is a shadow of his former self , as he regains match fitness.
Still good to see KC back, must be murder playing against him a 5’s, a tricky wee lhad!
enjoyable game , with the tic playing the right way.
Our new Polish lhad however looked a bit lost, as by that stage we where trying to walk it in, by playing a bunch of short 1-2’s at the edge of the box….. he looked to me as if he would more effective if he could strecth his legs in a more open game.
Whatistherecordforspltitlewincfc?
Concerning Les Horriables horrible little kit man, it has always been a puzzle to me that he has kept his job through various owners and Managers?
After the Jinky non applause incident and the post criticism of the little gnat, I came to the conclusion that he has more hold over them than they have over him.
I think he is the Chief Goat holder/restrainer down the Ludge!
JD
The brassneck of the tax dodgers knows no bounds.. Murray Whyte and now they talk to King who has a few unanswered questions of his own…
What a dirty club..
20 point lead.. Read it and weep..
HH
ITS 15 MILLION NOW ,NOT 9 AS STATED EARLIER
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Long time Shyster,..First time poster….
Thnk we should have a vote for the most original most awesome, most funniest, most Cel’ic–relattit [C. Gordon Boabby dalzeeEll] username oan the paupers’ pledge page…..
Ah ah ah ah vote fur theBould fellah…Seriously underratti that fillah
Timmabhoay
Sorry but the vacancy for most irritable Cqn poster of all time is my gig.
Beat it