As the Cha said it makes for confusion in the replies when posts get deleted. Now, if only someone would delete Unfit’s incomprehensible drivel about blow jobs and Bobby Ball!
With Res 12 ( Res 11) at the AGM it suits the board for all the media attention to be elsewhere. So I won t be too surprised if this drags on for a while yet. Time to wake up to that Neil.
We are a mess( for whatever reason) and NL can’t fix it.
Whilst I agree with your general point, Cha, and Tyrone’s general point too, a ‘presence’ of (thousands) of supporters/shareholders with a tip off to the press outside Scotland would, IMHO, add some oxygen to a stifled truism: they DIED in 2012 and it needs to be screamed from the rooftops. I contacted the Boston Globe and NYT, asking them to investigate the cheating. I got no worthwhile response.
But I will NOT let this go, and arzeholes like PTL better get that into their heads……they may also think they can walk away painlessly “they may be correct, but I couldn’t possibly comment”
FC not PLC
PS I’m both a lifelong supporter of Celtic FC and a shareholder.
It was the much-unfairly-ridiculed “Charlie Saiz” who was propogating a Celtic FC owned (over 50%) by supporters that got me to buying shares. They’ll NEVER be traded but passed on (in my will) to the most appropriate Tim in my family with such a codicil.
Charlie S, I don’t like bullies and you’ve offered much on here (not always agreeable to me) and then been bullied off.
The ganging up and attacking guys is WRONG. Period.
I hope you see the infantile congregation, tell them to fukk off and return to commenting here.
OF COURSE, that’s just how I see things, but I’m not afraid of sticking my neck out.
Integrity and decency are not formed from ‘gangs’.
Good on you Pal, I don’t need to agree with what you say, but I’ll ever try to protect your RIGHT to say what you do.
I can’t speak for ‘everyone’ lol , but agree Totally on Integrity and Decency.
I am very confident ‘Duncan’ will appreciate that very much Tic Toc.
I also hope he returns soon.
GBNL
mcklintop
3 years ago
Only the most optimistic fan would give Neil Francis a chance of being the Celtic manager at Christmas, so who replaces him. Strachan? Not sure I could stomach watching the sort of football he churned out in his first spell. O’Neill and Keane can someone tell me what they have done recently that would give you confidence they could turn it around?
I’d go for Eddie Howe.
But the players seem to be getting off lightly here:
Ntcham? Dear god where do you start? My cousin who played professionally (I didn’t) really rates him but I don’t see it. To be a top player you need to want to go out there and show how good you are every week. This guy reeks of can’t be ar$ed most weeks. He needs to go.
Christie? Maybe controversial but I don’t think he is playing for the team. He looks like a guy trying to compile a highlights reel of his best bits to get a move to the EPL. We should make it happen
Moi? Sorry not for me too many anonymous performances.
Brown? How many times did he give the ball away last night his mistake led to the first goal. In time he’ll be a legend at the club but it’s a mercy to take him out.
Laxalt? I know very controversial. Spoke to an Milan supporting colleague about him last week and he was delighted we had taken him. His verdict? He can’t defend. And I’m tending to agree. We as a team cannot stop crosses coming into our box. El Hamed is as guilty. How many crosses did Sparta throw into our box before they scored. It’s almost like their coach said just keep firing crosses in, you’ll score eventually. What do we actually practice at Lennoxtown, maybe a session or two on defending crosses wouldn’t hurt.
Turnbull and McGregor in the middle, Rogic further forward and Griffiths and Edouard up top. And for the love of god find a defensive formation that works.
I wouldn’t like to see that team without Christie at the moment. He seems to be the one few sources of energy in the team. Rogic has no interest in staying here. Griffiths? He’s has an ability, but he really gets an easy ride from an awful lot in our support. His behaviour, particularly this season when obviously still unfit at this stage of the season wouldn’t be tolerated at any ‘big’ club.
Ntcham threaded a wonderful ball through to Eddy that should have led to the equaliser.
Not a lot for 90 mins but who contributed more? Certainly not McGregor, who does get an easy ride and was at fault for a couple of the goals.
I share the concerns about Laxalt’s defending but hopefully this is down to a dysfunctional midfield.
I’m personally not making too many final decisions on players as we’re in a position similar to before Rodgers, when most fans wanted rid of half the team.
A proper manager and 1 or 2 strategic signings and hey presto the same failures were Invincible.
BornCelt!
3 years ago
IMO, Bankier, Lawwell and Lenny are idiots. Lawwell is being quiet simply as he is in enough hot water after his dawdling has cost us at least two King’s ransoms in the Champions League and now perhaps the 10. Lenny needs to grow a pair. Though Lenny has upset to many people already, but he may come to realise, that when the boards in the past messed up the club, Jock insisted things were done his way and this resulted in Celtic heaven. Surely Desmond is sick of cleaning up Lawwell’s mess and excuses as he is there to ensure Desmond can enjoy a working retirement. HH!
Stein insisted on that as a non-negotiable condition of him taking the job.
Rodgers similarly demanded and got total control, at least for the first 2 years before Lawwell’s interference undone all the good work.
Lennon was unemployed and not in demand after failing in his last 2 appointments. He had nothing as a negotiating weapon other then to accept what Lawwell dictated otherwise he would’ve remained unemployed.
He was and is in a weak managerial position because of his record.
We need to appoint a strong manager, who will only come if given strong powers, rather than stick with a weak one, who can only accept what’s given to him.
Monti
3 years ago
With a heavy heart i want Neil to go, it isn’t working!
What on earth do they do at Lennoxtown? Do they ever practice defending drills? it is embarrassing and amateurish. We tried zonal marking with WGS and that was heavily criticised, but to see the vast empty spaces at the heart of our defence, well it stinks of neglect. Remember how the defence and defenders took pride in keeping clean sheets, fist bumping to acknowledge a clearing tackle, all the defence working in tandem together. What happened to all of that? It is neglectful or unhappy players. They are not playing as a team, individuals playing for themselves.
What? You mean you didn’t enter the half time competition last night?
It has been evident for over a year that the coaching has been non existent .
The players were in cruise control under the Rodgers regime, everyone knew their role, but the gradual erosion of his ways under Lennon has accelerated from the start of this season to the alarming clusterfvck we’re witnessing now.
What? There was a competition? I was under the kitchen table, red with embarrassment, too feart to come out. What you say I fully agree with, was it not suggested last week that the training had remained exactly the same from the Rodgers era? kinda sounds of a laissez- faire attitude to me…
The board is treating us the way every board has treated us with the exception of one man, Fergus McCann. This board is treating us as fans. They take us for granted.They are treating us with contempt. We need to start acting the way Fergus treated us. He regarded us as CUSTOMERS, this is the only language this board understands. We need to stop those tills ringing up sales. It pains me to write this but this “club like no other” is a cynical ploy by the board to play on our love of the club. We are being manipulated, it has to stop.
R.St.Parsley
3 years ago
“I don’t think it’s a major football issue. It’s more psychological than anything else”.
We’re 11 points behind the Huns and have become the whipping boys of Europe and it’s not a major football issue? Neil’s post match comments these days are almost Trumpesque in their detachment from reality. For God’s sake, Neil, go now and put yourself and us out of our misery.
P.S. I see Duncan’s posts have joined those of Charlie Saiz in the rubbish bin as ‘unfit for purpose’ …oops, those bloody pseudonyms again, you just can’t be sure that Duncan has really left the building.
It’s the wildly contradictory nature of this comments:
Sparta (h) “that’ll never happen again” (a) “no reason we won’t improve, superb for 35 mins”
Ferencvaros throws players under the bus then after a few sklaffed wins “I’ve never questioned the players”
Sparta (h) “we need a deep culture change amongst the players”. Really deep meaningful change but wait, 3 days later after a good win at Motherwell “we had a mini-crisis but everything’s fine now”
He’s now banging on about how he’s got the backing of Lawwell and Desmond (nb no mention of the fans) and how they’re all united and on the same page, blah, blah.
Yeah, that’s why he picks his own backroom team. Oh, wait.
Obz
3 years ago
Whoever’s in charge of the team this weekend please pleae start with two strikers and four at the back. This is how we started 2020 and we was flying and now we keep persisting with the current system and expect things to change. That is Einstein’s definition of insanity.
