SANDMAN’S DEFINITIVE RATINGS: CELTIC v SANFRANSEV…
“All you racists, fascists, nihilists and bigots
I’m callin’ you out,
I’ve felt your hurt, drank your fear
Your actions will not stand
Get on your knees, bend to pray
Look at me, you can change
You racists, fascists, nihilists and bigots
I’m callin’ you out.”– Paul Cauthen, “Everybody Walkin’ This Land”
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- Scotland’s Shame – Celtic Park after theRangers visit. Photo social media
THE FRIENDLY GHOST – 5/10 – Our friendly ghost looked haunted himself – maybe haunted by himself – as he began teeing up Zombie chances then pulling off top saves from them. Overall, though, he too appeared afflicted by the general lack of purpose and direction that cost us so dear, although he did avoid invoking the spectre of Ian Andrews and settled for just conceding the three.
SCHLUPP THE ‘RA – 5/10 – Ah, at last a weakness – Jeff can’t jump. Startlingly out-leapt by floating hobbit Ratskin for a nightmare start. Fluke? Nope – later bailed by Kasper after a similar failure from one of their corners. Almost made amends in the second-half resurgence with a rasping strike, but wasn’t the imposing strength we’ve seen in his appearances so far.
WAYNE GRETZKY – 2/10 – A calamitous day as the Marauding Moose transforms into the Disastrous Donkey. Probably AJ’s most ineffectual and negative performance of the season – seemed essentially detached mentally, at significant moments in the game. After a slog of a first 45 where he struggled to link with Kuhn effectively, the second brought his crucial errors to a climactic, costly nadir – slipping at a long ball, missing the recovery tackle that would have stopped the winner, then blowing a redemptive chance at the very death by smashing the roof off the Jock Stein with the roof of the net beckoning. A nightmare indeed.
GET CARTER – 5/10 – Dogged and ultimately undone by indecision. Was it due to his regular defensive partners being absent? Can’t say that because their replacement was excellent. But CCV’s unusual lack of commanding presence was illustrated at the depressing duck out of a long ball challenge and thus facilitate the winner; when in doubt clear it out.
Lost the battle, the war still there.
There aren’t enough sweary words in the dictionary to describe yesterday’s performance. Are you sure Idah was on the park.and not some ghostly doppelganger?
Idah has been rotten since he came here on loan. One tap in rebound to win the cup last year had the majority of our fans demanding the board spent the money on him. Hearts certainly ruled heads in that instance.
Brendan must see that for over 270 minutes of football against Sevco, they have pressed and hurried our players into calamitous mistakes, leading to two gutless defeats and a win on penalties. When will he make the required adjustments and start training with tempo. I’ve never seen so many passes from a Celtic team not find their target in the last two games against Sevco. All because our players don’t get the usual time on the ball they do in other games, they are hurried, get nervous and ping it to space, out of play or even to a blue shirt. It has to be addressed immediately.