Despite a remarkably solid defensive record, we have lost four and three goals on our two visits to Ibrox this season, although two of yesterday’s goals were lost with a two man deficit. We were deservedly a goal down before Cha Du-Ri was ordered off and the contest irrevocably skewed. Several Celtic players looked panicked from the opening minutes and it wasn’t until Kris Commons started to menace the Rangers midfield that we appeared comfortable in possession.
Until then, we looked pretty ordinary.
After a remarkably consistent run of games that ensured this season’s league title is Celtic’s, two big games, which could each have delivered a trophy, have been lost.
The drive to the line which is needed for teams to fulfil their potential is not there yet. It will come. Days like yesterday, months like October, are what team building is all about.
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Joe Filippis Haircut @11 30
Happy as Larry ?——
Remember hearing an expert on Radio 4 claiming that Larry was an Australian prizefighter [ can’t remember his surname ] who won big big money in a fight and never had to fight again .
Remember too an English teacher at school stating that Larry was Lazarus
No.7
Fojut likes the tackles and is very strong in the air.
Izzy is a better left back than Matthews & Matthews is a better Right back than Cha.
The defence should be Matthews, Rogne, Mulgrew, Izzy. Play people where they are meant to play.
Rogue
Re Cha sending off.
Check out Zybszek’s posts yesterday evening. Very informative.
Greenjedi and The Honest Mistake – I know the rules of the game very well. He had passed Cha, Cha put his hand onto his shoulder. It was a slight touch but professional footballers are taught in that situation to go down. Looking at this at speed he would have been 1 on 1 with Forster and have an opportunity to shoot. Mulgrew was nowhere near being able to prevent the Rangers player shooting being level with him and 10 yards to his right. By the letter of the law he was denied a goal scoring opportunity.
Had that been Stokes going through and Whittaker pulled him down what would you have wanted to happen?
I know I would have been screaming for a red and I bet 99% of people here would have been the same.
Vinibhoy – Named Neil Lennon on his birth certificate
True but I don’t think so if we are honest. As someone said here last week Sutton was a flop at Chelsea, Flo a legend scoring a hat-trick v Barca. Who will look back on their career with the most satisfaction though and will be forever revered? As Greavsie said “Football’s a funny old game”
Cha should never have Been booked… In fact he should never have been playing!
rouge leader
cha du ri
That was never a foul
never a sending off
i think you are wrong
on this one,most definetly
Paul67, where do we go from here regarding what happened to Lenny?
Getting a nasty feeling that the fraudsters are feeling safe again with the tragic death of Paul McBride RIP, and with fraudsters i mean the SFA,Fleming and his henchmen.
One thing that is coming more apparent is our coaching staff need to go on some of these UEFA coaching courses.
We are a very disjointed team which never moves as a unit, there are always oceans of spaces between the defence,midfield and forwards.
We must rap this league up over the next two games as i want to see Lustig,Brozek and Rabin playing some games.
KTF bhoys, we were never getting to win the league yesterday.
Rangers coffin on way to Ibrox
Big Vic’s feet never left the ground- booking was right decision. Personally i thought it was a good fair mans tackle.
But then i didn’t think The Ledley tackle at Swinecastle last season was a sending off- so what the feck do i know?
Look guys, I am not advocating a heidless chicken. Robson and Harltey played hard but fair and that wasnt too long ago. Yes they will get carded now and again but the fight these players put up might give some back bone to the rest. Who apart from Sammi and Brownie was really up for the fight in that game yesterday. And gonnae gies us a break about referees. Its not all about them. We have won leagues in the past despite them. My old da told me that before TV it was a lot worse but we still won our fair share.
Izzy should have started. If you’re fit for the bench, you’re fit to play. Last time we put a right back at left back was when Cousin ran riot and stuffed us! Cha is a bombscare full stop and should be shipped out in the summer. matthews and Wilson M. are enough right backs never mind Lustig. Here’s the thing with Lenny he is too slow to introduce players. Lustig and Brozek are well settled in by now and should have had more game time. Does he not realise Brozek is only on loan? When’s he goiong to give him a run, pre season?
rangers had previously lost their last three matches at ibrox why oh why
did neil set up the squad like he did yesterday, by sending the team out in
that formation he showed fear and handed the initiative to rangers, he should have set up to go at them that would have showed that we were confident in our abilities,
i accept that the ref could not wait to brandish the reds but i cannot help but feel
we lost it before a ball was kicked with that formation
Guys I happened to see a test the ref’s all sat recently and one of the scenario’s was an almost carbon copy of what happened yesterday. That is why I knew right away what was going to happen. Just about all the ref’s got it wrong by the way in that test. A very high percentage gave an indirect free kick and a yellow card. They were all corrected regarding the denial of a goal scoring opportunity.
The main gripe i have with line up is that in evey spl game we should go with 2 strikers. Hooper wasnt 100% yesterday so stokes an brozek should have started.
Brotheraiden
I’m in no doubts we do t get fairness from Refs but I agree sometimes we need to look closer to home. Yesterday we blew it . Sammi apart the team were poor.
kitalba
good to see the tims
coming out in force
at the end of the
video
Voice of reason?
More like the drool infested ramblings of a crack fiend!
The Sending offs were both harsh, The game was lost in midfield For me the midfield of brown, Ki, Wanyama and ledley let us down badly, more like the celtic who started the season. Kayal and Commons would have been worthy additions
Ki, alias the man in the invisible cloak, was absolutely anonymous and I cant see why some fans think he is the greatest, and the other midfielders were sadly only very slightly better
Defensively we creaked until we crumbled and we had a forward line for about 30 mins only
RogueLeader on 26 March, 2012 at 10:52 said:
Can’t agree on the Cha sending off. By what rules of the game was it a sending off. It wasn’t a goal scoring chance . Both Forster and Mulgrew were as close to the ball as Wallace.
