Brendan Rodgers offered up Callum McGregor’s absence as one reason Celtic were so poor yesterday. This fails to account for what, if anything, was an even worse performance against Newco at Ibrox in January, with Callum in his usual role.
The manager has worryingly misread yesterday’s capitulation. If he thinks Callum back in the team is going to move the dial when we travel across the city in May, he can expect a similar outcome to our last trip to Govan.
On Friday, we discussed:
“Celtic went to Ibrox [in January]with no learning whatsoever from [the League Cup]final. Philippe Clement, who was deep in job-losing form at the time, bossed the battle.
“This Newco team remain dangerous, they have the muscle memory from their last two games against Celtic and have a sense of grievance over the loss in December. Celtic will need be far better prepared than the last twice we faced them. We will be allowed lots of the ball but will be subject to synchronised presses.
“Newco will defend their box, play on the counter and largely live of misplaced passes as Celtic try to build.”
Celtic had 71% of the ball in the first half, but by the break were 0-2 down, and survived the Cerny chance, Barron’s shot that Kasper Schmeichel turned around the post and a second corner kick drama which could easily have ended in the net. The similarities with how our visit to Ibrox in January went are glaringly obvious.
A team which has lost four home games in a row have figured out that if you man-mark Celtic in the middle of the park, you can give them the ball, wait for a chance to run at them and they will be unable to cope. We have been alarmingly exposed.
That’s why we lost. That’s why we lost at Ibrox. That’s why the Hampden game went to penalties. Against a team who have been abject and sacked a manager during that period and had Barry Ferguson and Billy Dodds celebraing in front of us yesterday. Brendan is paid the big bucks to get this stuff right.
Tomorrow we’ll discuss Maik Nawrocki and some of the players who apparently flopped yesterday (spoiler: they are not flops).
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If PC Lustig or Broony had done what Cerny did yesterday I think we would all have had a laugh and criticised the huns for complaining and telling them to lighten up. It was only water I presume and it does rain in Glasgow occasionally so getting wet is quite normal. Of course it would have been serious if he had spat the water at the fans but it was skooshed from a bottle. Still, the police and our board are probing the incident, so, that’s ok then…the matter is in good hands.
Lol.
i wish we could play like the rangers, rumbling up the best team in the league and conkering europe.
AN DÚN on 17TH MARCH 2025 3:47 PM
ACSOM today quoted Stein and O’Neill, Stein reminding everyone that you got the same points for beating Rangers as you did Arbroath. MoN quite happily saying he’d take 4 defeats to Rangers in any season so long as we won the league.
*and I quoted yesterday that in season 1968/69 we lost twice in the 2 League games and once in the semis of the Glasgow Cup, we were missing Big Tam, Chopper, Big Billy, the Buzz Bomb, Jinky and the Bear on Scotland duty, while the huns were without their greats living thug plus mckinnon and stein.
This was 15 days before the 4-0 SC Final which was part of another treble, where we were again missing Jinky and the Bear but big George and wee ten thirty made up for it, lining up as wingers but playing as deep lying midfielders, while only stein was missing for them being replaced by sir furious for his farewell game.
BIG JIMMY on 17TH MARCH 2025 4:22 PM
From the media…” Rangers star Václav Černý is at the centre of a police probe over his antics in the dramatic 3-2 Scottish Premiership win over Celtic at Parkhead yesterday.” I suspect that Cerny and the Hun board will ONLY get a wee Censure and a warning about future behaviour?
*Or a suspension delayed until next season when he wullnae be here, they have a previous for that, remember the spitfire who almost caused a riot in the so called shame game ffs they’re all shame games when it comes tae them now.
could someone help me out here, posted on the other channel,
i have been told the jungle bhoys actually unfurled a rangers banner, stolen from their ultras, displayed the right way up, then turned upside down, but waitid until 2-2.
pass it on.
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Jimbo67
March 16, 2025 10:57 pm
Evening All
Strange thing at game today.
