The lesson from Arbroath

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So what did we learn yesterday?  Primarily we learned that you can’t replace 8 players from a team which won 0-4 at Tynecastle while leaving the core element of the team in place.  It is justifiable to be critical of the performances of experienced key players who didn’t perform, but Wanyama, Brown, Matthews, Miku didn’t become bad players overnight, nor did Tony Watt, what happened is the essence of our team – the system – was missing.

The effort was there but the focus which makes this Celtic team wasn’t.  In many ways this was the perfect setup for a Champions League game against a team too many people are telling me we’ll turn over.  Our Christmas Cup Final on Wednesday will require every element that existed against Barcelona last month.

The knives are out for Spartak’s foreign players, who are taking the blame for the clubs disintegration since losing at home to Celtic, both in the press and online fan polls.  We may see a more Russian looking Spartak on Wednesday.  Which will be no bad thing.

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  1. Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on

    unewe..

     

    put the saki down and slowly move away from the decanter

     

    your judegement is impaired

     

    kojo is not the sea cucumber thats philvis ffs

  2. Canamalar you will need to navigate your stock pile of red and yellow cards, remove the tinted spectacles and then enjoy your own humble pie lest ye choke on your newly acquired taste for cucumbers. Joe Ledley is the real deal and I would not be surprised if he finished his career at Celtic.

     

    Perhaps Celtics renown lionhearts will evolve into Dragon hearts …step forward messers Matthews and Ledley

  3. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    UNEW MIKE

     

     

    Say hi to MARGARET McGILL from me,please.

     

     

    I’m missing that sharp wit-and sharper tongue!

     

     

    Canny believe she’s still in Japan though. Some amount of globe-trotting she’s done these last few months.

  4. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    UNEW MIKE

     

     

    CANAMALAR hurls so many insults and jibes at so many different people,he forgets which to whom now and again.

     

     

    Gotta give him his due,he’s got a fairly rich turn of phrase!

  5. Bobby will do

     

    You do realise that she is a he as I am sure awe naw can verify

     

    Mags is here for a few more weeks yet

     

    hail hail

  6. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    UNEW MIKE

     

     

    Perfectly well aware of that,mate.

     

     

    But I canny quite bring myself to describe someone called Margaret as “he”,so quite happy to address the persona,if you see what I mean.

  7. Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on

    unew..,

     

    bang on, BMCUW, dont be so flippant, I know exactly who I like and who I alot indifference.

     

    the sea cucumber is an especially poisonous beast, I can think of no common ground unew refers too but looking forward to being enlightened as it will arm me for the future.

     

    As it is I think unew is struggling with getting the spirit back in the bottle :oD))

     

    interest captured

  8. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    CANAMALAR

     

     

    That’s a dirty lowdown trick,telling us yer off to yer cot,thus encouraging us-well,me,actually-to snipe away in your absence,haha!

  9. canamalar be intrigued because you have much in common with the swindon supremo now by my humble reckoning that would make the three Cs (Cucumber, Canamalar and Canio)

     

    now is that …

     

    clear

     

    concise

     

    and correct

  10. Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on

    humble pie,

     

    weeks of dogs abuse suddenly served up as main course Mmmm

     

    all that doubt becomes spice

     

    all that criticism evaporates

     

    the lightests sauce

     

    the softest flesh Mmmmm succulent lamb Mmmmm

     

    :o) humble pie tastes good when its your own dishing ot up

     

    anybody elses is just bitter, innit :o)

     

    I love my duds showing up my ignorance.

     

    hail hail

  11. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    CANAMALAR

     

     

    Only jesting,bud. No stranger to humble pie myself.

     

     

    A great believer in putting my hands up and apologising when I’m wrong,or out-of-order.

     

     

    Had plenty of practice over the years,comes with the warped sense of humour…..

  12. canamalar its an ego thing shared by the three Cs that blinds them to their own delusions and misjudgements hence the rose tinted spectacles

  13. Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on

    unew..,

     

    theres a toilet paper surplus here so be careful :o)

     

    with gibberish like that I can see me getting a yellow card

     

    this ego is more than happy to sit at the back of the bus if yer ready to justify my place.

