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Mugsy out for 4-5 weeks with a hamstring tear, just as he looked to be getting some form back 

The injury jinx strikes again.

Lets just have a look at WGS's transfer dealings.........now this from a man who spent 1.5 years travelling the globe watching football.................

Telfer - rubbish
Du Wei - rubbish
Aliadiere - rubbish
Mo Camara - rubbish
Adam Virgo - rubbish
Boruc - superb
Mark Brown - rubbish
Mark Wilson - ok
Lee Naylor - rubbish
Roy Keane - average
Naka - good for 1st season and a half, rubbish since
Caldwell - rubbish
Zurawski - good for 1 season then rubbish
Kenny Miller - rubbish
Jiri Jarosik - played out of positition until he just didn't care
Tommy G. - rubbish
JVOH - Good first season - rubbish now
Andy Hinkel - unproven
Sno - rubbish
Killen - rubbish
McDonald - alright for ther money paid
Scott Brown - rubbish
Donati - rubbish
Barry Robson - waste of money
Paul Hartley - rubbish
Steven Pressley - rubbish
Koki Mizuno - for future
Ben Hutchison - has he got a game yet?
Derek Riordan - wasted money - never given a proper chance
Dion Dublin - rubbish
Samaras - average
Doumbe - jury out

Not the best record there eh Gordon?

More sh*t served up at Parkhead tonight as Celtic try the fans patience even further.

No plan B, not even a plan A FFS as once again Celtic resort to humping the ball into the box.

WGS bemoans the fact chances were created but not taken.......................who brought in JVoH, Samaras, Riordan (6 minutes to come in from the cold and save the game...........aye right Gordon), Killen et al.

Now though even Skippy and Aidinho look well off the pace. You really have to question  his man mangement and tactics (lack of) when established internationals who have flourished elsewhere stumble around incoherantly at CP.

Graveson wnet from being unstoppable at Everton, good at RM when played in position to being headless at Celtic. Jiri went from being a scoring CMF payer in the EPL to a bit part winger / forward in Scotland. Brown went from most promising tlent in the SPL to a no-mark. 1mill spent on Robson and.............................Donati, the £12mill Italian, most capped u-21 player looks aimless. Naka who wowed in his first season should not even make the bench on current form.

Balde the best defender at CP is frozen out, as is Riordan, the best finisher. O'Dea looks set to leave and I would imagine Artur and Aidinho are not far behind him.

Will be an interesting one this...........seems games between us have been tit-for-tat over this past few years.

We need to win this to stave off relegation, Donegal will be looking towards the League semis.

Lot of questions to be answered..........

1. With Mickey's huge endorsement of Davy in the papers today will Jordan - Ricey - Nephew be the HB line?
2. Will Justy get another go at FB?
3. Will McCaul finally get his chance?
4. Who will pick up McFadden (bearing in mind he gave Swift his biggeste roasting of the season in the McKenna)
5. Will Mugsy be fit?
6. How much more of Brian will we see?
7. Will Hub get back in?

Personally I'd like to see McCaul at FB and Justy at MF alongside Sean.

Dont need anyone else scoring

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaattttttttttttttttt?

Brown and Donati now cover that role of attacking from the midfield

How many goals from MF have Donati, Brown, Hartley and Sno got between them this year from Midfield? Feel free to add Jiri's contrbution to the total also...............

under MON we had Lubo and Agathe

Lubo wasn't a winger...............yr thinking of Thompson

Donati could be brilliant if he stopped giving the ball away with slack passes every second ball

If my auntie had b*lls..................................she'd be...................

Unlik eMONs teams that were fantastic in the back four, GS has an attacking RB

And what............ Jackie Mac wasn't an attacking RB? FFS man.

Anyway - MON typically played 3-5-2 as well, negating the traditional Full Back Role so comparisons with WHS fullbacks are a bit pointless

I don't disagree that MON side played very direct football at times. They did however, when he got over the hoodoo of his first SPL title start to play a lot of entertaining football too.

