Amid the hapless defending and general sense of frustration, we were at least able to console ourselves that Celtic were again creating chances, most effectively through the intervention of Tom Rogic.
Seven-year-olds know there is a right side and a wrong side to tackle from, some 24-year-olds, apparently, remain in the dark. Aberdeen’s first penalty was inevitable from the moment Olivier Ntcham decide to pursue Lewis Ferguson from behind. The Aberdeen player applied the brakes and Olivier obliged to knock him off his feet. A team that had created nothing until that moment had a lead to defend.
This was not the season Shane Duffy dreamed of when signing on loan for Celtic. He was in complete control of the football when he demonstrated that his decision-making skills were not up to the rigors of the Scottish Premiership. A moment later, Aberdeen restored their temporarily-denied lead. Like me, you subsequently no doubt researched Christopher Jullien’s likely return date. There isn’t one, so as you were for a while yet. And yes, I see you pining for the return of Nir Bitton.
Celtic of last season would have controlled the ball through the closing minutes with a narrow lead to deny opponents the ability to charge unhindered into the penalty box. Aberdeen, to their credit, were not up for lying down. There is work to do on the training field.
Leigh Griffiths continues to provide evidence that his fitness, attitude and ability are exactly where they need to be to score important goals. A credit to the work he has done. Despite his limited minutes, this season would look a lot bleaker without him. Tom Rogic also falls into this category. Competition for the creative central mid role is fierce, on this form, Tom will retain the jersey.
Mohamed Elyounoussi had an afternoon full of incomplete passes. This did not deter him and he supported the impressive Kristopher Ajer run to force Hoban to foul inside the penalty area. Like champions, Celtic were in front, despite of the costly mistakes.
Callum McGregor and Neil Lennon both attempted to put boundaries on hysteria in their after-match comments. In summary: it’s been a difficult week, Aberdeen are a decent side, a point is sometimes important, so let’s keep our eye on the prize. Both know this playbook, so do you and I.
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79CAPS on 26TH OCTOBER 2020 5:30 PM
Saint Stivs @5.17
Thanks for that wonderful post.
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not my own work, copy and paste from the celticwiki, they are the wonder bhoys.
After that game v Real I remember watching the Spaniards board their bus. Gento waved down from the window to me and my pal and I was gobsmacked…he was smoking a fag. What? Smoking? The very thing I had always been told…you’ll never be a footballer if you smoke.
Someone was wrong!
Accounts released –
In : loadsa players
Out – 3 points behind
I kinda gave up sometime ago being bothered about DD and PL.
DD is so rich (estimated 2 billion now and 9th richest in Ireland) I doubt very much he bothers about the business performance of Celtic to any great degree, His comments about the Rangers were kind of stupid for a man in his position.
As to PL, he has became rich of sorts by being allowed to do what he wants as CEO, he manages a sound business, it is what it is. I do feel many many others I have metover the years could do as equal a job, it is not so complicated, it is only an enterprise of £80m.
so I go all St Francis, give me the power to accept the things I cannot change.
why worry, nothing goes on for ever.
BIG PACKY 1 on 26TH OCTOBER 2020 5:26 PM
100% accurate. Desmond is a businessman and will happily take both the green and orange pound as long as they end up in his pocket.
waiting on the other 2 corners for malcontents bingo, they will be along in a minute.
General Questions.
Does anyone think we have a coherent signing policy?
Does anyone think that we simply buy players irrespective
of their position in the hope that we can sell them for profit?
Let me know what you think.
Hold her markers…….as long as they’re no Cellic defenders….🙄
In 1993 being a Celtic supporting malcontent was a badge of honour.
In 2020 it is people complaining about everything and anyone that is not done in the way that they think is best.
MARKIEBHOY- they knew months ago, Simonovic was leaving, we signed Duffy after the Ferencvaros CLQ,after the longest transfer window in football history, we make it up on the hoof,zero forward planning, zero succession management.
Bada
Thought as much, just checking ;)
SAINT STIVS on 26TH OCTOBER 2020 5:40 PM
Good summary that,expected nothing less from a man of your background.:)
MARKIEBHOY on 26TH OCTOBER 2020 5:44 PM
General Questions.
Does anyone think we have a coherent signing policy?
Does anyone think that we simply buy players irrespective
of their position in the hope that we can sell them for profit?
Let me know what you think.
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We buy or rent who the CQNers want.
We demand an international goalkepper. Check
We demand a left fullback that is better than Taylor. Check.
We demand a big Mick McCarthy type centre half. Check.
We demand a Broonie Successor. Check.
We demand another striker. Check.
We demand we dont sell anyone , at all, because we have money in the bank. Check.
Then we buy all them prospects than never make us any profit (well apart form £65m in 4 years).
So aye, we have a coherent policy.
EXCATHEDRA44 on 26TH OCTOBER 2020 5:50 PM
Good summary that,expected nothing less from a man of your background.:)
A Philvis ThumbsUp ta.
Big Wavy
“Last year we had a chance to correct it by learning from 2 december games against them. I’m still waiting, just to compound things. Looks like we don’t have an answer.
Waiting for us to correct the big 20/21 issues rather than hoping for the return of the post-Dubai Hun collapse this year and a COVID19 early closure, ain’t my bag. ”
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Last year, we did correct it. We went on a run which they could not match, despite us being managed by dinosaurs and cheap options and thems being managed by mdiern gurus like Ian Beale out of Eastenders, Gary McAllister out of the Addams Family and Stevie G out of Liverpool u-17s. We never got a chance to beat them again in the 2nd half of the season because of Covid curtailment.
I ain’t waiting on a post-Dubai spectacular collapse either. I am looking for them hitting a couple of patches of par-for-the-course, every season type of dropped points. The people expecting them to go undefeated are the ones who are creating a standard for them that they are highly highly highly unlikely to reach. There is a reason we remember the Arsenal from 2003/4 and the Celtic from 2016/17. I cannot see many of their most rabid supporters expecting them to match that but we, in our support, have that fear badly. A Covid early closure is a fear but the league should be close to declaring that we will need to complete, at least 22 games before the league can be called on a points per game basis. Calling a 38 game season after 11/12 games is highly unlikely.
So, we should have at least 11 games to their 10 in order to turn this around.
That’s a lot of games that can make a mockery of anyone’s predictions
nd thems being managed by mdiern gurus like Ian Beale out of Eastenders, Gary McAllister out of the Addams Family and Stevie G out of Liverpool u-17s.
that did make me laugh, brilliant line.
Saint Stivs
I appreciate the points you make but I wonder whether any other
team has the revolving door transfer procedure that we do.
I would hate to manage a club where you don’t really know who
will have to pick from.
It can’t really be a particularly secure atmosphere for players
when your club resembles an airport departure lounge
“Malcontents”, “Sleekit”, “Huns”, “Mineshafters”, “Pantywetters”
Bring it on, rather want the best for us than bury my head in the sand with pish like “in Lenny we trust”…
MARKIEBHOY on 26TH OCTOBER 2020 6:02 PM
Saint Stivs
I appreciate the points you make but I wonder whether any other
team has the revolving door transfer procedure that we do.
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It is a modern phenomenan.
All football teams appear to have big percentage turnovers every season.
I am sure I read somewhere that the current 9 in a row used 3 times as many players as the first 9 in a row,
I might have that wrong, need to go find it.
It must be a nightmare to manage right enough.
My own wee bug bear is letting players go to early, Sinky, Gordon, Jozo, Erik even PC Lustig, add to that Sammi and Pukki, maybe Mulgrew.
not hind sight on my part, I just wonder with the fans demands “we need this and this and this”, I prefer stability.
3 corners, 88 two fat huns
suited and booted, how many had more than 4 seasons at celtic.
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James Forrest @ 3.06
“Worry about the happy clappers who’d have you believe that there ARE no problems, that there are no issues and that we’re sauntering towards ten in a row.”
You’re right I would be extremely worried if this was a mainstream opinion of any Celtic supporter. I would worry about their sanity.
However, it seems to me that it is a twisted projection of what you see the other side of the debate as saying; a convenient straw man representation of their argument which makes it subject to ridicule.
In many ways, that is exactly the same kind of thing you are complaining that happens to you, but there you are doing it to other “Imagined” Celts.
Now, James – I have seen the abuse you suffered on your blog- and much of it was inexcusable, including stuff from people who said they were celtic fans.
I cannot find, for the life of me, ernie’s jibe about humble bloggers or ex-Cathedra’s jibe about bloggers switching positions dependant upon results (that applies to Chris Sutton during the Ronny Deila period too and I love Big Sutty) as being anywhere close to the vitriol that you routinely receive.
It does not even come close to the PL arse -licking jibe that you direct at Paul67 regularly.
