26 Aug 2014 18:36:07
Celtic XI v NK Maribor: Gordon, Ambrose, Lustig, van Dijk, Izaguirre, Kayal, Mulgrew, Johansen, McGregor, Stokes, Berget.
Celtic subs: Zaluska, Bitton, Denayer, Matthews, Commons, Boerrigter, Griffiths.
Ambrose is a bombscare
Unless Mulgrew is playing at the back in a 352/1-1 Ambrose should be dropped
Efe looks out his depth again in Europe. His passing and positioning have put us on the back foot. Johansen hasn’t showed ANY composure. Stokes has to be in the middle ALL of the time there is no point in him doing his usual drifting out wide when we are playing with one ST. To be fair he has had a few balls hit over his head and poor supply. Gordon and the CBs have looked fairly solid and McGregor has been doing his best. There is AM gap to link up the edge of the box. Good change for Kayal and Commons. let's get our foot on the ball and chill the f##k out!
Rglen8…it shouldn't have been kayal it should have been the utterly inept and one paced mulgrew.
Utter pish everyone one of them bar Mcgregor, even if we bring in these 2 guys we still stuck with a pish poor defence, vvd will be off guarantee but **** him he no intention of wanting to stay, we left way a goalkeeper who is going have to be fitness tested day by day & the other one who to me is just happy to sit on the bench. Fair enough the manager has made big mistakes, but the board knew we had a second chance and still never brought in a striker, if we are desperate for this guy why the **** was he no signed before 1st leg, no way **** them.
27 Aug 2014 09:52:26
Is every celtic fan thinking we can just go out and spend 6/7 mil on players? If so they are off there nut! That team last night where nothing to right home about and celtic came up against the same old problem, no desire to win the game side to side and backwardes passing, no penatration or composure! At times we had 2/3 players running for the same ball like headles chix, jhohsnson is not good enough for a creative mid, and mulgrew/ stokes are not cl leave . 1 6/7 mil striker would have made no difference . We need some creative midfielders . players that can get the ball and make something happin and someone that will put the ball in the net . To leave a player that scored 30+ goals last season out of starting 11 was a bold move that unfortunately didn't pay off in my opinion?
It's embarrassing, knocked out twice and the blame lies with the board.
Full scale demo needed to show Mr Lawwell we won't see our club continually going backwards.
Stokes, ambrose and berget should never be allowed to pull on the hoops again. I'm hurting bad.
Bobo2009 you try say a half decent finisher wouldn't have took they chances in the first leg, everyone knows they know going to spend 6/7 mill and nobody said that, we had a second chance and the board have got to blamed the most in this situation
Chris30, I agree with what u say the board need to spend the money on quality players but my point is one 7mil striker is not going to make that Much of a difference when about 9 out of the 11 players last night should be no where near celtic football club . We need 4/5 quality players to make a difference and the boards won't spend that sort of cash . U still need to look at the players and the management, I am all for giving RD a chance but the selection and performances have been poor! Ambrose should have been droped for the man c boy, the boy on loan from Cardiff is rubbish and johanson works hard but has no quality . I was at the game and as for "the thunder" it was utter Pish flat poor poor game .!
Bobo2009 totally agree - ambrose wasn't even as good as pish last night and berget is a sad reminder of how crap we have become.
Last point, (still hurting) are we saying that pukki and balde are worse than stokes?
They must be horrendous as stokes was utter pish last night
Bobo2009 I agree we need more than a striker and agree with you about Ambrose, Johansen and Berget, I just feel a wee bit quality would have took the chances, iam just pissed off way the board & I know iam no the only one, sorry mate my previous post wasn't ment in a bad way to you.
{Ed007's Note - I was told he passed a fitness test earlier today, it's because of concerns over Gordon's fitness that we have spoke to Man Utd about Lindegaard.}