MJC

I presume you say that slightly in jest but at the same time it wouldn’t surprise you if that actually happened. Rodgers is the type of guy who will do anything to play to his audience and he knows he’s still got a lot of making up to do to the Celtic support for having the audacity to wanting to better himself when he ditched them for Leicester in 2019. Some of them were even singing about wanting him executed by the IRA ffs! That is the type of absolute deranged lunatics that follow Celtic.

We’ve been having this discussion about Celtic and the Green Brigade for well over ten years now and they’re only getting worse. They are a very dangerous and sinister outfit who are able to bully and manipulate everyone due to their numbers and their victim hood mentality which makes them untouchable to so many in sport, the media and in politics. Indeed they have alot of friends in high places when it comes to politics. And just last week a steward at Livingston who was no doubt on minimum wage and simply trying to do his job and get a pitch invader off the pitch is accosted by Brendan Rodgers and completely undermined. What message does that send out? Celtic, their support and the Green Brigade are untouchable in Scotland and there is nothing that anyone can do about it I’m afraid. They are just too powerful and it goes way beyond football or sport. This is a club that trade on being or representing a poor downtrodden community battling against the establishment which is doing everything in its power to keep them down. To question them, to speak out against them publicly risks professional and personal harm and that is why the police, the authorities etc let them basically do what they like. Of course in reality and if you take a step back and look at them for what they actually are then any reasonable minded person will see that they absolutely are not a persecuted community, rather a big bunch of loud mouthed hypocrites who use ancient old grievances which have nothing to do with football in order to gain any advantage they can get. And unfortunately it works for them.

I’d imagine our claret away shirt with the amber diagonal band across the front will get its debut here. We could really do with a win but I think 0-0 is a good shout for this one.

I agree and we can’t afford to simply brush off poor results with “ach it was a great performance, if only…” every week. Someone on the match thread yesterday made a comparison between Celtic’s winner yesterday and the goal Harry Kane scored for England against Scotland to equalise straight after the two Griffiths free kicks and for me there was more than just the type of goal it was that was similar. This brings me back to the “we love a gallant defeat/hard luck story” point. We as a club are bad for this but it’s a very Scottish thing as well, to butter up failure and seek glory in failure. That Scotland v England 2-2 game in 2017 is held up and celebrated by some as something to be proud of, that time Scotland ‘nearly beat England’ and it’s pathetic. It achieved nothing in the long run and only threw away two qualification points in the process, only speeding up Scotlands inevitable failure to qualify for that World Cup. It’s the wrong attitude to have.

Yip just having a quick read through the posts from last Sunday and it’s the same old story. “We played well, very unlucky to lose, deserved better but we just can’t score”. We’re going to have to get used to this script until January I’m afraid because unless Bair starts banging them in out of nowhere or Obika and Biereth can come back fit and contribute goals then there will be plenty more good team performances with nothing to show for it. And rightly or wrongly the support will lose patience with that pretty quickly.

Gallant defeats by only one goal against either of the Old Firm has always given an element of our support a hard on, particularly on here. We’re brave underdogs punching way….I won’t bother completing that sentence. We were unfortunate to lose at Ibrox last Sunday and even more unfortunate to lose yesterday. We played as well as we could have done against the top side in the country and it was a major kick in the balls to lose especially in the manner we did. That said though a defeat is a defeat and there is no glory in failure and the harsh reality is that it’s three losses on the bounce and we need to rectify that asap, starting at Livingston next Saturday. Otherwise losing becomes a habit that’s hard to snap out of as we found out only too well towards the end of Hammell’s tenure.

Poor guy. But that’s no surprise.

Jeez didn’t realise that that’s what the commotion was about up there. Hope all is well for the guy.

A few candidates but I voted the much aligned Theo Bair. Non stop running and had he a proper striker to partner him then the result would have been different imo.

