We NEED a new keeper

I cannot stand the guy..

Getting worse and worse for me..

Even though Gordon does definitely have a few wobbles in his game, the criticism and failure of Sutton to let go is nothing short of a disgrace..

The OP's a window licker as well..

 

Sutton is right

 

Sutton makes Gordon sound like a lot worse than what he actually is

 

Aye right, Hedman kept the worlds best from scoring!!

 

To be honest I think that Gordon shouldn't have bothered responding. Sutton has been having a go for a while but he would move on to someone else soon enough when he isn't getting a reaction. He strikes me as being attention seeking and I'm beginning to dislike him. He's like a big kid trying to grab the limelight all the time and sometimes it makes him look really stupid rather than smart. Opens his mooth and lets his gums rattle is what my old dad used to say about folk like that. I don't like that CG responded as he has more to think about over the next few days as do all Celtic fans. We can do without the distraction of a guy who has a case of verbal diarrhoea mixing it. But of course this is the stuff they use to make headlines

 

It happens, I can mind folk on here saying Niall McGinn was better than McGeady and Ben Hutchison was the next big thing. Doubt * would stick to it now

 

I really think he just has his opinion, don't think it's attention seeking or anything and when Gordon (or any other Celtic player for that matter) * up, we shouldn't just turn a blind eye and pretend it's not true.

We went through this exact same thing with Sutton when he was saying the same about Izzy and banging the drum for KT to get a chance.

 

I don't think CG is a world beater but neither is he the worst we've had. Everybody screws up once in a while but he seems to have zoned in on him. I still think CS is attention seeking at times and that's merely my opinion. I don't doubt that some of his observations are correct with regard to a lot of players CG included but I just don't like the way bangs on about things like he never made mistakes.

 

yeah that's what really bugs me!

 

Think Sutton sums it up perfectly here....

 

I think he's actually very good at admitting when he's been wrong

I just don't think we should want pundits to be sycophantic towards us. If Gordon wants the criticism to stop? Stop majong mistakes.

 

@Mcguire1 : Im a window licker aye? Sutton is disgrace aye?

Youre a * riddy son. Gordon is being called out on his weaknesses and spat the dummy out. Sutton just * rinsed him again:

Craig Gordon isn’t happy with me highlighting the mistakes he’s made in the last couple of years.

He’s just made another one. Craig thinks I have some sort of agenda against him. He’s wrong. It’s nothing personal. It’s just the way it is.

I don’t have a problem with him having a go at me. In fact, fair play to him. He’s entitled to come out and voice his opinion.

But don’t think it’s something personal. It’s far from it. I don’t know Craig personally but it’s his job to keep the ball out of the net and it’s my job to highlight it when he makes a mistake.
It’s as simple as that. If he wasn’t making these errors I wouldn’t be pointing them out. I am not manufacturing anything here. It’s stating the obvious.
Craig accused me of forming my opinion on him early on and then trying to stick to it. That’s nonsense. If he looks back he will see I was singing his praises.

I agreed when he won Player of the Year, in fact, when Stefan Johansen won it, I said he would have been my pick. His performances for Celtic were top drawer and I said it at the time.

There’s no way he can say I’ve had some sort of long-running agenda, so let’s put that to bed now.


I have a lot of admiration for Craig, especially the way he came back from his career-threatening injury to play for Celtic.

He was superb in those first couple of seasons. There is no doubt he is a top-class keeper but if you are then you can’t afford your standards to drop.

It’s not just me who said it. Brendan Rodgers left him out last year and he had to fight his way back in. But you can’t tell me that he’s been playing brilliantly, because he hasn’t.

His distribution has improved but there are times he looks like Bambi on ice and is making too many errors. Those are facts.

It might have escaped his notice but I had Craig in my BT Sport Team of the Week on Monday. I said at the time his save against Ross County was sensational. I said it was arguably the save of the season so far.

Is it part of an agenda when I praise him? Of course not. But it’s a two-way street and you can only deal in the facts.

And the facts are Craig has made numerous mistakes in the last couple of seasons. There is no getting away from it. The turning point for me was the Inter game a few years ago.

Until that point he had barely put a foot wrong. But he chucked in a couple that night and ever since there has been a worrying increase in the frequency of errors he’s making. There’s not enough room on the page to list them all.

Does Craig want me to ignore the gaffes against Molde and Fenerbache. Do I turn a blind I to dropping the ball against Beer Sheva. What about the Kung Fu Panda routines against Alloa, Aberdeen and Ross County. This season he chucked one in
against Hearts, fluffed it against St Johnstone, got done at his near post against Astana.

You could also look at Hampden. You can’t tell me he wasn’t culpible for England’s goals. An academy keeper would have been embarrassed by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain’s effort for the first and Raheem Sterling’s cross for the second was a keeper’s ball every day of the week and should never have got to Harry Kane in the first place.

Yes, he’s not lost a domestic game for 18 months but you can’t ignore everything else. There have been too many mistakes and if Craig is happy with that lot I’d suggest the real problem is he is setting his standards too low.

I know it’s not nice to receive criticism. Believe me I know what it’s like.

I have played for Celtic and know what it’s like to have huge expectations. I took almighty amounts of flak at times. It comes with the territory.

But it’s not an agenda or a campaign against him. If Craig is unhappy with what I have been saying then there is an easy solution. Cut out the mistakes.

 

Too full of his own self importance Aye nae agenda but can almost list all of the mistakes and only been monitoring him for a few years Jeezo pull any goallie from any team that had been there for that length of time and you could probably make up a similar list

 

Not a word about CG licking McCanns balls in the same column he calls out Sutton from some folk on here. Suttons a * and CG is a only has "wobbles". ffs

 

@packybhoy touche lol

 

Did Sutton post that on Facebook?

 

Honestly, I don't disagree with much of what Sutton said there. When we sold Forster for £10 million and got Gordon in on a free I thought we had cashed in and ended up with a better keeper such were his performances at the start. He isn't at that level now - despite the odd wonder save eg. Ross County - and has had a few glaring errors which Sutton has obviously critiqued.