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  1. hebcelt on

    IniquitousIV Glad you made it back safely, delivered the item to your aunt yesterday. She is concerned about your proximity to the horrendous weather over with you, I told not to worry. Yeah last night’s game was a bit of a disappointment, it’s going to be a long hard season I fear. Hail HAIL Hebcelt

  2. fan-a-tic on

    I have often stated my view on here of our lack of potency due to our strict adherence to a purposeless possession game.

     

    Many have disagreed some have said Brendan has us playing like that to compete in Europe.

     

    Really????

     

    Equally as worrying to me is our disjointed team shape especially when we lose possession.

     

    StMirren had quite a few chances in the first due to this.

     

    Also our movement off the ball is almost non existent.Is it because guys see no point as the ball is going to be passed backwards and sideways anyway?

     

    There are not a lot of positives in our infield play as it’s neither effective or entertaining.

     

    The coach needs to up his game and show he has more in his locker as we have by far the most talented players in the SPL who sadly are not a good team.

  3. celticrollercoaster on

    Evening fholks

     

     

    We found out today that Caityrollercoaster has been invited by the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries to a prize giving award ceremony in November for achieving the joint highest score of 100%( with 1 other person), in the Advanced Higher Maths exam in Scotland.

     

     

    Pretty well blown away with this young lady’s ability and humility.

     

     

    HH

     

     

    CRC

  7. David66 on

    Oh and good evening cqn from a mild and very happy Garngad

     

    Happy because myself and my good lady were at the CELTIC musical this afternoon ?

     

     

    Brilliant show and sing song

     

     

    D. :)

  11. David66 on

    Guys one thing that struck me today when at the musical was when they were showing games behind them on a giant screen.

     

    1986 St Mirren at love street and many other games from that era, but that one in particular .

     

    We were rampaging forward in all areas.

     

     

    Last night and in general we are too slow in the build up.

     

     

    I love BR but ffs come on

     

     

    D. :)

  13. big packy 1 on

    hi bhoys haven’t been on since yesterday morning, been up in Leyland in Lancashire picking up a new westie puppy, seems the game was awful to watch, so going to delete it, really hope we don’t go back to the ronny sideways passing game. anyway mike in Toronto, if lurking, will send a pic as soon as.by the way joan is calling the puppy Donny after Donny Osmond her fav singer, I had no say in the matter.lol. CRC congrats to your daughter.hh.

  14. Canamalar it looks like OCD obsession on

    D66,

     

    Howmany of those games did we face 11’behind the ball? It was only tally teams that played like that and they beat us regularly in Europe.

     

    We e been playing 11 behind the ball since GS me breaking that down has been our perennial problem since then.

     

    I agree we need more imagination sometimes it happens sometimes it doesn’t but I’m no fox immpressed with the lack of a plan b lions style, should be practising lining up shots from 25 yards out.

  15. Tobago Street on

    BMCUW, My point is that we need not worry about possession because the teams we play against aren’t good enough to keep the ball away from us. Therefore we should play with less emphasis on possession and more emphasis shots and penetration.

     

     

    T

  16. David66 on

    Canamalar fair point about teams defending on masse.

     

    But last night we needed a bit of imagination or direct running to get at them.

     

    I would have changed Jamsie for either Sinky or the lad Johnson

     

     

    But I suppose i am a Saturday night expert, ?

     

     

    Bring on the Bergers

     

     

    D. :)

  22. ron67 on

    went to the ‘celtic story’ at the pavilion today, a rollercoaster of emotions , enjoyed the show, just wished the players has shown the same positive attitude as the cast and audience , still cant understand our shocking performance last night , we were simply abysmal ,it dosent matter one iota if you have all the possession in the world but don’t score, sick to death hearing we will learn from our shortcomings in breaking down a packed defence , we were playing a very poor team and our formation/team selection/tactics are lacking , no one else plays the slow almost walking pace we do , time for a change.

  23. CaltonTongues on

    For all the nonsense on here about breaking down 11 Man Defences – that was last night.

     

     

    Can anyone, no, FECKIN anyone remember ABERDEEN, HEARTS, HIBS playing against 11 man defences and struggling, then getting slaughtered for not scoring?

     

     

    Won’t even mention the other mob.

     

     

    AnswersNotOnAPostcardCSC

  24. CaltonTongues on

    Next Rant,

     

     

    This nonsense about being tired cos you don’t have posession FFS,

     

     

    Watch our games, last night was a prime example.

     

     

    Opposition teams, in their SET, just shuffle ten yards left then, ten yards right.

     

     

    Meanwhile, our players are running about trying to find non existent space.

     

     

    Then, you watch Sevco and, you’ll be lucky to see six oppo defenders in their own half?

     

     

    As Jock said, ‘You Could Put 11 Dustbins in the final third but, try running at pace, playing passes and try not to touch one!

