Before this Europa League group got underway the trips to Istanbul and Amsterdam looked daunting. Those games produced two credible draws, but things went wildly wrong elsewhere.
Our goal last night was a peach. Dedryck Boyata split the Fenerbahce defence to open up space for Mikael Lustig to cross for Kris Commons, who peeled off his marker to create the space to head home. Unfortunately only one point was collected as we lost another Keystone Cops goal.
Craig Gordon seems to be struck by a lack of conviction this season. His was not the only failing at our repeated corner kick fiascos but letting a ball trickle through his legs as he appeared caught in two minds is indicative of a player who is doubting himself.
You know Kris Commons scores and creates huge goals for Celtic, we’ve discussed it often enough here. Despite his veteran status and apparent ill-fitting to our system he remains by far our most effective player.
For Ronny, it didn’t go wrong in Europe this season against Fenerbahce or Ajax (I’m absolving him of blame for Efe’s error or a last minute breakaway goal at Celtic Park), it went wrong home and away to Molde and Malmo. We appeared to underestimate both. Did the manager have something to prove against fellow Norwegian managers?
Celtic dominated possession stats in all four games against Molde and Malmo but the Scandinavians exploited the acres of space which simply didn’t exist in our games against Ajax, Fenerbahce or Qarabag, for that matter. Ajax, Fenerbahce and Qarabag got the respect they deserved, not so Molde and Malmo.
The failure is, of course, more complicated than that. Jozo missed the bulk of the campaign, while Dedryck is only just beginning to look like a footballer (lovely pass for the goal last night). Scott Allan looks promising, but we’ve not seen enough of him either due to injury.
Curiously, Ronny’s big 2015 No. 1 striker target, Nadir, looks less like a Ronny Deila player than anyone we’ve bought in years. Knowing we were interested in him, I watched his performances against Celtic last season, and made the same observation at the time.
What happens if your keeper’s form falls off a cliff, one of your new defenders doesn’t settle quickly, two other new players miss months through injury, and your new striker doesn’t morph into a different player? You finish bottom of the Europa League group.
Celtic must now consider their strategy for January. Successive transfer windows have left us weaker, not stronger. Identify the reasons, remediate and we can build on the away performances which bookended this Europa League campaign.
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PHYLLIS DIETRICHSON on 11TH DECEMBER 2015 2:17 PM
Watching Nadir Ciftci last night made me realise what a player Bobby Lennox was.
-Annie Lennox is a better player than Ciftci…
As I suggested last night. It is possible that Sutton is simply a negative Celtic supporter. There are plenty of those around 0:-). Once the Media becomes aware of this attitude , then it increases said Negatron`s chances of work in said Media. I believe Sutton is honest in his opinions but not particularly perceptive and not particularly bright. Perfect for Sports Media !
JJ
Right!
Am off ti the Zoo, HH.
glendalystonsils
Think that was Gazza
HH
JJ,
Agreed.
Still canny remember seeing him up taking our games in when he wasn’t paid to.
Hope yer well.
HH
I am not making an excuse for lighting flares at games, but I can understand why a drunk or gullible fan would think it was acceptable in Instanbul.
If glibby told the agm last week that they had repaid the loan to Mash, and I honestly can’t recall if he did or not, that imo would be as bad or worse than telling porkies in court, you just can’t go around lieing to shareholders as you please.
Anyone know if they did tell their agm that they had repaid the loan ?
!!BadaBing!! Nice one. H H Hebcelt
When Celtic signed Ciftci (who the feck is Ciftci), I honestly thought, as a devout Celtic supporter, in my mind at least, although until we get employee equality of benefits the PLC don’t get a single penny more from me, I really did believe, sincerely and with shame, we were scrapping, furiously, at the bottom of the ‘money ball’ barrel.
