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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Think JC will have his work cut out with his own party trashing him over the coming weeks and months .. Even his scrapped together cabinet are at loggerheads with the majority of his policies ..
He looks drained and bedraggled after a couple of weeks of back stabbing .. What’s he going to be like after a few months ?
That doesn’t scare the swine molesters .. That delights them.
Labours worst enemy .. Is Labour!
Just look at today’s revelations about Hameron .. True or false .. Shows you how nasty the Brit establishment/right wing MSM can be when they turn on their own .. They’ve no even started on auld Corby yet.
TET,
The beeb is just another version of CNN and Fox there is not a western media outlet left broadcasting the truth. It’s all corrupted with dreams of freedoms that no longer exist.
Any roadie,
Same team to start on Wednesday will do for me, I’d like to see a a bit of continuity in team selection, let’s get a first 11and play them.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART @ 7:40 PM,
Yes, but, my point was, the Political Landscape has changed.
So we get into the world of unintended consequences. That’s where we are.
A lot of folk might have thought Jeremy Corbyn was good news for David Cameron.
Well I’d suggest it hasn’t been. It’s going to get worse.
BTW: George is pretty average for a Tim.
Hail Hail
Anyone have any update on the players out injured ? I know Morton was a horrible result due to the many changes to the team and a piss poor performance, but I would mix it up this week giving some of the fringe players a game. I’d like to see Scott Allan start to give us a glimpse of what he can offer, start Cifcti alongside Leigh Griffiths and play 3 at the back..
Jeremy Corbyn arthe pmq this week – i have a question for the prime minister from a Kate Hopkins ” can you please tell the house that I was not the pig in question “
NegAnon2
How did the Labour MP’s themselves vote?
Why have swathes of the elected Parliamentarians refused to work with Corbyn in a meaningful capacity?
Why has he and his group already begun to flip flop on trident and the army?
He holds better positions than anyone else who stood after nomination but he is not going to get anywhere near power and even if he did it’s those within his own party who won’t let him do half of what he’d like to.
It is an honest reading of what I have seen thus far since he was elected as leader by an electorate of 500,000.
It is a drop in the ocean to what they need to win.
The Blairites are already planning a coup.
The Dug has backtracked within weeks showing the caliber of her as a leader. People in Scotland see through her with ease.
He’s already offering no further devolution to Scotland never mind a referendum so yeah, that will bring the mugs back to Labour……
It matters not a jot what Scotland votes in 2020. Even if they all voted Labour and gave Corbyn 59 seats that is not where the election is won and lost.
It’s the South East of England he needs to convince because as we all know they choose your government for you.
Fancy those odds do you?
And even if I am wrong, I can assure you if people in Scotland turn to Corbyn they will look very foolish when (not if) England re-elects another Tory Government swept in a crest of a wave having taken the UK (on English votes) out of the EU and closed ”our borders”.
You may think I am foolish but as I say, we’ll see.
I’m On the home ticket scheme and money has been paid from my bank account
Is my season ticket valid for Raith game or should I expect a paper ticket through post?
Thanks in advance.
Eurochamps67
I’m confused
Was on the BBC Sport website there
St Johnstone are playing some team in the Scottish Premiership tomorrow night
Oh their desperate
Hail Hail
Paul67 et al
Just read on the Celtic site that a Celtic top signed and donated by Andy Murray at the weekend raised £7,000 for the Celtic Foundation. Well done Andy and to all those involved at the Foundation.
I HEARD HE WAS DEAD on 21ST SEPTEMBER 2015 8:43 PM
NegAnon2
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A return to sanity.
https://youtu.be/PCAjIcgq3-A
Superb
I heard he was dead…
I’m not one for political debates as I’m not that clued up on it, but I reckon their will be a big shift towards labour with their more socialist agenda.
The cuts are beginning to kick in all over the system, I’m glad my kids are up because I could never have gave them the life they had when young without the help of tax credits.
Anyways, Celtic were magic and hopefully it’s a corner turned. HH
Neganon2
Are you and Ernie Lynch related?
Too many their’s instead of there, just thought I’d say before the cqn polis spot it;)
Would it be carping to suggest that if we change Cameron to Corbyn, pig gate would have got better than third billing on BBC News?
EUROCHAMPS67
I have a paper tkt but shifted from North Stand Upper.
Maybe Lower tier just sit in own seat with season tkt
MacJay1
Is there an asylum out there for those that believe that NegAnon represents a return to sanity?
If not there should be!
madworldcsc
sipsini
I agree with you.
His ideas are good.
In my estimation, he will fail because he won’t get the votes where he needs them.
I don’t believe that his views are or will be shared across that party and I think they’ll be looking to get Corbyn out sooner rather than later.
If the Scottish electorate are stupid enough to go back to Labour and are landed with yet another Tory government what will people say then?
I heard he was dead. I agree some of the labour MP’s behaviour is nothing short of appalling. But when creating wholesale change don’t expect the natives to be happy.
There is an inherent contradiction in your post. On the one hand you point out that Corbyn is (to use your words) flip flopping and on the other you point out he is unelectable. Isn’t it. True that Corbyn, like all leaders who want to make a difference, is having to compromise?
That’s what happens when faced with choices you would intend to follow through. As for calling the new Scottish labour leader The Dug, well that says it all and indeed it represents the calibre of political debate that the Scottish nationalists will allow. I find it pretty fascinating that the Scottish labour leader will open up a debate on allow free and open debate about independence within her party only to find herself berated by the nationalists and of course, in true mysogninistic and sexist style to be called “the dug”.
