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<\/p>\nA 3-0 win over Dundee on Saturday kept the hoops at the top of the table, a couple of points ahead of second place St Mirren,<\/p>\n
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Despite what the Daily Record want to tell us…<\/p>\n
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They’ve deleted it now, but it is indicative of the standards over there.<\/p>\n
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With four wins and a draw from a largely makeshift side, Brendan Rodgers has done rather well, especially as six of those points came at Ibrox and Pittodrie. In fact, had we drawn at Ibrox and won at home to St Johnstone, he’d probably be getting a little bit more praise.<\/p>\n
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One by one, the big players from last season that are still at the club…and possibly even one who isn’t…will return, and curiously they will have to fight for their places.<\/p>\n
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Which is what we want, right ?<\/p>\n
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David Turnbull is the latest scapegoat in the eyes of the “support “. apparently some think he doesn;t contribute anything.<\/p>\n
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If you don’t count his goals. He’s got three, the same as Matt O’Riley and only one less than talismanic forward Kyogo Fuhruhashi. This suggests that both midfielders are doing what the manager wants them to, it suggests that the new style, as difficult as it may be to fathom for some, is actually working.<\/p>\n
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It’s been tough for the manager, and it may be a mark of the man that he’s stuck to his guns, although judgement will be reserved until after the Champions League campaign, which begins tomorrow in Rotterdam.<\/p>\n
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Feyemoord have a couple of forwards injured, and as a result only managed six against Herenveen at the weekend, something Radio Scotland were enthusiastically reporting during their coverage of the Celtic match.<\/p>\n
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This may explain the shift from angeball to a more patient style under Rodgers, which coupled with a couple of painful experiences during the managers last tenure here is only to be expected.<\/p>\n
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A patience that should be encouraged by the support.<\/p>\n
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During his spell away from Celtic Rodgers would have learned a few lessons, which may yet bear fruit.<\/p>\n
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Although I reckon he could liven things up a bit by doing his pre match pressers dressed up as a Seventies American detective.<\/p>\n
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Now that would confuse the opposition.<\/p>\n
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The only blot on the season so far is the premature exit from the League Cup, but to blame anyone for that or claim it’s some sort of disaster would be to demean the achievements of a treble, as I’ve said before, it simply showed what a fantastic achievement it was to win so many trebles recently.<\/p>\n
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One off day, or one bad decision from an official and it’s gone.<\/p>\n
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It happens.<\/p>\n
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We need to live with it.<\/p>\n
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There’s a little bit of debate around the board’s decision not to allow the Green Brigade to present a tifo ahead pf home matches, and given their propensity to invur fines fronm UEFa for political content, you can see why.<\/p>\n
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The counter argument is that the club makes money indirectly from these displays , and arguably one of our proudest moments as a support was the display of Palestinian flags after we were told not to, which still warms the old heart cockles, we have to accept that if it continues, it will be more than fines.<\/p>\n
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Stands will be closed, and no one wants that.<\/p>\n
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The mature decision for the moment is to stop the displays.<\/p>\n
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And given the current petulance from the GB towards the manager, or at least the perception of petulance, it’s not worth giving them a platform.<\/p>\n
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As usual, there was controversy around a couple of refereeing decisions at the weekend, this one where VAR could have intervened , but didn’t…<\/p>\n
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No penalty given. https:\/\/t.co\/WwDyuQskPW<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/NbHLBw3lzc<\/a><\/p>\n— Lint (@Zeshankenzo) September 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n