{"id":8202,"date":"2015-11-27T17:19:37","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T17:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etims.net\/?p=8202"},"modified":"2015-11-27T17:19:37","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T17:19:37","slug":"thoughts-from-a-sofa-after-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etims.net\/?p=8202","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts From A Sofa After The Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

El cormaco watched the game last night, and after reading the Diary this morning sent this response.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

A couple of days ago I predicted that Celtic would lose the game in the last 30 minutes as they started blowing out their arse. Yesterday I pondered in what ludicrous fashion we would concede goals.<\/p>\n

It honestly gives me no pleasure in being right, I\u2019 m a Celtic supporter and I want to see the team do well. Sadly though I didn\u2019t need to be Mystic Meg to make these predictions, the same scene plays out time after time while we are supposedly learning.<\/p>\n

To take a recent example, Klopp has gone into Liverpool and within about 6 weeks you can see a team that is more together, working harder and playing a style of football. I accept the players are form a different level but there are fundamentals about organisation, shape and effort that are the same at any level.<\/p>\n

This is half way into Ronnie\u2019s second season and apart from a slavish adherence to one striker what have we seen?<\/p>\n

Ronnie asked to be judged after a year \u2013 long passed, and made assurances about what we could look forward to seeing, so<\/p>\n

Are the team fitter? Absolutely not
\nDo we defend better? No way
\nDo we dominate possession against European teams? No
\nAre we playing high tempo pressing football? No, we aren\u2019t fit enough to<\/p>\n

So against his own criteria he is failing but we should all keep the faith and wait for jam tomorrow?<\/p>\n

Last night wasn\u2019t terrible, and this is frustrating, in patches you can see there are good players in there and we do have a way we want to play. But it\u2019s never sustained and always undermined by horrendous mistakes or over commitment \u2013 again last night conceding a goal from our own corner, why did some one not haul the boy down as he ran away and take the card?<\/p>\n

Despite these little glimpses of what could be, 2 points from 5 games will tell you we have a mentally weak, predictable, poorly organised team who display little passion, poor technique and an alarming ability to concede every type of bad goal you can think of.<\/p>\n

But this is all okay, apparently, because next year, well next year, things will be better.<\/p>\n

Know what, I don\u2019t believe him. I don\u2019t have the faith in him, my view is he\u2019s a spoofer, the players have seen through him and are not working and playing to and beyond their best for him<\/p>\n

While Ronnie is our manager this is our level, he isn\u2019t making us better, he is taking us backwards. He is a nice guy, but he is not up the very challenging job of being Celtic manager<\/p>\n

We may have some good young players coming through, but I wouldn\u2019t credit Ronnie with that as most of them will have been at the club before him and he doesn\u2019t coach the youth teams. If Ronnie goes those boys will still be at the club and might have a manager who really will make them better.<\/p>\n

Another thing I predicted in my crystal ball was that Ronnie would end up dividing the support, and here we are, calling one another names because we are pro or anti Ronnie.<\/p>\n

Clearly I\u2019m anti Ronnie, but everyone has an opinion and that\u2019s fine.<\/p>\n

I \u2018m saying no more about him now, there is nothing more to be said , while he is there I do not believe we are going to improve enough and so until he is gone there is no point saying the same shite on a different day. I m sick of watching the team now, and it only brings me down watching their latest failings.<\/p>\n

So thanks Ronnie, you have actually achieved something quite difficult, you have made me apathetic towards Celtic.<\/p>\n

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