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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GARY67 on 21ST JULY 2016 10:52 PM
We have known since the end of May that Erik Sviatchenko was the only fit and definitely centre half we had in the squad. We knew back then that Simunovic and Boyata would be unavailable for CL qualifiers due to injury. We knew Mulgrew hadn’t signed a new contact and the likelihood was he would be a free agent. We know Efe is an accident. Waiting to happen and cannot be relied on, coupled with the fact he wants to go to the Olympics with Nigeria.
Brendan Rodgers was appointed on 20th May, two months ago.
Leaving qualifying rounds deadlines aside, why the hell have we not signed a centre half when we knew two months ago we only had one? Doesn’t matter who we’re playing next week, or what competition its in, we need a centre half and we needed one two months ago.
Just said same ,I think BR would have known what we’re priorities,I think IMO he would have hoped for 3 or 4 of his own guys in now. If we had a poll who would partner Mulgrew with Sviachenko next Wednesday?
Yeah transfers are really difficult…… Like Dembele…..? A lot of super informed bhoys on here, bring back JoeLedley16 guy ….
Mr Angry used to post here in the early days….usually to wind people up
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We should invite these guys over for a friendly….even better…visit them…a wee reminder
THE GLORIOUS BALANCE SHEET on 22ND JULY 2016 12:02 AM
Your points about the trip to ( the borders of ) China make me feel a little more comfortable.
(Incidentally . UEFA .What a bunch of corrupt “stewards “.Wonder if there was a bung involved in that decision )
You say :
“That speaks volumes about how we have been poorly run in recent years.”
Can`t argue with that.
Which is why , I feel , the Board have responded to this perception and appointed Brendan.
Gie him and them time , pal.
Not limitless , however. :-)
Jings, bring back the bin
Bada bing
Transfers are so difficult that we only completed the 23 of them in Ronny deila’s two years at Celtic :) enough for a new team in each year!
As pointed out by Clogher Celt on here last night, I think
I think Celtic are very adept at making signings when it suits the CEO .unfortunately more often than not such signings occur after the horse has bolted and we have failed in the qualifiers
But then he tells us – via a puff piece in the daily record – that no one hurts more than him at our European failures, that we are doubly determined to succeed next time, that planning for next years CL starts now and that next year will be different
And when next year comes it’s the same old crap
!!BADA BING!! on 22ND JULY 2016 12:09 AM
The Aberdeen fans used to boo Charlie.
I liked that.
His majestic headed goal against the hun .
I liked that.
He is a proven performer . And may still be . Remains to be seen.
Bada Bing,
How many other clubs who are involved in the Qualifiers next week do you think are apparently running about looking for a centre half to play next week? Against a deadline which would mean paying over the odds for a player who isn’t ready?
RD should have left months ago. There should have been a complete audit of the recruitment process over the last 3 years.
This should all have been addressed months ago…imo
Glad the posts from those who believe that signing players is like buying sticky buns.
You see sticky buns are not people with their own ideas about living their own lives – they don’t have large amounts of money deposited in their bank account every month – they don’t have families who care about where they live and where their kids go to school – they don’t have agents – they don’t have contracts….so, even if we had the money, we would not be able to just pluck them ‘off the shelf’…..now sticky buns, that’s a different story.
!!BADA BING!!
Mulgrew has had no preseason has he??
He’s a slow as a week in Switzerland at the best of times:))
The Glorious Balance Sheet,
If only CL Qualification were among our CEO’s KPI’s! (to ensure a full bonus payment :) )
Given the absence of Sevco, reduced Season Book Sales, match day spend, lower sponsor/TV income…you know what the answers will be.
TGBS-good to see you back on,maybe if Dudu Duhan had an average CB,MF and a non scoring striker we would be sorted…..as a business this is CFCs biggest month of the year,and year after year we stumble into it like drunks,pre-season signings should be done in January. I never seen the sense in a Director of Football role, but I do now,given the frequency of new managers
* PL need not apply
Would not have Charlie Mulgrew in the team if I were to choose. Slow to ‘run’ , milk turns quicker, as one footed a player as I have ever seen including Mark Burchill, and that’s his good points! Walked off the pitch when wearing the Hoops. Not for me.. I would have walked on broken glass to wear a Celtic jersey. Don’t even wear replica tops only supporter-type ones.
Gutted.
Hypothetical like: Astana knock us out due to a cluster-F at the back.
What price on the nae spend policy?
SIN
And if we win ?
Nae spend justified ?
Gary67 –
“We should have offered Mulgrew a new contract.”
You mean like the one we offered him a couple of months ago, and is still on the table?
