The clean sheet record had to go eventually, so I’m pleased it went to a good goal, not an error by Fraser, which would have been harsh on the big keeper. Having already recorded Celtic’s, then Scotland’s league clean sheet record, the British and European records were within touching distance, but that is now a matter for next season.
Months ago, when Virgil van Dijk first suggested we could go through the league season without defeat I said we were not nearly consistent enough to achieve this. Ironically, last night’s defeat came after a sustained period of consistent an authoritative performances, in the league.
Aberdeen will have lots of reasons to wonder where there team might go now, having beaten Celtic twice in a month. Amid all the newspaper talk in 2012 that Celtic needed their soon to be liquidated opponent, a few of us suggested that what Celtic really need is an opponent, and that Aberdeen, playing to a captive audience in a wealthy city, were the most likely candidates.
Manager, Derek McInnes, knows he does not have the resources to compete over a league programme, but he has proven a few points: he knows how to beat Celtic and his team are the best of the rest.
If Aberdeen can cope with the vagaries of trips to Easter Road and Victoria Park next season, four games against Celtic will take care of themselves. Let’s hope Newco Rangers don’t nip in and buy their best players with that non-emergency £1.5m loan.
The immediate challenge for Celtic is to get back into winning form on Saturday. League Cup finalists, Inverness, will come to make up the numbers.
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During the 9iar years the Lions and the sides who followed them never went through a season unbeaten in the league.
The closest they came was in ’67/68 when they only lost once – 1-0 away to the huns on the second day of the season.
They then went on an unbeaten run for the remainder of the season in the league – 32 games.
Them wur the days!
HH!!
I’m bored with the mediocre standard. We need something different or the stands will be empty.
season book still secured but its not good!!
SPC
call me Gerry
12:51 on 26 February, 2014
natknow
12:45
Ha
My waters are still rough from last nights drinking.
Now I’ll get MY coat…
HH
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Yeah great idea Kev bring back the Huns just what we need a cross between the waffen ss the kkk and apartheid South Africa,with the sense of humour bypass included to darken our door and stench out el paradiso.did you not put it on your list for Santa?
KevJungle
12:59 on 26 February, 2014
Hail Hail – Off oot.
Pharrell ‘Happy’ Williams – CSC
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I didn’t see that coming.
Wherever you’re going, Kev, don’t get a taxi. The driver will ask you to sit down.
Feck Newco, lets look in-house… We are weak, yes a selling club but everyone goes on about the green brigade. How about we put the energy engineering our next move?
everyone slags the board but people power is stronger! Boycott the league next year and push for what we need….
the strength is in the people, even go play in the lowest league but lets now get a reality check, this league is killing us slowly, forget the profit, we want entertained but lets achieve what we deserve.
SPC
Serie A .
Rube 9 points above 2nd place Roma.
Roma 6 points above 3rd place Napoli.
Napoli 6 points clear of 4th place Fiorentina.
Fiorentina 10 points clear of 9th place Milan.
Rube fined 25 k euros for 2 banners mocking the Superga tragedy of 1949 ( an aircrash which resulted in the death of 18 Torino players ( plus club officials / journalists etc )
Roma fined 50 k for fan disorder at Bologna——– Roma have now paid 500k euros in fines for fan disorder in season 2013 -14 to date.
Roma also ordered to close 3 curvas for next Saturday s game v Inter.
Lovely day-way down south.
Now the record has gone I hope we can all agree this team has gone back the way under Neil this season. I hope he gives youth and the likes of Balde a few games now. No point in us showing up otherwise.
Aye
There is only two more things Celtic must do from now to the end of the season-
Tie up the league ASAP.
If Celtic continue to beat the other sides this should happen either in March depending on Aberdeen’s results or early April.
Aberdeen lost to Thistle at the weekend – a side who cannot win at home or haven’t done all season.
That is perspective for many reasons – they are not capable of beating us over a season because they’ll have results like losing 3-1 to a struggling side and Hearts have beaten the same Aberdeen side home and away this season with all their problems.
Losing to them hurts because they think they are good now.
I am right behind Yogi Hughes and Inverness for that cup final and anyone but Sevco for the Scottish cup.
It’s a great feeling sitting watching other teams be where you think you should be. Thank goodness out ineptitude is making the game more interesting in Scotland eh?
No, once the league has been settled Celtic MUST and I mean MUST give Aberdeen a beating in the league so strong and so completely decisive that they will slink back to Sheep land knowing you can win one off games but you’ll always be at best number 2 to us.
Only that can make up for the pain of this month in my opinion.
Other than that we are only playing out time waiting for a cup to show our supposed dominance over the game in Scotland.
It should have been so much more.
Still fed up with this season and still cannot find anyone who thinks this season has been a good one with credible reasons.
Sorry to get back to the red card for VVD. The laws of the game don’t say “denying a goalscoring opportunity”.
They say “denying an OBVIOUS goalscoring opportunity”
I’m not convinced it was obvious. Ball was pushed well ahead of him, the wind was blowing hard in that direction, going away from the goal, Efe was coming over to cover….
Dear oh dear.
I see some clown is suggesting in the Daily Record today that we ditch broony and buy John McGinn as he can tackle without fouling.
Swap a guy with 3 domestic bookings for a guy with 8!!
Where do we get these tw@ts from?
Super Sutton
I know it’s cool to have this fake magnanimous attitude but I’d be amazed if efe didn’t get a block on pawlet if he escaped VVD.
Natknow,
Very funny response to the “off oot” poster.