Now I tend to think I might just have been rashly unkind, I might even have been a million miles from the truth in my haste to judge, maybe I was attention seeking because my life without the adoration of a blog and its cyber population is a void, maybe I was just simply wrong, wrong; it happens, I’m only human after all…
Maybe, just maybe, the barrel is on the floor of abyss and we are still tethering on the edge and it is still a long, long way down before we really scrape at the bottom of the barrel in torments of sorrows and embarrassments.
For the first time in my life, for the sake of my club, and its heart, and its soul… I would not cry if Aberdeen, or Hearts, or Ross County, or Airdrie, won the vaunted, and world renowned, and feared, and gash, SPL.
It is not nice, and it hurts too, but I only say it because I care.
Get your green and white emotional parachutes here 50% to the PL Christmas Bonus Fund.
Aye more like 99%
Well Sevco court week has been a bit of a disappointment has it not ?
HH
THE EXILED TIM on 11TH DECEMBER 2015 3:07 PM
GASL told the AGM the board had decided to pay the loan back as it was, “the right thing to do”!!
GREENPINATA on 11TH DECEMBER 2015 3:07 PM
I am not making an excuse for lighting flares at games, but I can understand why a drunk or gullible fan would think it was acceptable in Instanbul.
Were they drunk or gullible when they acquired the flares?
No excuses, they have been well warned.
Problem is, that in some perverted fashion these numpties think that they are bigger and better Tims than anyone else and that makes them untouchable.
Last night I posted that it might be an idea if Celtic withdrew from European competition until we had a decent team.
If some numpties don’t get a grip of their knickers, EUFA will do the withdrawing for us.
– See more at: http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/lack-of-respect-for-molde-and-malmo/comment-page-3/#comment-2735379
TET
if your not listed of course you can.
The major shareholders are more interested in adherence with exchange rules than they are fellow shareholders. I include Celtic plc for a certainty on that one
HH
QUONNO on 11TH DECEMBER 2015 3:16 PM
If you are saying it was Peter Lawwells bhoy …just come out and say it
HH
There’s a whole lot of people in trouble tonight from the disease of conceit
Whole lot of people seeing double tonight from the disease of conceit
Give you delusions of grandeur and evil eye
Give you the idea that you’re too good to die
Then they bury you from your head to your feet
From the disease of conceit.
Or more colloquially…
there’s a hole in my bucket dear Liza, dear liza,
there is a huge, feckin massive, scary, hide behind sofaland hole in my bucket Peter.
Re statue of Billy McNeill to be unveiled next week.
Although I am delighted and it is truely well deserved. I wonder , would Celtic need authorisation as well as planning permission for a statue to a living person.?
I know that there are certain guidelines. Eg it was well documented that Westminster broke its own 10 year dead guideline for Nelson Mandela. And rightly so.
HH.
http://youtu.be/PpNgc5ZbYeE
Shane ..genius
AWE_NAW_NO_ANNONI_OAN_ANAW_NOO on 11TH DECEMBER 2015 2:20 PM
PHYLLIS DIETRICHSON on 11TH DECEMBER 2015 2:17 PM
Both the same (always offside) LOL
Nae need tay worry by this time next year JD & RD will have taught him the rules
HH
There were at least 160times Bobby was onside and every one of them resulted in a goal.
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Kitalba didnae understand a word of that one, care to elaborate or am i just too thick?
AWE_NAW_NO_ANNONI_OAN_ANAW_NOO on 11TH DECEMBER 2015 3:18 PM
QUONNO on 11TH DECEMBER 2015 3:16 PM
If you are saying it was Peter Lawwells bhoy …just come out and say it
HH
I haven’t a clue what you are on about.
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Quonno,
Look up facetious
HH
AWE_NAW_NO_ANNONI_OAN_ANAW_NOO on 11TH DECEMBER 2015 3:13 PM
Well Sevco court week has been a bit of a disappointment has it not ?
HH
Maybe the reality check that ‘The Huns are Deid’ brigade need.
