The Offical Glasgow Celtic thread

[Clown]

what was mowbray thinking taking off nguemo when 1-0 up away in europe and bringing on mcginn
it took mcginn 15 mins before he touched the ball
bringing killen on was also ridiculous when mcdonald was on the bench

if strachan had made these decisions and lost us a european game he'd hav got dogs abuse

[tyroneStatto]

a new low?

same old story away in europe. just like aalborg last year. get a lead and always f*ck up late on.

[Gaoth Dobhair Abu]

Piss poor tonight, but have to say besides some of the bad displays from some of the players, the manager has to accept responsibility for wrong formation and wrong tactics in the second half.

[Main Street]

They looked a bit knackered in the 2nd half.

They looked like  a poor mans Ireland.

[lynchbhoy]

strachan may have drawn at best.
Mowbray did a strachan and played four poor to average players.

maloney, caldwell, mcmanus (not a centre half but is also not match fit) and mcginn were dreadful.

mowbray seems to have made a mistake in selling donati who was playing well before the arsenal games.
Having said all that, the players retreated back too far after they scored.
They stood off hapoel, just like they stood too far off arsenal. This is a problem with mentality.
When Celtic pressed hard in the first half they looked like scoring 4 or 5.
McGeady being hacked down on his breakaway near the end of the firt half was shameful. Still theguy got a yelow card and thatswhat the punishment deserved. McGeady shouldnt have retaliated.
Celtics best player by some distance. Starting to hit form.
Mowbray no worse than strachan. Lets see him hopefully improve from here.
Needs to get rid of the deadwood as mentioned above. Also if caldwell is whinging about his contract and he deserves higher wages, I'd be hoping he is sold.

[Main Street]

On the pitch, Caldwell has delusions he is Beckenbauer.

[Clown]

get caldwell out to f**k and take most of that squad with him

am i the only one to find the substitution of nguemo for mcginn bizarre when 1-0 up away from home in europe??

[Gaoth Dobhair Abu]

Also wtf was he bringing Killen on instead of McDonald!! 

[illdecide]

Also wtf was he bringing Killen on instead of McDonald!! 

Gaoth now you know where my negativity is coming from...(yesterdays post)

[lynchbhoy]

get caldwell out to f**k and take most of that squad with him

am i the only one to find the substitution of nguemo for mcginn bizarre when 1-0 up away from home in europe??

no

two reasons, actually three
the obv replacement was maloney to come off
mcginn should never be near the starting team until he improves or gets a couple of years exp under his belt.
thirdly - the aforementioned 451 was rubbish. 442 or even 433 are celtics best formations.

saying that, caldwell and an unfit mcmanus did not give stability required.
I'd hate to be loovens trying to cover up week in week out for either of them.

sending odea out on loan was a mistake imo.
selling donati was a mistake.
No worse than strachan though, as he wouldnt play either !

[Main Street]

Fox is a very good signing and worth every cent of his transfer fee.

Maloney just does not have enough football intelligence. Even though he was offside that time, the obvious thing to do was flick the ball on and either win a penalty or score an open goal.

A tough criticism to make considering his obvious quality was Boruc.
There is no way he should have done anything else other than smother that ball for the first goal.

[Gaoth Dobhair Abu]

Austrians notch up the heat before next weeks Europa match with the hoops.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/europe/8270594.stm

[Gaoth Dobhair Abu]

Celts winning one nil at half time, Paddy McCourt playing a blinder.

Huns winning one nil at Queen of the South, Boyd booked for a blatent dive.
QotS nearly scored there.

Listen to Celtic match here (UK only)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/scot_prem/6359405.stm


Huns match on BBC one Scotland think it might be online as well.

[Gaoth Dobhair Abu]

Skippy gets his second yes..................

Paddy involved again.

[Gaoth Dobhair Abu]

Paddy McCourt runs with the ball from the halfway line and scores!!!!!!!!!!!!

He deserves it, playing the game of his life.