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Lessons learned from Friday experiment

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After every experimental line-up (such as Friday’s), it’s tempting to ask what the manager learned from the experience.

The partnerships on the left and right wings didn’t look right.  Emilio Izaguirre didn’t overlap as often as usual and Stuart Armstrong was less effective than normal.  A lack of space impacted the James Forrest-Adam Matthews partnership on the right.  Forrest was manhandled until he switched left or got inside the box, when he was able to play unhindered.

Ineffectiveness on the wings led to the same up front.  Anthony Stokes doesn’t get to play centre forward too often and didn’t really get much of a chance on Friday.  Stokes anonymity was the most glaring aspect of the game but I suspect the responsibility lies elsewhere.

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  2. Keeping The Faith on

    I remember on the Friday Scottish news they interviewed a Hertz fan who’d bet them at start of season and asked what he was doing with his winnings etc.. Not even a box of Kleenex hahaha!

     

    I was at every away game that season and it was a beautiful thing ✊KTF

  4. Dallas Dallas where the heck is Dallas on

    Roy, the photos of anton heading on the ball to w@@ker to score at ibrox was repeated about ten days later when anton headed the ball to the same player to score our winner v the dons at pittodrie.

     

     

     

    The picture of paul scoring at love street around march 1986 reminded me of how vital that goal was. It was the last minute , 1 1, and if paul hadn’t scored we wouldn’t have won the league on the last day. Choccy had won a tackle around half way and drove forward before setting paul up.

     

     

    The umbro lime green strip is my favourite away strip. I can only remember losing once when we wore it.

  5. clogher celt on

    roy croppie,

     

     

    Just to say thanks for all of your work. Do you have a clip of the Foggy Dew? I apologise if you put it up earlier. I am doing my best to keep up.

     

     

    Clogher

  7. glasgowbhoy on

    Roy croppie, thanks so much for your photos they are brilliant! I’ve been on the pitch only once, at love street in 86, one of those moments that you just never forget. And we scored one of the best goals I’ve seen in the flesh, even if it was you know who that finished it!

  9. Keeping The Faith on

    J McCormick that’s a pisher about the ref taking you off cos Chernobyl fallout (there’s a joke there) but you’re right it was that week.

  10. Dallas Dallas where the heck is Dallas on

    Roy, my recall of games in the seventies and eighties is ok but games from the nineties onward isn’t as good.

  11. leftclicktic on

    67Heaven .. CHALLENGING THE LIE ..I am wee Oscar…… Ipox belongs to the creditors

     

     

     

    19:50 on 5 April, 2015

     

    Well done ,I beat the weemhan at racing today(nearly killed me):))),he won the rerun,ye would have thought he had won the olympics:)))

     

    Walking up and patting my leg trying to console mee, a magic day was had by all.

     

    Roy croppie

     

    thank you for your efforts,,I enjoy it when folk like yerself and Kitalba visit :))))))))).

     

     

    Kit

     

    Gooooooooood morning.

     

    “My politics are simple, feed the children, educate the children, look after the elderly and leave me alone”.

     

     

    I planned to come to the BV and meet you briefly the last time you were there ,

     

    my good lady and circumstances had other plans :))))))))))

  12. theglasgowcelticway on

    82 League cup final.Think it was November? Anyway, had tickets but also had the flu.Was in the good old days when finals were on a Saturday.Tried to persuade my father I was ok enough to go to the game but he wasn’t having any of it.Fair play to him it was belting doon.

  15. glendalystonsils on

    Roy Croppie

     

     

    keep them coming fella. That’s my whole life there in those pictures. You are a star.

  18. Henke on

    Favourite banner –

     

     

    Who are the four horsemen? Lenny? HMRC dude. Death. And Someone else. Who is it?

  19. jmccormick on

    keeping the faith

     

     

    21:16 on 5 April, 2015

     

    J McCormick that’s a pisher about the ref taking you off cos Chernobyl fallout

     

     

    Cared not a jot….we were glad of the break. Came back out and won the game.

  20. Henke on

    PS great work as always Roy. You came at the right time. It was getting quite heavy in CQN.

