I was surprised Ronny Deila thought immediately after the game that Dedryck Boyata’s red card was valid, from the angle behind the goal it looked a well-time tackle, but let’s deal with the manager’s complaint against the player, who put a challenge in when wrong side of the attacker.
We’ve see three Celtic central defenders in this position in recent weeks: Efe against Ross County, Erik against Inverness and Dedryck last night. Erik was outpaced by Jordan Roberts but instead of risking a challenge from behind his opponent, he stayed on his feet and forced Roberts to shoot under pressure. Efe clumsily barged into his opponent and Dedryck went to ground.
All three got their starting positions wrong, which could have cost a goal, but Ambrose and Boyata compounded the problem by attempting a recovery, also from a wrong position. Sviatchenko chose to put pressure on the player and leave matters up to his goalkeeper. Erik made the right decision, Efe and Dedryck made wrong decisions.
And before Erik relaxes in the glow of praise, it was his unnecessary barge into an opponent which conceded the foul which led to the corner kick Accies equalised through. Don’t give away stupid fouls and you don’t allow opponents to fire the ball into your box.
And yes, the goal we lost came from a corner kick (I’m assuming those who were animated earlier in the season about zonal marking somehow overlook the same lack of ball-winning skills from the same players now we’re marking man-for-man). I’ve never known a team to lose so many goals from corners. We have a collection of players who cannot follow the flight of a football when launched into their box from a corner.
I know there’s a belief that you cannot practice penalty kicks, as the pressure of hitting them during a match changes everything. This is nonsense. Our poor penalty conversion rate over the last five or six years has cost us trophies. Ironically, John Collins has the best penalty conversion rate of any player in Celtic history (who’s taken more than 5). You would think he’d be able to sort this.
Poor technique is a consequence of poor preparation.
When Leigh Griffiths opened the scoring from the penalty spot it came as a great relief, as until then we were unable to create a genuine chance. A big part of the job at Celtic is breaking down packed defences away from home. There are largely two ways to achieve this:
1. Master the act of quick and precise passing
2. Have target men and wide players who are excellent at crossing the ball.
If we don’t have either play in our locker we’re going to drop a lot of points.
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Incidentally how many players will he try to make into a left sided winger/midfielder ?
Hasn’t got a clue
WINNING CAPTAINS on 27TH FEBRUARY 2016 6:32 PM
Could we bring in an experienced manager and keep Ronny as his assistant
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No chance, Ronny would put himself through that.
More likely he’ll win the league and cup then walk, telling anyone that will listen not to touch the job.
sipsini
Some posts were over the top about Ronny when the BBC introduced him outside Celtic Park on his appointment.
You could be right about panic aspect, but there is no Celtic Mourinho waiting to take us to a new level, and one coach is as good as another IMHO, whether he’s Derek McKinnes or the great Norwegian who merely ‘talks a good game.’
Some expert Celtic supporters can’t let go to the point that opinion consumes them, and as others have posted it really is just internet made up stuff and every mug with a keyboard, ultimately has an opinion.
This mug says, that over the piece Celtic are six points clear and not twenty six as some demand, but a different coach would only have been recruited from the same budget and market as Ronny.
Coaches, smoaches, lets talk again in summer © Paul 67
HH
CULTSBHOY CAN NOT RELATE TO CELTIC BOARD AMBITIONS ON OR OFF THE PARK on 27TH FEBRUARY 2016 6:22 PM
Last night we passed a couple of points ( in my mind at least)
1. We are surely past any notion that Ronnie will be here next season?
2. We are too late to change manager this season.
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Hail Hail fella, hope yer well.
I have the horrible feeling that, we’ll draw the huns in the SC at some stage and, Warburton(mibbery assisted) will put Ronny’s Celtic oot.
Should this happen….do you think that Ronny would still be our manager the next day ?
HH
Well I think we can put talk about Alan Stubbs possibly being our next manager to bed.
HH.
the_huddle on 27th February 2016 6:47 pm
Don’t think there is any chance at all that Ronny will walk.
Cowiebhoy
As much as I would like to see Brendan Rodgers in the celtic managers role … the only way that would happen is if the board offered him enough wages and budget
You and I both know that’s never gonna happen. ..
The Best we can hope for is Michael o Neill
Claudio Rannieri ? Brendan Rodgers ? Davie Moyes ?
Saturday night takeaway just starting, may as well fling Ant & Dec into the equation….
