oh shut up and stop being so serious

 

and you have the cheek to moan about celtic fans petending to be offended

If we were to say something about all the Celtic players deserving a forearm smash, I think you know what the reaction would be.

Ok, it's time to predict the starting line-ups. I'm willing to concede now that it looks like Celtic are going to be true to their word for once and McGeady looks unlikely to play. I don't for one second believe the "Barry Robson has no chance" stuff, I believe he will start the game. So here's my prediction. I rarely get these spot on, but I'm usually not far away :-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your thoughts ?

boruc hinkel naylor mcmanus caldwell naka crosas hartley brown robson mcdonald, youll play with only miller up front dont know what else though

Nope, sorry sutton, Boyd will play this time. I'm sure of it.

i dont care if he plays if hes gonna score he'll do it wether he starts or comes on

Okaaaay.

just my thoughts on life if things are gonna happen then they will. nowt i can do to change them

 

Lee Naylor should have been sent off for a second bookable offence for chopping down Whittiker.

in my opinion it was an even game seperated by a goal as i thought it would be

also no excuses can wash this time

By the way, I watched with interest as Artur Boruc amazingly forgot to do something at the start of the match in front of the Celtic support that he claims he does before every half of football. His memory conveniently returned when he came out for the second half in front of the Rangers fans.

 

Funny that.

I'm not going to go into a long-winded review of yesterday. Suffice to say we had one big chance and missed it, they had one big chance and took it. On such fine lines are championships won and lost. C*ltic are not a good team and they didn't play particularly well yesterday. That, to be honest, is what makes it worse. I strongly believe that if Walter had started with any one from Novo, Nigunez, Beasley or Lafferty on the left then Rangers would have won the game. All that was needed was a bit more adventure and a cutting edge. Not Walter's style of course, his caution has allowed a very average C*ltic team to stroll towards the title.

The game was won and lost in the mid-field. Celtic were very strong physically and mentally where we were too weak and timid. I lost count of the number of 50-50 challenges we lost.The game always looked like the first goal would probably win it and so it proved.

 

Old Firm games are usually won by the team which shows the most desire and I thought all the Celtic players showed this. They didn't all play well individually of course but as a team they were a much more cohesive unit than we were.

 

Losing one of these games is always hard to take but it is even worse when you know your team has not really turned up on the day. It was difficult to pick out any of our players who had a decent game. In fact it is easier to pick out the ones who were poor on the day but you all saw who they were.

 

One thing that puzzles me. On the radio people were saying that the pitch was watered half an hour before the game. I was in the ground at 11.30am and went up to see the pitch and the players warming up on three occasions before kick-off and I never saw any sprinklers on. The pitch definitely got worse as the game went on so I don't know what occurred. Any information?