[Matchday] Celtic v Dundee (Wednesday - 04/04/18 - 19:45 GMT)

You don't understand how ridiculous posts like that are.

Of course we can't be incredible in every game. Nobody realistically expects that.

However that's 9 draws in the league this season. 5 games out of the last 11 we haven't scored a goal.

It's not that it's not incredible...it's * dire.

 

Simply put we are not that good and are fortunate just to be the best of a bad bunch, people wont like to hear this but i dont see how anyone could disagree

 

Last season we looked deadly with overlapping wingbacks, giving our wings much more space in attack. Now it looks so one dimensional when attacking from the wings. When Tierney's out/fatigued we're losing an attacking option down the left. Lustig needs real competition on the right back as he's not contributing much going forward.

 

10 points clear at the top of the league. That'll do for me.

 

Feels like we’ve spent all season waiting for performances to pick up and now we’re almost at the end and we’re still dropping needless points and showing no consistency from one game to the next.

 

Too many draws this season IMO, seems like we are happy to accept a draw at home these days.

 

What I mean is when side's are happy to sit in and take a draw....we seem to be lackluster and feel no pressure to burst a gut like against the better side's who come out now and again and you can press and counter..

Almost like a they won't beat us attitude so the goal will come at some point. Which it hasn't been often enough..

You have to make it happen. Sometimes we'll get 1 man trying on his own, Forrest, Armstrong, KT or Rogic but you have to do it in numbers against side's camped in. We seem to let and hope 1 guy does it all himself like Forrest or Rogic and scores, or lays it on a plate..

When Paddy plays for example, he'll manipulate 2 or 3 men and then look for someone to link up with a 1/2. Isn't enough of that happening across the side..

 

Dire stuff. Rodgers has to shoulder the blame for the most part. Given we had almost a full compliment of players I thought the team and shape were all wrong.

Playing 1 up top against a back 5 played it into their hands, not helped by a * poor performance in midfield by quite a few where we had extra men. Sinclair was poor, Armstrong had a touch like a trampoline and Lustig gives you nothing. Same stuff we've been seeing all season.

I understand we have no divine right to win every game but constructive criticism has to be allowed. If we're to give Rodgers credit for excellent tactics like bringing on Edouard at Ibrox then we surely have the right to criticise his selection when it's clear the opposition were going to be set up to stifle the game and then play turgid, side-to-side football with no direction or purpose.

Too often this season we've not selected the strongest XI available and dropped points. Against the likes of St.Johnstone and Hibs it was understandable as we had crucial European ties right after; now we don't and we should be playing our full strength and seeing out the season in style.

Personally I felt a game like tonight was perfect for Roberts who can take into feet in tight areas, beat opponents and ultimately set up or score goals. The triple substitution was pretty telling of Rodgers thoughts of how the game-plan was playing out

 

Loads of shots but never looked like scoring. Game was crying out for trickery against a packed defence but no Roberts or Musonda

 

The worst is, when you see the match selections it's almost as if we are dropping points on purpose. Form and how good the players are seem to be completely irrelevant to be in the starting 11. These random line ups might sometimes do against SPL teams, but the first half decent team in UCL/Europa League will take advantage of it easily if we keep fielding the team that way.

 

I’m usually the first on here to remain positive and see the best in the team regardless, can’t say I fall into the spoilt bracket, and yes, I very much remember the 90s, but our home performances are tiresome.

Chore to watch these days. Enormous credit to opponents for their approach, earning points and shutting us out etc. But watching us fail to break teams down, failing to create and just labouring along is just poor and really disappointing.

There was a great move in the first half which split them open and Jamesy went close, apart from that I can’t remember even getting half-excited. The most interesting parts of the game were when Hendry drove forward with the ball. We’re missing an edge to our game, that creativity and something different. Like watching chess these days

 

We need to spend big in the summer for CL another couple of players like Roberts and Sinclair who can Do something different , maybe Musonda will grow into it as an quality option replace Boyata and Lustig with some real quality too the money is there.

 

Agreed about the triple substitutions. He knew he'd * it..

That must be his first treble change here?

It looks like he may be saving player's with an eye on the Huns just over a week away and that's understandable but we should still have enough without KT, Ajer and Griff to beat a side struggling down near the bottom, who haven't kept a clean sheet for over 2 month..

I can't remember 1 big save their keeper had to sprawl for..

 

You’re measuring us against the teams in our league.

 

Boom!!!!!!
Can we keep him, please.

 

We really are Deila-esque sometimes.