I’ve been slow to catch onto the Tom Rogic bandwagon but his performance yesterday marks a new level of attainment. After some fleeting appearances in the months following his arrival at the club as a 20-year-old, Rogic dropped off the radar. A loan return to Australia and a number of injuries meant he went close to two years without playing for Celtic before his return to the team last month. I’d written him off, and when the teams were announced to face Dundee, I was a bit disappointed to see him in the team ahead of Scott Allan.
Yesterday was like a light being switched on. He demonstrated speed, skill, intelligence and finishing. If we had acquired him for a lot of money last month, I’d be delighted at what was on show.
All of this happened, of course, against a poorly organised Dundee team. Far greater challenges lie ahead, but just like the transformation in Nir Bitton a year ago, or the gains Wanyama made in 2012, we can hope to transform Rogic from a lost-looking squad player into a top performer.
I think we were all delighted Nadir Ciftci got off the mark. Being clean through on the keeper puts the burden of onus on the striker. A significant percentage of such chances are lost, but Nadir’s finish was assured. Like all strikers, he needed that first goal, and I suspect needed the assist he gained a moment earlier when setting Scott Brown up for the fifth.
More game-time and more goals are now needed, starting with Raith Rovers in the League Cup (ouch) on Wednesday.
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EXSLAEMUIRBHOY on 21ST SEPTEMBER 2015 6:36 PM
2 yrs left on contract. Same as Bitton.
lennon’s passion
Excellent. Glad to be wrong on that
Cameron could marry a pig for all it matters – his opponent is hapless and in la la land.
I thought it was an apple the toffs shoved into a pigs mouth
Keevins reckons the score at Tyne castle is an indication of how good Aberdeen are rather than how bad hearts are
Not so sure he had the same view of celtica demolition of Dundee
Lennon’s passion, how much longer left on Mikael Lustig contract ?
Now I was never a Sammi fan
But
I would have thought a free agent Sammi was a better fit to Ronny’s style and team structure than Carlton Cole
( can’t believe I wrote that. :-)))
Hail Hail
Next PMQ Corbyn “I have a question here from a girl called Peppa”
EXSLAEMUIRBHOY on 21ST SEPTEMBER 2015 6:45 PM
Would get Bitton a new contract asap. Watched him closely yesterday movement off the ball very good. The bhoy is class
Rogics contract would hold off on at the moment see if the same the same improvement is happening at the end of the season.
Cowiebhoy
If you’re around, I think Doc is posting under your moniker again :-)
Still got the glove puppet for you as well. Just say the word and you can be re-United.
HH
CRC
Tricoloured Ribbon
Good to see you back on and posting last night.i hope your recovery continues.
all the best to you and your family,keep the spirits up:-)
hail hail
Madmitch,
Have you ever worked for Shell or Shell contractors ?
Sometimes the use of acronym’s can be slightly confusing for Dafties like me. I know it all makes perfect sense to you, and it does promote thought. But sometimes the obvious is not always immediately recognisable.
CM- Charlie Mulgrew or Callum McGregor.
SJ – Stefan Johansen or Saidy Janko
SA- Scott Allan or Stuart Armstrong.
DK- Dedryck Boyata or the very unlikely Derk Boerrigter.
HH to you.
Ps : I wonder how many people thought Peppa Pig was a recipe until today ?
And another thing on Dave the Rave’s animal adventures.
It is a matter of public record that he has been spotted many times in the company of Rebecca Wade and an Ex Metropolitan police horse.
My question on this would be who was riding who?
After today’s revelations the answer could be more digusting than I thought.
Fairly enjoyed yesterday’s game and result (goals from; defence, midfield and strikers) – a repeat prescription for the rest of the season (same dose twice a week till end of May) would be welcome.
Izzy? Pity he didn’t get the hat-trick – would’ve been one of those ‘were you there moments’ in later years (like big George C waltzing round ham & eggs – Lubo & Henrik chips etc., etc). Great wee guy looks to the heavens when he comes on the park – pity his pen and most of his crosses end up in that general direction. :-)
I forgive him his penalty miss – unlike that wee shoite Messi (I had Barca @-3 and his miss cost me a ton)!
