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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DEXTER P. BAMPOT on 31ST AUGUST 2020 9:42 PM
31003
You’re right that in comparison to what’s down there we SHOULD be getting £20m but I just think that given the Armstrong precedent and the general level of payments for SPL players, we’d do well to be getting £20m.
Having said that, if Leeds have put in an opening bid of £20m for Kent…..
Dexter P.Bampot & 31003
I would take Sly Sports News Channel, Rumoured Reports, with a pinch of Salt.
Why, because hardly any of them become true, in other words rumoured p*sh
nonsense, being branded around by the 10% Men (Agents) So don’t believe
everything you both here via the said source it’s normally BS.
Majestic Hartson
On that vein
Who was wee Jamsie running to after he scored that goal?
Weebobbycollins
Re Dunfermline game , we were down 2-0 ,3-1 4-2 then won 5-4 what a game
Shortly after we went to Easter road and won 5-3 , what would our present support say about our defending then ,,,,
WBC
You are welcome.
It may well have been icy at Love Street but I don`t think it was foggy .Possibly one of the replays featured fog, though as I do remember some incredibly foggy experiences from those times.
Goodnight all.
I’d rather have Romeu
A tough tackling midfielder
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he wont be able to do much tough tackling on the bench
forrest brown mcgregor christie
forrest brown mcgregor christie
forrest brown mcgregor christie
forrest brown mcgregor christie
forrest brown mcgregor christie
forrest brown mcgregor christie
i wonder how many of our european opponents say before a game how scared they are about facing an all scottish midfield
i think zero
Sid
I could be greedy and desire Alphonso Davies or someone of his ilk for our left wing back role, in a 352 formation.
*** CQN PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2020-21 ***
RESULTS FROM GAME #6 – CELTIC 3 MOTHERWELL 0 (FORREST, AJETI, JULLIEN)
Back to winning ways although it did take a wee while for us to get going. And, as I suggested when putting up the results from the Ferencvaros game, and I quote “…Going forward, isn’t the answer just as simple as “play 3-5-2”…..”. We did that yesterday in the 2nd half and what a difference. Suddenly Calmac was appearing all across the midfield and running the show, Frimpong (when he appeared) and Forrest were providing much better width. And whilst Klimala should have scored at least 1, he and Barkas did show the old ‘natural strikers instincts’ in their movements up front, doing things they’ve done all their life rather than tried to learn new skills over the previous week.
So, onto the votes and also some other stats seeing as that’s Month 1 of the season at an end.
Thanks to the 55 who voted and the numbers cast for each player are as follows (with my own choices asterisked) –
Barkas: 0
Elhamed: 1
Jullien: 9
Ajer*: 14
Taylor: 0
Forrest: 32
Brown: 2
McGregor*: 50
Ntcham: 2
Elyounoussi: 0
Christie: 13
Klimala: 3
Frimpong*: 25
Ajeti: 7
So the players receiving points for the Motherwell game are –
McGregor – 5 points
Forrest – 4 points
Frimpong – 3 points
Ajer – 2 points
Christie – 1 point
And the overall points table is now as follows –
1st – Christie – 15 points
2nd – McGregor – 13 points
3rd – Elyounoussi – 10 points
4th – Ntcham – 9 points
5th – Frimpong and Taylor – 7 points
7th – Ajer and Edouard – 5 points
9th – Ajeti, Barkas, Elhamed and Forrest – 4 points
13th – Bitton – 3 points
14th – Jullien – 2 points
15th – Bain, Bolingoli, Brown, Dembele, Klimala – 0 points
*Player Of The Month*
We played 6 games during August, winning 4, drawing 1 and losing 1.
We scored 17 goals and conceded 4.
Our top goalscorer is Edouard with 4, Ajeti, Christie, Elyounoussi and Jullien have each chipped in with 2 apiece. The other 5 have come from Forrest, Frimpong, Klimala, Taylor and an own goal.
Only 2 players have played the full 6 games, Jullien and McGregor.
19 different players have appeared during those 6 games
Based on the total votes across all 6 games, in 3rd place we have Greg Taylor with 96 votes. In 2nd place it is Callum McGregor with 135 votes. And the PLAYER OF THE MONTH for August, with 137 votes is RYAN CHRISTIE.
We now have everybody’s favourite, “International Week” but Celtic return to action at 3pm on Saturday 12th September when we travel to Ross County.
Hail Hail!
I think we could also do with adding at least one more winger to the squad.
I would be dissapointed to see Ntcham go, personally think he is a very good player
LETS ALL DO THE HUDDLE
forrest brown mcgregor christie
Turnbull?
Possible Celtic opponents in tomorrow’s Q3 EL draw …
KuPS (FIN) or Slovan Bratislava (SVK)
Riga (LVA) or Tre Fiori (SMR)
Sileks (MKD) or Drita (KOS)
Hoping for a home draw ?
FANADPATRIOT
Remember though
Back in the day a typical team lined up
2-3-5
Designed to entertain and score goals. Defending then wasn’t an art…it was more an afterthought
Old team line ups were like
Simpson, Craig & Gemmell
Murdoch, McNeill & Clark
Johnstone, Wallace, Chalmers, Auld & Lennox
They lined up as you said/sang it
Jobo
Aargh !
