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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twists n turns on 26 March, 2012 at 13:23 said:
I was sitting not far from Roddy. That was my initial reaction also.
Anyone who thinks Calum Murray is his own man only needs to look back to the shame game where only one side shamed.
What a remarkable turn of events between the dismissal of three ragers players and what transpired at their ‘hearing’.
Calum Murray is an employee of the SFA. Like all good employees he will follow instructions.
hamiltontim – it speaks to her kind-hearted nature that she’d put up with me (thumbsup)
hamiltontim. Fella you make some good points but I dont think getting on Lennie or the teams case is going to be helpfull.I am sure they know they have let themselves and the fans down imo this a time for the support to stand up and sing and cheer the Bhoys over the line.The deep thinking and any changes needed should be the agenda for the close season..H.H.
still feel gutted this morning
anno i shouldnt as the league is wrapped up and the double is still on
but that team yesterday had the chance to be legends, to be talked off in the same breath as the 1967 team that did it with a Jinky left foot screamer
i hope they feel as gutted as i do today, the chance will never come again
I meant to say, Alex Thomson now being labelled an IRA sympathiser by the hordes.
So glad they are making personal with this guy, as I am sure Alex Thomson does not do walking away…
JFH
Mate I will ‘stand up and sing and cheer the Bhoys over the line’ and I’ll be there every week until this season is finished. Oh and I’ll be there every week next season also but I’m so, so disappointed and angry at the last two performances.
Yes Murray contributed to our downfall yesterday but that only tells part of this long saga.
Honest Tim Celtic have only lost one big game this season against Killie in the cup. And as Killie have shown by pumping the huns twice and drawing with Celtic they are very capable on their day.
Joe Fillipis Haircut@13:39
The team also let us down at Hampden the Sunday before
We thought there would be a reaction yesterday
There wasn’t. We didn’t kick a ball until we were 1 down. There was a distinct lack of fight in the team (with one or two exceptions) from the off
March was an awful month for us apart from Tannadice (where again we were poor). Lets hope the players + Lenny bring us a better April/May
I think that we should be looking forward to next season,and the CL qualifiers in particular.
Which players stay and who goes?
Personally speaking,I would sell Hooper & Stokesy,and buy a brace of pacey,skillful strikers from the continent.The club can easily fetch a combined fee of £10million for both of our main strikers,this money generated should be re-invested,as the £ goes a lot further in the European market.
This is our reality,our perspective – this is what we have to look forward to – possible qualification to the group stages.
The huns have nothing.
Sixteen roads to Golgotha on 26 March, 2012 at 13:48 said:
£10m for Stokesy and Hooper, really?
antrimkev – Stating the obvious I know, but this team isn’t quite ready to become legends. The potential for greatness is there, but realising that potential will take a bit more time and experience.
If this were a superhero comic book or film, we’d still be in the origin story.
Think Smallville, or Iron Man when Tony Stark is building his Mk 1. suit in the cave.
We’ve come along way since Neil Lennon became manager, but more work is needed. (thumbsup)
Correct me if I am wrong but doesn’t intent have anything to do with a straight red card for a two-footed tackle?
TMWTL, i may be mistaken,but was it you who posted that duff and duffer
werent gonna claim the £3.6m on friday,if so where did you read it,if not sorry for the mistake
One cannot help but laugh at the hun posters during their fleeting appearances on the blog.
They post an outrageous statement like; “Samaras is the only Celtic player that would get into the R*angers side”,or “Celtic never win the big games”.Then when their tripe is deconstructed,they quickly disappear.
Imebciles.
RogueLeader on 26 March, 2012 at 13:25 said:
Agent Craig “Green and” Whyte!! – There was nothing like that in it. Just scenarios and then you are asked what you would do. I remember that one because I was surprised at the answer and the parallels between it and yesterday were huge.
Cheers.
I have always thought jersey pulling was set a in stone yellow card offence.Maybe because of match commentators always refering to it being a definite booking.
