13 Jul 2016 07:17:08
That was absolutely shocking. When Rodgers was appointed I said, in much stronger terms, that I thought it was a dreadful appointment. He lived off Suarez, IMO, and then squandered money right left and centre at Liverpool. His team selection last night was baffling: playing Griffiths wide right, playing Brown, Bitton and Rogic together made no sense to me against a team of that ilk, and leaving out Roberts and then compounding it by not even bringing him on left me flabbergasted. It was a horrendous performance, but I said to a fellow Celtic supporter that I hoped Rodgers would not attempt to put a positive spin on proceedings, as he always seemed to at Liverpool even after shocking resukts. I had not even contemplated a comment like "no embarrassment", and now, like many other fans, I am lost for words. I think Celtic will win the league at a canter, but I would have thought that even if they had kept Deila as manager. To hail Rodgers as some kind of Messiah is beyond me, and I do of course, hope that he gets things right, but my god he has a hell of a way to go to make up for this start. As someone has already said, the result has become part of our history and to say it is not embarrassing just makes the whole situation even more so.

1.) 13 Jul 2016
13 Jul 2016 07:50:24
Now I'm not defending last nights result. It was shocking. Simple as! But get a grip, it was Rodgers first competitive game on a rubbish pitch, in mental conditions. He's worked with the dross players for 3 weeks! at least now he'll know who he can trust and hopefully he realised efe can't be trusted and brown and bitton can't be played together.

2.) 13 Jul 2016
13 Jul 2016 08:10:17
Rodgers couldn't have said it was an embarrassment, the Lincoln players worked probably harder than ever to win last night, and although Celtic were awful it would be totally disrespectful towards the other team if he then said it was an embarrassment. It's fine for him to think it but he can't say it in an interview.

3.) 13 Jul 2016
13 Jul 2016 10:37:52
cmcbhoy - "get a grip"? Are you serious? It could easily have been 2-0 minutes after their goal when they missed by literally inches, and that was against a bunch of players who had worked during, whilst we had players out there on tens of thousands of pounds a week, and when outrage is opined you say to "get a grip"? Of what exactly? Or is that kind of result and performance acceptable to you? It certainly isn't to me! And neither is the ridiculous deployment of players such as Griffiths in unfamiliar positions!

4.) 13 Jul 2016
13 Jul 2016 10:58:22
Andymac. It's still just the first competitive game. And my get a grip was aimed at the skating of Rodgers.

5.) 13 Jul 2016
13 Jul 2016 11:13:57
I said that he - along with Owen Coyle - was giving me sleepless nights when being linked with the Celtic job - I don't think he has done anything at all to merit getting the job, far less in the wages he is on and I truly believe there were much better options. Just to be clear, I hope he succeeds and brings Celtic a plethora of trophies and makes inroads into Europe - I would LOVE to be proved wrong. However, it is my opinion that this was a really poor appointment, especially considering the wages and apparent budget that is suddenly available: I don't understand why Lennon and Deila were given such a comparatively tiny amount with which to work (if reports of £15 million are true, though it doesn't exactly look that way yet! ) . But I reckon that Dot Cotton could have dragged a better performance out of the team last night and I also maintain that putting a guy who has scored 40 goals the season before out on the right wing is an act of absolute idiocy. So I'm not very happy and seriously not impressed with Rodgers - and I don't think it would have been disrespectful to admit that the performance was an embarrassment, but I can see the point made by NT87, but to actually come out and say it was NOT an embarrassment, is embarrassing! He should have just side stepped it if his thinking was along those lines. I might have a bit of respect for him then.