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A balanced view Panda. Some folk don't like that reasonable approach. Hope you don't fancy a career in journalism as you'll never make it either that non sensationalist approach to it

We had, I think, eight players who had never played against Celtic away before in the starting line-up. Add to that we are at least three players short of our strongest XI (Scales, Barron and someone of the ilk of Connor Ronan all go into that side, and McCrorie also improves the midfield). Therefore, the hope is today was the worst we'll play all season and it's only improvement from here. We were shell shocked in the first 30 minutes, but actually could have been level at half-time. And you have to say that we generally defended quite well, besides the obvious mistakes that cost us. Another team crumbles - and I don't just mean a Motherwell or Hearts. Let's not forget Rangers were 3-0 down at Celtic Park under similar pressure. My biggest concern about the whole game was actually how little we offered in the second half. We ran out of ideas, the story of the last four years. Again, caveat above about not being full strength, but St Mirren up next. While they're no Celtic, they're no Raith Rovers either.

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Pretty rank if so. We should ban the BBC from Pittodrie.

Also worth noting that Ramadani was way out of position, giving Jota the opportunity to run at Polvara, who just got done. But, yes, you would get away with those against Hibs or someone.

To be fair to Goodwin, he had a hell of a lot of recruitment to do. Also, he loaned Scales before the fixtures were announced and before Barron got injured. It's not a ridiculous gamble to hope that we might play the Tims a few weeks down the road when we had signed another midfielder or defensive cover. It backfired as a result of us playing them in the opening game really. Polvara is a young lad who was signed by Glass (I seem to remember a suggestion that it was him that had seen him before, rather than our recruitment team, but not sure how true that is). Goodwin has done exceptionally well to get rid of all of Glass' signings in a single window bar Polvara (Ramirez and Bates are clearly gone, but not gone), and so the recruitment criticism is a little harsh. Of all the signings made so far, Duk is the only one I think looks gash, with the rest (Richardson was decent in the second half today) under scrutiny, but with no massive concerns yet. We should expect a few of them to be duds, and a few more just to keep the first team ticking over and hopefully one or two will turn out good. It shouldn't be forgotten just how big an exercise has been/is being undertaken this summer. I think it'd be fairly naive to expect anything great this season.

No.Stewart and McRorie did ok today.We were disjointed further forward,but not totally unexpected with the newbies. If Scales doesnt become an option to buy in January,then maybe send him back,as long as there are good replacement options,....which may be why we loaned him in the first place. Roos did pretty well,some good saves,Stewart very good,seemed to be in the right place more often than not, and Coulson better than expected Question marks over Polvara and Richardson,but still too early to write them off.

All 11 Celtic players who started today were playing together last season. We started with 4 players out of 11 from last season, and out of those only McCrorie and Hayes were regular starters. Miovski arrived a week ago, Coulson and Roberts 5 days ago, and Lopes is still yet to turn up. Give it time.

So do just forfeit these games if season starts next week. Actually it started 3 weeks ago. Richardson looked suspect in games in league cup and today just confirmed it. Polvara also was clearly not good enough prior to today but had to play because Goodwin chose to take a player on loan from these cunts.

Anyone having a pop at the manager or individual players on thd basis of this afternoon is fucking clueless. Do they seriously think this was a season defining game. Our season starts next Saturday. We were always on a hiding to nothing out there today. Trust those critising today will be as quick to praise when we start collecting points