Like most of you I don’t want to even think about Celtic today but my frustrations after yesterday’s performance have not wavered in the slightest and I couldn’t stop myself from writing this article to get it all of my chest.

I couldn’t even bring myself to think, yet alone read, about anything Celtic related after yesterday’s gut wrenching performance against Kilmarnock which leaves the door wide open for theRangers to go top of the league today. I’m pretty sure I’m not alone in that mindset so I doubt this article will be read by too many. It’s always a joy to read about Celtic when times are good but after a bad performance it almost feels like a punishment.

What we saw yesterday basically summed up our season. If this was a TV series we would have given up watching ages ago as the same storyline keeps repeating itself. Honestly, how many times have we watched that same type of performance this season? We looked dominant in the first half as usual but struggled to score. Then once we did score, instead of pushing for more we seem to regress and become nervy and fragile. It’s painful to watch.

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The first thing I said after Kilmarnock scored the equaliser is ‘we don’t deserve to win the league this year’, it was said out of pure frustration but I wholeheartedly stand by it. At one stage we held a seven points lead over our city rivals. A win today will see them take the lead in the title race. The most maddening thing about it is that we have already beat them twice this season. We are clearly the better team but we are chucking away points against the so called ‘smaller’ teams like confetti. The more we fluff our lines the more confidence and momentum gathers at Ibrox.

The whole mess is 100% of our own making.

Now I know this article will attract the ire of the happy clappers. The ones who say that articles like this somehow feed the toxicity surrounding the club. It doesn’t. What has fed the negativity amongst the fan base is the utter garbage we are witnessing week-on-week out there on the pitch. I would consider myself a fairly optimistic person but this current Celtic side would frustrate the life out of anyone. That old saying about insanity entailing doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results rings in my head every time I watch this Celtic team.

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I’m no tactician or professional football analyst. I’m sure there are plenty of people who will read this who know a great deal more about that side of football than I do but I have been watching football my whole life and it is plain to see the football we are producing under Brendan Rodgers just isn’t working.

It just seems like we constantly do the same thing. Our opponents must know this too. It’s so predictable. Work the ball slowly from the back, put it out the wing. If we get no joy there play it back to the defence who play it out the other wing, and so on and so on. The main problem with this is our wingers are totally ineffective.

The amount of time our wingers are in possession is unreal. Yet they do absolutely nothing with the ball. In the first half against Kilmarnock it seemed like the ball was constantly getting played to Palma on the left wing. The young Honduran seems to have so many qualities. He has a good first touch, he isn’t scared to take his man on, he’s quick, he has good feet. Yet his final ball is abysmal. So is his decision making. He gets in good positions time and time again yet wastes so many opportunities with either a terrible cross or by hesitating and not releasing his teammates at the correct time.

On the other wing we have Maeda who is a total conundrum. I see what he gives this Celtic team. He’s full of energy and chases lost causes all day long. His pressure both offensively and defensively is a huge benefit. He has great pace. His touch however is terrible. His passing and crossing not much better. Probably the reason why Japan prefer him in the striker role.

Palma was replaced at half time by Yang and Maeda later on by new signing Nicolas Kühn. Those two definitely weren’t upgrades. Yang, much like Palma who he replaced, has all the attributes but doesn’t make good decisions at the vital times. I think he definitely has potential but here and now unfortunately isn’t the time for him to go through his development stage.

Kühn is a player who I wrote about when we brought him in last month saying I was far from impressed by his signing. I was fair in my observation, not wanting to dismiss the player and hoping he would prove me wrong but I stated that I had grave misgivings that he would be an upgrade on what we already have. At lot of people weren’t happy with my views at the time but I have saw absolutely nothing from the German so far to change my opinion on him. Once again like many of the rest of our wingers he looks a player who’s decision making and final ball is severely lacking. It says a lot for all our wingers that the only good ball put in today was from Anthony Ralston our right back.

We have all heard over the years how Brendan Rodgers works wonders with wingers. He himself likes to boast about progressing Raheem Sterling’s career. We saw ourselves the impact Scotty Sinclair had when he came to the club during the managers first stint in charge. Well, if he truly is an ‘elite’ coach, he needs to start working his magic on our current crop of wingers, and quickly. Rodgers is, after all, on ‘elite’ coach money.

The way we currently play with everything going through the wings makes them hugely important to the outcome of each match. If they continue to misfire, as they did today, and for much of the season, then we are in serious trouble.

Conall McGinty