It was far from beautiful flowing football at Inverness yesterday but the players raised the tempo sufficiently to get the result. Leigh Griffiths scored a classic poacher’s goal. He missed plenty against Kilmarnock and Ajax but that’s part of the territory of being a striker.
I was delighted to see Carlton Cole make his first appearance for the club, and for anyone since last season. His first touch could have resulted in a goal but his sheer body mass caused sufficient panic in the Inverness defence that a goal resulted soon enough. There’s a lot of work ahead as Carlton looks to get match fit but he’s exactly the kind of foil we’ve missed this season.
For all the Zonal Marking Detesters……… We’re now man-to-man and we’re still conceding headers in front of goal. The problem was not resolved with the switch to man-to-man. Defending corner kicks requires a physicality and alertness which we’ve missed all season. The sooner we fix this and get back to zonal the better.
On the subject of physicality, Dedryck, this is your hand. A brick wall should have been thrown up in front of Miles Storey at the Inverness goal. I accept we have unresolved issues at set-pieces and that we’ll lose goals as a consequence. Goals conceded on Thursday – a deflection-come-ricochet, and a breakaway, had little to do with the defence, but yesterday’s Inverness goal was just rank bad defending.
At Carfin on Friday I told Phil MacGiollaBhain that there was no way Dave King could weasel out of paying Mike Ashley his £5m, having said he would do so. Phil referred me to the “glib and shameless liar” part of King’s past and not to be so naive. He could have a point.
Ashley holds the aces here. Any attempt to ‘play’ him will fail.
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Marspapa
Bumped into the bold acgr just before kick off at the Killie match. He was on fine form for the very short time we spoke
TBJ
Fine form, that was being very kind :-)))
Cowiebhoy
Acgr is acgr .. ;))
Marspapa…
Tried to talk ACGR round, reckon he is scared to come back on incase he gets bullied, I told him big Ant will back him up. :)
Saint Stivs… Ye cannae beat his patter, nearly as sharp as my wee mate.
Watching Napoi v Inter in deepest Lancashire, 3 young Italian fans, all Inter fans, fairly down at half time started a conversation with them.
Mentioned my team, our team Celtic, two of them instantly started talking of the great time they had at Celtic Park last year. They talked about the brilliant Brigatta Verde, excuse the spelling, and the support we had. They also knew that we had beaten them in the CL final, I excused them that error as they were no more than 25 years old.
The only Celtic players they knew were Larsson, Samaras and Nakamura but they knew about Jock Stein….and his team
Times like this make you wonder why we get bogged down in worrying about the rotten mob across the city? One Ragazzi asked me , is there another team in Glasgow? I assured him they were” tutti morti”. They laughed at my accent but knew what I meant.
Interesting to hear strangers talk well of our club and it reminded me of a lyric from a song I was playing in the car today…
” I look in the mirror and I’m tickled pink, I don’t give a hoot about what you think”
Hail! Hail!
Tbj
I wonder how many it takes for him to be in fine form ;))
It should never be forgotten he is a great lad !!
Sipsini
Bullied !!! I’ve seen him cuttin aboot in eez punders waving his 7 iron aboot …no a very nice sight .
Btw , they punders are either “broon” or ur needing a right good wash …… :))
hamilton next – only won one of the last six games – against d utd.
JMC
Was in Nerja in Oct and went to a bar with a lot of Barca memorabilia, which was strange. When I told them who I supported everyone of them commented at some stage that “Rangers are dead”. I couldn’t disagree.
Cowiebhoy
Glad your night for your big pal went well , dancing with 67 heaven is fine , until I read his wife wiz oot the country and it was the last dance :))
Did you swoon :)
gearoid1998 on 29th November 2015 11:02 pm
Just read your post from last night mhate, Thank you very much for doing that for Brian…yir a big gentleman,thank the rest of the Tim Malloy bhoys too.
HH
After all is said and done…. More is said than done!
We are not as bad a side as most make out. Thursday, disappointment as it was, could easily have finished 1-1 or 2-1, thems the breaks. We are rebuilding. We have an extremely young side that is never acknowledged in the MSM. We are inexperienced in Europe. Great to see some stats from people who know better.
We will prevail.
In Ronny I trust.
pyfird
L7
With 15 mins to go everyone would agree it was better to go for the win rather than sit on 1-1
That involves a higher element ofor risk at getting exposed on the break and so it proved.
If Leigh scored one of his chances it could have been different. .. I’m keeping the faith
Marspapa…
I know acgr lurks, just baiting him to log on…too many have drifted of late.
Cowiebhoy
Next game I would like to see the team lined up
3—–4.—-1—-2
Gordon
Lustig. Boyata suminovic
Forrest. Johnson. bitton teirney
Allan
Griffiths commons
Plenty of room for interchanging… Into 3–5–2……or rd’s set up.
Anyhow the boss is intimating she would like her tea and toast , so I’d better go or I’m toast
Goodnight all :))
Timaloy29
Peddling nonsense on the wireless is a BBC default setting.
Hiding a tax dodge from HMRC is quite different from operating one and telling them about it, as they should have done.
