No excuses, Celtic were poor and deserved nothing more than they got at Kilmarnock yesterday. Too often a new central defensive partnership looked for a forward pass and were faced with statuesque targets. Kilmarnock went man-to-man and were mostly able to keep the contest in the middle of the park until very late in the game.
Kyogo, as ever, was the exception, continually moving, dropping deep to offer an outlet despite invariably being fouled. Daizen Maeda has sufficient energy to get up and down the field all day, but we saw little of this. He and Liel Abada were often uninvolved onlookers, waiting for the ball to work through central midfield. We are left pondering if this was the plan.
One promising interchange between Matt O’Riley and Odin Holm, almost set up Kyogo, offered a glimpse of what was meant to be, if it had been replicated a few more times, the result would have been different. As we have discussed before, our midfield is young and nimble, sometimes heft and experience is required.
Yang (64 mins) and Sead Haksabanovic (75 mins) significantly picked up Celtic’s pace when they came on, credit to Kilmarnock, however, they had a lead to defend and were intent on doing so.
The goal was scored when Celtic were temporarily reduced to 10 men, Greg Taylor was off being treated for a cut, sustained when he was elbowed on the head. The referee and VAR apparently missed the incident, a clear swing of the elbow. Officials also missed a late trip on Sead Haksabanovic inside the box. It was a penalty in any other coloured shirt, but it wasn’t something our general play deserved.
Early in his first tenure Brendan Rodgers suffered defeat to Lincoln Red Imps, a setup which cost him nothing. This one will sting a tad longer and asks just as many questions.
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Prestonpans
I’m free!
Here is the podcast link, not that it matters.
https://thecynic.co/podcasts/cynic-features/rodgers-at-leicester/
Prestonpans
We’ll have a day oot in Embra with that Tam McLaughlin rascal aka Hopalong Cassidy. 😀
Dessybhoy
With our backroom staff unchanged I’d be surprised if the training methods would change so quickly.
Didn’t we keep the backroom staff after Ange left?
Glen O’ Driscoll has also come in from Leicester as our head of fitness and conditioning, no?
Gene
O driscoll is in charge now as he was in the first spell it’s too many to be bad luck.
DESSYBHOY
Thanks for the update
BRRB
Noted, is old smoke day the hun game BTW?
gene
I see you beat me to make the same point.
Ah woulda got there sooner but I pulled a hamstring on the way to the keyboard!
Celtic Mac
That O’Driscoll gets everywhere
gene
He’s quick off the mark
Brendan becomes Dr Crippen after first cup defeat
it is a poor read on here today, but the made up stuff is just that.
brendan should say no more interviews, everybody reads too much into it.
as to heart not being in it, maybe he has just matured, or he is answering questions and thinking what this crap again with these morons.
Seems to me there is a lot of ref pointing today, ref being their 12th man etc.
If he’d been our 12th man we still would have lost.
I know the ref thing in Scotland, we all do, but ffs, have a look at our performance, or lack of it.
Very disturbing
KINGLuBO
If he’d been our 12th man we still would have lost
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how ?
he would have sent off the guy for the elbow, disallowed their goal, and gave us a penalty.
We are so used to winning this and other blogs are like…….it’s akin to a junkie desperate for his fix…….the incoherent ramblings of some are hunbelievable.
We lost a game of football FFS, had the game been refereed fairly I don’t believe we would have lost, goals change games, red cards change games, penalties change games, we should NOT have had a goal given against us, they should have been down to 10 men and we should def have had a pen, that said we were shite.
I just have this horrible feeling that we are back to just keeping slightly ahead of the hun, the OF is alive and well.
Well that’s another 24 hours gone …..how many days to go now ???….
Reading back, a few posters concerned about Brendan’s “sole”.
What has his shoe style got to do with anything?
Some hysterical reactions on here to the result yesterday. We were poor and we lost.
I do wish someone like Brendan would come out and say outright that the Kilmarnock pitch is the worst professional pitch in the UK and should not be allowed at the top level of the professional game. It provides clear advantage to the home side and it’s a horrible watch for spectators. Stop saying we can’t blame the pitch etc – we can and we should, as should every other team. I know we have won there in the past, but it’s irrelevant.
We should also call out the VAR mistakes and ask for an explanation for the on-side decision and the trip on Haska. The elbow on Taylor should also be looked at as it was ‘missed’ by the ref and VAR team. We didn’t deserve anything from the game but the rules need to be applied.
Now I see a rumoured injury for our new CB, and it’s Brendan’s fault. Jeez.
PRESTONPANS BHOYS
You are welcome to join us in Kitty’s for the Ibrox game.
