Celtic v St. Johnstone League Cup Q/F Tues 30th Oct, 19:45 KO

Brown plays, we win. HE doesnt play, and we're total *.

* I hope his injury isnt as bad as people think and say it is.

 

I am 100% sure we have won more games with Brown in the team than out it.

You're chatting utter *; he didn't play vs Killie on the weekend - we got beat. He didn't play vs Ross County - we were * and drew. When he plays we very rarely lose or draw, champions league games are an exception because they're so difficult, but even then we've only lost 1 European game out of our last 8 with Broony playing.

This is the actual truth so I dunno what you're on about, it's now become physically impossible to deny Broony's importance and brilliance.
It's actually just not possible any more, so stop hating and get on board the bandwagon :icon_mrgreen:

 

We lost in almost the final second of the Barca game. Hard to blame that on Broony.

* spectacular performance the first team as a whole. To hold barca like that for 94 minutes. Unreal.

 

Great performance but the least we expected. Third goal was a thing Of beauty, just a tremendous piece of football!

Now keep it up going into the league, we have dropped too many stupid points already this year.

Brown adds an edge to our play no doubt, he seems the type not tonaccept slacking from others around him.

Commons excellent as he has been all year, lustig looking great and nice to see Hooper grab a goal and get rested.

Job done Bhoys!

 

Brown is a good player. There's no denying that. he's also a very good leader and the players all look up to him. You can tell that.
He is not technically better than Wanyama, Kayal or Ledley though.
I think we do play better when Brown is on the park but I don't think he's an essential part of the team. It's not as simple as:
Brown = win/good performance
No Brown = no win/bad performance

With Brown, most of the other players play that bit better than they might have, without Brown you have a technically better player on the park in Kayal, Ledley or Wanyama.

It's a tough debate and I'm on the fence. Slightly leaning towards no Brown. Mostly based on the fact that he is infested with injuries all the time.

 

Thought i'd compile the stats when Scott Browns played and the results..

All matches will be pointed like a league game.

Helsinki 2-1 H played the full 90 -- 3 points with

Aberdeen 1-0 H Didn't play -- 3 points without

Helsinki 0-2 A Full 90 -- 3 points with

Ross County 1-1 A Didn't play -- 1 point without

Helsingborgs if 0-2 A Full 90 -- 3 points with

Inverness CT 2-4 A Didn't play -- 3 points without

Helsingborgs IF 2-0 H Full 90 -- 3 points with

Hibernian 2-2 A Didn't play-- 1 point without

St Johnstone 2-1 A Played 79 mins -- 0* points with (subbed 30 seconds before St johnstones 2nd)

Benfica 0-0 H Played full 90 -- 1 point with

Dundee 2-0 H Played 86 minutes -- 3 points with

Raith Rovers 4-1 H didn't Play -- 3 points without

Motherwell 2-0 A Played 66 mins -- 3 points with

Spartak 3-2 A played full 90 -- 3 points with

Hearts 1-0 H Didn't play -- 3 points without

St Mirren 5-0 A didn't play -- 3 points without

Barcelona 2-1 A played 62 mins( 1-1 when he left the field) -- 0* points

Kilmarnock 2-0 H Didn't play -- 0 points without

St Johnstone 5-0 played 64 minutes -- 3 points with



25 points out of a possible 33 with. 11 Games in total 8 points dropped.
*Lost two from level scores when he left the field.

17 points out of a possible 24 without. 8 games in total 7 points dropped.


It's pretty close with only 1 point of a difference.. Massive waste of time though :icon_mrgreen:

 

But we had 47k on Saturday for a competition that the zombies aren't in, compared to the crowd last night in a competition the zombies are in...

How do you work that one out Columbo?

 

Any highlights for yesterday's game?

 

Hohoho, splendid.

 

Missed the game last night.... Anyone have a link to the highlights of the game?

 

Great performance last night, the team played with purpose and it showed.

 

He's come on leaps and bounds in recent years, didn't rate him at all a few years ago but now he'd be the first pick on my team sheet. I think being given the captaincy has also helped his development, he doesn't make the stupid decisions he used to, he has definitely matured as a player.

 

All the goals here Bhoys and Ghirls.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dKwUSnukVHY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=E1xvafZPS9s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mAxLg1-glmE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=J2vxfliLckw

It's not letting me embed them.. Strange.

 

Well done to Lennon and the team for such a great response to the weekends lack of performance last night. A total contrast with great movement off the ball. Some excellent combination play and a good tempo to our play. Lets not forget as well that St Johnstone came in on a very good run of form making our performance last night all the more impressive.

 

Don't use the embed.

Just post them as straight links with no extra parameters, & the forum will display as vids.

( htttp, not https...)

 

Cheers man.