First the treble then the double slipped through the net leaving Celtic absolute certainties for the inaugural Scottish Premiership title, but with only a couple of higher aspirations to aim for. Fraser Forster is closing in on Bobby Clark’s Aberdeen league shut out record, which if he keeps a clean sheet at home to St Johnstone on Sunday, he would be able to eclipse 31 minutes into the visit to Tynecastle on 22 February.
Neil Lennon called Saturday’s defeat unacceptable but it would be just as unacceptable to concede to St Johnstone at home this weekend when so close to an all-time record. Saints have scored only one league goal away from home (at Firhill) since winning at Tynecastle on 2 November last year. Notwithstanding their four Cup goals at Forfar on Saturday, you could not wish for a more goal-shy league visitors.
The manager was rightly critical of his defence on Saturday so will hopefully use this weekend to ensure they are ready to play up for their goalkeeper this Sunday.
One of the highlights for the Celtic community last year was the incredible Ben Nevis Huddle, completed on the snow-capped mountain in June. This year’s event will take place on Saturday, 28 June. Applications opened on Friday and there are only 77 places left (big mountain but limited safe standing capacity). Go here if you want to get involved.
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Not been on since the weekend as I was truly gutted at the performance on Saturday……and not just by the team!
It wasnt so much the defeat that embarrased me it was seeing a magnificent stadium like Celtic park half empty for a cup tie, why all of a sudden are we not turning up? Surely we cant pick and choose, guaranteed had that been a CL game it would have been packed to the the rafters!
sipsini
12:56 on 10 February, 2014
67heaven … i am neil lennon, supporting wee oscar..!!.. ibrox belongs to the creditors
11:23 on 10 February, 2014
quonno
11:00 on 10 February, 2014
Try recession, and demise of arch enemy…….I take it you have noticed half-empty stadiums across Europe…..
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Germany, standing areas, allowing the youth to be vociferous.
Within reason that is.
Strange but true.
I really enjoyed Saturday’s match but was disappointed by Celtic’s performance and the result.
I don’t see that as being contradictory.
I want a competitive SPL, with the likes of Aberdeen, Dundee Utd or any others making a right good game of it. Say like our home fixture V Ajax or Karagandy this season.
Naturally I want us to win, so while I enjoyed a close match, My disappointment came at us failing to do our best on the day and ultimately losing, thereby forgoing an opportunity for future enjoyment, possibly on into May, with a SC triumph.
The deid team do not factor in the equation. They will become a factor only when, through sporting merit, in some time in the future, they are able to function as Aberdeen, did on Saturday. Until then they are a third tier irrelevance.
I look forward to Saturday, where I hope for a better performance from a better balanced Celtic side.
It may be a slow progress to the title but it will be the title.
Confirmation of Celtic, the Champions of Scotland.
What’s not to like? I’ve already experienced too many seasons over the past 50 years where where we haven’t been champions.
For the future, trust in Lenny, or don’t. Support Celtic.
Take Saturday’s 11, add Lustig, Chas, Biton, Leigh G and Tony Watt. Add a youngster and decent midfielder and striker. A Champions League squad IMO.
The ole Christmas tree formation,
FF
Mikael, Efe, VVD, Izzy. ( Adam, Darnell)
Broonie, Chas, Stefan. ( new ghuy, Kayal, Biton, Henderson)
Jamesie, Kris. ( Pukki, new ghuy, Stokes)
Tony Watt. ( Leigh G, Balde, new ghuy)
I’d rather have Celtic the League winning team, than Celtic the cup winning team. Too often in our Scottish Cup winning record, the prize was a face saver, for the main deal. Celtic have ‘outgrown’ the League and Scottish cups, the glory hunters don’t care, and stay away. The League cup and Scottish cup have been minimimalized, because our focus is elsewhere, with a clear path into Europe.
A couple of posters complaining about the subject of this thread written by Paul67 (on his blog)
There have been 2 articles posted since the defeat on Saturday, both of these probably cover what you’re looking for
Should P67 just keep writing new articles ad finitum regurgitating the same points from that game?
I doubt there’s much to be said about Saturday that hasnt already been covered by posters in the previous 2 threads.
Missed the game on Saturday, but the previous Sunday v St. Mirren I was worried that some of our players might trip on thr tumbleweed that was blowing across the pitch.
There’s something dispiriting about hearing COYBIG being sung by sixteen people and their dug.
