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Learn The Basics or Die!
Posted by: | CommentsPlayers Suffer From Professional Incompetence
Imagine if you were a joiner and you couldn’t hang a door?
Do you think you’d be in a job for long? Probably not.
So how is it some footballers who are at the top of their profession think they can get away with not learning the basics?
Control, touch, move. The basics that all football players regardless of age should learn.
Yet we have in Scotland players earning between £5-25,000 a week who can’t do the basics. And we all know who they are.
It’s criminal that professionals are being offered ludicrous sums of money and failing to produce even an acceptable standard of football.
I watched the Engurland and Belarus match on Wednesday night and let me tell you the Belarus team’s first touch and movement was excellent.
Fair enough, tactically they were rotten but they could play.
The English, managed by an Italian, had more guile about them. That’s how they won.
However, the visitors have something to build on. They know the basics.
Unfortunately, not too many teams in this neck of the woods can say the same.
Hoops Bare In Striking Dept.
Posted by: | CommentsNew Signing Injury Highlights Weakness
Just as Marc-Antoine Fortune was beginning to get to grips with Scottish football, he manages to pick up an injury that will have him sidelined for the next couple of months.
With £3.8m of Tony’s overall transfer budget invested in the big man, it’s a huge loss for the manager.
It also highlights our lack of depth in the striking department.
First choice striker Scott McDonald will now be partnered by the big Greek enigma, that is Georgios Samaras.
Now don’t get me wrong, I like big Sammy. He’s honest and like the start of last season can be unplayable at times, but he’s also frustrating with a first touch that couldn’t trap a bag of cement.
And if……
Sammy gets a knock we’re down to Kiwi Chris Killen to take the lead upfront.
Killen did have a good pre-season and Tony knows him better than most, but can you count on him to score the winner in a tight SPL game?
Naw.
So that then leaves us with pairing Skippy and Shaun Maloney? Even this early in the season the decision to loan out Cillian Sheridan might come back to haunt us. Like it did last season.
If You Want A Celtic Story….Just Ask Skippy!
Posted by: | CommentsMotormouth At It Again!
There was a time last season, just about when Aiden and Wee Ghord were having their bust-up, that every ounce of movement in the Celtic camp was reported in the media.
It didn’t matter to them if the story was true, so long as they had an inside track to some sort of scandal or disagreement.
Anyhow, eventually WGS got the group together to put a lid on it, and the rest of the season the squad put on a unified stance.
What did emerge from ‘molegate’ is this.
Time To Shut-Up Skippy!
Our wee Aussie mate Skippy hasn’t forgotten his Murderwell roots and has a knack of actively seeking publicity.
That’s OK when you play for a provincial club but when you move to Celtic, it’s time to shut-up.
So, it’s no surprise that I read today Skippy has been bleating away to the press once again on club and team matters.
This time he’s giving us a first hand account of a conversation he had with Naka. Considering Shunsuke has made little effort in his time here to learn English, that would have been quite an interesting chat!
The upshot of it all is Naka wants to return home. After being away from Japan for so long he’s homesick.
Who wouldn’t be?
As for Skippy, well the first thing Mogga or PTP should do is sit the Bhoy down and tell him to keep his mouth shut, or find another club.
Mugged!
Posted by: | CommentsFirst Two Minutes Set Tone
With only two minutes on the clock referee Craig Thomson booked Paul Hartley after winning the ball in a tackle with Judas Miller.
That set the tone for the rest of the match.
As the Bhoys gradually got a hold of the game the Huns scored against the run of play, with Davis out running Maloney at the far post. Questions will be asked if Aiden would have been so easily beaten?
All the same?
But the turning point for me was before the goal was even scored. Skippy is about to pull the trigger in the box when he’s grappled to the ground by Whittaker. A stonewall penalty.
Did we get it? Did we Feck!
Even that diddy Scott Booth admitted there was contact, so that just shows you it MUST have been.
We should have known then that it wasn’t going to be our day.
Then with minutes to half-time big Jan has a header cleared off the line.
The second half was all one-way traffic but we couldn’t break down a Hun defence that has been used to defending in numbers.
At one point the Setanta stats showed Celtic had 71% of the possession, and that’s at the Hunnery!
Still, no matter what the score….
I’m proud to be a Tim!