I still feel goians on Sammy was a definite booking although murray played advantage as Sammy, being honest unlike wallace, stayed on his feet.The advantage i couldn’t see as Sammy had no support and immediately lost the ball.The fact that murray didn’t go back and booked goian when play stopped is proof enough that its one rule for us and a free-for-all for them.
twists n turns……
I agree with the injury time scenario.
murray had been ‘advised’ last week that for the sake of safety on the streets of Scotland a hun win would help the keep alot of people out of hospitals.So when we had them on the rack and a really good chance of a draw from cert defeat.There would have carnage, Manchester in Glasgow.So he ‘forgot’ to apply the laws regarding subs and Rogne’s goal.He didn’t want to spoil his good day and his chance’s of the cup final.
On bocanegra’s red card.
My impression is he was consulting his assistant as to whether it was a goal scoring chance so was it a red card.We all noticed that with Cha and Vic his red card was out faster than the huns in cup competitions, with no need for his assistants opinion.Why not??
LET THE PEOPLE SING!!
She packed my bags,
Last night.
Pre-flight!
Zero hour.
9am… (thumbsup)
So many on here in complete self-denial.
Yet again, we failed to turn up when it really mattered and when the eyes of the world were upon us. From management down.
Lambasting the referee is clutching at straws. If we had been on our game, dictating play, we would have put the game way beyond the influence of any referee. We let Rangers take the initiative from the kick-off ( probably way before that ) and they never looked back. If you didn’t think things looked ominous after 5 minutes you weren’t watching. It wasn’t the referee who beat us. It was Rangers because we let them.
We managed to create a god-sent advertisement for Rangers in their efforts to sell the club. That’s what we did.
We may well have secured their future.
Think on that.
On the Cha red card, the magic word in the FIFA laws is “OBVIOUS”. Wallace was NOT denied an OBVIOUS goal scoring opportunity.
On the other hand, every foul on Messi should be a red card because obviously he is about to score !!
Lads any news on Kayal will he be back before end of season?? Would be great if he could get some spl bounce games in before (hopefully) the cup final.
Celtic v Rangers games, particularly when played at Ibrox, are not like normal football games, especially in the early stages. The referee usually plays a central role, as he did yesterday, as a result of the up-and-at-them style of the match and Rangers’ in-house tactic to “ask questions of the referee”. By the time the game settled down, Celtic were 1 behind and a man down.
Fortunately, we have likely just witnessed the last such game and can put this nonsense behind us. Anyone advocating Celtic go out of their way to recruit players specifically targeted at this cross between football and UFC has lost their marbles.
PS. Celtic already have a midfield enforcer. He’s called Beram Kayal and he watched the match yesterday on the telly after being on the receiving end of an airborne, straight-legged lunge that went unpunished the last time the sides met.
Anyone think the review panel will look at Big Vics tackle again and spot Whittaker attempting to do Vic? Even before Vic has shown studs Whittaker is going for the `break`
Honest Tim, who is/are this `we` you refer to?
philvisreturns on 26 March, 2012 at 13:52 said:
agree with all that mate, maybe i forget that they are such a young team still growing up in front of us and yesterday was another learning curve for the likes of Vic
but we will never get another chance of winning the league there, that was our last chance at it and we fluffed it
anyway on to next week and the rest of the season and next season
rangers can only look out for each day, liquidation is nigh
Sixteen Roads To Golgotha
Ten million quid for Stokes and Hooper ?
Yes -please !
BobbyRussell on 26 March, 2012 at 13:57 said:
No.
We should not play 4-5-1 against any team in this league.We cant play that formation properly i.e get support to the striker quickly.We look like a team of strangers when we play it.Play our normal 4-4-2 and let the opposition worry about us.
Honest Tim – So many on here in complete self-denial.
No I’m not.
We managed to create a god-sent advertisement for Rangers in their efforts to sell the club. That’s what we did.
We may well have secured their future.
I bet there are billionaires and consortia a-plenty out there who weren’t going to buy the huns on account of their massive liabilities, limited potential for seeing a return on their investment, and all the fun and games that people like Craig Whyte and, to considerably a lesser extent, Sir David Murray, had to put up with when they don’t/can’t bankroll the bears’ dreams.
But, after seeing them win a match against nine men, all that will be forgotten by wealthy would-be investors and the only question on their lips today will be “please will you take my money?”.
Aint no thinking like wishful thinking.
