Kilmarnock vs Celtic, 15/10/2011, 12.30pm

Put a positive spin on the situation then ya couple of *! Go on I'm waiting? Lennon and the players disgraced our club today. (Stokes the exception)

 

It's unbelievable that the manager still picks him

 

You can't deny the team were right up for it in the second half. Granted Stokes bailed Lennon out but for once I felt the players were doing it for us and for Lennon.

 

Id rather have loovens at the back. How majstorovic is a Swedish international is beyond me

 

its totally baffling rogne must wonder what he has to do to get a game

 

How was it Forsters fault for goals?

 

For the people blaming majstorovic. Get a grip ffs He had a decent game. It's not 1 persons fault it's the team's defending collectively.

 

The players were doing it for the fans I thought, not Lennon.

Like I say, if Lennon's motivational skills played a part why did we not start the second half the way we finished it? We never looked fired up until Stokes' second goal then we realised that we're Celtic and they are Kilmarnock.

The only people who can walk away today with their heads held high, imo, are Stokes, Forrest and Wanyama.

 

I thought he was terrible to be honest. Nearly every high ball he was beaten and when you look at his size and then compare it to the strikers' he's up against it's really unacceptable.

In saying that I think by his own unbelievably awful standards he was okay. One of the better players towards the end, started winning high balls and putting himself about. Murder in the first half and dodgy at times in the second.

 

Majstorovic is too slow to be a regular centre back at Celtic. He should be last choice every time, along with Loovens. There was Thomas Rogne sitting on the bench again today, a guy who has barely put a foot wrong since signing for us and that Swedish diddy is still getting picked over him. Rogne is back to full fitness and would really bring some stability to our defence.

 

Didnt say it was his fault he could have done better. 1 went through his legs other was lobbed and if im correct he didnt even put his hands up.
The defence were the main blame for the goals shocking once again

 

Got what we deserved and disgusted with the attitude of certain players.

 

If Lennon ever picks Samaras over Stokes again, then I'm calling a bhoycott. Anthony showed today just how important he is to the team and stepped up to the plate, unlike Hooper. It's time Stokes got some more recognition from certain people as to just how good he is.

 

turned the game of 60 minutes. never felt so low . the misses came in and said it was 3 each. feel a helluva lot better man. still a point aint a good result. hopefully the bhoys cant take strength from this comeback

 

All this comeback will do is paper over the cracks and Lennon will live to fight another day. We shouldn't have to live to fight another day. We shouldn't have to need 2 moments of brilliance and rare headed goal to bail us out. We should be beating diddy teams like them comfortably, WORST CELTIC SIDE EVER.

 

Get a grip.

 

Thank you Anthony Stokes. 2 brilliant goals absolutely saved us from not just a defeat but a humiliation today. I thought when the third Kilmarnock goal went in we were staring down the barrel of another Mowbray St Mirren fiasco and the end of Lennon as our coach.

I cannot praise Stokes enough even more so as his contender for miss of the season early on and what followed from there could easily have seen him fold. Especially when you consider how much time he has spent on the bench, wrongly in my opinion. But if fairness he didn't hide and scored 2 quite superb goals.

Unfortunately he didn't have much company. Forster to be fair to him could not do much with the Kilmarnock goals so shambolic was the defending in front of him. I don't like to pile on any Celtic player but Majstorovic was so poor again. Really Rogne must start our next game against Rennes. Even Mulgrew was a disaster today although I will credit him for getting the equalizer making up for the horror show that was his back pass for their third goal.

In midfield Kayal either is injured and should not have played or he had no interest as the only thing I remember him doing is getting a yellow card and then almost getting sent off right on half time. If he had no interest then that is a real problem as you have to wonder then are the rumours of problems behind the scenes with him true. He had to be subed at half. Wanyama was an improvement although barely. Hooper picked up a knock early on clearly and obviously should have come off earlier as he did nothing the rest of the half. The same unfortunately can be said of his half time replacement Bangura who did nothing in the second half. Only Forrest looked good out of our midfield. Ledley wasn't poor but he is just not as influential out wide as he is in the middle. Ki was in and out.

All in all lets not kid ourselves we were shambolic today and looked bereft of confidence. We didn't fight back from 3-0 down at half time because of some rousing second half fight back. We got a draw because of 2 quite brilliant goals from Stokes and a 3 in all in a wild 6 minute span. But it is not like we had been pounding at their goal up until Stokes first one.

Whether that 6 minute spell saved our season and can be a springboard to turn things around or whether it was just a blip in what has otherwise been a nightmare start to the season we will see in due course. I want to believe the former but after how bad we were today it does not look good.

 

We'll kick on from this imo.