Sorry I missed your deadline.
My selections anyway:
1 McGreggor
2.Elhamed
3 Forrest.
Definite goodnight now.
Goodnight.
31003 on 31ST AUGUST 2020 9:58 PM
Majestic Hartson
On that vein
Who was wee Jamsie running to after he scored that goal?
The Invisable Crowd, in my opinion wee Jamsie was just happy that he has
finally found the Net, yeah the Goal Net, after a few weeks gone past.
However that Sevco Fan Commentator on Celtic TV (Rory Hamilton) who
cheers on all the oposition teams we are playing in his commentry forgot
to mention that we where in Lockdown since the 20th of March 2020
(No Footy Pratt Hamilton) until the beginning of August 2020 which works
out @ over four months so it was not all that long ago when Jamsie last
scored a Goal anyway well done Jamsie nice one Jamsie, nice one Son,
nice one Jamsie, lets have another 100 ones. Go-On-The-Bhoys.
Petec
You know my views on this 10 in a row thing.
It has got me into bother for suggesting it is no big deal.
Only one club playing in Scotland today who has won 9 in a row. Celtic.
Why the great desire to beat Jock Stein’s record?
I think the whole 10 in a row charade is justifying the same club huns argument.
Not that I won’t be ecstatic when we win the league this season.
Would prefer a European trophy though.
Delaneys Dunky
aaah dreams 😍
If wee Frimpong keeps progressing with a bit of coaching he could be the next Alph Davies albeit on the other side.
Good window though because always better late than never. HH
AKBW1888
That song stolen from “Nice one Cyril”
Who was Cyril?
Who did he play for?
Who sang the song?
Nay way G, nae way.
Kieran was dynamite doon oor Left S
Goin’ for a game of Pool. I hope so much they take Boulderdash.
25 net for Eddy how much we owe PSG?
Who was wee Jamsie running to after he scored that goal?
Sydney :-)
Jerseybhoys
We’ll need £45m to get your £25m nett according to ye olde media
31003 –
Cyril Regis, West Bromwich Albion, Cannie remember…..
Oops
That’s not counting the £9m we paid
£54-£55m required
I hate maths
Fanadpatriot…3-5 game at Easter Road. Yes, Joe McBride…and it was a good Hibs team.
Jobo
Good try…and good player..but not right alas
Garry, our Lord and Saviour didnae have Magnificent places to go and Worship.
You just need 2 Baby. And the Almighty is there.
31003…Cyril…Spurs player… Knowles
Sid
Alphonso Davies was a Bayern München punt at 10 million Canadian dollars.
That is within our price range. If only our Canadian scouts like Tontine Tim spied him before the European Champions. 😜
WBC
Spot on
Sung by The Cockerel Chorus…just a bunch of fans I think
Might have reached No 1
DELANEYS DUNKY
I’m with you on the 10 in a row.
Would prefer to be in CL and then concentrate on winning the league
31003 on 31ST AUGUST 2020 10:13 PM
AKBW1888
That song stolen from “Nice one Cyril”
Who was Cyril?
Who did he play for?
Who sang the song?
Very Funny 31003, I’ve noticed you have read through my last posts.
If my memory serves me right the song was dedicated to Cyril Regis
back in the Seventies, did he not play for the West London Club based
in White City named QPR & He went on to play for Royal Madrid of Spain
Yes? 31003. & The said song appeared on Top of The Pops back in the
Seventies by a one hit wonder Supportes Group, Yes 31003? Is that
right, or enlighten us all.
AKBW1888
See answer above
My dear uncle who recently passed away (88 yrs old and ST holder till the end) was a real football fan. He loved and lived for football. He took me to so many games when my dad, for work reasons, wasn’t able. He took me to my very first floodlit game, rangers v Motherwell at Ibrox 1961. I remember he told me we were going to see a REAL football team…Motherwell. It was a SC replay in front of an 80,000 crowd. 5-2 to the Ancell Babes who had some very talented players:Pat Quinn, Ian St John, Pat Delaney(any relation DD?), Willie Hunter, Bert McCann, Bobby Roberts…how can I remember those names? We were in amongst the Well fans. Thank goodness! We were allowed to cheer the goals…
Sid
The Bavarians have nicknamed Alphonso Davies ‘The Roadrunner’
Beep! Beep!
I think he could win gold in the Olympic 100 metres, and I am not joking.
BOBO BALDIE on 31ST AUGUST 2020 10:19 PM
31003 –Cyril Regis, West Bromwich Albion, Cannie remember…..
Big Bobo’s Going To Get You, are you sure he played with WBA?
Who are based near Birmingham, did he no play for a London
Club as well?
31003 – to be fair a few of them run away celebrating before catching themselves.
They’d have been celebrating scoring since they were in primary school. Old habits, die hard and I like seeing them delighted about scoring. It shows it means something to them.
WEEBOBBYCOLLINS
That sounds like a formidable Motherwell team
To copy and paste and then alter somebody’s blog name is some feat!
Sleep well everyone…..
Saint Tams
Must be a Saint Thomas Aquinas FP thang. 👍🍀💚