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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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  1. thebhoyfromoz on

    Slan_Abhaile

     

     

    Fair enough you’re entitled to express an opinion, but would you mind not referring to our manager by his surname only. I see enough of that lack of respect in the redtops.

  3. Raymac on

    It has become increasingly obvious that NL and his team are tactical amateurs. It doesn’t matter if your players are twice as good as theirs if you cannot see the tactical picture. How does Sweden’s centre half, who is going to the Euro Nation’s finals, become such a bad player? Does he look a bad player for Sweden, or is it just that he knows what is expected of him in a TEAM? (That’s me shouting). Sammi is another case in point. Playing for Greece he looks 10 times the player he is for Celtic. The team is chopped and changed so much that no-one knows what the hell is going on, and that includes Lennie and the boys. Changes are made agonisingly slowly, and people who are obviously hurt (Hooper today) are played on exascerbating any injury they picked up. The dressing room is also fractured, people are not pulling their weight –Ki and Kayal being glaring examples. Players being roasted in public–did MON or GS do this? They fell out with people, but it stayed in-house. It also seems NL has favourite players. What message does that send? I think action must be taken swiftly. There are no leaders on the park, the team is aimless and unsettled. Lawell might be guilty of some things, but he doesn’t train the team, pick the team, or set out tactics and formations. I say this with a heavy heart. We need a manager, and a manager who’ll sort the dressing room and tactics out bloody damn quick, or this side(you notice I didn’t say team) will finish 3rd or 4th, never mind second.

  4. Allgreen on

    I’m afraid we won’t win the league with Neil in charge.Something’s wrong and it’s not getting better. We only turned up for 10 minutes today. We were an embarrassment in the first half, not acceptable.

     

    Problem id what happened today isn’t unusual. Cowards and chancer run and play for our club the shame should lie with them but they don’t care.

     

    A warning to the see no evil hear no evil folk running the club, season tickets down to 20,000 are on the way if something in’t done.

  9. bjmac on

    Sydney

     

     

    I am so glad you’re over there, if rugby park today or any other celtic support was full of guys like you it wouldn’t be worth going.

     

     

    I choose to support Celtic, you should try it sometime, it is really exciting and enjoyable – you should try it once at least, put it on your bucket list.

     

     

    hh

     

     

    bjmac

  12. antrimkev on

    its days like yesterday that you wish that you didnt care about a stupid game of 22 men chasing a ball, but you do and because of who we are it hurts.

     

    pass marks? Matthews , Ledley, Big Victor, young jimmy (fair play to the kid, he is still learning but tried for 90 minutes to take that game by the scruff) and Stokes when he eventually decided to give it a go.

     

     

    i genuinley couldnt care less if i didnt see Kayal wear the Hoops again – Hooper would need to watch himself because he is starting to go down that slippery slope as well – Dan is Dan, Mulgrew is a squad player who was given the armband but, no matter what anybody says they would not pull what Kayal tried to pull today – one word for that today by him – cowardice

     

     

    Hopefully Lennon has seen today excactly what this club means to some of our “players”

  18. THE EXILED TIM on

    FFM

     

     

    Was out and about today, and came across said cider in a brit shop in a place called Albox, nasty place, they have brit flags up everywhere, 60% brits if not mistaken.

     

    Went there cos there is a really half decent car boot sale there, bargins that can make my betting fund not reduce too much.

     

    Lots of brits her going home so they can get benefits, lots of brits selling stuff for little money, only wish I had more spare bobs.

     

     

    The wine is seriously good btw :>)))))))

  22. Estadio on

    BTW I’ve met, drank and walked from the Rocks to Cheers bar with ST. Celtic supporter extraordinaire. He cares more than some of us will ever know.

     

     

    Hail Hail

     

     

    Estadio

  24. Beamishismypint on

    Hire a defence coach.

     

     

    What the hell is Bangura doing that indicates £2 million player?

     

     

    Race to the bottom and we’re winning.

  25. Slan_Abhaile..........Sack Lennon and Lawwell. on

    bjmac says:

     

    16 October, 2011 at 00:17

     

     

    You are a silly guy. Control yourself.

     

     

    Don’t apologise to the blog when you mean to violate the blog rules.

  27. pggtips2 on

    The last thing Celtic needs is ‘Celtic-minded’ players or managers. What Celtic needs is quality throughout the club, in the boardroom, at management level and on the pitch. At present I struggle to believe we have that at any level in the club.

     

     

    I was genuinely bemused by how Lennon appeared to ape Mowbray’s tactics, training methods, formations and archetypal player, well my view is now that if Lennon thinks like Mowbray, plays like Mowbray and now he’s even beginning to talk like Mowbray, then Lennon’s future… in Mowbray-parlance, the boat’s aboot ta come in

     

     

    For me the central problem at the club is there are too many people and Celtic-minded people are especially culpable, (cue any article with Mark Wilson or Charlie Mulgrew’s name on it) who place their own advertising ahead of the good of the club. When O’Neill was manager he streamlined the available channels of communication to outsiders and in doing so prevented by and large the kinds of scenarios you’re getting with Hooper, Kayal and Commons who seem to be placing their own interests first ahead of the team’s success.

     

     

    The ironic thing is that they only got noticed in the first place due to playing good football, no club really wants to know you when you appear to be very publically itching to move to another, i.e., see Tevez but then that is the level of IQ you deal with regarding football players and agents.

     

     

    An idea to check to see whether players are trying on and off the pitch would be too effectively CCTV every player in the squad. The idea being you would pay a guy say between £500 to £750 per week to effectively stalk the player during training and during the match by fixing a video camera on every single second, to see whether they are trying their hardest or whether they are not giving of their best. The said camera man would then file a report, for every single day and then all of these reports would then be used, e.g. when contract negotiations come up.

     

     

    This could seem to be quite intrusive, but when someone is getting paid around 20 to 30 x the amount you would pay the cameraman, for the players not to give of their best is surely not too much to ask, especially when the fans have given their best to pay their wages.

  35. Beamishismypint on

    Phil on beyond the waves – Bangura not Neil’s player. Says first such story he is going to break!

  36. Rascar Capac on

    Coming home from somewhere tonight I said let’s go to Asda or Sainsbury’s and get the bevvy in.

     

     

    Then we passed Lidl, and we thought, that’ll do.

     

     

    Really crap shop.

     

     

    We got to the drink section, no whisky.

     

     

    So wine then.

     

     

    I selected a cheap wine in an expensive bottle (goes up at the bottom to let the waiter pour it with his thumb).

     

     

    In the car on the way home, the “wait a minute” moment hit.

     

     

    My wine cost £8.99.

     

     

    Now, it is nice, but bugger that for a game of soldiers.

     

     

    Give me 14% Asda Pinotage for just over four quid and I’m happy.

  38. SydneyTim on

    Bjmac it took me and thousands like me to stand in the carpark to change things in 1994

     

    Hopefully there will be thousands like me again to change it again

     

     

    Bjmac. Of course I mean a centerhalf and not a Kelvin Wilson. Cheap rubbish

     

    And I mean a John hartson, or even Scott McDonald goalscorer

     

    Not a fortune or bang bang or murphy

     

     

    Phil. Every episode of original star trek

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