Whenever Leigh Griffiths and Patrick Roberts were on the ball last night, Lincoln Red Imps sensed danger. Both could control instantly, control with little space and disorientate defenders. Leigh and Patrick aside, the rest had an excellent first half. Passing was crisp, accurate and fast.
The shape of the team, with variously Lustig, Brown, Tierney and Shevchenko operating in a moveable back three, allowed players to find space between Red Imps’ 5-4-1.
These games are not about impressing anyone, they are about getting into the next round, but the tie was over by halftime, allowing Celtic to step the pace down, and Red Imps to show that they were more than they appeared to be in the first half.
Stiffer tests lie ahead, when more will need to perform at the levels of Patrick and Leigh.
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What a fuckin shambles
Maybe PL thinks he can get some Pokemon guys in for next week
Shafted yet again
Finally an answer to why Turkeybhoy is Mr Angry.
Awe they trips to ipox as a wean have taken their toll:-)
H.H
THE GLORIOUS BALANCE SHEET on 21ST JULY 2016 11:06 PM
I didn`t say any of that.
You obviously wish I had.
Board remuneration .
A matter for the Board.
The one that just made a bold , ambitious and imho visionary managerial appointment.
The failure of the Board to hand Ronny his jotters two months after his arrival , now that`s another matter.
Incidentally , was he sacked or did he finally recognise his own inadequacies and walk.
Does anyone know ?
THESPIRITOFARTHURLEE 1056
I wish they’d found the combination as well.
SAINT STIVS SAYS SACK THE BOARD on 21ST JULY 2016 11:08 PM
Turkeyboy.
Are you 75 ?
Your memories there.
Did you ever see a handsome ?
LOL, no,64.I was a football fanatic.All the Annuals at the time,The Topical Times,my favourite,these guys were all heroes to me through reading about them.The chance to see them was to great to miss.The Huns did not bother me.
A handsome Hun.H,mmm.Probably the most handsome would have been Willie Henderson !!!!!!!!!.Ha ha ha ha.
GARY67 on 21ST JULY 2016 11:11 PM
Yes. Charlie Mulgrew AND kris Commons.
Proven performers over the years.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 21ST JULY 2016 11:15 PM
Hey, Murdy.
Tell H.T. he is missed.
Talking about Huns,my Da was a dead ringer for an animal of a left back that played at that time,Bobby Shearer.Used to get mistaken for him.
He really hated that.And Shearer
MACJAY
Unbecoming of you,old bean. Kicking a man when he is down.
RD apparently had let it be known that he would leave at the end of the season. It wasn’t working for him,it wasn’t working for Celtic.
I’d like that to be true. Personally,I suspect the accounts will show that we paid him his contractual entitlement.
50 SHADES OF GREEN on 21ST JULY 2016 11:13 PM
Finally an answer to why Turkeybhoy is Mr Angry.
Awe they trips to ipox as a wean have taken their toll:-)
H.H
Aye,and dont you fekin forget it !!!!!!!.I”ll Mr Angry YOU.
LOL.
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 21ST JULY 2016 11:16 PM
Mulgrew or Ambrose?
Mulgrew or someone out of position?
Mulgrew or an untried kid?
I know who I’d rather have next week. An international, can cover many positions and would buy the manager some time until he could get the players in he wants.
Turkeybhoy.
I am gonny cut you some slack. Those childhood experience s.
You have suffered enough
MACJAY
Just so happens I mailed him earlier,pointing that out.
The liquidation of Rangers FC
Jim Spence at his best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHxst2slWU0
Living within our means someone said earlier.
2015 Results from official site
Group revenue decreased by 21.1% to £51.08m
Operating expenses decreased by 11.1% to £53.27m
Exceptional costs of £0.74m (2014: £4.66m)
Gain on sale of player registrations of £6.77m (2014: £17.05m)
Loss before taxation of £3.95m (2014: profit of £11.17m)
Hardly living with our means.
Although not in same league as our dead rivals.
So can we have C Mulgrew as a wildcard
It’saswindle
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 21ST JULY 2016 11:18 PM
Mate . I was kicking him long before he was down.
A far more disastrous appointment than any I can remember.
Incidentally , he isn`t down .
