The bigger question than why Celtic were so poor on Sunday is how to reshape the team or squad to address the issue? There is a clear deficit. We have three full backs at the club, two went off injured, leaving Anthony Ralston, a more than suitable backup at right back, playing on the left, while Stephen Welsh parachuted in from relative obscurity to try-out as a right back.
With Boli Bolingoli no longer part of the plans, we only have one left back: Greg Taylor. Greg has suffered numerous absences this season, forcing Josip Juranovic to the left, where he never played before making his Celtic debut there.
Liam Scales, primarily a central defender, has covered on the left, but did not even make the 11-man bench. A left back on the bench would have allowed Ralston to remain on the right and prevented Welsh being thrown into a position he has never played on such a major occasion.
Even with Taylor and Juranovic on the field, Celtic did not have the ability to pass from defence to midfield without regularly giving up possession. We looked easy to mark up against. Think back two weeks to Ibrox, when Daizan Maeda dropped deep to give his midfield an option (or cover in defence).
That vision of perpetual motion was absent on Sunday. It is not Tom Rogic’s game and neither Jota nor Liel Abada looked to have the energy to put in a similar shift. Both were noticable fatiged later in the game. On the few occasions when Celtic were able to quickly transition, they looked dangerous, but just as we did against Bodo/Glimt, we were unable to find the space to pass confidently out of defence.
Notwithstanding the fact that Giorgos Giakoumakis was absent, Celtic are a comparatively small side. The days of tall full backs being able to dominate high balls out of defence are gone. We are assembling a squad on its ability to find space, pass and move. What happens when a central defender makes a forward pass against an opponent marking man-to- man in the middle of the park determines the outcome of Celtic games. The inquest into Sunday should focus on little else.
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Evening all.
He’s back, a wee trio of tunes and ‘am off to ma cot, early rise.
https://youtu.be/MitZUCOXcJY
https://youtu.be/3B0Y3LUqr1Q
https://youtu.be/nVrdXUHvsF0
Nite all
Brian
HH
Some fans paid 35 pounds to see an Elvis Impersonator which means that Mr Presley didn`t die. Is that how it goes?
LETS ALL DO THE HUDDLE on 19TH APRIL 2022 9:11 PM
Celtic fans paid £49 for tickets in 2016 which suggested that
Celtic PLC saw NO broken history at Rangers FC.
Looks like Celtic supporters have been had.
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non sequitur CSC
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Rangers FC OLDFIRM ticket price £49 in 2012.
Rangers FC died in 2012.
Sevco FC lied about being Rangers FC from 2012 onwards whilst in the Scottish lower leagues.
Fast forward to 2016 Sevco FC arrive into the same league as Celtic FC.
Celtic FC agree with the Sevco FC lie without Celtic PLC moving their lips.
Celtic FC agreed TO KEEP the SAME price of tickets £49 for Sevco FC vs Celtic FC in December 2016 at Ibrox where 7,000 Celtic supporters paid £49 for Broomloan Road tickets.
Not only did 7,000 Tims pay the SAME price £49 OLDFIRM ticket.
These 7,000 Tims sang “YOUR NOT RANGERS ANYMORE” LOL
If the huns fans fell for that trick Tims would be wearing the t-shirts.
No integrity remains on any level at Celtic FC.
Has the puppet manager Ange called out the thuggery against his players or called out Maddens mibbery?
Of course he hasn’t – he’s a puppet after all, or he wouldn’t be employed by Celtic PLC.
And Tims are being HAD on an epic scale.
Don’t
Wish tae f*** they tickets had been £48.
Night.
By Jove ! Arbroath are guaranteed at LEAST second place in the Championship and have what is effectively a Title decide against Kilmarnock on Friday.
I find it difficult to imagine a Premier League fixture saying:
Celtic V Arbroath !!
“LAXALT on 19TH APRIL 2022 9:38 PM
Wish tae f*** they tickets had been £48.”
:-))))
Just logged on dearie me he’s back
Night all – back Sunday
HOT SMOKED on 19TH APRIL 2022 9:27 PM
Some fans paid 35 pounds to see an Elvis Impersonator which means that Mr Presley didn`t die. Is that how it goes?
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The impersonator didn’t claim he was REALLY Elvis – did he?
Another one of your stupid twisted questions to avoid the FACt that Celtic supporters were screwed by the PLC betrayal in 2016.
