The Offical Glasgow Celtic thread

[Main Street]

Scott Brown shinpads will be a big seller in the Celtic shop.

Delighted with McGeady's performance, he was class. A credit to himself and to Strachan's management of him.

Also good to have a strong finish from Celtic. Milan's win means it should be a duel between Celtic and Shakhtar.
It could also work in Celtic's favour that Milan might be happy with a draw at home in their last game.

[GalwayBayBoy]

Disgraceful tackle. How the leg didn't snap I don't know.

Incidentally McGeady was absolute sensational (as he has been for Celtic for the past few month or so) and after the RTE panel were more or less mocking him beforehand. Just goes to show they know absolutely nothing outside the English premier league.

In fairness Galwaybayboy he has been awful for Ireland and i think thats what they were judging him on

Well exactly they've seen him play a few times for Ireland and came to this conclusion even though he's playing up a storm for Celtic at the moment. If they don't see it in Ireland games or the Premier League they don't wanna know.

Though in fairness not many players shined for Ireland under Stan.

[Gabriel_Hurl]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_6NXeegtvBs

[bingobus]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rvfyLxWj5CM

Laughed at Sir Righteous Dunphy talking about how real hard footballers like Giles and Souness wouldn't be seen making tackles like that. Souness was pure flith.

[Owenmoresider]

Christ ! Just seen the tackle........what sort of a person would intentionally carry out such an act in a sports fixtiure.

He must model his game on Roy Keane. Can't wait for his Autobiography 

A terrible tackle, and Brown is lucky not to have been injured from it.

Have to laugh at Souness giving out about it, given his past: http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=rvfyLxWj5CM

[GalwayBayBoy]

It was straight out of the Souness textbook.

[Rav67]

McGeady was unplayable tonight, finally beginning to fulfill his potential on a consistent basis.  Hartley was immense, mopped up everything, while Brown and McDonald were also impressive.

Wouldnt have thought it a few weeks ago but a 2-0 win home to Shaktar should see us through!

[lynchbhoy]

is it not a 3-0 win to shaktar they need?
Still will be hard enough winning let alone scoring 3 !
With that def, it will be hard enough to not concede a goal !
sorry for being so negative. The def destroys any confidence I have in the good midfield and good forwards that Celtic have (JVOH is good when fit).

McGeady showing more and more signs of the player he was once touted to be.
He has the pace, he is starting to get stronger and not as easily pushed off the ball as he once was. He has great skill, fast feet , a decent shot and an eye for goal.
He needs to fine tune his crossing though. He also needs to end his great runs and pieces of trickery with a pass to a team mate that ends up in a shooting possibility or a decent cross as all too often his work ends up with no product.
This is improving I will add, but he is a long way off being the finished article, and if he can get there, he will be an Irish/Scots Ronaldinho.
GS needs to get new defenders in. Only for Hartley Celtic were fecked in the first half. Brown and McDonald as well as McGeady and Hartley were superb for the Celts.

[T Fearon]

Souness on George Mc Cluskey anyone, in one of his first games, if not the first, after taking over the Huns.

What price the point in Lisbon now if the Bhoys had held on for another couple of minutes?

Still Milan beating Shaktar was what we all wanted to see. If Milan have already qualified by the last game (and they should be) it may not be too difficult taking a crucial point at the San Siro

[AZOffaly]

That tackle last night on Brown was absolutely disgusting. The Celtic lads should have clattered the sh1te out of that fella. It was easily as bad as Keane on Haaland.

[Croí na hÉireann]

Shocking tackle, credit to Brown for being able to take to the field after it, he'll be keeping an eye out for a rematch with that coward again no doubt. He was threading a fine line with some of his earlier tackles and a stricter ref would have at least booked him earlier. Have to say though, one of the best refereed matches I've seen in quite a while, let the game flow and got most of the going to ground and other decisions spot on.

Excellent performance from McGeady, his game is really coming on, great at making some room for a shot, but needs to put the ball in the corner, not down the throat of de keeper. Keeper, midfield and upfront were excellent but it was nearly undone by that defense. I think Kennedy is now feeling the strain of playing twice a week after being out for so long as he looked ropey last night. Hopefully getting Wilson or Doumbe back will give us balance but we definitely need some strengthing in this area in Jan...

[full back]

Missed the tackle
Anyone got a link to it?

[T Fearon]

Anyone else think Mc Geady takes too much stick from the RTE Panellists? w**ker Dunphy was ridiculing him again last night and Giles normally has nothing good to say about Celtic (probably hasn't got over the defeat in the European Cup semi final all those years ago), Souness last night diplomatically said nothing (he must be in the frame to take over the manager's hotseat), and Brady the absolute failure as Manager at Parkhead, is normally not very complimentary towards the Bhopys either, though he wasn't there last night.

You almost get the feeling that they think no one playing in the SPL is good enough for Ireland

[Rav67]

is it not a 3-0 win to shaktar they need?
Still will be hard enough winning let alone scoring 3 !

3-0 will see us all-but through but 2-0 should be enough (I think) as that would match Shaktar on head-to-head and then Celtic should have a better goal difference given the hammering Shaktar took from Milan.

[T Fearon]

Incidentally ordered the new book to-day about George Connelly. Older Celts will remember him as an outstanding talent who couldn't hack the pressures of football and literally walked out on Celtic and a professional career. Should be an interesting read