Unsurprisingly, celtic dropped two points in Lanarkshire last night.<\/p>\n
Unsurprisingly, the players aren’t learning.<\/p>\n
Efe Ambrose wasn’t playing last night. Vilified for making a last ditch tackle against ross county, manager Deila felt it was only fair to let someone else make an arse of it and get himself sent off, despite the norwegian making an example of ambrose and presumably telling defenders not to make last man sliding tackles.<\/p>\n
Jack Charlton famously once gave each of his Ireland players a single word e. At half time not one of them could remember it, and his point was that if they can’t remember one word, how are they supposed to remember any sort of instruction once they take to the field ?<\/p>\n
Hamilton were always going to start with five at the back and six defensive midfielders. They conceded eight to Celtic last time out, and were not going to allow that to happen again.<\/p>\n
Deila went with Allan, Commons and the in form Mackay Steven as his back up forwards.<\/p>\n
Allan because he can pass a ball, Mackay Steven because he’s on form, and Commons to make it difficult for Hamilton to hit Celtic on the break. By the time the Accies player had run a full circumference of the man affectionately known as tubby tum tum the whole team could have got back behind the ball.<\/p>\n
And yet the central defence was still exposed, in pretty much the way it always is when Boyata plays.<\/p>\n
Efe Ambrose doesn’t deserve the flack that comes his way. Boyata does. He should not have made that tackle. And the fact he got the ball, if indeed he did, is irrelevant. He impeded the forward.<\/p>\n
The referee gave Celtic two penalties, one of which was scored, the other missed. Griffiths has now missed two out of three penalties. As an instinctive striker, there are few better, When he has to think about what he is doing, forget it. He’s predictable.<\/p>\n
If you take a penalty with the outside of your foot, after a straight line run, it will hit the inside of the post and the keeper cannot reach it. So my pony tailed pal roberto Baggio used to say. He only tried something different once, and it cost his country the World Cup. He didn’t want to be predictable.<\/p>\n
I said before the game i just wanted the points, and it didn’t happen. so i’m not surprised by the result.<\/p>\n
I’m not surprised at all.<\/p>\n
Its that fucking strip.<\/p>\n
Designed with children in mind, don’t take my word for it, ask New Balance and the head of Celtic Retail, the garish flourescent number is not conducive to finding a team mate with the ball. At one poin tin the game, Mikael Lustig was asked by another steward to help him with a guy in a wheelchair.<\/p>\n
Hoops all the time. In the marketing world its known as brand identification.<\/p>\n
It tells our guys we are Celtic, and tells the opposition who we are.<\/p>\n
after the game, Ronny couldn’t avoid the cameras…<\/p>\n
“In the second-half we produced chances and should have scored two and killed the game but we didn\u2019t do it, they got a chance and finished the set-play.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI think it (the red card) was an okay decision. I saw it one more time and I don\u2019t think he touched the ball. We have to learn from these situations. When you have one-v-one you have to run with people. We have quick defenders so they should run with them instead of taking chances and put us in a difficult situation.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n He’s right about the card. We’d have screamed for it at the other end. It makes no difference whether or not he “played the ball “<\/p>\n Law 12;<\/p>\n \n A penalty kick is awarded if any of the above ten offences is committed by a player inside his own penalty area, irrespective of the position of the ball, provided it is in play.\u00a0<\/span> Nowhere does it say that if he made contact with the ball first it doesn’t count.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n This rule might \u00a0apply in the playground, but it doesn’t in the real game.<\/p>\n And the sending off?<\/p>\n Law 12 again.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n He’s wrong in that we should not have to keep seeing the same movie every week. He is in charge, and he has presumably told the defence to do their jobs. If he isn’t getting the message across, we should find someone who can.<\/p>\n Either that or we are now signing players afflicted with terminal stupidity. Which might be the case, come to think of it.<\/p>\n Captain Scott Brown should not escape criticism either. The man who’s main contribution to games of late is to stare at opposing players really needs to avert his gaze to the ball, and then to a team mate, then back to the ball, and back to a team mate. Then there is an increased chance of him sending the ball to the afore mentioned team mate, and a better than average chance of it getting there.<\/p>\n And we slate Stefan Johansen…who at least does block opposing moves and never hides. Brown is living on his reputation, and if he doesn’t get the finger out and start to lead by example, then he can be our next big bank balance boost.<\/p>\n Going down to ten men meant Deila had to change things…<\/p>\n We were more offensive in our formation when we went a man down,\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Offensive on the eye, he presumably means<\/p>\n We played 4-3-1-1 and we did that in the semi-final of the League Cup as well. Defensively we had good control and they didn\u2019t cause us a lot of problems.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Yeah, we fucked that game up as well. Does anyone at that club actually learn anything ?<\/p>\n \u201cWhen we won the ball we had chances but, having said that, we can be braver on the ball and create a little more in play. It\u2019s still so close when you get two one-on-ones with the goalkeeper and a penalty and you miss it. Then, of course, it\u2019s going to be hard to win football games.\u201d \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Its hard to won football games when the other team knows exactly how your team is going to play. They adapt. They are professionals.<\/p>\n Now and again, Ronny, do something a little different.<\/p>\n Which doesn’t include Kris Commons. Or Colin Kazim whatever his bloody name is.<\/p>\n Surprise the other lot .<\/p>\n In fact, Gauny just dae something…..<\/p>\n In other news, I’m going to take the dog for a walk, and explain the concept of sub nucleonic particle physics. She’ll have grasped the basics by the time I get back, unlike this squad, and this manager, who cannot seem to grasp the idea of working together at all.<\/p>\n If, as we expect, a new manager is in place in the summer after Ireland exit the Euro’s, then its unfair to keep Deila in place, and its also unfair on the players, because they know that whatever they do-and thus far it’s very fucking little-someone else will come in and have his own ideas.<\/p>\n In fact, get rid of the whole lot of them, and I’ll grab eleven guys out of the pub about an hour and a half before kick off against Morton.<\/p>\n They couldn’t play with less heart, less pride and less awareness than that lot last night.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Unsurprisingly, celtic dropped two points in Lanarkshire last night. Unsurprisingly, the players aren’t learning. Efe Ambrose wasn’t playing last night. 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