23 Dec 2014 17:10:03
Nollaig Shona, ( happy Christmas )
Ed, and all celts, have a good Christmas and healthy New year, after yesterday's tragedy in Glasgow, family health is all that matters, thinking about all those injured and families of those who lost their life yesterday.
Keep up the good work Ed in 2015, hopefully a another year wiser and a lot less angry, your not always rite like me lol.
{Ed007's Note - I'm always right, I thought I was wrong once but I was mistaken.
As George Bernard Shaw once said 'The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.'
Nollaig Shona mo chara.}
Should'nt todays poll read "no matter how well the goal keeper plays, as he is the last man in defence, he should take the blame for all the goals he let's in ".
{Ed007's Note - That's not a question though.....}
, do you agree?.
{Ed007's Note - I think any GK has to accept partial responsibility for any goal conceded, everyone's quick enough to get on a striker who's not scoring's back, a winger who is a poor crosser etc.
When Fraser Forster was breaking clean-sheet records nobody said it was because of the defence, do you think our defenders are playing like they have confidence in the GK? I doubt we would have conceded the 2 goals against Dundee Utd, well those 2 goals, if Forster was still our GK. I thought that was Gordon's worst performance for us yet, the second goal especially was a shambles, I have no idea what he was trying to do there and what was he trying to do on the 6 yard line at Utd's first?
Just watch the time it takes him to react during a game, I've said it before that with one on one reflex saves he is good but anything that needs him to think about his positioning he struggles to make any decision let alone a quick one. That's the kind of sharpness you will lose if you've not been playing for as long as Gordon did.
The people who've been knocking RD all season say that it's basically the same team that NL had but they don't mention that we lost an English international GK and replaced him with someone who hadn't played ANY football for over 2 years.
CFC's current No.1 GK was considering retiring and becoming a GK coach during the summer of 2013, he felt confident enough in his fitness to look for a lower league club in Scotland or move to Ireland to play in the summer of 2014 until Pedro nipped in and signed him to replace a £10 million England internationalist, if Sevco had signed Gordon we'd have been rolling in the aisles laughing at them.
But why blame our GK when we have Ambrose in the team?}
Why not blame Ambrose when he makes basic errors in almost every game that costs us goals. Ambrose was costing us in Europe last season when Foster was in goals. Ambrose fault for first and Gordon's for the second on Saturday was how I saw it this week. Marci
So who do u think we could sign in goals that is better than GORDON? A think it was great buisness by celtic, Forster was never worth £10 million anyway
I hate to say it but we are linked with Randolph!
24 Dec 2014 13:13:33
Ørjan Nyland, the young national, 22 years been linked to some english clubs, but snatch him up. Very good reflexes, a captain to come and a lot of raw talent still.
I thought the ball took a wicked deflection which beat Ambrose on Sunday . I was worried that Gordon hadn't come further off his line, to make it harder for the striker as Ambrose held him up well.
{Ed007's Note - If the ball hadn't deflected off Biton then Ambrose would have cleared it.}
Arguing with Edd07 is like arguing with my wife. An exercise in futility lol. Happy Christmas Edd, and all the rest of the bhoys and girls. Markie
{Ed007's Note - Merry Christmas to you and your family, have a great time.}
24 Dec 2014 20:07:49
I honestly can't believe there's people on here defending AMBROSE!!! The ball took a wicked deflection that's why he didn't clear it! If it didn't hit biton he would have cleared it!!! Are use havin a bloody laugh?? The guys an absolute joke! Sent off 2 games in a row,legia and FRIENDLY against spurs where we lost 10 goals in 2 matches! He shouldn't be anywhere near a celtic top! Surely there's a youth team centre half who could come in and do a job? He couldn't be any worse than AMBROSE! Guys the worse celtic player I've ever seen in the past 20 years! As will be proved when he makes another mess of it against the leagues 2nd bottom team on Saturday! How anybody can defend this guy is beyond me! If we go into the rangers and inter games with this guy at the back then we should be prepared to lose a barrel load of goals!
{Ed007's Note - So you're saying the ball didn't deflect off Biton?}
Ed, very true a deflection caused us again . However nearly always our defenders have to do it all by themselves, rarely does another defender help out . The deflection took Ambrose out, izzy held the player up long enough in the build up to the second goal but no one came to help him out . I don't know if it the attacking mind of the team as a whole, or more likely lazy defending . Good defenders don't allow forwards to get one on one on defenders, but ours do.
{Ed007's Note - I'm not Ambrose's biggest fan, Chris but he seems to be the current whipping Bhoy for any bad results and I felt it was unjustified on Sunday at Tannadice.}
Anyone watching Sunday's game would have seen the ball deflecting off biton.Dangy1888 what planet are you on we should be prepared to lose a barrow load when we play sevco with our current defence, that mob couldn't score in a brothel, behave yourself .killy.
24 Dec 2014 23:24:38
I'm not sayin it didn't deflect off biton! But he had plenty of time to adjust before it came to him! Any half decent centre half would have a adjusted and cleared his lines no bother! But he can't even boot the ball up the park! The only time he did connect properly was when he nearly cleared the stand with a back pass in the 2nd half!! And this he's the whipping boy is nonsense to! Sure the whole defence need to sharpen up but he's the week link! This isn't just the odd time either! It's been constant since he came back from the African nations cup! The guy mite be a great guy off the park and Everythin else but he ain't a defender! A centre half is a priority in jan if u ask me!
At Celtic we always seem to have a whipping boy who is given the blame for all our failings . I agree with Ed Ambrose carries that burden now. He can be clumsy at times but Ambrose is not a bad centre half . Sunday was typical in that he was marking their best and main striker . If Ambrose was such a bombscare, how come it is his responsibility always to mark their top striker . I would like to see how Virgil would manage if he took on that responsibility . Even though he is marking the main threat Ambrose still helps out other defenders more than any other Celtic defender .