And its odd, becasue its really hard to say what was wrong. We were not diabolical, we didn't do any huge errors, we were just not good enough. Or should I say Celtic were better.



It's weird.

I talk about the game as I see it, and presume you do the same. I don't "try" to put any sort of "spin" on anything.

Yes, it was shambolic but the refereeing was worse.

i think if deacs sat out we would have a chance, all teams know what he will do now, when he kicks it goes straight to their fullback.



get rid and start playing like we were a few weeks ago, kicking from all over the field and by different players.

The ref was poor but for both sides.

First of all, congratulations Celtic. They were tough in defence and followed a simple but extremely effective gameplan for pretty much 80 mins.



As for the Bulls..



Well I think today we saw what happens when a team isn't prepared to do the hard work and the small simple things right. We looked lethargic and lacking in any spark in attack. Our forwards continually struggled to make in roads into a tough Celtic pack who refused to roll over.



I was worried before the match then wouldn't show enough respect to Celtic and revert back to earlier form. However I did still feel we would have enough to see them off even if we would make hard work of it.



I think McNamara has to make a decision on Langley who looks badly out of sorts. As BD II pointed out at the match perhaps his shoulder isn't right and surgery has been suspended until season end?

TBH, you talk b0ll0cks.

Yes I agree, but we got the $hittier end of the stick.

Today was awful.



Maybe with a different referee we would have won - as a minimum, this one did us no favours. Doubt we would have deserved it if we had though. We were just poor again - its back to a few weeks ago. Looked like a load of strangers not up for it (with the odd exception) again. Once again not helped by injury early doors, but we seemed to be lethargic yet again - they were miles quicker than us in every department. And looked like they wanted it far more. And we were back to anonymous half backs again. What the hell happened to the team that beat Saints and Wakey?



Referee was shocking. And so were we.

Trouble is the up days seem to be getting pretty rare. Surely we need to recruit a half back next year?

he was cr*p as a linesman never mind a ref.

Absolutely. It's hard to believe it was the same players.