Tickets, Celtic will be well within their stadium conditions of entry to refuse to issue tickets to a support that threw bottles at players and staff of Celtic, I also heard a Celtic fan in the corner was hit by a Buckie bottle thrown from the sevco support, which broke the guys collar bone, this I believe has been reported to Celtic, so not a chance should they be given any tickets and none for many years until they prove they can behave.
DESSYBHOY on 19TH APRIL 2022 9:42 PM
Tickets, Celtic will be well within their stadium conditions of entry to refuse to issue tickets to a support that threw bottles at players and staff of Celtic, I also heard a Celtic fan in the corner was hit by a Buckie bottle thrown from the sevco support, which broke the guys collar bone, this I believe has been reported to Celtic, so not a chance should they be given any tickets and none for many years until they prove they can behave.
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Celtic PLC don’t have the bottle to cut ticket allocations like Rangers PLC do.
Celtic are always following what Rangers do about tickets.
Funny that innit.
` The impersonator didn’t claim he was REALLY Elvis – did he?`
….and Celtic didn`t claim the opposition was really Rangers. Did they?
Loonie alert, aff oot🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃
MODERATOR1888 on 19TH APRIL 2022 4:19 PM
Thank you. Hope it is respected.
HOT SMOKED on 19TH APRIL 2022 9:46 PM
` The impersonator didn’t claim he was REALLY Elvis – did he?`
….and Celtic didn`t claim the opposition was really Rangers. Did they?
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Yes they DiD, and they did so without moving their lips by agreeing the same ticket price of £49.
Because Celtic PLC are SLEEKIT FRAUDULENT COLLUSIONIST’S!!
Why all the wee stupid playground games, are you on Celtic PLC?
Why did Celtic PLC not call this fraud out?
Is it because the Celtic PLC are as fraudulent as Sevco FC?
Why not have integrity and announce that Celtic don’t recognise this, Sevco FC, and we will not let this fraud be visited upon our supporters?
Maybe you like being HAD?
Speaking of impersonators …
A despicable human being who has been brought up to believe rules are for others not him.
https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/1453312.boris-dodged-parking-tickets/
`Is it because the Celtic PLC are as fraudulent as Sevco FC?`
Well that is certainly possible.
What is also possible is that Celtic know that Old Firm FC are not the old Rangers but business is business so if fans are willing to pay 49 pounds, charge them 49 pounds. Hardly moral but it doesn`t support the `same club` idea.
`night all.
…nix the nugget(s)
The nugget is easily spotted – and dealt with – just takes a bit of time……
the couple other troll-drones ignore the spirit of the Blog but loosely adhere to a set of rules only to evade literal transgressions.
They add nothing to This Dear Green Place imo but litter its green fields with willful rubbish.
BanThum/BinThum CSC
Souled their Tim souls for £49 in 2016.
To see the PLC ( trick ) Brendan Rodgers.
Skelping Warburton, Murty, Pedro, Murty again, Stevie G under 18’s L/pool coach.
All of it smoke’n’mirrors to get the £49 OLDFIRM game back again.
Then Brendan would disappear and Lenny the puppet would be reappointed.
LOL
Souled their Tim souls in 2021 for the new PLC ( trick ) Dominic McKay.
After witnessing the wholesale collapse of Celtic FC in the 10inarow season.
Only Lenny the puppet was removed from the latest calamity. LOL
53,000 Tims fell for the ( Dominic McKay ) trick offski once tickets sold out.
When does the Celtic circus of fraudulent liars come to an end?
When?
HOT SMOKED on 19TH APRIL 2022 10:08 PM
`Is it because the Celtic PLC are as fraudulent as Sevco FC?`
Well that is certainly possible.
What is also possible is that Celtic know that Old Firm FC are not the old Rangers but business is business so if fans are willing to pay 49 pounds, charge them 49 pounds. Hardly moral but it doesn`t support the `same club` idea.
`night all.
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Nah its not the same club. LOL
Same OLDFIRM ticket price now £53
Everything Rangers is the SAME apart from all of the debt that they fraudulently shifted.
And you, J, are one of the Tims who’s been HAD to facilitate this fraud.
As I said, as it looks like, you are one of the 53k who enjoys being HAD?
Well- it was good while it lasted
Awe what a shame.
Time to SET FREE THE BELLICOSE type of posts.
LOL.
Nite.
Must have been away his Easter holidays.