Ok I’ve are two predictions of late…
1. Lawwell has done his business – 50, 000 season tickets . Bonus secured , job done. Don’t hold your breath on Centre half for next round – we will go in with the team that has repeatedly failed in Europe ( 0 wins in 6 EL games – ffs!)
2. My second is that we end this season without one of BR or PL
Tonight takes us a step closer to no2
GG@11:03
Living within our doesn’t mean that we never incur a loss, or, have some debt – it means that we can, through our operations, recover our losses, over time, and service our debt from our revenues.
WE LIVE WITHIN OUR MEANS.
Macjay-
If we win, it’s the standard and natural course of nature one would expect when CELTIC play against an Asian minnow.
No expectation management here.
Clogher Celt
kPis based on CL qualification? Down with that sort of thing, can’t have big Peter’s bonus hingeing on a refereeing decision or Leigh griffiths missing a one on one in a qualifier. Can’t penalise big Peter for that.
Bada bing
Cheers! It’s the same story every season with this board. Their complacency knows no bounds. It’s not healthy for the same people to be in charge for so long and with the same mistakes being made. A fresh approach and new ideas are needed.
Macjay
On the earlier point about who sets CEO remuneration , that would be the plc remuneration committee made up of Brian Wilson, the former MP (MPs of course well known for judiciously applying pay restraint to their own salaries), Ian Bankier of “behave yourselves” fame and tom Allison who I believe was the sorcerer to PL’s apprentice at Clydeport.
I’m sure I can trust these three to do the right thing in relation to pl’s remuneration.
Time to cut that cloth chaps.
Macjay-
And nice try at avoiding my question. It still stands BTW.
If I ran my business without similar forethought, it would never huv got off the grun.
SIN CITY BHOY on 22ND JULY 2016 12:42 AM
It certainly used to be.
And must be again .
I feel confident that with Brendan at the helm it will be again.
The trip to China , though , is the awful lottery game.
If we can negotiate that , then……………………….
THE GLORIOUS BALANCE SHEET on 22ND JULY 2016 12:44 AM
If here penalised over such things we may have seen a more proactive/vocal approach to recent administrative issues with the SFA and UEFA ;)
BR now has a hard gig…
He’s landed with a shite team built by Lawwell and Park … And their previous puppet manager
BR is a good manager but he’s not a miracle worker. Yet he is accountable for beating a team who will present serious challenge.
I’ve said it before but we need to get 10 put and 3 in – I suspect in that order. That could take a few transfer windows.
Thanks Peter….
SIN CITY BHOY on 22ND JULY 2016 12:45 AM
I answered your rhetorical with mine.
Which you didn`t answer.
A clutter,was created at Celtic by signing Tom, Dick, and Harry mainly from the reduced rail, and unfortunately the last careerist usually got his man, then didn’t know what to do with them. The more recognized “we’re working very hard “ “we’ll try our very best” Irish accented platitudes are ringing round the east end of Glasgow again.
Brendan Rodgers is in situ ( remember he was ‘blissfully’ unemployed ) and took a nice little earner on his way back up again, to man ‘a world wide institution ‘ full well knowing that Celtic’s budget was somewhere on the scale between The Bosmandome and real football’s equivalent of peanuts.
He has made his bed and he lies in it , with a new coaching manual Celtic football fantascists up, but not quite manning the car park because we’ve seen this Celtic way, too many times before.
Ronny, and ‘the committee’ squandered our money on Boyata and perma crock Simunovic , and worse than that there is nobody who wants our surplus in Europe as the deadline passes and we’ll wait till August to watch the drifters go on loan to lighten the pay roll. We are retrialliing failures in friendlies whilst Rodgers tries to figure out flops, and fast.
Fifty thousand season tickets sold queued beyond closure and ‘our’ only real sellable asset having sealed five in a row, still belongs to Manchester City , and as Wednesday 2016 Euro nights start to wave goodbye before they’ve even started there’s nothing but Celtic supporter de ja vu.
Anyone for three at the back in Kazakhstan?
THE GLORIOUS BALANCE SHEET on 22ND JULY 2016 12:44 AM
Re. C.E.O. remuneration.
Good.
At least you`re sheeting home , and thereby spreading , the blame , instead of the scapegoating of driveway Pete.
Mind you , they`re all high achievers ,as I said.
Who would you prefer ?
A workers collective.
Some would .
CultsBhoy –
The Europa league record is even worse if you factor in the previous season’s results.
0 wins in the last 11 Europa league games.
Molde, red bull Salzburg and inter all scoring at least 3 at Celtic park, Ajax and fenerbahce scoring 2, and Zagreb scoring 4 against at their place in what was a meaningless game for them.
