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God knows what McCaul must be thinking seeing Peter Donnelly  running out onto the pitch.........................

Tyrone aren't conceding much but won't have faced the likes of the Bradleys yet

Quite right........derry by a landslide................

Thought today was a typical Ulster affair alright, neither team showing thier hand much, Tyrone wanting the game just that wee bit more.

Packie (7/10) - Great shot stopper, caught a few on the bar, but jaysus his distribution verges between telegraphed (kick outs) and suicidal (when he has the ball in his hands)

PJ (5/10) - Got a bit of a roasting today, always behind his man and easily turned. One to foget.

Justy (6/10) - Not an awful lot to do.

Ricey (7/10) Caught for pace a few times but took the game to Donegal, good leadership.

Nephew (6/10) - Not as good as last day but always available and some good link up play.

Block (7/10) - Did job on McFadden, right up to the end. Class Act.

Jordan (5/10) - Game to forget

Enda (6/10) - Nice score, mixed bag.

Holmes (5/10) - Not mobile enough and tried to break too much ball for a man his size.

Mellon (4/10)  - Poor, second half fouind him in acres of space but gave the ball straight to Donegal. Time for the drop.

Mulgrew (5/10) - Not in the game enough. Needs to bulk up as bullied out of it too much.

Sean (4/10) - Lethargic and didnlt seem to want to make runs forward. Not himslef today.Always think he is marginalised too much in the HF line anyway. Needs to be in MF.

Gormley (6/10) - again very light weight but didnlt let missing his first 2 frees get to him and gopt better as the game progressed.

Snowy (3/10) - Very poor. Bullied all day long. Couldnlt hold onto the ball, missed easy chances. Not the answer (yet)

Tommy (6/10) - Free taking was excellent - not in game enough -would have let him rove out more instead of Snowy.

Subs:

God II (5/10) - Not on that long, little ball his way

Swift (5/10) - Same.

Donnelly (1/10) - Should never be in that team. Usual sublimely bad pass. Awful.

Overall thought the defence did well enough. Don't; know what McCaiul has done to MH though - deserves a game.

Need improvement in the forward line though. Only Tommy out of the 3 today would make it.

Strachan has singluarly failed to realise that you need some dig and grit to win in the SPL.

MON knew what was needed when he took over and ensured the teams  he put out were stocked with ball winners and men who could handle themselves. Lambert, Valhaaren, Mjalby, Sutton, Lennon, Thompson, Larsson (even) to name a few. These guys fought for the jersey and bullied Rangers every chance they got.

When LeGuen was in charge he reduced Rangers to one of thier worst squads in recent memory and gift wrapped the SPL for Strachan.

Walter Smith, while playing anti-football, went back to basics and made sure he had plenty of diggers and scrappers in the team - now Celtic are getting bullied and can't cope .

Who in the current Celtic team has any fight in them? Certainly not Naka (was he playing today?, did anyone notice?)

Now we have a team with no style, no ba*lls and no heart. Strachan is a disgrace and needs to go. Now.

Intersting story coming out now about Barry Robson...

Sent home  "injured" according to the Scotland camp before the Croatia friendly - fair enough you might say, apart from........................

1. WGS said he was perfectly fine, fit and well , then and now
2. Robson indicated he was fit then and now...............and looked verrrryy unhappy at missing the chance of a cap
3. The Doctor who sent him home was hired by Walter Smith
4. The same doctor used to work as the team doctor for.......................yep.....Rangers
5. The meedja (paranoid - us?) were then able to say 5 OF plyers pulled out of the Scotland game due to injury...rather than the truer version of 4 Rangers players pulled out (due to a big match on saturday by any chance)......................

[Strabane]

But Paddy Power online has Derry 20/1 for the AllIreland, Eastwoods online has the same......Derry at 20/1

Eastwoods in Strabane however has Derry at 33/1..................................................

Wise up you moron.  One of the best dead ball speacialists in Europe who's inconsistency can largely be blamed on injuries attributable to Scottish refs allowing him to be kicked to death by muck-savage opposition with little or no protection afforded

Leaving aside the fact you can't engage in a structured debate without reducing yourself to childish insults............

As I said before he's been nothing more than a special teams player this season. There are plenty of dead ball specialists in Europe sure, there are also plenty in non-league football - it doesn't make them great players.  Naka this year has been a one trick pony,an opinion which you will find is commopnly held, if you speak to the vast majority of Celtic fans, or even peruse the Celtic messageboards.

Ask yourself why Strachan refused to start him in the last OF, despite being fit enough to play. You can't excuse poor form on injuries for this long..at some stage you have to hold your hand up and declare you are either fit or not fit to play. If you are fit you get on with it.

Ask yourself how many games this year and the latter half of last year he has started and contributed zero (outside of free kicks) in.

Ask yourself why a host of European giants were not beating down the door to sign him if he is such a superstar (and factor in the enormous revenue he generates too). Not even mediocre Euro clubs were bothered enough to chase him to any significant degree.

Larsson, Lubo, Collins, Johnson even McGeady are all examples of flair players who managed to survive and excell in the Scottish league without protection from referees. In fact the bias shown against these players was much much worse than Naka gets.

The fact that Naka has zero b*lls for a scrap in a game is his responsibility alone. In Italy and Spain the defenders  are every bit as cynical yet Robinho, Messi et all seem to do alright.

so have a think on these points and come back with something approching a reasoned argument (other than he takes great free kicks and has nasty defenders stopping him play)before calling someone else a moron.

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