There is something profoundly wrong with our Sports Science department. Our Injury lists each season have been shocking and I cant understand how professional athletes, a quarter in to the season “are not quite up to speed”
Its not just that department as we, by and large, flog the same players all the time.
the upshot is that not only they get injured due to lack of rest, the replacements lack match fitness which causes injuries. Rinse and repeat.
It’s not rocket science, although perhaps we need such a department to put rockets up the arses of the others to see this clear and present danger.
When we signed Turnbull, I joked that although, for once, we’d signed a match fit player, we’d not play him so he’d lose that and ‘fit’ in with all the rest and hey presto.
And you’re (note the spelling) semi literate, your (note the spelling) is appalling
Mike
3 years ago
Zombie Minks in Denmark have risen from their graves, oh no its 2012 all over again.
Gareth Savage
3 years ago
Give it to Larsson and Mjallby until the end of the season. Henrik can put hi medals on the table and if anyone is still yapping Johan can put them through the wall!
Larsson offered his services to be Celtic striking coach at the start of the season and was knocked back, either by Lawwell or Lenny himself.
He’s now assistant manager at Barcelona while Mjallby is manager of FC Stockholm.
You really think Peter will pay the severance packages for those two plus Lenny even if he could persuade Henrik to give up the prestigious position of Barcelona assistant boss to come to CP and fix this shambles having already been KB’d?
Besides, Lenny’s just came out and told us that him & Peter & DD are ‘all united’.
Which means the car crash is about to get a lot worse for all of us, not least Lenny.
The longer it goes on the more I reckon he really is their patsie to lose The Ten as part of the 5WA.
I doubt we’ll even beat the Jambos in the SC Final,the last time I saw a Celtic this broke Wayne Biggins was in it.
Yeah, Larsson ain’t leaving Barca for us and even if he would is this not the type of thinking that has got us in this mess viz “he’s a legend” (as a player), give him the manager’s job.
As far as I can see, he’s not been a success as a manager and that’s what we need, a successful manager not an unsuccessful or unproven manager, simply because he was a legendary player.
I’m also sick of all the BS about how you can’t get rid of Lennon because he’s such a legend and everything he’s been through.
None of that’s relevant to how he is doing as a manager and any non-legend would be long gone, which is correct.
No more ‘unsackable’ legendary ex-players just successful managers and if they’ve never heard of Celtic before I don’t give a damn.
No doubt, Jimmy, and those calling for Larsson as Celtic manager seem to forget that he got his home club Helsingborg relegated for the frost time in their history, leading to himself and his own son eyeing attacked on the pitch by idiot ‘fans’.
Henrik Larsson comes only second to Jinky in the greatest players I’ve seen wear the Hoops and I’d love it more than anything to have him win The Ten for us, or win anything for us, as manager but that’s just fantasy nonsense that’s never gonna happen.
Fact, I can’t see anything good happen until Lawwell’s gone, with Bankier, Kennedy, Strachan, Lenny & Desmond with him, much as it pains me to write that on Lenny’s behalf alone.
I’ve been waking every day expecting to read that his nightmare’s finally over but instead see the hole get deeper for all of us.
The toxic rot has set in at CP and even the so called ruthless billionaire has no idea how to stop the spread.
Just reading the comments by Sparta striker Julius, he described playing against Celtic like a training exercise and couldn’t believe how easy it was in both games. That alone should make everyone at Celtic Park hang their head in shame.
Too many players want away, and we need more quality on the park but given the shocking track record on signing duds for years, who would trust the current regime with another penny in the transfer market?? They wouldn’t know a good defender if one fell on top of them..
The writing has been on the wall since the first game of the season and I’ve described them as playing like a pub team on numerous occasions on this forum. Lennons, McGregors and Browns comments should kid no one, there are major problems at CP and if Lennon is still in the job when we go to Ibrox, he will be out of a job 5 minutes after the final whistle blows as I really fear our heaviest defeat ever against that mob
Did he really say that it was like a training exercise? How humiliating! I can’t believe the players and the manager can just shrug this off – if they were Japanese they’d all top themselves from shame. Not that I’m advocating that – but maybe they could donate their wages for December to the foundation to show some form of contrition.
The writing was on the wall in the pre-season friendlies when sevco won the wee cup that everyone laughed at.
They were playing in the CL qualifiers a few days later and he played reserves, got cuffed and later talked about some of his squad not being match fit.
This was a hard team to pick because i’d like to see the back of half of them.
Monti
3 years ago
Whilst i don’t have all the answers i do believe in meticulous planning & preperation.
With a record of qualifying for the CL twice in the last 10 years, a woeful record when you look at some of the sides who have knocked us out.
It is clear we are not prepared for CL qualifiers, this is unacceptable in every sense.
As a club we conduct our transfer business too slowly, look how long it took us to bring Duffy in.
To me it is shocking to see Celtic taking the field with players played out of position, players who are not ready & clearly at times with a few players who are not good enough.
We signed Barkas for around £5m, he was bought to be the first team keeper but he is not being played & the number 2 Bain is?
Bolingoli/Taylor are not good enough, Frimpong isn’t a RB & Ajer is not a central defender?
That leaves us with Elhamed & Jullien, Jullien is just back & Elhamed has had Covid.
Bitton is not a defender but is played there regularly?
Here’s an idea, sell Ajer, Taylor & Boli & sign a top central defender or two?
In midfield Forrest has been a big miss but let’s be honest James doesn’t do the business every week, we need strong competition for his position.
Brown is nearly done, Ntcham wants to go, McGregor is being asked to play too deep, Rogic can be good but usually unavailable, Turnbull needs to start getting chances to see him, Elyounoussi is 8/10 one week then 4 the next.
So far Peter we need two central defenders who can run fast, head, tackle & kick their own mother if our goal is threatened.
We need a high quality right winger ( Mobeg Karlsson)?
We need a central defensive midfielder so Brown can take a seat on the bench.
Up front Edouard wants to go, Griffiths should be told to go, Klimala not ready & Ajeti, even though we are almost at December is NOT fit yet?
If rumours are true, our squad will be decimated with departures between now and next season, with the following players leaving:
Ajer – rumours wants to leave
Bitton – rumours wants to leave
Hendry – think has buy option on loan deal. Recent reports indicate Oostende will take it up
Bolingoli – for obvious reasons
Brown – retire or one last gig in an easier environment
Ntcham – rumours wants to leave
Christie – rumours wants to leave
Rogic – rumours wants to leave
Shved – hasn’t cut it so will probably be farmed out on loan again or released
Bayo – as per Shved
Eddy – rumours wants to leave. Last year of deal next year so we’ll sell if no new deal agreed.
Dembele – no new contract signed – rumours wants to leave.
Plus our loanees – Duffy, Moi, Laxalt – will leave.
That will mean we have the following squad for next season:
GK – Bain and Barkas;
Def – Frimpong; Taylor; Walsh; Julien; El Hamed;
Central Midfield – MacGregor; Turnbull; Soro; Henderson;
Wingers/wide attack – Forrest; Johnstone;
CF – Ajeti; Griffiths; Klimala.
Even then, it wouldn’t surprise me if MacGregor and Forrest (having tried for the 10) look to get a payday. And no-one is sure Julien will hang around, though he’s sticking up for Lennon now.
Given what we have now, and what we will have next season, I’d be inclined to play the following team for the rest of the year:
Barkas – we paid good money for him so should see if it is wasted money. We know enough about Bain to know he is not the long term answer;
El Hamed; Julien; Welsh; Taylor – they are all the defenders we’ll have next season, so let’s blood them.
Frimpong; MacGregor; Soro; Laxalt – Limited options on the right with Forrest injured and Johnstone unreliable. Having two full backs on the wings ought to make us more stable there and stop the crosses raining in.
Ajeti up front, supported by Griffiths or Klimala to provide movement and link up with the midfield.
The “wantaways” can come in to cover injury etc.
bgbhoy
3 years ago
what do the board talk about on a weekly basis?
why is lennon still employed?
2 wins from 10?
what does it take to get the sack from celtic? do you need to commit a crime first?
£100,000 Profit and only after they sold KT. for £24.00 million. No CL Qualifiers, lose around £30.00 million. Remember Bankier saying ‘ it is essential that Celtic get into the CL’, he said that regarding Delia, a criticism. Well it is essential that we do, the figures don’t lie. No CL Qualifiers, then players must be sold to fill in the income gap, only the best players we have, satisfy that income loss. So they must address that and they will, but that is all depending on a full house of Celtic supporters, if they lose them, then they are Donald Ducked.
