There’s a question I have heard over a long time from football people, “What did we learn today?” It is usually asked by a coach who wants his player(s) to figure out the change he wants to make. So what did we learn yesterday?
If any doubt remains that the current Celtic squad are very effective as 3-5-2 and relatively ineffective as 4-2-3-1, it can only be from someone who was on Twitter most of the game.
Gordon Strachan endured some torrid criticisms as Celtic manager. I am sure this informed his pre-match comments on the “Twitterati’s” verdict on the tactical deployment against Ferencvaros. Gordon assured us Neil Lennon knows the players better than anyone, especially online fans, and he picked his strongest team to start on Wednesday and again on Sunday.
On any level, this is true. Neil Lennon knows his squad better than any of us, just has Gordon did in his day. Both men are also tactically better versed than most of us could ever hope to be. But the sight of two central defenders making rampaging runs at different times late in the game against Motherwell, surely will convince the final doubters: three at the back, two up front and leave the middle five fluid.
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BIG GEORGES……………….
Chemical Engineering?!
I was sure it was music!
I’m sure he will do very well too!
Best wishes to you both!
Iniquitous/ WBC
Quite right it was Ron Yeats not Hynd that Jock played as a centre half turned centre forward, and he did it against cynical Italian defenders, resulting in an unsurprising score of 0 for Scotland and we were lucky to get nil.
I should know better- I actually spoke with Roger Hynd when he was alive- I never met Ron Yeats.
Nevertheless- my point holds that even the best managers are imaginative/stupid in their selection of players in roles
We have a free Wednesday,16 Sept,great chance to get the Saints game in.Would be followed by Livi at home on the weekend.Any news on this.
AKBW1888, a young 67, been watching the bhoys for 57 years, good and bad 😎
Hopefully we get to play St Mirren in the when Sevco et al play their Europa qualifier.
Every cloud and all that.
see how ghost busters was on at the weekend, did they somehow open a gate to the underworld.
Big Packy…I know that game happened but I can’t remember it; nor where I was at the time…my auld brain is slowly frazzling…I suppose because it was them it just wasn’t so important to me…
PHIlBHOY
Did you get the numerous thank you’d I sent you the other night for providing me with Paul67s email addy?
Just checked…wee huns v big huns; 28th January 1967…can’t understand why I have no firm recollection of it other than I know it did happen…
WEEBOBBYCOLLINS, it was just nice to see them get beat by that big english team 😎😎😎
Weebobbycollins
Did you also know a certain JockWallce was in goal for Berwick Rangers that memorable day?
WBC, symon playing big hynd up front in the lavvy cup final resulted in both James Sanderson and John MacKenzie being banned fae hades for daring criticise the team selection.
What we learned yesterday — our performance in the first half was so bad that we let a game but low quality M/well side with no attacking threat into the game to the point that they started to moved the ball about and threaten our box.
We then counter-attacked with a good run from CMcG and a great finish from JF to score a goal we did not deserve based on our earlier play — the sight of that steam engine of a M/well CB running straight through our MF until rugby tackled will live long in his highlights reel.
Similar to CMcG’s run — mentioned above — but M/well let him get his pass away rather try a catch tackle.
Things got better in the second half when we at least had a CF on the pitch.
Even better when Young JF came on and got his motor running — Steppenwolf style.
Admittedly he was up against a LB who had been carrying Old JF about in his pocket for 60 minutes so he was perhaps a wee bit tired.
So yesterday told us that we have a team / squad full of talented players who are currently playing like bad tempered strangers on the pitch — our huge joker card is that we have 2 CB’s who can take the ball out of defence with an aplomb that would shame half of the CL quarter finalists but we seem to have forgotten about this strength and are currently passing the ball aimlessly around the half way line from side to side.
We have 95% of the talent we need — just a case that we do not have the structure / tactics / belief / confidence / leadership to make it happen on the park as a matter of course and we play with the fear when things go against us.
Plus we have a useless CEO who thinks only of his bonus and who couldn’t spot a growth agenda if it came up and said hello.
Who needs the CL — it only interferes with his Corrie viewing on a Wednesday.
SFTB…yes, 3-0 to Italy…and I remember being disappointed that a certain mr greig scored a late winner in the first game at hampden. Happy we won but sorry it was the legendary JG that scored…
All on tonight.Not only master tacticians,without a coaching badge amongst them.Those Badges overrated anyway,but we have Fortune Tellers,giving us the full rundown for a game 6 weeks away.Ancestor denyers.
Ageists,getting the ages wrong.Oh,and Big Packy.WBC,hinting that he is no Wee.
Whatever next.
Saint Stivs
Hope all good with you across the river.
All good in the Parish of Saint Stephen’s, Dalmuir.
A wee tune for CQN tonight.
https://g.co/kgs/5vG6BY
Scot Symon also played hynd at centre in the 67 cup winners cup final. He missed a sitter and the then chairman, John Lawrence, said hynd’s I ability to kick the ball straight from one yard cost him (Lawrence) a knighthood.
Old scott symons got a sore heid just because of Sammy Reid bye bye baxter. The Monday tabloids had a photie of Sammy sitting in work on the Sunday eating his piece, he was doing a double time shift.
