[Matchday] Celtic V the Huns Scottish Cup 17th April kick off 2PM Premier Sports

In the SPL you can play your game against all the teams in the competition and stick to it it - except Rangers.

Rangers games need something else, an almost primal urge to win. That's how they see it and that's how we need to see it.
Our tactics need to be winning tactics and we need to put art out the window at a certain point.

We need not be intimidated even though we get provoked each time by physically bigger players in that side.

 

The lack of any reaction (bar Celtic fans on socials and a couple of pundits) to the officiating on Sunday has given them the freedom to repeat it in a fortnight. Pretty worrying that.

Some of our own fans say if you play well enough the ref doesn’t matter. That is an absolute honking way to look at things and completely untrue. They broke up most Celtic attacks with fouls that went unpunished. And if you aren’t booked you are free to do it again and again.

Their midfield enforcer was allowed to go around and take ankles at freewill where as ours was booked early doors and knew one late tackle and he was off.

 

McCarthy needs a bit of time at Ross county get him in beside Calum to let him get forward and cause damage against scum, McCarthy can marshal that gap between back 4 and midfield

 

Exactly this.

 

I think the general opinion is by overcoming any bias (ref) by finding a way ,you are adapting, always getting better and you make the ref not count ,it can lift you to new heights , yeh it would be great to have an even platform to play but that is not gonna happen soon ,then there is my way , if we can get a few ahead at home against them , wait till the last few mins and get the most replaceable player to snap that c#nt lundstrum and walk off before the ref even gets close , job done .

 

McCarthy needs released..

 

If we are a couple up against them in a couple of weeks then he should be sent on to give Lundstrum some rough treatment.

 

From his contract i hope you mean?.

 

Is McCarthy that sort of player though?

Looks fragile as * and quite timid.

 

Horrible to think this..but 100% agree....With 6 games left and no one willing to speak up about this issue there is a severe chance that this will get worse since its open season more than usual.....and these * dont even look as if they give a * now.

Infuriates me thinking about that hun Ref on Sunday.

It was deliberate attempt to slow us down and not get into any rhythm at all.

Stated this many times,on a level playing field if we get beat we get beat i haven't got an issue with that..but its never a level playing field,there is always controversy surrounding a win form these *.

And they are cute about it as well with throwing in 1 or 2 incidents that favour us in games to make it look even.

Some fans/players and board members better strap themselves in for the next few weeks because this * is about to go Nuclear with these decisions in their favour here.

Until someone leaves the field in a body bag its the only time i personally think the board will say anything...or until the money starts disappearing from CL slots taken from us.

 

Probably end up breaking his own leg or something..

Nothing gets past you..

 

Was too gutted by the display to spend all that much time on here after the match - sooooo depressing.

I've got used to the 'hot and cold' nature of our game... I've got used to the 'hot and cold' nature of some of our players... I've got used to Ange's insistence in playing the same style... so none of that really bothered me,

What did make my spit boil was the state of our players. Out on their feet well within the 90 mins (far less the 120!).

The Zombies were fitter, stronger and more up for it. That worries me!

 

I was crying out for it during the game. Fight fire with fire.

 

Lundstrum could have ran about the park with a chainsaw in his hand and cut the legs off Celtic players and that * madden would still do * all and the lack of criticism for maddens performance from sports programmes and newspapers is shocking.

 

I beg to differ.

 

just want us properly prepared for the next games that we play, so well that we dont need protection or fairness from them

its always been that way the refs and sfa are closet or not so closet huns, it means we as a club and players need to be aware were getting nothing gifted to us and not to wait for obvious fouls for us, these young guys understand that and theres * all they can do

ange gets that in the players heads and well be ok

 

I am worried about the refereeing and who will be appointed for it. We definitely should be making noises about Madden in particular as he has been ridiculous with us, the first game up at Pittodrie with the high foul count on us despite us having most of the possession, his failure to send Halliday of whilst ruling out a perfectly good goal against Hearts in the season opener.

They got Kent sent off slightly leniently and had a dossier in. I don’t think they have conceded and penalty or a red card since.

On our approach to the game I would like to see us go with a more mobile midfield that allows us to play our game more and back to more a 4-3-3 rather than pushing one of our centre mids so high up the pitch. We need to work combinations in the wide areas and exploit the space left by their full backs.

By doing the above we will create chances for our striker and wingers who need to be more clinical and sharp in their final third decision making as we have squandered a number of great situations with poor decision making and final balls over the last two games.

Not sure who will be fit but hoping Giakoumakis is or Kyogo gets a game under his belt and looks more like himself on Sunday.

I don’t think you can have Maeda and Abada in the same team and be effective as both are low touch, low playmaking ability type players that don’t really give you an out ball other than throw it over the top for their pace. Giakoumakis and Kyogo aren’t exactly high volume of touch type players either but Giakoumakis has the physicality and Kyogo the intelligence to link up with others.

Jota has been off form recently but he is the only ball hungry winger we have in our squad, so hopefully can get himself a goal up at Dingwall to get his confidence back.

 

Given Jota's tally of misses with his shots on goal, he needs to shoot low and hard from now on and not go for the spectacular shot in the top corner or just under the bar.

 

Would like to know why Bitton was not on the bench.

 

Looking back at all the videos going around of Madden cheating on Sunday just makes my blood boil. Was seething on Sunday seeing it but when you can see some of the ridiculous decisions slowed down ot just begs the question, why have the SFA not done or said anything about his performance?

Unbelievable.