Celtic Banter Archive October 24 2020

24 Oct 2020 21:20:44
Lenny time to get back on track against the sheep let's get some steam going bit of life in the performance as no one is safe your all under a microscpe so c'mon the hoops heads up shoulders back in about it hail hail🍀🍀🍀.

24 Oct 2020 19:24:14
my team for tomorrow:

-- BARKAS --

FRIMPONG AJER DUFFY LAXALT


McGREGOR
CHRISTIE ELYONOUSSI

NTCHAM ROGIC


AJETI


thoughts?

24 Oct 2020 19:33:18
Christie RW
Elyo LW

Rogic and Ntcham ahead of McGregor
(I don't see why we need two holding midfielders tomorrow)

24 Oct 2020 19:37:06
Move moi to a front 3 and replace ntcham with Turnbull beside McGregor and Rogic. Play a 4-3-3.

24 Oct 2020 20:02:02
Shammy, are you having a laugh? Ntcham is a waste of a jersey! As is MOI!

24 Oct 2020 20:18:48
I thought Ntcham played very well the other night as did MOI when he was moved wide left.

{Ed007's Note - As did McGregor took over the Brown role as a deep-lying playmaker.}

24 Oct 2020 20:24:40
I would have Christie and Moi as the 2 behind Ajeti both as CAM while pushing out wide to offer some width. Other than that I'd start Turnbull over Ntcham but that's the formation I've hoped we would deploy seeing as we are short of future strikers.

24 Oct 2020 20:56:18
Me and mate were talking about

Ajeti up top
Rogic as a 10 in behind
Moi left
Christie right
McGregor and brown centre mids rotating defensive holding position

Ajer cb
Duffy cb
Frimpong rb
Lexalt lb

Barkas

The only issue was frimpomg as he ain't a right back but of Christie plays as a ACM . then we have no right sided midfielder and then you are back to a 3 again .

The other option is welsh at right back and drop Frimpong.

{Ed007's Note - Woah hold it - you've got a mate? There's hope for me yet I guess. 😉

24 Oct 2020 22:07:31
Just the 1 ed . I'll be your mate . allows me to double through.

{Ed007's Note - Subbuteo friends....

via GIPHY

25 Oct 2020 09:50:37
How did you get that video of me?

{Ed007's Note - Ryan Fraser sent me it.........

25 Oct 2020 09:51:49
Oh and ps . no more room. for subuteo friends. just me and ryan fraser in a wee box room . I'll send you some pics.

{Ed007's Note - 😁

24 Oct 2020 17:17:33
so, what players are NOT available tomorrow?
I have lost track of the cans and cannots.

24 Oct 2020 17:40:05
Edouard, Elhamed and Bitton due to C. V
Forrest ankle, Jullian back.
Too soon for Johnston after surgery.

24 Oct 2020 18:46:13
TinyTim
Although they are not fit for Aberdeen,
Edouard, Bitton and Johnston all trained today.

24 Oct 2020 19:07:28
Thanks BuzzBomb
And people are saying NL has lost it?
What he has lost, is half his team due to C.V. and injury.

24 Oct 2020 20:08:20
We have the biggest and best squad in the country and are still able to field a very strong side with a decent bench.
This isn't about two bad defeats at home.
The questions about unsettled players, dressing room bust-ups, tactics, formations, substitutions and poor performances started way before these injuries and forced absences.
The two consecutive games with Aberdeen give the manager and players a chance to jump-start the campaign and show a statement on intent?

24 Oct 2020 17:13:06
I have finally become a "modern man" and cast aside my male chauvinism (well as long as the female jockeys I back keep winning lol)
Last week it was Hollie Doyle who saved my bacon after paying out my ex bears and kept Mrs T from banishing me to shed lol
Today good old Briony Frost and even older mud loving horse Frodon kept me in profit
So have I just become an expert tipster overnight, NAH, my girls kept nagging me to place a bet on these female jockeys and I succumbed to their nagging, er listened to their sage advice, cough
Now only problem is they both want a share of my winnings groan.

24 Oct 2020 17:42:09
Nice one Tim. 👍.

25 Oct 2020 08:07:56
I had good old Frodon as well Tim, not often i touch the horses nowadays but a nice wee profit made up for a long weekend working lol.

Hail Hail

The Happy Turnkey.

24 Oct 2020 13:28:55
My team for tomorrow would be

Barkas / Bain no preference

Ralston Ajer Duffy Taylor Proper full back staying deep and narrow

Frimpong CalMac Christie Laxalt
push the wide men forward and play long

Ajieti and Griffiths up top.