     

     

    He followed this up by stating then the’yre trying to tackle you

     

     

    PitBootsCSC

  25. topkat on

    BALDE Malby Sutton hartson kok could certainly stick the ball away at corners………..1 goal scored from 92 corner kicks as posted earlier is shocking……….maybe BR…could invite them to the training ground for a few days…………throw ins or free kicks also need addressed

  26. Matt Stewart on

    TOPKAT

     

     

    “throw ins or free kicks also need addressed”

     

     

    I think you mean Shies and Fouls… :)

     

     

    Hail Hail

     

     

    Matt

  30. celticrollercoaster on

    St Stivs- are you now as brand new as Steve Austin?

     

     

    Almore-not as much, but may be across in October

     

     

    HH

     

     

    CRC

  31. jimtim on

    Watched Man City there , no side to side , back passing from them , fast attacking football . No trouble getting to the bye line . Always a target man to pass too . I hope Brendan was watching . Oh I know for gods sake that was Man City . With the best players in England , cost more than many other teams players in the league . Best manager in the league . Full house at every home game . . Sound familiar .

  33. celticrollercoaster on

    Celtic captain Scott Brown reveals heartbreak of his beloved sister’s cancer battle

     

    The 33-year-old says he lost his love for football after his wee sister told him her cancer was incurable but support from Gordon Strachan and Peter Lawwell ensured he stayed at club.

     

     

    Scott Brown admits he struggled to deal with the news that his beloved sister’s cancer was incurable

     

    It’s something you don’t see often – Scott Brown’s pensive, solemn side.

     

     

    Yes, there’s that 100-yard stare before every big match as the TV cameras zoom in and he zones out into his own

     

    little world. It’s become his trademark over the years.

     

     

    He’s a ferocious competitor too. Sometimes a feisty, prickly one at that.

     

     

    But, when not engaged in the heat of battle, Celtic’s captain is as laid back as they come.

     

     

    A notorious joker and master of self-deprecation who takes very little seriously and, most certainly, not himself.

     

     

    In fact, as he recounts his life story, there is perhaps only one episode which wipes the smile from his face for any significant length of time.

     

     

    He draws a hand across his mouth as he pauses for a moment’s thought.

     

     

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    Fiona Brown, left, with Celtic player Scott Brown and their uncle Ron before her tragic death aged 21(Image: Deadline Scotland)

     

    READ MORE

     

    Celtic, Rangers and the truth about those tattoo rumours – Scott Brown lifts lid on the early days

     

    Ten years on, this is still a difficult exercise. “I probably didn’t deal with it very well over the first couple of seasons,” Brown confesses when asked how he managed to cope with the illness which would eventually rob him of his beloved little sister Fiona, during his early days as a Celtic player.

     

     

    “But Gordon Strachan was always there for me, no matter what. Not that many people knew what was going on because we had kept things very quiet after the initial diagnosis.

     

     

    “Then one day I got a phone call from my wee sister.

     

     

    “She was in tears telling me she had someone from the press banging on her door.

     

     

    “It was a reporter from the News of the World.

     

     

    “So I asked her where she was. She told me she was in the dorms at her university in Dundee. I told her to stay

     

    inside and not move until I got there. I left Edinburgh driving like a maniac. I was rally driving all the way up to Dundee.

     

     

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    Celtic manager Gordon Strachan formed a close bond with Scott Brown and supported the player as his sister battled cancer(Image: SNS Group)

     

    “I think I phoned Peter Lawwell to tell him what was going on. I mean, we all knew it would get out eventually.

     

     

    “At that time we were still hoping that the cancer could be cured and that everything was going to be fine. So this was the last thing anyone needed.

     

     

    “Peter was telling me to calm down. Not to do anything stupid. But it was going in one ear and out of the other. Fiona was phoning me in tears, telling me she didn’t want to go outside. And I was getting angrier and angrier.

     

     

    “To be fair, the guy was lucky that he left before I got there.

     

     

    “And I’m probably lucky too because I would have done something I would have regretted for the rest of my life. I was stuck in traffic going over the Forth Road Bridge. I can remember it as clear as day.

     

     

    “Fiona was on the phone saying, ‘What do I do?’

     

     

    0_Celtic-v-Motherwell-Ladbrokes-Scottish-Premiership.jpg

     

    Scott Brown admits he lost his motivation for football when he found out his sister’s cancer was incurable(Image: Getty Images Europe)

     

    READ MORE

     

    Celtic skipper Scott Brown breaks silence on the time Tony Mowbray tried to end his Hoops career

     

    “I just told her, ‘Fi, close the door. Don’t do nothing. I’ll be up there as quick as I can’.

     

     

    “My mum and dad wanted to drive up but I told them, ‘No, I’ll deal with this’. I never did find out who the guy was that went to the door. I’m glad about that for both our sakes.

     

     

    “I would have lost the plot because I was just a young boy and this was my family he was messing around with.

     

     

    “At that time, the News of the World would have done anything to get a story like that.

     

     

    “So I picked her up and took her back down the road. Things became hard from that point on because we now knew that other people knew about her illness and that it was being talked about. Until then, it had been kept very quiet.