(thumbsup)
Honest Tim ….. What a fud you are, or a thinly disguised bun……..? I suppose you think we should just take all the shoite, like good little timmies ….
This is a rehash of Honest `Tims¬ post in the words he really means….
Honest Tim on 26 March, 2012 at 13:55 said:
So many on here in complete self-denial.
Yet again, you failed to turn up when it really mattered and when the eyes of the world were upon yoiu. From management down.
Lambasting the referee is clutching at straws. If you had been on your game, dictating play, you would have put the game way beyond the influence of any referee. You let Rangers take the initiative from the kick-off ( probably way before that ) and we never looked back. If you didn’t think things looked ominous after 5 minutes you weren’t watching. It wasn’t the referee who beat you. It was Rangers because you let them.
You managed to create a god-sent advertisement for Rangers in their efforts to sell the club. That’s what you did.
You may well have secured their future.
Think on that.
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Honest Tim at 11 v 11 and even 1-0 down Celtic where back in the game forcing mcgregor into saves. If the ref hadnt sent cha off we would have been in for an open exciting game. Wallace dived for the free kick as he knew he wasnt going to score.
hamiltontim on 26 March, 2012 at 13:52 said:
I think so my friend.
The club has already rejected a £6.5million bid for Hoops,from Southampton,during the January transfer window.
There was some interest in Stokesy as also.I believe his value to be somewhere in the region of £3.5million.
I wouldn’t have a bad word to say about either of them,they have both done well for the club.I just feel that we need to kick-on,to reach the group stages of the CL.
Celtic could easily generate £15million of extra revenue if we do make the group stages.
The Champion’s League is of the utmost importance.
Philvisreturns,i was going to reply to the honest one but you put it better than
i could,[thumbs up]
Did anyone else feel duped by yesterdays goings on ?
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Clubs must not be placed in a position where they are afraid to criticise bad ref decisions. Accountability & transparency must prevail
Not everyone follows the SFA party line.
All this talk of Cha’s sending off would not be happening had Murray applied the rules evenly, fairly and consisitently.
He is consistently the most inconsistent referee working, only Brines has a worse record but then again he just nuts in his application of the rules.
So to all those who defend the red card given to Cha, where was this strict adherence to the rules in other areas of the game.
It was nowhere, we know it the oinks know it and most of all the SFA know it.
Like all bullies the huns just can’t take it when the boot is on the other foot and the whole of the Scottish football machine bends over backwards to make sure they don’t get it shoved right up them especially by Celtic.
It was never going to be allowed to happen, I watched it with a neutral Swiss mate who said to me you have no chance to win this game with this ref!
Even he was shouting for cards as Sami got kicked the length of the midden..
So to all you lurking huns today what did you actually win yesterday?
Three points in a trophy less season led by the worst manager in living hun history and that’s before we start on your finances.
Good luck with your party about that today.
Well played Neil, call it where you see it..
I can’t wait to see your face when you lift the SPL trophy knowing that you beat them in a stacked game.
Starry
Disappointed with Ki’s performance having expected a big display. Yesterday’s game was the kind where we needed Kayal. With the exception of Broonie, I just felt our midfield never got going. Anyway, we move on! By the way, Jabba is awfully quiet this weather. What’s going on?
Honest Tim …. I actually hope you are bhun ……. When you ask us to “think on that” , you think on this…..
Why are they approaching liquidation………..??????????
I have an interest in the problem of evil. What it is (horns and fangs?), how it manifests itself, its effects, etc..
There is a pattern. A little incident which barely catches the attention, but menace is there….. Later, something more serious happens. People become frightened. The evil becomes overt. Courageous people then begin to organize themselves against it. Then the evil entity shows itself in all its terror, with all its power… before being struck down where it slithers back into the bowels of Hell from whence it came. Then peace – the natural order – is restored.
Most horror films follow that structure, maybe it taps into a human truth.
I saw yesterday’s ‘event’ as the final, public manifestation of everything that is base, corrupt, hate-filled and evil – its outing. It has had its day.
The darkest moment is just before the lights go out.
(Well, when there is no point in looking at a sporting event from a sporting point of view, my mind tends to drift off!!)