It annoys me though that WGS has everyone believing him when he trots out the aul patter about his Celtic side playing good passing football. The majority of Celtics play involves the MF passing square /back/ wide (heaven forbid they actually go forward) to the fullbacks or "beckenbaur" Caldwell to hump the ball up to JVoH (a 6'5" forward who can't win headers).

The tempo, as many here have pointed out, is so slow that by the time Celtic have passed the halfway line they are facing 2 rows of 4. The difference now is that Petrov at least could run at people from central MF.

Im no great fan of WGS but his Celtic's have played a better brand of passing football than MON's did

The greatest myth of recent times. WGS Celtic hump the ball long to the big man 80% of the time, at least Petrov and Lennon played some football.

If you look at money in/out and money available WGS is no worse off than O'Neill. If you look at thier win/loss records however WGS is nowhere near.

And I've called for his head since the first season he took over  Precisely because of the football style he brought

Great to see Justin get a run at FB. Hopefully he will be a big success and can offer a genuine option along with McCarron for years to come.

Also might mean Joey can get up to MF.

Not far off the Championship line up now..........would like to see (if all were fit, sharp and ready to go)

Devine
PJ
Justy
McGee
Ricey
Block
Model
Hub
Sean
Mulgrew
God ptII
Enda (asuming Dooher ain't gonna make it for the Down game)
Tommy
Colm
Mugsy

Swift
Mellon
Joey
Gourley
McCaul
McCarron
O'Neill
Cavanagh Jnr
Gormley
Carlin

and the rest providing options on the bench

I agree..would much rather Tottenham and Everton were in the cup than out as Bayern could have an off night.

Not much more you can say about last night though.blame lies squarely at WGS door. It's his team, he made the signings, he picks the formation, he motivates the players, he sorts out the tactics (what tactics?)

Artur..........world class and the reaosn Celtic are still anywhere near the top of the SPL
Hinkle..........don't know yet..looks useful enough
Caldwell.................joke.O'Dea and Bobo are far better
McManus...........again not good enough
Wilson...alright
Naylor...........substandard
McGeady........a good player. Njot a great player...yet
Naka..........waste of space this year
Brown.............poor
Donati...........poor
Sno..............poor
Hartley............poor
Robson............you get what you pay for
Skippy.........gone off the boil big time. Not a footballer. A six yard finisher, that's all.
Samaras............average
JVoH............poor this year
Killen...a joke

No tempo, no ideas, no football being played.

Celtic always had the reputation of an exciting team who treid to stick to the prinicples of football. Not under WGS.

Have to agree that Inter were very poor on the night. Having said that they were chasing the game wihch is entirely alien to them and not where thier stengths lie.

Zanetti is absolutley world class, even now and went past the Liverpool MF with ease. Shame he got no support from a very static forward line. It was a travesty that he didn't make the WC 2006 but then when you consider that out of a choice of Tevez, Messi and Cruz the manager used his final substituion to being on Cruz to save the Germany game......it's no suprise he was omitted...Clueless.

Cambiasso is a good player, not a great one but is very 1-dimensional. He does exactly the same job as Vieria and is no use at all in terms of creativity.

So another 2 points chucked away tonight..at home too.

Can Strachan not just go.and go now

Can any of the Clann na nGael lads confirm if SON did in fact re-injure himself / break down in training recently? I was down home last weekend and everyone I spoke to had a different version of events!

Are you serious 
Or just sour we beat you 

Can take getting beat by a better team, and Laois were the better team on the day, but thier players were waaaay over the top in how they carried on. That bollix screaming in the face of Jordan will be an image I hold for many years - uncalled for

Big game for both teams alright............Tyrone now need 3 straight wins to see off relegation

Hopefully the disgracefull memory of how the Laois players carried on in our last Championship meeting will be fresh enough in the lads heads.