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Send out your B Team for an away game after losing at home and you should not be disappointed in the outcome.  The first half was as unstructured a performance as we have seen since the summer.  The pitch, which was terrible, can only take so much responsibility.

Stephen Welsh had a nervous return to the side, one of several poor passes fell short of Nir Bitton and led to the opening goal.  The second was perhaps the poorest of the many Celtic lost across both legs.  Bodo/Glimt didn’t so much break as saunter forward.  Anthony Ralston watched the ball, not the player peeling off behind him.  Nir Bitton was skin-tight to Vetlesen, but also watched the ball, and allowed his man time to cushion a shot into the net.  It was all too easy for Bodo.

Ange, you made your call, we all know this was one you deprioritised, we will all forgive you if the masterplan comes together.  Rather this than sorry tales come May.

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  1. Frank Drebin " Nothing to see here ! " on

    BTW. If you want to say Hail Hail in Latin, the correct form is Salve Salve.

  4. lets all do the huddle on

    But just before I go….

     

     

    When the West got Eastern Germany back from the Soviets they promised Gorbachev that they would not expand 1″ further.

     

     

    Ukraine is 1750 km further than that inch.

     

     

    Some might see that as a threat.

     

    —

     

     

    but you are using Putin talk

     

     

    making it sound like NATO is invading eastern europe in a militaristic way

     

     

    thats what he wants people to think

     

     

    where the reality is that a free democratic country wants to join NATO

     

     

    there is no threat to Ruusia

     

     

    just a maniac tyrant who has voted himself into power until 2036 war-mongering

     

     

    it wont end well for him

  5. Art of War on

    Frank,

     

     

    The only consolation I take from all this is that most of these zoomers are clearly not Celtic supporters

     

     

    Welcome to the asylum ya guilt ridden nob!

  9. Art of War on

    Let’s all…

     

     

    See that’s the danger. Know your enemy…why is he doing it….how is he selling it. ??

     

     

    Cuban crisis? Get away from our borders.

     

    Ukraine..get away from our borders..

     

     

    Not saying what is happening is right, I’m saying that he is peddling a line

  11. Sionnaigh on

    Frank, my only memory of Latin was being asked to colour in appropriately. The Romans were coloured in green, the horses white and the shite, orange.

  12. Art of War on

    Bada, whose comments would you bar. No rules being broken other than taste… Which is a matter of opinion.

  15. IniquitousIV on

    If I may intrude and post aboot the fitba?

     

    On a bitterly cold day in 1968, I was in Belgrade to see the Hoops defend a 5-1 lead, courtesy of a quite magnificent performance by Jinky in the first leg, the best individual performance by any player I have ever seen in a lifetime, including 4 goal Puskas at Hampden and others too many to mention.

     

     

    Jinky was absent, due to Jock Stein’s promise kept, and the game was notable for a few reasons:

     

    Every player who started was a Celtic Youth Team product: contrast with today.

     

     

    Celtic’s defence was magnificently organized, with Murdoch, Connelly and Brogan playing deep and very close to the back four, providing a seven man defence unit. Lennox, Chalmers and Hughes also played conservatively, although they did break at speed to relieve the defence: contrast with the shambles in Bodo.

     

     

    Red Star had a world class left winger, Djajic, but he never got a sniff, as Craig always had reinforcements close by to eliminate any threat: contrast with the Bodo shambles.

     

     

    Our regression over the past 50 years is self evident, and tragic. These memories colour my comments on here, and I suspect those of many others.

  18. Art of War on

    Iniqu- I believe this is the fundamental flaw to the present team

     

     

    Celtic’s defence was magnificently organized, with Murdoch, Connelly and Brogan playing deep and very close to the back four, providing a seven man defence unit.

     

     

    Any team, and I mean any team, can get at our backs and we blame them for that failing.

  19. Sionnaigh on

    INIQUITOUSIV, it would take you a helluva lot of money to assemble a playing squad like that these days. Anyway, I hope you agree that three points come Sunday et al will have been worth the exit of the Conference fcking Cup?

  22. Back to Basics - Glass Half Full on

    Some very odd posts on the old blog tonight.

     

     

    Can I make a genuine suggestion to anyone using multiple monikers on here?

     

     

    Go look in the mirror.

     

     

    Really take a good look.

     

     

    If you see staring back at you multiple people each reflecting one of your monikers ….

     

     

    … please seek psychiatric help urgently.

     

     

    If you only see one person then simply ask that one person (you) to consider how utterly ridiculous their behaviour is … and take it from there?

     

     

    Night all.

  23. 31003 on

    Going back to work out European opponents

     

     

    Might it be the case that modern day managers don’t look at the players or set up of foreign teams the same way we did back in the day. It’s not often you hear of managers going to opponents games before a European tie quite the same as they did before. We now seem to rely on videos of games, but as we all know, you don’t see the running off the ball on video like you see in real time games. Back in the day managers would travel and watch teams in real games, watching a defence set up when the forwards were in the oppositions box. I remember Don Revie with his “dossiers”. When did Ange last go and look at any opposition in a game before a European tie? Are we now dependent on myopic videos of games prior to a tie?

  25. !!Bada Bing!! on

    Art of War – come on man…..double ,treble, quadruple posters, pedalling shite,and many would have been red carded a few years ago, I’m ok with some non football stuff, it’s always been one thread on here,but many good guys have left due to the continuing nonsense…..HH

  27. Sionnaigh on

    31003

     

    Let’s hope Ange learned enough from the first leg to tell him what he already knows. Anyway, in his first transition we’re three points ahead of the scum, with the first major in our back pokey. That’ll do nicely.

  31. 31003 on

    SIONNAIGH

     

     

    Agreed

     

     

    But I’m right about “spying on the opposition” before playing

     

     

    It’s a dying, if not dead art

  34. Sionnaigh on

    31003, nobody spies on any Conference fkn Cup opponents, not even Nazi Russians would sink so low.

  38. sceptical citizen on

    Ask yourself, any time the MSM pumps up a story (like a war for example), I tend not to believe it. I’ve always believed this Ukraine deal is to get rid of the Cabal, it’s corrupt, but optics are important so here we are. Prepping for a black out. DON’T BUY THE DISTRACTION!

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