The most pleasing aspect about last night was the manager’s reaction afterwards: “Yet another soft goal”. “We don’t defend a basic ball into the box”. But, before Cristian Gamboa and Craig Gordon pick up the tab for a bad night in Lithuania, more went wrong. Much more.
Goals change games and you can be sure games will change when Celtic are defending the way they are right now. Gamboa losing his man for the goal was in keeping with what we should expect. Cristian is good going forward but is not the most diligent at the back. We need a backup, backup, right back. Right?
Despite all that’s going wrong in defence, I am just as concerned about how the midfield is operating. Our passing was again poor. Olivier Ntcham opened the scoring after two minutes and opened the Suduva defence late in the game for Moussa Dembele to shoot wide, but for the rest of the game his passing was as inaccurate as it was against AEK and Rosenborg away.
Callum McGregor, so often a key to unlock packed defences, was ineffective. I would like to see him play the deep lying playmaker roll over our next three games. There he can dictate the pace and accuracy of our passing, leaving space for Rogic to play in front of him.
Moussa Dembele is our best striker, but the shape of the team left him isolated and looking just as out of sorts as Odsonne Edouard did at home to AEK. We have potent strikers who see little of the ball.
On the positive side, Suduva were as poor a team as I can remember playing in recent seasons – and I include the Gibraltareños (as they will be known after March) in that. We will reach the Europa League group stage. How effectively we compete there will be determined by the arrivals over the next seven days.
Dinner for four at the Walfrid at Hamilton game on Sunday!
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It’s a free bar. And you get the chance to support the Celtic FC Foundation.
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DD
KevJ is right. If all the Board cares ablout is money (I) hit then where it hurts, and (Ii) if the are as money-grubbing as they seem, they will blink first
From the fans’ perspective, something is only worth what we are prepared to pay for it. If we are not prepared to pay/give up anything for a fair game, then we don’t really value it
But, as I said, a serious threat to withhold money would have seen this sorted six years sgo
DD earlier, just seen the video of the huns battering staff in the partick mcdonalds,
wtf,
seriously the police no arrest yet,
MIT
The season books are paid for. That money is in Celtic’s bank. Do you and Kev suggest we boycott cup games?
I have boycotted cup games for 3 years now.
My one man FTSFA protest.
Saint Stivs
Bursting through the glass door then battering 3 members of staff to the floor, then booting and stamping their heads on the ground. They then left laughing triumphantly.
Scotlands Shame
https://youtu.be/CpFHffUPQho
MIT
Six years ago we had the chance to completely re-script Scottish football.
The choice was either take the short term glory or kill them off once and for all. Sadly, the board and the fans chose the former.
Kev, you are right, but wrong in how we should go about it.
PL and DD have gambled.
If we don’t get 8 it’ll set us back a decade.
DD , you said to me couple of weeks ago KEV don’t need ma Hauners and you were probably right my friend, but maybe he had a point ! Maybe if season ticket ghuys like yourself and I mean this sincerely, as you ghuys pay the money if one game only was boycotted maybe some alarm bells may ring . It’s easy for ghuys like me and others who don’t go to say OUR CELTIC DONT NEED TO WIN !! Whoever it’s ghuys like yourself who pay money go every week maybe should be listened to , hope you take this in the spirit it is ment,
I’ve refused my boys request for a jersey and declined to do the stadium tour due to the lack of backing our manager.
Small change for some and very little impact to our plc if taking in isolation, but I had to make a stand of some kind to show my displeasure at how our board are operating.
Last time I took this stand happened was under Neil Francis Lennon and his lack of financial support from our board.
Big deal to some I know but it is to me as I love my team.
HH
With a bit of luck if some of them start trouble in Russia they may be never be seen ever again.
off to bed, keep it lit, in brendan i trust
This man had a great voice…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3K9rDq9zUKQ&list=RD3K9rDq9zUKQ&start_radio=1
HH
Mahe, I’m partial to a bit of liver. Not had any for some time though. Great quiz tonight, thanks for the effort. HH
Anybody heard about a successful nine year strike , please listen if that way inclined …
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6_ndC07C2qw
HH
Weebawb
Taken in the best of spirit. I am still hoping something clicks on Sunday and we go on a winning streak. Hate negativity concerning Celtic.
YNWA
And another thing.
I go to the games with my father. He is 80. We are sitting on 7 with a squad and bank balance which should easily guarantee 10.
He knows that after years of suppression, not just football, that achieving that would vindicate everything he stands for, because it can never happen again in his long and illustrious life.
It’s a tap in and we’re making it look like a 40 yarder.
