Official Celtic V Falkirk league cup match thread

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League Cup 3rd round.

23rd September 2009

Kick off is 19:45 @ The Falkirk Stadium.

All match chat in here please.

Mon' the hoops.

 

Right, comfortable win here would rise our confidence sky high. It's * Falkirk, relegation battlers, so a win here is something that shouldn't be questioned.

My team would be:

Boruc

Hinkel - McManus (c) - Loovens - Fox

Mizuno/McCourt - Crosas - N'Guemo - McGinn

McDonald - Killen

With that team we could experiment even further with bringing on Josh Thompson, just to get used to competitive games. I would also slowly introduce the return of Robson and this match would be perfect for his match fitness. Now, I know Falkirk would do their best to cause trouble for us, but our defence needs to be sorted and confident of nullifying their attacks. I can see Killen's name on the scoresheet if he starts and also Skippy should get one or two.

Come on the Hoops!
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good solid win i think , 5-1
got to put out a good team as they are no mugs
boruc
hinkel loovens mcmanus fox
robson mccourt n guemo mcginn
killen mcdonald

 

I hope he starts a good few fringers, McCourt, Mizuno, Zaluska and Killen.
I would also give the lad Thomson a run out.
Robson also needs the sharpness.

 

Should get the result we want and id go for quite a mixed team maybe:
Boruc
Caddis Thompson McManus Naylor
Mizuno Robson Crosas McCourt
Skippy Killen

id say 2-0 Celtic.

 

Zaluska

Caddis
McManus
Thompson
Naylor

Maloney
Robson
Crosas
McGinn

McCourt
Killen


I'll not be far away at that.......

 

boruc (c)

caddis
fox
mcmanus
loovens(with thompson coming on 2nd half)

mizuno
mcginn
robson
crosas/flood

mccourt (in the hole)

killen/mcdonald

 

Completely agree.

 

could ne a good team to put out, some players need a rest, loovens has played loads, wish this was at home, that team should win the match, one things for sure i do not want to be knocked out the cup already, this is quite hardfor an early round

 

I also hope to see some of the fringe players given a run out, would like to see Zaluska, Caddis, McCourt, and McGinn all given a chance, would also hope to see Robson play to get his fitness up.

 

boruc (c)
hinkel mcmanus loovens naylor
mccourt crosas robson mcgeady
mcdonald killen
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Going to the game so hoping a good strength team & comfortable win ​

 

is the game on the tele tomorrow

 

defence is absolutly garbage so id give the youngsters a go,

Boruc

Caddis - Loovens - Thompson - Misun

Maloney - N'Guemo - Robson - McGeady

McDonald - Killen

Not much attacking options but if there where any more strikers available i would play them over McDonald.

Hopefully we get a confidence boosting win, something like 4 or 5-0
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think it will be a tough game so we shoudnt play too weak a team.

zaluska
caddis
fox
loovens
mcmanus
mizuno/mccourt/mcginn
robson
crosas
mcgeady
mcdonald
killen

cant see there being a lot of changes from hearts game

 

hes still out injured since the brisbane roar match cant see him being back for a few months think its ligaments

 

ah id give Naylor a shot then. cant be any worse than the defence have been playing anyway.

 

Spot on. I want Robson and McManus on the park for match fitness.

 

We have a congested fixture list ahead, so i'd like to see us use this opportunity to give a game to our players who have been struggling for first team opportunities.

--------------Zaluska--------------

Caddis--Thomson--McManus--Naylor

Mizuno--Flood--Zhi--Robson--McCourt

---------------Killen----------------

Crosas in for Zhi if either his paperwork isn't trough or he's simply not fit enough.

 

That's a good shout actually, I'm looking forward to seeing Zhi in action.

 

There are a few people I'd definitely like to see get crucial match time. On the other hand we don't want to be disrupting the structure too much. Perhaps:

................................Zaluska.................................
Hinkel........Caldwell..................McManus............Fox..
...........................................................................
...............Crosas...............Robson.......................
McGinn.................................................Maloney......
................Killen...............McDonald.........................

Will be important for Killen and McDonald to forge a decent relationship, also would like to see McCourt brought on for a significant spell (30 mins perhaps). Crosas and Robson desperately need to show why they should be playing ahead of the misfiring Brown and N'Guemo. Also a Zhi cameo of 10 mins or so would be nice.