Callum McGregor at Ibrox. theRangers v Celtic,31 August 2025. Photo Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)
Callum McGregor theRangers v Celtic,31 August 2025. Photo Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)
CALMAC – 4/10 – Where our problems began and ended – with the skipper dithering around outside our box in injury time, beckoning for help while some reprobate Zombie pickpocketed him and nearly set up a calamitous finale; our match basically summed up in a grim few seconds. Isolated once more and clamped all game by some oddity cosplaying as a viking shield-maiden – ‘Transgaard’ or something… – Calmac re-lived his epic Kairat loneliness with scarcely a Hooped jersey around to help him out. And while this tactical abandonment is not of his making, I’m expecting one of his experience and influence to do more about it than toil fruitlessly and embattled throughout games he knows we can win out of sight. The most effective revolutions are led from within…
Arne Engels – theRangers v Celtic,31 August 2025. Photo Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)
THE TERMINATOR – 5/10 – Great, Arne’s in to partner-up with Calmac. Now we’ll see something…No we won’t because he’s twenty yards away, wide, rather than in there like conjoined twins giving short-ball options around the press. But I’ll give the kid this – he had that bug-eyed sewer rat Dildomandy on toast, giving as good as he got before being be-musingly hooked way too early.
Benjamin Nygren theRangers v Celtic, 31 August 2025. Photo Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)
NEGAN – 3.5/10 – Nah, much like Wednesday he was impotent when we needed a bit of craft or ingenuity. Spent the entire match looking for link-up play but failing to manage any; got to be more impactful and not so lightweight in the big games. Highlight of his day was the 93rd minute – how the hell did he make it that far still on the park?
Reo Hatate at Ibrox – theRangers v Celtic,31 August 2025. Photo Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)
HAKUNA HATATE – 3/10 – Jeez, Reo – another failed by tactical tweaks; not able to drift side to side seeking killer space as he appeared zoned left-ish of Calmac. More on that later. But when he was able to get on the ball or find the flow of the game he barely made a correct choice or useful contribution.
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Don’t know how you give anyone other Kasper over 4
Spot on. Feck the haters …
I don’t know how anyone can criticise Brendan the Elite’s tactics. It’s all the boards fault. He needs a more quality profile of player in there. One who can inject some speed and quality. And of course, has the ability to check their run, cut back, pass back to the quality we already have who will pass it across to more quality we already have who will then shift it slowly sideways then advance to the other side for another cut back and repeat.
There may or may not be some satire in the above. But definitely not the part about Brendan the Elite. Let me be the first to applaud our glorious tactician. A lesser man would have left greyskull with a defeat yesterday, but not Brendan the Elite who stifled the slick, well oiled, ball playing machine that Russel Martin has created on their home soil to ensure we left still 6 points ahead.
Calmac a shadow of former seasons.
The miles have caught up with the legs.
Time to rest him or replace him.
Hopefully I’m wrong.
We’ll discover after the break with the 2 games a week.
Hail Hail.
Have to agree with, pretty much, all of that, although the keeper’s distribution had me wailing, screaming and praying, it was dreadful.
Oh and a huge, huge thumbs up to Liam Scales, what a performance…thank goodness 🙏🏻
All problems with Celtic will right themselves when :- Rodgers , Kennedy and their bunch of ” Amateur – hangers-on” tell the players ” Right lads you’re supposed to be shooting into that goal ” and point to the opposing teams goal .
For about the last 12 games , Liam Scales has had the most touches and has been the man of the match . Jock Stein / Neil Mochan & Co . apparently fined Celtic players if they passed the ball back more than twice in Training Sessions . The same old formation again 4-3-3 from Rodgers , no matter who or where we are playing . Opposing teams swamp the mid-field and Celtic do not have the :- Skill , strength , speed or brains to vary their game .
The problems at Celtic will not be solved by signing a few more ” Journey-man” players . The sqad is full of ordinary players who are not what used to be called ,”Celtic class”. I think , Sandman that you are more than generous with your assessments —-Only :- Scales , Carter-Vickers , Ralston & Maeda deserve more than 2/10 . The rest were dreadful and could not even make an impact on the WORST Rangers team I have ever seen in my lifetime and i am approaching 80 years of age . I rest my case .
Love reading your synopsis but your ratings are way too high. We hung on against the most abysmal Hun team since John Grieg days. Zero shots on target first half two second half. An elite manager my arse