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Id like to think this as a 1970s 'Brian Clough' revelation moment. Celtic and Rodgers become Thelin's 'white whale'

I blame STFU_Donny. Sold me his northern light top, got it this week. Gorgeous. The shirt, not Donny. Decided not to wear it for the rangers game but I made my debut with it yesterday. I feel had he not sold me it we’d have won yesterday. it wasn’t bottle yesterday. Celtic were on and once they scored went for the kill. They punished every error we made. We were flat and regardless of what jimmy said, Wednesday was a factor. They were fresh and sharp, we were not. Our mistakes were punished, simple as that, then you don’t want to push up and press too much when you are getting smashed. I did think at the time bookings were a factor too, especially ruby after 15 mins, we weren’t so feisty after that. I think it’s as simple as that. Wouldn’t say it was bottle. dont hear anyone over reacting, just got to get back on it for Dundee. Like that jimmy didn’t blame, plus like his comments about wanting to be in Europe and playing three games weekly. re squad and signings, do think we need a 9. Id say Celtic score the one chance sokler missed yesterday. We need a sharp goal scorer that scares the shit out defenders. Think we had that in bojan. We have confidence players, and players on form. Still feel we upgrade and add depth with a right back, left and right mid, and a forward, most likely next summer. Our depth certainly isn’t as strong, even rangers are deeper as pish as they are, and I don’t see duk, morris, Gueye, Milne, Ambrose, mcgarry, and Macdonald as good enough to regularly start. Celtic brought in six good enough. Very hard to keep everyone happy in these situations.

Well, that was gutting. Our impressive run was always going to come to an end, but in that manner? That's where my disappointment lies. Having said that, this group have just kept going and going since the start of the Season, we've had some big performances and big results, they are still learning, we shouldn't lose sight of that, and like I said in my last post, I think when he brings all of his own players in, players that will improve us in particular to how Thelin wants us to play, then I have no doubt we will be just fine and then some. I liked how he immediately shut down the tiredness talk, despite it quite clearly being the case last night, he said that is where he wants us, 3 games a week! Celtic had the luxury of resting half of their 11 midweek, literally. We started with the same 11 that put in a shift and won midweek, a lot of our passes and tracking etc... were well off the pace last night, you could just see it. They were knackered. Need to take this on the chin, learn from it, use it and fester it all into Dundee on Saturday and continue this excellent domestic start. Maybe Nesbit will be back, Dante Polvara allegedly isn't far away, Gueye still to come back, I remain fairly confident and optimistic for the remainder of the Season.

All evidence points to this being the case. Maybe Jimmy T can work his magic, similar to what he’s done with Morris and Gueye.

Or he's just gash.

We have Milne as back up who plays more than mcgarry. No? I don’t think it’s milne’s best position, or natural position, but it appears he’s trusted more to fill in than mcgarry yet people seem to say RB is priority??

Find it interesting people think RB is a priority. Probably a curse but devlin is durable and fit. Milne is capable short term. Perhaps polvara if we are desperate. Why RB and not LB? Devlin signed a new contract, no clue the situation with Mackenzie, and Milne appears to be a more capable back up than mcgarry. I’m assuming Jensen will be sold in the summer as he’s not a regular and that’s what he wants, hence he’s presently on loan. we don’t have a regular scoring 9 but we are creating chances. I think that should be a January priority. Obviously no panic buy, got to be capable, available, and affordable. I’d also send Ambrose out on loan. I like sokler but he misses more than he should. I am not overly impressed with nisbet to date. Still looks heavy and sluggish. Unless we are considering nisbet as a permanent buy I don’t know if I’d keep him for the season if there’s a better option in January.

I don't think that Thelin will be bringing in his own players though. Maybe one or two, but I think the recruitment situation is fairly settled. He'll be buying for his system, of course, but actually the guys that are here seem to fit remarkably well into it already. The question of depth is an interesting one, because being in a position to be able to rest 5 or 6 players only really comes when you've got the additional European fixtures. Otherwise, you've got players sitting out whole fortnights. Personally, I think we've got the squad size just about perfect for the campaign, but maybe quality can improve in the backup positions. It's going to be a difficult balance to keep everyone happy though. Especially beyond January when there isn't generally a massive fixture backlog. As you mention, Gueye and Polvara returning will be good for us.

Have to disagree. Nothing to do with bottle. How can you even come to that conclusion after some of our performances and fight backs this season? This team has plenty of character and bottle. This was a case of a team who gave everything, physically and mentally, midweek vs r*ngers not being 100% ready to go again a few days later. And if you’ve got any hope of beating celtic in Glasgow then you need to be 100% and they need a dip in form. Celtic had a relatively easy game midweek coupled with the luxury of resting players and having other first team regulars returning from injury. Also add in the revenge factor of us having the audacity to get a draw with them a few weeks ago and they were always going to be in the mood for dishing out a schooling.

We were found out today but we are still best of the rest. Still think duk and morris are bench players, duk especially drove me nuts today. Dive dive dive and complain, did nothing else. We were fatigued, pretty clear, they brought in six who had rested all week. Not much you can do there. not a fan of our zonal defending, all season we’ve given chances from set plays because we are not tight enough. Easy first goal for them today against a player we should definitely be locking up and preventing getting a header. would like us to get back to the topi clarkson McGrath midfield three, we’re a better team with three players who are technical. saying that I’d still play topi ahead of Morris but maybe inclined to start Vinny over McGrath, he’s been off of late, besides the Celtic assist. we needed a week to recover from the rangers game, this is what it is. If anything it’s ‘only’ the cup. Champions league is a real possibility, got to get back on it against Dundee and build momentum again as we have more away than home games coming up.

Lewis Ferguson played the last 10 mins, good to see him back fit. Beat Rama’s lecce 1-0.