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Got a text from a guy who was at the game last night,it was the shower of fuds who go by the name of the Style Mile Vandals,who let the flare off,and caused bother anywhere they went in the city,Hun like was the expression he used. It wasn’t the GB
Quonno
The “huns are deid” brigade will be telling their greeting face weans tay “shut it” when they leave them to go to their bigot fest
HH
AWE_NAW_NO_ANNONI_OAN_ANAW_NOO on 11TH DECEMBER 2015 3:28 PM
Quonno,
Look up facetious
HH
Don’t need to look it up. I am sometimes pretty good at it myself.
Still for the life of me have,t a clue what you are on about.
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If you think you are thick, then who am I as a stranger qualified to judge.
Do I care to elaborate, no I don’t care. I’m too tired.
Tired of watching my clubs heart and soul and reputation being trashed from within.
Simply put, I was in Istanbul on the night of the game and I was too tired to go. For the first time in my life.
Maybe I’ve forgotten what care means but somewhere in my life I do remember somebody very dear to me saying “care finds care”.
Lifeisaboxofchocolates!
Quonno
I was being my usual facetious self.
The only thing cifti and buzzbomb have in common is in being caught offside.
Maybe us not being in Europe next year is to PL´s advantage
HH
Come back Allley,
Come back Walter,
Come back the famine is over
come back 60,000 Celtic Supporters
PL’s Bonus fund needs you.
and all the while we slide past mediocrity, past irrelevant land to bide a generation in its all the fault of the English Limbo.
Get off yer feckin knees
KITALBA on 11TH DECEMBER 2015 3:31 PM
If you think you are thick, then who am I as a stranger qualified to judge.
Do I care to elaborate, no I don’t care. I’m too tired.
Tired of watching my clubs heart and soul and reputation being trashed from within.
Simply put, I was in Istanbul on the night of the game and I was too tired to go. For the first time in my life.
Maybe I’ve forgotten what care means but somewhere in my life I do remember somebody very dear to me saying “care finds care”.
Lifeisaboxofchocolates!
If the above does not sound alarm bells for DD and PL, nothing will.
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glendalystonsils
Sporting player getting booked
http://talkingbaws.com/2015/12/video-sporting-lisbon-striker-teo-gutierrez-booked-after-stealing-referees-magic-spray/?
Lot of criticism of Cifti.
He is simply an indication of where we are and are likely to remain.
Celtic charity cards – Christmas 2015. In aid of the Kano Foundation and the Society of St Vincent de Paul.
More info and order here: https://theshamrockglasgow.wordpress.com/2015/11/29/celtic-charity-christmas-cards-2015/
Given the last 2 transfer windows have weakened the team are we entrusting the next 2 to the same people?
Monaghan
Had a look see on sevco media to see what they are saying, ffs, thick as, arguing about how long it takes to transfer money from SA, the efwits deserve all they get.
HH
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Awe Naw
Aye, forgot they were delisted, Oh Well.
HH
Sky TV needs you… The BBC needs you… so they can take the pish just a little bit more and we can all have a jolly good rant about how hunnish SKY and BBC. Great! Grand! excuse me whilst I go and put my fist through a wall or two and bang my nut against a few pillars and posts and rant and rave about injustices.
Wow! Now that I’ve got that out of the way I feel good, don’t know what my wife is going to say about the state of the walls or all the blood on the carpets,but feck do I feel good…
but deep down inside, latent in our hearts, swimming with our genes, leaching the very air from our lungs, sucking dry our hopes and our dreams, maybe we’ve been conditioned that our detractors slimes are our oxygen and we just can’t live a meaningful life without them or bigotry.
FF’n excuses for another failed payment – “It could be a case of there being 500k sitting in Ecrow waiting instruction for disbursement.”
‘Ecrow’? THE Crow?
This is Glibby’s next lie -” The Crow has it; Brandon Lee. And he’s deid, your Honour, so, well, y’nkow – no sheckles to pay the baron…”
Matron Matron the meds – quick
QUONNO-true mate,but the total spend on dud strikers is shocking,Park should be chased for continually wasting our money