MJC

We are yes, that’s why being 0-1 down to them at this stage is all the harder to take. We miss a gilt edged chance at one end and concede up the other, that’s a tough one. I still fancy us to nick a point here though…

No arguments there.

Looks very short of match fitness. We’re playing well enough so far, using possession well but as ever need to show more in the final third.

Ojala starts and O’Donnell benched! That’s a good start to the evening

Yes, and from those 6 games for Aarons and Ndjoli’s two sub appearances they offered nothing and didn’t look as though they would either. It wouldn’t be a problem if we actually had strikers worthy of the name on our books or at least tried to sign players who are.

Could really do with a win here but the best we’ll do is scrape a draw. 1-1

No chance of us signing him. Firstly he’s clearly finished and secondly that would involve us actually signing a centre forward so this is a non starter!

Only time will tell whether that’ll be proved to be correct, but from what I saw of him yesterday and his goal scoring record before joining us then I don’t see anything to suggest that he will offer us anything and it’s more likely we can add him to Seedorf, Hylton, Ndjoli, Aarons on the list of “can play anywhere across the front” forwards we have signed and been utterly useless for us over the past few years.

Tierney has potential but needs to be coached and used properly. I’m not confident that GA will do either. Efford I agree doesn’t look up to it, early days or not and he’ll offer us no more than Seedorf or Hylton did. Another pointless signing.

I think that’s a fair comment tbh. If we are sitting here in a fortnights time still without a league win since the break and out of the cup (which is a distinct possibility) then it’s only fair that the managers position come under question.

I’m not disputing the gap, it’s more our approach to these games that I take issue with. You say Celtic “lost twice to anyone other than Rangers” in 20/21 but they also struggled to beat Dundee Utd, lost to St.Mirren at home, drew with St.Johnstone at home, lost away to Ross County in the league and lost 2-0 at home to them in the League Cup. All at the same time our record against them was 0-3, 1-4 & 1-2. We as a club are not going to be able to go ‘toe-to- toe’ with Celtic or Rangers over the course of a season, but at the same time I don’t think it is unreasonable to expect us to not just roll over and get pumped by more than three goals every single time we play them either.

I don’t know about that but our record against both of them can’t be far off the worst in the league over the past four/five years. Two 1-1 draws against Rangers apart in 2021 we have lost every single meeting and it’s now eleven straight defeats against Celtic. I said it after we were rode 6-1 here against Rangers back in October, it’s not just that we are losing these games, it’s the amount of absolute hammerings we are on the end of against them both just about every single time we play them nowadays. Yes they are better than us and should beat us, but they don’t even need to break sweat to never mind beat us anymore, they hammer us nine times out of ten.

Exactly. Celtic had their worse season in over a decade last year yet we still couldn’t lay a glove on them in any of the meetings. And nothing needs said about our record against Rangers in the last twenty years. Still, “Welcome to our great wee club”

So both of them have had their biggest away wins of the season against us. Yes they have better players than us, but mentality is 100% a contributory issue here. We are beaten before a ball is kicked in these games and as soon as we go behind our heads just drop. Celtic were excellent today and scored some superb goals, but they will get easier training sessions than that.

We’d be as well deducting the price of these games from the season ticket as we don’t even look as though we can make a game of it anymore.

Firstly we must acknowledge that this is, in the main, a case of us being well beaten by a far superior side with players of a level of quality we could only dream of. However that does not excuse Donnelly yet again switching off at the crucial moment as he did for the first and the clueless set up overall. This could be a record defeat here.

What chance have we got

2-0. Humiliation incoming.

Cornelius in for Shaw, otherwise starting eleven unchanged from Tuesday. Tierney remains on the bench. Its going to be a long, long afternoon.

How the mighty have fallen eh? He actually looked a player when he first came to us but just didn’t show it nearly enough as time went on.

The thought of Donnelly up against McGregor, Hatate and O’Riley is utterly sobering. He’ll look like a junior player and he’ll be lucky to even touch the ball in a meaningful way. It’s embarrassing that we are starting players of the standard of him and McGinley on a regular basis.

Any chance we could forfeit this one? If Celtic turn up and are on their game they will tear us up for toilet paper and it’ll be anything from 3 to whatever they want - 0. Even if they aren’t on their game and are below par like they were when we played them at Parkhead then we still won’t have the quality or the bottle to take anything. We won’t lay a glove on them. 0-3 Tom Boyd is a wank.

Only because I forgot the password for the old one.

I’ve been back for nearly a year!

Our play in the final third is just so slow and it looks as though we have no idea what to do once in that area. We’ve been the same all season with Woolery, Roberts, Shields, even Tony Watt when he was here looking frustrated figures as they have little to no attacking support. We don’t appear to want to set up to be offensive and I don’t really get what GA’s approach actually is. We got away with so much in the first half of the season thanks to Watt getting goals and winning us points but now he’s gone we look absolutely lost. The transfer window was a disaster for us.