The Offical Glasgow Celtic thread

[JimStynes]

Really cant see Celtic and Rangers getting any better until they get out of the Scottish league, its just going to keep going down hill from here. They both would struggle in the english championship at this point but give them a few years and they could be a good top half premiership team.

[norabeag]

Absolute rubbish indeed. Seems to have been no difference from Mowbray's time in charge.

Never big fan of SPL or that Celtic /Rangers crap at all but have just watched 10 mins of that rubbish on Sky and I do not understand how anyone spends money on going over regularly to watch that crap. Would see better in local amateur game.

[tyroneman]

Celtic would have been better buying £4million pounds worth of pencils or shoes instead of shelling out for Fortune. At least they would get some use out of pencils. 

[lynchbhoy]

LB, I do not disagree with the logic of your posting but would question where is the pragmatism? Strachan, Mowbray, Lennon is the calibre of manager Celtic are in the market for presently and I doubt if O'Neill would have done any better with the resources Strachan had.

Also don't disagree with the weaknesses of the players let go that you have listed but again my contention is that the replacements Mowbray brought in are no better (Robbie excepted) and indeed are arguably considerably worse

lennons only qualification is that he is a celtic fan. thats not nearly good enough.
Wim Jansen didnt need that to be a success, nor did he 'understand the issues' of being an 'old firm' manager!! (demonstrating the absolute bollix that notion is!!)
best of luck to neil, but your sole reason for wanting him is nothing to do with his lack of exp or lack of knowledge but that he's from armagh !

strachans resources were good enough to be 9 points in front around christmas last season - I very much doubt if any of MON's teams would fcuk that up (grantham, shepshed, wycombe or leicester let alone villa or Celtic under him !)

jimstynes - yes - getting rid of the rubbish players was a step in the right direction. Pity most of what he brought in have been inj since they arrived !

[lynchbhoy]

that game today was no better than any Celtic perf this past three or four years.
Devoid of creativity etc. Just watching the cork v tipp hurling now which is light years ahead in athleticism, skill and entertainment not to mention bravery and effort.

I would say that the spl has indeed gone downhill from a couple of seasons ago where most games- even those played between lesser lights- were attacking fayre and entertaining .

any game I see now is a disaster. The disgraceful pitches certainly are a lot to do with this.

hopefully Celtic will get a manager soon after this season ends, lennons motivation has obv fizzled out already.

[Main Street]

Absolute rubbish indeed. Seems to have been no difference from Mowbray's time in charge.

Rubbish game on a rubbish pitch. But surely you could see one crucial difference from Mowbray's time in that Celtic managed not to leak a goal.
Interesting penalty decision, McGeady puts himself in the line of a player aiming to hit the ball fairly and wins a penalty.

[lynchbhoy]

Absolute rubbish indeed. Seems to have been no difference from Mowbray's time in charge.

Rubbish game on a rubbish pitch. But surely you could see one crucial difference from Mowbray's time in that Celtic managed not to leak a goal.
Interesting penalty decision, McGeady puts himself in the line of a player aiming to hit the ball fairly and wins a penalty.

in the last number of matches, mowbrays team were starting to rack up clean sheets - with the st mirren game bucking the trend completely

complete contrast to last game v hibs where Celtic controlled the game and should have won by a cricket score but missed chance after missed chance (keane the arch culprit) with three hibs attacks yeilding two goals giving hibs the win they didnt deserve
Today Celtic could only claim they deserved a draw at best and never looked like scoring.
McGeady kept looking to pass to keane ALL the time...when others were open or he should have had a shot himself

[JimStynes]

that game today was no better than any Celtic perf this past three or four years.
Devoid of creativity etc. Just watching the cork v tipp hurling now which is light years ahead in athleticism, skill and entertainment not to mention bravery and effort.

I would say that the spl has indeed gone downhill from a couple of seasons ago where most games- even those played between lesser lights- were attacking fayre and entertaining .

any game I see now is a disaster. The disgraceful pitches certainly are a lot to do with this.

hopefully Celtic will get a manager soon after this season ends, lennons motivation has obv fizzled out already.

Thats an understatement, them hurlers are tough tough men.

[Main Street]

It is premature to even pass comment on the overall merits of Lennon in his second game on a shite pitch away from home. His job is clearly to stop the rot at the back and let the forwards take what they can get. So far he has done that.
He has proved that a novice can do as good and even a better job than Mowbray did.
He is not in the same league as MON when it comes to leaping to celebrate a goal, in fact his feet hardly left the ground, I don't how Lennon ever won a header on the pitch.

[lynchbhoy]

It is premature to even pass comment on the overall merits of Lennon in his second game on a shite pitch away from home. His job is clearly to stop the rot at the back and let the forwards take what they can get. So far he has done that.
He has proved that a novice can do as good and even a better job than Mowbray did.
He is not in the same league as MON when it comes to leaping to celebrate a goal, in fact his feet hardly left the ground, I don't how Lennon ever won a header on the pitch.

it is early, but thats not the case. Todays perf was worse than anything I have seen this season.
Soccer (and sport in general) is a 'funny old game' as they didnt condede a goal when outplayed in defence - contrary to other times when the converse is true.
will see what comes, but lennon will need those inj players back and to put someone else on in the middle of the pitch eg crosas and move brown to the wing instead of samaras.
Dropping keane might be better for the team as they try to send everything to him and the opposition know this and defend accordingly. He never got a sniff today.
Drop mcgeady until he finds form/pitches improve

[Main Street]

Dropping Keane?
He is a class on his own out there. If he was any more prolific he would be in top group of strikers in Europe.
Keane will create goals, score goals and convert penalties. Celtic could not even convert a penalty before he came.





 

[Orior]

Best bit of entertainment today was when the ref stopped play for an injured player. On the restart, Celtic said they kick the ball back to Hibs as they had had poscession.

Anyway the ref dropped the ball, Keane got it and started racing towards the Hibs goal, and then tapped it back to the keeper.

[Club Rossa]

While the performance was poor today i was obviously happy with the result.Hibs rarely make things easy for Celtic and any time you get 3 points at Easter Road is a good result.

[Celt_Man]

Going off on a slight tangent here, Cillian Sheridan on loan from Celtic to St. Johnstone scored an absolute cracker against Rangers last week.  Only after seeing it, well worth a look
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-ZHK9vRAgo

[slow corner back]

Another player who should not have been allowed to go out on loan. He had a good spell last season linking up with McDonald before being replaced by the useless Samaras. He should be back at Celtic Park  at the end of the season.