For the second time this season against Kilmarnock, the first half offered Celtic promise as well as a lead at the interval. Celtic’s pace of play and directness had the visitors on the backfoot until the break. The left wing played an important part of the story. Luis Palma and Greg Taylor are by far Celtic’s most competent retainers of possession on the left and made sure we were able to quickly attack Killie down that flank.
Luis put in a couple of poor crosses just before the break, and with options on the bench, Brendan Rodgers hooked the Honduran for Yang. An attempt to aid our attacking efforts would later undermine our ability to progress play up-field. The rot did not really set in until Taylor, on his first game back from injury, was replaced after an hour.
Daizen Maeda is not known for holding play up, however he gets up and down the park and tracks back better than anyone in the game. But seven minutes after our left flank’s defensive and ball holding abilities were weakened, Maeda made way for Nicolas Kuhn. Kuhn is a crosser of the ball (though poorly on this occasion), not a defensive-minded player. You can be sure, “Tracks back” does not feature on his bio.
Yet again, Joe Hart was called upon to make several saves (more than his counterpart in the Kilmarnock goal). The defence played well; Tony Ralston and Liam Scales in particular, but in the second half we were without a gameplan to move play forward.
The above debacle set the scene for Kilmarnock’s deserved draw. Celtic could have got away with the win, just as they did recently home to Ross County, or at Hibs, but it would have been a win despite what happened at crucial times on the field.
We are now behind a team in the league, which lost several first-team players in the summer without transfer fees, who then signed players that overwhelmingly disappointed, some of whom have already been offloaded, and who sacked their manager during an injury crisis which saw them slip well off the pace.
What do they have that we don’t? They didn’t have a good transfer window, they didn’t have a season without injuries, they didn’t start with a manager who knew what he was doing. Midseason, they added organisational ability and here we are!
Newco remain in Europe and could find this undermines them in the league, but only if we are able to apply our own pressure, which means winning football games. We need a robust and functioning gameplan for Sunday, or we risk dropping points yet again to Motherwell and removing any pressure on our title rivals.
Soon Cameron Carter-Vickers will return, and we can hope Reo Hatate gives us the last couple of months of the season. On their own, this does not feel like it will be enough to push us over the line.
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So who should be the next chair person ?
Shipbank Shipwrecks meeting in The Old Ship Bank, Saltmarket on Friday 1st March, 12pm onwards. Reminder posted next Monday
Could someone explain how the inflated figure of £70m at a peak time Int he calendar has now become £100m that people are banging on about ?
Could someone please also tell me who is taking any significant money out of Celtic this past 2 years ? Are dividends huge for any individuals or are bonuses crazy for any off field employees ?
Finally could someone tell me what ‘sack the board’ means and realistically what effect this will have ? Personally I can’t work this out as the board ( except for CEO and finance guy) seem to be either proxy for key shareholders, or virtue signaling appointments.
Bealesiball looking fur a job already. Is that another 1st ?.
FFS.
Saint Stivs
Re next chair person
Great question.
Who ?
Saint Stivs
The real recruitment spec would be interesting.
Possible candidates would be a pretty narrow field I would fancy.
They will pick one from their talent pool, it wont be advertised that is for sure.
Saint Stivs
Re next chair person
Great question.
Who ?
Maybe Burnley 78 and Stivs can be joint chairmen. What better choice than these two experts.
If The Chair became vacant?
I’d go for Willie Walsh…………
Sure there might be some domestic issues but we’d soon be flyin’ high in the ole Europe, eh!?
Eh!?
I couldn’t do it thanks for the recommendation but I would fail the background check.
Hart Ralston Welsh Scales O’Riely Palma Idah
Bernabi Yang Oh Bernardo Kuhn
None of the above get into the Huns team
Pathetic state of affairs
But it’s all the managers fault
Seriously collective responsibility is needed
Blame game gives the Huns the freedom of Scotland
Paul67 you are part of the problem
Failure to call out 2 pathetic transfers windows and simply blame the manager is poor
Rogers is a busted flush. Isolated with no support carrying the can for other peoples poor performances
But he won’t quick (£3m a year)
So we are stuck with
A board (Chairman and son) that desert him
A fans forum with the editor throwing him under the bus
A CEO who won’t challenge the old CEO and abandons him
An owner who would rather have £75m in the bank than win the league
But it’s all Brendan’s fault
The arrogance is overwhelming
Not lazy journalism Ha Ha
67ECW
The next Chairperson should be a Celtic supporter.