Foot on the gas on Wednesday CSC!
GP @ 6.55
Well spotted — I will need to up my game.
Regarding employment I used to work for Henry where the TLA had been superseded by the FLA as we had run out of usable combinations.
TRC
Meant to mention on reading back – good to see you back on the blog.
Trust you are well and on the way to recovery?
H!H!
lennon’s passion on 21st September 2015 6:51 pm
EXSLAEMUIRBHOY on 21ST SEPTEMBER 2015 6:45 PM
Would get Bitton a new contract asap. Watched him closely yesterday movement off the ball very good. The bhoy is class
Couldn’t agree more, next big thing in Scottish fitba by a mile.
COWIEBHOY on 21ST SEPTEMBER 2015 6:49 PM
Lennon’s passion, how much longer left on Mikael Lustig contract ?
Not 100% on Mikael over 2 years minimum. Only 3 first team squad contract is up in the summer. Borrigetor,Mulgrew and Forrest. Sick note will move on. Would imagine the other 2 would be offered new deals. IMO Charlie will be reduced rate. Forrest I would punt in January.
Sham Cam really is the establishment golden boy.
10 years in the public domain and it is only now we get to hear about his sordid past.
And all because he had fallen out with a well heeled Tory tax dodger.
Last week he was insulting Yorkshire and nothing was said.
This week he is found out to be an extra from Porkies.
What will next week bring?
What a load of cap doffers we have down South.
mad itch
H U R T I N G
Johnson another with 2 years left on deal. Enigma not sure if I would sell or keep.
have a good nite Celts
HH
glasstwothirdsfull
All allegedly according the Spiers and the SMSM
Sutton – washed up
Hartson – washed up
Thompson – washed up
Larsson – washed up
Moravcik – washed up
I’d love to be a member of the Washed Up club.
A Celtic Washed Up eleven could win the Champions League
Lustig is under contract until summer 2017.
Was reading an article last week about jock stein talking to Archie mcpherson about souness leadership skills – he said stein noticed how the beast used to go back and make himself available to take the short pass for players who were lacking confidence and did it often and unnoticed to many
I was watching our capitan closely yesterday and saw him do this with boyata and Efe a few times
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART @ 6:47 PM,
“Cameron could marry a pig for all it matters – his opponent is hapless and in la la land.”
Interesting El Capitano, very interesting. Which opponent?
Do you remember we had a little exchange of comments t’uther day, I mentioned that Mr Corbyn may not be a threat as PM, but he may bring a different perspective and shake up British politics a bit.
Well, you see, they’ve been rumours about this book for years, it wasn’t a matter of if it would be published, more of matter, when.
So of course Mr Cameron’s other opponent – you know, the ruthless Billionaire one – yeah, that guy.
He can’t believe his luck, how do you publish such a book without looking like a traitor to the Party?
Then comes along the unelectable MrCorbyn, just weeks before the Conservative Party Conference.
Excellent – the Tory’s have no opposition to speak of, so publish and be damned! Maximum pain for David Cameron, minimum consequences for the Tory Party.
Some said Corbyn was a God send, but for whom brother, for whom?
Hail Hail
Paul67 et al
I see the green and white football shirts of both Celtic and Hibernian feature at the British Museum’s new show; ‘Celts: Art and Identity’. Nae sign of any sevco taps tho!
Cue another petition?
Evening Chairbhoy.
The Corbyster’s policies are rehashed failures. They remind me of our Derk: in theory they look good, in reality they leave economic mess and seething resentment.
There is more chance of me becoming a George Clooney double than there is of Jezza becoming PM.
All is well folks.
Current scandal only concerns OldCameron – ooft !
NewCameron is the only thing that matters and is the greatest thing since sliced bacon.
All elections, titles etc are transferred to NewCameron.
