So what did we learn last night? For a start, when we need to, we can defend effectively and shut up shop, last night was our fourth clean sheet in Europe this season. The 4-5-1 formation, deployed for the opening 65 minutes, was not effective at producing attacking opportunities, although this may be as much to do with personnel as formation.
Emilio Izaguirre was swamped every time the ball went near him, which did little to settle his confidence. It was wise for Neil Lennon to hook him and drop Charlie Mulgew back. I felt sorry for Miku, who looked like a player in an unfamiliar line-up. He is not a lone target man but will do well when we get the ball to his feet. He was only asked to play that role due to injuries Hooper, Stokes and Samaras and will only do so again under similar circumstances. By contrast, Hooper looked the part once he came on. He bullied defenders as effectively as he does in the SPL, a real pleasing point for me.
Victor Wanyama needs to improve his sharpness to make the most of his composure and tackling ability at this level. The perpetual motion of Champions League teams means a fraction of a second off-pace can compromise the defensive formation.
Did you notice how every time Commons got the ball he was thinking “goal”? His turn before crossing from the left belied the meagre money we paid for him. He is every inch a Champions League player.
James Forrest was played out of the game by the full back. He/Neil needed to find a resolution to this challenge but it didn’t happen. He tried to knock the ball round the outside and pass on the inside a couple of times, which was over-ambitions, to say the least. I don’t think we saw him drop the shoulder and take the player on with the ball, which is a pity, as I’m sure he had the taking of his marker. Both Forrest and Wanyama will be stronger on Match Day 2.
The first objective from our return to Champions League football was that we would be able to compete at this level. That achieved, we can look forward to Moscow in 12 days time.
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bt
Wee Marco is often in my thoughts and prayers.
He rarely gets a mention on the blog, however, he does deserve our prayers and best wishes.
I hope his Mum and Dad are coping too.
May God help and bless the wee man.
I will light a candle for him tomorrow at St Michaels in Linlithgow.
And pleas give him a hug from me.
Two zombie Sevcovians playing cards.
One threw in his hand
The other wan lost the heid…….
Philbhoy
My father in law’s uncle in Aberdeen had a similar fate and his feelings towards that nation are implacable. The POW treatment by the Japanese was a war crime.
theweegreenman
CLASS
caeser1967
Try SNS pics or send them an email to see if they can help with photos.
Why did the zombie Sevcovian fail his driving test?
His foot kept sticking to the accelerator.
I think the Marketing guys have made a mistake in replacing the vowel with a cherry. Is it a missing O or I?
Sevco\’s new energy drink
@STVGrant How does whoever wrote it not know the aim was to dehumanise RFC fans as apes and show them being shot by IRA style sniper?
This was from that loony Chris Graham
SFTB,
Brilliant.
I really think that we need to invite them to Celtic Park for a “friendly” before they die again.
Can zombies come back frae the deid ?????
SFTB
A nasty, nasty nation. Then.
We remind our children of the horrors of the wars in Europe, but the japs wrote the manual.
TMWT
My fav Zombie Film
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Dudes_in_the_House
caeser1967
Photo of our bhoys on official page so may be worth contacting club….about photo of benfica players and mascots or find out who official photographer is and try that.
http://www.celticfc.net/newsstory?item=3108
henr1k
I think someone drew it rather than wrote it.
What an intellectual Chris Graham is.
Midfield Maestro – Thanks for the tip will try that.
Mate’s just come back from trekking Hadrian’s wall. He survived on Alphabet Spaghetti. He reckons his next jobbie will spell trouble!
Hail Hail
Estadio
I can’t believe not one of you have a problem with this banner. It’s totally wrong. Take a proper look at it, look at the shooter.
To kill a zombie you have to SHOOT IT IN THE HEAD. Otherwise your just wasting ammo.
ceaer
have you tried u tube?
there is a photographer who gets pics on gere all the tie, his name escapes me at the moment but I am sure someone will remember his name..
hen1rik
21:21 on 20 September, 2012
@STVGrant How does whoever wrote it not know the aim was to dehumanise RFC fans as apes and show them being shot by IRA style sniper?
This was from that loony Chris Graham
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That is an insult to apes :)))
have just seen the so called offensive banner
This really is getting stupid now isnt it.
Zombies are now politically sectarian………
Dear oh dear of dear
What’s the official Nil By Mouth view on Zombies?
I’m a bit confused, nothing new there then.
Was the [ Banner ] on display, or was it online ?
If it was on display, a halfwit lawyer will get the club off, all depends on how the club want to play it.
Udinesse comes to mind, they gave in without as much of a whimper.