     

     

    Great-timingCSC

  24. croppybhoy on

    Roy C

     

     

    Great pictures and even better memories – thanks for posting them!

     

    Some of my happiest times as a CFC have been spent in the bigotdome!

     

    There was no better feeling than the comradeship and togetherness you experienced when the entire Celtic end was bouncing – often in victory but sometimes in defeat too!

     

    Remember one New Year being there and being one down at HT and the whole Broomloan giving it the BOTOB for practically the whole of HT!

     

    Team came out and shaw the way the support was buzzing and we won 2-1!

     

    Love Street was something else as most who went that day went more in hope than expectation

     

    Those days in the late 1980s were probably the last days of having so many local players playing who could relate more to the support

     

    That meant the team could feed more off the support but that day the team in the first half really wound up the support with that brilliant display!

     

    Great times!

     

     

    HH

  29. Dallas Dallas where the heck is Dallas on

    Croppybhoy, i think that was the 1985 new year’s day game, choccy and judas scored who also missed a penalty in the first half.

  31. big archie on

    Roy.

     

    Thank you.

     

    Looking for a scrawny 15/16 year old in some of your pics.

     

    great days.

  32. leftclicktic on

    corkcelt

     

     

     

    21:22 on 5 April, 2015

     

     

     

     

    “the last day,The last afternoon,the last 10mins” :)))

     

    Git it roooon ye Jambos

  33. theglasgowcelticway on

    croppybhoy

     

     

    Could be wrong but I think I remember the game you’re talking about.

     

     

    Cooper scored for them.

     

     

    Mc gavervy turned McKinnon inside out and sent a cross for I think traitor to score.Then I think Mc Clair scored via a deflection.84?but as I said I could be wrong.

  34. EmeraldBee\o/ still proud to be an internet bampot on

    Brian @ 20:14

     

     

    Liked the picture of Harry Hood.

     

     

    Brian, way back in the 70’s I taught in a school few hundred yards from Harry’s first bar/hotel venture, the Sherwood Manor. A group of the timmy guys had a wee end-of-session bevvy in the Sherwood and we were only about 15 minutes into it when Harry appeared and said “Lads, I think you’ll be more comfortable upstairs”. Upstairs was a function room and yer man obviously wanted a loud, soon-to-be drunk group out of his public lounge. An hour later a lassie appeared with a tray of rolls and sausage, on the house. Oor Harry sure knew how to run the place. We were there for hours. Great guy.

  35. Greenpinata on

    roy croppie ( leftclicktic last night ),

     

     

    Thanks again for the memories and your time.

     

     

    Absolutely riveting.

     

     

    HH to both of you.

  36. Keeping The Faith on

    I’m also searching for myself in these crowd scenes , at the time I could pick myself out behind the goals etc but it was on Betamax so nobody else could really see you.

     

    Although I am on WolfeTones 25th anniversary video at Barras, which we watched on Phil Coles bus to some Manchester testimonial , quite the video star :))

  37. long haired yins man on

    Henke, although the your day will come banner is a topper, my favourite banner of all time is simply the banner with the arrow pointing to the left that stated SCOTLANDS SHAME ->.

  40. Lennybhoy on

    !!bada bing!!

     

     

    Jim Stewart was in goal on that day in 86.

     

     

    One of the best days and nights I have ever following Celtic.

     

     

    Catach:

     

     

    You need to post more yourself. Glad you are well my friend.

     

     

    Keep the Faith!

     

     

    Hail Hail!

  41. croppybhoy on

    Dallas & TGCW

     

     

    Thanks for the update on the actual date

     

    I remember “Sqiggly” as we called Frank McGarvey skinning the Hun full back for the first goal up at our end but couldn’t tell you who he was – your memory is much better than mine!

     

    Used to love the bigotdome before they filled in the corners!

     

    If you were in the upper tier of the Broomloan you could see the bandits do walking away!

     

     

    HH

  42. Dallas Dallas where the heck is Dallas on

    Long haired yins ma, i agree. The scotland’s shame banner was so simple but really effective. Really got the message across.

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