match thread (image) [FT] Celtic 5 - 0 Rangers

[craig 5,199]

24 minutes ago, boabie said:

Keeping the game at 0-0 for an amount of time while doing the basics of football = passing, beating a man, tackling, Christ, even throwing a ball to one of your team mates all goes towards giving you a chance.

Once you lose that goal you are always chasing the game.

Given our lots habit of hurtling forward it is only natural that our keeper is left exposed.

Lose another goal, even if you are playing well puts you in trouble.

Had our guys done what they are paid handsomely to do we would not have lost 5 goals.

As dB would tell you multiple times - there aren't just 11 players on a football pitch.  If the opposition don't let you play your game then you look amateurish.  Roma are no mugs but for 70 minutes last week the front 3 players of Liverpool made them look like a pub team.  It isn't always down to just your own players.  Surely by now, we must ALL see that.

[pete 2,499]

5 hours ago, craig said:

Yep.  Right now is as good a time as any to be a Scottish ex-pat pete.  I have huge sympathy for the thousands upon thousands of Bears who are having to suffer through humiliation after humiliation these days.  It is bad enough being a Rangers supporting ex-pat going through it but to have to suffer it in your own back yard and the gloating that comes from the other side is something I am very thankful to be avoiding.

 

As soon as the final whistle went yesterday my first thought was "well, that is the season done at least.  It was inevitable that Celtic would beat us to win the league so it didn't hurt as much as I thought it might.  At least it is now over and done with".

 

My second thought was "they beat us to win the league and beat us convincingly.  However, they will NEVER, EVER have the same satisfaction of success against their oldest rivals the way and manner in which we won the title at Parkhead in May 1999.  The teams were much closer back then financially, neither had been a financial basketcase for half a decade - and on top of that, they truly expected to win that afternoon in May 1999".  If you add Helicopter Sunday into the mix then we know for sure that the Tims will eventually revert to type and still feel inferior to us in many ways.

Totally agree, them winning it at Porkhead is nowhere near winning it at your main rivals ground. Just to see the biggest part of the stadium emptying while you are singing and dancing on their soil is a far greater feeling.

[RANGERRAB 3,293]

3 hours ago, craig said:

As dB would tell you multiple times - there aren't just 11 players on a football pitch.  If the opposition don't let you play your game then you look amateurish.  Roma are no mugs but for 70 minutes last week the front 3 players of Liverpool made them look like a pub team.  It isn't always down to just your own players.  Surely by now, we must ALL see that.

You need tactics & a gameplan to stop ur opponents dominating the play.

 

Yesterday ours was more or less the same as what we tried in the SC semi which failed miserably.

[craig 5,199]

17 minutes ago, RANGERRAB said:

You need tactics & a gameplan to stop ur opponents dominating the play.

 

Yesterday ours was more or less the same as what we tried in the SC semi which failed miserably.

Exactly.  But anyone suggesting that the only reason we got a 5-0 doing (which could have been double) is because of just our own mistakes is in denial, IMO.  We may have been dross, but some of the reason for that is because Celtic made us look dross.  It simply cannot be totally self-inflicted.

[RANGERRAB 3,293]

On 30 April 2018 at 20:57, craig said:

Exactly.  But anyone suggesting that the only reason we got a 5-0 doing (which could have been double) is because of just our own mistakes is in denial, IMO.  We may have been dross, but some of the reason for that is because Celtic made us look dross.  It simply cannot be totally self-inflicted.

Agreed, but other teams in the league seem to have done much better against them than we have.

 

[Gonzo79 13,748]

Hearts thumped them and Killie and Hibs have beaten them too...then there were the draws.

 

Celtc are no great shakes.  When a team drub you 4-0, the first thing you do to prepare for the next match against them is make sure you're hard to beat.  We should've parked the bus.

[RANGERRAB 3,293]

On 30 April 2018 at 21:36, Gonzo79 said:

Hearts thumped them and Killie and Hibs have beaten them too...then there were the draws.

 

Celtc are no great shakes.  When a team drub you 4-0, the first thing you do to prepare for the next match against them is make sure you're hard to beat.  We should've parked the bus.

Or matched their 4 MF players..

[Darthter 542]

13 hours ago, craig said:

Exactly.  But anyone suggesting that the only reason we got a 5-0 doing (which could have been double) is because of just our own mistakes is in denial, IMO.  We may have been dross, but some of the reason for that is because Celtic made us look dross.  It simply cannot be totally self-inflicted.

While I do agree, the principal also works in reverse.

One team playing really badly, can make the other look like world beaters....

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