I respect what you do and I consider you a good writer but you are also volatile and exciteable and can, as a result, be intemperate in judgement. I have no doubt of the accuracy of your statement that there is widespread sentiment against Neil Lennon amongst the support just now. Only the results gained over the next spell will tell us both whether the proponents of the “Sack the manager now!” argument have read the runes correctly or whether those who argue, as TBB, has laid out, that “Neil Lennon has earned, through past achievements, the right to make things right , or fail to.
The argument that we should just sack him now, in case the pessimists and doomsayers are right, and not wait till failure is inevitable, does not stand up to much examination.
If so, we should have sacked him on 29th December 2019, as the sentiment was just as strong then and the peril we were in was greater because we were 2 months + further on into the season.
Saint Stivs
You’re right and I agree with all the early leavers.
Turnover isn’t good, I must be getting old
“Ian Beale out of Eastenders”
FFS. Michael Beale’s the name but mocking his name says it all for the hubris you and others suffer from.
He’s currently light years ahead of those in the Celtic dugout, getting much more out of a hun squad than their parts. We’ve seen that in successive games.
They don’t need to go undefeated all season and I’ve seen nobody say it.
Maybe par-for-the-course in your prediction won’t happen this year?
HH fella.
Michael Beale has been involved in how many winning trophies events ? nOTHING, NADA, EVER, ZILCH.
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SAINT STIVS on 26TH OCTOBER 2020 6:24 PM
Why don’t you go back to cutting and pasting old photos or that task of hounding posters for getting names wrong that you excel at.
Let the adults talk in peace.
HH
BIG WAVY on 26TH OCTOBER 2020 6:27 PM
SAINT STIVS on 26TH OCTOBER 2020 6:24 PM
Why don’t you go back to cutting and pasting old photos or that task of hounding posters for getting names wrong that you excel at.
Let the adults talk in peace.
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you saved that wee nugget up well as ammo, well done you , BIG Wavy.
You know it is a typing blog, your not actually “talking” to anyone.
4 corners.
HH
SAINT STIVS on 26TH OCTOBER 2020 5:51 PM
Who’s the Mick McCarthy-type centre-half? I hope you’re not referring to Duffy who looks more like a Rafael Scheidt-type centre-half.
And the Broony successor? Genuinely stumped.
ps, you dont like it, dont comment to me, your a tedious bore.
Not allowed to be in any way negative re Celtic on here or be called a name – how childish….
GEEBEE1978 on 26TH OCTOBER 2020 6:30 PM
SAINT STIVS on 26TH OCTOBER 2020 5:51 PM
Who’s the Mick McCarthy-type centre-half? I hope you’re not referring to Duffy who looks more like a Rafael Scheidt-type centre-half.
– People wanted a rough and tumble Centre half and Duffy coming as Irelands centre half was met with much rejoicing as that type of player.
And the Broony successor? Genuinely stumped.
David Turnbull
ONENIGHTINLISBON on 26TH OCTOBER 2020 6:30 PM
Not allowed to be in any way negative re Celtic on here or be called a name – how childish….
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I know , it is , isnt it, wallopper, that is always descriptive.
See you at the next CQN event or the Greenock Celtic dinners ?
Big Wavy
Unbecoming.
SAINT STIVS on 26TH OCTOBER 2020 6:33 PM
I don’t indulge in puerile behaviour myself.
I respect the views of all on here and their right to offer an opinion.
SAINT STIVS on 26TH OCTOBER 2020 6:32 PM
I wanted a decent center-back but I was concerned about the finances behind a player Brighton wanted to punt. I must admit I thought he’d be decent in Scotland but not to be.
And Turnbull? Really? Different type of player to Brown and can hardly get in the team – even when Brown is out.
I seriously hope you’re right as Brown will be sorely missed when he finally does call it a day but I’m not sure I (or Lennon at the moment) shares your confidence that Turnbull is the new Scott Brown.
Big Wavy
I have been disrespectful to a whole host of Rangers & Sevco men in my time. I am, maybe, too old or too disinclined to change the pattern as I get fun from it.
What exactly does Michael Beale do? How influential is he? Who is responsible for Sevco’s successes in proportion? is it 100% Beale or 50% Beale and Gerrard or 333% Beale, Gerrard and McAllister?
And if he , or they , are so good, how come they got the results they did in January & February 2020?
SAINT STIVS on 26TH OCTOBER 2020 6:30 PM
ps, you dont like it, dont comment to me, your a tedious bore.
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You got it lover.
And it’s “you’re” not “your…”
jesus we are crap – get players back who are better than mediocre and we’l be ok