Was sat in Section 108 as usual. During 2nd half around time we equalised I noticed a banner just below the section where the Bhoys (our lesser Ultra Group) congregate so more or less diagonally opposite me produced a banner commemorating their 10th anniversary – coloured red, white and blue. The banner was removed quite quickly – it was as though those who unfurled it had not realised its colours as it did not say anything controversial (I think) before taking it down. An odd incident.
Jimbo
Good night you fractious old duffers.
Memo to Green Brigade
Didn’t you read the papers the days before the game?
WITS is a very bad man.
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The refereeing was 100% compliant with their game plan.
Allowing Raskin and Diomande to foul with impunity.
Allowing blatant blocking of any forward pass free kicks.
Failure to book players for everyday cardable offences.
Incredible tolerance of timewasting. Eg 2 mins 30 sec for rangers to make their final subs in 80th minute but only 5 mins added at the end.
Hate moaning re officials when we lose but.
Brilliant
https://x.com/ByDonkeys/status/1901694097598947365
Calmed down a bit now.I would like someone to tell me,just what Idah brought to the game yesterday when he came on.All I witnessed was a calamitous drop in pace to our attack.Beforehand,we had scored 2,Maeda,and Jota were running them into the ground,resulting in numerous Huns suffering cramp.Surely,putting Jota left,Yang ,right,and bringing Tony on to give them 2 fresh players to contend with,and leaving,full of running,Jota ans Schlupp on the left,leaving Maeda to terrorise them at CF,would have enabled us to flatten them at hat juncture of the match.Instead,we killed the tempo stone dead.
Very strange subs.
Idah came on when it was 2-0 to R2ngers
resulting in numerous Huns suffering cramp
none had cramp, time wasting.
jota signalled to the bench after a run that he was done. subbed shortly after.
TONTINE TIM on 17TH MARCH 2025 8:06 PM
I had your post in mind when I listened to ACSOM. No doubt Stein got it tight as well. All fair enough as great success can cloud perspective.
!!Bada Bing!! on 17th March 2025 7:02 pm
If doing Easyjet, apart from the wee bag you have to fit under the seat in front of you,can you take a manbag type as well?
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Ensure your carry on bag is within the new dimensions. They have been quite strict enforcing it with numerous passengers getting charged £48 even although the case / backpack they bought was advertised as suitable for Easyjet.
They allow only one piece of hand luggage per person, however they let you on with additional duty free bags
Cheers, HH.and bon voyage
For all those who think skooshing water on a bunch of strangers is just a bit of friendly high-jinks, please market test your theory for us this coming spring and summer…
Simply go round the UK squirting randoms outside cafes, sitting in shopping malls, waiting at bus stops and please don’t forget city centre taxi ranks at 2am or bars and nightclubs in the Czech Republic.
Have a pal video the outcomes and upload the footage to YouTube.
You’ll make a motzah in clicks as people watch you getting your pan stoved in but oh, how we’ll laugh at your japesterish larks.
He should be made to apologise at a minimum.
ACSOM.manbags are playing doon the humping from young wee Bawwy.
Rather than embrace reality.
Wee Bawwy did what a savvy street fighter would have done, use whatever tactics get the job done.
Brendan had zero answer to a team which just simply said “No Surrender” to tippy tappy dim Tims.
Sunday’s result could mean nothing, or other teams might weaponize Bazzball against us, which would certainly put the cat amongst the shoogly Timmy Pigeons!
If fans don’t show season ticket NON renewal solidarity with the Green Brigade then wee Bawwy might put you all to rights and empty the park for yeez!
That would be fkn delicious!
THAT was brutal.
Hopefully we all learn and build towards humping thum at Mordor.
No excuses – the only positive for me was that the mouth-breathers are seriously thinking about keeping The Ned.
What is the Starz on 17th March 2025 1:18 pm
“Winning trebles is papering over the cracks..”
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Celtic Quick News at its best
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Good mornig Kev ,was speaking to George Galloway recently and he told me that you were a racist little twat with Hun tendencies that bores him and everyone else to death , I tried to argue with him but had to submit to his brilliant debating skills and agree with him.
Good Morning Fholks – Grand Day To Be A Tim.
