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  1. Connaire

     

    He is anything but, loves the money he makes from it and will do what is necessary to keep that coming, a sell out sold his soul.

  2. Garngad to Croy on

    Beale changed the game in our favor by bringing on Sands. Thanks Mick ! A lot of players to come and go in our team before Ange gets us to the level that he wants us to play.

  3. Their penalty was a penalty. No ball contact, but caught the conveniently positioned Sakala leg.

     

    Why the fugg a Pro defender like Carl slides in like that, with the game on a knife edge is a matter of concern.

     

    So many heads not in the game today.

     

    And yet we’re none the worse off, but shoulda been 12 clear if we hadn’t suddenly packed our pants.

  4. I’ll certainly take a draw. rangers were generally poor but Celtic were poor too. It’s as if our players didn’t realize that however poor rangers are they will still give you little time on the ball, can score from set pieces and the odd flourish if you give them a chance. Our passing was terrible at times, even matched theirs. We should have made the substitutions at half time.

     

     

    I won’t pretend to read JJ’s mind but it’s fair to say that he was really poor in everything he did. I don’t think he won a tackle. Completely lacking his usual vim and vigor.

     

     

    Have to say Calmac really did not exert any influence in the midfileld. It took Mooy to gain a bit more control of that.

     

     

    I think it’s a bit unfair to give GG 15 minutes here and there. He needs time to get into the game and for other players to realize there is a different kind of opportunity up front. But it was GG that created Kyogo’s goal out of nothing with his desire to contribute. I thought Kyogo was really poor but in the end he did score.

     

     

    Thought A. Johnson was good. Just why isn’t Bernabei playing at left back?

  5. Please Ange:

     

    No Forrest in OF games. Disappears.

     

    We have Left back. JJ is not him.

     

    Abada scares them. Play him.

     

    Start GG he causes them big probs.

     

    MOR needs dropped.

     

    Tell Hart, No fannying about.

  6. TURKEYBHOY – your line-up had JJ who’s either under the weather, or under the impression his big payday transfer is all but sealed; he should have been nowhere near the pitch either way.

     

     

    I thought AJ struggled with the atmos and pace early on and didnt link up with the MIA Jamesy F, but Alastair came onto a decent enough debut at a feral Greyskull.

     

     

    Daizen worked his wee nads off every second he was on the pitch. Cam is a bear of a bloke.

     

     

    2am here; nitol. HH

  7. Var pen decision against goldson is correct.

     

    I know because i walk about with my two hands up and in front

     

    of my chest all the time,so there!!!

  8. Back to Basics - Glass Half Full on

    Marginal calls going Sevco’s way

     

     

    Marginal calls going against us.

     

     

    Ridiculous decisions and non decisions also going against us.

     

     

    Credit to those on here who predicted VAR would be like this (I wasn’t one of them)

  9. Garngad to Croy on

    “They are not Robots” It is a fair point Ange! To go away to Aberdeen, Hibs, and Rangers and be 9 points clear is a fantastic level of performance and we should not be too harsh on the Bhoys today. Well done Celtic

  10. TURKEYBHOY – correct. If JJ was fit to play then start him on the right. If GT is injured, you bring on Bernabei.

     

    Mooy should have started. He is on form, MOR is not.

     

    Abada should have started. No one on here would start JF at Ibrox.

     

     

    Ange got it wrong as far as I am concerned.

  11. Melbourne Mick on

    Would have taken a point before the game today, so reasonably

     

    happy.

     

    We certainly lost our momentum after a decent first half, but the

     

    hun pushed us further up the park second half, and Starcelt who

     

    I thought was winning most tackles, headers etc, couldn’t get the

     

    ball away quick enough, being caught in possession multiple

     

    times.

     

    Jura was a mile off it today, think he needs to get his future sorted

     

    quickly.

     

    CCV …Just wow ! what a rock.

     

    Still 9 and der hun is scunnered, can’t be bad 🤣

     

    H H. Mick

  12. That was a terrific result under very difficult conditions. One full-back making his debut and one just off the plane after being gone a month. Hostile crowd on the players backs for the duration of the game. Somehow the bhoys managed to dig in and come out with our 9 point lead intact. Couldn’t be more proud of this group of players. CCV and Starfelt were immense. Our bench made the difference, especially Mooy – this guy looks like a steal. Well done Ange on making the changes that got us a goal. Leaving 2 through the middle was a masterstroke.

     

     

    This will feel like a defeat for thems. Totally deflated after putting in what was probably their strongest performance of the season in a must win game.

     

     

    That’s why we’re champions!

  13. on their blogs ,

     

     

    they blame beales substitues as costing them the win.

     

     

    and that ange has the stronger bench, and if selects thew wrong starting 11, is able to correct it.

     

     

    quite funny.

  14. Collum absolutely shattered the bed for that Goldson handball. Nailed on pen. Ridiculous decision, again.

  15. Our desire to see our team do well and our worry that they won`t, is encapsulated in these three posts :

     

     

    “DAVID17 on 2ND JANUARY 2023 2:14 PM

     

    They have this exactly where they want it. Game is over.

     

     

    LEFTCLICKTIC on 2ND JANUARY 2023 2:14 PM

     

    Plenty time

     

     

    AN DÚN on 2ND JANUARY 2023 2:14 PM

     

    They’re comfortably seeing this game out.”

     

     

    I didn`t see any of the game but it would seem that we didn`t play well, deserved to lose but also deserved a penalty. For our finale, we sickened the Huns with a typically late point saver.

     

    Whilst I would have prefereed to beat them 7-1,I think I can accept all of the above.

