Forrest, Christie and Turnbull

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James Forrest’s injury in September happened three days before Jeremie Frimpong’s best performance of the season, in the home win against Hibs.  I remember using the MVP acronym for Jeremie at the time.  Team form until that point was patchy: wins with alarming defensive performances and an unmitigated disaster against Ferencvaros.  The team shape was clearly wrong and pushing Jeremie forward in James absence seemed logical.

It was the first of many changes I wanted to see, each followed by a realisation that we were groping around in the darkness, until Ismaila Soro and David Turnbull became the central points of a midfield diamond.  Having (hopefully) fixed the fundamental tactical problem, James return to full training offers Neil Lennon the flexibility he is denied on the right and enhances his option in the middle.

Ryan Christie is well short of his best form in a Celtic shirt but all of those best performances came when he played through the middle.  He can cover for James and offer options on the right while giving the manager a different option when he wants to swap out David Turnbull in the 10 position.

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  1. My own opinion is that we should never have been anywhere near Dubai, whether our player caught it there or not.

     

     

    It’s a PR nightmare for our club.

     

     

    Actually it’s a Disgrace that airports are still open. As an island We should be closing our borders to try and stop incoming infection. But that’s for our Government to decide.

     

     

    D :)

  2. As well as no penalties against them….. They have been untouched by covid… Which might be even more incredible!!!!

  3. lets all do the huddle on

    Actually it’s a Disgrace that airports are still open. As an island We should be closing our borders to try and stop incoming infection. But that’s for our Government to decide.

     

     

     

    should have happened near the start of the pandemic

     

     

    that and the schools are the 2 main catastrophic failures of nicola and boris

     

     

    we are reaping the fruits of it now!

  4. lets all do the huddle on

    dubai is a much safer place to be just now than britain

     

     

    i wonder how many folk would jump at the chance to take their families there right now given the chance to be in a comparatively safer environment than here?

     

     

     

  5. I do ignore PR but on a Humane level I find it distasteful.

     

     

    I will leave it there.

     

     

    D :)

  6. Off topic- anyone exhausted Netflix and Prime as much as me…..and found some uncut diamonds of films or series. Watched all the headline stuff and more.

     

     

    Recommendations welcome please

  7. 113 players tested positive for covid on Friday… But the lone celtic player will make front page news!!!

  8. Paul The Spark on

    Martim 1980

     

     

    Have you watched Death to 2020? Really good. Difficult to work out what was satire and what was reality

  9. Personally, as I believe that we have no chance of winning the league. I would be quite happy if the league was stopped and they gave the title to the huns

  10. Martim1980 on 10th January 2021 4:34 pm

     

     

    Recommendations welcome please

     

     

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    Just finished season 3 or Ozark.

  11. MARTIM 1980

     

     

    Amazon

     

     

    Yellowstone

     

    Goliath

     

    Sneaky Pete

     

    Watching a dvd just now The Nest very good. I think it was bbc2

  12. refs given a free reign now- not only the red cards but all the yellows against them not given.

  13. onenightinlisbon on

    LYNOTT67 on 10TH JANUARY 2021 4:54 PM

     

    22 points and 23 goals behind sevco .. wow

     

     

    It’s the refs and the SNP who are to blame for this.

  14. Just watched the final 12 mins of the Aberdeen game/

     

     

    Conclusions:

     

    Sevco are quite a tidy team;

     

    Beaton is a cheat;

     

    Those two things are connected.

  15. Yet another helping hand from Scottish referees and a contentious decision at that. Make no mistake those decisions rarely go Celtic’s way! In fact we have watched Celts hacked down and referees struggle to get the yellow out! Disgrace from the establishment. This is what happens when the board don’t speak up!

  16. onenightinlisbon on

    STEBHOY on 10TH JANUARY 2021 4:55 PM

     

     

    This is what happens when the board don’t speak up!

     

     

    Why would they speak up? They are delighted we have a credible challenge on our hands.

  17. Cabin fever can do terrible things to the mind which has occasionally been reflected recently in some of the theories projected. …

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