[Official TC Thread] Celtic v The Manky Mob, 12:00 Sat 30th Dec, Sky Sports

Ntcham did more last 30 minutes than Armstrong n McGregor whole game
McGregor s contribution was 2 shots at goal that ended up in row z.

 

I dont see how he got it wrong ,griff for dembele ,they were physical with dembele and putting him off his game ,they done the same with griff when he came on ,ntcham needs more time on the ball just now thats why he came on when they were tired ,sinclair shoulda had at least 2 firs half so shoulda been on,and was a little unlucky .
What else could the manager do ?
Sometimes we just have to accept it was not our day ,and tbh if it was to pick a win agaonst them or hearts i would pick hearts after their * at swinecastle ,rubbing our noses in it ,i so want pay back for that .

 

He made a good save from Tavernier. The Morelos chance just hit him in the leg. His passing was * horrendous.

 

We've obviously dropped off a bit from last season which isn't surprising considering it was as good a season as we've ever had domestically.

It was an even game today, we dominated most of the first half without ever really looking great but we had our chances. They played decent in the second half and they had their chances. It's just disappointing as we should be better at home and we just gave them encouragement by being as sloppy as we were.

We're still unbeaten against them over 90 mins in the history of this fixture, so while they'll enjoy their 0-0 win as much as they enjoyed their 1-1 win last season, they still can't beat us even when we play absolutely *.

Hopefully the break will do us good. Maybe even have a wee turnover of players to freshen up the place, but we're still skooshing the domestic game even though we're struggling a wee bit and we'll win the league by at least 15 points this season.

 

He deserves criticism based on his distribution regardless of whether he saved us or not.

He isn't good enough.

 

That was as poor as the 1-1 draw last season, Murty has done a job on us twice now which is a concern. The team look tired and somewhat complacent. Dembele is for the off no doubting that- he looked like he was breathing Parkhead in for the last time. The money we get must be reinvested big time. Armstrong should be punted to. Doesnt want to be here that is quite obvious. As for other performances today McGregor has been quiet for a while, Sinclair was ok in parts but needs to refind his best form if we are to beat Zenit. Lustig was awful, the centre backs were ok and Gordon though awful in possesion made 2 amazing saves. Forrest huffed and puffed. The team badly needs investment. A top class number 10 is a must asap- and Brown needs to quit internationals. His form has dipped drastically since coming back for Scotland.

 

I would rather have Christie than McGregor. BR golden boy. * useless again today.

 

One of the worst things about today is that we made a dreadful Sevco team look good....

 

Pish performance woeful finishing in the first half and didn't even turn up second half they could easily have won that 2nd half cos we never looked like scoring. Brown the standout again too many times this season he's had to carry this team, Rodgers has to take the blame for team selection as well dropping Ntcham was bizarre to say the least considering how well he's done recently. The fact that the Huns u20 coach has taken points off us twice at Parkhead this year is a joke as well.

 

Brendan post match

 

That * has ruined the holidays for me

 

Every player for me bar Ajer, Brown and Dembele were hopeless.

Couldn't understand the Dembele substitution and why the * did we not start Ntcham??

Armstrong, McGregor, KT and Sinclair were well below par.

 

The likes of Sinclair dembele and Forrest and griff when he came on need someone to work off in cam, where we miss Tom. Ntcham can also provide it but McGregor can be so inconsistent and readable

 

Our manager refusing to bench his golden players has in part help drag this team back down to spl level.
Today's game was yet again helped by BR insisting on using sinclair,mussa and armstrong no matter how badly they play.
Sinclair was dropped for one game and then brought back into the team today yet he has been poor for a long time.
At this rate we will be lucky to get 8 or 9 never mind 10 unless BR gets his head out his * and get this team and its players back to where they were last season.
Its time for BR to show us he is the manager he thinks he is.

 

At last someone talking sense, way over the top on here ffs, need to go and lie in a dark room.

 

just stop it ,will you .That was a world class save.

 

As soon as Dembele went off, however much things weren’t going for him, we lost our outball.

There * centre halves could have been playing in slippers vs Griffiths.

 

The second half was crying out for someone with a bit of passion to lift the crowd and turn the tide imo. Someone like James McClean...

George.

 

Broony has been immense. You're for the watching.

 

Agreed Dembele needs to be a bigger boy than getting pushed off his game. 15m + strikers shouldn't be put off their game but Danny Wilson.

He got it wrong because he set up to play our usual way - keeping them hemmed in and pushing them high. Very rarely so our midfielders need to do anything other than a quick pass or shoot, so when they press us high we don't have anyone with the quality to play the midfield except Ntcham, who don't come on when they were tired but when they were pressuring us - it started to lift when he came in for that reason, but he should have been on much much earlier and the rest of the team should have been set up with the expectation that they would pressure us.