Last night’s win didn’t look on the cards until the opening goal; Astra were passing the ball better and creating as many chances as Celtic. It looked like the game we expected – without Commons or Guidetti. However, we find ourselves top of the group with 7 points from 9 at the halfway point, having recorded a draw away to top seed Salzburg.
There’s still a lot of work to do, a win away at Astra next time out in no way guarantees qualification, but we stand an excellent chance of progressing and a decent chance of topping the group.
Having thumped Ross County at the weekend there was a notion we’d turned a corner, which fed some of the frustration last night, despite the result. What we saw was very poor passing from a disjointed team. Players were receiving the ball in too little space, where options were already closed. This impacted the effectiveness on Callum McGregor and Mikael Lustig in particular, but it seemed when every Celtic player looked up there wasn’t a good pass on.
This is all a consequence of change. We look disjointed because we are disjointed. We’re disjointed because we’re rebuilding.
The relevant questions are:
Do we need to rebuild?
Are we making progress?
Yes, we need to rebuild. The squad, tactics, training and other processes are all going through change. For so long we watched Celtic squads remain constant and grow old (under Martin O’Neill), or out tactics become rigid (under Martin and Gordon Strachan), to the point that we were crying out for some experimentation.
The above is seldom disputed but the question of progress is more important. Right now Celtic need results. They need to survive in the Europa League long enough to test and improve their passing, movement, instincts and, where necessary, squad.
Last night’s win wasn’t pretty but it was vitally important. The next challenge for this team is also important; we need to go to Romania and put on the kind of performance we did in Salzburg. If we can do that, we’ll have earned a platform to build on.
Caesar & the Assassin, the accounts of Billy McNeill and Davie Hay as Celtic managers, is available below.
Billy and Davie will both sign the early orders we get to them, more here.
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More oil found in North Sea, hohum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=pn6cxaKRwtk
The Yardbirds
For Your Love
HH
SOAL
I was commenting solely on the mike fleg!!!
Love!
HH jamesgang
Nirvana – Where did you sleep last night
http://youtu.be/mcXYz0gtJeM
The huddle lets agree to disagree…you think Brittains a great place….i would rather have an independant Scotland….we will never agree so lets as Dolly Parton said D I V O R C E….i wish you well….just leave me the Hoover…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=CvwQmxLaknc
Creedence Clearwater Revival
iaintamillionairessonCSC
Roy Croppie
Tin soldier.
There’re 3 songs in there!
Years ahead of its time.
BGX
23:09 on 25 October, 2014
The huddle….in how many years?
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It’s been posted many times on here, all 3 leaders at the same time.
Tom McLaughlin
23:01 on
25 October, 2014
Macjay –
I am surprised at you drawing such a risible analogy.
Under Apartheid blacks and whites were separated in every walk of life, not just schooling.
Catholic schools in Scotland exist under act of Parliament because in the early 20th century, the Protestants did not want their children mixing with the “Irish beggars”. It was the Protestants who demanded separate schools.
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Risible? It`s all a matter of principle.
Division based on religion acceptable.
Division based on race unacceptable.
I think in fact it was we Catholics who wanted separate schooling.
Bgx,
Why let them walk at all?
Even sourpuss on his arrival at ipox banned the walking, only for it to be reinstated once he left.
Now they have don’t have it again, only for it it to be used in another format…armed forces day.
A lot of their forefathers hid in yards, should I just get my grandfathers and great grandfathers medals melted down?
Two that died of gas in the lungs not long after returning home.
prestonpans bhoys
23:11 on 25 October, 2014
More oil found in North Sea, hohum
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These are fine days for North Briton and we can share our good fortune with our Union partners.
HH
CRC
ps Roll on the next revolution
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=DohRa9lsx0Q
Stealers Wheel
HH
James
It wizny a dig mucker
Love
The huddle…i didnt know that…name them?
BGX
23:13 on 25 October, 2014
The huddle lets agree to disagree…you think Brittains a great place….i would rather have an independant Scotland….we will never agree so lets as Dolly Parton said D I V O R C E….i wish you well….just leave me the Hoover…
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I hate Scotland, Britain, Europe the world, and I despise all politicians, I’d love a dictatorship yet history proves me wrong every time on that one :O)
BGX
23:16 on 25 October, 2014
The huddle…i didnt know that…name them?
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Ian Duncan Smith is your first one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=lSIw09oqsYo
RIP Raphael Ravenscroft ( Saxophonist) who died this week…£27 he got for this session.
Baker Street
HH
CCR
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1dyin_creedence-have-you-ever-seen-the-ra_music
SOAL
It wasn’t seen as a dig.
That’s why I sent you some love in return!!!
More love…
HH jamesgang
The Doors – Alabama Song
http://youtu.be/DX42_3ZKv8c?list=UUAoiRGqj53E7tSeGORUFOIQ
Tom McLaughlin
23:01
Well said again, sir.
I’m not agitating across hemispheres, haphazardly. My older boy is making his life in Christchurch, NZ.
Roy Croppie
He also claimed to have come up with the riff, but film shows GR playing it, either on piano or guitar, before he’d been approached to play, I believe.
If I’ve got this wrong, I’ll get it right next time.
CRC
Roll on 22nd bhoy booked from London on right date this time……
Sipsini….i can only talk from my own opinion …i think all walks or parades should be allowed outside of city centres and with due permission of local councils…walk round strathclyde park be you orange .republican.gay..animal rights….i dont care….just keep it to themselves..
beatbhoy
Your punch line was subtle genius!
HH jamesgang
macjay1,
I know you love a wee debate, but as Tom said…we weren’t welcome in their schools, so we built schools onto the tail end of our churches to educate our young.
Now they moan and why?
Is our schools churning out more academics pro ratio than non denomination schools?
Biffy Clyro – God and Satan (acoustic)
http://youtu.be/F_oyyJe-7UY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=6ul-cZyuYq4
Fleetwood Mac
guiltypleasureCSC
beatbhoy-didn’t know that , cheers :)
The huddle ….IDS and who?…
bgx,
Which one would you attend? :)))
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ejorQVy3m8E
Midnight Oil
Beds are Burning
HH
Anyone know if Craig Gordon kept his house on in Sunderland…?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ljIQo1OHkTI
Simple Minds
Alive and Kicking
HH
CultsBhoy
Is this CQN Monopoly
Winners
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Byew2gXIcAEKItZ.jpg:large
HH
BGX
23:25 on 25 October, 2014
The huddle ….IDS and who?…
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I’m guessing now, but think Charles Kennedy (2 Catholic Scots potential UK leaders) please someone jump in and prove me wrong
Jamesgang
Keep throwin’ the darts, one’ll hit the bullseye!
Sipsini…i would(and have done with my 12yo son)…the YES rallys in George sq….