Who shoved the boulder away from the bridge ?😜
Let out for the weekend,and absconded.The Asylum are checking,but saying at the moment one has absconded,but could be as many as 5 !!!!!.
Moderator
Wee madmitch gets his written diarrhoea censored
Well done moderator
Kinda strange tho one of the kevjs turns up.
Now,not for one second do I think it’s kevj BTW.
Please pay heed mod,and do delete,
I mean the £49 vomit,from a hun looking for authentication of its club on a Celtic blog.not real.
Keep it Celtic .
HH
Following my wee pot shot around lunch time (my first incursion into the world of CQN for a long long time), a nice thought occurred to me whilst walking back from the supermarket this evening…
If Celtic win their next two games they will be the SPL Champions.
The only way this statement can be inaccurate would be for TFOD to win their remaining three games by 3 or 4 goals each and Celtic to lose their remaining three games by 3 or 4 goals each… and that clearly isn’t going to happen to a team that hasn’t lost a league game against anyone since mid-September last year!
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BIGCHIPSUK
“If Celtic win their next two games they will be the SPL Champions.”
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If we beat Ross County, regardless of the Old Firm- Motherwell result, I don’t believe we will be allowed to win the following league game. It will be even more vital to the Old Firm than the Cup semi final, and we were simply not permitted to win that game.
Naturally, I will be delighted to be wrong.
INIQUITOUSIV, and you will be proved wrong.
Just believe. 🍀👍🏆🇳🇬
See that celtic bhoys blogg who in the name of god is behind that, not a celtic man thats for sure. Every day bad news for celtic ,that blogg is h## media . Blocked
BIGCHIPSUK
“ and you will be proved wrong.”
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I hope so, but Madhun showed Cheatin Beaton how it can be done, and I have not heard a single cheep from the PLC protesting about it. This will simply encourage the MIB to do it again. They can’t bear the thought of us winning the league directly against the Old Firm, then have to go to the ludge the evening after being the man in the middle.
I’m also worried that Ange did not react faster to what was happening with personnel changes. Hatate and Rogic were left on far too long. I trust he learned from the experience.
INIQUITOUSIV on 20TH APRIL
I hope your wrong to mate :-)
BIGCHIPSUK on 20TH APRIL
Keep up with the positive attitude.
JIMTIM on 20TH APRIL
Jim,watch yourself as a lot of so called Celticblogss,a lot of them are ‘bots’ that feed opinion through to your rekkkord and the scum.will try find out for ye but there was one ‘Celtic’ site who paid the 25k hun press charge
HH Celts
Good morning all from another sunny morning in the Garngad to reach a whopping 16degrees today wow.
I see the guy/guys who constantly degrade good Celtic fans is back on. An absoloute HUN troll whose posts many find offensive when he calls us (Dim Timmy) etc. Yet he is allowed to post constantly.
Utter CHUMP.
Another who would not stand in front of any Celtic fan and say the things he does on here.
DISGUSTING TROLL
D :)
Anyway…Mark Guidi reckons we will win our next five games….
Sure he’s hoping to be proved wrong……
AN TEARMANN on 19TH APRIL 2022 11:16 PM
And it’s eyes down for another game of bodily excretion bingo.
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‘diarrhoea ……….
vomit,’
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See this £49 or whatever £53 forget it some fans would pay £100 or more to watch Celtic play the Old Firm and vice Versa,also let’s move on ,hopefully we get a win up at Dingwall on Sunday,
Moderator 1888,
The problem with removing some political posts is consistency.
Another problem is replacing them with football posts of substance.
An additional problem is that sometimes it’s very difficult to differentiate what is relevant. Political decisions affect our club and our everyday lives.
Our host Paul 67 has himself put out many political articles that impact our club and our team.
We have ongoing issues of censorship in our society. We do not need censorship on CQN. We all have a very easy choice ; read them or scroll by.
You will also have noticed that football posts in general get a much poorer reaction than political posts.
I have seen excellent Celtic related posts and valid discussion points ignored in preference to attacking the poster.
How many posts are negative? Complaining about trolling and individual posters when constructive positive posts would be advantageous to a discussion forum.
It should also be remembered that this blogs strength is its diversity, but ultimately its up to each individual to contribute.
It is good to see you engaging with debate, however in my humble opinion it would be easier to step in when the blogs rules are broken.
Your presence has greatly enhanced the blog and is much appreciated.
HH. To you.