If Shane Duffy wanted to whet the appetite of supporters after securing his loan move to Celtic, scoring a 93rd minute equaliser for Ireland in their Nations Cup game in Bulgaria last night was the way to achieve it. Those who know the player told us he was a commanding presence and the manner in which he powered home his header from a corner kick backed this up.
When you watch how teams defend set-pieces against Celtic, you will note their key defensive resources concentrate on Christopher Jullien. He also appears to be the man other Celtic players try to provide space for, by stopping opponents getting a block on him.
Jullien is a better set-piece target than we have had in many years, but this makes us predictable to defend against. Duffy will make Celtic significantly less easy to stop on these occasions.
If there was a Greatest Set-Piece Team of All Time table, Martin O’Neill’s Celtic would sit top. Bobo Balde, Chris Sutton, Joos Valgaeren, Johan Mjallby and John Hartson were five absolute mountains. Defenders seldom knew who to cover. As a consequence, Henrik Larsson did as much damage in the air as any of them.
Football has changed greatly in the years since that team rose to prominence, it was a thing of its time, but defending and attacking at set-pieces requires the same core attributes.
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BIG WAVY-honestly didn’t even switch over to see how it was going and didn’t know final score till this morning.Hopefully no Celtic player injured.
BIG WAVY on 5TH SEPTEMBER 2020 11:04 AM
It’s since foreign players started playing in domestic leagues.
Used to be that the only time you saw how other countries approached the game was European games or internationals. Also back then the best international sides were better than the best club sides. That’s no longer the case. The likes of PSG, Bayern, Barca could comfortably beat most international sides.
CORKCELT on 5TH SEPTEMBER 2020 11:10 AM
Started with the referndum. Influx of SNP hack shills. Most left straight after but a few stayed.
Nationalism is divisive. Who knew?
Guys please dont take breaks.
I love reading your non political posts.
I cannot stand reading the posts about politics either, to me they are moronic. Which is why I never read anything now from certain posters, in fact I know it’s wrong but I take a wee bit of pleasure when people more educated than me pull these political bully’s up.
But that’s only my opinion.
Hail Hail and on we go to 10IAR
D :)
Big Jimmy – I hope you are well, we will meet up soon my friend in the shipbank if you are still up for it. Probably a couple of weeks as I have been really busy with work etc.
BRRB – John I hope you are well to sir not seen a post from the Star bar lately.
Hail Hail Bhoys
D :)
Corkcelt
This blog has had a multitude of of political posts since 2013 and the the start of the Indyref campaign.
They have mainly been in favour of one side only – Celtic supporters & Celtic FC are NOT of one political mind, however much you may believe they are.
My posts are fair and quote facts & figures in the public domain – they are there to be challenged – but to date no one has. The only feedback has been snide remarks, insults & very personal & vindictive attacks.
You and others would like me banned because you don’t agree with me – that says more about you than me.
Last night’s disgraceful scenes at Hampden Park illustrate that football, or, any top-level sport does not exist in a vacuum, free from political influence & interference.
Democracy means having the right to speak your mind, in a respectful manner, without fear, nor, favour – I would hope you subscribe to that – sadly there are some on here who don’t.
JHB @ 10.31
Your thoughts and viewpoints are part of the reason the Lab Party in Scotland is in the mess it is in.
You seem to be socially conservative / believe what the Forger’s Gazette tells you.
You seem to have too much time for right wing economics / kitchen table conservatism.
You seem to have doubts over the future and so we cut back rather than re-invigorate.
You seem to have issues with JC on the basis that he is a “Commie” …
You seem to want a left wing party as long as it is not left wing …
I would suggest that you are not the future of left wing politics you are the reason for its failure — holding on to a past that was incomplete instead of moving forward to meet new challenges head on.
The free lunch comment — I can only offer the analogy of SN in 2005 to show that a free lunch is both possible and desirable. If we had bought him 2 weeks earlier then he would have been available for the AMB game and the rest they say could have been a CL campaign instead of an embarrassment.
Timing is everything — as the bar convenor for a small egg chasing establishment thoughts on improvement over the coming summer crystallised on some garden furniture for a beer garden — all well and good until some bright spark piped up that we would get it cheaper if we waited for the B+Q sale in September …
He was not laughed out of the room — too many thought that was the way forward.
Fiscal conservatism / fear of debt is a curse that effects too many in WCS — PL plays it well.
As for your thoughts on the NHS — you are welcome to them but please don’t play them as progressive.
You are heading into the region of health gymnastics — excess payments / co-pays / entrance fees.
This is the place where the sick person pays more than the healthy person.
Where a person under health pressures takes on financial pressures as well.
Consequently that is a big no from me.