Can’t argue with any of that. We played as well as we could against the strongest side in the country and largely limited them in terms of chances and goal scoring opportunities. Unfortunately though you know that they have that bit of extra quality and you expect them to score at any minute and that’s what happened today. That said hard luck stories get you nowhere in football. Had we a proper striker today like a KvV or a pre 2017 Moult then I think we win that game. However we don’t so we didn’t and worryingly for us that’s the third game in a row we’ve been saying that.

I thought we looked knackered from 70 minutes on and with their obvious superior fitness it was only a matter of time before they scored. Celtic have done this to numerous sides over the past few years (concede a late equaliser then run straight up the park and get a winner) so they obviously have that bit of quality and that play to the last whistle mentality so it wasn’t a complete surprise that they did it again today. That said it was dreadful defending for both goals especially the second.

Taylor was down injured and they obviously added time on for our equaliser. That said Collum was his usual pedantic match ruining self yet again today. It’s like he always has to make it all about him.

His defence didn’t help him whatsoever with the winner in fairness. O’Riley just ran straight off his marker unchallenged for that tap in. Kelly had a superb save from point range at 0-0.

It was actually a very good team performance but we can’t defend and we can’t score goals. That’s why we lost. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I don’t see us beating either of them ever again.

Again a hard luck story but this one is even harder to take. Dreadful defending for the winner at the death there.

A terrific shift from him today.

We’ve played well today but as I said last week if you can’t put the ball in the net you don’t win football matches.

Mark Ferrie loaned out to Stenhousemuir until January.

Good to see Robinson, Dunne, St.Mirren and the rest of the dirty bastards knocked out of the Cup last night. No dream trip to Hampden for them.

Well we’ve managed to get draws with both of them in recent times, last season 1-1 at Parkhead and the season before 1-1 and 2-2 at Ibrox. But I was talking more about actually getting wins in this fixture. And Sunday there was just another in the latest of the long line of hard luck stories, particularly against Rangers. How many times have we come out of those games saying “we deserved more” or “if only we had done this or not done that”?? It’s always the same old story for us, whether we get outright pumped or run them close but lose anyway. Other sides like like Killie, St.Johnstone, St.Mirren, Dundee Utd, Ross County even Accies have managed to record wins in recent times against one or both of them whilst we pat ourselves on the back for a supposed ‘brave’ showing in a narrow defeat or shrug our shoulders when on the end of a heavy pumping and tell ourselves that it doesn’t matter because of budgets etc

This outlook of “these games are irrelevant” is why, in my opinion, we haven’t beaten Celtic since 2015, Rangers since 2017 and haven’t recorded a league victory against them in over twenty years. This attitude and mindset runs right through our club from the boardroom to the support. I am fully aware and fully accept that we will never compete with either over a course of a season and am also fully aware that we will lose the vast majority of games against both sides due to the huge gulf in resources, as is the case with every other non OF club. However, other sides of a similar stature and with a similar budget to us have managed to get wins against them, both of them in some cases since we last managed to beat one of the Old Firm almost six years ago now. Kilmarnock have managed to do a double over the already this season to give but one example. I personally don’t see us beating either of the Old Firm ever again, partly because the gap in finances is increasing and also because of our collective mindset and mentality as a club. Numerous managers have come and gone, numerous players have come and gone since we last managed to beat either of them and the support nowadays just shrug their shoulders and dismiss these games as irrelevant. To me that points to a mentality issue within the club as a whole. I’ll say it again, Kilmarnock have beaten both of them already this season. Does anyone think we would have done the same had we played them both at home? Seriously? No, neither do I.

It won't happen but I can't stress how much I would love a result here and stick it to Celtic, their sanctimonious hoardes, Tom fucking Boyd and that rubber faced condescending slimy prick Rodgers.

Doesn’t matter who plays in goal for them if we aren’t capable of creating chances and scoring goals I’m afraid.

Yeah the only way we will score is if they score an o.g like they did last season.

We’ll get skullfucked. 0-4