The Offical Glasgow Celtic thread

[charlieTully]

Just seen the replay of he gers goal, who was on the front post???

No one and that's the problem someone on the backpost only...

Terrible game, Celtic missed some amount of chances.. Samaras  especially and he seemed to take the wrong option in the last third of the field more often than not

hoe was it a terrible game, best old firm game i have been at for a good while, McGeady was outstanding, think we would have won comfortably with skippy on, fortune and samaras too similiar and neither can fuckin score. saying that samaras created chances for himself out of nothing, just a pity the lad cant hit the net more often, it was a great performance from celtic bar the obvious mistake of having no one on the back post for that corner. not leaning fromprevious mistakes.

Hmm perhaps I should re-phase that to terribly frustrating game... that alright?

we are all in the same corner mate, i share your frustration big time but i am optimistic after watching that yesterday. hail hail.

[saffron sam2]

Can't for the life of me see why Fortune's goal was disallowed. Shocking decision.

Nor can I see how Kyle "There could be uproar and I'd have to consider my international career [if I signed for Celtic]" Lafferty hasn't been lifted by the Glasgow Polis. Shocking tackle. Hope Evil Genius is proud.

[Celt_Man]

Can't for the life of me see why Fortune's goal was disallowed. Shocking decision.

Nor can I see how Kyle "There could be uproar and I'd have to consider my international career [if I signed for Celtic]" Lafferty hasn't been lifted by the Glasgow Polis. Shocking tackle. Hope Evil Genius is proud.

Heard about Fortuné's goal on the radio before I got into watch the game, it said it was a terrible decision... Saw it at half time and had to agree, minimal if any contact

Haven't seen that rat's tackle yet, any highlights of it online yet?

[T Fearon]

In fairness in the modern game when a forward challenges a goalkeeper for a high ball and scores, the keeper nearly always gets the foul and free kick.I also thought there was a hint of offside about Mc Donald's goal.

For all their possession Celtic created little enough and with the brittle defence (much more brittle than Rangers who have a centre half approaching 40) I wouldn't put my mortgage on this Celtic team and manager winning anything

[saffron sam2]

Can't for the life of me see why Fortune's goal was disallowed. Shocking decision.

Nor can I see how Kyle "There could be uproar and I'd have to consider my international career [if I signed for Celtic]" Lafferty hasn't been lifted by the Glasgow Polis. Shocking tackle. Hope Evil Genius is proud.

Heard about Fortuné's goal on the radio before I got into watch the game, it said it was a terrible decision... Saw it at half time and had to agree, minimal if any contact

Haven't seen that rat's tackle yet, any highlights of it online yet?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/scotland/8438767.stm

37 seconds in.

McDonald was onside. Fearon remains a fool.

[T Fearon]

Look at his positioning when the cross was delivered. He is arguably in front of the last defender. Marginal enough.

[Myles Na G.]

In fairness in the modern game when a forward challenges a goalkeeper for a high ball and scores, the keeper nearly always gets the foul and free kick.I also thought there was a hint of offside about Mc Donald's goal.

For all their possession Celtic created little enough and with the brittle defence (much more brittle than Rangers who have a centre half approaching 40) I wouldn't put my mortgage on this Celtic team and manager winning anything

2nd time you've said that and it's still wrong. Samaras had two excellent chances, one in the first half which he put wide and one in the 2nd which produced a fine save from McGregor. He also had a decent half chance in the 2nd half when he miscued a half volley. McGeady had 2 excellent chances in the 2nd half, blazing one over the bar and pulling the other wide of the goal. Robson hit the bar with a header and made a horlicks of an admittedly difficult volley. Fortune had a goal disallowed. McDonald scored from his one chance. I make that about eight decent or half decent chances, from which we got one goal. Rangers had one chance, one goal. Poor finishing and poor defending cost Celtic the extra 2 points. What's worrying is that this was against a poor Rangers team, playing poorly, without 2 or 3 of their most influential players, at Celtic Park. The Hoops will never have a better chance of winning an Old Firm match and it didn't happen.

[red hander]

Can't for the life of me see why Fortune's goal was disallowed. Shocking decision.

Nor can I see how Kyle "There could be uproar and I'd have to consider my international career [if I signed for Celtic]" Lafferty hasn't been lifted by the Glasgow Polis. Shocking tackle. Hope Evil Genius is proud.

To be fair to Laugherty, he's such a useless tube that that was as close as he was going to get to the ball in that tackle

[T Fearon]

Samaras created a chance for himself out of nothing, but you wouldn't call it a sitter, Robson's was an opportunistic header from a cross, and Mc Geady basically can't compose himself when in a scoring position.You wouldn't have put money on any one of these three so called chances being converted, and the Rangers defence (that is a 17 year old and 39 year old centre back pairing) weren't exactly taken to the cleaners at any stage of a game were Celtic had the lions share of possession. I agree with Jim Mc Lean (a wily old fox that managed a great Dundee Utd side in the 80s) who gave Mc Geady 6 out of 10 in the Daily Record to-day, and said his end product is still way short of his skill and workrate.