The NHS desperately needs reform but be very aware that the currant clamour for a UK insurance scheme is based on low emergency cover for the plebs and enhanced facilities for the top 20% — back to future as we head back to 1935.
Now where is the original CB post — 26 county “Christian democracy” is the spawn of the small devil.
Especially when it is based on tax gymnastics for US multi-nationals who want the world to be a company shop.
ernie lynch
Ernie, that was the way it was being reported early doors..
Not sure which UEFA rule applies here.
melbourne mick
It’s the way Gene tells them…
Big Wavy @ 11:04 – interesting.
I don’t actually hate it nor do I question my wider love of football.
Fairhill Bhoy nailed it.
My interest rarely extends beyond hoping the Celtic players avoid injury.
On rare occasions, I ponder how a national association which has treated our club so disgracefully over the years has the temerity to then rely on our players to a greater extent than those of any other club?
Hail hail
Keep The Faith
uefa says scotland game on monday is now on??
BIG WAVY-the same Andrew Dallas,who was dropped not long ago from UEFA list,(we all know how he got on it),for being incompetent and miles out his depth, gets 2 Celtic games in a couple of weeks?
Dallas and his ilk remind me of Elliot Ness.
Really disappointed with some of the overnight comments. Bandwagon ganging up. Not the Celtic way… This blog when it’s good is great; when it’s bad it’s depressingly bad.
Or that paint shop doon the Gallowgate…….
CB @ 2.45’ish
Interesting stuff about uni fees — it is a tangled web.
One quick question — if it is free in the 26 counties what stops students from England crossing over in their droves? One of the big fails with the Nats is the number of places that were being taken up by EU students in some courses which pushed local students into colleges.
Higher education growth — 70’s talk / 80’s action.
The Mech Eng class at “Bearsden Tech” doubled in the space of a year.
This was on top of the huge expansion — bigger in England than Scotland I think — in the 60’s.
However as you say Thatcher salami sliced student support from the off.
PIT numbers — England 1990 = from memory 20% in Unis / 10% in polys.
Fees = Trad e off in the DoE.
Expansion of nursery education — JM and his plans for universal part time places for 3 and 4 year olds.Had to be found from existing budgets so uni fees were introduced.
TB wanted 50% making it into higher education.
Scotland made it first / quite easily because of the HNC / HND’s in the colleges.
We are going to need our brains in the future so count me in.
Delivery has been made more complicated as the thick end of the middle and upper middle class now go to uni rather than hiding in the attic / explore the Amazon / live in a yurt in Findhorn.
2010 — for Education all the cuts were shifted onto students and the £9K fees that lit up the eyes of every Uni management type / pushy prof in the land — no more Mini Metros / 5 Series all round.
The only trouble is that the debt numbers are horrendous to the point that they are starting to influence the shape and direction of the economy plus the interest rates are a disgrace to a civilised country — and APR of 3% plus CPI is just taking advantage of a young person’s desire to make the most of their life. There has to be a better way but a graduate tax is a complete no-no to BoJo and his pals.
A debt of £50K plus is chicken feed to him — 4 months of Torygraph scribbling.
if we had a GT of 2 or 3% he would be paying that all his working life. And at the rate he hoovers up jobs and contracts that would be real money not the cost of a Chelsea Chariot.
The fact that so many will not pay it all back is just more evidence of the shambles it has become.
Consequently JC was right to offer free tuition with the tax base to support it.
The Nats are just giving out middle class welfare — paid for by school students in the main.
One reason I want progressive politics and not slogans.
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Nights are fair drawing in
MADMITCH
I thank you for your reply.
How refreshing to have a carefully considered rebuttal of an earlier post – of course I don’t agree with all you say, however I concede it is your principled view & I respect it.
I would come back on only one thing if you don’t mind – that of the future of left-wing politics. To address this we have too look at the past.
Labour for all its faults, won all the great socialist battles of the 20th Century, and carried on the good work into the 21st with the Minimum Wage & Tax Credits, surely one of the most effective wealth distribution policies ever enacted by a UK government. There are many people/families the length & breadth of the country that could not make ends meet were it not for this entitlement.
However to do anything for the working class and the poorest in society, you must get into to power. This means you must be a party that appeals not only to your core vote but to many others. Corbyn had no chance to win power – he conned his supporters in the country and betrayed the working class with his ‘pie in the sky’ manifesto. He and his cohorts had no intention of winning – it would have ‘cramped their style’. To govern you need to make hard decisions – Corbyn & co have never made a hard decision in their lives. They sweet-talk people for their votes which enables their millionaire lifestyle – never has the label “champagne socialist” been more appropriate than when stuck on Corbyn, McDonnell, Abbott, Milne & McCluskey.
