[Merged] The Football Thread 2005/2006 Season

[TheBlueRaja]

Well, this is it - the start of the new season - im just about to grab my scarf, my ticket and my jacket and head out to watch Falkirk V ICT and im like a little kid getting all exited at the prospect.

COME ON YE BAIRNS!!!

(P.s. if we get beaten - be gentle )

[Mal]

Originally Posted by TheBlueRaja

Well, this is it - the start of the new season - im just about to grab my scarf, my ticket and my jacket and head out to watch Falkirk V ICT and im like a little kid getting all exited at the prospect.

COME ON YE BAIRNS!!!

(P.s. if we get beaten - be gentle )

Oh, well

[marky]

We lost 1-0 against hull

[nffc]

2-2 with torquay after being 2-0 up

[TheBlueRaja]

Originally Posted by Mal

Oh, well

- You just couldnt let it lie could ya!

[ikthius]

A dismal display yesterday by the hoops.

they threw away 3-1 lead to come out 4-4.

I am not slating Gordon Stachan, but I am slating the defence. they should not even be allowed to play school boy football.



ik

[Chrysalis]

too early to judge strachan he doesnt have his own team yet and the squad are used to MON tactics, but MON is a hard act to follow you can expect his team to give 120% so any manager replacing him is going to struggle.

[ikthius]

Originally Posted by Chrysalis

too early to judge strachan he doesnt have his own team yet and the squad are used to MON tactics, but MON is a hard act to follow you can expect his team to give 120% so any manager replacing him is going to struggle.

A footballer should be able to play any tactics, that is why they are professional and get paid lots.

Strachan is a good manager, and I hope he can get the best out of Celtic



But Balde has not been playing football since he wanted to leave in january, he may have lost us the league because of it. time to let him go IMO.

Varga started out great but is flaging now, what is his problem, is it because martin has gone? Martin was great No doubt, but he was bought to play football for the club, not the man.

Mo Camara, does not even sit in defence although he is a left back! why? slow and is not got a good defensive eye. why did we buy him?

We need good solid defence to go any further in europe and dare I say it.... the league.

I am fine with the keepers, although I would have Marshall as second goalkeeper, and thte new Boruc dude as first pick.

a decent midfield, in Nakamura, Petrov, McGeady (although he is greedy, never plays an easy ball, and runs into trouble). let lennon go, he is a bit slow, good eye, but lacks essential pace. Thompson has lost it totally, a few nice crosses is all he has left.

we have enough strikers, but I hope strachan can find the perfect team here, wether it be Maloney + Hartson/ majiec (or whatever his name is) + aliadier (french boy) or even Maloney, Aliadier with sutton sitting just behind, who knows, we have good guys who can score.

My main problem is with footballers who get paid sh*t loads of money to play a sport most of us wish we could play better, but they don't seem to perform anymore. they are professional. they should be playing for their wages, not when it suits them. I would punish the ones responsible by placing thtem in the youth team until they understood that they are a team player and will play any tactic they are given, and play where they are placed (obviously they have better positions).

there is no I in team.

ik

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[TheBlueRaja]

Originally Posted by ikthius

A footballer should be able to play any tactics, that is why they are professional and get paid lots.

Strachan is a good manager, and I hope he can get the best out of Celtic



But Balde has not been playing football since he wanted to leave in january, he may have lost us the league because of it. time to let him go IMO.

Varga started out great but is flaging now, what is his problem, is it because martin has gone? Martin was great No doubt, but he was bought to play football for the club, not the man.

Mo Camara, does not even sit in defence although he is a left back! why? slow and is not got a good defensive eye. why did we buy him?

We need good solid defence to go any further in europe and dare I say it.... the league.

I am fine with the keepers, although I would have Marshall as second goalkeeper, and thte new Boruc dude as first pick.

a decent midfield, in Nakamura, Petrov, McGeady (although he is greedy, never plays an easy ball, and runs into trouble). let lennon go, he is a bit slow, good eye, but lacks essential pace. Thompson has lost it totally, a few nice crosses is all he has left.

we have enough strikers, but I hope strachan can find the perfect team here, wether it be Maloney + Hartson/ majiec (or whatever his name is) + aliadier (french boy) or even Maloney, Aliadier with sutton sitting just behind, who knows, we have good guys who can score.