Personally it’s a more accurate description of a (now sadly departed ex-) poster who liked to dish it out but then flounced off in the cream puff when he’s answered in kind.
Or a (presumably) grown man triggered by Nicola’s every utterance.
Only Nicola’s blatant mistakes raise an eyebrow.
Like ignoring legal advice and costing the public purse over £600k.
And then defying Parliament over sharing same legal advice.
If i was an SNP supporter i would be concerned .
But , hey ho each to their ChaChaCha own.
As i pointed out ,Swinney is facing a vote of no confidence from the Scottish Parliament over the refusal to publish the Legal Advice.
I appreciate that , despite what you claim i seem to have aroused an immediate and fervent desire in you for information on the Scottish Parliament and the SNP.
Feel free to use your favourite search engine to do your own research.
Possible search terms to use to help you get the answer you are looking for could be
‘Can a Scottish minister be impeached by the Scottish Parliament’
or
‘Why is John Swinney facing a vote of no confidence’
and of course
‘Why is Nicola Sturgeon not facing a vote of no confidence’
Does a neurological condition stop you from using a search engine ?
Maybe that also explains why you take interest in subjects you claim to have no concern for ?
Deary me, I seem to have touched a raw nerve there.
DDG works fine for me when I’m “bovvered” as you would say Vicki.
You started off ranting against Sturgeon and then switched to Swinney that made no sense.
BTW If you think ‘wasting’ £600k is bad, you’re positively going to shit yourself when you see Scotland’s share of the tens of billions that Bojo and his Gallant Brexiteers have spent down here.
As I’m not a supporter of the SNP, why should I share their concerns?
You’ve got me baffled there and not for the first time.
Again you seem to take pleasure stating what Scotland will owe ?
I an a little surprised that a pedant such as yourself has allowed your comment above to appear with several words missing?
Is it cryptic ?
I think you might be a tad rattled ChaChaCha .
Do you have a Raw nerve lol ?
Square pegs in round holes.
The team with Briwn in it is doomed to fail. He is 2 yards off the pace.
Bring back Duffy as the centre back let him play with Jullien.
Bring back Taylor as a kept back and El Hamed as a right back and work with them. Though shall not pass.
Midfield put Ajer in there instead of Brown the dynamics would change.
Ntcham Ajer Mcgregor
Play Frimpong and Laxalt as the wide players with eddy up top.
4 3 3
Get back to defending first and foremost the goals will come.
8_2 aggregate against the bottom seeds in a group where we were top let that sink in and tell me why he should stay.
Dermot best set aside a good chunk of his wealth, as the empty stadiums he’s seen this season will be the new norm when things get back to normal. The goodwill they received this year with season book sales, won’t be so easily achieved. They are treating the support with contempt. Our football operations and by that I mean the calibre of manager and coaching staff are that of a lower league club and as far as I’m led to believe the medical and sports science team leave a lot to be desired. What a fvckin shambles.
He has got to go. I feel for the guy but he looks and sounds a complete shambles – time for a mercy killing I think before the job destroys his reputation as a Celtic great.
35 pence is a lot of dough in these straitened times, Port.
Joe
3 years ago
Some amount of delusion on here recently: thinking we can get Howe; get Larsson to leave Barca; offer it to Pochettino ffs. What planet are yous on? We’re not going to get a manager like Rodgers again for a long time – that was a once in a blue moon situation. It worked for him and it worked for us at that time and it gave us a glimpse of what a modern coach does. We need to pick up a coach like Rodgers on their way up or produce our own, but that’s hard. That was the idea with Deila and they got it badly wrong. Look at Rodgers at Reading – lasted 6 months despite what he’d go on to do. There’s no one who’ll want to take this job the now, and that’s the problem. Despite all his mistakes, I’d be amazed if Lawwell wasn’t looking for someone – he’s not a complete idiot. The fact that Lennon’s still there means they can’t get someone to take it on, and I’m not surprised.
No one good will want it, and no one who wants it will be good.
Probably the only credible candidate that we could get just now would be MacKay because he’s got nothing to lose, and that would reputational cancer for the club.
I’d give it to Kennedy because I don’t think that we’ll be able to get better than that this season, and he can’t be any worse. I don’t think it’ll be enough, and it might not even get better, but I reckon that it’s the best we can do at the moment.
Fine, I’d take that. Anything to stop this expectation that we’re going to go out and get a top level coach midway through a season that’s a slow motion car crash and likely leading to losing what would have been the biggest club achievement in decades.
On your Kennedy point, the fact that Rodgers wanted to take him to Leicester and that multiple clubs here have wanted to speak to him about managerial jobs provides a counterpoint, but I’m not really interested in that argument tbh. Maybe he’s gash, I’ve no idea.
you’ll remember the ICT semi final under deila that we lost? james forrest was running riot, won the free kick that virgil scored from and generally having one of his better games
gotdon gets sent off, deila turns to kennedy to see what they do. kennedy tells deila to get james off (the best player on the park that day)
a bemused james comes off and asks why he was being taken off, to which kennedy replies (becuase you cant fuking defend) we proceed to lose the game
Fair enough. In that case, personally, Rodgers wanting him at Leicester and Hibs wanting him as manager holds more weight than a sub he advised on as 3rd in command 5 year ago.
Pound to a penny, you ridiculed Rodgers as a potential Celtic manager.
I wouldn’t want Howe myself, as he’s unproven outside of Bournemouth (failed at big club Burnley) but as he’s unemployed and clubs don’t appear to be beating a path to his door, we’d certainly be able to make a credible bid to appoint him.
Deila was to be Lennon’s assistant but then he was bumped up, big mistake.
“No one will take the job”. This is such guff and is always trotted out, such as “poisoned chalice”, “no one will work there” etc.
If the money is good enough etc then the chance to manage in the CL, unavailable at most clubs, is attractive, even if only to polish a CV before moving on to “better” things.
Lawwell should have been prepared for both Rodgers leaving and the permanent manager position. Clearly he wasn’t and to him ‘succession planning’ simply refers to picking up his next over-remunerated pay cheque.
I wonder what multiple clubs have wanted to speak to Kennedy. He applied for Dundee United, now managed by Micky Mellon (who?).
I’m sure if Rodgers “wanted” him, it was only to stop him looking bad, as he’d taken all of the other coaches.
Nobody good wants it – no one that any of us would be happy with. I’m sure there are plenty of no marks that’d take it.
Cool. Where are they then? I don’t like the current board at the club, but the worst mistake you can make is thinking that they’re completely stupid. Arrogant? Yes. Don’t care about the fans? Definitely. But not stupid.
They’ll have been looking for people for at least a wee while, and they’re still backing Lennon. The only reasonable explanation for that is that they can’t find someone good enough to take over. Otherwise you’re looking at blind loyalty, sentimentality or conspiracy, none of which I buy.
If they have been looking for people for a wee while, then they havn’t been looking hard enough, that’s where the arrogance comes in. Simple arithmetic, spend on a quality manager and get into the C.L. Qualifiers for the bigger reward. Our income includes an emotionally invested support, its reliant on the support backing the club with its cash, take them for granted at your peril. If they don’t care about the fans, then they really are stupid. The small supporter shareholders do not have enough shares to make much of a difference, they still have rights, but if the support becomes disillusioned enough to stop supporting the club in numbers, then they will soon appoint a better manager pdq. Empty stands Delia?
Of course I think they are looking, but one that Lawwell can control, unlike Rodgers whom he could’nt. Lawwell will always looks to the cheap option like Deila, he was a disaster and Lennon is Delia-esque. If it was’nt for Covid, the stands would be emptying now. Go for a more modern manager, get into the CL Qualifiers and keep the support happy and the money keeps coming in.
Depending on the money and control DD is willing to spend and give, Celtic could target any one of a group of very good modern coaches. The money is there and we do have European potential 60000 every home game etc. and more or less guaranteed European football every year. Let’s be bold and finance a top management team signing. Rodgers despite his personal traits is a very good modern manager there are more Rodgers out there.
Perhaps time for a an Argentine, Spanish, French or Italian management team.
Ffs, mate, if your name wasn’t ’Joe’ I’d ask if you were John Kennedy in disguise.
He’s Peter’s spy.
Thats why he’s served, and done fvck all, under our last 4 managers (Lennon twice).
Fvckin Arsène Wenger, ffs.
