Jump to content

 

 

Juancornetto

  • Posts

    1,899
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Posts posted by Juancornetto

  1. When you consider that the average age of the team that walloped Alloa on Saturday was just 22, we have to be happy with the way they've played. The system is still new to (most of) them and in particular the back 4 which has been evident in the games where we have lost goals.

     

    My concern is whether they are good enough to apply Warburton's system in games against better opposition. St Johnstone sprung our split centre halves twice and Hibs scored two goals from positions that should have been taken care of much earlier in the play.

  2. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3217956/Celtic-s-success-three-years-fake-t.html

     

    Celtic going top of the league at the weekend was small consolation for the total embarrassment of yet another season without making the Champions League proper.

    This is the team that is comfortably the best in Scotland, yet they are clueless when it comes to mixing it with European also-rans from Sweden. Hard to believe that three years ago this once great club actually beat Lionel Messi and Barcelona on a wonderfully memorable night in Glasgow.

    A few months before Victor Wanyama and Tony Watt – now at Southampton and Charlton respectively – had seen off the Kings of Catalonia, Celtic's city rivals Rangers had been demoted to the Scottish Third Division.

     

    Celtic fans were loving life but fast forward three years and you can see how much damage has been done to the Hoops, with the only club capable of pushing them or surpassing them dispatched to oblivion.

     

    This week as Celtic yet again go on a raid of the sides below them for talent (add Caley Thistle's Ryan Christie to the names of Scott Allan, Stuart Armstrong and Gary Mackay-Steven), they came from behind to beat St Johnstone and go back above Hearts to the top of the Scottish Premiership.

    What this all means is that Celtic's policy in recent seasons has been to weaken the rest of the Scottish sides so that there can be no threat to the claim on the title north of the border.

     

    The knock-on effect of this is that Celtic are embarrassingly ill-equipped to deal with Champions League qualification games.

    So Ronny Deila's empty words ahead of the second leg in Malmo, talking up the unbeaten run and the success of his side, came back to haunt him. Celtic were only that good because they stripped Dundee United of the players who might possibly have given the champions a close run for their money.

     

    And when Celtic take a glance over their shoulder they probably don't see the real threat racing up behind them. Rangers will come into the Scottish Premiership next season with a winning mentality, the ability to score goals (another five away at Queen of the South at the weekend), a manager who knows what he is doing and has the ability to pick at the English transfer market with knowledge and intelligence (James Tavernier is a sensationally good player, and he's not the only one at Rangers), and an unwritten rule that they will not allow their players to be taken by Celtic.

    Celtic will face a Rangers side with momentum, angry and fired up for revenge for what that club and its fans have been through.

    These past three seasons have been 'fake', almost worthless, in Scotland. Assuming everything behind the scenes at Ibrox lends itself to Mark Warburton being allowed to continue doing his job with no unreasonable restrictions, normal service should be resumed in 2016-17.

    So get ready Celtic, Rangers are coming to get you!

  3. This might be bordering on conspiracy theory but I think the issue lies higher up the editorial chain at Pacific Quay. Guys like McLaughlin and English are just copy filers in terms of their influence over the prominence of stories. What the club (whoever that means) was upset about is the prominence of the arrests and flare story and the location and profile of the story is at the discretion of the editorial management rather than the reporter.

     

    Perhaps Tom Connor - Editor, online and sport, is the man we should be taking to task?

  4. I see :wtf:. The reason Vuckic gets called a one tricky pony is because he does the same move on a regular basis, cutting inside from the right onto his left foot to hit a powerful curler.

     

    So despite Vuckic scoring goals with both feet and his head in his short time with us, he's a one trick pony? Got it.

     

    Don't let logic or subtlety get in the way of a good lynching. Fill your boots.

  5. I can see where dB's coming from here, he wasn't comparing Vuckic to LeTissier rather comparing criticism of them both as "one trick pony's" (LeTiissier has been called this for years down south probably from jealous rival fans) .

     

    It's not true about LeTissier and it's not true of Vuckic either. Is Pirlo a "one trick pony" because all he can do is score free kicks?

×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue.