The Offical Glasgow Celtic thread

[T Fearon]

7 points from 3 games not bad

[bennydorano]

Making dam hard work of this. This celtic team is the worst I have ever seen.

Racing Post gave the Romanians a big write up today, a good side (remembering where Celtic are in the grand scheme of things), 2-1 win is a fine result.

Think Ronnie' s finding his feet a bit more now.

[lynchbhoy]

Ronnie is trying to get them to play better passing football
some of the passing is way better then the prev few seasons.
However, the tempo needs to quicken and there are as yet too many bad passes that break down forward movements and better teams than astro will take their chances.

maybe it was planned, like MON with the Irish side having a better faster passing team on at the end v Germany for when the germans got tired, Deila has a better side on at the end with wakuso and esp tonev causing havoc up the wings.

Would prefer to see stokes in a more central role but he is fast becoming the new samaras on the wing!

good result, even if Celtic don't get out of the group, it is a great learning exp for these players.

certainly fitter now than last year- new regieme and the fitness training standing to them it seems

[charlieTully]

The glass half full sentiment is admirable but lets call a spade a spade, it was a shocking performance, Celtic are a very poor team at the min, we are only on seven points thanks to Craig Gordon. It was very flat, the majority of the passing was awful, serious improvement is needed.

[naka]

The glass half full sentiment is admirable but lets call a spade a spade, it was a shocking performance, Celtic are a very poor team at the min, we are only on seven points thanks to Craig Gordon. It was very flat, the majority of the passing was awful, serious improvement is needed.

guys, I think celtic are awful at the moment( as do most celtic fans)
whilst I want to see Ronnie do well I haven't seen any improvement over these past 3 month
if we hadn't had Gordon in nets we would have 0 points in this league , he has been brilliant to date.

[lenny]

The glass half full sentiment is admirable but lets call a spade a spade, it was a shocking performance, Celtic are a very poor team at the min, we are only on seven points thanks to Craig Gordon. It was very flat, the majority of the passing was awful, serious improvement is needed.

guys, I think celtic are awful at the moment( as do most celtic fans)
whilst I want to see Ronnie do well I haven't seen any improvement over these past 3 month
if we hadn't had Gordon in nets we would have 0 points in this league , he has been brilliant to date.

Totally agree. Also i think if neil lennon had stayed we would be in the champions league still although we would be out of our depth there. Gordon has been unbelievable in Europe so far. This quick passing style that deila espouses usually means we give the ball away within 3 or 4 passes and we are completely open for teams to counter attack us. I can see no improvement since he took over. We alo lack leaders and experience in the team but the club strategy of only signig young players with potential is to blame for that.

[Aaron Boone]

Home to Kilmarnock on Sunday. Could be 5-0 or 0-1 you just don't know under Ronnie.

[Main Street]

It remains to be seen what Ronny can manage with this intrepid bunch, however Gordon's quality alone is not influential enough to win 7 points in the EL.
Ronny may be ineffectual or he may be doing something wonderful, we don't know yet.
From a peak a while back, 5 first team players have departed, the dashing Forrest is crippled with sciatica and has a squad nr 49, Brown is still in recovery, Mulgrew looks like he has to learn to walk and Ambrose is residing full time in a dark place. All that has to taken in some context when appreciating  how the manager is doing.

[bannside]

Been a massive Celtic fan (and Celtic only) since the late sixties and it's hard to watch the current stock when you have watched previous vintages. I accept the goalposts have changed massively but it dosent make it easier.

Martin O Neill crafted a team that you wouldn't mind putting out against the best in Europe, but hey, the current boards policy of just doing enough to win SPA is hard to take.

Financial prudence is great but when you scrape home 1-0 against Partick or St Mirren it really makes you wonder what the Lions might have done on a similar (equivalent) Scottish budget.

[lynchbhoy]

While I think there is talent in the squad and that they are playing below par...
They are on 7 points and atop the Europa league group
- so......?

Will they end up there?
I don't think so but you can't whinge about Europa this far given their position!!
No matter how rubbish it looks like they are playing!

[T Fearon]

Anyone else heading to the AGM in November? I'm expecting sparks to fly as it can get heated enough when the Scottish League and Cup trophies are present and a champions league campaign is in progress

[ned]

If it hadn't been for Gordon we would have lost on Thu night?! Gordon did his job no more no less. He made three saves not exactly backs to the wall stuff. If Sceopvic had been on better form we would have won comfortably. Wasn't a great performance but three points were won. The doubts are there about Deila but I am prepared to give him a bit more time.

Bannside, if you are finding this hard to watch I take it you slept through the late 80's- early 90's, Strachan's last season and Mowbary's debacle. Not great so far but getting there I think.

[Main Street]

Gordon is a very good goalie, however those few good saves he made would be expected from a decent standard goalie.
It was the low brow performance from the rest of the players that propelled Gordon into world class territory by comparison.

[illdecide]

If we didn't have him? but we do!!! and that's his job FFS. He's only doing what he was brought in to do and that's to stop the opposition scoring.

[Captain Obvious]

Drew Rangers in the league cup that should spark up some interest here.