With the constant negative propaganda and the hostility that NL has to endure its amazing that he wins any games nevermind the league who knows what stuff the players have to put up with away from Celtic Park- especially those who dont know Scotland- i think the players look scared to try but im probably wrong and have no evidence-so maybe im just paranoid
Attendance on saturday given as 30,000ish
How does this compare to previous seasons live TV cup games either at parkhead or hampden
I would reckon its about par for the course is it not from what i can recall, just this time we pre-empted the likely crowd and closed some of the stadium accordingly
Just popped on to say, some excellent posts this morning from TnT, SFTB, Big Nan, Kev Jungle, but jeezo this lead article really is a belter…….All hail the cleen sheet!
With all thats going on just now thats that article is utter nonsense….very poor.
Tom,
Thoughts and prayers are with you, there is nothing worse than watching a loved one slip away, stay strong…..
HH
gebhoy
I love lists!
List of 100 more important things to talk about rather than clean sheet records
I’ll start it?
1. Why are we pish in the cups?
2.
MWD
BMCUW From last article @ 12:10,
“The money spent on London is eye watering. Always has been.
I remember being “dug up” about the cost of The Scottish Parliament,for instance. And yes,it was way way too high.
My response?
Four words-”British Library,opinion please.”
Unsurprisingly,few English people were aware hat it cost over £500m. Seems it went largely unmentioned in the press down here.
Strange that they could list he cost of every widget at Holyrood,huh”
Well done on the podia…
It is very true, for some reason people expect projects in London to cost 10 x as much and see it as a benefit for the Nation. They also see many of these as funded by the private sector when in fact huge amounts of Public money surreptitiously goes into it.
The LDDC is a case in point, it came out that they paid 450Million for the Lime House link – two miles of road, but no one in the public domain knows how much it cost over the 18 years.
BTW – Remember your gout “vimto” tip, well I was getting some gyp and was in a convenience store, so thought I’d give it a try – no Vimto but they did have a Polish Cherry cordial – now I’m no Alchemist and don’t try this at home but the symptoms were alleviated – who’d a’thought:-)
Hail Hail
glendalystonsils
that might be an idea- a dug section! As if we weren’t barking enough:)
I always smile as I hurry pass that ‘mentally painted house’ on London Rd which the huge big black dug (horse) guards with a Celtic scarf tied around its muscly neck.
Bourne
You’re right to say that the National cup competitions are of lesser importance to Europe and the CL specifically.
However, the disappointment and anger felt by many after Saturday would clearly suggest that the SC, a day out in the sunshine in May to complete the season with a double, is worth winning.
The fact that there is no European competition to look forward to only compounds the disappointment I feel.
COYBIG – via the dug
Paul
We have fallen along way when you suggest we should be looking to keep a clean sheet at home to St J
In all my years supporting CFC -back to the late 60s/early 70s-stopping goals has never been high on my agenda
This season has been very disappointing – there is no way round that
Partly the fault of the board/scouting team/ manager in not replacing the people who left in the summer
Only VVD has remotely improved the team
This should have been a season of regeneration and development but that has not occurred
Instead we look dangerously adrift
Saturday was disappointing on many levels
Having to close the upper tiers
Team selection
Team tactics
Substitutions
If Lenny wants to continue long term he needs to reconcile the demands of European football with the very different demands of domestic football
Given our budget we should be able to quality for CL group stages most years as we come against poorer team in the qualifying ties
We will win the league for the foreseeable future due to the lack of a sustainable challenge
He needs to do better in the cups -that means learning from his past mistakes
Saturday suggested that that was not happening
If he wants to leave then he would go with my best wishes as he has had so much off the field garbage to contend with -if it was me I would definitely want put before the Zombies reach our league
Make no mistake -should that happen -things will be very ugly and I’m not talking about the way they look!
Saturday suggested to me that even a limited team like the Sheep -when well organised and up for the game could quite easily beat us
We are far too soft -especially in midfield and upfront
That needs to change for Scottish football
HH
I love lists!
List of 100 more important things to talk about rather than clean sheet records
I’ll start it?
1. Why are we pish in the cups?
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Because we don’t keep clean sheets :-)
that might be an idea- a dug section
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The pies would probably taste better
PedigreeChumCSC
(Note: other dog foods are available)
Fin75 @ 1222 hrs,
good post and sort of sums up my current attitude.
many moons ago, a Celtic defeat saw me almost greetin and railing againt the world and my friends and family most.
Thankfully I grew up.