He has been relieved of , or left , a work situation which was harmful to his personal health. imho.
THE SPIRIT OF ARTHUR LEE on 21ST JULY 2016 11:26 PM
So can we have C Mulgrew as a wildcard
Would you be surprised?
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 21ST JULY 2016 11:21 PM
MACJAY
Tell him that I miss him.
That`ll do the trick.
:-)
I am not blaming anyone for not being able to buy in a CH.I know agents,and players will string you along.Maybe you think the deal is tied up,then it stalls.Back to square one.I always thought that Toure could have been brought in on loan.Pay him the money for a year.We have a CH in Simunovic,on the road back to fitness,Toure would have been a great move for us.
Still pig sick though.
Never dull supporting the Hoops.
Celtic PLC is a very small business.
There are start up gaming companies in Dundee with 70 employees that have a higher turnover and bigger by some distance profit.
The sharp suited man is old school.
Kpis for himself.
Accountant s setting their own.
Anyways.
Keep it lit.
Mulgrew cost Celtic and Scotland a heap of goals last season. His best days are long past unfortunately. He had an amazing season a few years ago but that was a few years ago.
I’d rather we bought one solid centre half rather than three crap ones tonight for the sake of it, just so we can get a cheap headline in the Daily Record.
The feck they care anyway.
GARY67 on 21ST JULY 2016 11:20 PM
Exactly the way I see it.
In these situations , there is nothing quite like experience.
Not much in the team right now. Faither in goals and Broony ?
That`s why I would have K.C. available if fit.
Even as sub.
GARY67
Ripped off again with the gambler PL
One of my favourite excuses for Celtic not signing players in advance of CL campaigns is the old “we’re after quality players who aren’t short of offers from elsewhere and who need to be guaranteed CL football before they’ll come to Scotland” line
So let’s see how that has played out in the past.
2008 – we automatically qualified for the CL. Who did we sign in the summer? Maloney, samaras (loan converted to permanent signing) and Loovens. Yep – they would have had plenty of other options from other top European teams at that time. I doubt it.
2012 – after securing CL qualification we signed Efe Ambrose, miku (loan), lassad and lubos kamenar. A stellar cast of top drawer players who were clearly inundated with offers but just waiting for Celtic to qualify for the CL. Supplemented in the January window – when we had reached the CL last 16 – by rami Gershon, tom Rogic, viktor noring and Colin mccade.
If those were our stellar CL signings, god only knows who would we have signed had we ended up in the Europa league.
2013 – after securing CL qualification we signed Bitton, pukki and max oberschmidt. Again, hardly guys likely to have attractive offers from across Europe and who were in a strong enough position to say to Celtic in July “well thanks for your interest, but I have lots of other options so I would rather string those other teams along until I know of celtic’s CL qualification fate”.
Remember – pukki was frozen out at Schalke and Bitton was in the Israeli league. I’m sure they’d have jumped at a move to Celtic earlier in the window.
The issue is that our board do not want to commit until they know whether it is CL, EL or no European football in any given season. That often isn’t cleared up until a couple of days before the transfer window.
And often at that point you are left only with risky signings – the guys that no one else wanted or took earlier in the window, guys that their own parent club want shot of for whatever reason, in short guys who are unlikely to make the grade at Celtic.
Think of the business we have concluded towards the end of the summer transfer window in recent years. Ambrose miku lassad kamenar oberschmidt , Bitton, pukki, scepovic, Guidetti, Blackett, christie, simunovic. How many of these guys would you term as a success at Celtic? Very few I would argue.
We should have started preparing for this CL qualifying campaign in summer 2015. Instead we assembled the usual troupe of projects and loan signings, most of whom are nowhere near the Celtic first team one year later.
Signing players isn’t a straightforward business. But if you leave things to the last minute or overload the squad with inexperience or temporary loan players then you’re asking for trouble.
It’s not really the way a supposedly well run football club should be going about it’s business. Especially one so dependent on European qualification.
Surprised at the level of vitriol directed against Celtic plc and the signing saga from fans/supporters who arent in the know. Very strange indeed.
BOB O’BALDY
It’s nothing to do with a cheap headline in the daily record, it’s knowing two months ago we could be in a situation where we have one fit and reliable central defender. We should have been signing a central defender a month ago, not to meet a deadline tonight for one game.
