How many times do you wish players would just practice crossing the ball? Set aside the low balls across the face of goal. A good aerial cross needs enough pace to make it difficult for the keeper to pluck it out of the air, but not too much, it also needs to drop to allow an attacker to make contact.
Most of the poor crosses you see fail the test of pace, more often than not, they are blasted beyond control. Notwithstanding Josip Juranovic’s waywardness last night, a failure to direct the ball carefully enough is less common.
When Tom Rogic crossed the ball as the clock hit 96 minutes last night, including the keeper, there were nine Ross County players in the box. They had to contend with only three Celtic players: Liel Abada, Cameron Carter-Vickers and Anthony Ralston.
For the first time since our first away win of the campaign, at Aberdeen on 3 October, I watched those closing moments thinking the season was about to pivot. Devastated by injuries and with a cup final to plan for, the manager rested Rogic, his remaining creative force, as well as left back, Greg Taylor.
If Ange Postecoglou wins his first trophy in Scotland on Sunday, his gamble will have paid off brilliantly, but goodness, what a gamble.
I doubt Tom practices crossing any more than the rest of them, his talent appears God given. If so, a Divine Hand lifted the ball into an area for Anthony Ralston to attack. Heavily outnumbered, it should have been a no contest.
What happened next is the stuff of legend. Anthony’s leap was astonishing. His head met the ball 8’ off the ground. Up early, he used his shoulders and neck to keep his head where it needed to be, for an instant, giving the impression he could levitate. No Hindu divinity here, just athleticism.
Add your own adjective to this team: winners, fighters, determined, indefatigable. On nights like this, they are all true. Enjoy your Celtic.
Today’s earlier blog on Poor SFA governance.
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PHILBHOY
Hi PHIL. Fair dos. I admit I get a bit caustic when we are not doing well and if I believe it is self inflicted, and repetitive. It is born out of frustration, and I have no issue if and when you and others comment. And some of the comments I find very funny.😊
I played a bit, and have my coaching badges. I have won leagues in Scotland and three U.S. States.
I won’t get into it, but one example of bad habits we have is losing the ball repeatedly from our own throw ins. What I find baffling is that Andy Roxburgh, many years ago, as part of setting out the curriculum for the SFA Coaching courses at Inverclyde, included several easy ways to avoid doing this. He watched the Brazilians, Germans and Dutch and included their simple techniques for recycling possession from throw ins. Kennedy and Strachan must know these. So we have no excuses. That’s just one example.
Anyhoo, huftae scoot. Hope I won’t be moaning on Sunday!
IniquitousIV
You got me thinking of James.
A Tune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxM42rG0a08
but one example of bad habits we have is losing the ball repeatedly from our own throw ins.
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a problem we have had for many a year
to the extent that getting a throw in is no advantage to us
i would love the stats folk to come up with a stat for the average length of time we retain possession from the moment the throw gets taken
i would go for less than 2 seconds
Imagine what this country would be like with a “truther” in charge who rattles utter fk oot of the cages?
Apparently the health issue would’ve happened four years earlier, but there wasn’t a placeman, or plant, in the office of HM opposition party in UK, as that was held by Jeremy Corbyn, and he wouldn’t have fallen into line with the establishment and performed like a nodding Churchill dog stuck onto a car window, like Sir Keir Starmer has done through this deceitful period, so Corbyn was smeared 24/7 for 5 years not a single word of the smears were true, but the smears stuck to him, because 95% of Labour MP’s stabbed Jeremy Corbyn in the back, all day, every day, courtesy of the Jeremy Corbyn hating MSM, 100% of them, and very worrying amounts of Joe Blogs still fall for MSM lying machine, and because postal voting for General Election 2019 was rigged against Jeremy Corbyn, 2 days before GE, BBC politics live showed BBC political ed Laura Kuenessburg, and Tory MP Dominic Raab, bragging about “how terrible Corbyn had done on postal votes” 2 days before GE had taken place, and this edition of BBC politics live was pulled from iPlayer for technical reasons and prevented from being used as evidence by Jeremy Corbyn’s team, and also because Jeremy Corbyn hasn’t got an iron fist like George Galloway has or there would be no MSM at all now a days as their contracts wouldn’t have received a govt sign off of approval, so they would’ve died, and 70 million Joe Blogs would start to be informed and educated, by a new media, not lied to, and dumbed down like MSM did, and continues to do. How many UK MP’s have shares in big pharma?
George Galloway (@georgegalloway) Tweeted:
75 members in the US Congress own stock in Pfizer Moderna and Johnson and Johnson. Just think about that… https://twitter.com/georgegalloway/status/1471273673722155013?s=20
Just wake the eff up!
sceptical citizen,
Unbelievable those with paws in the Pie. Baith Sides.
Sickening.
Any Member of Any Parliament must be FREE to vote for Constituents they https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFiAK4fD6Mk
RIMTIM
My first Celtic game was also on 7th December 1968 v St. Mirren.
I was 9.
MadMitch
I recorded every leg of Le Tour de France and have been watching one per week roughly (I’ve 3 to go). I am proud to announce that The Cannibal, EM, is Eddie Merckx. The Belgian who won more stages than anyone else until Mark Cavendish caught him during this year’s Tour. Don’t tell me if Cavendish surpasses him. I’m dying to know but as some of the stages are 5 to 6 hours long, I’m being patient.
PETEC on 16TH DECEMBER 2021 9:00 PM
sceptical citizen,
Unbelievable those with paws in the Pie. Baith Sides.
Sickening.
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Its disgusting Petec.
No opposition party in USA.
No opposition party in UK.
No opposition party in gerrymandered hollybrood either.
No opposition allowed in EU against unelected bankers.
Pope Francis said EU will need more countries to copy Brexit, or Catholicism will disappear.
Only Poland and Hungry refusing to take refugees from countries that EU/NATO helps to blow up, creating refugees in the first place, which amounts to hypocrisy off the radar, or there’s a replacement operation going on?
hh
later Amigo. 👍
but one example of bad habits we have is losing the ball repeatedly from our own throw ins.
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and part of the problem is that the thrower always lands the ball a few yards in front of the player he is throwing it to. which means it bounces up so the player has to take time to control the ball first before he can play it away and by that time he has an opposition player right on top of him
throw the ball to the receivers feet so he can play it away first time
apart from that our shitey throw ins have never annoyed me at all over the years 😄
Sceptical Citizen,
Just what the Blog needs.Another “Flat Earther.I really do worry.
sceptical citizen,
Anthony WANTED that so much.
He is oor kinda Celtic dude.
Take care ya Mad Man.
Think this weekend will be it for a while.Look to restart end of January.Figures are rocketing.
Will have 100,000 a day by Saturday .
Turkeybhoy
LOLOL
Don’t be so hopeful……the next Virus is in the post.
RIMTIMTIM
Apology accepted mate. No hard feelings. I started my fitba career in Paisley, in the juvenile league with a team called Hawkhead. We had some good players, 3 or 4 who went on to play for Maryhill Juniors when they were older.
I remember the 1974 Atletico game as if it were yesterday. I was close to the field and saw close up one of the Argentinian players almost butcher Jinky. Several of the crowd closest to me were actively restrained from entering the field by wiser heads. My mate Peter Hastie was yelling, “That’s what they want lads! Don’t do it!” To this day, I am amazed at the restraint shown by that huge crowd.
I stayed in Barca for a month one year with 4 buddies. We rented a 4th floor flat directly opposite La Sagrada De Familia, which as you know is under permanent construction. Every morning, about 8:00AM, we were wakened by generators, pneumatic drills and the various sounds of construction, plus the traffic noise from the 4 lane road in between us and the cathedral. One of the lads, Eric, was a terrible loud snorer, so he had a room by himself with a small balcony overlooking the Cathedral.
One day, we played a wee prank on him. Just before 8:00AM, the 4 of us rushed into his room, woke him up, and told him he had to go to the balcony. He told us to feck off, but we insisted. So Eric, in his shorts, opened the door to the balcony, letting in the raucous noise of traffic and construction. He looked down, and there were about a dozen construction workers with their yellow jackets and steel helmets all looking up at him with the universal finger to the lips sssshhhhh sign. (One of the other lads, a fluent Spanish speaker, had persuaded them to do this, with the help of enough dough for a few cervezas. ). Eric was totally flummoxed. A couple of hours later, he figured it out, and addressed us all as “Bastardos!”
