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comment by HB Fash (U21935)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by Timmy (U14278)
posted 6 minutes ago
As soon as they gave the job to barry ferguson you just knew their would be trouble. Rangers would be wrong to give him the job full time considering the trouble he causes.
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Trouble for you lot, because he gave you that most of his career but I have to give him credit for the unexpectedly good tactical performance.

Barry instructed Dessers drop into midfield and mark Hatate and Engels at different times.

Sterling to get tight to Maeda and the police to press the Green brigade high.
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Don’t have much time for Ferguson but undoubtedly he’s changed the mindset in that squad and put a bit of fire into their bellies.

That’s all he was asked to do and he’s done it. It now depends upon him to continue this because aside from yesterday his results have been poor.

comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 26 minutes ago
comment by HB Fash (U21935)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by Timmy (U14278)
posted 6 minutes ago
As soon as they gave the job to barry ferguson you just knew their would be trouble. Rangers would be wrong to give him the job full time considering the trouble he causes.
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Trouble for you lot, because he gave you that most of his career but I have to give him credit for the unexpectedly good tactical performance.

Barry instructed Dessers drop into midfield and mark Hatate and Engels at different times.

Sterling to get tight to Maeda and the police to press the Green brigade high.
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Don’t have much time for Ferguson but undoubtedly he’s changed the mindset in that squad and put a bit of fire into their bellies.

That’s all he was asked to do and he’s done it. It now depends upon him to continue this because aside from yesterday his results have been poor.
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Played 5.

Beat Kilmarnock away.
Lost to Motherwell at home.
Beat Fenerbahce over 2 legs.
Beat Celtic at Parkhead.

Hardly poor, Motherwell obviously far from ideal but other than that he's done very well.

He's got a reaction out of them, squad look to have more desire. He's pleasantly surprised us with the tactical tweaking. The issue with this group of players does remain they schit the bed in run of the mill matches and aren't suited to playing teams that sit in and are well organised.

I don't think he can get the job full time unless he wins the Europa which realistically doesn't seem feasible. His stock his rising though, not sure he's ersed for being a manager unless it's Rangers manager though but hopefully we can part ways with him having shown these players what it's about to play for Rangers and him having enjoyed doing the job he dreamed of and leave himself as the undoubted first pick if we require an interim again.

Who knows this might be the spark he needs to get back in elsewhere and prove he's got what it takes to be the full time Rangers manager. A long road to travel that though.

Surely you give him the job fulltime now?

The Fenerbahce home game was a poor result but yes, looking at the whole picture it’s not as bad as I first thought.

Just don’t think Rangers will offer him the full time gig but instead thank him for his input and time and he’ll leave an even bigger hero after the Europa run and yesterday. Also think he’ll beat us at yours now.

He’s instilled a great deal of hope for next season so Rangers should learn from our debacle with Lennon and shake his hand.

Barry's got the new manager bounce. It'll be interesting to see if he can maintain that level of performance.

comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted about an hour ago
The Fenerbahce home game was a poor result but yes, looking at the whole picture it’s not as bad as I first thought.

Just don’t think Rangers will offer him the full time gig but instead thank him for his input and time and he’ll leave an even bigger hero after the Europa run and yesterday. Also think he’ll beat us at yours now.

He’s instilled a great deal of hope for next season so Rangers should learn from our debacle with Lennon and shake his hand.
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Agreed.

The smart move will to part ways, hopefully him with an enhanced reputation and us an improved team which seems to be the current trajectory but we need to go down the route of getting someone with a better c.v. for the longer term.

Rangers played well and again deserved the win. should this performance happen again in the next derby then questions will need to be asked of the manager - title winning or not - simply not good enough to perform like this.

Complaceny. They thought they just had to turn up, and the fans can be included in that as well.

So after 24 hours full of the usual knee jerk reactions the facts are this

1.we were our own worst enemy yesterday in that Rangers did not at any time playe scintillating football and tear us apart they simply pounced on our numerous defensive mistakes .