Labour has only managed to achieve power on a very few occasions and have only governed for around 30 years in total, during which it has made an enormous difference to the lives, life-chances & aspirations, of multi-millions of ordinary people in the UK – that makes me proud.
Unfortunately the Scotland game on Monday is back ON
Going out for dinner tonight with my good lady.
First night out since mid March.
Soooooooooooo looking forward to my first pint in almost six months.
Canny wait!
Philbhoy – enjoy🍺🍻🍾
Bada – 😂😂😂
D :)
Back to the football — Scotland were very poor last night.
No wonder LD want’s to play for Scotland — we do not have roo bars over here.
Ribbit in the headlamps at times.
The team had 6 MF’s in it — 7 if you count AR as a WB.
Plus we had JF filling a jersey to no great effect.
SMcT = If he played for any other team than ManU he would have been watching the game on the TV.
RJ = looks tidy then he looks lost then he looks hopeless — only playing to keep the TFOd2 fans interested.
CMcG = Given half a job and delivered 50% so no surprise there then.
JMcG = Another one given half a job which left gaps elsewhere.
RC = Showed some good touches when he managed to climb out of NB’s back pocket.
AR = Crowded out by other Scottish players.
JF = He was more of a danger to JMcG than the opposition.
Nothing came through the middle.
Israel looked a more complete team — pretty tidy.
We were like the wolf in the “TLPs” — all huff and puff but little end product.
Seemingly we had a good start but ran out of steam and they grew into the game when they worked that all we had was blood / sweat / tears and no class.
Big issue that our players did so little.
DAVID66
Cheers mate!
Quite excited.
PHILBHOY-have a nice night 🍺🍷🍽
jHB on 5TH SEPTEMBER 2020 12:18 PM
Which parts of the Labour Party manifesto were ‘pie in the sky’?
FAIRHILL BHOY
Thanks too!
Got a £60 gift voucher to spend so canny go wrong!
Take care!
Philbhoy 60 quid on drink is a good start😂🍺
D :)
PHILBHOY- enjoy
DAVID66
Aye, I remember the days!
3 pints now and I’m embdys!
Ernie Lynch
Nationalisation for a start – that ship (train, bus, gas, electric, water…etc) has sailed. The majority of voters are not only uninterested, they vehemently oppose – it is a guaranteed election loser – that’s why it was included.
!!BADA BING!!
Cheers!
Philbhoy
See after that first pint and yir heid starts spinning,don’t be giving your good lady a showing up .
Enjoy :O)
JHB @ 12.18
We are all Champaign socialists now — less of the self loathing / less of the Forger’s Gazette headlines.
Local Co-op — full of single malts / funny foreign food / Champaign / bits of cow that are not mince or sausages.
It shows that the majority / middle of society in a fairly blue collar / working class town have moved on from the diet of their grandparents. Some sort of progress and it should be celebrated rather than disowned.
2015 — I rated EM but he was not comfortable in his own skin and could only react to the ConDemNation narrative rather than develop his own.
2017 — I didn’t / don’t rate JC but he was his own man and his introduction of new ideas broke the mould of what we thought was possible and what would energise the electorate.
2019 — JC phoned it in and the manifesto was 20 years work not the 10 that we needed. Highlighted the main driver of progressive politics going forward — the ability to build credible narrative and the ability to say no so that limited resources can be focused and the path forward made readily visible to the electorate.
Unfortunately it was the Brexit election and as is the norm in these troubling times the desire for a simple solution based on the blame of others trumps reason — sounds familiar in Scotland 2020?
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18698719.opinion-kevin-mackenna-reason-catholic-voters-support-independence-dont-take-granted/
VOGUEPUNTER
That’s always the worry!
JHB on 5TH SEPTEMBER 2020 12:37 PM
So why did the pollsters find that the policies were popular with voters?
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2019/01/09/eurotrack-corbyns-policies-popular-europe-and-uk
Posters are suggesting that you are some sort of troll or false flag eejit. I can see why they are suspicious of you. The views and opinions you purport to hold seem contrived and inconsistent.
Having said that, there are plenty of genuine Celtic fans with some bizarre beliefs.
JHB @ 12.37
Nationalisation you say — not a vote winner?
I fear that CoViD19 will change that narrative pretty damn quick.
2019 Nationalistion @ JC = He was a bit of a Mystic Meg on this.
Train operations = now under state control.
Shipbuilding = Nationalised in Scotland / heavy RN involvement elsewhere.
Bus industry = crying out for state help just now.
Gas = Desperately needs more state engagement / more storage.
Electricity = Heavy government direction / government support of new Nuclear.
Water = State owned in Scotland but badly run / boring utility in England so will probably drift back.
My thoughts on this are a mixed system to keep both kinds of rascals under control.