You asked about my moniker. Many years ago, I read a superb book by a Jesuit monk, Peter De Rosa, called “The Vicars of Christ”. De Rosa described the dark side of the Papacy in detail, from Popes who were forgers, to others ( like Alexander VI ) previously Rodrigo Borgia, who were exceptionally evil, or iniquitous, murdering cardinals for their money, and having a stable of mistresses. I was searching for a moniker at the time and the book gave me the idea. Sounds daft, but there it is. I considered a lengthier one, His Eminence Iniquitous the Fourth, but discarded it as too clumsy.
So now you know!
HH
Catching up on P67s last two essays…
The first implied that SFA governance was responsible for some of what ails us.
I’d have to counter – as a prev poster also did – that our own club governance also does us dirty in many ways. Good governance should help any business create and maintain a environment of trust, transparency and accountability – yet our Board and Execs only mumble about shit refs when grandstanding at AGMs but they don’t take regulators or governors to task when we’re treated badly (Dubai rule changes anyone!)
This article here talks about the undeniable and admirable grit and gumption of our onfield 11. It went a long way but we won’t sneak results every day the dice are loaded against us. Also, we seem confused about what we want from our players…. some say we must protest and get in the face of officials when any of us get abused – others say big Joe was right to toe Carl to get him to shut-up from confronting the ref…
To me, we don’t ‘manage refs’ expectations’ the way the Willie Millers and Steevie Gees of the world do.
Not on a grumble. Just observations. It’s too nice ootside to be miserable.
Plus, Raldo’s goal was a peach!
HH
The good news is,I can now buy 6 pints and 20 Cigs for 6 Quid here in Turkey now.And getting cheaper by the day.
One of the benefits of having an Egotistical lunatic telling the Central Bank his ideas on finance.
Bless him.
https://mobile.twitter.com/SwissRamble
Apologies in advance if this has already been posted ….
… but Swiss Ramble’s analysis of English top flight club finances is (IMHO) worth a studious read.
Some of the outlier data in his graphs is eye watering.
If you can’t be bothered with the details I’ve taken the liberty of pasting his uncompromising summary below ….
“In conclusion, there is absolutely nothing wrong with English football –
apart from huge losses, unsustainable wages, player purchases on credit and a massive dependency on owner funding.
Nothing to see here, please move on, definitely no need for an independent regulator”
Is there not a limit on how many Dafties a Blog must accept?.
Kenny plays full 90 minutes at right back in Everton’s creditable draw away to Chelski. I didn’t watch the game, but find it somewhat odd that he can play at that level when he couldn’t cut the mustard with us.
TURKEYBHOY
Depends on whether or not they are the same daftie!
Happy to see 2 good Tims, Inquitous & RimTimTim, have a cyber hand shake.
We are stronger together.
Could have added one named after a Pope the other after a dog, but it seems the dog was better behaved.
Only on CQN
I respect TBB, as he has always been respectful, I have never ever pushed anything.
Anyone being Forced to get a Vaccination says it all to me.
Only anoi Idiot would go against the Danny McGrain,
Think this weekend will be it for a while.Look to restart end of January.Figures are rocketing.
Will have 100,000 a day by Saturday .
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but that headline number isnt the important stat
its all about how many of those get seriously ill with it
and that isnt known yet
if all those 100,000 just feel a bit shitey for a few days and then are fine then the high number means nothing at all
if half of those 100,000 per day die then its a major.disaster
obviously the reality will lie somewhere in between
but we dont know where yet
Anyone being Forced to get a Vaccination says it all to me.
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no one should be forced to get a needle in their arm
i hate needles
but no one is being forced in the uk yet
Is there not a limit on how many Dafties a Blog must accept?.
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a Daftie limit
i like that idea
Iniquousitiv RimTimTim
Celtic men.
Thank you.
Good reading that kind of contribution to Celtic.👍👍
HH
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Take care Celts.👇
THE BATTERED BUNNET on 16TH DECEMBER 2021 2:49 PM
Fholks, if you haven’t yet, please do make sure you are up to date with your Covid jags. Things are about to get difficult.
