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| Brendan Rodgers; "I was born into Celtic" | |
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| Topic Started: 20 May 2016, 05:06 PM (2,287,862 Views) | |
| Ste | 30 Dec 2017, 11:28 PM Post #14161 |
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The Eagle Has Landed
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People questioning bringing back Roberts. effing hell. |
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| lepetitmerde | 30 Dec 2017, 11:35 PM Post #14162 |
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Everyone's Fantasy Football first pick
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It's open season on everything and anything this evening. I'm just waiting for the first Rodgers gtf post. |
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| Ste | 30 Dec 2017, 11:45 PM Post #14163 |
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The Eagle Has Landed
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I can understand frustrations - and I am frustrated with a lot of what happened today myself - but to question things like that is just ridiculous. Fans turned up in numbers in the car park to see him presented and spent the whole summer tweeting him begging to come back.
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| LondonThomas | 30 Dec 2017, 11:47 PM Post #14164 |
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Kit Man
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Then maybe we need to get one. |
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| mikeybhoy67 | 30 Dec 2017, 11:52 PM Post #14165 |
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Kerrydale St Bingo Club
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Sinclair might be many things currently... wasteful, short on confidence, frustrating, frustrated etc, but “shampooebag” ? , away and watch your Invincibles DVD. |
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| jamiebhoy76 | 30 Dec 2017, 11:54 PM Post #14166 |
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Club Captain
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Congratulations |
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| jamiebhoy76 | 30 Dec 2017, 11:58 PM Post #14167 |
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Club Captain
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Sinclair said early on in the season that teams were doubling up on him which was preventing him from hitting the form of last season. There were three on him at points today. We should have had used that. |
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| 25Nakamura | 31 Dec 2017, 12:21 AM Post #14168 |
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Occasional Substitute
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To be fair to Rodgers at Liverpool, he wasn't allowed to sign his own players without going to a committee.. Of the ones he made sure the board got, were Coutinho, Firmino, and Joe Gomez (he spoke about this on Monday Night Football before he was our manager). This talk of him not being able to sign players is ridiculous. When he came to us, he knew he had to win his qualifiers early doors and brought in guys he knew. We might not see the best of some of his signings for two or three years. The team need a rest as a lot of them are running on empty. Guys like Tierney, Lustig and Brown are closing in on 50 appearances since Linfield. They've been playing weekend and midweek without any rest, and playing crucial games for club and country. The mistake of not signing a left back is a mistake (not mistaking that for not letting go of Izaguirre who was terrible at the end). Ralston if he never got injured would have covered right back, and Kouassi would have maybe allowed Brown a rest if he progressed a bit more and didn't spend most of the year injured. Rodgers isn't immune to criticism, his improvement on Gordon and Boyata have been massive since Deila, but nowhere near enough to play in a style Rodgers wants. Not signing a centre back in the summer was an absolute joke, but hopefully he has remedied it. He needs to be able to read a match better live. His managing of Gladbach last year was terrible, he struggled with Anderlecht this season, and didn't cope with big leads in the last qualifiers nearly as well as he should have. His game management today was pretty poor. He has a massive two windows ahead of him. We are probably going to sell Dembele, and Armstrong. He needs to find a long term replacement in centre back, for Brown(or improve Kouassi), for Gordon, for Dembele, for Roberts(unless he signs Roberts) and an attacking midfielder. These decisions will decide where we end up as a European outfit. I have every confidence he will take us to a very good Europa League/half decent champions league team in the next few years, Overall, what a job he has done. One domestic defeat in 18months, every domestic trophy dominated, and two champs league group stage appearances, and Europa league qualification after new year. Rodgers was poor today, but I still believe he is one of the best managers in Europe. |
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| steviefrombelfast | 31 Dec 2017, 12:29 AM Post #14169 |
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Considering retirement
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As well as tiredness the other main drawback of a heavy schedule like ours is that there is little time available to actually coach the players. A two game a week schedule means players spend most of their team either recovering from the last game or getting ready for the next. Our players don't really get coached during the season. |
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| AntrimGael | 31 Dec 2017, 12:46 AM Post #14170 |
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First team training
