Celtic frittered away another two points at Kilmarnock this afternoon after a performance which ultimately showed depths of determination but was marked by shockingly bad organisation.
Kilmarnock’s opener in 25 minutes could not have been simpler. An 80 yard high ball was collected on the edge of the Celtic penalty area by Heffernan, who turned and picked out the onrushing Dean Sheils, who was initially being marked by Beram Kayal but the Israeli failed to match Sheils run, allowing the Killie player time to pick his spot and score.
The home team were encouraged by the opening goal and continued to press forward. Fraser Forster did well to turn over a blistering shot from Kelly which was destined for the top corner. Kilmarnock’s pressure was rewarded on 40 minutes when Kayal and James Forrest stood off a ball conceding possession. Sheils crossed for the offside Heffernan to score but the assistant referee didn’t flag so the goal stood.
Seconds before half time Charlie Mulgrew was short with a back pass and James Fowler chipped Forster to give Killie and three goal half time lead.
The first 28 minutes of the second half were miserable for Celtic as the team appeared resigned to a fate similar to the Celtic team which visited St Mirren Park in March 2010 but Anthony Stokes had other ideas. Stokes missed what was surely the worst chance of his career early in the first half when the scores were still level, and saw a good penalty claim denied on 71 minutes, but instead of hiding he stepped forward.
James Forrest, who also stood up to be counted throughout, ran at the Killie midfield and was fouled 25 yards out. Stokes struck the resultant free kick perfectly into the top left corner.
Two minutes later Stokes collected the ball from Ki 28 yards from goal in what seemed like a safe position but his swift turn and inch-perfect shot beat Jaakkola in the Kilmarnock goal.
Kilmarnock were now rattled and Celtic were level on 79 minutes. Daniel Majstorovic got on the end of a long free kick at the back post and squared for Charlie Mulgrew who headed home.
Having scored three times within seven minutes and with over 10 minutes of the game remaining the Celtic support had reason to feel confident their team could collect all the points but it was Kilmarnock would should have tied up the win in the final minutes when Heffernan found himself unmarked inside the Celtic six yard box but headed over, however, the home team will be happy to have collected their first point in four games.
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Cheers SydneyTim just read your post there
Great place
And the English version:
Christy Moore
Árd Macha
Prizes are given out in May not October !
No need to press the panic button but a definitive need to get behind the Bhoys!
its times like now that we need to back up being labled the best fans in the world.
Rascar Capac
See they are making a new Tin Tin film mate.
Looks brilliant the trailer does.
I heard that Snowy isn’t white though.
Shambles if that is true.
JF @ 01.39
So what ‘action’ do you propose?
Antrimkev. No still open, walked past it last night, it was empty
New management wanted rid of football fans about 3 years ago
Now it’s always empty, but houngan still wait at the bar for 10mins to get served
Dirty nellys paddington. Nice area , nice pub
James Forrest, your posts have recently moved from instructive, emotive and inspirational to destructive and unhelpful.
I always look forward to reading what you have to say but I cannot believe that Celtic are a shambles heading for a disaster. Incredibly sensationalist hyperbole I would expect from Leckie or Jackson.
TJ
Shane MacGowan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iUEwB4ME3I
Antrimkev
Just read back and see ST has posted back to you….This hangs in Cheers(Sydney City CSC ?).
http://i52.tinypic.com/1ovl1u.jpg
ST -You have that club flag up in Brisbane 2009?
TAL
Bjmac. I am confirming it :)
Would love to lose:) and will pay to Thai tims
But the fans have been waiting for 4-5 years for us to buy quality
Dont think next 12 months will be any different :(
James Forrest is Lennon says:
16 October, 2011 at 01:39
We’ll only get a seat at the table with one voice. Not interested in egos and whose voice it is, but it should represent the majority view. Is that yours or Auldheids? I doubt it is either, it will be somewhere in the middle – fighting won’t help.
I’ll let you buy me a coffee if you have time in the next couple of weeks in Glasgow city centre, I might even buy you :-)
email cqngolfclub@gmail.com if you can meet.
hh
bjmac
James Forrest
You are a decent writer, and I admire your work with the mag.
Actually, I’m a bit jealous.
On your current argument, about Auldheid, you sound very young and reactionary.
Why not just argue on the points, without the drama.
finbar42 is Neil Lennon:
I said already that’s a discussion that needs to be had far beyond this forum. It needs to involve people from every sphere of our support, and we need to utilise good ideas from more than one area.
First is a list of objectives, but they have to start with the removal of the majority shareholder and the chief executive, as the matters of the highest priority. Ideally that should involve a restructuring of the club along the lines of supporter control so we are never the plaything of an absentee landlord again.
When we have a list of clearly defined objectives, with those at the top, the discussion will centre around ways of accomplishing those goals. We have people amongst our support with the experience to do it, and we have other people with the professional skills to assist any proposals we came up with.
The first and most obvious first step is to assemble a small group of people who are willing to commit to the project and to understand what that means. I think it’s time for some of us to step forward, and yes, I am saying I want to take part in it.
SydneyTim they must have been looking rid of them round that time to, i remember asking if they had any polo shirts and well they werent the friendliest in telling me to do one.
The Dirty Nellies staff were fanatastic, we went for a bite to eat one night and a few beer and the barman heard the accents and was arranging trips for the race track for us and tours around the cricket and rugby grounds.
it was around the start of July time and the looks me and the aul boy got walking about in t-shirts while the natives all had big coats on – apparently it was winter time.
first time i have got my head burnt in winter
15/10/76
My date of birth.
