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5 Facts, Findings And Thoughts About Us v Them And Mainly Samaras.

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1) It’s been a few days now and the feeling that the penalty miss is going to be crucial hasn’t subsided. Scoring that would have made the run in so much easier. My pacemaker is made from Poundshop batteries and used tin foil from a Milky Bar. It can’t handle anymore last 5 minutes like Sunday.

2) Though questions have to be asked why Samaras took the penalty for me the question has to be why he was still on the park to even be an option to take the kick.

One occasion summed up his contribution. As Old Father Time shuffled the ball out towards the Govan Stand, generally looking like an old scrot wandering aimlessly up and down a supermarket aisle looking for gout cream, Samaras dived in causing him to fall over and claim a replacement hip. It was an idiotic moment which sums up the Greek.

Samaras is like that bag of Haribos you find stuffed down the back seat of the car. They look great to eat but when you actually taste them it feels like your eating warm snot, which makes you wretched so hard water streams from your eyeballs. Problem is the next time you find a bag you eat them again.

3) This was a disappointing performance from Celtic. The result has gave the game a sort of warm hue that I feel some are hanging onto furiously as a positive. We never played well for 55 mins. We were suckered by the same tactics that The Myth fluked upon in the Diddy Cup Final.

What’s worse is that R*ngers never really laid a glove on us. A few ohhh’s and ahh’s but our goalie was largely redundant. We came into the game when they were done and should have really won. Why do always find the hammer but never hit the nail?

4) Did Lennon get it wrong to change the team to a more solid formation? I would say not but would question the Hooper substitution. If he wasn’t injured he should have stayed on.

5) That’s these guilty pleasures overwith for this season. Strathclydes finest raised a glass to our Greek Tragedy on Sunday night while we raised a toast to our manager. P8 W4 D2 L2. Undefeated at Ipox this season, which hasn’t been done since Saint Martin Of O’Neil. I call that progress and nothing short of a miracle.

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  • Wildrover says:

    Agreed all round.

    I’ve assessed my own feelings regarding Samaras after my initial negative reaction, which I felt after the fact had maybe been harsh. On further contemplation I can say that, in my opinion, he just doesn’t fit into the team and is far too inconsistent. Head down, run aimlessly, ignore the better option in a team mate. I’ve said all this before. It’s time for us to move on. Hooper coming off was a mystery to me too. Stokes gave us the edge we lacked when he came on and you have to wonder what would have been if he’d started with Hooper. We now have this siege mentality of putting out a team that Rangers can’t bully. I think Jock proved in 67 that if you stick to your game and basic footballing mentality that, eventually, you’ll win out (not to compare the squads).

    I am bemused by the fact that so many people think it was a good save. Not only did his body language telegram the direction it was going, but he didn’t hit it with that much power. It was a poor penalty. I fancied Commons to take it, but there you go.

    On the formation, I felt we played for a draw. Given the points situation I can, to some degree understand that, but it almost didn’t work out and was a risky gamble. Playing Ledley on the left was obviously designed to keep the midfield tight and not allow them any space on the flanks. Unfortunately that didn’t work and Rangers dominated in the first half. Commons might have opened them up a bit, but you never know.

    Focus on the next five games. We are, by far, the best “footballing” side in the country. When we try to be something else it falls apart. Attack, press, dictate the play in midfield, keep the pressure off the defence and we’ll have the league in the bag. We need to play to our strengths and stop worrying about the “strengths” of the opposition.

    • lordofthewing says:

      I want the next 5 games finished by half time.

      Did Stokes and Commons change the game? I think that was mainly down to them being done. Maybe that was part of the tactics? Stifle then attack?

  • max says:

    Played for a draw??
    I didn’t realise we were that good!
    To shoot on goal and scrape the top of the bar not once but twice and to make mcgregor pull of a string of outstanding saves, all intentional is some feat!!
    Just imagine what would have happened if we’d been playing to win??
    I never realised it, but now I see it, Lenny defo got his tactics wrong!!

    • lordofthewing says:

      my disappointment in not winning emits from the blog. my fear in not getting the 3 points is mainly for selfish reasons.

      i don’t like rollercoasters.

  • max says:

    Ps. Come to think of it, that must have been why Lenny made big Sammi take the penalty!
    I feel like a right fool for not realising it before!!

    • lordofthewing says:

      Commons should have took the pen. end off.

