It’s probably easier to start with what went right last night, than what went wrong. Efe Ambrose was the epitome of composure, trying to retain possession whenever possible, his transformation since Juventus has been remarkable. van Dijk, Lustig and Izaguirre each did well. Fraser Forster had a few saves to make, but this was one Champions League game he didn’t need to pull off a wonder-save. He was totally exposed for the goal but otherwise Ajax didn’t really stress the Celtic goalkeeper, a clue, perhaps, to the solid performance of those immediately in front of him.
Our top two Champions League performers, Georgios Samaras and Kris Commons, both put in their least effective game at this level. Samaras’ normally-reliable touch and ability to hold the ball deserted him, while Kris looked like a guy returning from injury. Slowly.
The minutia of these games are analysed by each team and after last month’s game, Frank de Boer clearly identified that Georgios was the major cog in Celtic’s machine. The striker was triangulated by opponents each time the ball came near him.
Neil Lennon was left with few choices in the middle of the park. Mulgrew and Kayal would not have been his first choice partnership, given a free hand, but the only practical change there would have been to introduce Joe Ledley. It’s far from clear what difference this would have made.
Celtic persisted in playing down the left long after it was evident this strategy was unproductive. Late in the first half one wag text me to say, “Time to bring Forrest on”, which told the whole story. Anthony Stokes was adrift, largely unconnected to the ankle clipping going on behind him. In short, our play was predictable and correctly predicted by do Boer. We didn’t have a Plan B, which even the best of teams need to avoid defeat occasionally in the Champions League.
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Sounds like a bit of a damp squid last night. Still, we are not out of anything yet.
I saluted an Arsenal fan for their very good away win and he referred to the mentality of the players and that Gordon Strachan had once said that the most important eight inches in football is between your ears!! Never heard Strachan attributed to that one.
We have done so well this European campaign without three key players from last season. The Milan match will be a cracker, but watch out for that bandit Kaká who is coming into form again!!
Proud to be a TIMtimtim
Do
I prefer being optimistic.
It’s better than walking around with a permanent scowl on my bake.
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Add Robbie Keane to the foreign imports.Only here a short while but did what he was paid to do.
the other Keane wasn’t on the pitch enough to make a great difference. Hence no champions medal.
Still down about last night! Then I think about the state of them from the South-side and fair cheers me up!
Auldheid – I’d been in contact with JP this afternoon and asked if the club security officer was involved and stated that the club should put something out there. He responded and thankfully the club eventually put out their statement.
I’m not sure who the security officer is, but part of his remit is to liaise with police forces in the cities we play in. Time for him to earn his salary!
T4
1. Arthur
2. Hinkel
3. Emilio
4. Wanyama
5. Bobo
6. Lubo
7. Larsson
8. Pierre VH
9. Cadette
10. Viduka
11.Di Canio
In no particular formation…plenty of goals in this team!
St Sivs
your imports list got me thinking of welsh & Englishmen that have done the Hoops proud.
Hartson, Sutton, Bellamy, feel free to add to list everyone,
Bada
Keech by name keech by nature.
All part of the ‘wans as bad as the ither’ scoddish scam to smear us with the ordure of the team he supports.
Shameful jackanory.
https://t.co/Hx4h5jb2Og
No Bobby Does It Petta
18:32 on 7 November, 2013
What a depressing day.
On the park we’re playing like Wimbledon FC. And the great unwashed are rioting off it.
A hammer blow to our reputation.
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Silenced
18:01 on 7 November, 2013
I think most will agree with me when i say “if were gonna be poor in Europe then lets be poor with Scottish talent, rather than useless foreigners who only come for the European night’s”. Does our club have an Anti-Scottish signing policy? Why aren’t the youths from our (so-called) Youth Academy getting the opportunity to prove how good they are in the SPL more often? Players that don’t perform in the SPL should not get near the Champions League Squad. And I don’t care if you have to play a 15 year old in a position to replace an under-performing Senior, it has to be done otherwise this bunch of duds will remain duds. We got a bankers mentality at this club with the Champions League being the Players reward for failure in the SPL. We should be miles ahead of all these other clubs in the SPL (not to mention Morton) with the amount of resources we have at this club, yet we are left with the impression that is opposite to that.
If Sevco were in the SPL this season they would be challenging this bunch of useless twats for every single piece of silverware going on the Domestic front.
Enough of the bs already. Celtic Football Club are fooling nobody but their very own fans.
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Pair of worthless Hun vermin.
How’s that Ramsden’s Retard Cup working out for ya?
Back to FollowFollow with you penny dreadful thickos.
Englsh/Welsh/irish
1.Packie
2.Telfor
3.Mowbray
4.Elliot
5 Stubbs
6 Thomson
7 Keane (Roy)
8 Hartson
9 Sutton
10 Keane (robbie)
11 Bellamy
Chairbhoy
19:10 on
7 November, 2013
Monaghan1900 @ 18;42,
“To state, though, that ‘We would stress that there is no excuse for any form of violent conduct’ is nonsense.”
Defending you or your’s is not violent conduct, using force, even physical force to defend/protect is not violence.
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You’ll have difficulty persuading Alan Minter that what Marvin Haggler did to him, quite legitimately, in 1980 didn’t involve violent conduct! Sometimes, however unsavoury it may appear, we are entitled to use violence.