Celtic were a bit flat yesterday, however that shouldn’t take away from the game changing nature of a number of incorrect decisions made by Murray and his officials. All of which, every single one of them, favored Rangers
No.7 – I agree. We genuinely were in a consequence free environment yesterday which is rare for a derby game. I think Lenny should have went for it. Stokes and Brozek with Sammy joining them. I can see why Lenny tried the formation he did, to try and get and keep posession, but in my opinion he should have really went for it. Goain and Bocanegra could have been got at with the pace of those 3 up front
RogueLeader
The interpretation of the rule is subjective and as we all know you can have very prejudiced interpretations. I don’t think it was a denial of a goal scoring opportunity as opposed an affirmation of his application to the brotherhood by the referee; Just my prejudiced opinion of course.
We lost two goals yesterday and one last week as the result of getting caught with two many bodies up the park which is ok but not when you then give the ball away to the opposition.
Mattews bad pass behind Ki last week
Wanyama bad pass forward for first goal when Ch was moving upfield in support.
Matthews getting caught on a ball he should never have been given.
Either we get the passing right or our full backs play a bit deeper.
RogueLeader – agree with you ref red card for Cha.
Kit – Prejudiced? What is that supposed to mean
We dont need to sign hardmen,,,what we need is our players to pass the ball without fear,not to panic whenever a hun in a R*ngers top run towards,not to hoof the ball anywhere everytime we go to Ibrox!!
Far too many of our players were weak mentally yesterday,,yes they are young,but there age cant be used as an excuse forever!!!
Hail hail
FAO the pet hun
Pay your taxes .
When you club is liquidated me and every hoops fan will celebrate the end of you dirty bigoted club.
And when that’s done we will dance on your grave.
Havingapartywhenthehunsdiex.csc
tractorbhoy on 26 March, 2012 at 11:34 said:
tractorbhoy on 26 March, 2012 at 11:13 said:
Right bhoys this is my apology to Neil Francis Lennon and his coaching team.
When things were looking grim around October/ November last year, I called for our young manager to go.
I questioned Neil’s ability to run our club while he had his own personal battle with depression, a crippling illness of ones brain and from my own experience the most frightening experience of your life, whereby even the most simple everyday tasks are extremly difficult and where everything that goes on around you is wrapped in a dark cloud and you cannot function properly.
Neil I was completely wrong as you have had the courage and willpower to overcome all your own problems along with the death threats and still came out on top.
You are without doubt the greatest Celtic manager we have ever had.
People may say that is OTT, well they have never had to suffer depression and therefore cannot understand what it does to your brain and body.
Keep going Neil and take courage and strength from the history of people like Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandella, Ghandi and all the other great men and woman, Irish, Burmese, Palestinian and every other race who suffered bigotry and opression all of their lives and always spoke out against their triumphalist bigotted and racist governments that tried to keep them down, some of whom even lost their lives doing so.
God bless you Neil Francis Lennon and I do humbly apologise for doubting you, my mistake will never be repeated.
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Perhaps I am wrong but I thought the rule for a red card was it had to “clear” goal scoring opportunity. There was more phase of play that needed to happen before this was the situation.
As I said yesterday, never seen a red for that kind of thing before and I am confident I never will again.
barcabhoy – I am going by the FIFA test I saw.
FIFA are getting the refs away from this “last man” stuff they are all stuck in and into the “goalscoring opportunity”. The Rangers player was prevented from having the opportunity to shoot inside the box by a foul from Cha. If you look at the highlights again now you will see there is no way any other defender could have came across to prevent the shot.
That is a red card now.
We had a team that couldn’t tackle a fish supper out at Ibrox a few years back and the ref handed out 9 yellow cards!
Mike McCurrie, it was the he, the sinister minister, was on the same agenda as his fraternal brother Murray yesterday.
This talk about getting hard men etc is bollocks. Aiden only needed to look at Dougie MacDonald to get a red.
Prejudiced means that the charlatan playing referee couldn’t get the red card out quick enough.
I’m Neil Lennon (tamrabam) on 26 March, 2012 at 12:02 said:
Not to pick specifically on you but only the first 20 minutes of the game was lost in midfield.
We will never know if the game pattern would have swung our way (as has happened in both directions in previous encounters) as a result of Mr Murray’s strict interpretation of the rules. Would he have awarded a penalty last Sunday I wonder?
Once we go down to ten men not a lot can be concluded other than that it is harder to dominate with a man less than the oppostion.
On the bright side I thought both Izzy and Commons looked like they were finding some form.
Ibleedgreenandwhite
Totally agree. The two games we have played at Ibrokes this season we have not looked like ourselves at all. Contrast that with the draw in the cup there last season when we looked confident and fearless. The referee decided the outcome of yesterdays game, but there’s no doubt in my mind we didn’t handle the occasion well.
I finf it starnge that Ki always has a “bad” game when he has no targets to aim for. He plays in centre mid and looks for the through ball or the ball over the top, neither Samaras or Stokes offer this or have the pace or inclination over 5 yards to enable the threaded ball to be used.
His other option of course is either the overlapping fullback of the forward running midfielder, which yesterdays we had neither. He turns in circles makes a yard looks up for the pass and nobody has moved, sideways pass then has to happen.
Dyslexia rules KO
“I finf it starnge” = “I find it strange”
Auldheid – you are spot on and it is what I said earlier in my post. Strict interpretation. Many refs would still not have ruined the spectacle of the game by red carding somebody so early on. Particularly in a Glasgow derby.
But Murray chose to strictly interpret the rules…..