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Winning the title

Discussion in 'Celtic Chat' started by stirfry999, Dec 10, 2023.

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  1. bobd1888

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    The refs are * across the board, they'll be a massive reason behind us not winning the league, winning the league, teams failing to get Europe and teams getting relegated.

    There's plenty of twists left in this season, we're also capable of taking 6 points away from Rangers. Maybe there's too many within the support that have never seen this before, we're pretty much neck and neck with them and likely may be until the end. The mass hysteria/sack Rodgers pish needs to end, and we need to back the team every week, regardless of how much points we've thrown away in previous months, because it's done.

    If we lose this from the position we were in, then we can have the conversation then, but until then we need to pull together as one.
     
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  2. Foley1888

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    This has been said since we got back after the winter break and have now dropped points 3 times out of 7 games. We can’t seem to win more than a couple on the bounce.

    This season we can’t even seem to take advantage of penalties which should be definite goals 9/10 times and we are nearer 6.

    I know we played with 10 men most of today but still carved out nearly one more expected goals than they did but lost 2-0 because we can’t convert a penalty or be clinical when things come our way in the box.

    How often can we say is this us turned the corner? Or we need to be perfect?
     
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  3. dbhoy72

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    We've still to goto Killie, we ain't winning there and actually worried Hearts have our number too, as that last pumping against them at Parkhead was up there with one of the easiest wins for a team coming to Parkhead, and I include European teams.

    We ain't winning those 2.

    We just look absolute * and they're just as bad although tbh they carve out way more chances than us since Baldy has come in, irs like double our stats.
     
  4. Leone Naka Fan

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    My "brave" prediction is that if we trail the horde by no more than 4 points before the Ibrox game, the league can be saved. More than that, and the psychological weight will crush us. The less of a deficit there is, the better. If the gap stays at 2, we don't even need to win at Ibrox.
     
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  5. honda Gold Member Gold Member

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    Hopefully, their blip continues. Another couple injuries in Europe this week will do aswel.
     
  6. KuhntryBhoy

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    If we had won yesterday the huns would have imploded. That's why we weren't allowed to win.
     
  7. Slaw

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    Before the weekend’s fixtures most would’ve been pretty confident. Huns were expected to run over Motherwell. So people were confident, even in the knowledge that we had to win at Tynecastle to stay 2 points adrift.

    Nothing has changed. It’s still 2 points. Same as if they won and we went to Tynecastle and won. If that happened confidence would’ve been sky high. Same outcome now but people are coming out with patter like “leagues gone” and “zero chance”.

    Wouldn’t want to go into battle with ye! It’s absolutely all to play for and we’re in better nick than them in my opinion. Especially if Cal and Hatate are back soon. Hopefully Nawrocki as well.

    Imagine conceding a league with a 2 point deficit to a team that just got pumped at home to Motherwell. Get a grip folks.

    They had no excuses for their loss. They were * and deserved to lose at home to Motherwell. We got a nonsense red and pen against us in the first half away to the best of the rest. There’s no indication to me that we’re going to slip back into our pre-Motherwell second half form.
     
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  8. donnegal celt

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    Can’t get over people thinking we we cheated yesterday. we were giving a penalty that wasn’t really penalty. That ref diddnt force idah to miss it.
    we diddnt turn up and bottled it.
    We had enough chances to win game.
    If ref was cheating that much. They could allowed second goal before half time.
    Yesterday result was on our team bottling it.
     
  9. Slaw

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    They couldn’t have allowed the goal before HT because it was not a decision made by VAR. It was made by a computer.

    I don’t know if we were cheated or not. All I know is both the red and penalty were absolutely wrong and the man who made those decisions enjoys a drink in Rangers pubs.
     
  10. donnegal celt

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    I know that. If idah had stayed onside time O Riley scored.
    We * ourselves yesterday.
    Red card was Yang fault. What he thinking putting his foot so high.
     
  11. Jackie Daytona Gold Member Gold Member

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    I don’t think we were necessarily “cheated” either. But the standard of officiating in this country is pathetic and embarrassing.

    The level of incompetence shown fuels paranoia. I don’t think they’re capable of getting anything right. I can think of one half decent referee in the last 20 years and that was Callum Murray. He’s long retired.
     
  12. honda Gold Member Gold Member

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    The refs brought in during the ref strikes never seemed to make any biased mistakes.
     
  13. Hammy89 Gold Member Gold Member

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    That's the speech I needed.

    They're two points clear. That's their only positive.

    The red card absolutely killed us yesterday.the penalty was the final nail in the coffin though. Both were so incredibly harsh that ex-huns agree it wasn't a red or/and a penalty.
     
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  14. Mince.Charming

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    Why did our club not bring this up when he was pictured in a rangers pub in Bellshill after refereeing a match against us that had equal strange decisions.?
     
  15. Artorias

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    It's excellent points you make. In a roundabout way maybe it can galvanise us a bit, hopefully the players will feel a sense of injustice and want to put it right.


    How long will we be without Yang now? That's another gutter about his sending off.
     
  16. Slaw

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    Hopefully be back for our next game after we appeal it
     
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  17. BigDoggyWoofWoof

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    It's disheartening because it's literally the officiating that's prevented us going top. Can't imagine how it is for the players, they must just want to give up. What's the point when they use VAR to send you off and give penalties against you.
     
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  18. littlekennie

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    I think we should appeal it


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  19. littlekennie

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    Beating them at ipox would be so sweet now the meltdown it would cause


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  20. Thomas67Kearno

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    If the top 6 stays the way it is, has anyone worked out what our home and away games are and also who the huns have away?