This 3-3 draw was a sticking plaster over a seeping wound!

While the 3-3 draw was better than nothing, I feel it only temporary covers a much bigger problem which is obviously within the dressing room between Neil & his players. There is no togetherness, there is no desire, there are plenty of attitudes (the wrong ones) & despite that fightback today, we’d be kidding ourselves if we thought that team had the desired fight required.

Forgetting any board influences or lack of it for the minute, several Celtic teams put out this season are frankly a disgrace. St Johnstone, Rangers, Hearts & now Kilmarnock are not flukes, they are trends! Although you hear bits and pieces of what is going on behind the scenes, nobody for sure knows what is going on in that dressing room/ training ground. Clearly there is a problem!

After every bad result this season we have the usual huffing & puffing about how the next game will be different, the players know what they have to address, players wanting to play elesewhere in the Champions League (aye but are they up to it?)others not signing much improved contracts put in front of them, plus Neil in his own words, saying he'll have to consider his position if this continues. As for the player chat it's becoming tiresome, infact it is tiresome!

When Stokes missed the sitter early on today, a shivering thought ran through my head, that if this goes against us today, that miss could have been the nail that finishes Neil off. Infact the very same player pulled it out the fire for his gaffer!

Despite this late draw, today was a shambolic embarrassment and I doubt whatever way the parting would have been dressed up, Neil wouldn’t have survived a 3-0 defeat to a cobbled bunch of free transfer players.

Attitudes on the park are now showing up. Kayal has looked like Celtic’s Tevez, now he's signed a new improved contract after 4 months of stalling! I feel a clause has been inserted in that one allowing him to leave if a certain fee is offered as he eyes his future elewhere 
Ki said recently he might fancy a move soon, fine, as the battle if here in a Celtic shirt, so what’s keeping you? Ki can be invisible not only in big games, but also on many occasions in games like today. When the chips are down where is his presence? Bangura looks like an increasingly dodgy signing. Wanyama might make it given time & Forster is a bag of nerves and not a Celtic keeper, Majstorovic is eh, 6 feet plus of uncertainty! El Kaddouri is a poor stop gap & there are many others! Joe Ledley has to consider standing up more and stop vanishing. Scott Brown is free to sign for anyone in 10 weeks and has been talking about a new contract for 3 months now. So clearly a problem there! For me he is a hazard and how many people have you heard say, “If only we had Scott fit......” Not many. With or without him we are rudderless on the pitch. Brown’s absence makes no difference either way!

Neil looks like a man carrying a huge load & perhaps all the horrors he put up with last season are now taking their toll on him. Throw in all the politics and the undermining of him behind the scenes, then you have to wonder if it has all caught up with him and is all too much now! A Club Legend he will always be no matter how this all turns out, hopefully in Neil's favour! 

In an overall sense his players do not seem to be playing for him and therein lays a serious problem which is continually fermenting! Unity is strength, and this season from more or less the same side as last year, we don’t have that. The other half of that saying is, divide & conquer! And that’s what seems to be going on. 11 points dropped in 10 games. Work out the maths if this carries on for much longer!