"Could'ne Keep Weans Oot a Close"
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 2:25 pm
[SIZE=3:3bb0cf71]Aberdeen on Saturday was as bad as it gets, it ranks with the worst defensive displays Ive seen, I find it hard to understand so I dont know what Tony Mowbray will make of it. There have been managers through the years whos teams could attack but not defend; a prime example was Kevin Keegan when at Newcastle; and even more recently Mark Hughes at Manchester City, and lets not forget West Bromwich under Tony, nice going forward; but couldnt keep weans oot a close, is it bad play? Lack of confidence? Or a mixture of both? I wish I knew the answer, and Ill bet you Tony wishes he knew the answer too.[/SIZE:3bb0cf71]
[SIZE=3:3bb0cf71]Its not ideal to go to a place like Aberdeen and play with a back four who have never played together, but they are professional players and should be able to handle it, and in Josh Thomson we have a kid whos just starting out in his career, ideally he should be brought in with a senior defender to take the responsibility off his young shoulders, how many games have Caddis, ODea and Braafheid played for Celtic? One of big Jocks famous quotes was There is no substitute for experience[/SIZE:3bb0cf71]
[SIZE=3:3bb0cf71]From the very first free kick swung into the box by Charlie Mulgrew there seemed to be panic in our defence, you would have thought it was hand grenades he was crossing in instead of a ball, but having said that his delivery is exceptional, to think he left Celtic over a fine for being late for a team meeting imposed by Gordon Strachan, Alan Thomson actually paid the fine for him, we never seen much of him after that either, typical Celtic, cut off our nose to spite our face. But getting back to our defence, or rather our lack of it, somebody needs to take responsibility, what would we give now for a Bobo Balde type centre half? Maybe if Jos Hooiveld gets a run in the team it might settle down, but I wonder now if we should have went the extra needed to get Sean St Ledger from Preston, he is certainly a leader on the park, and we really need that now, and thats nothing against Scott Brown, you cant have enough leaders in a team, we need all the players to stand up and be counted.[/SIZE:3bb0cf71]
So what do we do now? I would suggest that they get on the training ground and start working towards improving in all areas of the team, if that means double sessions every day then thats what they get paid very handsomely for. We must work towards amassing as many points as possible until the end of the season; I certainly havent given up yet. As for the Scottish Cup, although I want to win it, if we lose the League then the Scottish Cup means nothing to me, its only a worthy trophy if its sitting alongside the League Trophy, on its own its a consolation cup, the second trophy in Scotland and as another quote of Big Jock goes Celtic jerseys are not for second best, they dont shrink to fit inferior players so lets all pull together, there have been dark days in the past and we have come through the other end, at this stage we have no other option but to keep going and Keep the Faith
[SIZE=3:3bb0cf71]Its not ideal to go to a place like Aberdeen and play with a back four who have never played together, but they are professional players and should be able to handle it, and in Josh Thomson we have a kid whos just starting out in his career, ideally he should be brought in with a senior defender to take the responsibility off his young shoulders, how many games have Caddis, ODea and Braafheid played for Celtic? One of big Jocks famous quotes was There is no substitute for experience[/SIZE:3bb0cf71]
[SIZE=3:3bb0cf71]From the very first free kick swung into the box by Charlie Mulgrew there seemed to be panic in our defence, you would have thought it was hand grenades he was crossing in instead of a ball, but having said that his delivery is exceptional, to think he left Celtic over a fine for being late for a team meeting imposed by Gordon Strachan, Alan Thomson actually paid the fine for him, we never seen much of him after that either, typical Celtic, cut off our nose to spite our face. But getting back to our defence, or rather our lack of it, somebody needs to take responsibility, what would we give now for a Bobo Balde type centre half? Maybe if Jos Hooiveld gets a run in the team it might settle down, but I wonder now if we should have went the extra needed to get Sean St Ledger from Preston, he is certainly a leader on the park, and we really need that now, and thats nothing against Scott Brown, you cant have enough leaders in a team, we need all the players to stand up and be counted.[/SIZE:3bb0cf71]
So what do we do now? I would suggest that they get on the training ground and start working towards improving in all areas of the team, if that means double sessions every day then thats what they get paid very handsomely for. We must work towards amassing as many points as possible until the end of the season; I certainly havent given up yet. As for the Scottish Cup, although I want to win it, if we lose the League then the Scottish Cup means nothing to me, its only a worthy trophy if its sitting alongside the League Trophy, on its own its a consolation cup, the second trophy in Scotland and as another quote of Big Jock goes Celtic jerseys are not for second best, they dont shrink to fit inferior players so lets all pull together, there have been dark days in the past and we have come through the other end, at this stage we have no other option but to keep going and Keep the Faith