The Offical Glasgow Celtic thread

[under the bar]

Hopefully a contract is taken out on Smith by a real Rangers fan in the hope of them ever playing entertaining football again.  Kyle Lafferty as a lone striker!  omfg! 

[lynchbhoy]

Paranoia alive and well on the Celtic thread once again . Do people seriously expect tabloid newspapers not to report a fight between two players at Celtic or Rangers? The likes of the Daily Record love any kind of Old Firm story, they have Allan McGregor in it every week as a "love rat" and had some story the other day about John Fleck being in some kind of bother in a night club.
The real issue here is that McGeady and Boruc are in danger of becoming real liabilities for Celtic with their unprofessional behaviour. Both men owe the club big performances tomorrow.

no paranoia needed
check out the biggest and most vindictive stories about Celtic players happen to be coincidentaly appearing in the week or ten days before EACH game v huns !

theres plenty the retard doesnt report on regarding mordor fc too !

If the two lads in question didnt get into a fight in the days preceding the OF game then the story wouldnt have made the papers! The Record + Sun are aimed at the OF supporters, the idea they favour one or the other is ludicrous, these people are their market. Indeed I know a guy who works at the Record and he reckons the majority of their staff are Celtic fans. The sports editor certainly is. Paranoia is alive and well though with fans of both Celtic and Rangers believing the papers have it in for them.

Absolute shocker of a game today at Parkhead. Rangers came to frustrate and I thought it was a very poor approach from them. Smith should be embarrased using those tactics in an OF game and leaving his top scorer on the bench. Shame Celtic didnt have the nous to break it down but at least they werent caught by a late sucker punch as has often happened in these kind of games.

sorry that doesnt wash at all
remember the 'thugs and theives' episode
far too many pre hun game headlines for this to be co-incidence etc etc


as for the game, I purposely missed it (had our own game then went to watch a nephew play u12 soccer match), so was not expecting much from Celtic and by all accounts this was the case.
Why are people surprised that against the leagues other best side, Celtic didnt do feck all?
I'd take that clean sheet as a good sign (though have my doubts about rangers ambtion as obv a draw away from home suits them better) because Celts recently couldnt create against ICT and Queens park, therefore its unlkely that they would suddenly get divine inspiration and begin to play well.
Another 12 game winning run would be whats needed now to lift the title, but strachan really has to step up as coach and teach some faster movement of the ball and players in order to overcome the defensive formations Celtic know they are going to face each week.

[nifan]

I notice that McCourt did not make the bench even.
Is it likely willo flood will be the preferred choice (I cant believe flood will be preferred ahead of McGeady usually) for a place in the squad?

[T Fearon]

Flood was one of (if not the) best players on view yesterday, and even Strachan said he only kept Naka on instead of him due to the free kick potential.

People are being far too harsh on Celtic here. The likes of Fiorentina and Barcelona even found it difficult to play football against this Huns team, who are essentially a team of destroyers who wouldn't look out of place in the RBS 6 Nations Championship.

PS I see in the space of two years Le Guen has transformed PSG from relegation candidates in France to league title contenders.

[tyroneStatto]

didnt get to see yesterdays match but by all accounts it was brutal. no surprise really with the celts not playing well for months now and the huns reverting to their anti football formation.

PS I see in the space of two years Le Guen has transformed PSG from relegation candidates in France to league title contenders.

I always thought that if le guen was given more time he would have turned the huns around, but it was curtains for him once he dropped big bad Barry.

[anportmorforjfc]

just watched the highlights. Crap match

[Clown]

no i disagree that this result can be put down to 'anti-football' on rangers' part
in the 2nd half they wre the team more likely to score and did most of the attacking, with celtic not having a shot in the whole 2nd half (not many i can think of in the 1st half either come to think of it)
the general pattern of play in the 2nd half was boruc goal kick, hesslink doesnt win the header, rangers get it up the pitch, then a series of throw ins and fouls. it was woeful and mainly down to a lack of quality and poor form from celtic.

u dont hav to be a good team to score, or even get a shot on target against rangers especially when being backed by 60 thousand fans.
the anti-football excuse doesnt wash here.

time for answers in the boardroom, were is the money? were are the quality signings we were promised??

[tyroneStatto]

the anti-football excuse doesnt wash here.

i just meant that with celtic's current form being awful combined with rangers formation for the game it was going to be a poor match and it was.

[Gaoth Dobhair Abu]

Terrible game yesterday - and why the fcuk was Naka left on the pitch for 90 mins, another poor performance against the hun from him. Flood should have been left on and Naka subbed and Aidan brought on.

[T Fearon]

Lads, with what was at stake yesterday, surely the last thing you would have expected was sophisticated free flowing attacking football? The absolute priority of both sides was to avoid defeat at all costs and hence that was how the game panned out. Also Brown and Nakamura can consider themselves lucky that their respective heads remain attached to their shoulders to-day.

You'd think also there had never been a bad Liverpool V Man Utd game when the stakes were sky high

[lfdown2]

but i think the point is tony that this is not a once off performance this is now the norm, its been 11hrs now since anyone other than skippy has got a goal, there is no creativity and no sign of where it may come from should it be against rangers or queens park

[Gaoth Dobhair Abu]

Tone no excuses, there is just no creativity in the team yesterday, also for too long now have we looked sterile up front.

Strachan stuck with Naka yesterday even when you could see that he was having a terrible game, in thte vain hope that we may get a free kick in the right area - great tactics alright and again leaving our most creative player on the bench til after half time wtf was that all about?

[T Fearon]

FFS If Mc Geady had started yesterday he would be in a wheelchair now. When he came on he didn't do much either (I'm struggling to recall one good game he has ever had against the huns), and they recorded a win at Ibrox at Xmas without him! It was not a game for creative players yesterday  but for hammerthrowers. Strachan also said he would rely heavily on Lennon's advice in team selection yesterday.

With what was at stake, the 4-2 defeat at Parkhead at the start of the season etc, I didn't expect anything other than sterility yesterday. The fact is also that Mc Donald missed a sitter so the tactics could and indeed should have produced a win. The fact is as they proved at the end of last season when Celtic needed to chase goals and wins, against Rangers or anyone else inthe SPL, they invariably succeeded, with more or the less the same squad of players as they have to-day.

[lfdown2]

again this is not a one off, celtic can not create or score goals, wtf is going to happen if god forbid skippy gets injured??

[Gaoth Dobhair Abu]

Are we ever going to see Ben Hutchinson, scoring for fun in the reserves.