CELTIC40ME @ 12:28 PM,
CHAIRBHOY – 17TH MARCH 2025 12:12 PM
“Well we can say several things about Rocki’s performance – but no way can you suggest that defence played better, I’ve rarely seen them play so bad…”
“I didn’t say they did. An Dun said the team was better than at Ibrox but Nawrocki was the problem yesterday, even though he played better than Scales at Ibrox and Trusty at Hampden.
The defence was terrible, Nawrocki was the best of them.
I did suggest that his lack of confidence probably contributed to the panic at the back, but that isnt on him, thats the fault of the manager for only giving him 30 minutes all season”
Rocki was one of my votes in POTY, the reason I voted for him was because of the grit and determination he showed.
Important tackles and blocks.
Yet we can’t take away the fact the defence as a whole were so much poorer for him being at CH.
You can put that down to fact that he hasn’t been a regular….
AJ, Ralston, CCV, Trusty, Scales, Schlupp and Taylor – have been our go to ghuys in defence.
All of them know how to fit into the system.
Now again, you can argue that it’s not Rocki’s fault that he’s not had the game time; that’s a fair point, his Celtic career has been blighted by injury and lack of fitness.
He has been praised recently for his application in training by the manager, no doubt we all hope he comes good, yet the fact remains, Nawrocki has yet to show the many attributes that is necessary for a regular Celtic CH.
TURKEYBHOY @ 9:20 PM,
Did you even watch the match – as HAND OF GOD points out Adam Idah came on at halftime for Kuhn.
Meada went to the left wing, Jota changed to the right, we looked a much better team from the off and should have won the game.
Your – I’m a big fan of Brendan’s BUT nonsense is wearing very thin… another one who just makes up crap to have a pop at our manager.
BURNLEY78 @ 3:49 PM,
“Let’s hope we do win another treble this season.
I don’t even like it that they have now won more competitive games vs us than we have vs them again. We had a lead there which lasted 4 months.”
Yeah! Let’s hope eh;)
Not sure what you are talking about in that last paragraph, and as usual you don’t use accurate stats or facts to back up what you’re saying, so we need to surmise…
Are you talking about all the old firm games from 1888 until now!? In respect of how the SMSM may look at the old firm? If you are you should make that clear.
Celtic played a team from Glasgow on Sunday.
They first played that team in 2015, ten short years ago.
In your old firm fixation, please don’t confuse “Newco” with Rangers.
Rangers died as a Football Club in 2012 – they did not reform, the reformationists are just plain wrong.
Our current Manager’s record against R2ngers…
P 21. W 15. D 3. L 3.
So it’s fair to say, as far as our record vs them goes Brendan Rodgers has done the heavy lifting.
Hail Hail
*SENTINEL CELTS PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2024-25*
*RESULTS FROM GAME #47 CELTIC 2 SEVCO 3 (MAEDA, HATATE)*
Good evening, friends.
It wasn’t very good yesterday. So much anticipation and planning which game we would secure the title pre-split but such thoughts count for nothing if the players aren’t properly up for the fight. And that was the most noticeable difference yesterday – our visitors, despite being much less skilful footballers, were more determined, more eager in the tackle and more street wise than Celtic. Scoring within 5 minutes and then taking as long as possible with every dead ball, particularly throw ins just made for a very frustrating first half. Which got even worse when they doubled their lead just before the 40 minute mark.
And yet, in that second half Celtic really did do enough to deserve something out of the game. Daizen – who else – headed in our first and when his fellow countryman Reo scored the equaliser with 15 minutes left on the clock I really did think the turnaround would be completed. But late in the game, a mistimed jump by CCV and a slip from Johnston allowed Sevco to snatch a victory, scoring their 9th goal against us in the last 3 games.
We still have a commanding 13 points lead at the top. But we still have to win 4 of our remaining 8 games to clinch the title and must get our act together straight after the International break.
Ach, let’s end with a positive and acknowledge the continuing form of Daizen Maeda. He has scored in the last 5 consecutive games. And in the last 11 he has scored a total of 13 goals, only failing to net in 2 of them.
We have now played 47 games this season, winning 33, drawing 8 and losing 6. We have scored 130 and conceded 44 (domestically it’s 115-27 and in Europe it was 15-17).