Rob O'Keeffe
3 years ago
If Lenny,Kennedy and Strachan have to go,could I put forward Massimo Allegri and his coaching staff as replacement?Six Serie A titles in 10 years.Known for coaching defenders to organise and actually defend.Known for demanding discipline from his midfielders and coaches forwards to exploit weaknesses of the opposition.Sounds pretty good to me…what do you think?
Jocsoc
3 years ago
It’s almost an indisputable fact that at the end of the season in any league at any level, that the team that concedes the fewest goals becomes champions. We effectively play with two defenders as our two wing backs don’t seem to realise that their primary task is to defend. Only when the occasional opportunity presents itself should they vacate their posts. These forays are more difficult for opponents to deal with as they are outwith the established pattern of play. The number of times our two fullbacks had to try and sprint back into their designated positions led to our downfall. Midfielders had to try and cover, which a) they’re not good at, and b) it takes them away from their jobs and upsets the balance of the team.
We won’t shake off this malaise until we get back to the basics of a high level of fitness and organisation. This last observation also applies to the board.
This week has gone from shambolic to brutal and Lenny really does look and sound like he’s coming apart at the seams yet he has to face the media alone, again, while Peter & Dermot hide in their ivory towers and order him to come out and say that they’re ‘all united’ ..?
Those two cowards should face the fans at CP tomorrow and give the real reason for this fiasco they’ve dragged the club into.
Drop Ajer and Ntcham immediately. Send Duffy back down south.
Get the signings you need arranged for January.
But i think Lawell dictates who he wants in the shop window.
Get behind Lenny.
We don’t really mind corruption in Scottish football so long as we’re winning.
Peter lawell has been at it for a long time, but his gambles just about paid off.
If celtic blow 10 in a row it’ll be unforgivable but we’ll deserve it. It should have been made clear by everyone in celtic that the huns were a new club but no too busy gorging on jelly and ice cream.
Resolution 12 didn’t matter when we were doing trebles. This day was always coming but you have to do whats right at the time no matter how hard. When you’re right you stand firm. When you have truth on your side you don’t back down.
I still think we’ll do it though celtic will come good and the huns will buckle and lawell will ride off into the sunset a hero with a huge pension.
55 will come eventually and that’s what the records will show. No liquidation or starting a new club in the bottom tier, just an unjust demotion after some undeserved financial difficulties.
Never mind maybe we’ll get our freedom passes soon so we can all cheer on the pantomime.
There are none so hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Big Don Gazpachio
3 years ago
Here’s the full quote from DD in The Athletic I’ve mentioned this week.
He calls him ‘a work in progress’ and not a ‘project’ but I still think he’s referring to ‘taming’ Lenny into the board’s way of thinking.
Which is selling The Ten to get his baws scratched further down the line.
(With thanks to Chairbhoy from the Sentinels site):
’on NL replacing BR] –“Lenny was always on our radar. Lenny has been a work in progress for us. He’s been that person we have kind-of tutored and he’s learned along the way. The advice we gave him he’s now realised was good advice, and he’s matured and everybody’s allowed to make mistakes. None of them were fatal. “So we took him back in even though some of the fans thought it was a retrograde step. But you learn more from mistakes, it can change your personality, your modus operandi. We saw that with Lenny and he has repaid our belief in him.”
Big Don Gazpachio
3 years ago
For the record, Martin and his recent pandering to the British press can do one.
That guy knows the media’s anti Celtic bias inside out so for him to come out and blow bubbles up their arse strips him of any remaining cred I thought he might have had left.
Leaving us with a choice between John Cannae Dae and Eddie Howe No.
For the record , I am sure Martin will not sleep tonight , or possibly any night knowing that he has lost all remaining ‘cred’ that you, Big don had left for him.
You have , to quote one of my favourite comedians , ‘No Respect At All’.
Not Bobby ball this time , for those that seem interested.
Lets see if you can guess who the comedian is from the quote , answers on a postacard.
There are no official reports of that. They’ve been fired from their jobs certainly but it wouldn’t come as a surprise if they eventually do get done in. Rancid bastards.
There is a man down Ibrox way I’d like you all to know
He’s just received the latest unpaid tax bill for Sevco
When the Peepul heard of it they came from far and wide
And when they saw the size of it this is what they cried:
“Oh, that’s a stottir!”
“We’ve never seen wan as big as that afore”
“Oh, that’s a stottir!”
“It must be two feet long or even more”
“The ink’s the deepest shade o’ red, when folded up it’s fat”
“We’ve never seen an unpaid tax bill quite as big as that”
“Oh, that’s a stottir!”
“We’ve never seen wan as big as that afore”.
He was standing outside Ibrox park just the other day
And beckoned to a young hunette who chanced to pass his way
He reached into his trousers and brought it out with pride
And when she saw it in his hand she turned bright red and sighed:
“Oh, that’s a stottir!”
“Ah’ve never seen wan as big as that afore”
“Oh, that’s a stottir!”
“It must be two feet long or even more”
“The colour’s sort o’ reddish pink, it’s nice and thick and fat”
“Ah never thought Ah’d get tae see wan quite as big as that”
“Oh, that’s a stottir!”
“Ah’ve never seen wan as big as that afore”.
Jesus H Christ, Port, 1st sentence scared the FN crap outa me.
Even there, thought I, is there no privacy left?
Then I re-read it………..
Nae wonder ah’m a baggae nerves…..
TF for the low flyer at £16 a litre in Tesco. Hic!
FC not PLC
portpower
3 years ago
Remarkable righteous go to Heaven:
PLC campaigns abroad…what can we get for these?
portpower
3 years ago
Prime SMSM…
“That is bullshit. I told you I was there.”
Tangerine segments.
sfa unfit for purpose
3 years ago
Bullets in the post , Bomb threats , Assaulted on the park And 24 hr security and a panic button required at his Family home.
Neil Lennon never gave in
The Scottish Government , The SFA , Police Scotland And the HUNS can all stand back and watch the Celtic Support and the Green Brigade try to finish what they collectively could not.
When there’s no defence of the manager for his managerial ability and belief in being able to turnaround our woeful season then you know the game’s up.
Ironically the Huns are the biggest supporters of Lennon staying as Celtic manager.
If you’re genuinely worried for his safety then perhaps Corporal Jones (Duncan) and Private Pike (yourself) can get an army together to provide protection.
‘Former Scotland & Rangers winger Neil McCann on Sportsound
Celtic have got monumental problems in there now it seems. I wouldn’t like to see Neil Lennon lose his job. I and others feel the players have let him down. There’s something not right in there, there’s clearly issues behind the scenes.’
No, he’s expressing the sentiment of Rangers fans.
TicToc
3 years ago
On yonder hill there stood a coo,
It must’ve moved, it’s no’ there noo!
Ralph, I’ve a coupla wee funnies (short videos) but no idea how to put them up on here.
Feel free to contact me here, or directly, if you get the time to respond.
Hope you and yours are well, and remain so.
TicToc
That’s why it hurts so much to want him to go, this is ripping me to bits!
TicToc
3 years ago
We got fed up searching for something worth watching on TV, Netflix et cetera ages ago, and hence looked to our own collection. It turns out that “Goblin’s Not Only a Noun” is explicit in its ‘educational’ explanation, that ‘verbs’ can be far more entertaining than ‘nouns’.
Went straight over my napper of course but I did ‘feel’ that ‘her indoors’ should have her false teeth adjusted in case she ends up choking on part of a ‘sausage’.
I’m kinda ‘off’ Celtic FC just now (as well as my trolley)…..TBPH, they need to earn my support and respect again.
HH the FC
Fukk the PLC
See, see when there’s little or nothing to watch on terrestrial TV (mostly), we go to various options like Netflix.
My wife is intelligent, tough and discerning (relatives in the Mafia (North), and apart from an old love of ‘soaps’ which I kicked out of her, she’s super-cool and super-hotl
Anyway, the point is this. We watched a very watchable series of “The Crown” (Clare Foy?) as the Queen, et cetera. So, when the latest version was available I thought “okay, she likes it I’m okay with that.” The latest thing is fukking mince from start, but I got FACT I’d never known before, and before binning it I gleaned this: Thatcher was HUMILIATED at Balmoral (had to pack and run away), that’s kinda perfect to me, but it gets better. Around the same time there was the victory at the Narrow Water when the PIRA nailed 18 and put a slightly larger number in ICUs. And then, (possibly) the last words of Louis Mountbatten, “I’m just blown away out here!………” 27th August 1979
Of course, my all time favourite is “we only need to be ‘lucky’ once”.
