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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Cant wait to see the projects Lawwell Jnr has lined up as the pressure mounts.
Reckon his old man will be on the blower for loan signings to try and save his skin.
Too late his first window and a complete failure —- needs to be replaced with a Technical Director and professional experienced scouting team. Lawwell jnr and his father have done untold damage to Celtic.
Both need to go now.
BSR
My wife gets the Daily Mail at the weekend.
It was feckin horrible!
BOURNESOUPRECIPE – even funnier, he name checked 2-3 managers who he highly regarded like McInnes and who he looked forward to meeting. Then he said there are new, up and coming managers like Beale.
DENIABHOY
I chucked the rag before the article mentioned anyone else!
Glad you are sorted for tickets!
Hope your Mum is good too!
DeniaBhoy:Ask P67/Mod for my email and we can take it from there. If anyone has both our emails and/or phone numbers could they pass them on please.
PhilBhoy – thanks. I spoke to my dad last night to tell him we were coming to visit. Said it was supposed to be a surprise but I’d let him decide whether he told Mum or not. “Brilliants” says he, “we’ll keep it as a surprise, she’ll be delighted”.
09.00am this morning, message from my Mum: ” What time is your flight in?”
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Paul67/Mod: Could you pass on my email to DeniaBhoy, please? TIA.
ALMORE – will do. Cheers
DENIABHOY
Who canny keep a secret then!
Have a great trip!
Sorry for asking, what is Paul or Mods email to pass on mine for ALMORE?
celticquicknews@gmail.com
That’s Paul.
Almore
Good man Almore,
i was just bout to ask around to see if i could get two together for Deniabhoy.
Good man
👍
HH
It takes 2 mins tops to set up an alternative Email addy, why the eff don’t folks do it , you want to keep your email private, set another one up and stop bothering Paul and the mod , they are not sectaries FFS
Exiled Tim – no worries.
ALMORE mine is info@cafeciclista.com, no need to bother Paul.
The United Kingdom of Great Britain was established by the Act(s) of Union 1706/1707. As of the Kingdoms of Scotland and England. Not to be confused with the Union of the Crowns 1603. The term Great(er) Britain was used by some earlier though but not with the same legal effect. Any Colonies established pre 1707, eg Barbados 1625, were of England not of Britain. The UK of GB and Ireland was formed by the Act of Union 1801. The UK of GB and NI dates from 1922 and if you do not know the history around that you have not been paying attention.
Lucky Cody
Best you go and worry about your own team.
Celtic is top of the league again and in the Champions League and has a squad significantly better and with more value than yours.
Ref Andrew Cotter
Even the athlete vests don’t mention NI but only GB.
Has anyone seen the Irish 400 metre girl. She is quite a runner and does a great interview ?
TET
If pl is at it again then Brendan will walk and i would not blame him he needs his own players.
Knowing nothing about football,AND being a” Secret Hun”.(Well not so secret,Lambert 14,spilt the beans),I was thinking,could the fact we are missing,3 of our back 4,from last season,the survivor,Taylor having to adapt to a different style,our brilliant Hatate,Aaron Mooy.,from midfield,and the possibly irreplaceable Jota gone ,have any bearing ?.Thats 6 of our top performers missing at the one time for various reasons.
I would think that would throw any team off kilter a tad.
No ?OK,then just sack PL Junior,that should Sort it all out.Its the only logical solution.
Lucky Cody
You do know don’t you, that Mark Lawwell was appointed Head of Recruitment just before we won five out of six trophies?
You do know that Celtic have had two highly paid experts AP and BR happy to work with ML and the others in the recruitment team?
You do know that for most of his tenure Daddy Peter wasn’t in office, and when he was, it was in a non executive capacity with nothing to do with recruitment?
You do know that ML was in the recruitment team chain at Celtic when we signed Hart Juranovic Giakoumakis Abada Kyogo Maeda Starfelt Jota CCV Johnston Mooy and a few more?
You do know that Celtic’s turnover has reached record levels?
You do know that we’re top of the league.
Aye that’s a fair bit of damage right enough.
DeniaBhoy: Email sent.
TET,
All the signings you mention earlier,that Ange brought in,were all projects at the time.Not one of them had the decent pedigree that our signings this window have.The 2 Korean boys,no different to our Japanese boys.Unknown to any of us.
BSR,
Aye right,have you finished ?.Right lads,Pitchforks,and Torches,and a few derogatory placards,we march on Celtic Park.
WE DESERVE BETTER,down with ERM,anything with a P and an L in it.
Good evening all from the Queens Park Cafe. By jove, you are an argumentative shower of rascals.
Tam McLaughlin
Prestonpans
Embra meet before Dundee game.