  16. Beaton and Collum on VAR cheated us today on 2 penalties—-it wasn’t enough.

     

     

    Ange & Team well below par—- it was enough.

     

     

    They are sick.

     

     

    We need to regroup and raise the bar —- bury them this time.

  17. The 5 subs means managers can sometimes afford to get the starting team wrong.

     

     

    As bad as we were at the start of the second half, our bench always gave me confidence, albeit Ange tends to make them later than I like to see them.

     

     

    There’s no arguing with 1 league defeat in 18 months though.

  18. Thats one of the Worst VAR decisions yet.

     

     

    Both hands @ head height right in front of the hun goal.

     

     

    Incredulous decision.

     

     

    Not really.

     

     

    Banana Republic of Scotland/SKY/Record/Sun.

     

     

    It’s the fact that they are so selective in re-running Offside calls, those that are obvious get shown but those not don’t. I mean in a pro Celtic or against Celtic capacity.

     

     

    Get it right up the Huns anyway.

  19. I meant to say that AL JOHNSTON had a decent game for his Debut.

     

    The Huns must be spewing as they had the best of the 2nd half and werent good enough to close THE GAP !

     

     

    STARFELT DID NOT touch the Hun player…in fact it was the Hun player who stuck his boot into CARLs boot.

     

    Hun ref Beaton and VARs Wullie Collum ROBBED Celtic of a CLEAR Penalty for HAND BALL by Goldson.

     

     

    The Hun support just get UGLIER….I didnt think that was possible, but Celtic have RUINED their New Year….and even their First Goal Scorer Bets got Gubbed….with DAIZENS Goal .

     

    Huns – 2 v Japanese Bhoys – 2.

     

    LOL

     

     

    HH.

  20. Good afternoon from a sunny North Staffs – relief would be my initial emotion after the game but when they get a pen when there’s no contact and we don’t for a blatant hand ball – emotion turns to anger.

     

     

    Am I surprised with collum and beating – sadly not in the least.

  21. onenightinlisbon on

    Draw feels like a victory, how sick must the huns be?

     

     

    Bad day at the office – Ange made a few strange calls today.

     

     

    Forrest?

     

     

    No Mooy?

     

     

    Juranovic?

     

     

    He is fallible after all. 1 point from today is superb, we are allowed an off day sometimes.

  22. Delighted with a point but TBH could easily have lost that today which is honestly ridiculous because they are very poor.

     

    Without playing especially well we bossed the first quarter and the goal had them looking at their shoes. They were there for a doing but our scrappy play gave them oxygen and eventually goals which if your honest we couldn’t complain about. I doubt I’ve seen us give the ball away so easily so many times – the one touch stuff was poor and so many time we gave the ball away under no pressure.

     

    Lots of average performances from players and Ang will have learned a lesson about JF at Ibrox. JJ was simply awful and I really like him and O’Riley perhaps needs a shot on the bench. Special mention for AJ who in the circumstances stood up very well.

     

    We could have buried them mentally today and while we are clear favourites we gave them air today and that’s a little irritating.

  23. They were at home on a must-win game. Ange got the team right, 1-0 at half time, they didn’t look like scoring except from set pieces or mistakes and so it proved

     

     

    I think we win that if Taylor doesn’t go off and Jura have a total nightmare

     

     

    They played with passion as you’d expect from a team at home with a new manager and nothing else, one bit of quality in 90 minutes.

  24. thought kyogo was very very poor today – csant question his effort or movement but his touch is woeful. we get away with it in scotland but just wont o in europe if we want to improve.

     

     

    we need a left back and a striker and hope one of the new signings replaces panic boy starfelt

     

     

    anything more than 10m for jura is a steal!

  25. PeterLatchfordsBelly on

    Forrest has made a phenomenal contribution over the past 12 years, but he’s not GG’s player he once was. I can’t understand why he started ahead of Abada and Jota – unless they were ill. By all means him at home to Motherwell, Hibs, Ross County etc, but away to Sevco? Never.

  26. Jota at the equaliser…wow

     

     

    We dont have another player ;like him. He will go for a record fee in due course.

     

     

    When fit, he starts.

  27. Celtic must be a brilliant f-in team cos the bbc said we had only 2 attempts

     

    on target and we scored from both of them.100% conversion rate.

  28. I really enjoyed that; as Ange said , a cracking game.

     

     

    Our passing was off; overplaying or going for a Hail Mary. McGregor was honest about that.

     

     

    Taylor going off changed it. Juranovic had his worst game.

     

     

    Johnston was brilliant, a proper defender

     

     

    The subs worked a treat; Mooy brought freshness to midfield and Abada scared them.

     

     

    I thought Jota and Giaoumakis were too late but they did the business

     

     

    Great result

  29. every week the pundits discuss handball penalty decisions and most are subjective and could be argued either or – the blatant issue in scotland so far is that CELTIC NEVER seem to get a decision for! this is a pattern and clearly not balanced.

     

     

    celtic being cheated and its celtics fault for doing/saying nothing

  30. Forrest’s starts have been few and far between. I was sceptical on his contract award but he’s done a job for us this season – as a sub, or starting at CP.

     

     

    To start him at Ibrox ahead of Jota and Abada was strange. And imo it didn’t work.

     

     

    James can’t be a scapegoat though because there were other lads who played worse or at the same level.

     

     

    CCV, Maeda and Johnson were my top bhoys today. Starlfelt would have got a pass too where it not for his rash and unnecessary tackle for the pen. Stand up next time, Carl. But some great clearances from him today. He reads the game quite well.

     

     

    I think we’d have won that game had Taylor not got injured.

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