HH
Fitba, ah, the fitba. Today must be 4-4-2 in order to give defenders breathing space to defend and attackers breathing space NOT to defend.
Barkas
Elhamed/Ajer/Jullien/Taylor
Christie/Turnbull/Soro/Laxalt
Edouard/Griffiths
Soro/Turnbull/Ajeti/Klimala/Elyounoussi all to figure. No predictions but let’s keep a clean sheet whilst running riot. We need two strikers up front, that way Eddie will get some service and freedom to move. C’mon The Celtic.
BornCelt!
3 years ago
We all can see Broony’s legs have gone, he was floored several times agin Sparta when before he would have been solid, if I were told fringe players agin, AC, I would be even more pished, no Dembele, which means instead of an excited player signing on for a couple more seasons, he’ll be off for peanuts. Just no bravery here from Lenny. He just does not realise he has no the nouse to take it forwards. Lost it IMO. HH!
With respect, I think Lenny is in one. A brave manager does no have his players who respect him slipping off to Spain for a day and leaving good talent going to waste while his favourites plod on through game after game. Would you do that to a boss you had a bit of fear of? He has lost it and better get that mean streak back or even Lawwell wil have to come out of hiding to go with the many we are on the end of. HH!
Cartvale88
3 years ago
Poor, pathetic, bottle merchant of a manager, this is Ross County, not exactly a super team. But so far this is diabolical.
Thirty minutes of garbage
He’s gone from “I can fix this” to “Desmond and Peter back me, so it doesn’t matter what you the fans think”.
Monti
3 years ago
Are you watching this Dermot/Peter?
Are you still calm?
This is lamentable!
henkesdreadlocks
3 years ago
Back by unpopular demand it’s theHalf time Word Jumble Competition
Yes folks, just complete the sentence to win a chance to knock sense into all the members (members as in cocks) on the Celtic Board using a nail encrusted baseball bat.
Can’t seem to scroll down this morning, oh I see, now I get it.
Henke, my reply yesterday re paranoia was directed at Duncan not you but got ‘redirected’ when he deleted his post. Sorry for the confusion.
Cheers mate. I think I was suffering from the head up the arse syndrome.
… thought rather than think.
As the Cha said it makes for confusion in the replies when posts get deleted. Now, if only someone would delete Unfit’s incomprehensible drivel about blow jobs and Bobby Ball!
Hahahaha.
unfit and duncy are the same person
Well, I suppose there’s always a danger of that happening when your head is shoved so far up somebody else’s bahookie..
Duncan is Unfit?
“Blow jobs and Bobby Ball”
Wait, I missed those.
If you’re not currently working on a parody, as we speak, you’re not the man I think you are.
Hahahaha… brilliant.
Some things are beyond parody, Cha. Unfit stands on his own as a comic genius (I mean,he can’t be serious can he?).
Comic penis more like.
Fill in the blanks …
Mon Dermot get a move on n give us a fighting chance.
With Res 12 ( Res 11) at the AGM it suits the board for all the media attention to be elsewhere. So I won t be too surprised if this drags on for a while yet. Time to wake up to that Neil.
We are a mess( for whatever reason) and NL can’t fix it.
I don’t agree.
If they stick then I can only see the anger growing before the AGM.
Luckily for them, there will be no fans in attendance and even Q&As will be filtered through Bankier (not a misprint).
Whilst I agree with your general point, Cha, and Tyrone’s general point too, a ‘presence’ of (thousands) of supporters/shareholders with a tip off to the press outside Scotland would, IMHO, add some oxygen to a stifled truism: they DIED in 2012 and it needs to be screamed from the rooftops. I contacted the Boston Globe and NYT, asking them to investigate the cheating. I got no worthwhile response.
But I will NOT let this go, and arzeholes like PTL better get that into their heads……they may also think they can walk away painlessly “they may be correct, but I couldn’t possibly comment”
FC not PLC
PS I’m both a lifelong supporter of Celtic FC and a shareholder.
It was the much-unfairly-ridiculed “Charlie Saiz” who was propogating a Celtic FC owned (over 50%) by supporters that got me to buying shares. They’ll NEVER be traded but passed on (in my will) to the most appropriate Tim in my family with such a codicil.
Charlie S, I don’t like bullies and you’ve offered much on here (not always agreeable to me) and then been bullied off.
The ganging up and attacking guys is WRONG. Period.
I hope you see the infantile congregation, tell them to fukk off and return to commenting here.
OF COURSE, that’s just how I see things, but I’m not afraid of sticking my neck out.
Integrity and decency are not formed from ‘gangs’.
Good on you Pal, I don’t need to agree with what you say, but I’ll ever try to protect your RIGHT to say what you do.
I can’t speak for ‘everyone’ lol , but agree Totally on Integrity and Decency.
I am very confident ‘Duncan’ will appreciate that very much Tic Toc.
I also hope he returns soon.
GBNL
Only the most optimistic fan would give Neil Francis a chance of being the Celtic manager at Christmas, so who replaces him. Strachan? Not sure I could stomach watching the sort of football he churned out in his first spell. O’Neill and Keane can someone tell me what they have done recently that would give you confidence they could turn it around?
I’d go for Eddie Howe.
But the players seem to be getting off lightly here:
Ntcham? Dear god where do you start? My cousin who played professionally (I didn’t) really rates him but I don’t see it. To be a top player you need to want to go out there and show how good you are every week. This guy reeks of can’t be ar$ed most weeks. He needs to go.
Christie? Maybe controversial but I don’t think he is playing for the team. He looks like a guy trying to compile a highlights reel of his best bits to get a move to the EPL. We should make it happen
Moi? Sorry not for me too many anonymous performances.
Brown? How many times did he give the ball away last night his mistake led to the first goal. In time he’ll be a legend at the club but it’s a mercy to take him out.
Laxalt? I know very controversial. Spoke to an Milan supporting colleague about him last week and he was delighted we had taken him. His verdict? He can’t defend. And I’m tending to agree. We as a team cannot stop crosses coming into our box. El Hamed is as guilty. How many crosses did Sparta throw into our box before they scored. It’s almost like their coach said just keep firing crosses in, you’ll score eventually. What do we actually practice at Lennoxtown, maybe a session or two on defending crosses wouldn’t hurt.
Turnbull and McGregor in the middle, Rogic further forward and Griffiths and Edouard up top. And for the love of god find a defensive formation that works.
I wouldn’t like to see that team without Christie at the moment. He seems to be the one few sources of energy in the team. Rogic has no interest in staying here. Griffiths? He’s has an ability, but he really gets an easy ride from an awful lot in our support. His behaviour, particularly this season when obviously still unfit at this stage of the season wouldn’t be tolerated at any ‘big’ club.
118 and counting.
Sorry, I don’t know how to include images. 😉
Conclusive proof that you’re not his alter ego then.
are you saying I’m Unfit to be Duncan?
Oh no, God forbid, just can’t do smiley faces.
GBNL
Green Brigade, Not Lennon.
I’ve meant to ask you, what is the LMG you undersign with mean?
Lennon Must Go.
Just a reply to all the GBNL etc nonsense.
Good stuff.
Ntcham threaded a wonderful ball through to Eddy that should have led to the equaliser.
Not a lot for 90 mins but who contributed more? Certainly not McGregor, who does get an easy ride and was at fault for a couple of the goals.
I share the concerns about Laxalt’s defending but hopefully this is down to a dysfunctional midfield.
I’m personally not making too many final decisions on players as we’re in a position similar to before Rodgers, when most fans wanted rid of half the team.
A proper manager and 1 or 2 strategic signings and hey presto the same failures were Invincible.
IMO, Bankier, Lawwell and Lenny are idiots. Lawwell is being quiet simply as he is in enough hot water after his dawdling has cost us at least two King’s ransoms in the Champions League and now perhaps the 10. Lenny needs to grow a pair. Though Lenny has upset to many people already, but he may come to realise, that when the boards in the past messed up the club, Jock insisted things were done his way and this resulted in Celtic heaven. Surely Desmond is sick of cleaning up Lawwell’s mess and excuses as he is there to ensure Desmond can enjoy a working retirement. HH!
Stein insisted on that as a non-negotiable condition of him taking the job.