Hiding payments to players from the SFA is quite different telling them about it, as they should have done..
If they were so legal then why hide them and then spend years lying about side letters and such.
They knew they were running a scam and HAD to hide them from HMRC and the SFA.
Those who say anything different are ill-informed and/or ill-intentioned.
Let me make it absolutely clear from the start I nor any other member of the Celtic Trust are any kind of stormtroopers and I take real exception to the extremely ill informed poster who described his fellow Celtic supporters in this unacceptable way.
I am at a loss to understand the virulence of his attitude to the Trust. What have we done to warrant the incessant sniping and snide remarks.
We are longstanding supporters of Celtic I attended my first game at Cathkin Park in 1963.We want Celtic to be run as it was intended to be in accord with its founding principlesbut of course as a 21st century European football club.
We see Celtic as a Living Wage employer embodying those principles.This nonsense about theTrust being politically motivated was mildly amusing at first but now is becoming tiresome not really impacting on the good work the Trust does on behalf of individual Celtic supporters eg the OBAF and Amsterdam but maybe stopping Celtic supporters who might want to join us and work with the Trust from doing so because of the lies being written about us here.
I lurk every day and post very infrequently but I cannot and will not allow malicious individuals to go unchallenged
Don Pepe (Joe Di Paola)
Chairperson
The Celtic Trust
Sipsini
Before I go , it’s a pity the weather is as bad or I’d challenge him to a wee game of sclaffbaw !!
ACGR get back on ya trumpet !! :)) xx
As TGBS pointed out the other night……4 wins From 21…Against FULL TIME OPPOSITION in EUROPE…..Are U Listening….4 FROM 21…….in Ronny We Trust….DELUDED…CFC….
And Well Done The Guy From The Celtic Trust..
Donpepe
Well said , informative and civil , it’s sad that you have to come on here and justify youself and fellow members
Keep up the good work :)
Gaun yersel Joe!
Noticed that Brentford, with a new manager, dropped 2 points tonight. I say that as opposed to Bolton gaining one.
The top of the Championship is really close as we approach Christmas with only 4 points separating the top 5 teams, while 3 points separate the next 6. Brentford are 3 points adrift of that although a win would have left them only 1 point.
I also noticed that macleodinho was not part of the 18 players stripped; I don’t think he has kicked a ball for them since his “sensational” move almost a year ago.
According to wiki the fee was later reported by The Sunday Post to be £850,000, with add-ons raising the fee up to £1.3 million. Don’t think sevco will be sitting up all night waiting for the add ons.
Also according to wiki having failed to recover from the hamstring injury suffered in his last match while a sevco player, macmessi’s recovery suffered further setbacks when tripping over a twig and accidentally stepping down a rabbit hole in separate incidents.
What is more interesting is that warbo and molly bought him while both were at Griffin Park. Hmmmmm as someone once said on here.
donpepe on 30th November 2015 10:30 pm
Well said/typed my good mhan,may I ask you a question ?
WTF are the trust doing letting that bam HT join CT for?
He’s lowering the tone and will shooorly scare new punters
away.
Regards n HH :o)
Don Pepe (Joe Di Paola)
Well said!
A number of posters on CQN need to stop and think:
“If you converse with the Village Idiot on a daily basis……………..
the Villagers will be inclined to think that you and he are related.”
Ignore the Shmuk (Yiddish translation)!
Canny even take the dugs ooot and folk want to swoop and swoon :-)
VP
Away ya big Fenian lamppost :-)
New blog from RTC
https://rangerstaxcase.wordpress.com/
It’s the weans I feel sorry for :O)
VP
Me too!! :-)
Can anyone remember us having so any non-righted footed players ( i dont want to say lefties as some posters appear to dislike that word being associated with Celtic) in our first team squad?
Craig Gordon, Charlie Mulgrew, Calum McGregor, Gary Mackay- Steven, Kieran Tierney, Izzy,Kris Commons, Tam Rogic,Griff , johansen. Any I’ve missed?
Dallas
I mentioned this at a game recently about the high number of left footers we currently have. As a leftie myself I think it’s great!
Dallas
Jozo Simunovic and Tyler Blackett.
Though in Jozos’ case it’s hard to tell yet as he rarely touches the ball, but I think he’s there.
its a fact that left footers are better footballers.
its a little know fact that jinky was a natural left fitter , but decided himself just to play righty as it was an unfair sporting advantage,
You can always tell the left footed forwards at Celtic coz they’ll be playing on the right.
Hamiltontim, a dangerous admission that you are a leftie . I hope your fellow members in the trust are not lefties also, you could , ahem, incur even more wrath.
Bourne, I was trying to put Tyler Blackett out of my mind as he hasn’t exactly impressed us that much.
Saint Sivs
There was nothing wrong with the wee mans left foot as the ball whizzed into the dead clubs net in ’67.
Sorry it should have read Stivs
I don’t think any of the Lions were left sided.
The the best left footer I have saw playing for us was Lubo despite him being right footed , if that makes sense.
Lubo is closely followed by Shunsuke Nakamura then the late Tommy Burns