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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.

Couple of points........

1. Bannon is pretty awful

2. The free in 2005 SF was pretty blatant - the only mystery was that Paddy Russell didn't play for a good aul money spinning draw

3. Armagh have got quite a few handy decisions off refs in thier time too.........2005 UF replay for example

MM got 1-5  - seems to be in great form this year

If we were looking options for a ball winning FF..............

Enda - wins a lot of hard ball scrappy breaks around MF, can field reasonabley well, willing and able to fight for his own ball

Fialing that Mellon or Holmes - they don't offer much more in MF

Naka has missed months due to injury.

He was poor before that at the start of the season

Did I say Naka was world class? no I didn't, I said he is a world class passer of the ball.

ok - part time world class then according to you

Celtic fans say he isn't an away player in the SPL. I dunno, I don't get to see those games. The SPL doesn't exactly light my fire. Caley feckin thistle? it's a foreign league to me.

For a man who has no interest in Celtic away or the bread and butter SPL games you seem remarkably forthright with your views on a player who you only see in marquee games for Celtic. Rafael Schiedt looked good on the video highlight compilation y'know!Try Setanta for the away games and take a more informed view of Naka

Celtic's back 4 are rubbish and the midfield are barely adequate for the CL. Where is the base for a playmaker to operate when the back 4 can't string 2 passes together

I agree..however this is the same back 4 and midfield assembled by Strachan so he obviously rates them all.........so on one hand you slag off the back line and MF created by WGS and on the other you suddenly value his opinion on Naka? Bit of a contradiction.

how come you'd have the sight of the playmaker Naka spending 80% of the game in the Celtic half in a home game

Cos 90% of the time he got the ball he gave it straight back to Barca perhaps? It was quite obvious Caddis had no protection inf ront of him. Naka doesn't tackle and the pundits were 100% correct to point this out. Again..ask yourself why he was left out of the first OF game of the season at Ibrox.

Alsoask yourself why no big Euro team came in for Naka after his POY or indeed around the time we bought him.........did you hear anyone offer 10Mill + for him? For such a genius?

He wouldn't be in a GS team if he didn't work back and tackle. Eg. he spent most of his time covering the FB against Barca.

He is a playmaker supreme, a gifted intelligent player who is a world class sublime passer of the ball.
Imo his best role would be in front of a 3 man midfield.
Celtic fans say he is a different player at home than away in the EPL.
Without him in the CL, Celtic were outclassed at home by Shakhtar

I've heard some nonsense said about Naka but that takes the biscuit.

He left Caddis hung out to dry on Wed night. Can't tackle, won't tackle. It's widley accepted, and even voiced by WGS, that Naka is terrible at covering his FB.

On his day he's a very good player. The amount of times he's been on his day this season however have been few and far between. To be coinsidered world class you should be having an above average game roughly 2 out of 3 times you play (averaged over a season). Naka has about 1 in 10.

Ask yourself why WGS leaves him out of big away games. Why was he on the bench against Rangers in the last OF? He wasn't injured. He just rarely does it from open play away from CP and gets regularly bullied out of games.

Away from home he's the equivalent of the NFL special teams unit. Get a free - give to Naka, he scores. That's his sum contribution away from home. How you can call that world class is beyond me. World class free taker yes, world class player - no.

For a "sublime passer of the ball" he gave 80-90% of his passes straight to Barca on Wed night.

Larsson was world class.........Naka is nowhere near Henrik's standard.

What exactly is that Tatoo on his back..? looks a wee bit Beckhamish

Have spoke to a few people down the CnG neck of the woods and they havn't heard anything about SON being injured again.............

MH in today's NOTW suggesting that SON may come back once he's played a few untroubled club games and got over his injuries. Seems to think that SON just needs to regain his appetite and may rejoin later this summer...........................if only.........................

It's a strange and unwelcome co-incidence that the Hub and Mugsy got MOM in the 2003 and 2005 AIF respectively and havn't been anywhere near good since...............................

Regardless of what Rangers (who the f**k cares what they do to be honest) we were made to look like wee boys tonight.

It was unfortunate that Barca clicked in a way they haven't done all season in Spain but to have 25% possession at home is unforgiveable.

We have continually puched way above our weight at home but when you come up against players the calibre of Messi, Henry, Ronnie, Puyol, Iniesta with Eto on the bench, it's hard.

Even harder when you have pr*ks like Caldwell in the team spouting off about how good he is pre-game then having ANOTHER mare during it.

Celtic need a LB / RB / CH and a top class striker plus 2 top class MF players to do anything more in Europe

Sooooooooooooo.........................roughly 25% against 75% posession to the away team.

Difference in class enormous tonight but a few things evidently clear:

1. Caldwell is a joke, a bad joke. An arrogant pr*ck of a player who fancies himself as a maestro in defence and in truth is hopeless. Gave ball away for 2nd, sent to the shop for sweeties by Messi for the 3rd. How he gets a game ahead of Balde is astounding."we will batter Barca" he claimed in the Record today...............aye right
2. Tonight should end the McGeady as good as Messi debate.
3. Naka. The SPL equivalent of a special teams player. Was less than useless tonight.
4. Naylor.......................please, a chamiponship player and showing it.

On the plus side Skippy was excellent, worked his ar*e off. Hartley did well enough as did JVoH.

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Penrose for me gets into some great positions with the ball but he seems to panic a wee bit and either fluffs the ball during a solo or takes the wrong option by either passing

Yeh had me with yeh up to that point...Penrose wouldn't know a pass if it smacked him in the face - if there is a dead end to run aimlessley up..he's yer man