Rodgers similarly demanded and got total control, at least for the first 2 years before Lawwell’s interference undone all the good work.
Lennon was unemployed and not in demand after failing in his last 2 appointments. He had nothing as a negotiating weapon other then to accept what Lawwell dictated otherwise he would’ve remained unemployed.
He was and is in a weak managerial position because of his record.
We need to appoint a strong manager, who will only come if given strong powers, rather than stick with a weak one, who can only accept what’s given to him.
With a heavy heart i want Neil to go, it isn’t working!
Celtic first & Celtic last & Celtic overall!
My biggest regret is not taking my family to Charlie saiz famous donkey ride around Blackpool.
Howe No, Hell Yes. LAWWELL – BANKIER – WILSON – LENNON – KENNEDY – STRACHAN OUT.
✔️
If we appoint Hell, will our football be on fire?
Yes.
Well in that case my rebel yell is Hell, Yeah.
A little Cha ncer came knocking at my door.
Ya dancer.
Are you, looking for love?
Are we human or are we Saltcoats.
Dull and Boring.
I see that there’s reports that they’ll cut the Duffy loan short. No shit. Right up there with the Rafael Scheidt embarrassment.
What on earth do they do at Lennoxtown? Do they ever practice defending drills? it is embarrassing and amateurish. We tried zonal marking with WGS and that was heavily criticised, but to see the vast empty spaces at the heart of our defence, well it stinks of neglect. Remember how the defence and defenders took pride in keeping clean sheets, fist bumping to acknowledge a clearing tackle, all the defence working in tandem together. What happened to all of that? It is neglectful or unhappy players. They are not playing as a team, individuals playing for themselves.
What? You mean you didn’t enter the half time competition last night?
It has been evident for over a year that the coaching has been non existent .
The players were in cruise control under the Rodgers regime, everyone knew their role, but the gradual erosion of his ways under Lennon has accelerated from the start of this season to the alarming clusterfvck we’re witnessing now.
What? There was a competition? I was under the kitchen table, red with embarrassment, too feart to come out. What you say I fully agree with, was it not suggested last week that the training had remained exactly the same from the Rodgers era? kinda sounds of a laissez- faire attitude to me…
moderated again oh well.
The board is treating us the way every board has treated us with the exception of one man, Fergus McCann. This board is treating us as fans. They take us for granted.They are treating us with contempt. We need to start acting the way Fergus treated us. He regarded us as CUSTOMERS, this is the only language this board understands. We need to stop those tills ringing up sales. It pains me to write this but this “club like no other” is a cynical ploy by the board to play on our love of the club. We are being manipulated, it has to stop.
“I don’t think it’s a major football issue. It’s more psychological than anything else”.
We’re 11 points behind the Huns and have become the whipping boys of Europe and it’s not a major football issue? Neil’s post match comments these days are almost Trumpesque in their detachment from reality. For God’s sake, Neil, go now and put yourself and us out of our misery.
P.S. I see Duncan’s posts have joined those of Charlie Saiz in the rubbish bin as ‘unfit for purpose’ …oops, those bloody pseudonyms again, you just can’t be sure that Duncan has really left the building.
It’s the wildly contradictory nature of this comments:
Sparta (h) “that’ll never happen again” (a) “no reason we won’t improve, superb for 35 mins”
Ferencvaros throws players under the bus then after a few sklaffed wins “I’ve never questioned the players”
Sparta (h) “we need a deep culture change amongst the players”. Really deep meaningful change but wait, 3 days later after a good win at Motherwell “we had a mini-crisis but everything’s fine now”
He’s now banging on about how he’s got the backing of Lawwell and Desmond (nb no mention of the fans) and how they’re all united and on the same page, blah, blah.
Yeah, that’s why he picks his own backroom team. Oh, wait.
Whoever’s in charge of the team this weekend please pleae start with two strikers and four at the back. This is how we started 2020 and we was flying and now we keep persisting with the current system and expect things to change. That is Einstein’s definition of insanity.
To be fair, a few weeks at the start of this year has been about the only time that Griffiths has been fully fit in years.
There’s also been injuries/illnesses to Eddy, Ajeti and Klimala.
Having said that there’s been times when we could’ve and should’ve played 2 strikers but we’re more likely to play none as 2!
There is something profoundly wrong with our Sports Science department. Our Injury lists each season have been shocking and I cant understand how professional athletes, a quarter in to the season “are not quite up to speed”
Its not just that department as we, by and large, flog the same players all the time.
the upshot is that not only they get injured due to lack of rest, the replacements lack match fitness which causes injuries. Rinse and repeat.
It’s not rocket science, although perhaps we need such a department to put rockets up the arses of the others to see this clear and present danger.
When we signed Turnbull, I joked that although, for once, we’d signed a match fit player, we’d not play him so he’d lose that and ‘fit’ in with all the rest and hey presto.
Spot on. I hope we dont ruin that lads career.
Lack of rest doesn’t cut it. Last season finished in March, never been a longer break for any of them
Knob of this week, last week and next week if he’s still here – Neil Lennon.
Shameful
your a disgrace ya eegit
And you’re (note the spelling) semi literate, your (note the spelling) is appalling
Zombie Minks in Denmark have risen from their graves, oh no its 2012 all over again.
Give it to Larsson and Mjallby until the end of the season. Henrik can put hi medals on the table and if anyone is still yapping Johan can put them through the wall!
Larsson offered his services to be Celtic striking coach at the start of the season and was knocked back, either by Lawwell or Lenny himself.
He’s now assistant manager at Barcelona while Mjallby is manager of FC Stockholm.
You really think Peter will pay the severance packages for those two plus Lenny even if he could persuade Henrik to give up the prestigious position of Barcelona assistant boss to come to CP and fix this shambles having already been KB’d?
Besides, Lenny’s just came out and told us that him & Peter & DD are ‘all united’.
Which means the car crash is about to get a lot worse for all of us, not least Lenny.
The longer it goes on the more I reckon he really is their patsie to lose The Ten as part of the 5WA.
I doubt we’ll even beat the Jambos in the SC Final,the last time I saw a Celtic this broke Wayne Biggins was in it.
Yeah, Larsson ain’t leaving Barca for us and even if he would is this not the type of thinking that has got us in this mess viz “he’s a legend” (as a player), give him the manager’s job.
As far as I can see, he’s not been a success as a manager and that’s what we need, a successful manager not an unsuccessful or unproven manager, simply because he was a legendary player.
I’m also sick of all the BS about how you can’t get rid of Lennon because he’s such a legend and everything he’s been through.
None of that’s relevant to how he is doing as a manager and any non-legend would be long gone, which is correct.
No more ‘unsackable’ legendary ex-players just successful managers and if they’ve never heard of Celtic before I don’t give a damn.
No doubt, Jimmy, and those calling for Larsson as Celtic manager seem to forget that he got his home club Helsingborg relegated for the frost time in their history, leading to himself and his own son eyeing attacked on the pitch by idiot ‘fans’.
Henrik Larsson comes only second to Jinky in the greatest players I’ve seen wear the Hoops and I’d love it more than anything to have him win The Ten for us, or win anything for us, as manager but that’s just fantasy nonsense that’s never gonna happen.
Fact, I can’t see anything good happen until Lawwell’s gone, with Bankier, Kennedy, Strachan, Lenny & Desmond with him, much as it pains me to write that on Lenny’s behalf alone.
I’ve been waking every day expecting to read that his nightmare’s finally over but instead see the hole get deeper for all of us.
The toxic rot has set in at CP and even the so called ruthless billionaire has no idea how to stop the spread.
Here’s a tip, Dermot:
If you want rid of a snake cut off its head.
Get it?
Sorry, Cha, I called you ‘Jimmy’!
It’s the auld school in me 😉
No worries and an easy mistake, as apparently we’re all the same person using different names. 🙂
Aye, I heard God said that.
Or it was that 70s acid, I can never mind.
Just reading the comments by Sparta striker Julius, he described playing against Celtic like a training exercise and couldn’t believe how easy it was in both games. That alone should make everyone at Celtic Park hang their head in shame.
Too many players want away, and we need more quality on the park but given the shocking track record on signing duds for years, who would trust the current regime with another penny in the transfer market?? They wouldn’t know a good defender if one fell on top of them..