HH
Is there not a limit on how many Dafties a Blog must accept?.
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or have a Daftie CQN
so you need to prove you’re a proper Daftie to be allowed to post on it
you will need to send in a video to Paul The Daftie of you with a pair of underpants on your head, 2 pencils up your nose, and saying ‘wibble’
I would also have said I hate needles but honestly the modern jab is painless.
Had initial 2 plus Booster, when getting Booster got Flu jab as well and also got my bloods done,
I can truthfully say it was totally painless and I had no reaction whatever to any of the jabs.
I would strongly urge anyone not yet vaccinated to get it done & stay safe.
Carl got a Welcome to Scotland.
Manure done his best.
Despicable these referees.
The Celtic Board, Ange has left it to them, they must Call out the Blatant Cheating.
Sevco are in utter distress.
The Enemy within? {handshakers}…….. the Jetskis says as much.
RimTimTim
Enjoyed your post about your Celtic/St. Mirren supporting experiences. The main point is you are a Tim.
I had a similar dual supporting experience when I was young. My Celtic daft Dad had stopped attending games, probably for financial reasons as he was bringing up 4 kids on his own. I attended my first 3 Celtic games in 1959 as a 7 year old with my big brother. The bugger then completed his apprenticeship and joined the Merchant Navy. My Dad wouldn’t allow me to go to Celtic Park as I was far too young. (At that time Glasgow was far too dangerous for kids from Coatbridge in the minds of parents from Coatbridge). He did, however allow me to go to see the Rovers. He was less pleased when I started to go to Broomfield to watch Airdrie. I attended the Airdrie b Kilmarnock game at New Year 1965 when Ian McMillan scored a howitzer to beat Killie 2-1 in the final minutes. There must have been 30000+ in the ground. Killie went on to win the League on goal difference over Hearts on the same day Celtic beat Dunfermline 3-2 in the Scottish Cup Final which I attended.
However, the Msin Lanarkshire team I supported was Motherwell purely because they had jumped Tangers 5-2 at Ibrox in the Scottish Cup in 1958 and they also played Celtic in my first ever game in 1959.
When Jock Stein became Celtic manager, I went to see Celtic beat Third Lanark 1-0 at Parkhead (Dunky McKay) and hammer Airdrie 6-1 at Brookfield. Bertie scored 5 goals. I went with a school pal from Baillieston. My Dad actually relented and let me go to see the Scottish Cup semi final in 1965 with another pal from Baillieston. Celtic drew 2-2 and my absolute hero Joe McBride scored two goals for Motherwell that day. I had a split personality. I jumped up and down at all four goals and attracted some strange looks from the Celtic fans in the Mount Florida end. My mate was dying with embarrassment. My Dad allowed me to go to the Final. My pal warned me to be on my best behaviour and Billy scored and the rest is history.
The point of this whole story is that if you’re a conflicted young Tim, make sure you have good pals from Baillieston.
Elmer Gantry in the house.
INQUITOUSIV
Cheers mate, your experiences bring back great memories, hearing of Hawkhead in the East End of Paisley and buddies in Barcelona.
Many thanks for your stories of the Atletico game too. Here in Madrid I got to know the Atletico doctor who was on the bench that night and he told me that it got quite tasty in the tunnel at the end of the game!
HRVATSKI JIM
A great first game It was, 5-0!!
I would also have said I hate needles but honestly the modern jab is painless.
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i didnt even feel the booster the other day, when the nurse said that was me done i didnt believe her
i was too busy looking away with The Fear 😄
Lets flip this Anti-vaxxer status thing!
If you have been tripple juiced and Still think the unvaxxed will make you sick, you are an anti-vaxxer. You don’t believe the vaccine works!
INIQUITOUSIV on 16TH DECEMBER 2021 9:26 PM
RIMTIMTIM
two total asides
Cathedral of The Sea is my favourite book.
and
Hawkhead is a much changed placed these days, the hospital converted to trendy art deco houses (what memories lies in thos walls, fecking hee bee geebies)
and CIBA GEIGY now gone and another huge housing development
off for tonight,
its good to make new friends aint it.