You and I have seen it dozens of times. The manager rests half the team in a cup game against lower league opposition and those who participate somehow play as though the game was less important. Whose fault is that? Nothing gives out signals that we are not at fully strength like rotating seven players from the starting line-up.
Players are not machines; they cannot climb the mountain every time as though this time was the most crucial. That is why systems need to be robust enough to see them through mundane days. Ange Postecoglou was right to rest so many ahead of an important European game. This act, however, rendered him unable to convince those selected that their adrenalin should be pumping at full throttle.
The angry manager routine from the touchline, and no doubt at halftime, was enough of a top-up to comfortably see the game over the line. I doubt he was truly angry, as he has seen as many of these type of games as we have.
That ball from Reo Hatate to Jota for the second goal is totemic of how Celtic are playing now. In any season of the last 10, that ball would have been carried into the final third before circulating down either flank looking for an opening. This ability to exploit the space behind defenders separates the talented from the earnest.
If you wander down Buchanan St there’s a good chance you will see someone doing a Find the Lady trick, where a queen card is shuffled around a board with two others. The object is to not take your eyes off the card until you make a decision (you will still lose). Refereeing can be a bit like that. When an offence occurs that you decide is punishable with a card, keep your eyes on the player until you have sight of his number.
Referee Steven McLean decided to book the Raith player whose arm met the ball for Celtic’s late penalty. Steven, however, let his eyes wander off the already booked Sean Mackie, who handled the ball, to the uninvolved Ross Matthews. A second yellow would have been harsh for Mackie, but still………..
10 years ago today the “they are going to crash and burn” predictions we made of Oldco Rangers for 8 years came to fruition. Chairman Craig Whyte stood on the steps of Ibrox to say he was putting the club into administration. Subsequent attempts to negotiate with HMRC failed. The basket of assets were sold to a consortium and administrators Duff and Phelps wrote a letter of comfort for Companies House to permit the Newco, which had applied for membership of the SFA as Sevco Scotland, to adopt a similar trading name to Oldco: “Rangers”, would be the name.
There were dozens of ways Rangers fall from perpetual debt and losses could have ended, liquidation was not inevitable. Pain was, though. You live within your means, or you face consequences.
Newco are approaching their 10th year in business and have yet to live within their means for a single season. Like Oldco, they are playing roulette football, with no more than a gamblers chance of leaving the table with their shirt. Like Oldco, I predict they will crash and burn. It is as though there is something pathological going on.
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MADMITCH on 14TH FEBRUARY 2022 3:14 PM
PtB @ regular boring intervals.
I will repeat again that you are — at best — the RCP style imposter of the support.
Using the stupidity of the GB / uber militaristic fans to try and silence the rest of the support.
Your total focus is on “us” with never a comment on the state of the SPL or the travails of the TFOD2.1.
You have to wonder why?
Self hatred or fake attachment to the club would be the best places to start.
No matter where you start — you do talk some amount of tripe.
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So in your mind, Celtic supporters are innocent wee souls who are incapable of looking in the mirror??
How can we judge others houses whilst ours is built on sand??
My focus us to not be a fool like the fools who financially back those who slyly rubber stamped the same club lie, and the slew of other misgivings that your tired of me posting about.
What are the options??
Live on our knees paying liars to lie to us??
Keep chipping away in the hope that dim Tims will see who is behind the curtain??
If so, how does this dawning come about if the lone wolves put their tools away and simply move on with the deceived flock??
Move on to where??
The next sly mugging by the PLC??
Move on to a hun blog and stop asking questions of dodgy folk??
What??
I don’t know what RCP means, sorry.
You tell me the answer to all of the above Mitch, your take is valued in this neck of the woods.
Peace. ✌ 👍
Jhb
That’s tosh – without the support of the establishment, media and silence by other clubs including Celtic they would have been in their own imaginary world of 55 and all that guff.
Rimtimtim 4:01
Thanks for that.
Gene
Absolutely.
GARYGILLESPIESHAMSTRING on 14TH FEBRUARY 2022 4:52 PM
I might be mistaken, but my memory is that John Collins left Celtic on freedom of contract and we didn’t get a penny for him.
Tommy Burns did not sell John Collins. He chose to leave to play in a better league for more money is my recollection of events.
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Nobody said that TB sold Collins.
July 1995 Everton v Celtic 2-2 Collins both goals, TB virtually trying to flog Collins after that game.
When Collins stood firm, a rift developed in the dressing room which soon became evident on the pitch were it looked like Collins was playing out of his skin and was miles above anyone else, that was beyond dispute at this time, but, Collins wasn’t the player who tried to get rid of Macari, and other blue eyed bhoys did, so McCann was going to run out of money in October, this was early August and Collins was the only Celt in the team who could be sold to raise more money for the new manager. No money because McCann stabbed the ‘Rebel Consortium’ in the back, so they baled out, refusing to back McCann’s dodgy 2 faced plan, but this wasn’t John Collins fault, and he correctly refused to carry the cross for it and sign for, Derby, or Middlesbrough, why should he? Because John Collins stood up to TB, and McCann, he stood head and shoulders above the traitors who stabbed Luigi in the back, who amazingly were praised to the hilt by the new manager, causing a split. No wonder they all end up sacked as losers out of Celtic, what a grand old PLC puppet show.
John Collins CSC
GENE on 14TH FEBRUARY 2022 4:59 PM
Jhb
That’s tosh – without the support of the establishment, media and silence by other clubs including Celtic they would have been in their own imaginary world of 55 and all that guff.
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They ARE now in their “own imaginary world of 55 and all that guff” – without help from anyone – they don’t need it!
What could/can the Celtic board have done, or, now do, to disabuse them of that notion?