BelmontBrian
How did you know?🤔
BOURNESOUPRECIPE @ 9:13 PM,
A list of Mark’s signings…
Siegrist
Bernabei
Mooy – Retired
Haksabanovic
Kobayashi
Alister Johnston
Iwata
Oh
Holm
Tilio
Yang
Kwon
Nawrocki
Gustaf
Hail Hail
BSR
So you googled it to check my comment, saw I was right, so accuse me of googling it.
The prerogative of the would’ve-could’ve-should’ve.
SAINT STIVS
The British Isles is all the islands of Great Britain and Ireland. Again, a purely geographical term.
Chairbhoy
Which is why I qualified ‘ recruitment team ’ for my broader list.
I would guess he’s been in ‘the Celtic team’ since he was a recruitment analyst at Manchester City for the Celtic conduit, Jason Denayer Paddy Roberts and a fair few more.
Down with dynasties up and the rebels
Hail Hail
BOURNESOUPRECIPE @ 10:17 PM,
Yes, what P67 labelled the informal relationship
Indeed!!
Hail Hail
Grumpy McLaughlin
Yes I did, at least I admit it unlike your blatant piece of plagiarism.
In fairness yours was actually quite good, where as Mr Google ( as my Brother in Law calls it ) makes it worser, as you get taken down a rabbit warren and come up, none the wiser.
Feet up old bhoy.
*SENTINEL CELTS PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2023-24*
*RESULTS FROM GAME #3 – KILMARNOCK 1 CELTIC 0*
Good evening, friends.
A very uninspiring, pedestrian one-paced performance yesterday saw Celtic eliminated from the League Cup. Plastic pitches and poor officiating most certainly were a factor but individually and collectively our superstars have to do much better. Can’t we try shooting from outside the box? Can’t we occasionally try an optimistic defence splitting pass? Do we always have to play to the nearest man? In cup games where we are losing and there are 7 minutes added on can’t we swallow our pride and go route one?
Our first 3 games of the season haven’t really given us too many highlights. We can only hope that things start to improve quickly before we really get stuck in a rut.
Of course, not every player has a stinker and whilst I appreciate that trying to identify 3 deserving vote winners after a defeat isn’t top of everyone’s agenda, 5 players do have to walk away with the points for each game. And there’s at least some positivity when we see that 3 of our top 4 performers are still very new to the team.
So a big thank you to the 59 who found the energy to vote, even if some voters only nominated 1 or 2 players.
The total votes cast for each player are as follows, with my own nominations asterisked.
Hart*: 6
Ralston: 9
Nawrocki: 40
Lagerbielke*: 40
Taylor: 1
McGregor 2:
O’Riley: 3
Holm: 5
Abada: 0
Kyogo: 32
Maeda: 1
Turnbull: 0
Yang*: 26
Haksabanovic: 7
And so, the players receiving POINTS for the game against Kilmarnock are –
Lagerbielke and Nawrocki – 5 points each
Kyogo – 3 points
Yang – 2 points
Ralston – 1 point
The overall positions after 3 games played are –
12 points – Kyogo
9 points – Nawrocki
8 points – O’Riley
5 points – Lagerbielke
4 points –Turnbull
2 points – Carter-Vickers, Maeda, Ralston and Yang
0 points – Abada, Forrest, Hart, Hatate, Holm, Maeda, McGregor, Starfelt, Taylor
We now have just 5 more sleeps to wait until our next game, a home league game against St Johnstone at 3.00pm on a Saturday.
Remember, please continue to spread the word. Anyone can vote after any game and join in at any time – just keep a note of the email address – sencelpoty@gmail.com
Hail Hail!
I better go home. I see a bad moon rising.
VINNIETHEDOG @ 7:38 PM
Watching the athletics….Andrew Cotter gets on my tits ….wish I had a fiver for EVERY time he says GB AND Northern Ireland….mentions Northern Ireland every single fecking time
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Lol at this one VTD and the subsequent posts.
It’s the perfect windup of an Orange Ulsterman when they say they are “British”.
They ain’t. In law.
Citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland assuredly
But not British.
BTW – Andrew is one of the good guys and is likely bringing a level of factual accuracy to proceedings.
Some of his dumb acolytes can’t get their head round anything beyond “Team GB”.
PS – what about the athlete who ran for UK at last Olympics but turned out for Ireland at these world championships?
That’s what dual nationality can give you.
Even Orange Ulsterman has woken up to the fact.
Would love to see the graph showing the growth in Irish passports held by gentlemen whose first name is Sammy.
🤔🤔🤔🤦🤦🤦
Another CH bites the dust.Navrocki out now.Possibly only Gustav available.
This is getting farcical.
Scales/Iwata/Lagerbielke for the 2 CB positions it is then, probably until after the international break.
Unless an emergency loan or punt happens.
I think we can still expect to beat St. Johnstone at CP even with Lagerbielke and AN Other at CB, even if that is Scales, Iwata or Kobayashi.
Provided the rest of the team do better.
Let’s give CCV and Nawrocki as much time to recover as they need.
Kobayashi is gubbed too.