OldCameron will be forgotten before long – except for any good bits that will be acquired by NewCameron.
Sausages yesterday, sausages today, sausages ramorra.
Rule Britannia indeed!
Beefy @ 7.40
What a load of re-hashed Tory tripe.
Not a great fan of JC but at least he is fighting back against the Neo Con austerity nonsense.
He is not afraid to put the blame where it belongs with the bankers and the idle Yanks who in 2004 had nothing left to sell but their debt.
http://www.celticfc.tv/archive
Evening Timland from a warm hun fee mountain valley.
The torys are shit scared of Jeremy Corbyn, just watch his popularity grow, the more they trash him, the more electable he will become.
They know that if the plebs get educated to their politics, they are fecked, and JC may well be the man to educate them.
Anyone who thinks that the present tory policy, or the bliar policy’s were for the people, they need locking up in a mental asylum.
TET,
Come on, he’s unelectable :) at least that’s what we were being told a few weeks ago, he is going to kill off the Labour Party once and for all, was that no what we were being told :)
Watching them panic now is becoming a lot of fun, the rhetoric will become even more full of panic and fun, the best bit will be to watch them trying to invent new ways to regurgitate old rhetoric as if they’ve found something new :)
Awe Naw! No politics again!
Doesn’t anyone see through their garbage? Here is how it works:
Their controlling media outlets collude with their lackey politicians, ensuring a stream of “non-news” stories to detract and deflect from the real issues, while “they” line their pockets further.
Treat the man in the street like a mushroom trick: keep him in the dark and feed him shoite.
Greenpinta
Well put. One of my pet hates, working out CM passed to JS who squared to JB.
Does the nut in at times.
Still, can’t complain too much. Letter this morning saying I had won
£185 k on the Post Code Lottery. Great surprise, especially as I’ve never done it.
Off to B &Q early doors Wednesday for UB 40 for the zip at the back of my nut !
HH
Canman
Aye, they are so predictable, and watching them squirm will be geting ranked up me thinks.
I can’t get the BBC news here thankfully, my choice is Sky or a few other indys, so I tend to watch RT, at least they don’t hide their bias, they also have some very good docs, and good old Max :-)
I reckon there is more truth told on RT in a day, than the BBC or Sky would tell in a year.
HH
Corbyn’s biggest problem will come from WITHIN the Labour party.
The Blairites are all still there waiting for their chance to oust him.
A few bad polls, a bad result in the Scottish and Welsh elections and they’ll be after him.
I don’t think that Labour will do much if any better in Holyrood next year. Dugdale only weeks ago said they’d be carping on the sidelines with the man who is now her boss in charge.
When it looked like he’d win, she changed her tune.
People will remember that.
Bob o baldy
I see that operation ignore a democratic vote is alive and well. Equating Cameron and his antics with voting no.
Ah class…..
Just watched Henrik’s 242 goals video that someone kindly put a link up to yesterday.
Just magic.
All the goals mean something but 3 I would like to highlight.
The dink in the 6.2 game, just sublime. Still my favourite.The goal against St J to stop the cheats winning 10. Watching it brought back the unbelievable tension before that game, that goal settled the nerves a little. It also brought back fond memories of two of my best friend who sat beside me at the game, but both died far too young and are no longer with us. What a night we had that night. Happy Happy memories, third goal again St J, away this time, the free kick in the last minute to give us a 2.1 victory. I was in the family stand that day, a nice old lady about 80 , St J fan, was sitting beside me and my bhoy all through the game , loads of pleasantries were exchanged and everything was very civil until Henrik scored with that free kick. Then we got called every name under the sun off her, total Jeckyll and Hyde, I’m still laughing about it, we actually moved seats for the final 90 seconds or so. Terrorised by an 80 year old.
I heard he was dead. Ah again the nats rally behind their nonsense.
Labour vote a true left winger in. The SNP continue to pursue facist right wing policies while pretending they are left wing and doing nothing about poverty. And here you are to tell us how it’s all gonna play out.n