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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antrimkev – I would have loved for us to win yesterday too.
But I do have a sense of “what’s for ye won’t go by ye” about this.
My grandmother always used to say to anybody who was upset when the town was overrun by the Orange Walk: “let them have their day and don’t let them get to you”. Yesterday was their day. All that tub-thumping and flag waving, all that sound and fury, signified nothing.
We’ll get what we deserve in the end: the league title, and maybe the Scottish Cup.
They’ll get what they deserve too. (thumbsup)
gordybhoy64 – 64 thumbs up to you.
(thumbsup) x 64
Jabba is quiet cos his heid is stuck firmly up Sir`s ears (anag)
Disappointing day yesterday (for the second week).
We all know that we always needs to play against ’14 men’ on these occasions. While it is very interesting to speculate if it was a foul or not or a goal scoring opportunity we are air brushing the main point of discussion this morning which is the ‘non-appearance’ of too many of our players on another big occasion.
We never looked like winning that game yesterday up to the time Cha was sent off as in most parts of the field we were not at the races. I understand that this is a ‘young team’ but it keeps producing displays like this when it comes to the crunch. It is becoming a habit and we need to address it.
Perhaps NL and his back room staff have to take some responsibility by chopping and changing the formation and playing people out of position too often especially in big games. We seem to be slow starters in these games is this because players take time to get accustomed to their roles which hands the initiative to the other team.
It could be the personal the midfield in particular has too many of the same type of central midfielder. Someone mentioned that we were ‘ordinary’ yesterday but we were beaten by a very ordinary side who once we started to play too late in the game were torn to shreds.
We are the Champions-elect we should have gone there yesterday and shown that but instead we looked like we were frightened of the occasion. We should have been fired up to take the game to them but all too often in these fixtures we sit back and let them take the game to us. If this is our tactic it is not working and Neil needs to sort it out. Either by instilling some fire into the team or bringing in some people that have that fire. Too many players turned up to go through the motions yesterday. If they are not mentally tough enough them we need to sort that because if they cannot stand the heat then they should not be there.
Neil himself needs to also take some reflection on his actions. He knows that officials especially after his comments last week will be gunning for him. He knows from experience it is not a level playing field and speaking to the officials is going to have not effect. We were 1-0 and a man down his job at that point was to get into the dressing room and get the team and tactics ready for the second half. It is pointless getting sent to the stand at half time as what ever is a said is not going to change what’s happened. Do not give them an excuse.
More importantly Neil needs to reflect on team selections and preparation for important games. Non appearance/performance in important must win games is happening too often to say it is just a bad day in the office. It seems strange because as players Neil, Alan and Johann were always up for it. Perhaps our preparation is to low key and laid back for these occasions. Whatever it is we need to change the mind set.
Sixteen roads to Golgotha on 26 March, 2012 at 14:02 said:
Maybe you’re right but I just can’t see it.
I think we need to be careful of paper talk – was £6.5m really offered for Hooper? I’m not so sure if I’m being honest.
£3.5m for Stokesy? I think we’d be lucky to get £2m.
Only my opinion and isn’t an indication of their value to Celtic mate, only what I think we could 3expect to achieve on the transfer market.
philvisreturns on 26 March, 2012 at 14:05 said
thumbsup mate – the last 2 weeks have been rnagers best results this season – that tells me they know that its nearly over for them.
Deekbhoy,have to say i think in the 20 mins between the first goal
and the sending off we were the better team
Is it the dissappointment of not winning the league at the bigotdome or the annoyance at not winning the last ever old firm game that is grating the most?
hamiltontim on 26 March, 2012 at 14:08 said:
I suppose so.It’s all speculation.I hope Southampton gain promotion to the EPL,then they will almost certainly return with an increased offer for Hooper.£6-7million is not an outrageous valuation of the said player.Commons is also a player that they are thought to be interested in signing.
starry plough @14 04.
” I watched it with a neutral Swiss mate ”
I watched it with an [ in his 80s ] Inter supporter. He was astonished at the treatment given to Samaras . He was astounded of forehead that The Ref seemed to think it was within the Rules of the Game for a player to be assaulted for 90 plus minutes…
gordybhoy64
From a respected poster on RTC
Paulie, I can confirm that your assumption is 100% factually correct for both the pension fund and Merchant Turnaround. Letters of comfort were issued by Gary Withey giving an assurance that the money was held in a designated account, available and held to the instructions of the respective parties when, in fact, it was the same pot for both. More than a bit naughty. He also gave undertakings from CB that they held £9.5m to implement the SPA terms re £5m for players, £1.7m for improvements and the small tax bill. No such funds were held. More than more than a bit naughty. The administrators are going for that under the PI liability.