      • Chris L says:

        Without a doubt, I was having fucking kittens when sami put the ball of the spot. Commons should have taken it because he would have ratled the ball in like Thomo would have done in his time. Anyway, strongest team has to be played every time now. Stokes and Commons must start with Ki playing in the home matches and Maloney in the away.

  • bampot says:

    Despite the occasional heroics (which striker worth his salt would not get the chance to do this once or twice a season when playing in a league like the SPL and with players of the relative quality Celtic invariably have)Samara is guilty of not inconsistancy but consistantly missing that key pass. How many times, since he came, have we seen him give up the better option for some a) futile foray that ends up in a comical give-away to the other team or b) being fully cognisant of players in much better positions (generally this happens on breaks where the opposition is outnumbered) he smashes a 30 yarder out of the park.
    HE IS RUBBISH and why we paid him so much for the next three years will simply make him impossibole to shift – like that old fridge in the garage or venereal warts.

  • bampot says:

    BTW – that Rangers is team is absolutely the wqorst team I have ever seen. In light of everything that has happened over the last season we should have buried them. Neil got it wrong but, more disconcertingly, the fact that Celtic seem only to be able to move across the park and not penetrate is very worrying. I think that penalty miss will cost us the league.

    • lordofthewing says:

      I thought that about the miss as well but as the week has progressed and delusional panic has set in then I think we will win all 5 scoring 5 goals per game.

  • ianin440 says:

    Let it go man. 🙂
    Every other game has had moments that could have changed the outcome.
    I think that Freedie is injured but I`m not sure about Shaun.
    Come on the Celts!

  • lenny4myth2 says:

    celtic should have gone 4-5-1 because every time we have against ragers we have played brilliantly, that is a more solid formation and with the likes of maloney, commons, and young forrest on the wings can quickly turn into a 4-3-3 when going forward. 4-5-1 would even work with sammy up front on his own as proven in the 2-0 win where he scored both. personally if we are going with 2 up front we should have went with stokesy and hooperman as they thrive off each when in the mood (doesn’t always happen but when it does they are immense) but to be honest i would have took a draw and we will never know what would have happened, a different selection than what mr lennon went with and we could have been humped 4 or 5 nil, we’ll never know, but by the end of the season we will know if a point is enough! fingers crossed, rosary beads on. ONE NEIL LENNON!

  • bobocop says:

    AS a Rangers fan I would have to say that I would rather see Samaras on the pitch before Stokes. Just think bhoys, only three more years to go. No as bad as yer man Shite though.

  • lenny4myth2 says:

    bampot…. when a player signs a 3 year deal it doesn’t necessarily mean he stays 3 years, hopefully he is sold in the summer as for some reason a few clubs have shown interest, still id rather him than laffatme, doof, healy or beattie that’s for sure.

  • lenny4myth2 says:

    in fact bampot… id rather sammy than those 4 duds all together. (laffatmes miss with the header against celtic was worse than sammys penalty, at least it wasn’t from 5 yards and he actually had the keeper to beat)

  • bobocop says:

    Laffatmes? Is that the guy who scored today in Rangers fine 5-0 drubbing of Motherwell on their own patch? No, can’t be, that guys scored more league goals than the prolific “Sammy”.Bet you’d rather have Freddie at god knows how much a week as well.

    • lordofthewing says:

      Though you speak factually stat based truth the general opinion in my hoose is that he wouldn’t make our bench. Thats mainly for decency reasons.

    • lenny4myth2 says:

      id rather have the 3 and half million the genius wally myth paid for him. and beating a motherwell team that tried about as hard as the hearts goalkeeper today is hardly something to be proud of. laffatme is useless, so is doof, healy and beattie, but then those 3 i just mentioned dont really exist because myth has not bought a player since he was at everton due to not having any money isn’t that right?
      sammy is useless most of the time, laffatme is useless all of the time, he might nick a couple of goals in the run in where teams are playing at 50% against ragers but thats as good as it gets for him, by all means back him all they way! the longer he stays at ibrox until his half a million switch to colchester and a 3 million loss to ragers the better. unless of course the scottish media do a boyd/cuellar/boumsong/hutton/bougherra/wilson/b.ferguson job on him and convince some muppets in the EPL hes a great player worth a few quid to fill ragers piggy bank.

  • bobocop says:

    But Samaras makes the team. It’s no’ even as if he’s a good provider. When Celtic attacks break down or fizzle out the last man touching is usually Samaras.

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