Motherwell v Celtic - Sunday 22nd Februrary. Match chat in here

its all fine and dandy saying wee g should go but the board wont pay top dollar for a top top manager will they,so whats the options?

 

Firstly I would say I'm sad and frustrated with the result and overall performance today. That isn't good enough, just our past crisis haven't been good enough.

But when the manager and players is finish kicking themself, I hope they still manage to take the good stuff from the match with them, and work on our problem.


Really, I don't blame neither Strachans tactic, Lawwell and Reids money spent, Caldwell on the midfield or so.
Even with some average stuff in periods in the game, we still managed to create chances and makes som good attacks, and should be capable to kill off 'Well with these players. We should and could win this match and not getting the result is the problem.
This situation is just similar with last springs crisis, when the players seems mentally haunted and frustrates themself. I'm don't sure how I should say it in english - but it seems to me it's some kind of lack of performance complex that is haunting the players. And I don't see that changing with new tactics, new signings etc., but simply with psychology.

I don't use my time on thinking about sacking Strachan neither now (?!) or in the summer. I just want to take on game in a row and trying to make our problems workout. Then we can talk about new players and managers when the time is right.

I don't take Celtic's performance personally and I don't need a scapegoat in hard times.
Actully I think I'm normally becomes even more Celtic fan in hard times and would count myself as a simple gloryhunter if didn't support my team now.

 

here here, well said mate.

 

i would punt him now and put lennon in charge until the end of the season.we need the players motivated and strachan cant do it.his continued loyalty to guys not doing it and playing some guys for 1 game then leaving them out for 10 must really * people off.we have the team to * this league but the manager is * it up.

 

* *! No creativity in midfield at all,even with the state of the pitch there's no excuse, u play a centre half in midfield thats what u get! Cauldwell did okay & i salute GS for changing the formation but 5 * DEFENDERS ON THAT * PITCH, EH?! Thats not the attacking celtic way. You need a good mix of midfielders that can run at players commit defenders & create space for the forwards!!! It's not one person's fault but we're not winning as a team, there is such a thing as a winning mentality & we don't have it. I'M SO * OFF I COULD KICK EVERY ONE OF THOSE * BOTTLE BAG PLAYERS UP THE *. We better turn this * around, i knew it would be a hard game today but come on we've won 3 in a row! RAM IT

 

Great post Level headed and fair. Far too many hot heads here.

 

We didn't play too badly today imo, just couldnt finish our chances. After we scored, we should have went on and scored another couple and finished the game off, i dont know how many times ive seen Celtic go ahead away from home and not show any urgency to finish the game! Can be so * frustrating when you know the team are capable.

I thought Samaras should have came off instead of Hesselink, big Jan wasnt in the game much but i think he's more of a threat than Sammy. And whenever Sammy got the ball today he wasted it an awful lot.

We are going through a bad spell just now but i have full confidence in the manager and players...put it this way we've been in a worse position and still won the league. Our squad is way better than the huns and when we get back to form we'll show how champions play. Just got to keep the faith!

Got to say also, the pitch was * awful today and i thought the bhoys did well to play half aswell as they did even if it didnt finish in a win.

Here we go to 4 in a row!

 

Caldwell played OK but he is not a midfielder,are you saying Caldwell is now a better midfield player than Paul Hartley ? what about Crosas probably the best passer of a football at the Club,is Caldwell better in the middle of the park than him as well ?

 

ironic that we made more chances today than we have in the last month, but it still took a jammy bounce for us to score. none of the forwards are playin well enough and our defence cant concentrate for a full game. i cant understand why we would play a centre halfr in centre mid, can he suddenly control the ball better when the surface is pish. in fairness caldwell done ok but crosas would have created far more

 

Not back to winning ways on this showing, after Motherwell scored we got our finger out, but left it to late, will have to play like that early in the game

 

Paul Hartley, Willo Flood, Marc Crosas, Massimo Donati, Pat McCourt, Koki Mizuno, Aiden McGeady and Niall McGinn all left out of the midfield three in favour of a * centre back.

Why? 'Cos Strachan spent a decent amount on Loovens so plays him in defence and moves the one good defender we have into midfield where we've got an abundance of players who're better in that role.

Un-*-real.

 

Chin up bhoys, it looked over last season and we brought it back and won, we're still level on points, we've won 12 games on the trot before and we can do it again.

It seems to me that if we're not miles ahead the manager or players aren't good enough, but if we are miles ahead its boring and the SPL sucks.

4 in a row here we go.

 

If we had played 4-4-2 mate with 2 wingers it would have been the same, you cannot dribble on that pitch, mcgeady or flood would have struggled to get down the wings to put in crosses.

 

That's the way a true Celt should speak!

 

I don't mean 4-4-2. I'm glad he played 4-3-3 to change things up, I mean that he picked playing a centre back in the centre of midfield when leaving out plenty of actual midfielders who could've played that role.

Loovens was played at the back so Caldwell had to be crammed into midfield. Hartley, Crosas, Flood etc are all more suited to it.

 

I agree mate but the midfield did their job, the strikers didn't !

 

Even the goal McDonald got was because the Motherwell defense made an * of it to start with, and then it deflected in off a defender and the keeper.

All the while McDonald slipped when he hit it!

 

its has to be said

if we win the league this season it will be inspite of GS and lawell, then ofcourse we can expect more of the same from the club next season.

* me i dont want anyone to lose their jobs i just want the team to play better and get some results ffs.

anyone when was the last time celtic were in as bad a run domestically as they are now in our history ?

 

strac is a stubborn p...k , he knows what is being said about him by the fans and the more we slate his decisions the more crazy they become .... its getting to the stage now that im expecting boruc to be playing centre forward for games... get rid of gs now before he really does put boruc up front with jovh and skippy in goal....

 

Willo Flood

Why wasn't he giving a chance today? I think that sort of game would have suited him to a tee. He has been better than every one of our midfielders this season bar Brown.

Nakamura was as much use as an ashtray on a motorbike today. Why do people still get their hopes up when we get a free-kick outside the box? I was in the stand where Naka had that set-peice oppertunity today, everyone around me acted as if it was a penalty, but I knew he would duff it up, and what do you know - straight off the wall. Naka has only scored 1 free-kick this season - a meaningless one against the Huns, he's lost his set-peice ability, which was probably the main reason why he's on the field every week.