15 Aug 2015 16:56:05
Just goes to show the importance of our captain Scott Brown missed game on Wed against killie and just away from game today he was excellent and soon as he goes off like the team has no drive, and as for boyata dear oh dear 2 shocking mistakes let's hope he's used them all up for game against malmo
15 Aug 2015 18:43:30
Ironically I text pretty much the same to a mate of mine not long after leaving the game today so you are spot on greenandwhiteknight.
On another issue, the atmosphere at Celtic Park continues to be quite sterile and is further reinforced watching Borussia Dortmund right this moment with the constant noise of their fans despite the fact they are already 4-0 up against Borussia Moenchengladbach!
15 Aug 2015 19:36:40
Haha Dortmund prices are cheap and there team is full of top quality players.
I don't blame fans for struggling to get excited as the drop in quality and standards since the early MON years has been ridiculous.
But we still support as best we can!! I hope RD can deliver good football but will be hard with cheap budget signings.
15 Aug 2015 19:47:55
I agree today when Brown was on the team I thought we were brilliant . To me we were so good that we made Caley look very, very ordinary .
With Brown's energy and drive Celtic will be too much for Malmo . We need to play with the same intensity .
I wouldn't worry about young Boyata , he made two mistakes and paid the price for them . It's up to us fans to support him and help him to get over them .
Most defenders , especially young defenders make mistakes ,it doesn't necessary mean they are bad defenders .
15 Aug 2015 21:01:41
Brown raises the whole team by about 50%. That's just the captain he is. Worth more than his weight in gold.
16 Aug 2015 02:05:48
It really irks me when people keep calling Boyata this 'young' defender that'll learn from his mistakes. He'll be 25 in a few months, older than VVD and you only have to look back at Denayer last season to see how solid he was at 19. The guy will always switch off from time to time as he has proved continually throughout the season. I've lost count now how often he's given away needless possession under little or no pressure in games. If it was Ambrose he would be getting slaughtered. I'm very concerned about Boyata and you don't see Ambrose giving away possession nearly as much as Boyata(Although the big man has come up with vital goals for us so far this season). Also, for the people that also say he'll come good and be as good as if not better than Denayer which I don't understand how they can say he will not, nowhere near as comfortable with the ball at his feet as Denayer, tbf to Denayer also he chipped in with a few goals.
We were spoilt last season massively at CB and I took it for granted. Wish we could have the VVD/Denayer partnership back. :-(
16 Aug 2015 14:47:16
Boyata is young , still not 25 . It's not long ago since a centre half was "starring " for another Glasgow team and he was either just under 40 or actually over the big four 0 .
Seriously Boyata having been at a very big English club that can spend 50 millions or more on players , hasn't had that much experience playing competitive first team football. So at 24 , he is both young and rather inexperience but should be just the right age to come good with Celtic .
One thing about Boyata is that Deila seem to be involved in that transfer from early on as he and Lawwell were photographed with Boyata in Manchester weeks before he signed .
16 Aug 2015 16:33:54
Boyata is dodgy. Lapses of concentration every game. If we lose a goal on Wednesday he us my nominee for the balls up. I shudder to think how bad we will be defensively when VVD heads south for the winter.
I can't believe we never brought in a solid full back.
What am a talking aboot? Of course I can.
16 Aug 2015 16:46:43
I'm not saying he's an old player but at 24 he really shouldn't be giving away the ball so cheaply as often as he has. It's near every match he does it once or twice. How is bringing old man Weir up proving anything? Van Dijk and Denayer are younger than Boyata and they didn't make the same mistakes as he has.
Boyata was kept on at Man City simply because he came under there 'home grown quota' allowing them to bring in more foreign players. You'll recognise this by just how little game time he got at Man City because he was simply a bombscare for them and nowhere near good enough. You'll see since the likes of Guidetti, Boyata, Rekik, Milner all 'home grown players' or English players they have rectified that by signing Denayer up on a five year deal, signed Sterling and Delph(A signing simply to allow them to being more foreign players in.
I trust Ambrose more than Boyata personally, atm anyway. It wasn't long ago that we needed Ambrose and Lustig to keep us a clean sheet against Karagandy at Celtic Park and they delivered. Ambrose can handle these games bar the Juventus lapse aside under extreme circumstances with him just returning from the AFCON.
16 Aug 2015 19:25:46
Not sure ticket prices make much difference to the atmosphere, it's got more to do with being able to stand on the terraces and have a beer or two. A know u can get a few in the pub before and after but it would help if we could have a couple during the match. Saying that u can if your minted.