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The problem Brendan has is that he doesn't have a Plan B when Plan A isn't working. When we have struggled he thinks the same players will get out of difficulties playing the same way but that just hasn't worked this season. It's alright to have a mentality that wants to play a silky, passing game all the time but in games like today you sometimes have to get down and dirty and clog with the Zombies. We had big Sutton and Hartsen doing it, big Venegoor throwing a few elbows now and again. Even the best sides like Brazil, Liverpool, Lisbon Lions, Ferguson's Aberdeen and Man Utd sides had their strong men putting the boot in. Brendan needs to accept that we may have to play this way at times so he should go out and get another enforcer like Brown. He has also been hesitant and inconsistent in putting out a settled team this season, OK some injuries haven't helped, BUT he still doesn't seem to know who or what he wants at times. Play big Ajer for a run as well as Ntcham and Griffiths. Dembele doesn't seem fit or interested while McGregor and Armstrong don't have the mettle to put in consistent performances. |
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| raisedacelt | 31 Dec 2017, 01:12 AM Post #14171 |
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Retired and now a BT Sports pundit
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Hun bastards . He’s here for 10
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| cfc88 | 31 Dec 2017, 01:17 AM Post #14172 |
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Off treasure hunting in Holland
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I just don't get Ntcham not playing today. Brown is the certainty in the midfield 3 at the moment. For most people Ntcham was 2nd choice in there on form. Cannot understand McGregor and Armstrong getting the nod ahead of him and then for it to be so long before he was introduced was strange. The decision that baffled me most today. |
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| McStay | 31 Dec 2017, 01:19 AM Post #14173 |
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Espanyolification
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How would you describe what he did today when he pulled out of that 50/50 in the second half? Even his double chance in the first half that he tamely hit at Foderingham. He hit the ball halfheartedly because he thought Tavernier was going to challenge him. The fact he plays for Celtic doesn't mean he can't be called out for bottling it. |
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| raisedacelt | 31 Dec 2017, 01:23 AM Post #14174 |
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Retired and now a BT Sports pundit
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McGregor and Armstrong have previous winning this tie time and time again. Obviously played a huge part. Although Ntcham now was the correct decision |
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| Ned Rise | 31 Dec 2017, 01:24 AM Post #14175 |
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These boots were made for hunbustin'
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We played 9 games in December. We've probably played 12 games more than anyone else. We've lost out two most creative players through injury and our central defence has collapsed liked a drunk man's jenga. It's like asking Usain Bolt to run 500 metres when everyone else runs 400 meters. And we're about 80 metres ahead already. We need a rest, reinforcements and we need to get rid of those whose minds are elsewhere. Ntcham should have played. Heard something about him being sick before kick off and being a last minute swap for McGregor or Armstrong. If he's not injured or sick he should be starting every week ahead of one of them. |
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| Ned Rise | 31 Dec 2017, 01:28 AM Post #14176 |
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These boots were made for hunbustin'
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Aye blame the manager for qualifying. Some amount of zombies shaking the dirt off their typing fingers tonight. |
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| kellybhoy | 31 Dec 2017, 01:30 AM Post #14177 |
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Play me or trade me
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Boyata moved the ball out of defence as well as anyone today, I thought. |
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| Max Power | 31 Dec 2017, 02:08 AM Post #14178 |
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Occasional Substitute
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No football manager is beyond criticism, regardless of the fact our manager has overall been brilliant for Celtic. Rodgers got it badly wrong yesterday, dropping Ntcham (his most expensive signing IIRC) in favour of an unbalanced midfield was baffling. There's been far too much rotation/uncertainty with the strikers, particularly not giving Dembele a run of consecutive starts or recently favouring Edouard over Griffiths. And aye, it is embarrassing that twice in 9 months at Celtic Park he has failed to defeat Murty & the 3rd best team in Scotland. Even more embarrassing considering they were without 4 of their best players, while their best centre half came off injured today. Let's hope he demands significant transfer funds as we need several players to come into the starting eleven, not just in terms of this season but looking ahead to the next few seasons. Broony isn't getting any younger for one thing and it's highly unlikely Dembele, Roberts and Armstrong will still be here in September. |
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| Harry Hewitt | 31 Dec 2017, 02:09 AM Post #14179 |
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I'm new. Be gentle.
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We have had some horrific results this season because of the system that the manager wants to play. Therefore he is to blame. If you don't agree with someone then put forward a counter-argument, but to gravitate to calling folk zombies is pretty pathetic. |
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| CeltFromTheHills | 31 Dec 2017, 02:37 AM Post #14180 |
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First-team starter
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Well I don't think its the huns to be fair. They're inconsistent and largely pish all over the park. I think there is fatigue, at least a few players who don't want to be at Celtic and some who think they can put in minimal effort and cruise games like these. Added to that some pretty strange lineups by BR. We don't need more expensive players to beat the huns though. For Europe aye, but not them. |
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