Enjoy your night fellow Celtuc fans
5@row
Hail Hail
John Kennedy we all know is a Celtic Bhoy
If his role in the management team is our Defense, he has failed miserably
And if John Collins role is midfield, so has he
For me the 3 need to go
Gerry
Would ant be the director of football with Dec first team coach
I might renew my season ticket on that basis – only problem I see is I wouldn’t fancy 7pm kick offs on Saturday nights
interesting version of a great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOWoMMds9Eg
KevJ
Keep it lit, who is to say we will beat the mighty Morton ?
What about Jim ad la the day ?
Aff in to watch A&D
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
KevJ
Keep it lit, who is to say we will beat the mighty Morton ?
What about Jim ar la the day ?
Aff in to watch A&D
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
TBJ
Make an offer with a Champions league bonus
Say £750 k basic and same if we get to champions league , good package for any manager
Incidentally further incentivise with still in European competition post Christmas, say another £250k, ( could be bigger if last 16 of Champions league )
Huge incentive for any manager to succeed ?
Cowiebhoy
yeah no one has covered themselves in Glory.
Brendan Rodgers seems on the ball.
KLV
TBJ
Count me in…. Those bhoys are TV gold, in fact maybe one of them can play left mid
Hail Hail
GFtB
Both of them are left fitters :-))))
Brendon Rodgers spent close to £300 m during his spell at Liverpool with a salary of £3.25m per year.
Any club offering Brendon a job would know this, and they would also know that this is the arena he would like to return to.
HH.
PS : And that salary is not even in the top managers bracket.
When Ronny goes in the summer he shouldn’t be the only one to go.
The people at the top need to take their share of responsibility for what we are watching also.
GERRY
Neil lennon bright back the thunder …. ant and dec would put the smile back on our faces
Let’s get ready to Rumble :)
Wednesday night I think we will beat Dundee while the Arabs win the new firm game at Tannadice
Cowiebhoy on 27th February 2016 7:01 pm
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Hail Hail fella, hope yer well.
So, all 3 have to be sacked based on your assumptions ?
Ye see, Ronny has been given better backing than Neil got.
The board can’t be accused of not backing him.
The thing is, for Ronny to succeed to expectations with us, ie: show signs of improving the football set-up in terms of….
Performance
Achievement
Development
Discipline
Recruitment
Utility of resources
Man-management
Media mind-games…..
…He must have in his locker…
…Managerial nous
…Tactical nous
…Player management nous
…Player recruitment nous
…Media spin-doctor Wideo / Shady / Slippery / Uppity-Tim
…Ability to make the players fear him
…Ability to make players fear no-one else
…Ability to make fans hang onto his every word
…Ability to be the most devious / dirty bassa that the dressing room will ever see
…how much of the above does Ronny have in his locker ?
Then again…the more of the above that he has in his locker, the less appealing he’ll be to PL / JP / The board as, they won’t get away with their piss-ripping-downsizing the quality of the product on the pitch which must be a pocket liner for all of those mentioned but, even though they have backed Ronny, they must be alarmed by the growing number of empty seats as, fans no longer want to be took for mugs – guid for them.
HH
Gerryfaethebrig on 27th February 2016 7:04 pm
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Cheap Gerry, even for you.
So, Jim Ar La who gave Ronny his erse on a plate at Hampden a couple of weeks ago, is yer happy-clapping smokescreen for Puppet-Ronny last night ?
Poor.
HH
Kev Jungle
Good to see you posting at this hour.
Wow ,if Ronny is expected to do all that he is grossly underpaid. How many jobs can one man do. ? The unions will be up in arms.
HH to you.
Greenpinata on 27th February 2016 7:11 pm
Brendon Rodgers spent close to £300 m during his spell at Liverpool with a salary of £3.25m per year.
Any club offering Brendon a job would know this, and they would also know that this is the arena he would like to return to.
HH.
PS : And that salary is not even in the top managers bracket.
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Yep and the likes of Allardyce, Pardew, Garde are on £1/2mill a year (after a quick google check). I’d imagine even Alex Neil at Norwich will be on £1mill.
See this “new” manager we need to replace the current “dud” just exactly what will be the criteria he or she will be judged on?
Will it be winning leagues? Doubles? Trebles? Unprecedented Quadruples that had already been done?
Will it be winning the Champions League, the Europa League or both simultaneously?
Will they have to single handedly stop Sevco’s return (sic) to the top flight, or eradicate world hunger?
I may just be a simple Celtic supporter but it seems to me that for some nothing Celtic ever do is good enough.
