Sandman’s Definitive Ratings – Celtic v Three-Card

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Reo Hatate arrives at Celtic Park

Reo Hatate arrives at Celtic Park ahead of the UEFA Europa League 2025/26 League Phase MD2 match between Celtic FC and SC Braga at Celtic Park on October 02, 2025. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)

HAKUNA HATATE – N/A – Liveliest Reo’s looked in a while. Unfortunately, he was a mhan alone.

JAMESY – N/A – Did you see how sparse the away section was? Because a thousand of the missing were hot Portuguese burds, and Jamesy kept them locked in his (quite spacious) sex dungeon until full-time. He did his bit.

SCRATCHY – 5.5/10 – Appeared at half-time, raised some eyebrows and raised spirits with his nifty interplay before being afflicted with the overall malaise.

Dane Murray

Dane Murray’s clearance is deflected past Kasper Schmeichel during the UEFA Europa League 2025/26 League Phase MD2 match between Celtic FC and SC Braga at Celtic Park on October 02, 2025. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)

GREAT – N/A – Strange choice to throw in a kid centre-half at right-back when you’re chasing a game. But who knows better than the elite manager? Bhoy was unlucky at their deflected-in second. Another who wasn’t the problem.

THE TERMINATOR – N/A – Just give us a single impactful performance beyond the peculiar phoning-in appearances of late.

Brendan Rodgers arrives at Celtic Park

Brendan Rodgers arrives at Celtic Park ahead of the UEFA Europa League 2025/26 League Phase MD2 match between Celtic FC and SC Braga at Celtic Park on October 02, 2025. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)

THE NOTAPRODDYGAL – 4/10 – Where do you start – with condolences at being on the end of that incredible incompetence? Or with critique over implementation of fresh players and the tactical nuances not quite tweaking properly, making you sound like that bloke who pontificates on long-established Celtic blogs yet never grasps the true root cause… Or just with blunt facts – that he’s coached the goals out of a squad that spent the last four years terrorising all of domesticity and many notable European big dawgs, and is presiding over another of his third-season fades into abject mundanity where neither he nor his players are able to find the motivation required to compete and prevail at higher levels. Yeah, we’ll go with the third conjecture this evening.

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About Author

The Celtic Star founder and editor David Faulds has edited numerous Celtic books over the past decade or so including several from Lisbon Lions, Willie Wallace, Tommy Gemmell and Jim Craig. Earliest Celtic memories include a win over East Fife at Celtic Park and the 4-1 League Cup loss to Partick Thistle as a 6 year old. Best game? Easy 4-2, 1979 when Ten Men Won the League. Email [email protected]

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  1. Try giving comments about the game and players, without silly feckin names and smart arsed comments,your normally bang on with article but don’t need crap

  2. Murray(22 not a kid) won’t make it – this was a characteristic goal-conceding mistake per game from him, e.g. A Villa last season, Queens Park when he didn’t play to whistle on touchline thinking ball had gone out of play.

    Prodgers could not identify a talented player if Lubo gave him a two-footed kick up the ass. Watch McArdle(18) shine at Partick where his manager will pick him not consign him to the scrapheap for outperforming the entire 1st team at Pittodrie last season.