Just to follow on from my last post
Sadly BR needs to go
No man Can manage a football team when he is being hung out to dry by his own board
Impossible job
Even Pep and Klop would struggle with this shower
67ECW
There are no words…
https://twitter.com/RowleyAnalysis/status/1759550151574626777/video/1
Brendan Rodger’s should know by now that 95 percent of Celtic supporters want him sacked,to me it’s only a matter of time,he is as they say a Dead Man Walking
PETERLATCHFORDSBELLY on 19TH FEBRUARY 2024 3:07 PM
During that whole clip count how many passes are behind the man forcing the next player inturn to play the ball back behind the next man and so on.
And I thought the rugby was last weekend.
What happened to playing the ball in front of the man to keep momentum going ?
That’s another thing we have managed to coach out the players.
Great clip PLB.
I remember the sequence vividly from Saturday.
On paper, the players were doing exactly as they should.
Change the angle, pass, move.
How did it fail on the pitch?
Simple.
One or more of speed of pass, accuracy of the pass, quality of first touch restricted the options for the next pass.
Partly due to the above, players lack the belief to run into advanced positions ahead of their marker. (Classic subconscious failing – “I better hold back and protect in case such and such loses the ball).
Pause the clip anytime between 20 and 50 seconds in.
There’s a huge area in the Killie half with barely a Celt in it … but it is often surrounded by a circular guard of honour comprising six Killie players.
BTW – we missed a trick up the middle of the park on Saturday.
Killie CLEARLY overloaded the flanks.
The five or six times first half we took it straight up the middle we caused problems.
PeterLatchfordsBelly on 19th February 2024 3:07 pm
You couldn’t teach that! Impossible.
Don’t advertise any posts,just appoint someone who doesn’t meet the criteria for the job,simples
On the chairman point I’m personally disappointed that Stivs can’t do it.
If Burnley is similarly unavailable (my 2nd choice by a baw hair) I would suggest someone more popular with the fans than Peter Lawwell, someone who stands a better chance of uniting us behind the plc.
Potential candidates fitting that description would include Kris Boyd (a fellow ‘Old Firmer’), Suella Braverman (soon to be unemployed) or – if we’re willing to think outside the box and look beyond these shores – how about Benjamin Netanyahu? A bit more liberally minded than Peter I know, but he’s suitably hard-nosed to face down an ingrate mob and will kill those accusations of anti-semitism stone dead.
” Greg Taylor has remained steady Eddie, not quite Celtic standard ”
Not often. if at all, I disagree with you but I see Greg as very much a Celtic standard player. He is behind Calmac and CCV in terms of consistency but above many others.
The above is simply my opinion.
Rogers for Palace job….. please
Good summary of the game Paul67. The biggest loss on Saturday was Greg Taylor when he went off. We completely lost any sense of urgency on the pitch. We were pretty good defensively first half but it fell apart. Bernie’s a tryer, but he was targeted and ultimately it cost us a goal – I’m not sure Greg would have been so easily pushed aside by one of the smaller players on the park.
A concern for me is that we don’t have any aggressive players in the squad. We’re relying on the team finding form to get us back on top, but without leadership on the park it’s going to be hard. I like Brendan and was pleased when he came back, but he’s doing a poor job. Our play is slow, all based on ball retention wherever that may be on the pitch. Our forwards are starved of supply because our midfield’s first objective seems to be to hold on to the ball. Rather than take a risk with forward movement, they look for an easy backward pass.
Getting back to aggression – who is the leader on the park? Callum is good creatively but can’t tackle. O’Riley is similar and possibly worse in the tackle. All the others are good weather footballers who can’t get stuck-in when it’s needed. What’s the point of having Kyogo play behind the main centre forward? If he’s not cutting it up front, drop him. We’re not going to get ourselves out of this mess overloading midfield with players who don’t know how to play there.
Getting CCV back will help and hopefully a stable back-line of AJ, CCV, Liam and GT until the end of the season will at least give us the foundation to build on. In front of that, who knows. BR needs to figure that out with the players at his disposal.