BIGRAILROADBLUES
You too pal.
Tom
Sounds like a plan, put me down. Is there some where separate in the bar we can put BRRB 🙃
CELTIC V ST. JOHNSTONE
CINCH PREMIERSHIP | SAT, 26 AUG | KO 3PM | CELTIC PARK
– This match is now sold out –
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with a capacity of 60,440, and the sold out signs up, what will the official attendance be ?
under 59,000.
one thousand or so empty seats, i now believe the ticekt office needs a revamp on its kpi’s, if no one sits in my old seat AGAIN, why was it not put up for sale ?
someone needs to review the system.
and again.
CELTIC V DUNDEE
CINCH PREMIERSHIP | SAT, 16 SEP | KO 3PM | CELTIC PARK
– Tickets for this match are now sold out –
I don’t think there was a red card in that game yesterday but the elbow on wee GT was worthy of a yellow in any other league. This would have meant that he would not have had to leave the field to get treatment so we would not have been down to 10 men when they scored.
If it was a penalty on Saturday then it was a stonewaller on Sunday
If anyone watched the Kilmarnock game and needs a break this Saturday from BrendanBall, I am still on the lookout for two tickets together and happy to pay whatever is the going rate.
My son and I will be in Scotland From Wednesday.
HH
TOM McLAUGHLIN@4.45
It’s a lot of cobblers if you ask me .
DENIABHOY
Enjoy the trip, hope you get the tickets!
CLINKO
In the video clip doing the rounds you see the Killie player deliberately jerk his elbow back towards Taylors head . If VAR reviews that it’s a very bright shade of red .
JOCKODEE on 21ST AUGUST 2023 1:16 PM
Whether we deserved to win or not is irrelevant. The Huns and their refereeing brethren might think it’s funny but L bet Viaplay don’t! I wonder much revenue this jolly wheeze has cost them.
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Yip.
And yet their commentary team rejoiced at full time.
Maybe that’s part of the reason they’re clearing out of Scottish football.
Interesting posts earlier about who do we complain about refs to?
Answer, IMHO – no one. Officially.
But we make it part of the narrative that eventually groundswells to the point it CANNOT be ignored.
Similar to penalty statistics.
More subjective so discipline required to focus on the blatant bias only.
Manager needs to chip in with quips too, particularly pre-match.
PRESTONPANS BHOYS
Get my email address from BRRB and I’ll keep you posted before the game.
We can employ BRRB as our waiter for the room. We’ll keep him busy I’m sure and have a whip round at the end.
Cheers Aipple. Weather forecast is rain every day for the week we are there ☔ Reminds me why as a kid I always wanted to move abroad 😎☀️
“The Old Firm rivalry came to an abrupt end in 2012 when the Rangers franchise was liquidated.”
– Encyclopedia Britannica (ironically, because that empires days are over as well)
DENIABHOY re: weather
My Loovul lover thinks it never rains in Scotland, she always gets lucky. 4 years ago up and down the east coast, not a drop. Same as Skye and Glasgow trip last year.
I don’t know Brendan Rodgers and I cannot speak to his state of mind.
A lot of posters are claiming that their pet theories were proved right yesterday but nothing was proven by a one-off game. It’s the start of the season and inconsistencies in performance are going to be there. but all that’s happened is we have lost an early season league game. That is not an anomaly or something we haven’t seen before. A loss in every group of 11 games and dropped points every half dozen or so games, is a usual occurrence in a season. Here is a summary of the past decade.
2013/14- 6 draws 1 loss *
2014/15- 5 draws 4 defeats*
2015/16- 8 draws- 4 defeats*
2016/17- 4 draws 0 defeats
2017/18- 10 draws , 4 defeats
2018/19- 6 draws, 5 defeats
2019/20- 2 draws 2 defeat
* The first 3 seasons were played without a Rangers team in the league
*2020/21- 11 draws, 5 defeats
*This was the only year we lost the league
2021/22- 6 draws,3 defeats
2022/23- 3 draws, 3 defeats
So, on average, during the last decade we draw just over 6 times a season and lose just over 3 times. We still won the league in 9 of those seasons and the dropped points were not always in Glasgow Derby games- that’s another myth.
Of course, at present , if you are negatively minded, you could assert that we’ve lost one in 3 games. If that pattern repeats, we will lose 10 or 11 games in this season, which is genuine league losing form.
But no statistician of note would extrapolate from a season of 3 games and assert, with any confidence, that they are seeing a pattern.
But football fans will do this confidently when statisticians would baulk.
Tom McLaughlin
It’s the ole parcel of brogues
what has a league cup tie defeat got to do with league points being dropped ?