Only being six points clear is described as a disgrace, I can remember watching Celtic when making second was an achievement. I saw us hang on for grim death in the 95 cup final at the end. When the whistle blew did we whine and complain about playing the mythical “Celtic way”? Hell no we partied like we might never see a trophy again, which wasn’t so far fetched back then.
Lurking is even a chore these days.
Greenpinata on 27th February 2016 7:25 pm
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Hail Hail fella, hope yer well.
Ha :)
To bottom line it….
Any Celtic manager has to be a, tricky-mickey that the establishment canny get to the bottom of.
Simples :)
HH
I would take Brendan Rodgers in a heartbeat—but I don’t think there is a chance of him going to Celtic.Mind you,he would sort the football out,and I don’t think he would miss and hit the wall with the referees.
When a Rangers man like Johnjames can sneer at Celtic for being supine spineless people then we are really in trouble.I rate his site better than PMG’s.He gives it with both barrels,and the fact he has not been sued proves his points are true.
For those people who continually castigate TM his team played better football. The man himself was hounded,disparaged,spat upon,shat upon and anything else you wish to add.
The Scottish MSM nearly had him in the madhouse,and these are the same people and refs sticking it to Celtic.
I have the greatest admiration for Auldheid and the rest of the resolution 12 folk but Jesus enough is enough. Ronnie giving the tossers ammunition is surely a sign he’s cracking.
There’s a parallel to be drawn from the War of Independence in Ireland.De Valera wanted to stop military action,as he reckoned winning the “moral” war would be enough to bring the British to the tables. Michael Collins refused, and stuck it to them even more.
You know the historical outcome.
I wish Celtic would do the same.
Mr pastry you are in utter denial. Unable to think rationally because you just want to pretend it’s all ok.
Owen on 27th February 2016 7:30 pm
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The manager has to put a product on the pitch that, fills the empty seats.
Ye see, I think that the manager would be able to make a guid Celtic team out of the players currently at the club with only ‘one’ player to be recruited in the summer – John McGinn.
Sadly, Ronny isny the guy to fill the seats….imho
A Celtic manager has to have an air of mystery about him ala….
…Mr Stein
…Mr Jansen
…Mr O’Neill
…not a manager who, seems to kowtow to the SMSM’s narrative.
When has Ronny called out mibbery ?
Is he under puppet-instructions not to ?
Or, does he just not feel the pain the fans ?
I’ve said on here before that, I think that the Hearts management set-up is a guid yin.
Wither or not that the same style would work at Celtic would be dependent on, PL / JP etc taking their hauns oot the football jar.
If it came to pass….i think it would sustain the club for the foreseeable future and, rid the club of it’s rudderless-ness…imho.
HH
Brendan Rogers
Alan Stubbs
Are, for me…sadly out of the same football manager book as, the late Tommy Burns(RIP).
None of them were capable of being….
…Devious
…Cynical
…Non-Cronyism
…Dirty Bassas
…I’m afraid to say.
Just seen the Dandy Dons score……………..
;)
I’m guessin’ that’s no goan doon weel?
…….Naw.
Guid.
The top 2 clubs in the EPL, both do not have a bottomless pit of cash, but, they do both play as a team. 100% from all their players. That’s what Stein did, what’s wrong now!!
KINGLuBO
Had nipped oot
Liverpool spent £300m picking players through a committee set up, ( wonder which model Celtic follow :-)) and passing these players to Brendan to then set up and manage the team
It was only this season things went off track for him, has there been any improvement at Liverpool under Klopp ?
Were they not 7th when he left ? Now 9th, with game to play mind
Ronny is out of his depth imo the football is dire. Watching the same mistakes for near 2 years now is soul destroying . The park is emptying every week and even the hard core are at breaking point. Ronny should not be the only one to go though more heads should roll.
KINGLUBO on 27th February 2016 7:50 pm
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The players have to play for the manager, that means the players have to respect / fear the manager.
How many players respect / fear the manager after, they seen KC treat him as a doormat in Molde and still, KC is at the club ?
Rudderless ship – CSC
Cowiebhoy on 27th February 2016 7:55 pm
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Klopp is an eye-candy manager for the ego-trippers who pull the puppet strings at Anfield….sadly.
The Kop & The Jungle will ‘never’ walk alone….
…..Oot to see my Mrs.
Celtic fans – YNWA.
KevJ
Can I repeat the sentiments, great to see you on tonight -hail hail Bhud
Owen, I can’t add anything to Aidenbhoys last comment, arching us past 2 season has been painful under Ronny, with not 1 learning taken on board by him
Team making exact same mistakes due to his team set up structure
I’ve only had enough of the trial is at left side of midfield :-)
Hail Hail