Riga FC v Celtic - Europa League, Thursday 24 Sept - all comments here (kick-off 6pm Celtic Park Time)

So by practicing for big games coming up he jeopardized getting positive results against footballing giants such as Riga, Livi, St Mirren, Dundee Utd and Killie! 🤯
But we won 4 and drew one of those. He only changed against Livi and continued tonight. Prior to that he was 4-2-3-1 or a weird version of 3-5-2 against County and St Mirren as he shoe horned a hybrid.
The early games I think he felt he didn't have the personnel to get Calmac forward and Ntcham in the team, Ajeti and Duffy might give him scope. One thing is clear he only trusts two strikers and as a result he's scared to play them both without cover, hence trying Christie.
And he hasn't overly gambled at domestic level, we've only dropped two points, but he messed up against Ferencvaros by thinking you can play without a striker (he underestimated them for sure), he'll blame injuries but he was scared to lose Ajeti when Eddy was already injured and it was evidence of a lack of trust in Klimala at that level.
It's not clicking just yet and while that's the case he's being a pragmatist. Just find a way of ekeing out wins until he can settle a team.
Not saying I like it but I think that's what he's doing. Personally I think the problem he has is Brown. We're slow on the counter and ponderous covering the defence and the bookings in what 5 or six games so far show that's the elephant in the room
 
Don't think Eddy is very fit and he's been easily marked out of the game as well, maybe he's too one dimensional.
Not so much as he's no fit as he can't be fkn arsed. If he put in half the effort of a fit griff hed be scoring 40 goals a season instead of 20 odd .cunts a genius but like all geniuses is seriously flawed. Just put the fkn effort in till you get your move FFS HH
 
I've never really seen Eddy as a natural striker, Shammy. I always liked him drifting in off the left and running at pace past defenders.
Think that's what Brendan wanted, just let him go where he wants, turn and face defenders with a 9 in front of him. Think Strachan was trying to say just that when he called him a 10 rather than 9 and fell out with hartson. He drifts left naturally and now we have Ajeti we can let him and encourage him to go right too. Just give him freedom and he might start smiling again...and stay
 
Think that's what Brendan wanted, just let him go where he wants, turn and face defenders with a 9 in front of him. Think Strachan was trying to say just that when he called him a 10 rather than 9 and fell out with hartson. He drifts left naturally and now we have Ajeti we can let him and encourage him to go right too. Just give him freedom and he might start smiling again...and stay
Keep him the fuck away fae the docs post 😂😂
 
A wins a win take it move on, believe me we will improve, we haven't clicked yet but when we do God help the rest of the Scottish teams,11 TROPHIES OUT OF 11, 1point behind with a game in hand and we've not kicked a ball yet, this the greatest and most successful time in our history and every cunts moaning cos we are winning ugly!!! Ffs
Every game a pool a win I win ugly .. I’ll get ma coat 🧥
 
A wins a win take it move on, believe me we will improve, we haven't clicked yet but when we do God help the rest of the Scottish teams,11 TROPHIES OUT OF 11, 1point behind with a game in hand and we've not kicked a ball yet, this the greatest and most successful time in our history and every cunts moaning cos we are winning ugly!!! Ffs
Hahahahahaha but there's ugly then there's fucking gruesome, McG.

I'm partial to a bit of ugly (I've got the ex wives to prove it), but I draw the line at fucking gruesome!
 
I only saw the second half and it was like so many matches at Celtic Park. We have most of the possession and the defence is packed. I was fully expecting extra time and feared that one mistake at the back would allow them to score. Frimpong was fantastic and if we had a faster full back on the other side we would create more opportunities.
 
Well I wisnae thinking that until you said it!!! :eek::LOL:

Difference is that mob won't park the bus they will come out and play so we'll probably score a few but we'll probably ship a few as well because while they're not that great a side they still have enough about them to cause this 3 at the back all sorts of problems.

The warning signs have been there in every game we've played so far and most of those have been against what we'd usually consider the limited smaller teams, whether we like to admit it or not that mob will pose more of a challenge than they have.

Talent wise we should be able to wipe the floor with that mob but right now the talent is struggling to shine through because we're not deploying that talent in the right way.
Agree but we haven't found that way. The Huns have us sussed with a 4-2-3-1 and we're looking uninspiring in a - what is- 3-6-1. He's not looking at games he's looking at a season. If we do stifle them and don't lose, will we win more than them against the rest? Lenny probably thinks our strength in depth will win over the piece and the 10 is a war of attrition.
 
