06 Nov 2013 18:34:39

{Ed007's Note - Celtic XI v Ajax: Forster, Lustig, Ambrose, van Dijk, Izaguirre, Forrest, Kayal, Mulgrew, Commons, Samaras, Stokes

Celtic subs: Zaluska, Fisher, Rogic, Ledley, Boerrigter, Pukki, Balde.

1.) 06 Nov 2013
Said it before and I'll say it again. Ambrose is cat. He's an accident waiting to happen. Tell ye what though, Virgil looks a player.

Hendy

2.) 06 Nov 2013
Meh. Tactics in the first half - did they exist?

Kayal has had his best game in the hoops in dunkey's years.

Lets have it, lads

3.) 06 Nov 2013
Thought back four especially Lustig were excellent in my view. Don't know why Keyal was taken off. Best of midfield easily.

4.) 06 Nov 2013
Ambrose is class. Ok has the odd shakey moments but overall great player. Sammy, commons and mulgrew weren't good enough tonight. Forrest again frustrating and they were just far more comfortable on the ball than us. Not happy

Henriks Tongue

5.) 07 Nov 2013
This Celtic team is lacking quality, it is hard work watching them. If we had spent some of the millions we brought in we could have easily finished 2nd. The current Ajax/Milan team are average at best. Also there is something far far wrong when our manager can't see we need a midfielder who can put his foot on the ball and dictate play, he has been here 3 years and still hasn't bought a technical player for in there, and that is as well as losing Ki, truly unbelievable! Paul

6.) 07 Nov 2013
Spot on Paul, where is all the millions?

7.) 07 Nov 2013
Hooper went wanyama went. We could have had finnogberson. We got balde and pukki. Stokes couldn't get in the starting line up last season in the champions league. This season he is starting before balde and pukki. We have gone backwards not forward. More interested in stopping the fans singing rebel songs than improving the team. We are more than just a football club lawell and co. stop trying to change us into something that we are not. Nick the tic 82

8.) 07 Nov 2013
I think we've went backwards this season aswell, bar Van Dijk the summer signings really poor, the money was there to make last 16, the Ajax & Ac teams are really poor sides but in all honesty Celtic performance last night was dire and a lot of the performances not just in Europe but in the league as well have been shocking this season. I can't remember the last time Celtic never had a in & out goalscorer, even in the bad days we had big Pierre & Cadette banging them in. We looking at a Chinese winger! Aye will we see any the money mr. Lawell from shirt sales & merchandise if he signs for new players? Think we all know answer to that! We should be looking at the likes a bhoys Gauld & May or bringing our own bhoys through, I understand Scottish football not attractive as it once was but we could have got the bhoy Finnbogason if we really went for it, aye I admit wasn't expecting to come out this group but the lack of quality unreal. Chris30

9.) 07 Nov 2013
07 Nov 2013 16:41:55
Have to agree with all the above posts, we were rotten. We showed no ambition in the game until it was too late and never looked like scoring. This team lacks any real quality and we were made to look really poor by a very average Ajax team.

10.) 08 Nov 2013
@Henriks Tongue. You want your head examined. Every time he got the ball last night he either gave it away or tried his hardest to. He is like Bobo Blade without the aerial ability or bravery. He gives me ulcers.

Hendy

11.) 08 Nov 2013
I just don't think the players have the ability, period. That has to come down to the coaching, and of course the fact that most of them shouldn't have been bought in the first place. I said to my mates when Alan Thompson left that it was a great chance to go out and get a real forward thinking coach - maybe from Germany/Spain, or on our own doorstep Stevie Clark, who was initially available, but ended up at West Brom about a month later. Typically the cheap option is taken and we go for Garry Parker. The problem with Lennon, Parker, Mjallby is that they ALL played most off their football under O'Neil/Steve Walford. Don't get me wrong Martin O'Neil did a good enough job but he spent a few quid on ready made players with no re-sale value, the squad he left behind was old and finished, and he hardly went near our youth dept, so it was far from ideal. You know the saying - you can't teach an old dog new tricks. The bottom line is that although I like Neil Lennon, he seems intelligent, he carries himself well etc etc, I don't like the football he plays, his tactics, and I worry about the coaching right through the club, I think we might be getting left behind, I've said before - I think the football we play is draconian! Paul

12.) 08 Nov 2013
On the subject of Ambrose - I like the partnership between him Van Dirk and Lustig.

But the guy gets so much of the ball and too often he is forced into taking chances because of the lack of movement in front of him. No-one making themselves available. Forcing him into a silly mazy when he doesn't need to.

13.) 08 Nov 2013
@Hendy

I think its you who needs his head examined. Or perhaps you just haven't watched a game since Juventus last season. Ambrose is one of the most composed players we have. One of the few players who is comfortable with the ball at his feet and can carry it out of defense.