6 games in...

Dan Breen · Sep 22, 2020

With all the possession we have in games, we dont seem to get enough shots on target/make the keeper work.

G_portillo · Sep 23, 2020

Your assessment of Christie is wild. At a time where no player has found or maintained any real form, Christie has provided both goals and assists which have led to vital points.

Its mental some fans attitude towards Christie. He never hides and has stepped up and provided the guile and craft when it didnt look as if it was going to come from anyone else.

Take him out the team and we would be behind Rangers 100%.
Whats more is the amount that he is fouled and on the receiving end of dirty tackles and gets up and dusts himself off is remarkable.

Only a celtic fan could see a player with Christies attacking output and conclude that he either needs dropped or moved further back in midfield. Utter madness.

LectersLuncheon · Mar 5, 2021

Wow, this thread

Peej · Mar 5, 2021

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That one aged well

same thread he bangs on with this:

mindboggling, a "Celtic" fan celebrating the huns and claiming they are/where always behind their team.

Must have missed the day they let their club die, or the many many times in recent seasons where they have booed their team off the park...sometimes back on to it.

LectersLuncheon · Mar 6, 2021

Dude is absolute walloper.

Blaming fans, the fans who had the simple common sense to see the writing on the wall, for the the imminent collapse of the 10.

I don't have social media but I certainly hope someone * rinsed him when he was proved to be an utter * hat.

JML67 · Mar 6, 2021

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The old adage that being able to win ugly at times is the mark of champions is certainly a useful one.

But what is also true is that routinely scrapping wins against poor opposition is not how league's are won. Its how they're lost. à la sevco two seasons in a row.

Anyone choosing to ignore the major issues surrounding early season performances in lieu of box ticking is watching a pot boil over and saying "well at least it's still cooking".

We finished last season before lockdown a team on fire. Any domestic side side facing us was like putting a drunk James Cordon in the ring with a 25 year old Manny Pacquiao. No one could cope with our speed, our aggression, our dynamism. A lockdown later we look like a newly formed side with a new manager... Everyone waiting for it to click.

The lack of fans at games is no doubt a considerable factor. There's no wall of sound to push the side forward. But it's not an excuse.

Yes we just won. Yes we've a game at hand and a more than decent chance to go top this weekend. And yes... I'm a panty wetter. My question is why the * aren't more of us? This our biggest season in decades.

The issues are plain as day. No one is debating what might or might not be going wrong for us to put is such turgid, lethargic and twitchy first half showings;

Brown needs dropped, or at the very least, subbed on a regular basis. He just not there. Our leader yes. A club legend yes. But an invaluable contributor on the park so far this season... No.

The James Forest that the Snake rejuvenated and had skinning players with ease is now posted AWOL. He's currently playing like someone afraid to catch an injury, or someone looking for the door quite frankly.

Christie is another. For all his endeavour and intermittent moments of brilliance sometimes I wonder if Ryan Christie plays for Celtic football club of if Ryan Christie plays for Charlie Christie promotions. He's currently performing like a school boy in Sunday league who's daddy won't take him for ice cream if he doesn't score a worldy. I also don't buy the "he just had two assists and won us a penalty". This alludes to fallacy that no other player in hoops can do either. Would I drop him? No not yet. But it certainly wouldn't stop me dragging him into the coach's office by the ear and show him a highlight reel of his current "style" of play and sending him back to training with his cap in his hands.

And then there's Taylor. A mid table spfl player if ever I saw one. He is quite simply not good enough. Harsh but true. There's little suspicion from anyone that Taylor is any way disinterested or even lazy. Its exactly the opposite. Watching him scream to the sky last night when he tried to collect a long ball and it went into touch was as telling as anything. He's trying his best, unfortunately for him and us, his best just isn't good enough. Watching Taylor run 3 year yards, get stopped by a single opposition player, turn around and pass it back 6 yards is becoming a frustrating monotony that is stifling our attack and knocking our midfield out of sync, effectively inviting the opposition to press us high and put us under needless preasurre. Its a major issue that is more than problematic.

At the centre of all this is Neil Lennon. His bizarre comments after last night's game are another in an increasingly worrying long list baffling statements and head scratching personnel line ups. I don't for a second buy that Lennon is not a good manager. He is. But the pragmatist of the past seems to have been abducted by alien body snatchers and replaced by a rookie determined to unnecessarily fiddle about with formations and personnel, whilst ridiculously making sure the old guard always get 90 minutes.

This thread isn't so much a rant as it is a form of therapy if you like. As a self proclaimed "panty wetter" I'm very very concerned that we are needlessly gambling with greatness here.

Only 6 games in? Yes.

But this season EVERY game should be a cup final. Something's gotta give.
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Fair play, you were bang on the money and could've written that post at pretty much any point in the season and it would still apply. How it took us til February/March to part ways with Lennon is baffling. What a tragic end to such a glorious period for the club.

Sean Daleer · Mar 6, 2021

Imagine bumping this thread to pat yourself on the back when we are on the cusp of losing the league.

Embarrassing.

Artorias · Mar 6, 2021

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Imagine bumping this thread to pat yourself on the back when we are on the cusp of losing the league.

Embarrassing.
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Tbf I was trawling through old threads and "liked" his comment which would have prompted him in here. He is bang on as well. Wish he was the Director Of Football at Celtic

stirfry999 · Mar 6, 2021

Mr Maverick said: ↑

Fair play, you were bang on the money and could've written that post at pretty much any point in the season and it would still apply. How it took us til February/March to part ways with Lennon is baffling. What a tragic end to such a glorious period for the club.
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Bang on the money this guy

Sean Daleer · Mar 6, 2021

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Tbf I was trawling through old threads and "liked" his comment which would have prompted him in here. He is bang on as well. Wish he was the Director Of Football at Celtic
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Fair enough

JML67 · Mar 6, 2021

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Bang on the money this guy
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Aye stop banging on about it though eh

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