HH
TTTT
Ronnie Hawthorn
Depeche mode in belfast
Jcge
B-)
Sandman….sorry YESMAN… You wouldn’t know a hun if you looked in the mirror you delusional Cretin. Now open your filthy Orange Ordered mouth to I return what you just expunged….Yes, a streamy dose of Diahorrea.
You’re more hun than Atilla
You’re more orange than a Tango
And, i’ll be damned if there was ever anything less bigoted to ever come out of Detox Park.
Now away & get your Red, White & Blue vest ya diseased Vermon.
Notthebus
Chris Morris at right back? Telfer was Scottish ( I think). Surely Sean Fallon, Charlie Tully, Bertie Peacock and Peerless Patsy maybe?
Jimbo67 supporting Oscar Knox
setting free the bears supports Celtic’s best fighter- Wee Oscar Knox
You have summed up the position perfectly.
HH
jimbo67
Quite correct about Telfer, he is immediately dropped and replaced by centenary chiropodist Chris morris!
Too young to have seen the others im afraid,
Fholks, looking for some assistance.
Have just purchased an iPhone 5, anyone know if I am able to sync my photos stored on my iPad with my new iphone?
Thanks in advance.
Hail! Hail!
To all those who have misgivings about our current youth set up and the associated policy of buying young. Then selling on for profit.
In the early 80’s a Mr Cruyff set up an academy in Barcellona. the aim of this institution was to identify and develop the best young players from all over Spain. Playing a style of football that would entertain the fans as well as bring success to the club.
It took over 20 years for this project to really start delivering success and bringing players through the system and directly into the 1st team.
I think we all want to see more home grown players in our first team but we all have to understand there is no magic wand. As well as developing the young players we also have to develop our coaching staff and extend our ideas out into the wider footballing community in Scotland.
That’s what happened in Spain, other clubs noticed what was going on at Barca and copied that model, look at La Liga now compared to 10 years ago and you’ll see more home grown players in each team. Also they are all technically better than their counterparts in say England.
This is a long term project.
….and then there’s the stoatirs…………..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUeWsgPRI08
Notthebus
My dad saw them! I am sure I was as old as 3 when he told me about Charlie’s corners! I liked Chris Morris and apparently a big fan of The Fields!
Jimbo67 supporting Oscar Knox
sorry was meant to read early 90’s
EstorilBhoy, you can indeed, in settings go to iCloud, scroll down and click on photos, put photostream on. If you don’t have iCloud you’ll need to get it, you get around 5gb free, plenty of photos saved in that. then have to pay for more, it’s online storage.
Trolls out in force tonight! Away back to your own boards!
Plenty of teams in Scotland who have sussed the lack of a plan ‘B’ so no real credit to De Boer.
We had options but chose NOT to take them, when changes were made they were equally poor. The buck stops at Lennon’s door….poor team selection, poor tactics, poor substitutions and not for the first time.
Silenced
If you give us your co-ordinates, we’ll send Daktari, a cross-eyed lion, a chimpanzee and a net – you know it makes sense.
tictaewin
19:39 on
7 November, 2013
Forget banners being reported.
Someone should be reporting Forrest for being absolutely gash. No better than Owen Archdeacon. Stokes for being a useless git who should be playing for Kilmarnock, and Mulgrew for….well let’s put it this way, if there is a player in our team, who you don’t worry about attracting attention from other clubs who pay better than us, then he shouldn’t be in our team.
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You are comparing JF with Owen Archdeacon as some kind of insult.
Owen Archdeacon was a committed player and fan for us,and to my knowledge still is, as is his father.
So please no comparisons to a player who gave his best for Celtic as opposed to JF who has had a charmed life with regard to game time when patently unsuited and undeserving.
And here we go again.,,
doc is supporting oscar and mckenzie.
20:32 on 7 November, 2013
EstorilBhoy, you can indeed, in settings go to iCloud, scroll down and click on photos, put photostream on. If you don’t have iCloud you’ll need to get it, you get around 5gb free, plenty of photos saved in that. then have to pay for more, it’s online storage.
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Doc many thanks for the info. I have iCloud and have already done this but my phone only shows pictures on photo stream taken since I changed the photo stream setting ( yesterday ) Any photos on my iPad which were taken before I changed the setting are not showing up on my iPhone.
Many thanks.
Monaghan1900
20:33 on
7 November, 2013
Silenced
If you give us your co-ordinates, we’ll send Daktari, a cross-eyed lion, a chimpanzee and a net – you know it makes sense.
No need for you to involve your children in this petty affair. Besides, I thought you live in the Jungle?
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Sammi was Triangulated..
Yes..
l have been Calling for SOH CAH TOA to be Signed for Years..
He sees Angles other Player don’t See..;-)
Summa of TheThreeIndiansCSC
@Big Mike Re; Still down
If you’ve got time big man go read a post @06.55 from previous article.
Amidst all today and nights craziness,it might help.
H.H.
Behave children
Aw FFS! Is Joshy back again?! :-(
T4
And jeezalloo the architect of said post appears lol.
EstorilBhoy, same happened to me, it sorted itself out in a few days, switch off and on.
Some still haven’t appeared and I don’t know why.
For older photos, open the Photo App, you should see collection, click into them and you should see moments, top right of each click share, they will appear on all of your devices, this one worked better for older photos for me.
Doc,
Cheers mhate, thanks for your help.
Hail! Hail!