2. We played them off the park 2nd half and they scored with thier only shot on target in that half. Other than that fine strike they had one other attack of note which fortunately fell to Dessers then Barron

3. Brendan is not to blame fir the lame performances of Kasoer,AJ CCV engels and Khun the players themselves are to blame !

4. Had the game finished level at 2-2 instead of the combined brain fart from CCV and AJ which led to the
winning goal then nobody woukd be talking about it.

5.This pash about Rangers being the better team and deserving the win due to the wonderful tactical genius of Bazbaw is simply that ie pash

6 This Celtic team started the season superbly and pulled away from everyone but its true to say that things have dropped of since the turn of the year as concentration levels have lapsed due to the very comfortable position they find themselves in

comment by Wolf Blitzer (U21900)
posted 1 hour, 30 minutes ago
Barry's got the new manager bounce. It'll be interesting to see if he can maintain that level of performance.
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New manager bouncey, surely?

comment by Wolf Blitzer (U21900)
posted 1 hour, 37 minutes ago
Barry's got the new manager bounce. It'll be interesting to see if he can maintain that level of performance.
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New club bounce, surely?

comment by ritchiebhoy (U10107)
posted 10 minutes ago
So after 24 hours full of the usual knee jerk reactions the facts are this

1.we were our own worst enemy yesterday in that Rangers did not at any time playe scintillating football and tear us apart they simply pounced on our numerous defensive mistakes .

2. We played them off the park 2nd half and they scored with thier only shot on target in that half. Other than that fine strike they had one other attack of note which fortunately fell to Dessers then Barron

3. Brendan is not to blame fir the lame performances of Kasoer,AJ CCV engels and Khun the players themselves are to blame !

4. Had the game finished level at 2-2 instead of the combined brain fart from CCV and AJ which led to the
winning goal then nobody woukd be talking about it.

5.This pash about Rangers being the better team and deserving the win due to the wonderful tactical genius of Bazbaw is simply that ie pash

6 This Celtic team started the season superbly and pulled away from everyone but its true to say that things have dropped of since the turn of the year as concentration levels have lapsed due to the very comfortable position they find themselves in

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Agree with a lot of that, but I’d say Bazza got the “tactics” right by purely repeating what had worked in the previous OF at Ibrox, and to an extent in the LC Final … Press us high, play with intensity, and capitalise on the inevitable mistakes when we pash the bed. Not rocket science, and nothing that hasn’t been clearly seen to work multiple times before. We’ve been getting “outfought” in these types of games for a good while now, and we don’t seem to be learning … not that we have the personnel to play a more physical game anyway.

After the previous humping at Ibrox I thought we’d be fired up this time right from the get go. Instead we got an abysmal first half of football. Said yesterday it’s understandable if performance levels drop off with the league done, but absolutely not in an OF game. We’ve got used to phoning it in for a while now though, and are maybe finding out it’s harder to turn it back on for a full game when you get used to playing for the odd half hour every week.

comment by ritchiebhoy (U10107)
posted 39 minutes ago
So after 24 hours full of the usual knee jerk reactions the facts are this

1.we were our own worst enemy yesterday in that Rangers did not at any time playe scintillating football and tear us apart they simply pounced on our numerous defensive mistakes .

2. We played them off the park 2nd half and they scored with thier only shot on target in that half. Other than that fine strike they had one other attack of note which fortunately fell to Dessers then Barron

3. Brendan is not to blame fir the lame performances of Kasoer,AJ CCV engels and Khun the players themselves are to blame !

4. Had the game finished level at 2-2 instead of the combined brain fart from CCV and AJ which led to the
winning goal then nobody woukd be talking about it.

5.This pash about Rangers being the better team and deserving the win due to the wonderful tactical genius of Bazbaw is simply that ie pash

6 This Celtic team started the season superbly and pulled away from everyone but its true to say that things have dropped of since the turn of the year as concentration levels have lapsed due to the very comfortable position they find themselves in

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Yaaaaasssss

comment by Dave The Jackal (U22179)
posted 11 minutes ago
comment by ritchiebhoy (U10107)
posted 10 minutes ago
So after 24 hours full of the usual knee jerk reactions the facts are this

1.we were our own worst enemy yesterday in that Rangers did not at any time playe scintillating football and tear us apart they simply pounced on our numerous defensive mistakes .