Family, work and friends and life in general (not necessarily in that order) are a much higher precedence now for me.
And as Cults Bhoy said earlier, whilst still have my season ticket (since the Jungle’s last stand) and now my Bhoy has too, i wont prioritise the game over other things any more. Its mainly CL or “big” games that I now attend.
Like it or not, I like my football to be competitive whether playing or watching and as I told erstwhile poster of this parish James Forrest aftre the Morton cup game, unfortunately the odd game apart – like Saturday or the CL – we do not have true competition any more in Scotland.
Im not looking for the huns to come back and be that competition incidentally. I want us to move to somewhere, England, AtlanticLeague, wherever, that provides us that competition.
At that point, I doubt I’d be the only one trying to make better use of my season ticket than I currently do either.
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
Has the clean sheet replaced the balance sheet? Or will any sheet do as long as its not the sheet on the pitch?
I think we should be told!
Clean sheet champions
Invincible league record … Pity about the three cup competitions in which we were thoroughly embarrassed
FFS …. We’ve had some dodgy lead articles but this one takes the biscuit
So much wrong with this season …. Will not be salvaged by meaningless adornments
Parkhead heading for 20k attendance
SETTING FREE THE BEARS
Apols,not so much a criticism as an observation.
Tbh,I will listen to anyone’s reasons for not attending,whether I agree or not.
Fortunately no-one has used the absence of the huns whilst in my company. That would be like lighting the blue touch-paper.
I disagree with the likes of MARGARET McGILL for instance re the “Old Firm” supporters-though I’m not so sure about the board.
For me,anyone who uses that as a reason for non-attendance is an OF fan,not a Tim by a long chalk.
Entitled to their opinion of course,but deluded.
With no offence to the people you referenced,but WTF?
They miss the club who did everything they could to nail us down in the coffin their acolytes took great pleasure in displaying?
Not I,mate. No way. And not you,nor thankfully most on here.
They can rot wherever they end up. Consigned to the dustbin of history will do for me….
going by the attendances this season i reckon most people are more interested in their bed sheets than clean sheets!
bobby murdoch’s curled-up winklepickers ………fc not plc
12:17 on 10 February, 2014
Yo…..
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Congrats on your podium. Hope you caught my apology the other day re. The Johnny Doyle incident. Ayr Utd. it was. I think the red strips confused me. I also thought it was at Parkhead and that I was at the game.
Going gaga :-))
I was traduced on this site for suggesting that CFC was foregoing decent football chasing records
It’s now all we have left ..
Jonnybhoy @ 1233hrs,
i agree.
However i also feel less than bothered about whatever happens for the rest of the season unfortunately, as, to all intents and purposes, the season is now over.
Its just a matter of time till the league is won. If we do so with clean sheets fine. Likewise if we, dare i say it, even lose a couple games!
I can handle that.
I just dont get upset any more.
Although I have to admit I was upset on Saturday, I also thought after the first 20 mins, Aberdeen were the better team and worthy of their victory.
They competed better than us and beat us.
Sure we were poor, but competition is what I want, so Im not complaining too much. To lose to a better team on the day I can handle.
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
Phil MacGiollaBhain @Pmacgiollabhain 2m
In anticipation of a busy week I just upgraded the server thingy….
HH
/Bishop B
….pfayr supports weeoscar
13:12 on 10 February, 2014
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I’m glad Paul always tries to be positive. Can you imagine logging on each day to have your anger fed by a depressive article. Paul looks for the silver lining on our clouds.
BMCUW
Congratulations on your podium clean sweep.
Is it not time for your cot?
HH!!
Away to the gym to see if the return of sevco apparel-seemed to be in vogue yesterday- is maintained today…
HH
Clean sheet record!haha
This clean sheet and unbeaten record in league does absolutely nothin to prepare us for our next important match. 2nd round qualifier in champions league in July. That should be our priority now this season is over. Not clean sheet records. Talking about clean sheet records is daft after conceding 2 goals 48 hours ago.
Im not excited at all with clean sheet records Goals are part of football in years to come nobody will care that we broke a record for no goals against but will remember we didnt win any of the cup competitions we entered.Do you think in years to come Morton fans will say we kept a clean sheet at Parkhead ? they will say we knocked Celtic out of the League cup football is about winning games and a 4-3 win is usually more exciting than a 1-0 so stop trying to salve a poor season with clean sheet records as it does not wash. h.h.
