[Matchday] Celtic v St. Johnstone (15:00 GMT - 18/02/18) Celtic TV

We're 9 points ahead of both of them.

 

All the panic merchants coming out..... il panic when our rivals are 4 points off our position until then I look forward to thursday

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Wasn’t as bad as people will make out. Coming off Thursday it was going to be tough, * atmosphere from the beginning too. Referee was * shitebag St Johnstone killed any opportunity to play an actual game of football

 

The number of times we have the ball in a good position in the final third at the ball ends up back at the keeper is infuriating. No excuse for the number of * performances we’ve had this season in the league, especially against a st Johnstone side that haven’t won a league game since mid December.

 

Naw, Sevco won today mate the game was played under new SPFL rules which do not allow teams to defend or clear the ball.

 

Too many changes today, fair enough we’ve got Thursday in mind but the league should be put to bed

 

And we are 9 clear of both.

On Friday we were 8 clear of Aberdeen.

Not the worst possible weekend.

 

Yeah i've corrected it, i was looking at table before today's games, mea culpa.

 

I am not disputing we will win the league, I'm saying people are off the illusion we are light years ahead, when in actual fact we are not, we are playing terrible and dropping a lot of points, we should not be playing this badly week in week out. Something needs to change, the tactics are the same every week and teams are wise to it, but we still play the same style constantly.

 

Will take it after the performance on Thursday night. Sometimes these things happen to teams with bad form in the league. In a few weeks, we'll be flying again.

 

Yeah i have been around, hate that hangover...

 

We've only won two more games than both Sevco and the Sheep. That says a lot.

 

Scottish teams have us figured out now. Sitting back and fouling us, breaking up our attacking flow. Brendan needs new tactics when we're up against this sort of teams.

 

Dembele getting the blame

 

Another lacklustre performance again, be worth it if we get the results on Thursday and then at Pittodrie but all this “our 2nd team would win the league” pish needs to stop. So dependant on players like Brown driving the team forward and Tierney kicking every ball.

It’s a sad state of affairs when our last throw of the dice today was making a change at LB. If we lose away at Aberdeen and then at ibrox in three weeks we make life difficult for ourselves.

Couple of changes would’ve sufficed, Thursday would’ve taken a lot out of them but surely more than enough in the tank to play today and get the job done.

 

absolutely agree with you there but the players have to let him know in no uncertain terms, that they know, hes being either a weak as * ref, the opposing teams 12th man or blatantly anti celtic

they should be claiming and complaining for obstruction, pull backs, same players consistently fouling

there is no doubt all tha * the opposition does to get an advantage with their professional fouling and obstruction
has an effect on our players mentally, hope the ref gets slaughtered by hartson and co in the papers

the football authorities shouldn't be coming from the positional fact that we are the richest club with the best players so anything goes against us which they clearly are and have done for years and years,,,,, it gets better after there is a mighty blowout after the referees tannadice shame game and after neil lennon went crazy about it and talked about it a lot

 

One trick? One treble, one unbeaten record, one nil St Petersburg.
Reminds me of Pep's Barca, "these * play the most boring football I've seen"

 

We have the 4th most draws in the league this season with 7 behind Hearts, Hibs and Kilmarnock. No where near good enough.

Still comfortably 9 points in front but that isn’t good enough to have dropped that many points. All of us can see where we are going wrong but nothing seems to be improving at the moment. Think we all thought the break over in Dubai would do us the world of good but it hasn’t.

Still too far too slow in possession and constantly playing the ball backwards and from side to side without any tempo or purpose isn’t getting us results. It’s making us far too predictable. You could see St Johnstone pressed high up the field today because they know we like to pass it between the defenders and goalkeeper.

 

When you are playing terrible, dropping points - and still able to win in Europe and extend your lead in the table, you can actually have a sigh of relief, knowing that the team is due to hit some form and have an easier time of it.