2. We played them off the park 2nd half and they scored with thier only shot on target in that half. Other than that fine strike they had one other attack of note which fortunately fell to Dessers then Barron

3. Brendan is not to blame fir the lame performances of Kasoer,AJ CCV engels and Khun the players themselves are to blame !

4. Had the game finished level at 2-2 instead of the combined brain fart from CCV and AJ which led to the
winning goal then nobody woukd be talking about it.

5.This pash about Rangers being the better team and deserving the win due to the wonderful tactical genius of Bazbaw is simply that ie pash

6 This Celtic team started the season superbly and pulled away from everyone but its true to say that things have dropped of since the turn of the year as concentration levels have lapsed due to the very comfortable position they find themselves in

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Agree with a lot of that, but I’d say Bazza got the “tactics” right by purely repeating what had worked in the previous OF at Ibrox, and to an extent in the LC Final … Press us high, play with intensity, and capitalise on the inevitable mistakes when we pash the bed. Not rocket science, and nothing that hasn’t been clearly seen to work multiple times before. We’ve been getting “outfought” in these types of games for a good while now, and we don’t seem to be learning … not that we have the personnel to play a more physical game anyway.

After the previous humping at Ibrox I thought we’d be fired up this time right from the get go. Instead we got an abysmal first half of football. Said yesterday it’s understandable if performance levels drop off with the league done, but absolutely not in an OF game. We’ve got used to phoning it in for a while now though, and are maybe finding out it’s harder to turn it back on for a full game when you get used to playing for the odd half hour every week.
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Totally agree that it can't be easy to switch on a performance after going through the motions for a
while now, there is also the fact that this season there has been no winter break and its been 3 games a week for months now so no real surprise standards have dropped given the position we are in players are only human and not machines .If tha board had done more to get new signings in to freshen things in Jan it may have helped ? This for years has been the part if the season where we've really kicked on but with no break the team look jaded .

It's a dead rubber. I don't blame the players for not bothering their erse. Do any of you still get excited about pumping the same missus year after year? Of course you don't.

The only way real way for Celtic - for any of us, in fact - to reignite that excitement is to watch each other training, swap players from team to team, coach each other's squads for a bit.

Cathkin Braes carpark. 9pm on Thursdays.

Aye must be really hard to turn on effort and performance when you are a gifted footballer getting paid $40k a week. Poor wee lambs

We are on for another treble.

Rangers winning a couple of old firm games doesnt change that.

I thought nawroski was decent btw

comment by I'm not as think as you drunk I am.......Schizophrenia was my idea!.....No it wasn't!.....You are never alone with a Schizo :D (U2115)
posted 23 seconds ago
Aye must be really hard to turn on effort and performance when you are a gifted footballer getting paid $40k a week. Poor wee lambs
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Actually, all the more reason because they know if the worst came to the worst they'd get by on half that and still have lots over.

comment by JFK - Super Nintendo Chalmers (U8919)
posted 1 minute ago
We are on for another treble.

Rangers winning a couple of old firm games doesnt change that.
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comment by JFK - Super Nintendo Chalmers (U8919)
posted 1 minute ago
I thought nawrocki was decent btw
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Aye, he was, especially given he's barely kicked a baw all season ... or ever?

comment by JFK - Super Nintendo Chalmers (U8919)
posted 10 minutes ago
I thought nawroski was decent btw
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You're not wrong he was good in fact the whole team were pretty good, actually astonishingly brilliant I'd say

comment by Silver (U6112)
posted 9 minutes ago
comment by JFK - Super Nintendo Chalmers (U8919)
posted 1 minute ago
We are on for another treble.

Rangers winning a couple of old firm games doesnt change that.
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