31003…as I said, I don’t remember the game but yes, I do know sgt major wallace was the goalie…
Tontine Tim…I didn’t know that…although t’was ever thus…
WBC,
I think Scott Symon was still Old Huns manager that day.Think Davey White got the job as a consequence of the Berwick game.Might be as frazzled as a you though.
Turkeybhoy…How dare you! I made no such hint…I’m an average guy of average height…
Wee are the people…
Turkeybhoy…rings a bell that one…Scot Symon was getting on a bit by that time…
Big Packy1
I was at Celtic park that day ,I don’t remember who we played may had been Queens Park I think the score was 4/5 nil,
I was in the jungle making my way round the Celtic end when it came over the tannoy that the wee gers had won.
I remember I kicked a can and my shoe landed about 50 yards away , I picked up 6 before I found my own ,Oh whaT fun life was so much simple then HH
There’s yer latest foul count , hope it formats ok
Team Fouls Yellow Red
Aberdeen 60 5 1
Celtic 44 5
Dundee u 83 8
Hamilton 51 6 1
Hibs 72 6
Killie 68 9 1
Livie 91 7
Motherwell 80 10 1
Ross c 98 15 1
st johnstone 67 10 2
St mirren 59 9 1
Rangers 70 4
Tontine Tim…they liked their Sammys. Cox, Baird, English…
28th January 1967. We were at home to Arbroath in the cup. At half time a low murmur went round the crowd which became a roar. Rangers had lost to Berwick Rangers. The Huns were oot the cup. ! Beaten by a second division team. Their game had to be played early because it was mid winter and early darkness and Berwick’s floodlights were either non existant or not fit for purpose.
Fanadpatriot…you posting that makes me think I remember similar…hearing the score coming through at CP…
TB, scott symon got the sugar lump in November that year just after we won the League Cup, we had knocked them out in the sectional games.
He was a very successful Hun manager, 6 Titles, 5 SC, 4 LC, twice beaten finalists in the lavvy cup and the first side tae beat the reigning Big Cup winners, yet dumped for his assistant manager davy scheidt who had just joined them fae the Bully Wee.
WBC, aye always regarded as a Hun name yet we had the best one Sammy Wilson.
Leicester trying to geg tim castagne now.
geg= get
BIG PACKY 1 on 31ST AUGUST 2020 7:58 PM
AKBW1888, a young 67, been watching the bhoys for 57 years, good and bad 😎
Fair play to you Big Packy1, you will no doubt, have some fond memories of the
the years gone bye. Here is one for you, in the earlie Seventies, I remember going
to an away game @ Tynecastle, when I was just a young Bhoy. I was not even
Sixteen back then, I saved up some pocket money, my late Father bless him
gave Me, & got there via an old Supporters Bus. There was a big Crowd there
that day, with big long ques @ the Turnstyles. By the time I got into the Ground,
I had missed the first fifteen minutes of the Match. We where two nil (2-0) down
by then, which I was a shocked & stunned. Anyway, we came back to win that
said Match (3-4) in the end, so it had a happy ending. If my memory serves me
well, or if I remember, Roddy McDonald scored with a Header, & also Ronny
Glavin scored with an overhead kick. I always remember our Fourth & Match
Winning Goal. Where Danny McGrain, took the ball just outside our 18 yard
Box, & no kidding, he must have dribbled past, nearly the whole of the
Hearts Team that day, & went into the Hearts 18 yard box. However, Danny
McGrain, did not like the responsibillity of putting the ball into the Net. & also
with Jock Stein in the Dugout, there was a look of concern on Danny’s face.
However, Kenny Dalgliesh was nearby, shouting over to Danny.
Danny, FFS Danny, give Me the Fricking Ball? Which Danny did, & as they say,
the rest was History. That was an important Result, cause it meant we won
the League that day, via that result. I also remember, I think the Hearts player
who scored there three goals that day, Surname was Gibson, fond Memories
Indeed, Big Packy One. Hail Hail ! My Fellow Timaloy.
Now racking my brain to try and remember that day. Maybe shouldn’t bother; I know it happened and that should be good enough… :-)
BOGNORBHOY – keep on this – very illuminating.
Most teams, very roughly speaking, average about one card for every 9-ish fouls.
Apart from one team, which is averaging about 1 in every 18 fouls.
As they say – “hmmmmm….!!” Illuminating is definitely the word.
Good work, and thanks.
HH
BGFC
Fanand
It was Arbroath – we won 6-0 – I paid a tanner extra to sit in the main stand.
Tontine Tim…Sammy Wilson 7-1…yes!
BGFC
That is brilliant news mate.
Really chuffed for G.
The bhoy done good! Magic R 👍🍀💚
WEEBOBBYCOLLINS on 31ST AUGUST 2020 8:22 PM
Just checked…wee huns v big huns; 28th January 1967…can’t understand why I have no firm recollection of it other than I know it did happen…
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same thing happened 14th june 2012.
they seem to get touchy when asking them what happened.memories erased :-)
good read for later
https://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/rangers-the-club-that-died-june-2012/
HH