We recently went 10 years of European competition where Barcelona were the only team to beat us at Celtic park.
A million miles away from that standard now yet for some at the club declining performance translates into increased earnings. I’m at a loss to understand it.
BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 22ND JULY 2016 12:52 AM
I know.
Reminds me of Brexit.
:-)
I`m ever the optimist .
We`ve come through the doldrums before and we will again.
Brendan has eased himself into the job. Good.
Low key. Good.
Didn`t fall for the ” Dae somethin` ” line which has led to the purchase of some no hopers. Good.
He deserves success. And so do we.
BSR-
Aye. But three of whit?
Clogher Celt 1248-
A very good point! I’m sure he would pull the finger out then, a nice change from the token gestures that we’ve become used to e.g. “we have a dossier” or writing to the SFA “for clarification because the fans told us to” after the 2015 Inverness semi final
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 22ND JULY 2016 1:07 AM
Scotland will emerge victorious from Brexit if she plays her cards smart and votes to stay in the EC and leave the UK.
Celtic FC would do well to conduct her transfer affairs with financial prudence in mind. Why would anyone with Celtic’s interests at heart suggest otherwise?
Macjay 1256
High achievers? In what sense would you class Ian Bankier and Brian Wilson as high achievers in the world of transnational business corporations? What unique skills do you think they bring to Celtic and how is our club benefiting from their input?
I don’t believe I’ve ever said I want a workers collective running Celtic so I have no idea what prompted you to introduce that angle.
Many of the current board have been in place for the best part of well over 10 and in some cases approaching 20 years, not, i believe, a normal situation in the business world. Sometimes a fresh pair of eyes are needed to develop new ideas and solutions.
THE GLORIOUS BALANCE SHEET on 22ND JULY 2016 1:26 AM
You are more familiar with the Board members and their achievements than I am.
So , I`m happy to go along with your assessment. You may well be right that fresh faces are needed.
Although,interestingly , you don`t mention D. D.
I can`t see him tolerating idiots.
No matter.
You also seem to ignore our operating environment. Scotland. Seemingly , in terminal footballing decline.
And yet Celtic supporters are putting their hands in their pockets and their money where their mouths are.
The most damning indictment of the S.F.A. is the decline in Scottish football standards .
That`s their Achilles heel. Not their preferential treatment of the hun.
Glorious Balance Sheet,
KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
The Group monitors performance against the following key
performance indicators:
• Football success
• Match attendance statistics
• Sales performance per division
• Wage and other costs
• Capital expenditure
• Profit and cash generation
• Shareholder value
There’s the Group KPI’s, they don’t mention missing a centre half days before a CL Qualifier or even advertising online for a first team physio last week.
Don’t worry with the increase in SBs, that’ll increase match day attendance.
We’ll see an increase in sales per division, especially in ‘family targetted areas’ in the stadium
Wages and costs will be looked after by living within our means in an inflated, volatile, unpredictable market.
Zero hour contracts and the living wage being relevant examples.
Football success is dictated by the bounce of a ball and human error.
Don’t worry though we are on every board you can think of to ensure fair play :))
Foxy @ 1.24am
Agreed re financial prudence and transfers.
HH
FOXY on 22ND JULY 2016 1:24 AM
Scotland will emerge victorious from Brexit if she plays her cards smart and votes to stay in the EC and leave the UK.
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Nothing will happen , Scotland wise , in the near future.
U.K will leave,including Scotland , because the Scots no option.
The S.N.P. may then attempt to force another referendum. If victorious , an application to join the E.C. may be made. And it may be successful , but I think delay would be the E.C. tactic.
Actually , I see a huge opportunity for Irish reunification in all of this. But then that`s because I think the E.C. is finished or , at least, hugely diminished in terms of numbers.
The E.C. ba`s up on the slates.
Congratulations to the U.K. punters for recognising that and voting accordingly.
Ireland`s turn now.
I can’t believe we’re on the verge of the third round of CL qualifiers and have one central defender.
As mentioned earlier, we knew about the injuries, a central defender was a must.
Just in from work and logged on to see who we signed. There’s no excuse for leaving our player acquisitions this late.
CLOGHER CELT on 22ND JULY 2016 1:43 AM
Don’t agree.
If we’re dissecting success on the basis of bullet points, why is a proven and experienced performer on the field regarded as a long term asset?
If football is reduced to your business plan summation, I’m afraid they’ve lost me as a supporter. I’ll remain a fan, but the distinction is clear.
Football is entertainment and the paying customers deserve exactly that.
Such aforementioned long term assets should be regarded as the product to provide customer satisfaction, within that department you’ll find a wee category called “Success on the Field”.