     

     

    “But we knew now that it was starting to leak out. Someone had told someone else at university and now people knew where she lived.

     

     

    “So she didn’t want to go back up there after that.

     

     

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    Gordon Strachan signed Scott Brown from Hibs in 2007 and the midfielder is still at the club 11 years later(Image: SNS Group 0141 221 3602)

     

    “To be fair to her, she still qualified with a degree even after all of that. But it wasn’t a great time for her, for me or for the family.”

     

     

    Fiona lost her year-long struggle with skin cancer in May 2008. She was just 21.

     

     

    How would her doting big brother ever fully recover from the trauma?

     

     

    “In some ways, football was what kept me going,” Brown says but without looking too convinced.

     

     

    It’s almost as if, all these years on, the man himself is not too sure how he got through the tragedy with his own career intact.

     

     

    Brown, 33, goes on: “It’s good because you are in there every day and you try to switch off for as long as possible.

     

     

    “But when she was going through it, I felt as if there was nothing I could do to help her.

     

     

    “Then, eventually, you get the phone call to say its incurable. That there’s nothing they can do. How are you supposed to deal with words like that?

     

     

    “I’ll be honest, I was like, ‘F****** football man, f*** this!’

     

     

    “It was coming towards the end of the season and I had had injury problems. I wasn’t motivated to get back playing.

     

     

    “Stracho told me he was going to keep me out of the team for a while. We ended up winning the league that season with Paul Hartley and Barry Robson in the middle of midfield, where I should have been.

     

     

    “The manager just told me I’d be on the bench and I’d come on if and when I was needed.

     

     

    “He understood the situation I was in. He was probably a wee bit worried that if I was out there and there was a ball to be won, that I might have smashed someone or did something I would regret for a long time. He was good that way.

     

     

    “Peter Lawwell was also on the phone during that time making sure I was all right.”

     

     

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    (Image: UGC)

     

    READ MORE

     

    Couple devastated by daughter’s death reveal how Celtic legend Tommy Burns sent handwritten letter of support

     

    These bonds that were being forged in the darkest of circumstances were to prove powerful and long lasting.

     

     

    Brown nods: “It’s probably why I have stayed here so many years because I have had offers to go elsewhere. But Peter and Gordon really helped me through a difficult time. I can’t praise Gordon enough for what he did for me.

     

     

    “He was the daft b****** who signed me in the first place and Celtic have been stuck with me now for 11 years.

     

     

    “But that was Gordon all over. He ended up staying for a year longer than he wanted to at Celtic because of what was going on with Tommy Burns. He stayed one last season for Tommy – to help him out and to help his family out during a time of need. That tells you all about his loyalties as a human being.”

     

     

    On May 15, 2008, Burns passed away. In a last act of kindness, he arranged for flowers to be sent to Fiona. Two weeks later, her life was taken too.

     

     

    Both gone way too soon. But never forgotten.

  35. IniquitousIV on

    HEBCELT:

     

    Arrived last night around midnight. 8 flights in 26 days, so a wee bit tired.

     

     

    It was great to see you again last week for a wee refreshment. Thank you once again for the professional courtesy re my aunt’s item. And best wishes for what I am sure will be a hectic next six weeks for you.

     

     

    You have a very extensive and exciting wee trip to look forward to. I hope it all goes well and that you have smooth sailing all the way and back.

     

    IniquitousIV

  36. petec on

    CRC,

     

     

    I read that article a wee while before you posted it. Broonie should not have had to go through that. We are all so Lucky to have what we have.

     

     

    Superb stuff by young Caity. That truly is quite astonishing.

     

     

    Bring on the olde Rosenborg. Might even see the Rave Lights!!!!!

     

     

    Broonie.CSC

  38. petec on

    I’m alright m8ty, I’m alright.

     

     

    I’m confident of getting 8 in a row. It is gonnae be harder than it should be. This is Gods Story that we are a part of. I really dinnae like arrogance. That is becoming a problem for me with some of the Leading articles lately.

     

     

    Then again I know how ruthless a PLC usually is. It disnae care about the emotional Supporters.

     

     

    Take a bow Marc for the most Amazing Charity work you do for others. Maximum respect Great Celt.

     

     

    67

  41. Kev on

    Petec / Aidan YNWA

     

     

    In ither news….

     

     

    Ah was hearing that a Heinz beans wagon couped oe’r doon the Calton earlier.

     

    Awe well!

     

     

    Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

  42. fan-a-tic on

    CALTONTONGUES @11-25PM

     

    I get that it is difficult breaking down an eleven man defense.

     

    But in our case we are the creators of that defensive set with our turgid, safety first non incisive play.

     

    The time we take to advance the ball makes it incredibly easy for opponents to set defensively.

     

    We do not shoot enough from central areas to disrupt their set and make them come out to challenge.

     

    And our non existent off the ball movement also helps them set and hold position.

     

    Our opponents are a very small part of our difficulties in scoring.

     

    Dreadful set pieces and very few chances created by our baffling system and tactics make us a defenders dream.

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