Celtic banter 2

19 Oct 2026 17:36:22
Wouldn't risk any if our injured players on Thursday leagues the priority.

20 Oct 2026 08:52:35
Agreed! MON said Osmand "was feeling his hamstring a wee bit" so he should be nowhere near the team on Thursday.

Having lost the "banker" 3 points in our first EL game, I doubt we'll be likely to qualify now. Good chance to get minutes into squad players, Ralston, Lotomba, Trusty, Sorensen, McCowan, Tounetki etc. Even give the young striker from the B team a wee run out.

My team would be;
Johnston
Ralston Murray Trusty Lotomba
McCowan McGregor Sorensen
Forrest Hogh Tounetki

But of course we know MON will do with the strongest team available, similar to what he did in the "unwinnable" Benfica game.

20 Oct 2026 12:52:14
I’d rather forfeit the game than put out that team.

20 Oct 2026 14:22:15
Ha! they might be good enough to win!

20 Oct 2026 19:02:10
Lotomba ? or his nickname fankle ankles.

19 Oct 2026 16:08:35
One of the most pleasing things about yesterday was the amount of times we moved forward with some pace instead of passing it right to left then back towards our own goal That to me was Celtic of old. ( Ange ball if you like) . More exciting than of late.

19 Oct 2026 17:48:40
Ossie wants to run. We played beyond their defence and unlocked them. Might be a different thing when defences camp in but he's also a clever footballer too. Then you've got jota and Hassan. Yangs a grafter and more defensive. Tounekti can always say he was blessed to wear the hoops.

19 Oct 2026 15:02:43
That’s now 28 games since our last Draw although we won on penalties and also AET against St. Mirren.
But not left victorious or losers.

Since that 3-3 Draw at Ibrox we have only had 9 league Draws but our neighbours have now had 25 League Draws.
That’s why We’re Champions ?.

19 Oct 2026 13:57:07
Well we all enjoyed Sunday, should Celtic send Hearts some crates of 7UP for their club shop lol
Although it would have been even better if McInnes was still in charge, imagine the moans and groans he would have come out with ha ha

We know that our attacking players are on the ball, midfield needs some help and our defence needs a complete revamp
Just now our attackers must score 3 if other team score 2

So Martin come January sign 3 CL class defenders.

19 Oct 2026 13:36:26
Amazing winning 7-1 yesterday only one day before today’s League Cup Final 7-1 Anniversary.

A brilliant tribute to Johnny Doyle yesterday.
I’ve mentioned before for years we had a framed photo in our living room of Johnny with my Mum and Dad from a Supporters Dance.

19 Oct 2026 11:58:43
Think Donovan has been coming onto a game recently and be a shame for the boy to be dropped when AJ is fully fit. does anyone think AJ could play as a right CB as a think he has successfully played there for Canada and a think it would help Donovan evn more playing beside him.

19 Oct 2026 13:45:38
He’s played on the right side of a back 3 but I’m not sure if he’s played CB in a back 4.

19 Oct 2026 15:51:17
AJ fully fit …. That will be a first. He has missed more games than he has played for us!

20 Oct 2026 19:52:54
I love AJ as much as anyone but he has clearly demonstrated his desire to leave for the pub league so why should Donovan loose his place when AJ is fit? I for one think we should stick with the young fella, he's getting better every game
HH☘️☘️.

18 Oct 2026 21:37:19
What a find playing Osmand out wide young lad has fitted in great there as he did last week. Great performance all round trying not to get carried away but it's looking like at long last we are getting a balanced side for domestic games anyway.

19 Oct 2026 09:34:58
Full team played well especially scales kt osmand and nygren.

19 Oct 2026 11:05:34
I spent most game moaning about Nygren, thought he left midfield exposed and wasn’t there to pick up so many loose balls/ second balls, wasn’t until I got home from game and watched tv i saw wasn’t the case, hearts played 5 so far forward they where always going to pick up second balls, Osmands positivity and running was great, as was Hassan to be fair and if and when the likes of scales/ Murray can spot some of the runs they make and space they can exploit they might get better, it’s looking more and more like the sevco disasters where tactical, team set up and wrong personnel mistakes,

Team need praised, everyone thought we where about to hit a bad spell, yeah there’s still issues and no one should get carried away, but that was a great, enjoyable, confidence boosting win, something we should build on,

I rarely get team predictions correct but for me, domestically that is my starting 11 (give or take Murray at back ) in Europe I’d be looking towards bench (not jota) think with jota 4-5 weeks of cameos will do, every time he fell or tackled or jumped or just turned I took a gasp lol.

