19 Feb 2018 20:48:51
Not been on in a while, just catching up on the posts. Lots of people having a pop at the manager and team.
I'm not saying some criticism isn't justified as performance levels have been well below last year, but lots of the posts seem to be overly negative.
Remember:
Treble winning manager
Mental unbeaten run and record that I doubt will be broken in my lifetime
Trophy in bag
Still in Europe
I reckon fans get spoilt sometimes and some would bitch no matter what.
19 Feb 2018 21:00:57
seems to be a 50/ 50 split on here. team A. we are awful, team B. but were still on for everything. thursday night etc. the thing is. its 2 different teams. thursday/ heats amazing. random other games dire. i agree fully that our b team SHOULD be smashing the spl but rubbish happens. we have no middle ground due to crazy injuries. its not rotation. its a full swap. im happy to take every point while its happening. right away to sit back on my fence.
{Ed007's Note - Would you say that was our B team though, Gerry? Look at the players we have out injured, Ralston and definitely Compper would have played yesterday, Armstrong or Ntcham depending on who played the EL game and the same between Roberts and Forrest, LG would have probably started Thursday on the bench but in the starting line-up yesterday and it was Rogic's first game after a 6/7 week lay off. I wouldn't say yesterday was a B team but that it was more a case of Rodgers playing who was available to allow the best possible preparations for the Zenit game.}
19 Feb 2018 22:28:44
Spot on Ed. BRENDAN HAS PRIORITISED the Zenit game. We have loads of players to come back and then we may not need to rotate as much as now.
20 Feb 2018 08:48:34
Celtic have averaged 2.26 points per game in the league this season.
TRIFC and Aberdeen have averaged 1.926 points.
Being generous and saying either team hits Our average points tally then they shouldn’t get any more than 77 points (more then either of them got last season) . With that scenario we would only need 5 wins and a draw (say 6 wins) to win the league.
Nae bother at all.
20 Feb 2018 12:42:49
There's nothing to say we can't go unbeaten for the rest of the season. Or win all of the remaining games. We done it last season. Think wits the players coming back that'll give us more options. If we beat Aberdeen and Rangers then the league is in the bag. As we aren't going to slip up with that big a gap with the other 10 games.
20 Feb 2018 22:03:57
totally agree 007. my point was mostly that wee seem to have a flair team for bigger games and a workhorse team for the grind. as the injured come back i think well see a much more even rotation. Hail Hail.