DD, you are not alone in boycotting cup games, including any at Hampden, plus Sevco. So, at least a 2-man protest. Maybe see you on Sunday. HH
DBHOY on 24TH AUGUST 2018 11:45 PM
Always follow your heart but sometimes listen to your head. I agree with your stand. I’ll not be buying any merchandise to increase the amount of money sitting in the PLC’s bank account. I’ve just joined Club Celtic and if I’d known that my money was not going to be used for the benefit of the team I’d have kept it in my bank account.
Unless things change dramatically over the next week I won’t renew next season.
A song my kids love yet may not know but for CQN…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wEBlaMOmKV4
HH
Ps I know I’ve been critical of this site but credit where it’s due.
DD
It is not complicated. There were many options available. That was never the issue. The was, and remains, there was not sufficient desire or will (by the Club or the fans) to change things.
The fans are not members of the SpFL… as such, the fans can not do things that the Club could have and should have done. The fans would not likely have had legal standing. However, as a member, Celtic did, and could have and should have acted… if our club was honest.
The fans could likely not have succeeded in an action against the league … but Celtic could have (if, for example, league were negligent in enforcing their own rules, such that Rangers were allowed to cheat, and Celtic were injured, e.g., by losing out on CL revenue)
What could the fans have done? Possibly an oppression action against the PLC, but that is questionable.
The fans’ recourse was, as I have said, to tell the Board that we will not put money unless they stood up. A refusal to renew would have seen action by our Board. But, people were not prepared to give up anything. So, we sat back and did nothing. Hell, if CQN is anything to go by, most fans seem to relish playing the zombies – as long as we were winning.
To be fair to CQN’ers, we were told on here that the Board were taking care of things … and that a generation of domination would follow. It was pish then, and it is pish now.
The only difference is that now more people are starting to realize that the zombies aren’t light years behind us, and our realizing that, if we were mislead about that, we can’t trust twist we were told about anything since this happened.
Sadly, the Board have sold us up the river, and it is now legally too late to effect any real change.
So, we have a choice … keeping funding a rigged game (but know that our Board are part of the problem, not the solution), in which case, we have no right to complain, or walk away.
Pog
It’s a quandary that we simultaneously share. Our quandary is over if our board take evasive action.
HH
Friesdorfer
It must be a liver eaters thing. ;))
Hope I catch you Sunday A.
YNWA
Celtic prepared to fail…simple , ..
Nothing more and nothing less…
The zombies are light years behind us.
Stadium, commercial, squad, ethics, fan base, history etc.
But unbelievably we’ve given them hope. Maybe next Sunday we’ll extinguish that.
Anybody want to chuck it, please listen…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u5WWVJhuRTk&start_radio=1&list=RDu5WWVJhuRTkM
HH
MIT
I am closer to walking away from a once great, but now bent sport of fitba in Scotland, than ever in my life. Shite that it came to this.
Even more defiant is …..
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dBKXumpcqcI&list=RDu5WWVJhuRTk&index=10
HH
DD , IMOP , you are without doubt one of the most respected posters on here. You get on with both mineshafters and happyclappers, what do you think as a support we should do as if most of us suspect we will sign at one Loan player! and the new Huns beat us next week ! Do we say nothing and the board may think ah well fooled am again! Or do the support voice their opinion?? Ps hope you are still keeping grand
Sorry for grammar to much weissbeer and hogardeens
Spew
Out
Weebawb
Win our next three matches in any manner by any score,then regroup wi hopefully a coupla world class signings up oor arse. ;)))
Big interview: Kieran Tierney on Celtic, leaving for England, becoming a millionaire and his hero Scott
By Neil Cameron
Kieran Tierney is the best player in Scotland and won’t be leaving for a while
THE figures mentioned were eye-watering even in these opulent days when footballers with a decent delivery from a corner in them can demand a seven figure salary.
Everton were willing to pay £25m for Kieran Tierney – unheard of in Scotland – and were hardly the only suitors. Had things gone differently, a bidding war of sorts would have seen that figure rise and quickly.
And the young lad from Muirhouse in Motherwell, Scottish football’s hottest prospect, could have earned himself £80,000 a week plus bonuses which for most of us would constitute a lottery win.
Nothing was written down but the Merseyside men were ready to fork out that money. We know this because Brendan Rodgers spoke openly about the 21-year-old being a wanted man during the English transfer window.
There was a lot for both player and club to think about.
This is the first time Tierney has spoken about the interest which first emerged in June. He’s remains a Celtic player, and a more committed one you will not meet, and this remarkably down to earth man was open and honest about where he is now and what might happen in the future.
Tierney will leave one day. He owes that to himself. His great friend Andy Robertson, a fellow Celtic fan, would have told his Scotland team-mate about just how good the Premier League is. It is where the Celtic left-back will end up.
But not quite yet.
Tierney said: “There was obviously a lot of talk at the start of the transfer window and during pre-season, even more than before, but for me it’s just about switching off and focussing on Celtic. When I got away from training I would focus on day-to-day life and try not to think about anything else and allow me to get distracted.