[Celt_Man]

Can't for the life of me see why Fortune's goal was disallowed. Shocking decision.

Nor can I see how Kyle "There could be uproar and I'd have to consider my international career [if I signed for Celtic]" Lafferty hasn't been lifted by the Glasgow Polis. Shocking tackle. Hope Evil Genius is proud.

Heard about Fortuné's goal on the radio before I got into watch the game, it said it was a terrible decision... Saw it at half time and had to agree, minimal if any contact

Haven't seen that rat's tackle yet, any highlights of it online yet?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/scotland/8438767.stm

37 seconds in.

McDonald was onside. Fearon remains a fool.

Bloody video won't work here 

[wallyman]

Can't for the life of me see why Fortune's goal was disallowed. Shocking decision.

Nor can I see how Kyle "There could be uproar and I'd have to consider my international career [if I signed for Celtic]" Lafferty hasn't been lifted by the Glasgow Polis. Shocking tackle. Hope Evil Genius is proud.

Heard about Fortuné's goal on the radio before I got into watch the game, it said it was a terrible decision... Saw it at half time and had to agree, minimal if any contact

Haven't seen that rat's tackle yet, any highlights of it online yet?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/scotland/8438767.stm

37 seconds in.

McDonald was onside. Fearon remains a fool.

Bloody video won't work here 

That tackle is a joke!!!!!

[Myles Na G.]

Samaras created a chance for himself out of nothing, but you wouldn't call it a sitter, Robson's was an opportunistic header from a cross, and Mc Geady basically can't compose himself when in a scoring position.You wouldn't have put money on any one of these three so called chances being converted, and the Rangers defence (that is a 17 year old and 39 year old centre back pairing) weren't exactly taken to the cleaners at any stage of a game were Celtic had the lions share of possession. I agree with Jim Mc Lean (a wily old fox that managed a great Dundee Utd side in the 80s) who gave Mc Geady 6 out of 10 in the Daily Record to-day, and said his end product is still way short of his skill and workrate.

You've said twice that Celtic created litttle, yet now you're saying that Samaras 'created' a chance for himself. Robson's 'opportunistic' header was actually created by a decent cross from Hinkel, I think. And whether or not McGeady can compose himself has nothing to do with the fact that two good chances were carved out for or by him. And that's still not counting the chance that McGeady created for McDonald to score or the one that allowed Fortune to put the ball in the net. Celtic created plenty. They couldn't finish because they lack a top class goal scorer.

[reddgnhand]

Look at his positioning when the cross was delivered. He is arguably in front of the last defender. Marginal enough.

Still onside you clown.

[reddgnhand]

In fairness in the modern game when a forward challenges a goalkeeper for a high ball and scores, the keeper nearly always gets the foul and free kick.I also thought there was a hint of offside about Mc Donald's goal.

For all their possession Celtic created little enough and with the brittle defence (much more brittle than Rangers who have a centre half approaching 40) I wouldn't put my mortgage on this Celtic team and manager winning anything

2nd time you've said that and it's still wrong. Samaras had two excellent chances, one in the first half which he put wide and one in the 2nd which produced a fine save from McGregor. He also had a decent half chance in the 2nd half when he miscued a half volley. McGeady had 2 excellent chances in the 2nd half, blazing one over the bar and pulling the other wide of the goal. Robson hit the bar with a header and made a horlicks of an admittedly difficult volley. Fortune had a goal disallowed. McDonald scored from his one chance. I make that about eight decent or half decent chances, from which we got one goal. Rangers had one chance, one goal. Poor finishing and poor defending cost Celtic the extra 2 points. What's worrying is that this was against a poor Rangers team, playing poorly, without 2 or 3 of their most influential players, at Celtic Park. The Hoops will never have a better chance of winning an Old Firm match and it didn't happen.

The Spurs man talks some nonsense and reads the Daily Record as well. Sums him up.

[Evil Genius]

Can't for the life of me see why Fortune's goal was disallowed. Shocking decision.

Nor can I see how Kyle "There could be uproar and I'd have to consider my international career [if I signed for Celtic]" Lafferty hasn't been lifted by the Glasgow Polis. Shocking tackle. Hope Evil Genius is proud.

Eh? 

Why on earth would I be "proud" of a dreadful tackle [sic] committed by a player in a match between two teams towards whom I haven't the slightest affiliation?

Oh, I get it. Lafferty also plays for NI, that must be it. Well I have news for you, if he attempted the same whilst in a green shirt, I would have no hesitation in condemning it, either. And whilst we're on the subject, more than one or two NI fans who also support Rangers have commented recently on Lafferty becoming as much a liability for them (Rangers) as an asset, in the way things seem to have gone to his head since arriving at Ibrox.

I personally hope Walter Smith (someone I actually admire for being an "old school" manager) chews his bollox off, in order to get him back on track, otherwise a potentially outstanding NI No.9 will fail to fulfil that potential.

P.S. For the record, I don't understand why Fortune's effort was disallowed, either, other than that referees habitually seem to "play safe" these days, by ruling out any effort where the striker is within two yards of a flailing goalie.