Celtic Banter Archive August 18 2012

18 Aug 2012 20:51:54
Well i enjoyed that! Decent game,lovely weather and a great day out,result apart.Fair play to County for getting their game plan spot on.defending deep and breaking fast is a good tactic,problem is you will tire as the game progresses.Heard on the radio,Wishart and Dalziel claiming they thought County deserved the win.Not for me.They scored a worldy and blazed a shot from thirty yards on to the bar,from what i saw that was it.
Celtic on the other hand hit the wood twice forced two decent saves from the keeper and generally were at it the whole second half.I dont want to mention the penalty,i though it was one,as TV may prove me wrong.Some minor niggles for me were,Sammi looked tired and we should have started with young Watt,his movement is good,he shows up and the first thing on his mind is getting a shot off.Victor has to stop coughing up possession so easily as it will cost us sometime,and we still seem to have a problem with early starts.All in all i felt we showed a real spirit not to give it up,always heartening,even though you could see we were leggy.
Recovery time for tuesday will,i think,cause us problems and lenny has to be clever with his team selection and use of subs.I thought the support were excellent in the fact they never gave up backing the team,but we really need to stop the stupid ancient chants.There is no need or place for this at Celtic games and as long as it goes on it is a stick to beat us with.Give it up..............green jhedi

GJ...it always cracks me up when they say 'deserve a win'. You only win in football if you score more goals. If Ross County wanted to make sure they beat Celtic, same with Aberdeen in the opening game...then come out and score goals galore. Yes we were lucky against Aberdeen but if they wanted points from that games then they should have at least made an attempt at goal.

Yesterday we had 19 shots at goal to Ross County's 7.

Aberdeen had 5 shots to our 9

Mrs E

18 Aug 2012 20:26:28
Respect to Neil Lennon for supporting Ian Black.

Jas the bluenose

18 Aug 2012 20:05:16
From Paul McConville's blog -

Albion Rovers will refuse to take the field in any Champions League Finals they qualify for, as they believe that the Champions League should only be for the champions of the country, and not the teams who finshed 2nd, 3rd or 4th.

Paddy Malarkey

18 Aug 2012 19:33:30
Heard that the Falkirk pa announced the half time score from castle grey skull as " the sevco franchise 2 east Stirling 1"

Call it Mordor or something, Greyskull is the good guys.

18 Aug 2012 18:05:40
Not a bad result today considering injuries etc . There will be improvement as time goes on and I think we should go into CL game with confidence . One thing that did really bug me today was that excuse for a commentary team on ESPN . Craigan talks like somebody possessed on helium and Rae had Ross Co playing like Real Madrid . Craigan : " Kayal goes down too easy for me " . You would say that knowing what team you support . Thank God it's 3 months free.....DH

18 Aug 2012 17:45:26
all this p*sh about celtic not playing good enough and blah blah blah , at the end of the season celtic will have won the league byabout 30 points atleast , its only the 2nd match into the new season no team has any form and of course players will be rusty andi still have every faith in celtic beating helsinborg over 2 legs keep the faith hail hail p.s wouldnt mind seeing a new cb in or rogne getting a decent chance atleast

18 Aug 2012 17:14:14
big teams like us always seem to have dodgy results before a european game.ive always thought opposision scouts there,maybe throw them off your tactics a bit IMO bri67

18 Aug 2012 14:53:04
Why do we always struggle up in the highlands, we were second to every ball I thought.Ross county wanted it more than us WHY ?

18 Aug 2012 14:21:08
Reasonably pleased with todays result.
Well done to Ross County, scored a unstoppable goal.
If there is 1 thing I take from todays game is we must give Tony Watt more game time.
Everything we did today that was positive after he came on went through him and he hits the target .
I a big fan of Rhodes but I not payin 6 million for him when we got the likes of Watt waiting in the wings.
Tuesday is much mors important.
Rayman

Watt has shown more direct appetite and drive than those in line before him, the boy is ready now, time to throw him in, more game time needed, sammi up front offers nothing, commons up front not the answer, we looked far faster when watt came on, give him game time Lenny,
Ps well done county for being so organised, great addition to spl


Ska bhoy

Tony Watt has shown time and again he is hungry for goal. He deserves a shot ahead of Sammi & Stokes. Sammi should have been hooked at half time, just didn't look interested at all. Commons will have to learn to look for the next pass rather than just shoot all the time. We got out of jail today with that performance, Helsingborg will not be easy. On the bright side, Kayal looks like he's getting back on form, and Adam Matthews does some bombing up and down the wing. We can only get better after today.

BigRab

I would be shocked if we spent £6m on a CB & CF never mind one players but you never know. They must have a plan and something/one in mind.

I would like to see more of Tony Watt, he defo knows where the goal is and more hungry. Sammy I would never play up front on his own, I prefer him on the wing.

Suppose without a recognised striker on the park and Ross County were always up for this and have an unbeaten record to protect..its far from the end of the world. Mrs E

18 Aug 2012 14:07:39
Jeez, Helsingborgs. can't even b eat bunch of highlanders, really sad

Not good enough today bhoys. Defo penalty but Neil will sort this lot out.

Notice how you didn't put 'we' haven't you a big game against east Stirling today?