The writing has been on the wall since the first game of the season and I’ve described them as playing like a pub team on numerous occasions on this forum. Lennons, McGregors and Browns comments should kid no one, there are major problems at CP and if Lennon is still in the job when we go to Ibrox, he will be out of a job 5 minutes after the final whistle blows as I really fear our heaviest defeat ever against that mob
Did he really say that it was like a training exercise? How humiliating! I can’t believe the players and the manager can just shrug this off – if they were Japanese they’d all top themselves from shame. Not that I’m advocating that – but maybe they could donate their wages for December to the foundation to show some form of contrition.
The writing was on the wall in the pre-season friendlies when sevco won the wee cup that everyone laughed at.
They were playing in the CL qualifiers a few days later and he played reserves, got cuffed and later talked about some of his squad not being match fit.
I don’t know what he’s talking about, as according to the manager ‘For 35 minutes, we were superb’
35 minutes over the season?
Nah, last night alone.
We’ve probably played a good 90mins this season, shame is been over 20 games.
Celtic v Ross county 4-4-2
Barkas
Elhamed
Jullien
Ajer
Laxalt
Elyounoussi
McGregor
Ntcham
Christie
Edouard
Ajeti
This was a hard team to pick because i’d like to see the back of half of them.
Whilst i don’t have all the answers i do believe in meticulous planning & preperation.
With a record of qualifying for the CL twice in the last 10 years, a woeful record when you look at some of the sides who have knocked us out.
It is clear we are not prepared for CL qualifiers, this is unacceptable in every sense.
As a club we conduct our transfer business too slowly, look how long it took us to bring Duffy in.
To me it is shocking to see Celtic taking the field with players played out of position, players who are not ready & clearly at times with a few players who are not good enough.
We signed Barkas for around £5m, he was bought to be the first team keeper but he is not being played & the number 2 Bain is?
Bolingoli/Taylor are not good enough, Frimpong isn’t a RB & Ajer is not a central defender?
That leaves us with Elhamed & Jullien, Jullien is just back & Elhamed has had Covid.
Bitton is not a defender but is played there regularly?
Here’s an idea, sell Ajer, Taylor & Boli & sign a top central defender or two?
In midfield Forrest has been a big miss but let’s be honest James doesn’t do the business every week, we need strong competition for his position.
Brown is nearly done, Ntcham wants to go, McGregor is being asked to play too deep, Rogic can be good but usually unavailable, Turnbull needs to start getting chances to see him, Elyounoussi is 8/10 one week then 4 the next.
So far Peter we need two central defenders who can run fast, head, tackle & kick their own mother if our goal is threatened.
We need a high quality right winger ( Mobeg Karlsson)?
We need a central defensive midfielder so Brown can take a seat on the bench.
Up front Edouard wants to go, Griffiths should be told to go, Klimala not ready & Ajeti, even though we are almost at December is NOT fit yet?
Bit of a mess isn’t it Peter?
Meant to say sell Bitton as well.
*Christie apparently wants to go too?
christie is too busy crying about scotland to worry about us
he can go for all i care
every single one of them
At least he shows commitment unlike a fair few others.
Agree with most of that (except i would keep Griffiths)
But i thought it was all Neil’s fault ?
KOTW…Owen Mullions
Well I do have a big one though that’s the first time it’s been nominated for an award.
That’s quite a claim Owen, I hope it can stand up to scrutiny.
If rumours are true, our squad will be decimated with departures between now and next season, with the following players leaving:
Ajer – rumours wants to leave
Bitton – rumours wants to leave
Hendry – think has buy option on loan deal. Recent reports indicate Oostende will take it up
Bolingoli – for obvious reasons
Brown – retire or one last gig in an easier environment
Ntcham – rumours wants to leave
Christie – rumours wants to leave
Rogic – rumours wants to leave
Shved – hasn’t cut it so will probably be farmed out on loan again or released
Bayo – as per Shved
Eddy – rumours wants to leave. Last year of deal next year so we’ll sell if no new deal agreed.
Dembele – no new contract signed – rumours wants to leave.
Plus our loanees – Duffy, Moi, Laxalt – will leave.
That will mean we have the following squad for next season:
GK – Bain and Barkas;
Def – Frimpong; Taylor; Walsh; Julien; El Hamed;
Central Midfield – MacGregor; Turnbull; Soro; Henderson;
Wingers/wide attack – Forrest; Johnstone;
CF – Ajeti; Griffiths; Klimala.
Even then, it wouldn’t surprise me if MacGregor and Forrest (having tried for the 10) look to get a payday. And no-one is sure Julien will hang around, though he’s sticking up for Lennon now.
Given what we have now, and what we will have next season, I’d be inclined to play the following team for the rest of the year:
Barkas – we paid good money for him so should see if it is wasted money. We know enough about Bain to know he is not the long term answer;
El Hamed; Julien; Welsh; Taylor – they are all the defenders we’ll have next season, so let’s blood them.
Frimpong; MacGregor; Soro; Laxalt – Limited options on the right with Forrest injured and Johnstone unreliable. Having two full backs on the wings ought to make us more stable there and stop the crosses raining in.
Ajeti up front, supported by Griffiths or Klimala to provide movement and link up with the midfield.
The “wantaways” can come in to cover injury etc.
what do the board talk about on a weekly basis?
why is lennon still employed?
2 wins from 10?
what does it take to get the sack from celtic? do you need to commit a crime first?
£100,000 Profit and only after they sold KT. for £24.00 million. No CL Qualifiers, lose around £30.00 million. Remember Bankier saying ‘ it is essential that Celtic get into the CL’, he said that regarding Delia, a criticism. Well it is essential that we do, the figures don’t lie. No CL Qualifiers, then players must be sold to fill in the income gap, only the best players we have, satisfy that income loss. So they must address that and they will, but that is all depending on a full house of Celtic supporters, if they lose them, then they are Donald Ducked.
That’s exactly that in a nutshell. And a few of us warned that this could be the scenario.
The Celtic do not want or need any Manchild
That’s an unfair description of the manager.
Welcome back, bud.
Manchild is a collective made up of you ChaChaCha and the crew.
You all get a mention in the podcast too.
Personally it’s a more accurate description of a (now sadly departed ex-) poster who liked to dish it out but then flounced off in the cream puff when he’s answered in kind.
Or a (presumably) grown man triggered by Nicola’s every utterance.
But, hey ho, each to their own.
Only Nicola’s blatant mistakes raise an eyebrow.
Like ignoring legal advice and costing the public purse over £600k.
And then defying Parliament over sharing same legal advice.
If i was an SNP supporter i would be concerned .
But , hey ho each to their ChaChaCha own.
I’m in London, bud, so the governance down here is my concern.
Presumably she’s been impeached for defying Parliament?
Strange then that you fixate on any mention i make of the SNP .
Dare i say a tad hypocritical of you ChaChaCha .
So that’ll be a “no” then.
Swinney is facing a vote of no confidence.
Of course this does not concern you as you say .
I hear of this website called google.
You should try it.
Then you can research a subject you have no interest in without involving me .
Google’s a search engine but I use DuckDuckGo.
You’ve gone from Sturgeon to Swinney for no apparent reason.
Do you have a neurological condition that stops you concentrating on the matter in hand?
As i pointed out ,Swinney is facing a vote of no confidence from the Scottish Parliament over the refusal to publish the Legal Advice.
I appreciate that , despite what you claim i seem to have aroused an immediate and fervent desire in you for information on the Scottish Parliament and the SNP.
Feel free to use your favourite search engine to do your own research.
Possible search terms to use to help you get the answer you are looking for could be
‘Can a Scottish minister be impeached by the Scottish Parliament’
or
‘Why is John Swinney facing a vote of no confidence’
and of course
‘Why is Nicola Sturgeon not facing a vote of no confidence’
Does a neurological condition stop you from using a search engine ?
Maybe that also explains why you take interest in subjects you claim to have no concern for ?
Deary me, I seem to have touched a raw nerve there.
DDG works fine for me when I’m “bovvered” as you would say Vicki.
You started off ranting against Sturgeon and then switched to Swinney that made no sense.
BTW If you think ‘wasting’ £600k is bad, you’re positively going to shit yourself when you see Scotland’s share of the tens of billions that Bojo and his Gallant Brexiteers have spent down here.
As I’m not a supporter of the SNP, why should I share their concerns?
You’ve got me baffled there and not for the first time.
That’s a shame.
I thought you were the intellect of the group.
No need for me to shit myself , as Scotland is part of the UK i assume all money spent by the UK will also be repaid by the UK .