     

    as yet yev been very cryptic, so I’m coming right out and asking

     

    Whats me and the sea cucumber got in common that you can classify us together

  14. Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on

    In fact thats offensive to me, can I demand a yellow card

     

    remind me in the morning or afternoon, to write an outraged of partick letter to the editor, hopefully my disatisfaction with the administration and protection of my sensibilities is a spur to defend the right I have acquired not to be offended, innit.

     

    ou ou ooouuuuwwww

  15. Canamalar

     

    your both celtic supporters for starters

     

    your lack of appreciation for Joe Ledley for seconds

     

    your ego for thirds

     

    your rose tinted spectacles for fourths

     

    your warped humour for fifths

     

    your digression from celtic/football matters for no 6

     

    your propensity to lob handgrenades before apparently sleeking off to sleep for number seven

     

    your indefatgitable ability to wind people up for no 8

     

    your acquisition of yellow cards for number nine

     

    you would both start arguements in an empty room for 10

     

    but no doubt you are both mischievous lovable rogues at heart for no 11

     

    canamalar that’s a full team of shared attributes for the collective Cs

     

    clear

     

    concise

     

    correct

  16. Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on

    Unewmike,

     

    I despair,

     

    I will be demanding a yellow card for you

     

    I am outraged at the suggestion that I am in any way sympathetic to your friends ends.

     

    Paul67

     

    This kind of thing is not good enough

     

    People with opinions of interpretations which are frankly outrageous offend me

     

    I demand that you demand better

     

    Oh and yellow card Unewmike he’s a chancer :o) like me. So if you can humiliate a blogger without lavvy paper with a yellow card, hopefully chase the lady finds a pair.

     

    Down with this sort of thing.

  17. Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on

    Sleep sleep !!

     

    It’s ok for some eh

     

    Bloody show off

     

    Come on here with their somnic prowes

     

    Bloody outrage, offended doesn’t even come close I demand a red card

  18. Good morning friends (HT, you’re up early?) from snow covered East Kilbride.

     

     

    61½ hours…

  19. Jobo

     

     

    Usually up at that time buy my eyes aren’t open well enough to see the screen!!

     

     

    Maybe with this weather we should have kept a hold of Evander….

  20. Morning All from a freezing Deutschland. Just read Jabba’s resignation speech. Exactly what Nietzsche meant by ‘ressentiment’. Hilarious.

  21. Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on

    So today I closed the poll

     

    Of 1018 votes

     

    95% (967) voted in favour of the Green Brigade action against harassment

     

    5% (51) voted for alternative action against harassment

     

    The Celtic board have all the power, this is not a power struggle

  22. Morning,

     

     

    All will be forgiven if we hump Spartak.

     

     

    You know how there is a AFL and an NFL in America. A certain Yorkshireman thinks he can do the same before going to the top of the pile.

  23. Som mes que un club on

    Jabba admits defeat and rides off into the sunset.

     

     

    Starts off by saying how much of a privilege it had been to be a journalist.

     

     

    Finishes with a foaming at the description of the Internet bampots.

  24. You have got to hand it to Traynor… He has some chutzpah criticising the quality of anyone else’s journalism considering the spin and untruths he has inflicted on us for years. Craig why’re a billionaire? Succulent lamb?

     

     

    He us a tragic man, he could have been a great sports writer but instead became a presstitute for Murray. The tone of his farewell- spewing the kind of snide invective more common to follow follow- tells you everything you need to know about his career.

     

     

    There are no second acts, Jimbo. Your career stands as a cautionary take of what happens when journalists turn off their journalist instincts and play politics instead…

  25. saltires en sevilla on

    Good morning fellow Celts – white landscape and Jim Traynor is pure as the driven snow ;-)

     

     

    I don’t do links but hope you get to read his long awaited resignation speech ….

     

     

    One hurting, bitter man – are we to believe he has written his last column, not resigned nor made redundant – has he been compromised out tho’ ? -that is the question

     

     

    Where will he go? – Media House or Sevco Press Officer/ PR Guru (sic)

     

     

    Or is he just another yesterday’s man – quickly forgotten an irrelevance

     

     

    The ring-wraith of the whitewash is written out in a whiteout

     

     

    Wringing No tears here :-)

  26. Good morning from a white Port Glasgow. Good news is that the rain is now on.

     

    Just switched on SSN, is the presenter wearing one of those ties from thon deid club?

     

     

    HH