“For me, it’s about focussing 100 per cent on Celtic. I give 100 per cent every single day.
“We were in Austria when all the talk began, that’s when it was properly being spoken about, and I did have to put up with some banter. However, working under a captain like Scott Brown is amazing for me. I learn from him every day. He’s my hero.
“I know, and my family know, that since day one we have been committed to Celtic. 100 per cent. Football is football, you never what might happen next, but I have never been anything else that focussed at Celtic. It’s always been Celtic for me.
“I’ll never be in a hurry to leave this club. No matter what the situation is. But I can’t predict what will happen in the future.”
Tierney is the best player in the Premiership. He is at worst a seven out of ten in every game. Even on a nothing night against Suduva, it was he who drove team on, kept trying to make something happen and almost scored with a long-range effort, something which we should see more of this season.
And, yet, there are Celtic fans who questioned the loyalty of a lad who sits in with them during games when he’s rested, as he did last weekend at Firhill. As if a club being interested in him was his grand plan.
Tierney admitted: “I wasn’t on Twitter for a couple of days! I was getting a bit of abuse but, hey, that happens. I’m still here, playing for this great club, giving everything every day at training, I always work hard to try and get better for me and better for Celtic. The gaffer keeps showing faith in me and I want to repay him.
“At the start of pre-season, that was when people were coming up and asking me what was going to happen. It has died down, nobody is talking about it so much now, but if a supporter asks me it doesn’t bother me. I’ll tell them the truth.
“And that is I’m 100 per cent committed to Celtic. That’s how it stands.”
Imagine for a moment another boss comes in for you and offers five times and more of what you earn. Even if you really liked working in that office, hand on heart wold you really stay put?
However, right here and noow Tierney is doing more than okay. He is living the dream, even if he still lives with mum and dad, and the Celtic supporters should not worry about ‘one of their own’ having his head turned by just any club.
Asked about the earning potential south of the border, Tierney said: “It’s crazy, isn’t. Absolutely crazy. The money being spoken about and what you can earn in England is life-changing. However, the money I am on, for someone at my age, is more than I ever thought I’d earn.
“My life has changed because of Celtic. I have them to thank for everything. I have given then everything, really all my life, and it’s paid off. I have enjoyed it so far.
“Look, everyone is different. And every situation is different, be it a rumour during the transfer window or what, is different for every player. I actually haven’t had to deal with all that much. It’s just about Celtic for me. That’s the way it will be unless something happens.
“I still live at home and I’m not planning to move out for a while. I can’t make a cup of tea. I can’t even make my bed.”
Tragically, he is speaking the truth here. Bloody young folk.
Despite his lack of kettle-filling ability, there is an old and smart head on Tierney’s shoulders.
He hangs about with his pals from school, who are a good crowd, he’s not one to be seen falling out of nightclubs and while some his team-mates have tried, he’s never going to become a big drinker. Although whether he remains strictly teetotal is…well, let’s leave it there.
Tierney said: “It’s important to switch off from all the talk. You are of course going to hear it. Whether anything is going to happen or not, a lot of people will be talking about you, folk asked me as well, so it’s going to affect you.
“I had the right people around me, my agent, family and friends. They support me. And there’s the manager. He has been brilliant with me in every situation. He’s a father-figure football-wise, I enjoyed working under him, I’ve enjoyed every single minute with him. He has made me a better player.
“My dad and I mostly agree on everything. He has told me that it’s my career, it’s my choice and they will back me. That’s what you need. It’s great to know your family are going to have your back through thick and thin, That’s what matters.”
Kieran Tierney has his head screwed on right. Celtic supporters should enjoy him while they can.
Mahe
If you’re still on, great quiz. Missed it but caught it back. Sure there’s a few googlers playing…
DD
It is a shame … as a club, we had a chance to make a real difference …it would not have been easy, and we would not have gotten everything … but we would have made some difference .. and we would have stood for something …
Had a great week in Lancashire. One of the highlights was meeting the young Coventry crew at their game in Blackpool. They are sons of Ireland and their Coventry City motto is Tiochfaidh ar la. Great bhoys
ST STIVS , Great post don’t Know Kieran, but know his Father., and it’s seems he has the the same scruples HH K T
A talented Scottish lassie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAGLj6zKg8Q&frags=pl%2Cwn
Mahe the Madman on 24th August 2018 10:36 pm
Liver is it ?? Braw stuff.
Cooked up several slices of calf liver for oor dug yesterday, had to have a bit for maself!! Shameless!!
Part of my staple diet growing up in ML4.
Lamb liver is almost impossible to get is SE Texas.
Some of the Turkish restaurants in Houston restaurants do a good starter of liver and onions, however it kinda gie’s ma State Side friends the boak if I even talk about it!!
Frikin’ starvin’n noo!!
HH
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