SANDMAN’S DEFINITIVE RATINGS: CELTIC @ LESSER HADES…
“Rather fail with honour than succeed by fraud” – Sophocles
THE FRIENDLY GHOST – 8/10 MOTM – “He’s fat, he’s round, he’s worth a million pound…” Or maybe tens of millions if we get the season over the line and into the Champions League. Pips Liam for MOTM due to his instinctive brilliance, saving two certainties to The Ginger Baresi’s one. Still won’t be enough to quell the haters, and their petted lips will be fluttering with angst as they realise but for the Schmeichel family’s finest goalkeeper we’d be out of Europe and out of a title race.
KATIE – 5/10 – Doubt KT would have started if we had a single fit left-back available to give him a breather. As it was, he coped manfully, obviously uncomfortable, being out-jumped and out-muscled for their equaliser. Thursday killed him for yesterday.
AZTECO – 5.5/10 – Game enough, and was in a right tussle with their most potent attacking player. Got overwhelmed at times due to lack of proper cover, outnumbered when it should have been the other way about. But, like KT, he coped, though unable to offer any attacking option.
OF JUSTICE – 7.5/10 – When the chips are down, he’s delivering. And there was plenty salt ‘n’ sauce on them yesterday to sour the palate. Manful resistance through the ten-man siege, stunner of a goal-saver at 1-1, looking the most assured outfielder and defying all detractors by holding Celtic together when other’s heads had gone. Yet again, thanks be to Liam…
CRUSTY THE CLOWN – 4/10 – The hero of exotic spaghetti Bolognese becomes the villain of domestic macaroni, narrowly escaping catastrophe as he worked himself into a fusilli, gifting chances and ending
up penne-alised by the corrupt MIB’s for a scurrilous red after an innocuous but clumsy intervention. After the delicious heights of Thursday, what the fetuccine was that, big ghuy?
If Celtic manage to win the league it will be with the weakest title winning squad in my memory.
As an adult I have been a supporter for 60+years.
Cal Mac is no longer able to dictate midfield and has no support.
MON and coaching staff working wonders with what they have.
As for the match officials it has been ever thus.
Hail Hail.
Similar to you JOHNG —I have been actively supporting Celtic for 71 years . A poor team and the decline could be seen coming for the last two seasons under BR . Journeyman players , brought-in just to keep ahead of the Ibrox Ploughboys and it has backfired on the whole club . This policy was further exasperated by the engagement of :- Paul Tisdale and Wilfreid Nancy—–Where the F##K did they get those two ????
No left-back to cover when TIERNEY went off at Tynecastle——What the F##K is going on with the B- team & Academy players ? Surely a club of Celtic’s stature should have ” Oven ready ” young players ready to step into the First-team squad , when required . Top English teams do this so why not Celtic ? Or are the Board mis-managing our ” Half-time Draw ” ticket money also ? The present Board are running around with there heads in buckets , thinking they are performing ” World -Class in everything they do ” ?
They are a crowd of amateurs in Celtic blazers who fail to realise that even despite Celtic’s vast resources ; we now have a team which is no better than most of the lesser clubs in the SPL . A Board who , try to save money by investing in “Bargain Basement” players who are surplus to requirements by other clubs , or are , ” past their SELL-BY date . The Celtic support do not deserve this and they should not suffer these clowns any longer . They bring in Martin O’Neil as a BUFFER to save their backs just as the British Crown established the Orange Order to save their backs in Northern Ireland .
We are now in the Twenty-first century and the vast majority of the Celtic support are wise to your , “Cheap-skate” tricks—Your days are numbered ; just like some of your players like : – Like Tierney , McGregor , Hetate , Maeda , Yang , Engels , McCowan ,Forest ; to name but a few —-Some have been great servants to Celtic and some have failed to produce but no organisation can progress whist carrying ” Lame Ducks ” . There is no sentiment in business ; the time for change is at hand and as Jock Stein stated , ” The Celtic jersey does not shrink to fit inferior players ” .