Thank you so much to the 59 who voted this time around. The total votes cast for each player are as follows, with my own nominations asterisked.
Schmeichel: 0
Johnston: 0
Carter-Vickers: 0
Nawrocki: 44
Schlupp: 7
Engels: 6
Hatate: 25
McCowan*: 9
Kuhn: 0
Maeda*: 55
Jota: 16
Idah: 0
Yang*: 15
And so, the players receiving POINTS for the game against Sevco are –
Maeda – 5 points
Nawrocki – 4 points
Hatate – 3 points
Jota – 2 points
Yang – 1 point
And the overall positions after 47 games played are –
89 points – Maeda
59 points – Engels, Kuhn
52 points – Hatate, McGregor, Schmeichel
41 points – Bernardo, Scales
39 points – Johnston A
32 points – Trusty
30 points – McCowan
26 points – Carter-Vickers
24 points – Kyogo
21 points – Taylor
20 points – Jota
19 points – Valle
16 points – Schlupp
15 points – Idah
13 points – Yang
7 points – O’Riley
4 points – Forrest, Nawrocki
3 points – Welsh
2 points – Murray
0 points – Bonnar, Cummings, Holm, Johnston M., Kenny, Palma, Ralston, Turley
We now have a wee International Break but Celtic return to league action on Saturday 29th March with a home game against the mini-Triggers, kick off 3.00pm.
Hail Hail!
^^ JoBo’s POTY Summary from last night ^^
Hoople 18 Mar 2025: 5/6
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Good morning CQN.
And a beautiful morning it is too.
We’ve got 12 days before our next game.
Plenty of time to reflect, stew, recriminate, regroup.
But at least we can do so in sunshine.
Good morning all from Govanhill.
A grand St Patrick’s day with Aipple and his lovely wife. An Tearman, Leggy, Fred Colon and Sipsini joined in the celebrations. 👍
https://celtsarehere.com/sfa-investigate-two-rangers-players-after-derby-win-as-cerny-faces-police-probe/
And there it is.
It’s always been there (despite huge efforts to mask it) and always will be.
A couple of days before the match I posted how we should never be like them.
On occasions, sports people ….
… driven by a fierce competitive spirit
…. which goes just a wee bit too far in the heat of the moment
… can behave in a vile manner in defeat.
But to behave in a vile manner IN VICTORY?
… takes a particularly venal culture.
Decades ago, Terry Butcher’s wife told him to get out of Ibrox because she saw first hand what he was becoming.
Regardless of background, you walk into Ibrox and stay a few years?
You are absolutely guaranteed to walk out a worse human being.
What a heritage.
MH
Hoople – got it , just!
GP- thanks for reply HH
Huns think we are in total meltdown. Reading some of the rubbish on this blog thread I can see why they are gloating. Get behind the team that’s given you everything this season. We have a treble to shove down their throats. Cmon the hoops.
This is an early close season cup for the huns
lol who cares what they think
Mornin.
BTBGHF… 7-56 am.
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Re Igamane,s studs up assault on Yang , he did the same the other day but he actually dived in with both feet of the ground. He received the red card but of course it was rescinded by var !!!
Would he have been unavailable for Sunday, s match, when he scored the winner?
Good thinking by someone??
What is it they say for evil to flourish, all it takes is for good people to do nothing.,eh.
The most evil man in the world, is that Yahoo in israel. Nobody telling him to stop is nothing short of disgraceful. Of course the Jews yield so much clout in the western world, is it any wonder nothing is ever done.
Scandal
KINGLuBO
Taurangabhoy on 18th March 2025 8:53 am
Correct
CHAIRBHOY on 18TH MARCH 2025 6:09 AM
Rangers died as a Football Club in 2012 – they did not reform, the reformationists are just plain wrong.
Our current Manager’s record against R2ngers…
P 21. W 15. D 3. L 3.
So it’s fair to say, as far as our record vs them goes Brendan Rodgers has done the heavy lifting.
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Bingo
That’s what the old firmist’s do – they conveniently forget the story.
P 21. W 15. D 3. L 3.
Are you happy with Brendan Rodgers because they don’t like him, maybe some are hoping to get the old band back together?