Celtic vs Legia Warsawa (UCL 3rd round qualifier, August 6th 7.45. NOT ON TV).

Having had time to digest that pish I have to admit theres a part of me relieved that we might not make the group stages !! The thought of 6 games against teams who are far superior to the poles is friggen scary and could be far more embarrassing than that tonight . Even the Europa cup will be a challenge for this team we really are that bad !!

 

True. Tbh it was more a dig at Ronny's tactics as its been coming throughout pre-season. I'm an advocate of bringing on our youth but at the moment even trying to shoe horn our best eleven into this tactic and then telling guys like Commons and Mulgrew to press all over the pitch is suicidal. They've not to the legs for it and our players aren't good enough on the ball to have two men hounding them without a team mate in sight just ask Mulgrew.

 

We have a chance yes, their defence wasn't that solid when we had 11 men on the pitch. There is definitely scope to score 2/3 goals against them.

The issue is keeping them out at the other end. I think its going to take a 4-1 score and then extra time, because i cannot see us keeping a clean sheet.

 

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Worst game in a Celtic shirt for Mulgrew by a mile. Dreadful. Far too slow and awkward for midfield. Was to blame for the first, Ambrose red, then gave away his own pen while constantly giving away the ball over the whole game. I prefer him to Ambrose at CB however although he was poor there in the 2<SUP>nd</SUP> half tonight aswell.<o></o>
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Ambrose is a complete liability and I am very happy he wont be on next week. He just cant do the simple thing and gets caught out at a higher level. <o></o>
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Ronny has to take some of the blame. Izzy our natural LB benched for Matthews? Berget who cant get a game for Cardiff walks straight into the team? Commons as a lone striker 2<SUP>nd</SUP> half?<o></o>
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However I think most of the blame should be attached to the board. New man comes in and he dosnt get a penny to spend. Buying players for pennies or less who cant get games for very average teams is not good enough for a team that aspires to be in the CL. Total let down to the fans who pay good money to travel and support the team.<o></o>
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The collar of my Celtic shirt reads… “Celtic Jerseys are not for second best, they don’t shrink to fit inferior players.” Its about time the Board took this onboard.<o></o>
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Doubt we can turn this round especially without Sammy. Samaras was proven for us in Europe. Why couldn’t we just give the man the contract he deserves instead of wasting it on others who aren’t up to the job. <o></o>
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There is however always hope for next week but it is now a huge task.<o></o>

 

You can't see it like that, if that's Your thinking then every game should be 10-10 if you count chances

 

How'd you get fancy font?

 

Well spank me sideways we got hijacked yet again in the CL qualifiers.

I did worry before this game, that if we did not have our * together they would Karagandy us.

Look, I refuse to start freaking out. We have several players I key positions that dont know if they are getting transfered. A new manager, new system.

I hope to * rockets are applied to arses and we * kick on and play with some * pride next week.

It's a new era troops. Better get used to it.

We need to be signing def mid and a solid cb pronto, cos if VVD goes we are in deep doo doo.

Hail hail.

 

They werent just chances though they were absolutley woeful terrible * stuff. About 3/4 times they had guys just stroll into our box one on one with Forster as our defenders comically dropped like flies, stood and watched or went running past them.

Sort of stuff youre in disbelief at watching. Not like it was shots from distance or the odd header from a corner that were saved or went narrowly past, they were the sort of chances that even a player the calibre of Stokes Griffiths would have probably bagged about 6 or 7 of them.

 

If we'd lost 2 or 3 - 1 I would be confident of going through, but I think we're out of it, and I really didn't see it coming. Desperate stuff.

 

* sake man

4-1 and they missed 2 penalties???

how bad was the performance? Artmedia/Clyde bad?

 

Typed it into word mate and then pasted it over. Typed it out before and it didnt register because the server was busy so didnt want that happening again :smiley-laughing002:

 

Greates clubs to be on this earth? Maybe 2 years ago was aspiring. Couple years ago I would say you're right. Shockingly weak team you had tonight. Legia had pleeenty of place in the middle and they played lots of through passes (like never!) It should be like 7:1. Vrdoljak should pay a fine for this penalty embarrassment. Like I said, Radovic is the greatest threat, he always scores I would say "good luck on next match" but.. you know.. anyway, good luck on europa league quali!

 

The weird thing was we took the lead and were by far the better team for the first 20-25 minutes. It wasn't like those shambles in the past, Sion, Artmedia etc where we are out of the game after 10 minutes.

We actually had a lead and * it, horribly. I don't know if that was complacency but we were utterly dreadful in defence and the midfield was non-existent. Like ILTC says they literally just walked right through us time after time.

What is the view in Poland? Do you think Legia were fantastic or Celtic were terrible? Because no offence but apart from Radovic I didn't think any of your players were brilliant and it was just an inexplicably atrocious performance from Celtic.

 

The defence were playing like on FIFA when you're playing a * whos * off and you can just run through their defence and their defenders just come near you but you can easily beat them.

 

Those Legia fans are * unreal btw

Fair play

 

ive backed the new manager from day 1 , and kind of felt bad neil lennon left,but what up and coming manager in there right mind, would take on the celtic job, and be happy to go into these games, without there on stamp on the team, the guy is landed a job were he is happy to be in charge no matter what, just think about,

 

That was the worst second half performance i've ever seen from a Celtic team. We were * awful. Didn't have a shot, could barely get out our own half, it was an embarrassment. Mulgrew's performance was unfuckinbelievable, he can get to *, utility player, slow as *, no legs, adds nothing. Ambrose is * too. Absolute liability. Always thought it about both of them and now its come true and * us out of Europe.

I don't blame Ronny, he's got to expect his defence and midfield to at least play football. Artmetia Bratislava all over again. * woeful. He shouldnt have started the new guy but the defense was so * it wouldn't have mattered. New CB needed, Charlie for the bench. 3-0 at Murryfield. * sakes

 

Was * shambolic mate I honestly think it was the worst defensive performance i've ever seen from a Celtic side. In the past when we've lost like away in Sion it's usually 1 player who * it for everyone, like Mastorovic or Loovens, but tonight the whole lot were * shocking.

Our arses collapsed just like Brazil v Germany. Except there was no reason to cos we got the 1st goal and were well on top. Disgraceful stuff.

 

The heads went down after they levelled so quickly we looked nervy then at 2-1 the arses collapsed when efe got sent off it was good night Vienna what bothers me is the decision to start berget and he hooked off Pukki and left that guy on ? we let samaras go and bring in another ST who is no better than what we have with Sammy u didn't have a lot of goals but u had a big threat in big games we had * all threat tonight McGregor scored a brilliant goal other than that we were utter * , as I said in my previous post ST PATS drew with them they are nothing more than a mediocre Europe group stage team at best we are Glasgow * Celtic and I don't mean that to sound as arrogant as it probably does but it is absolutely unacceptable to me to suffer a lose like that and it could have been so much worse .. Laughing stock of Europe yet again.

 

id like to add mulgrew was the spl payer of the year 2013 and izzaguire was 2012 and yet mulgrew was played out his imo best position, and izzaguire was a sub. now im no manager or uefa coach or geek but since when was matthews better than izzaguire