The £3.6m is still being held by Taylor Wessing, solicitors for the administrators, but only as stakeholders (no-one wants it passed back to CB) but it is now a bit irrelevant. The case brought by the Administrators has been dropped, they are no longer claiming that money. A new case, excluding the administrators, has been started to work out who should get the £3.6m but it’s a bit of a side issue. The real point is that CB will have to pick up payment for all of the sums originally deposited under their PI liability and will have to top up any money due over and above the money previously held by them. The High Court (Chancery) has fixed 16th April as a date for lodging new claims but these will just be a repeat of the previous case. I don’t expect it will get that far, CB’s lawyers, Clyde & Co will possibly have settlement offers being sent by now given that Withery’s actions have laid CB open to unanswerable claims.
In short, no £3.6m to administrators but they may get much more on the PI claim
Glasgow Celtic F. C. May 23 1931 – June 30 1931. 8 wins, 1 draw, 3 losses
Roster: William Cook, Denis Currie, Charles Geatons, William Hughes, Joe McGhee, James McGrory, Peter McGonigle, James McStay, John Morrison, Charles Napier, Peter Scarff, Hugh Smith, Alex Thompson, John Thompson, Robert Thompson, Robert Whitelaw, Peter Wilson. Manager: William Maley, Trainer William Quinn, Directors Tom White, John McKillop, James Kelly. During the game against Montreal Carsteel, Peter Scarff scored five goals while wearing a green dress shirt (there weren’t enough kits to go around!)
5/23 Glasgow Celtic 6, East Penn & District 1 (at Philadelphia, PA)
5/24 Glasgow Celtic 3, New York Giants 2 (att: 30,000 at Polo Grounds, New York City)
5/30 New York Yankees 4, Glasgow Celtic 3 (att: 8,000 at Fenway Park, Boston, MA)
5/31 Fall River F. C. 1, Glasgow Celtic 0 (att: 7,000 at Mark’s Stadium, Tiverton, RI)
6/6 Pawtucket 3, Glasgow Celtic 1 (at Pawtucket, RI)
6/7 Glasgow Celtic 5, Brooklyn Wanderers 0 (att: 10,000, at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, NY)
6/13 Glasgow Celtic 7, Carsteels 0 (at Montreal, Que., CANADA)
6/14 Glasgow Celtic 1, Hakoah All-Stars 1 (att: 20,000, at Polo Grounds, New York City)
6/21 Glasgow Celtic 6, Bricklayers 3 (at Chicago, IL)
6/27 Glasgow Celtic 3, Ulster United 1 (at Toronto, ON, CANADA)
6/28 Glasgow Celtic 4, New York Yankees 1 (att: 10,000, at Yankee Stadium, New York City)
6/30 Glasgow Celtic 4, Canton S. C. 1 (at Baltimore, MD)
Scarff, dress, shirt ?
And Pawtucket were actually Pawtucket Rangers which is similar to what I call the G51 tax swervers
TMWTL, cheers for that,
HT
Again we agree.
Yet that winning mentality/bottle was not there with those very same players, and I’ll add more experienced players, on the days I mentioned.
We will be let down again. Ironically that’s what makes the victories all the more pleasurable.
Celtic Support. Otherwise known as gluttons for punishment. :-)) But we’ll be back for more.
MWD
deekbhoy on 26 March, 2012 at 14:07 said:
Neil himself needs to also take some reflection on his actions. He knows that officials especially after his comments last week will be gunning for him. He knows from experience it is not a level playing field and speaking to the officials is going to have not effect. We were 1-0 and a man down his job at that point was to get into the dressing room and get the team and tactics ready for the second half. It is pointless getting sent to the stand at half time as what ever is a said is not going to change what’s happened. Do not give them an excuse.
What did Neil Lennon do so wrong to get sent to the stand? He questioned a blatant decison that cost us any chance of getting back into the game. I thought a manager was allowed to speak to a ref.
Secondly we have had a bad month but people who are saying we have not won big games only have to look at the winning run we were on. Winning at Motherwell with 6 mins left. Beating them at Celtic Park on Dec 28th. StMirren in terrible conditions. Unfortunately we have not got a god given right to win them all. Just one more push over the line and then the title is ours :)
I like the headlines from the Polish press. Sport.pl “Bankrupts dramatic win”
zczuba.pl “Glasgow Derby for bankrupts”
deekbhoy,
Honesty like that makes you a hun, didn’t you know ?
Neil Lennon had appeared to have made considerable progress in the ‘keeping it buttoned’ department but recently that seems to have stalled. When he blows up it’s a game he just can’t win. Anyone who has played football at any level knows that you criticise the ref at your peril. It’s nothing to do with their religion ( or otherwise ), it’s just basic human nature. Take ’em on. Go home with nothing.
Has anyone at Parkhead got anything between their ears ?
Honest Tim
You are a comic genius.
Aye, some billionaire will buy rangers because they scrape by 9 men with the refs help. Their Third World level of debt will just be forgotten about.
Hector says hi! :0)
Honest Tim what has parkhead got to do with Neil Lennon?