“…Let’s hope Newclub Rangers don’t nip in and buy their best players with that non-emergency £1.5m loan…”
There, that’s better.
We are an SPFL side.
A good one, but, at the moment, this is our level.
To progress, we need to inject more energy into the side.
We cannot afford to carry three and it was recently, four,players who lack genuine pace.
Stokes, Commons, Mulgrew and recently, Ledley, whilst being good enough players in their own right, slow our game down, to the extent that they are fairly easily put under pressure.
There is some cause for optimism with the arrivals of Griffiths, Balde, Pukki and Biton, plus Johannsen.
These are players who play on the front foot.
Add a fit Forrest and we have an opportunity to advance.
In the modern game, in Europe, skill is not enough. There has to be energy, all over the park.
Pace and energy can’t be coached, you either have it, or you don’t.
The question is, having signed these players, will Neil use the remaining games to integrate them into the team, or will he stick with players who, I think, have had their time at the club?
There should have been no new contract for Stokes and if Commons is being offered a new one, it should be on reduced terms.
As for Charlie? Well he is handy to have around as a utility player.
C’mon Neil, show us your mettle.
SS,
I’m not saying you have that attitude. I’m saying I agree with ye. ;)
Dharma Bam \o/ stands up for Neil Lennon
13:19 on 26 February, 2014
Natknow,
Very funny response to the “off oot” poster.
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If you didn’t laugh, you’d greet!
I was up at Celtic park today.
Took along a German (Shalke) and Turkish (Gala) guys.
They loved the stadium, and the story, I started the little tour at Saint Marys.
Jeese oh, the school being down though, it felt strange, very different.
Will get use to it quick , and the demolished materials were disappearing on the back of trucks fast. How soon till the avenue is completed ? whats the schedule ?
Snake Plissken .
Win , lose or draw .
So be it . Win some,lose some , break even sometimes . Just like life .
Celtic owe me nothing .I have no need to dominate anyone . If you need to be a rooster crowing on top of the dung heap -so be it
I have watched Celtic being beaten by the likes of Queens Park and Queen of the South. 10 years later I was in Lisbon.
Win , lose or draw.
natknow – supporting wee oscar
13:03 on 26 February, 2014
call me Gerry
12:51 on 26 February, 2014
You 2 need to get a lifebuoy.
Check please….
S.O.T. – just the man. What do you know about this bloke trying buy Leeds, Massimo Cellino? He must be dodgy as he hasn’t passed the directors/shareholders test from the Football League and yet the place is full of chancers and criminals.
South of Tunis,
Celtic owe us alot i.e. Find a way out of this cesspit of a league…
will it happen? Probably not therefore we need there vision as we are left disappointed again..
the board need to walk the talk and support focus on change i.e. The GB….
SPC
Tom Molach
13:32 on 26 February, 2014
natknow – supporting wee oscar
13:03 on 26 February, 2014
call me Gerry
12:51 on 26 February, 2014
You 2 need to get a lifebuoy.
Check please….
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Difficult not to join in, innit?! :-)
thomthethim for Oscar OK @ 13:21
I would add Broonie to that list too………….
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He made a mistake, league won but lets deal with the issue…..
Just found an email address
Should’ve looked harder.
Albion Rovers – go the Rovers
geordie munro
13:21 on 26 February, 2014
SS,
I’m not saying you have that attitude. I’m saying I agree with ye. ;)
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Like :)
jeez_i_thought_blinker_was_pants
13:37 on 26 February, 2014
thomthethim for Oscar OK @ 13:21
I would add Broonie to that list too………….
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Possibly, but we would need some continuity.
Whatever his playing faults may be, he, at least has drive and energy.
A kind of handsome Gattuso!!
Thomthethim for Oscar ok
Pace not such a big issue for at eam designed to hold position .
If we were a proactive side then it would be vital.
I agree Mulgrew is no more than a good utility player but he is a coaches favorite.
Stokes is an enigma part brilliant part brutal but to often selfish for my liking.
Personally think its an injection in the coaching department that we really need.
Static and predictable way to often.
An interesting example of differences coaches make to team is Bayern Munich.
Lots of pretty pointless sideways and backwards passing that does not seem to get the best out of their pace and power.
I thought they were better last year with their power and directness.
Guardiola is a fine coach but not sure correct fit for squad he has.
call me Gerry
12:43 on 26 February, 2014
Buoys = bhoys……doh
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Your spelling of Bhoys might have been Freudian.
Away back in the dim & distant past ( 1940’s ?) there were collectable cigarette cards with cartoon figures of football players, giving their club colours & their nicknames.
One of them was of Celtic with the nickname given as ‘The Bouncing Buoys’.
Kilbowie Kelt will vote YES
14:00 on 26 February, 2014
call me Gerry
12:43 on 26 February, 2014
Buoys = bhoys……doh
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Your spelling of Bhoys might have been Freudian.
Away back in the dim & distant past ( 1940′s ?) there were collectable cigarette cards with cartoon figures of football players, giving their club colours & their nicknames.
One of them was of Celtic with the nickname given as ‘The Bouncing Buoys’.
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Now that is Quite Interesting.
KK,
Nick names change over the years.
Look at Fulham;)
tomtheleedstim @13 36
He has multiple convictions in Italy —embezzlement , false accounting ,deception,uttering ,deception and big money fraud .
Often rumored to be ” connected “/ often photographed in interesting company in Miami and New York .
He is Sardinian and owns a big chunk of Cagliari FC.
I know, NatKnow,
I am a very interesting old bore.
:¬(((
We red the fans to change where we ply our trade, we have to start now!!