Should cqn be ashamed of such sentiment? Or has institutionally racist Scotland gone so far down the “we are the people” route that even cqn can’t see straight anymore?
“The dug”.
My god is that it?
Not content with smear campaigns against Murphy, bully boy tactics during elections and declaring that democracy is dead we call a prominent female politician “the dug”.
I heard he was dead is that the best you can do. Do you read the Sun or the record?
And macjay1 you cheer on this mysogninistic bullshit?
And to Scotland socialist, right wing, national socialist, racist ruling junta? You proud of that then?
Canman
Yip, and have been for long enough.
Still, the next GE is five years away, a lot can happen in that time, the austerity will tighten it’s grip, the youth will have their say, social media is the scurge of those in power, I have faith that the people will see sense and vote with their head and not their pockets.
HH
Cowie bhoy
Denis o brien is a power crazy money mad evil fascist f**k
Some one should shoot him
Eurochamps67 – You use your season ticket, no need for a paper ticket….
I heard he was dead on 21st September 2015 8:43 pm
Agree with a lot of what you say.
You do, perhaps unconsciously raise some interesting points.
The first is that Cameron, aided and abetted by Parliament, will wrap his guts around a thorn bush, before he allows a referendum that has any chance of taking Britain out of Europe.
In the last week, a year on from the Independence Referendum, not unexpectedly, NO voters are telling us that the will of the people has been expressed and the Yes side should forget another referendum and move on.
It will be interesting to hear what those who voted No but favour staying in Europe will have to say if Europe tells Cameron to get stuffed when he tries to renegotiate the terms of Britain’s European membership.
Will they shrug their shoulders and say Europe has expressed its will. Or will they tell him get back in there immediately and try again.
IHHWD @ 8.43
5 years to go.
A lot can happen in 5 years.
A lot can happen in 5 months.
China sneezes and the West catches a cold — not good.
China catches Legionaires Disease and all bets are off.
Migration has bubbled up …
How does that fit in with Libya and the law of unintended consequences?
St Nic throws the teachers under the bus.
The Tartan Trots are getting reckless over the lack of progress towards a second vote.
5 years is a long way away.
At least the — real — austerity fightback can now take place.
The bankers caused the Credit Crunch not the government.
Private debt and lack of liquidity was the issue not public sector debt.
The intellectual and economic argument has been won.
The PR battle and the media war has been lost — so far.
Ah NegAnon, missed you since yesterday, What did you think of game?.
MadMitch on 21st September How does that fit in with Libya and the law of unintended consequences?
Does anyone know what the intended consequences were.
As I have asked before.
What happened to the Iraq that was to be Bubba’s beacon of democracy in the Middle East?
– See more at: http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/rogic-on-a-road-well-travelled-ciftcis-mark/comment-page-4/#comments2015 9:09 pm
Celtic Mac. Of course you want to claim I am mad.
And the reason for my insanity?
To be happy that labour elected a true let winger (unlike the right wing national socialist, racist policies pursued by the SNP)
To hope that. This will change the debate and that Corbyn will be well placed to help the poorest members of our collective society (remember the one that the majority of Scottish people voted to remain part of (does democracy matter any more) have a chance to have a voice through as the worst cuts hit?
To reject the institutional racism of Scotland on display day after day and week after week and enshrined by the SNP in legislation?
To be angry at mysogninistic bullishit such as calling the new Scottish labour leader “the dug” in an effort to dehumanise her as per the new Scottish political way)?
So of course I am mad. As the racism ramps up in Scotland and is reflected in these pages it will be more than me who is called mad. That’s racism for you. Dehumanise your opponent. That allows all sorts of opportunities to open up eh Celtic Mac?
WE of EEK,
Thank you.
I HEARD HE WAS DEAD @ 8:43 PM,
Excuse me, but got a bit lost in your post. The main trust but also you were talking about Jeremy Corbyn, then the dug, the she. Are they one in the same or different people?
Hail Hail
http://movingimage.nls.uk/film/5328?search_term=Celtic&search_join_type=AND&search_fuzzy=yes
Think we’re in for the lowest crowd of the season on Wednesday. Had a look at the stadium overview and we’ll be lucky to get 15k at the game…
Celtic Mac
That is great news about the Andy Murray signed Celtic shirt. Thanks for informing me about that. 7 grand for the Celtic Foundation is excellent.
Still hated seeing the butcher’s aprons in such close proximity to Paradise yesterday though! ;)
WiTS,
just to be clear, I have dropped Paul67 a message requesting he removes your post at 21.05
Please do not add my blog name to anything requesting something such as you have posted
Shocking response, and Totally in-called for
Hail Hail
The exiled tim
You are spot on there. The General Election is nearly five years away, assuming Cameron gets there with a majority of twelve. The most important elections are the next ones; Next year, elections to the Assembly in Wales and the Scottish Parliament, the London Assembly, local elections in England and the election of the London Mayor. London and Scotland I suggest being the most important for Jeremy Corbyn. North Ireland will also have elections but Labour does not contest those.
I heard he was dead,
I think the left are now very familiar with the rights skulduggery and MO for removing their adversaries, I doubt very much it will be so easy now the party membership has made their decision, I expect the right wingers to go back to the party that represents their own allegiances, expect to see the torys and sdp picking up quite a few deserters hoping for a sniff of the trough.
Eurochamps67
I’m on home tix scheme moving from 409 downstairs, paper ticket sent out.
Referring to Kezia Dugdale as ‘the dug’ is pathetic, embarrassing for an all inclusive support and I would say at odds with gender equality aims of the SNP.
Indeed I believe that Nicola Sturgeon was one of the first to celebrate the fact that the main Scottish parties were all led by women.