If R@ngers can’t find a philanthropic Billionaire to rescue them I think they should place an ad for a fairy godmother. Or maybe a genie in a bottle?
Honest Tim on 26 March, 2012 at 13:55 said:
”So many on here in complete self-denial.”
We would have won that game if the referee wasn’t Scottish.
You, and those like you, know it.
Just been thinking will Celtic bill the huns in advance for seat damage for the next game against them at Celtic park? And if they refuse to pay then refuse to allocate away tickets?
Lenny doesn’t know what he got sent off for as the referee hid from him till he got his ‘story’ straight
This all sounds very familiar doesn’t it?
SSN has stuart dougall crawling from under his stone to comment on yesterday’s game. I’ve no doubt it will be another impartial, well balanced point of view from the former ref and now media rent-a-quote on all things anti-Celtic when a referee is questioned.
A well known antipodean malcontent posted during the night shift that seeing a particular current player wearing the hoops made him vomit. Most of you will guess who the poster was, but anyway in my reposte I nominated a few other vomit worthy moments. One of which was McMoists expression when his mob scored.
If you can bare to look at it, this is a link to the BBC article which features his expression in all its ugliness. Compare this expression his smug “to camera” handshake of Celtic players in the tunnel. No wonder some wouldn’t shake his hand.
Liquidiser set to termination level please.
HH
South Of Tunis on 26 March, 2012 at 14:15 said:
Exactly, my mate actually said after the game
“You don’t have football in your country, it looks the same as our game but it’s not!!”
I’m sick of it to be honest, sick of ref stories, sick of huns, sick of Jabba sick of hearing about their whole sorry mess and I include the SFA in this too.
When the dance is over there’s gonna be a lot of sad and lonely clowns crying into their beer.
I want to enjoy this season as it has been one of the greatest I have seen in the sheer scale of the task undertaken by Neil and his Young Lions.
This title will be one of the sweetest of all time and I can’t wait!!
Unbowed and Unbeaten Celtic FC Champions.
Starry
No7@14:26
If the BTC judgement is delivered next month as predicted, it is highly unlikely there will be another derby this season
Just had a look back at the 2-2 at ibrokes last season, to confirm what I already knew.
The ref that day who awarded the huns thier pen and sent off big FF even though naismith had kick the ball away from goal and OUT the park, also DM was covering the near post so it was at no point a goal scoring chance.Never mind an obvious goal scoring chance .Was mr murray.
Seems murray gets abit excited when the huns gets within 25yrds of the Celtic goal and just starts throwing red cards about to any Celt who even dares to touch a hun.
This guy has lots of previous regarding rash decisions against us and letting the huns do what ever they want.
Someone earlier mentioned spit being sent off in the replay last year.At full time as I left my seat i seen spit approach murray mouthing off and applauding.I said to the wife to watch.It took murray to the 3rd time spit had walked away before returning to shout abuse and clap in murrays face before he sent him off.
Like yesterday with bocanegra, murray tried everything and as hard as he could not to send spit off that night.What then happened at Hampden afterwards was no surprise.The huns needed these players to win the league or they would be dead by now.The sfa and murray knew this no suspensions could be given, hence the stich up.Remember last season the myth told everyone pre-season, he feared injuries and SUSPENSIONS more than Celtic.
Zbyszek on 26 March, 2012 at 14:21 said:
‘Bankrupts’…love it!
Yesterday was hard to take. Level playing field (of dreams)
One noticeable element to our early play was the tendency to allow them to dictate. One of Barcelona’s (I know, I know) greatest traits is their work off the ball.
It’s theirs and always will be so geez it back ya dobbers! (in Catalan) is their ethos.
It only became ours in the latter stages of the game.
Honest Tim on 26 March, 2012 at 13:55:
“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.”
Ha Ha Ha Ha – comedy gold.
Who do you think you are, David Leggat?
Some of you guys on here – whit you like ?
Paul should re-name site Tims In Denial.
WE blew it. NL blew it. His team ( with the exception of Kris Commons who will probably be gone in the summer, thanks Neil ) blew it.
Go back to your homes and prepare for a struggle against St.Johnstone.
The fun never ends.
Ten Men Won The League on 26 March, 2012 at 14:32:
“If the BTC judgement is delivered next month as predicted, it is highly unlikely there will be another derby this season”
Doesn’t the liquidation process take 28 days?
Message intercepted from Singapore to Bakhsh Group, Glasgow:
With Referees like that, we’ll save a fortune on first Team players.
Refactor model with Total Wages £4.5M per annum, plus £1M ‘Hospitality Exps’ as Direct costs.
Honest tim,did you enjoy waving your wee £2 flag yesterday
MWD
I won’t.
I’m starting a boycott dontcha know!!! :-)))
Can we keep him please please he’s funnier than Declan…
Rolls shoulders and plays wee toy keyboard….
steinreignedsupreme
Doesn’t the liquidation process take 28 days
Aw man. Does that mean i’m going to be drunk 28 days in a row? :)