19 Oct 2026 13:13:04
What was scales doing at our second goal, his arms were wrapped right round the hearts defenders, do that in Europe and we could get a goal chalked off.

19 Oct 2026 18:50:09
Agree Jaa. I was guilty of that a good few weeks back until a mate pointed out the work he'd been doing and I watched again. What do we know ??.

18 Oct 2026 21:18:07
I would accept getting beat on Thursday playing how we did today which will eventually bear fruit, than sitting and watching a turgid five yard passing back and forward to the centre backs etc. and getting beat.

18 Oct 2026 22:53:16
Its about finding the right balance for Europe, thought we were great today but it was only Hertz,. Can't take many more European drubbings, our defence needs seriously strengthened and are crying out for a defensive midfielder when up against better opposition.

18 Oct 2026 20:21:20
Hugely improved performance and as I expected, someone was going to get a hiding, (glad it was the diets) .

My player ratings;
Sinisalo - 7
Donovan - 8
Murray - 8
Scales - 8
Tierney -9
McGregor - 6
Baur - 8
Nygren - 8
Hassan - 7
Duran - 9
Osmand - 9

Many positives from the game with just a few negatives.

McGregor and Baur failure to mark or close down their scorer on the 18yd line. similar to what happened twice against Sevco.

Some really silly unnecessary bookings 2nd half when we were well out of sight.

The last 20 mins or so we were back to the stupid passing it around our own box, inviting pressure and making things easy for the opposition.
We have a midfielder who plays like an auxiliary striker and one who thinks he's a central defender so playing out from the back isn't really an option.

We caused Hearts lots of problems playing quick, long, wide balls in behind and pressing on the back of them. Hopefully the coaching staff will twig, this is how we should play. Our strikers are way more skillful than our defenders so let's give them more of the ball, rather than our GK and 2x CBs getting more touches than the rest of the team combined!

18 Oct 2026 21:07:24
Osmond excellent, reminds me of a young Stevie Chalmers. Tounekti would not have scored two goals today.

18 Oct 2026 21:29:15
The difference in the team today was Osmand and Hassan. We had width and both players were prepared to run with the ball and beat their man.

18 Oct 2026 22:46:16
You say their goal comes from failure to close down I believe the goal should not have stood as they took a quick throw inn no where near were ball went out or am I wrong.

19 Oct 2026 09:32:58
MON confirmed that as he had a go at the fourth official and then apologised.

It didn't change the game in this instance, so I am not too bothered but had it been us doing that against them or sevco, do you think the goal would have stood?

We need to push on from here, tighten up midfield. We just do not have a player who takes up the slack there, the space both sides left in there was embarrassing. It is in midfield that sevco steamroll us with numbers.

19 Oct 2026 10:55:13
Yes they should have been pulled back for that but my point is our DMs seem to have no concept of dangers and actually marking opponents.

When the Hearts winger has the ball we have two players trying to stop the cross. Hearts have 2 men in the middle and we have 4 players marking them. But Hearts also have 2 players on the 18yd line completely unmarked, while McGregor and Baur are in no mans land marking nobody.

What makes it worse is the exact same thing has been happening all season. Sevco punished us from this weakness and remember Dundee United smashing our woodwork 5 times due to a missing midfield defence.

Surely someone on the coaching staff can see this weakness and tell our DMs to stop ball watching and pick up the opponents on the edge of the box! It really is schoolboy stuff.

18 Oct 2026 20:18:55
Good, solid performance. Add to that a Hertz team that played gung ho football. That manager will soon learn you can't come to Glasgow and play like that without getting spanked. Special praise goes to Duran who worked his socks off today, what a player we have there! Great to see Jota get a full half and he's not lost his confidence either.


Great day at the office lads, keep it up! ?.

18 Oct 2026 20:15:05
What a difference wingers taking players on putting crosses in, and kt is on one outstanding, qe need to huild on it and really kick on, and hassan excellent.