24 Oct 2020 13:42:44
Ralston? On what basis?

Frimpong hasn't earned a place in team on recent performances. For me Soro deserves a chance with Turnbull. So midfield 4 of
Christie, calmac soro and Turnbull. Soro sitting deep and the other 3 given free reign. Energy and goals in them, unlike playing with Brown and Calmac sitting and Ntcham doing nothing.

24 Oct 2020 13:58:46
I would play a 4-1-4-1 formation
Barkas
Frimpong. Duffy. Ajer. Laxalt
McGregor
Christie. Rogic. Turnbull. Elyounoussi
Ajeti
We need to stay clear of playing 4th choice right backs,6th choice CB and 5th choice striker ( Elyounoussi)

24 Oct 2020 14:59:43
Seen Ralston's name mentioned a few times recently. Lad is nowhere near good enough for our squad never mind the 1st 11. Personally go with a 433 with pace to hit them fast on the counter.

Barkas

Ajer
Welsh
Duffy
Taylor

Brown
McGregor
Christie

Laxalt
Frimpong

Griffiths.

24 Oct 2020 15:56:40
Buzz bomb . loving that ream

Albeit when all fit . elhamed for frimpomg

Eddy for ajeti.

24 Oct 2020 15:58:51
Interesting big bubs

Aberdeen are physical and so I expect to see brown and Ajer and walsh and so that would work

Ajer also scored from RBS a wee while ago up there

This could work as middle 2 CBs only need to be CBs . no fuss.

24 Oct 2020 16:36:03
Soro might be pish and that's why he's not playing? Away to the sheep in our present run of form isn't an ideal time/ game for finding out ifsomebody is good bad or indifferent.

24 Oct 2020 17:07:02
I think Lenny is that stubborn about that formation Buzz as that was the formation Brendan used after that half season Lenny came in he started to change the formation and IMO we started to gradually get worse and worse as the time went on.

24 Oct 2020 17:10:27
And I agree about Elyounoussi far better wide not a striker but a good player wide but Lenny has him as striker when we have some on the bench.

24 Oct 2020 12:04:12
St. Mirren’s last league game was on October 2nd and they won't play another league game until November 6th.
The SFA picked a good weekend for our Semi Final because I think the St. Mirren game would’ve been cancelled.

24 Oct 2020 09:49:12
To play a 3 at the back your cbs have to be excellent on the ball and have ours don't. your wbs have to be good going forward and able to defend frimpong is neither and Diego looks the part. uf your constantly giving the ball away and Duffy is the main culprit then it won't work. get back to a 4 a solid midfield and get a settled strike force time to step up Celtic or forget the 10.

24 Oct 2020 00:10:46
Hopefully Lenny is now going to go back to the 4231/ 433 that has served us so well the past 5 seasons.

The worry for me is that we signed players to fit into a 352 e. g. Duffy Ajeti etc. If we play a 4231 he needa to try and get 4 strikers happy, tough ask. I was thinking since we are short on wingers he might play eddy on the left and moi on the right with ajeti up front. Going to be interesting to see how it pans out.

Any update on when Forrest and Johnstone are back. They are our only other wingers.

24 Oct 2020 01:41:09
Need to go back to a 4 until team start to play with confidence, start to get the basics right. then switch between formations depending on opposition.

24 Oct 2020 03:22:51
Mickey Johnstone is back full training not sure about the flasher . Once wee get a full squad it will start clicking. Let start By kicking it into gear Sunday and I think wee will. Forrest has been massively missed no doubt .

24 Oct 2020 05:56:36
A midfield 3 of Christie McGregor and Rogic Thoughts?

24 Oct 2020 09:47:34
Well duff and Phelps the impact it had against Milan was clear to see. The tempo increased big time and we looked much smoother. The ball and players moved quicker as a result too allowing us put them under pressure and create chances. Something we have not done for a while. Surely Lennon has to see that too.

24 Oct 2020 11:29:25
Duff and phelps was it necessary to mention James Forrest as the flasher, way below the belt in my opinion .

24 Oct 2020 12:33:09
Aw liven up killy he feel steaming drunk with his tackle in his hand happens to the best of us Jeezo man Done it a few times am my way to the game 😂😂😂😂.

{Ed007's Note - There was no need to call him "wee will." though.}

24 Oct 2020 12:39:39
Ed 😂😂 just feel with the carry on in the world just now people are takin stuff far too seriously . Sorry if I offended anybody .

{Ed007's Note - It didn't bother me mate.}