The Offical Glasgow Celtic thread

[gerry]

thats it muzz, all over now

[Muzz]

Hoofing these big balls up to Samaras - Couldnt hold up a Golf Sale sign!!!

[wanderer]

After the Ross County game Lennon came out with a statement about some of the players not being there next season whether he was or not. Most people that I knew took one of these to be Samaras, yet not only does he seem to be keeping him but he seems to have been promoted to first choice striker. He is the ultimate luxury player, if its a sunny day, low tempo with no pressure he looks great, the other 360 days a year he is a 5/6 out of 10 player.
Does Lennon actually know what he wants yet? Or is this a bit of a scatter gun approach that he's going with

[Myles Na G.]

Total shite. There isn't an ounce of quality in this team.

[Muzz]

Samaras was away at the beginning of season - preseason he scored a rake of goals and therefore was kept!

[tyroneman]

An awful, awful performance so far.

Zaluska, Maloney, Loovens, Mulgrew, Samaras, Fortune, Brown, Ki, O'Dea, Wilson all need read out to feck.

I have never seen a Celtic side with such little quality. God konws how Juarez, Ledley and Hooper aremenat to fit in. Hard enough when yr coming into a good side, let alone a pathetic one.

It's patently obvious a LB, CH and another goalscoring striker are what's needed.What's also evident from tonight is a complete lack of creativity in MF.

[wanderer]

To be fair I think Mulgrew in the two games so far has looked like the one outlet ball, but when you look up and you have no pass to play you are put in a difficult situation constantly.
I personally don't understand why he got the likes of Murphy who doesn't seem as if he will be first choice. I don't see what the point is in buying older players if you aren't buying them as certain starters

[wanderer]

Fortune on

[tyroneman]

To be fair I think Mulgrew in the two games so far has looked like the one outlet ball

He's a defender.

Who can't defend.

[the colonel]

Was at the game, mulgrew can't do his primary objective which is defend. Samaras always confuses me. I thought he was good on the wing. A lot more effective than Maloney. Fortune was also good when he went on. I think hooper will get a lot of goals. Ledley controlled the game in first half. The 2 centre halves were absolute bombscares. Hoiveld is a nutter. Loovens is just shocking. Brown showed in parts potential he could have, but also how bad he can be.

Very confusing night altogether.

[SambaSaffron]

Mulgrew, Maloney and Loovens all crap. All have to go. Hooiveld thinks he's better than he is. Brown with some decent tackles and strong running and some awful tackles and awful passing. Samaras the usual. Hooper will do well. Juarez will be excellent, although he gave it away a few times his effort was good. Cha did well, as did Ledley. Hooper put a good shift in, Fortune did very well when he came on. McCourt should have been on sooner.

[laceer]

What's the story with McGinn? Is he going to make it at Celtic?

[the colonel]

McGinn is injured at the minute

[Main Street]

Mulgrew, Maloney and Loovens all crap. All have to go. Hooiveld thinks he's better than he is. Brown with some decent tackles and strong running and some awful tackles and awful passing. Samaras the usual. Hooper will do well. Juarez will be excellent, although he gave it away a few times his effort was good. Cha did well, as did Ledley. Hooper put a good shift in, Fortune did very well when he came on. McCourt should have been on sooner.

Unfortunatly McCourt is a liability, not a luxury player
On for 5 minutes and managed to gift away possession twice,  once with a criminal casual pass across the midway line.
When you use McCourt in a game, it is similar to a doomed reckless gambler trying to recover losses in the last race.

There was not a hope in hell of beating Braga over 2 legs no matter who the manager was.
I would be more looking for a shape to the team at this stage  rather than assessing individual players, although it is hard to avoid Mulgrew's black stains.

I couldn't figure out what Lennon was actually trying to do with the players. Maybe Baxter can impose some plan when he gets involved.  As it is, Hooper is good enough to be on his own up front, Fortune on the right wing and God knows who on the left.  Leave 3 around CM, Juarez being the main man with 2 others.
Brown has no brain and is a danger to the team and to himself. Hard to credit he showed so much promise under Strachan.
I don't know about the centre halves. Surely Lennon and Johann can sort that one out.

 

[Myles Na G.]

Mulgrew, Maloney and Loovens all crap. All have to go. Hooiveld thinks he's better than he is. Brown with some decent tackles and strong running and some awful tackles and awful passing. Samaras the usual. Hooper will do well. Juarez will be excellent, although he gave it away a few times his effort was good. Cha did well, as did Ledley. Hooper put a good shift in, Fortune did very well when he came on. McCourt should have been on sooner.

Unfortunatly McCourt is a liability, not a luxury playerOn for 5 minutes and managed to gift away possession twice,  once with a criminal casual pass across the midway line.
When you use McCourt in a game, it is similar to a doomed reckless gambler trying to recover losses in the last race.

There was not a hope in hell of beating Braga over 2 legs no matter who the manager was.
I would be more looking for a shape to the team at this stage  rather than assessing individual players, although it is hard to avoid Mulgrew's black stains.

I couldn't figure out what Lennon was actually trying to do with the players. Maybe Baxter can impose some plan when he gets involved.  As it is, Hooper is good enough to be on his own up front, Fortune on the right wing and God knows who on the left.  Leave 3 around CM, Juarez being the main man with 2 others.
Brown has no brain and is a danger to the team and to himself. Hard to credit he showed so much promise under Strachan.
I don't know about the centre halves. Surely Lennon and Johann can sort that one out.

McCourt's only hope is to play further forward. At the moment he picks the ball up too deep and is always going to give it away cheaply with misplaced passes or by trying to take players on. When he does that, he leaves half his teammates stranded up ahead of him. Try him as the furthest man forward, or playing off the front man, so that if he loses the ball, it isn't catastrophic. If that doesn't work, he's goosed.