A wins a win take it move on, believe me we will improve, we haven't clicked yet but when we do God help the rest of the Scottish teams,11 TROPHIES OUT OF 11, 1point behind with a game in hand and we've not kicked a ball yet, this the greatest and most successful time in our history and every cunts moaning cos we are winning ugly!!! Ffs
Wasn't just because we won ugly because we should defo be a more settled side by now and tonight was a dreadfully uninspired performance. We're all just praying it doesn't continue in the same vein or we'll be toast.
 
Agree but we haven't found that way. The Huns have us sussed with a 4-2-3-1 and we're looking uninspiring in a - what is- 3-6-1. He's not looking at games he's looking at a season. If we do stifle them and don't lose, will we win more than them against the rest? Lenny probably thinks our strength in depth will win over the piece and the 10 is a war of attrition.
I believe that, Niall. I think that Lenny feels even a 5-7 share of the points in their favour still wins us the league over the course of a season.

I'm fine with him not being overly obsessed by that mob, but those games still mean plenty enough to us.
 
I believe that, Niall. I think that Lenny feels even a 5-7 share of the points in their favour still wins us the league over the course of a season.

I'm fine with him not being overly obsessed by that mob, but those games still mean plenty enough to us.
It’s a valid point but we play the way we’re playin the noo we will be dropping points left right and centre
 
Obviously you do not understand what the word TRY means. I enclose a portion of a textbook that I have written on the way to cure anxiety.



You may have spent a very long time in the past trying to slow your breathing; trying to be positive; trying to calm down and trying to relax.



You will always fail to relax if you have such thoughts. The reason for this common failure is a simple language linguistic trap. Essentially the word TRY does not mean what you have always thought it means even throughout all your life you have probably tried your best.



What exactly does the word TRY mean?



TRY is a very common word in the English language. You may have always thought of TRY as a very positive word. All your life you have been told to try. You have been told to try hard, to keep trying – to try and try again until you succeed.



All though our early years I feel sure that you were told to TRY your best. TRY to do well and TRY to get good results. TRY to get a good job. TRY to find a partner. TRY to have a family. TRY to have a happy life. You may have been told that if you do not TRY then you will not and cannot possibly succeed. That if you do not TRY then you will fail.



It will probably come as a surprise to learn that the subconscious mind always recognises the word TRY as being a negative word. To the subconscious mind, ‘TRY’ means ‘fail’ or at least the possibility of failing.



I would go as far as to state that the three letter word TRY is the single greatest sabotaging word in the entire English language. Nor is it confined to the English language: ‘TRY’ has an equivalent word in every other language on the planet.



Well how and when did you subconsciously learn this? When you were just two years of age you were a bit like a language sponge. You were listening to the people speaking around you and you were learning approximately 10 new words each day. So in the space of just one calendar year you therefore learned more than 3500 new words.



This was a time of your life of very rapid language acquisition. as long as you were regularly exposed to hearing language. Any parent of a three-year-old knows that that child can talk for several hours if given a chance. They already have an extensive vocabulary.

You can have a far better and longer conversation with a child of this age than you possibly can with a two-year-old.



Let us imagine for a moment that you are a two-year-old whose name is Mary. You are in the kitchen and your mummy drops a plate.



Mummy then exclaims,



‘Oh, Mary, I dropped the good plate and it smashed.”



The first thing that you hear is the word MARY. You know that this is your name. Everyone calls you Mary. No one else in your family is called Mary. Not your sisters and certainly not your brother. You are the only person called Mary who is in the room.



‘The good plate’ simply uses three very common and everyday words that you already know as a big girl of two, having heard these three common words hundreds of times before.



Next you notice she uses the word DROPPED, a completely new word for you. You might never have heard it before.



You have certainly heard your mother say the word FELL, and you can clearly see that DROPPED and FELL look to be exactly the same thing. The word DROPPED must therefore be just a fancy word for FELL. These words are synonyms – words that mean the same thing. You might even learn the word ‘synonym’ perhaps 10 or 15 years later.



From that moment on you can now choose to say that your doll fell or that your doll dropped. In your mind the two words become ‘the same as’ or interchangeable. You have now added a new word to your vocabulary.



The next words ‘and it’ are just two simple joining words. You already know these common words.



But the next word SMASHED is a brand new word for you. You have never heard it before. This is hardly surprising because we do not give two-year-olds smashable toys or smashable objects.