My main problem is with footballers who get paid sh*t loads of money to play a sport most of us wish we could play better, but they don't seem to perform anymore. they are professional. they should be playing for their wages, not when it suits them. I would punish the ones responsible by placing thtem in the youth team until they understood that they are a team player and will play any tactic they are given, and play where they are placed (obviously they have better positions).

there is no I in team.

ik

You know - all i have heard this week in the press and on the radio is celtic fans phoning in and wingeing about how bad they are and how crap Strachans signing were etc etc, so its good to get a different outlook on it ikthius

Celtic are still coming together as a team, the performance midweek was a disaster i will agree, but Motherwell at the weekend was another story - they scored some fantastic goals that were not defensive mistakes, rather they were well crafted strikes.

For some Celtic fans to be banging on already about how Stachan should go and how the team is crap this year is quite frankly ludicrous and shows them up for the glory hunting idiots that most of them are.

Europe may be over for Celtic - but there another 37 games to go in the league.

[Raistlin]

Originally Posted by ikthius

there is no I in team.

ik

But if you look closely enough you'll find a me

[ikthius]

Originally Posted by TheBlueRaja

You know - all i have heard this week in the press and on the radio is celtic fans phoning in and wingeing about how bad they are and how crap Strachans signing were etc etc, so its good to get a different outlook on it ikthius

Celtic are still coming together as a team, the performance midweek was a disaster i will agree, but Motherwell at the weekend was another story - they scored some fantastic goals that were not defensive mistakes, rather they were well crafted strikes.

For some Celtic fans to be banging on already about how Stachan should go and how the team is crap this year is quite frankly ludicrous and shows them up for the glory hunting idiots that most of them are.

Europe may be over for Celtic - but there another 37 games to go in the league.

yes I can agree they were good goals, well one was, 3 of Motherwells goals should not have been allowed to happen, the one were the small forward beat 2 huge centre halfs!?!?!?!? something wrong there, they should have dealt with it properly.

I think celtics mentallity is that they are better then any team in scotland besides rangers, and the european minnows we played, we are not giving teams the respect they deserve.

the only player on the park on saturday that was wanting to play well and win was shaun maloney, he played his heart out. Petrov played well but not his best.

the usual players had a stinker apart from hartson, he did do justice and headered 2 and scored the penalty.

plus the players are not playing to the whistle, they look to the ref with puppy dog eyes and let the opposition play on, then we have a few players out of the game because they cannot beliee their luck at not getting the free kick/penalty.

Poor Falkirk didn't have a good scoreline, but how did they play?

I think your manager John Hughes, will have them playing better throughout the season.
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Originally Posted by Raistlin

But if you look closely enough you'll find a me

only an anagram

ik

[TheBlueRaja]

Originally Posted by ikthius

Poor Falkirk didn't have a good scoreline, but how did they play?

I think your manager John Hughes, will have them playing better throughout the season.

Really well actually - i left wondering what the hell went wrong to be honest. I think that Brewster got his tactics spot on - thinking we would come out and play how we did in the first, by holding onto the ball and trying to build up to an attack by passing the ball around liverpool style, which we did. Unfortunatly we rarely created any chances and Caley sat back and waited for us to make mistakes (becuase were not liverpool after all) and then took us on the counter attack.

We had about 60% of the possesion during the game but had very few shots, (i think the official stats were that we had 6 and they had 16 shots).

A good lesson for Hughes i think. Also, our young boy up from Duffy is a bit on the weak side, too easy to fall over, he's going to need to toughen up a bit.

We will definately improve though - im sure of that.

[ikthius]

I have still to see them in action this season.

ik

[Russ]

I hope the rumoured transfer of Owen to United goes through - it'll annoy the scousers no end and he'll be an excellent replacement for the past-his-best RVN.