\u201cThe players deserve a huge amount of credit. \u201cI said to the players, \u2018We take our medicine, we learn from it\u2019, and this is what this group is very good at doing. <\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWe remain very positive, press the reset button and we go again. \u201cThey were excellent in training on Thursday and Friday. We tried something different today in the shape of the team and I thought as the game went on we got better and better. \u201cIt was a mark of a good side that you can respond, score four goals and keep a clean sheet. It was a really good performance.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Someone else who would have done his confidence no harm yesterday was keeper Craig gordon, who made a tremendous double save. As good as any you’ll see this season.<\/p>\n Which clearly annoyed Jim McIntyre, the County manager..<\/p>\n \u201cIt was fantastic, especially the second part of it. It was an incredible save, but he is a top keeper.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThe sign of a top keeper is when you don\u2019t have a lot to do and then you have to produce when it matters and he certainly did that. <\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWe had a good chance before their third goal when Michael Gardyne has a shot but we have three-on-one at the back area. <\/em><\/p>\n \u201cAll of a sudden they counter-attack and we are done and it is 3-0 rather than a good chance to make it 2-1. These are the key moments when you come to places like this.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n This weekends round of results means that Celtic have pulled two points clear of Aberdeen at the top of the table.<\/p>\n After that there’s little to choose between third and eighth , with a number of clubs having a mixture of good days and bad.<\/p>\n Rodgers has also added Kolo Toure to the coaching staff, something that has largely gone unnoticed by the media..<\/p>\n \u201cThis is great news for Celtic that we are able to bring a man of Kolo\u2019s experience into our coaching team.\u00a0In everything he does, he is quite simply a fantastic example to anyone.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cHe has worked at the top of the game for so many years and he has all the qualities which any player of any age should aspire to.\u00a0He is a fantastic role model for our younger players and someone who has a level of experience and knowledge which can only be invaluable to our established players.\u201d \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWe are delighted that we will benefit from this experience and I know will make a real contribution to the club in this role.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n We’ll need him, we’re about to embark on a tricky run of games..<\/p>\n The next league game is a visit to plucky newcomers “rangers ” at Ibrox, led by perfectionist manager Pedro Caixinha.<\/p>\n The Portuguese, in his own words, had the bets squad in scotland last season, but as they failed to win anything, he got rid of nearly all of them in the summer and brought even better players to replace them.<\/p>\n There have been a couple of teething problems, but the club almost managed a third win in a row for the first time under his stewardship against Partick on Friday, but despite a display of total total football, a level up from the famed style of the great dutch sides of the seventies, Partick managed to hang on for a draw.<\/p>\n The Ibrox boss will see the game as a chance to pull to within two points of the leaders, and issue warning that this time he is offering a serious challenge..not that anything he says makes sense.<\/p>\n Apparently, he didn’t watch the PSG game, as he wanted to watch the Benfica game, to get his side ready for a friendly they have with them, and instead he watched sporting Lisbon, at least I think thats what he’s saying..<\/p>\n \u201cCeltic will not play the same way they did against PSG.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cDo you think so? I don\u2019t think so.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI wanted to enjoy a game without working and to see how the Portuguese teams were doing. I watched the Sporting game because I couldn\u2019t catch Benfica against CSKA, which was maybe more important as we are going to play them on October 6.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI will have just two days.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWe play Tuesday, we will be off on Wednesday.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s the plan, I\u2019m not going to change anything in my plan, my vision, my way of seeing things.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThe boys who are playing on Tuesday will need two days to recover so until I arrive there, I need to collect a lot of information. I\u2019ll have time to think about it.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI cannot stop the noise around this game but I can avoid it getting on my mind.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI just focus on the games and the process.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t care about the circus that surrounds the game. You need to know how to manage it.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWhat is important is that we prepare all the games to win. This one is the same.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n The last time Celtic visited Ibrox the hoops came away with a 5-1 win. Is Caixinha worried about a repeat ?<\/p>\n \u201cI had enough reflection on that game at the time so I don\u2019t want to remind myself of that.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cDifferent moment, different games. I won\u2019t use it as motivation either. It is part of the past.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWhat matters is we have competitors with passion to win and the passion to represent this massive club.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThe team now is in better shape to do the very best.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n What may alarm him, and his teams supporters, is that there is not a single player in his squad that would get into any of Celtic’s two first teams.<\/p>\n Even more alarming…or poignant…why isn’t he wearing official club merchandise at press conferences ?<\/p>\n There are stories of discontent in the Ibrox dressing room, itself a surprise. That they have a dressing room. I thought \u00a0that after a game their owners brushed their fur, cleaned their hooves and put them into a cage until the next game, but apparently I’m in the wrong.<\/p>\n Should one set of players resent the manager, they may well not perform at their best for him during the high profile derby game next week. More worryingly for the hordes…how will they notice ?<\/p>\n They have no great eye for detail at the best of times..<\/p>\n Before that, Celts are in League cup action up at Dundee , and Neil McCann, serving his apprenticeship for the Ibrox job, claims his side will not park the bus, making it tricky for them to get into the dressing room.<\/p>\n \u201cI am really looking forward to going up against Celtic, a really hard game and test for us in a quarter-final,\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s an opportunity to get into a semi-final, so I will need to come up with something that\u2019s strong, that allows us to be hard to break down against a very good Celtic team.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cBut also, when we have it, I will be the same \u2013 I know it sounds weird off the back of a 4-1 from Rangers \u2013 I still want the guys to have the freedom to play.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cBecause football is boring if you just think: \u2018I am going to try and frustrate for 90 minutes\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cSomewhere along the line you will come undone against a side like Celtic, so you have to be prepared to play as well.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWe must come up with something that suits us, that allows us to be solid, and try to reduce the spaces that Celtic like to operate in.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cBut when we have it I will not just ask them to smash it up the pitch.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s not fair to the fans, and I don\u2019t think it\u2019s fair to the players, because we\u2019ve got good footballers here.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t want to play like that.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n He was talking to Dundee based newspaper the Sunday Post, and what he said to them was almost word for word what he said before the 34-1 defeat by “rangers “.<\/p>\n Fortunately, for him, Sunday Post readers don;t have much of a short term memory, and the biggest issue in that paper is usually along the lines of what to do with German prisoners of war and the introduction of the new , fiddly little five pence piece, still seen as the biggest threat to the economy on the northern town.<\/p>\n Whereas other papers concern themselves with the impending exit from the European union, Post readers are still debating whether or not to join it, and if decimalisation will mean the end of the traditional pint of beer and two ounces of soor plooms.<\/p>\n Elsewhere, and Hibernian fans showed their displeasure with chariman Rod Petrie, who came out against a review of the actions of Rod Petrie during the shady days of the SFA…<\/p>\n The Scotsman newspaper seems to have broken rank with the propaganda ministry running the SFA defence when they published a poll online…<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/DJ3DiOUW4AAblI2.jpg\")
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