Our wingers never just take a player on and cross the ball. They constantly check back inside or play the ball back to the full back. Killie had two winger sin Armstrong and Kennedy, who old fashioned got the head down tried to get past and crossed the ball. Their goal comes from a cross that our 5ft 1 left back is outjumped by their 4 ft 8 player ( no disrespect to short arsed folks, like meself). How many of us were sitting watching the game knowing what was going to happen!! We take a player like Kyogo, low on confidence right now, and play him farther away from the goal. We try and go straight down the middle and play tippy tappy passes that have to be so accurate to get in behind any team. Someone asked what do the Huns have that we don’t have. They have a big beast of a hatchet man in John Lundstram who patrols in front of the back 4 and mops things up. Our center backs see more of the ball than any other players, including our Center mids. Not a single winger takes a player on at speed. Think about that from a team that has some glorious wingers in the past, including our greatest every player, wee Jinky. he must be looking down and saying WTF!!! Davie Provo running past defenders with his socks rolled down. Owen Archdeacon, lived the dream, part of the 86 team running past and cutting the ball back in the box for the maestro to rocket passed Jim Stewart. I try and stay positive watching the games and cheering on the players, but standard is just not there. Paul talks about maybe the Huns playing extra game sinEurope might be to our advantage. Jesus wept but I would love to still be in the Europa league right now. Give thems credit, they have done what they need to do whereas ourselves are in dange rof giving hearts confidence.
Sorry for the long post folks.
Sean
67 BCW
Regarding who would get in their team.
That is the point. The Celtic team has beaten rangers twice this year. That was actually a weakened team on each occasion.
However the team we could filed :
Hart Johnston Taylor CCV Nawrocki Hatate O Riley McGregor Maeda (with proper motivation) Abada Kyogo.
8 of that team would be picked ahead of rangers best 11 players.
The 3 for me who might not would be. : Nawrocki was the POTY at Legia last year and Johnston who defensively appeared solid and a real performer under Ange plus Hart who is not quite as good as their goalie it seems.
That team I mentioned was the guts of a team which won 5 out of 6 domestic trophies.
The issue for me is we have is we have not managed Maeda Abada Kyogo O Riley and others well.
Seems we only have £92 million in the bank,never enough for a LB,striker………..etc
BOONDOCK SAINT
Sizeist
We must have paid for Barrowfield upfront.
Incidentally, my post at 3:49 pm was in response to SFTB
Tidy wee sum going to HMRC in Corporation Tax again then.
DESSYBHOY on 19TH FEBRUARY 2024 4:02 PM
Tidy wee sum going to HMRC in Corporation Tax again then.
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i like that we pay our taxes. why not ?
we make profits.
DESSYBHOY on 19TH FEBRUARY 2024 1:24 PM
Big Jimmy
Well done, Cheltenham on the horizon but its getting more like the flat with with the big trainers having all the good horses, Mullins De Bromhead, Nicholls Henderson often with multiple runners in the races, handicaps they can have 4 or 5 especially Mullins. It’s killing the fun I think.
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A Minor Miracle…..
One Friday in 2012/2013 ( ?), I placed a ” LUCKY 15″ Bet on FOUR Horses that were Trained by favourite jump Trainer ( Nicky Henderson).
It wasnt straight forward choices/selections because Henderson had at LEAST TWO horses due to run in Two of the SAME Races, and he also had THREE Horses running in at least Two of the Races.
I ended up picking ONE horse from each of the Four Races in which Henderson was represented, and I did so while picking FOUR DIFFERENT Jockeys for each of the Four selections ( ALL Henderson Trained horses ).
Needless to say, at least TWO of my selections were viewed as being the Trainers 2nd choice horses in the Races.
Anyway, all FOUR of my selections Won at very good Prices, so I won a right few quid.
Im trying to remember correctly, but ( I THINK ) Mr Henderson had 9 or 10 Horses that ran in those Four Races ?
My mates knew about Henderson having Four winners that day, as they also knew that I always backed Hendersons Horses for years, but they ( Like Me), were stunned when my Four Winners had FOUR DIFFERENT Jockeys on board !
It was a minor miracle methinks ?
LOL
HH.
Make less profit , spend it on the players we need, then when we have the squad we need spend it on improving facilities in the stadium
our wingers arent wingers in the traditional sense of the position like provan, mcgeady, paddy roberts etc
they are midfielders who play wide.
they dont have that trickery to bamboozle defenders the way old-school wingers did. that is a dying art.
Anyway the bank account will need to be emptied as we need a squad rebuild and terminate the contracts of those who wont contribute, think its called impaired something on the balance sheet, it will be quite a figure.
i doubt very much any player will just have their contracts paid up, that would be bad business.
Bada
Where are the figures you saw they aren’t on the website in the accounts section?