The word SMASHED is spectacular. It is associated with a loud noise and many shards of plate flying all across the floor. SMASHED also happens to be an onomatopoeic word: This means that it is one of those special words that sound like what they do. Young children really love the sound of many onomatopoeic words and will often seek to memorise the word by taking in a long in-drawing of breath then repeating the word …...five times. Like this.

(I then take a really deep and long breath in and then point at the ground and say in a childish voice “Smashed, smashed, look Mummy smashed, bad smashed, oh smashed.)



A week later your Mummy drops another plate. This time she says ‘Oh, Mary, I dropped the good plate. I tried to catch it but it smashed.’

Interestingly she says this new clause, 'I tried to catch it', in a slightly different tone of voice from the other words in the sentence. She says this clause with a slight rising inflection in her voice.



I then demonstrate the rising inflection. ‘Oh, Mary, I dropped the good plate, I TRIED TO CATCH IT, but it smashed.



The same rising lilt is in her voice occurs when she tells you about something good: I’ll take you to the circus; I’ll buy you an ice cream; let’s go for a picnic; you can have a lolly…..



We use a rising inflection for good things and a lowering inflection of voice for bad things quite automatically.



(I then say in a lowered inflection, you need to go to the dentist, ….....and get a little injection, ………and eat all your broccoli.)



Your mother by using a rising inflection is instinctively telling you that in her mind she did a good thing. She made a valiant effort to catch the plate. She did not simply just let it fall, but did her very best to catch it and to stop it smashing. She is implicitly explaining that she should therefore not be criticised. She is justifying the broken plate and appealing to your sense of fairness quite automatically so as not to be blamed for the broken plate.



Your ears and conscious mind instantly hears the rising inflection and thus ‘good’ sound of the words “I tried to catch it’. Apparently ‘tried’ is therefore another example of a good thing.



But your eyes instantly see the picture of the failure to catch and the resulting smashed plate. The picture you then subconsciously associated with hearing ‘tried’ is one of failure to catch, and thus a picture of a smashed plate with spectacular sounds and shards of china all over the floor. Tried become linked to the image of failure.



This is reinforced one week later when she drops yet another plate but this time she reaches out and catches it and it does not smash.



She then exclaims



“Oh, Mary, I dropped the good plate but I caught it.”



When we are successful we never say that we tried. We go straight to the verb and we say that we did.



We use the words TRY, TRYING or TRIED, depending on past, present or future tense, for times of failure or the possibility of failure.



Before you reach the age of five you will have heard your parents say TRY, TRYING or TRIED more than 1,000 times always meaning failure. When there was success you never heard them use these words.



By the time you leave primary school you will probably be exposed to the word TRY more than 10,000 times. TRY will always have the connotation of failure within your subconscious.



(I now involve the patient)



Tell me, what does this mean? “The woman went to the shop and tried to buy some bread.”



(They usually answer - She was unable to buy it or failed.)



And what does this mean? “The woman went to the shop and bought some bread.”



(They usually smile and say – She was successful!)



What does this mean?

“The player tried to score the goal.”



(He did not.)



“The player scored the goal.”



(He did.)



(This involvement of the patient lets them personally confirm how negative the word TRY is.)



I then point out that TRY also has a lot of linguistic cousins that essentially all mean the same thing.



Similar words are ATTEMPT, STRIVE, ENDEAVOUR, GIVE IT A GO, and DO YOUR BEST all essentially mean the same thing - fail.

Im sorry but you're talking simplistic bollocks. None of those words mean fail. Not one of them. I think its reflective of American psycho babble culture to pidgeon hole complex issues into motivational bullshit. The we can do anything if we believe, total shit. Im sorry, but we are better educated over here and that simplicity reduction of complex situations to get all positive, is a major weakness in your whole culture. Endeavour doesnt mean fail. It means to endevour, to persist, to never give up. It is like all your American business books, everything is s\7 steps, or Think your way to success, as if having a mind set is the only variable that determines success. They say we are divided by a shared language, we re also divided by not buying snake oil salesman with intellectualy shallow hypothesis.
 
You are right. Christie is much better coming in later on a delayed run. Eddy is better pkaying off someone. We are far too static and congested. I've said it before but it should be pass and move, pass and move instead of passing to a player standing still or backwards/sideways.

We dominate possession in so many games but it is sterile and far too passive. When you have so much possession your opponents should be knackered chasing shadows but ours are comfortable as they shuffle from side to side in their own box without too much concern.

The only time they break sweat is when they breakaway at speed and in numbers against our isolated centre backs with a hopeful punt up the pitch.

100% spot on BB (y)
 

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