Fin75
Well said mate couldn’t agree more
Roy Keane for manager ???? Are youse having a laugh ????? The only manager I’d be happy to see come in would be MON & only as an adviser to NL
It was only 2 seasons ago Neil showed the world how to beat the mighty Barca and took us to the last 16 – Neil still learning and will learn hard lessons but he is our manager and is Celtic to the core, loves the club, knows the history and respects the fans – name me another manager out there today who would do the same ? Most of them we could get would only see us as a stepping stone and would be here today gone tomorrow.
Cast your minds back to TM we are nowhere near that stage thank God
Roy f@#king Keane…………….Good God !!!!!
Good afternoon awe
Great being a Tim these days
League in the bag even if we lose
The next 6 games
Incredible stuff
I could no give a shegite
If we don’t win domestic cups
We must win the league that’s our goal
The MSM love us losing cos maist of them are huns
And hurting WANs at that still trying to say sevco are the
Original rangers therein lies there loyalty
By the way great turn out for the Aberdeen game
30,000 largest crowd this weekend
#Hailhailgetitroonyeezhunlurkers
I think the team is missing having an ‘edge’ just now, and that is probably one of the main reasons we lost in the cup. The league games are a bit easier, when we play against the other teams they have a lot less to play for. Of course, there are 3 points to be won, and you get to say you beat Celtic, but when you compare the 3 points, to getting to the next round of the cup, its just not the same. When we play a team in the cup, they are much more ‘up for it’. Should our players be motivated, of course they should, but its human nature that the smaller team are more motivated.
The league is not competative. (No, I do not want them back.) I don’t know what the answer is. But we knew, and everyone else who pays even the slightest bit of attention to football here, knew we were going to win the league. So its boring. Not just for the fans, but the players too. So when you win fairly easily, again, and again, and again, and then have to play an actual ‘must win’ game, against a team that is actually more motivated, its hardly surprising we lose more of these than we would like.
Its almost the same for the Champions league, albeit, we are the smaller team, playing a bigger team. But its the worlds premier competition, so yes, we possibly are more motivated than the bigger teams, but they are still viewing the game as importante, as a must win, and not taking it lightly, either on purpose or even just in the backs of the players minds. So we come into a Champions League game, against a bigger and probably better team, that is still motivated, and we have no ‘edge’, we probably won our last few games without getting into top gear, or even close. Then we suddenly want to turn it on for this one big game? It just doesn’t happen like that.
I do worry about the Champions League qualifiers, we will be playing very motivated, smaller teams, who have a huge prize to play for. I think we got through, and probably will get through, because the players will want it enough. (I am assuming that some players who don’t really seem to want to be here, will be gone, and we will bring in some more players hungry to play in the Champions League.)
I certainly would not be in any hurry to get rid of Neil. No way. Just look at how hard the msm are trying to get him to go, that must tell you something. BUT, Celtic do need to do something, anything, to get more competitive games. (That anything, doesn’t mean putting morals to the side, and getting them back, it means looking at other sports, not just other leagues, and working with the SFA, if possible, to try something radical, or new. Going to the EPL works for me, but it probably simply isn’t happening ever, or soon anyway.)
Yes, we need to do something. Something needs to change. But changing the coaching staff, will have the same effect as changing you brand of butter. If not actually make things worse. We need to change Scottish football. Don’t know how, but it does need to happen.
HT
We are told ‘we are craving competition’ but get ‘angry’ when Derek McKinnes came with a game plan, and Celtic got mugged,in a one off game?
You and I, were at the St.Mirren game the week before in a poor 1-0 win, Aberdeen were the best side to visit CP outwith the CL this season, the Celtic game is limited.
Sunny May days are for sometimes for second prize winners, nobody gets too worked up about The Copa Del Rey, except Spanish also rans, even the FA is rarely won by the champions of England, and is almost as devalued as the Capital One cup, where big team play reserves.
Celtic champions at the expense of cups is a theme, – but I’ll take it.
I haven’t read every post (never do after a setback) but has anyone mentioned the impact of the early kick-off to the size of the crowd?
As Fin75 said earlier, most people have lives, and anything outside the Saturday 3pm kick-off can cause problems for many..not just those who travel, and there are plenty of them.
roy croppie
13.07
that made me spray tea over the laptop!
Roy Keane as the next CFC manager?
Not for me, thanks.
He would probably re-sign Darryl Murphy and try and bring in Kevin Doyle!
:-))
HH!!