well having watched us kick of the season remotley i thought i would have a stab at a bit of a match report based on the coverage on BFBS
watching in the first half i was happy, the performances of the players gave plenty for us to get excited about and it was nice to see a caely squad looking hungry and keen. players like Nick Ross and johnny hayes were standing out head and shoulders above what i would have expected for there first SPL games, some very nice moves from Kenny Gillet and Mcann in defence too were giving me hope that we really good have taken something from this game. we had several good chances created from the wings when time and time again the ball was crossed into the box and for once we didnt look afraid to have a go...gone was the problems of the last couple of years with nobody having the guts to actually take a shot and it seemed to have been replaced with more of a here we go lets see what we can do attitude.. a little more target practice and i really think that we could have a good front line.. unfortunately after about half an hour we started to get pegged back a little by celtic.
pleased to be going in at the break at nil nil the game at this point i felt was still up for the taking and celtic really were not justifying the title Favorites tag
unfortunately we didnt carry on in the second half as we did the first..celtic game out of the traps looking to hit us..and hit us they did.. Paddy Mccourt was given far to much time and allowed to wander through our defence to hit the net..prior to this we had looked in it but the goal seemed to leave us searching for ideas... we had matched celtic more than evenly up to this point but after the goal they got there noses up. several more shots on goal from them were kept out through a mixture of dumb luck on our part, some fantastic saves by Ryan and sheer ineptitude from celtic..to be honest i felt that we could have lost 3 goals at least today however at the end of the match to have lost one nil to a team like celtic shouldnt be seen as to much of a defeat.
positves
some very good performances from our team
a real lets get stuck in attitude
Hayes playing nearly the full match
only losing one goal
negatives
to me i still think our defence is looking like the weak link
we still looked alot for the long hopefull ball up the park
rosscoe did not look like he has it in him for the whole season
well that was a first attempt at a match report and these are only personal opinions based on stuttery TV Coverage.......
wheres my tin hit :_shocked2: