25 Aug 2015 22:01:37
Another CL flop and I am so angry and embarrassed at how bad we are.
Between Peter Lawell, a succession of unqualified and naive managers and a host of average players that should be nowhere near a Celtic jersey - we are now a Pot 5 team and it hurts.

We had an advantage going into the game, but we surrendered it easily.
The Malmo manager out-thought, out motivated and out-psyched Deila and their players clearly wanted/deserved it on the night.
OK we should have had a goal/penalty and their captain Rosenberg kicked everything that moved, but we were bullied from start to finish and we had too many invisible or ineffective men.

Forrest was a trier and worked all night unlike Johansen, Bitton and others (even Brown was rotten)and Gordon saved us from a doing.
VVD will be off and his price may well have dropped after a series of games were we have leaked goals.
However, he is/was our best defender and the rest of them are a huge worry in any competition.

In the cold light of day, it is pretty clear we are not fit to be in the group stages - as decent teams would absolutely destroy us; so where does that leave us?
Dawdling along in a piss-poor league sparring with Aberdeen and Hearts for domestic honours and playing Thursday - Sunday for as long as we stay in the Aldi Cup.

Supporters like me who have been through many ups and downs since the 1960's expect highs and lows.
This period - although we are winning titles - has a hint of low about it as we are expected to win the league comfortably and should be doing much better in Europe, for a club of our size and reputation.

RD has had a year to improve the team and learn from the mistakes of last season and seemed confident he had made progress, but clearly we are no further forward and might even have more problems when VVD leaves and we now have no CL to attract any quality to the club.
So we are running out of assets for Lawell to sell each year.

PS: I usually moan about big Sutton, but he called it right all night and clearly loves the club.

1.) 25 Aug 2015
25 Aug 2015 22:13:03
Spot on in your post Jim. Celtic have had little investment and its killing us. Another point is that Malmo have spent 2 million and have a better team than us. So as well as no investment, the money we are spending is on poor players.

I know the game was gone by the time changes were made, but Deila's subs were crap. just changes for the sake of it.

Although we should've had a penalty, Griffiths and biton should've been sent off. Griffiths was embarrassing, proved the Malmo players correct.

2.) 25 Aug 2015
25 Aug 2015 22:13:40
I was just looking it looks like Malmo fielded an ineligble plater then nite. Does that mean we are thorugh?

3.) 25 Aug 2015
25 Aug 2015 22:52:44
JungleJim I am not going to fault much of what you said . I have defended the bombscare Ambrose all month, he wasn't on tonight and certainly the team were not the better of it . The players we had on the field were good enough to do the job and get us qualified . In the dying moments of the first leg Virgil jumped into Bitton and gave away a goal from a corner . Although big Virgil is supposed to be our commanding centre half worth millions , he was posted missing with the two corners they got spot on .
Malmo slaughtered us in the middle of the park , by crisp passing and movement , all our players could do was watch . Deila will have to come clean and adopt our team to different situations .
By the way are we fit?

4.) 25 Aug 2015
25 Aug 2015 23:13:38
That was embarrassing. Hope we pull out the Europa league because it's only going to get worse. The teams that were lookin at vvd might think twice after that second goal. If he does that down in epl he'll be worth fuck all to anyone.stick to defending and he's half decent but stray past the half way line n he's a liability.