I’m just back to ma house and had a great day. The support at the game today won us the point.
Win lose draw I know what I am and I know what to sing.
God bless
Tommy joad @ 01.46
I think you’re indulging in litotes there.
Thumbs up.
TAL. It’s an old flag. It was behind the goal in Sion, usually our president has it
James Forrest is Lennon
Always interested in what you have to say sir – but you are going to have to let this go for the time being at least.
Wait until the title has been decided.Nothing has been won or lost yet.If(and it is a big if)we don’t win it – then there will be a rebellion,and rightly so.
But it’s far too soon to start all this caper now.Lenny and the players need 100% support.
As they say in Glesca – “Keep the heid!”
Teuchter ár lá
it could well have i cant remember mate
my memory is that bad i was trying to make sure it was a shopping centre thing out the back
The league is over. The language coming from CP is already defensive. They know that the gamble on a rookie has cost them another title to the bankrupt side in Govan. When will people wake up. being a Celtic fan is not about being faithful through and through, when the cost is the consistent failure to win titles. Some of the people on here are two faced apologists for Neil Lennon. I have said time and time again, it was these very same people who wanted the head of a title winning manager in Gordon Strachan. I listened to the moans about rubbish football…..well what the heck do we have now? I would rather have rubbish that wins than rubbish that fails. But you see, those same people back Neil for the scurrilous reasons why they wouldn’t back Gordon.
I have followed Celtic all my life and I call a spade a spade. Neil Lennon and peter Lawwell are sinking the club. We are third in the league. We scraped a draw yesterday.
feedthebhear says:
16 October, 2011 at 01:52
Hoopy Birthday!!!!
What age are ye ;-)
hh
bjmac
Jf.
You should be having that conversation in private with him over a pint instead of posting that here.
Accusing you of being a reactionary or whatever the word was doesn’t really deserve a post like that.
BelfastCityCelt says:
16 October, 2011 at 01:46
Shane MacGowan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iUEwB4ME3I
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Why would we want to listen to that English fud ..
If its gonna be English, make it sound genuine ..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8S9QK5FaSY
JF @ 01.51
You know that the only thing that is going to make any difference is empty seats. It broke the old board. it will break this one. Are you advocating a boycott?
Tommy Joad:
Rangers, who are in an existential crisis, have won the last three titles and are on the way to a fourth. Celtic, the “best run club in Scotland” has not won the last three titles and will probably not win this one. We have a rookie coach, a backroom team with no experience, a team lacking cohesion, with a number of its players having given up the ghost and wanting out and a chief executive who’s contribution to the season so far has been an ill-judged stab at our rivals, which now must make him cringe.
That, and a lot more I could write here, is a shambles.
Today we were three-nil down at Kilmarnock at half time. They are a truly dire football team (Kilmarnock I mean, for the avoidance of doubt), playing in a truly dire league, and they destroyed us in 45 shambolic (there’s that word again) minutes. Had we been playing a better team in that first half it would have been eight or nine and they would not have conceded three in seven minutes to allow us to put a respectable gloss on a disgraceful performance.
And better teams await us. We ARE heading for a disaster.
35 and a wee bit!
finbar42 is Neil Lennon says:
16 October, 2011 at 01:56
Yes. It is the only thing that works.
Antrim. Same thing happens to me about 5 years ago when I 1st went into paddys
Rude, lazy. When the club left, they kept the t shirts that were behind the bar and sold them and kept the money!!!!
Yeh winter can be nice and 21 deg
The Honest Mistake (Sickened) says:
I offered to and I got no response. The guy who has advocated discussion above action was not willing to extend me the same courtesy.
That tells me everything I need to know.
ST and BJMac
When I saw the bet offer I knew immediately there would be discord in defining a striker or goalscorer. Similarly when Bjmac offered 2/1 on Celtic winning the league CultsBhoy hates being 2nd jumped in to accept the offer of £20. Now Bjmac is trying to explain it’s not £20 it’s £40.
Lads, Paddy Power is the site to be on. He’ll gladly accept your bets and there will be no disputes.
And when you win come on this blog and let us all know your good fortune!
Hail hail
Celtictowintheleagueat 7/4withPaddyPowerCSC
ST
This one?
http://i53.tinypic.com/2ms3p10.jpg
TAL
Ma last glass of vino and watching jools and a talented man ma young sis supported last month.
Let the people sing
James Forrest is Lennon says:
16 October, 2011 at 01:57
Your points are salient and yet painfully uncomfortable to some. For that you have my gratitude and respect. It is clear there are is a large section of the Celtic support, who will cheer Neil al the way as he shuffles the deckchairs on this sinking ship.
Just in.
Too tired to scroll back.
Has anyone…………….resigned?
While I was out.
was just reading Neil’s interview on the web
Asked about his own future the Celtic boss promised: “I’ll turn it round, we will turn it round. There’s talent in the team but we have to stop giving away silly goals, the goals we gave away in the first half were uncharacteristic.”
the first 4 words, to me mean its over.
the last 11 words, to me mean, it should be over.
Slan_Abhaile says:
16 October, 2011 at 01:57
You are absolutely right sir. Do you think the support, as it is at the moment, would be prepared to support an organised boycott of Celtic home games?
Tal. The larsson top hangs in cheers bar
Spiked says:
16 October, 2011 at 01:55
I am sorry sir,but i do not understand your post.