The media swallow it because the majority of the media is dominated by Ibrox sycophants…. and the owners don’t want a long-running feud with Ibrox.
Roses are red
rangers* were blue,
Admin came first,
Then Liquidation came too!
🤣😂🤣😂
*no longer exist*
” It began with a purported billionaire in the shape of ‘financial whizzkid from Motherwell’ Craig Whyte with wealth “off the radar” moving to buy Rangers for just £1.
It ended with financial meltdown, liquidation, a humiliating relegation to the bottom rung of the Scottish Football League”
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congratulations to the evening times for managing to write 1 sentence that has accuracy relating to those events 10 years ago
that has been a rarity in the brit media over the period
it didnt last long though, their 2nd sentence mentions ‘humiliating relegation”
relegation?
really?
is that actually what happened?
we all know it wasnt
the biggest humiliation in the whole episode was how the press up here back-tracked big time from their “RIP” headlines to start peddleing the relegation myth
the evening times being one of the major culprits
Park
You are the epitome of an Internet troll. You contribute nothing but disruption. You know nothing of any note about the Celtic support, yet you land here daily to run down that same support in a manner that would have a Hun applaud.
Take your Irish Tosh and head over to Ibrox where you belong
JHB on 14TH FEBRUARY 2022 5:27 PM
It isn’t about what the huns think. It’s about what the rest of the football world thinks. They’ve been allowed to get away with gaslighting because they haven’t been challenged.
And don’t forget when this started there was universal consensus that the old club had died. It wouldn’t have been in the least bit controversial or confrontational for Celtic to have made it absolutely clear what the truth was and were they stood on the issue.
I reminded of something Brecht said, ‘If you fight you might lose. If you don’t you’ve already lost.’ Celtic didn’t fight.
Jhb
The point is they’re not – it’s only supporters who comment from the terracing. As far as the wider world is concerned their the same filthy mob.
wis that no william wallace ?
Ernie
Spot on
Eduardo Romero R.I.P.
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I was just looking to see if there are any Russian teams left in Europe. There is one – Zenit – who host Betis on Thursday. Two things spring to mind:
1 That could have been us! Betis pipped us by one point.
2 How can that game go ahead if Russia invade Ukraine any time before kick off???
Zenit should be thrown out if this invasion starts.
Given the storm forecasts I think our own game could be under threat.
Saint stivs
Think it’s supposed to ease a bit Thursday night 🤞
Billy
Think football is the last thing on their minds
CLINKO on 14TH FEBRUARY 2022 5:45 PM
Park
You are the epitome of an Internet troll. You contribute nothing but disruption. You know nothing of any note about the Celtic support, yet you land here daily to run down that same support in a manner that would have a Hun applaud.
Take your Irish Tosh and head over to Ibrox where you belong
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Do you want me to be like you and financially ££££back a board of frauds??
George Galloway (@georgegalloway) Tweeted:
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Jeezo
Never seen that…BR Binned !
everybody wants to be a cat
Ernie
The Celtic View stated that the 3-0 game in May 2012 was the “last ever Old Firm game”. We should have been equally emphatic in welcoming the new club on their first visit. The chance to nail our colours firmly to the mast were squandered. We had to make do with the Rory Bremner remark by PL and the Old Firm tag being mothballed by the club.
This contributed to letting the hun off the hook. As I mentioned in an earlier post the end result was that the two tribes have barely communicated during the past decade.
Sorry folks.. bollocks.
Park
Only a matter of time before George Galloway reared his head.
You’re the fraud – how many blog names
At least I use my real name
BB
No chance Gazprom are a major UEFA sponsor.
dearie me,
first caller to clyde.
why is kennedy and strachan still there, they dont do anything.
ffs
If Kevj is on Clyde then we might get peace for a wee while
Read backs are great when you scroll by certain Posters, it’s actually fun.
on way home last night I was listening to talk sport.
Leicester and Rodgers was the hot topic.
An entitled and ranting caller blasted Rodgers as being nopeless at substitutions, sofet centred at the back, cant set up a defense, tinkers too much with formations, and the team is going backwards. He has also wasted a lot of money, and cup win was just luck with his real failings being he blew the two CL places.
Leicester supporter.
This is his 3rd season now, he will be on themove soon I expect. Meanwhile does anyone know How that Howe charachter is doing and how his backroom staff are coping in the north of england as opposed to the costa del clyde
Clinko- VG
That lot can put the lipstick on the pig any way they like. At the end of the day we watched them go bust. They could win 10 in a row and nothing would take that away.
Clinko
Only one of his identities will be on the radio which leaves another 3 to disrupt the blog
poor geoffrey,
has anyone noticed, when there is a winter shutdown rangers come back not as good.
David Whitehouse, Administrator for Duff and Phelps over the Rangers demise in todays Mail online……
“ it was a complete work of fantasy because ,in effect,the police investigating us were Rangers fans”.
“ all they wanted to do was talk about Ally McCoist. It felt like they were not there to do the job ; they just wanted to have their moment inside Ibrox”
Plus ca change.
Park the Special Bus Citizens and Blooter it into Seville.
STV had item on the deid team’s administration. Mentioned (almost in passing) their liquidation. Managed to avoid saying that the team now playing in Govan is a new entity. Equivocation would sum it up. Doubt BBC Scotland will even mention the anniversary.
In 1990 when the Soviet Union collapsed, the Kremlin agreed to give up East Germany after an agreement with NATO that they would not move an inch eastward.
Now – 30 years on – and NATO has been making moves to accept Ukraine into membership. It is a clear breach of the 1990 agreement and the Russians are understandably enraged.
I fear the Rubicon has been crossed and war is inevitable.