Over to you PL, just call it banter, the sfa know all about banter !!!
Can someone post a link to this offensive banner
Phil and S.F.T.B.
Couldn`t agree more about the Bushido in W.W.II.
The tragedy is that we know more about it than succeeding generations of Japanese.
Huge potential for major conflict in the South China Sea right now.
…gotta love Shortbread…………
………..still batting for the defhunct klub, and still going the extra yard to stick it to us……….
Hurtin’ bad Chic ‘n’ Ally?
Shameful.
Pleased enough with endeavour of a young and injury hit team at CP last night. Crowd were good too, and at times very very good….
Absolutely disgusted at the behaviour I witnessed by some thugs and neds wearing green and white attempting to trash a No 25 bus passing through Hamilton….
Scum demonstrating behaviour more in keeping with following a Zombie type team..
SFTB – the following are now politically sectarian.
Zombies (including any depiction of the dead rising – therefore Jesus)
Daleks (and any other ugly Dr Who baddies or goodies lest they become associated with the sevconians)
Celtic (of course)
Catholics, catholicism and anything remotely fenian
Green and the wearing of anyting that looks a big green
Shamrocks (and anything that might look a bit like them)
Any lawyers or judges who would sit in judgement of Sevconia
And soon to come
Anyone who wont vote against independence or not vote for the SNP or wont allow sevco not only into the SPL but automatically ensure they win it.
Until Atos Healthcare pass them fit for work zombies say they still feel in pieces
macjay
I don’t think the Emperor’s Army lived up to the Bushido code in any respect.
charles
being a wro means I am non judgemental, therefore I would be oblidged to rep said zombie at appeal stage…
Headtheball
21:06 on
20 September, 2012
prestonpans bhoys
Bradley Davidson is alleged to have behaved in a threatening and abusive manner before hurling the blood sausage across a room.
Seems it was a sausage one then…serious!
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That sounds like an old Goodies sketch..;-)
Ekithumpcsc
Zombieism is rife in Scotland
setting free the bears
21:41 on 20 September, 2012
macjay
Damn.
I thought this was something we could finally agree about.
:-)
RTC tweeting again(read from bottom up)
Rangers Tax-Case@rangerstaxcase
@tonybhoy610 No chance of getting paid, but would eliminate any doubt over cheating issue and removal of titles.
1hRangers Tax-Case@rangerstaxcase
@CentralMTK No. Not heard anything that changes my outlook on this case.
1hRangers Tax-Case@rangerstaxcase
@originalchazz likely late September / early October, but still no guaranteed schedule
1hRangers Tax-Case@rangerstaxcase
Relevance of FTT result? It will be the difference between dual contracts being industrial scale cheating and a minor procedural issue.
1hRangers Tax-Case@rangerstaxcase
@tonybhoy610 They were billed a long time ago (early 2010). Murray successfully delayed it until RFC died from other symptoms.
1hRangers Tax-Case@rangerstaxcase
@Gavvic Every taxpayer will be left to foot the bill. I don’t expect that HMRC will even bother trying to get penalties.
1hRangers Tax-Case@rangerstaxcase
Setting realistic figures for EBT result (as opposed to daft numbers thrown around by MSM), I expect £18-20m in bill + £18-20m interest.
Was just on Phil macs blog,
Go to antonious at 12 hours 7 mins from responses.
Wullie puller jardine explaining how bad they’ve been treated.
Got news for him its just the ripple,the sunnami is coming.hh
macjay
You manage to disagree with more charm and less rancour than most so I don’t always spot when our views part.
The zombie film “the night of the living dead” was inspired by Richard Matheson’s 1954 novel “I am legned” apparently
The Forgotten Highlander what an incredible story just finished reading it
the horrors inflicted on these men was simply horrendous
Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He not only survived working on the notorious Bridge on the River Kwai , but he was subsequently taken on one of the Japanese ‘hellships’ which was torpedoed. Nearly everyone else on board died and Urquhart spent 5 days alone on a raft in the South China Sea before being rescued by a whaling ship. He was taken to Japan and then forced to work in a mine near Nagasaki. Two months later a nuclear bomb dropped just ten miles away . . . This is the extraordinary story of a young men, conscripted at nineteen and whose father was a Somme Veteran, survived not just one, but three close encounters with death – encounters which killed nearly all his comrades.
Perhaps it was the creationists headed up by the Rev Ian Paisley that complained. Any reference to Darwinian evolution are clearly offensive to these people.
Also we all know that zombies are the result of there being no more room in hell. We can clearly thank RFC for filling up the last few spaces then.
HH