Surely there must be a central,defender that is better than Ambrose, Mulgrew, Boyata that would be available at the right price.
‘GG on 21ST JULY 2016 11:23 PM
The bottom line.
Nothing quite like it.
Sobering figures.
GARY67
Correct
Love
70 years of age, and I am still looking in at 23 .00 on CQN to see if we have signed a player .
Who is a fool ? Sorry but I will watch and hope the Celtic I know and love will flourish but the Celtic of PL is not mine..HH
Board stance is frustrating as fuck ,why not go for it …Even once ?? Stadium is full again and now they risk chasing fans again
Macjay 1113
A simple answer the question asked – “do you think that a business turning over £40 to £50 million per annum awarding a CEO a remuneration package of £1 million per annum is consistent with living within your means?” will suffice.
I don’t need you to tell me that CEO remuneration is set by the board, you were championing the club living within its means, and rightly so, I’m asking whether the CEO getting 1 million Gbp a year is consistent with that given the size of the club’s revenues.
I wasn’t asking about who set the wage levels. But you knew that anyway I’m sure.
THE GLORIOUS BALANCE SHEET on 21ST JULY 2016 11:35 PM
Signing players isn’t a straightforward business. But if you leave things to the last minute or overload the squad with inexperience or temporary loan players then you’re asking for trouble.
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Some excellent points which , for me , underline the importance of caution in signing players.
We have a new striker who MAY prove to be able to do the business.
I agree , the back door is the priority and hopefully we can play for some time to close it.
I really don`t fancy the Kazhak gig .
A real tester for Brendan in every way.
Macjay 1152
No, I don’t fancy the Kazakh tie either. I think Astana are a useful team who have plenty of advantages re a formidable home record, plastic pitch and oppressively warm temperatures. They also have a team full of recent CL experience from last year, where they proved a tough nut to crack in their group. We have only Forrest Lustig and brown of Wednesdays team who have CL group stages experience.
Some grounds for optimism –
1. 2nd leg at home,
2. The time difference – game at Celtic park kicks off at 0045 am Kazakh time, finishing around 0230 am if settled in the 90 minutes but well towards 3.30am if extra time and penalties are required.
That surely will work against the Kazakhs. I think it was a big factor in us scraping through against Karagandy with the decisive goal in the 90th minute of the second leg at pushing on for 3am Kazakh time.
By the by – when Karagandy beat us 2-0 it was a huge shock. Big splash on the UEFA website, the talk of the football world. If Astana beat us 2-0 next week no one, either within the Celtic support, or the wider football world will bat an eyelid. That speaks volumes about how we have been poorly run in recent years.
From what I have seen of Toure he is every bit as capable of a clanger as Efe?
We don’t know what physical condition Charlie Mulgrew is in?
Would he be able to play? Is the risk worth a new contract?
We saw what happened when Kris Commons got a new contract.
BR might not want him (CmMcG) around for 2 years on the back of possibly playing next week.
Who knows?
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Re GG’s post at 11.23pm
Does anyone know what the Exceptional Cost of £4.66m in the 2014 Accounts was?
I think? Paul 67 mentioned at the time that it was mainly the cost of paying off NFL and his team?
From these figures , thank you `GG , it would appear we ran at a loss season 2015 .
‘GG on 21ST JULY 2016 11:23 PM
Living within our means someone said earlier.
2015 Results from official site
Group revenue decreased by 21.1% to £51.08m
Operating expenses decreased by 11.1% to £53.27m
Exceptional costs of £0.74m (2014: £4.66m)
Gain on sale of player registrations of £6.77m (2014: £17.05m)
Loss before taxation of £3.95m (2014: profit of £11.17m)
Hardly living with our means.
Although not in same league as our dead rivals.
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You ask me a question which I am in no position to answer .
The Board is packed with high achievers in the corporate world .
They are in a position to know . Surely ?
They have decided on P.L `s remuneration package.
And they give him his
I trust that they are not a bunch of mugs gulled by an overpaid underachiever.
P.L does what he is told to do.
If he didn`t he would have joined Ronny in the OUT tray.
And they give him his…………
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