So, £600k due to the ScotGov failings is very bad.
£6bn (Scotland’s share) due to UK failings is cool.
Nah, I can’t see anything fecked about that logic.
Its very brave of you to own being compared to an unpleasant, pathetic comic character but each to their own.
Again you seem to take pleasure stating what Scotland will owe ?
I an a little surprised that a pedant such as yourself has allowed your comment above to appear with several words missing?
Is it cryptic ?
I think you might be a tad rattled ChaChaCha .
Do you have a Raw nerve lol ?
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I’m just trying to follow your tortured logic.
First it was Sturgeon in bovver over ‘legal advice’ but now its Swinney that’s facing a VONC, which seems a tad unfair.
You were all hot and bovvered that its cost £600k but are not the slightest bovvered that the UK Gov will cost Scotland 10 times that much.
It’s a surprise that logic hasn’t won over the Scottish people to the yooni cause.
Oh and just to clarify , since your such a pedant.
The Bovvered comment i sent to Big Don was in response to 2 comments he sent me along the lines of……
Are you bovvered, UFP?
You look bovvered.
Are you bovvered?
So it was with a little sense of irony i replied with same.
Again i thought you were the clever one.
Seems i have gained another troll.
Did your boyfriend ask to have his trash removed or did Ralph kick it out for him?
I’d say the latter, given the clear unbroken respect of the Bhoys for the great Diego Maradona.
What do you think of Maradona, doll?
How do you rate him as a football player?
Just out of curiosity…
Maybe your too busy dribbling on your keyboard to have noticed my comments on Maradona.
Sorry to see you use the great man to try some childish point scoring.
Standards Lacking.
How do you manage to make every single thing you post make you sound like a wound up schoolgirl, UFP?
I’m serious, how do you do that?
I don’t know any guy who talks like that so why do you?
bovvered ?
You certainly sound it, doll.
Hahahaha , i knew it would fly over your head Don.
It didn’t, dummy.
It flew over yours.
You’re the man/bird from Little Britain.
No, but, yeah, but, no, but, yeah, but, no, but, yeah but I know
Two wins from 10 and only 2 CL qualifications in the last decade …
Systemic failure at every level.
They all have to go, from Desmond on down.
They couldn’t run a raffle.
Think we also raided the piggybank of £10m as well.
Square pegs in round holes.
The team with Briwn in it is doomed to fail. He is 2 yards off the pace.
Bring back Duffy as the centre back let him play with Jullien.
Bring back Taylor as a kept back and El Hamed as a right back and work with them. Though shall not pass.
Midfield put Ajer in there instead of Brown the dynamics would change.
Ntcham Ajer Mcgregor
Play Frimpong and Laxalt as the wide players with eddy up top.
4 3 3
Get back to defending first and foremost the goals will come.
8_2 aggregate against the bottom seeds in a group where we were top let that sink in and tell me why he should stay.
hes going nowhere it would seem
Dermot best set aside a good chunk of his wealth, as the empty stadiums he’s seen this season will be the new norm when things get back to normal. The goodwill they received this year with season book sales, won’t be so easily achieved. They are treating the support with contempt. Our football operations and by that I mean the calibre of manager and coaching staff are that of a lower league club and as far as I’m led to believe the medical and sports science team leave a lot to be desired. What a fvckin shambles.
I don’t think Desmond will be investing any more money in Celtic.
Anything that he’s invested is in shares and when he does leave he’ll be wanting all of that paid back and then some.
He will an all, Cha.
As though he’s no taken enough out us already.
He has got to go. I feel for the guy but he looks and sounds a complete shambles – time for a mercy killing I think before the job destroys his reputation as a Celtic great.
Peter & DD disagree.
In their eyes he’s still the man for the job.
Because they can’t fess up up to their fvck up.
It’s clear now this is their end of the 5WA.
To be fair, isn’t it just Lennon that’s saying that.
The other 2 have been keeping shtum, as far as I’m aware.
Yeah, they’re not contradicting him but if they do put him out of his misery, they can say they never backed him.
According to Lenny they’re all chat, twice a week with Dermot alone!
I wonder what they say to each other ..
DD: That was pish again, Neil.
NL:I know, boss, it won’t happen again, that’s for sure.
A week later, ‘That was pish again, Neil’
’I know, boss, it won’t happen again, for sure this time’
Three days later, etc etc
Hahahaha terrific.
No need for apologies, you were probably right I was just scunnered with that last performance
Rumour Mill:
Peter has tried to reverse the charges with his zoom call conversation with Dermot and Neil.
“Their full support?”
35 pence is a lot of dough in these straitened times, Port.
Some amount of delusion on here recently: thinking we can get Howe; get Larsson to leave Barca; offer it to Pochettino ffs. What planet are yous on? We’re not going to get a manager like Rodgers again for a long time – that was a once in a blue moon situation. It worked for him and it worked for us at that time and it gave us a glimpse of what a modern coach does. We need to pick up a coach like Rodgers on their way up or produce our own, but that’s hard. That was the idea with Deila and they got it badly wrong. Look at Rodgers at Reading – lasted 6 months despite what he’d go on to do. There’s no one who’ll want to take this job the now, and that’s the problem. Despite all his mistakes, I’d be amazed if Lawwell wasn’t looking for someone – he’s not a complete idiot. The fact that Lennon’s still there means they can’t get someone to take it on, and I’m not surprised.
No one good will want it, and no one who wants it will be good.
Probably the only credible candidate that we could get just now would be MacKay because he’s got nothing to lose, and that would reputational cancer for the club.
I’d give it to Kennedy because I don’t think that we’ll be able to get better than that this season, and he can’t be any worse. I don’t think it’ll be enough, and it might not even get better, but I reckon that it’s the best we can do at the moment.
no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no
john kennedy? na no way, he should have been out the door with deila
he was a defender and our defence has been a problem for years, a complete clear out required
if were going down that route they would be as well offering it to willie mcstay for the rest of the season, at least the fans would get behind him
Fine, I’d take that. Anything to stop this expectation that we’re going to go out and get a top level coach midway through a season that’s a slow motion car crash and likely leading to losing what would have been the biggest club achievement in decades.
On your Kennedy point, the fact that Rodgers wanted to take him to Leicester and that multiple clubs here have wanted to speak to him about managerial jobs provides a counterpoint, but I’m not really interested in that argument tbh. Maybe he’s gash, I’ve no idea.
you’ll remember the ICT semi final under deila that we lost? james forrest was running riot, won the free kick that virgil scored from and generally having one of his better games
gotdon gets sent off, deila turns to kennedy to see what they do. kennedy tells deila to get james off (the best player on the park that day)
a bemused james comes off and asks why he was being taken off, to which kennedy replies (becuase you cant fuking defend) we proceed to lose the game
kennedy out
Has he said he’s not a good coach?
I’ve never asked and he wouldn’t tell me his opinion anyway. Contrary to what some believe
Fair enough. In that case, personally, Rodgers wanting him at Leicester and Hibs wanting him as manager holds more weight than a sub he advised on as 3rd in command 5 year ago.
I disagree. He made a call and it helped knock us out the cup
Pound to a penny, you ridiculed Rodgers as a potential Celtic manager.
I wouldn’t want Howe myself, as he’s unproven outside of Bournemouth (failed at big club Burnley) but as he’s unemployed and clubs don’t appear to be beating a path to his door, we’d certainly be able to make a credible bid to appoint him.
Deila was to be Lennon’s assistant but then he was bumped up, big mistake.
“No one will take the job”. This is such guff and is always trotted out, such as “poisoned chalice”, “no one will work there” etc.
If the money is good enough etc then the chance to manage in the CL, unavailable at most clubs, is attractive, even if only to polish a CV before moving on to “better” things.
Lawwell should have been prepared for both Rodgers leaving and the permanent manager position. Clearly he wasn’t and to him ‘succession planning’ simply refers to picking up his next over-remunerated pay cheque.
I wonder what multiple clubs have wanted to speak to Kennedy. He applied for Dundee United, now managed by Micky Mellon (who?).
I’m sure if Rodgers “wanted” him, it was only to stop him looking bad, as he’d taken all of the other coaches.
You mean Micky Mellon who’s got newly promoted Dundee Utd 4th in the table after 15 games, aye?
We’ll see if you’re right. I don’t expect a big name, but who knows.
Wait, Hibs have been docked 7 points, how did that happen?
What do you mean ” nobody wants it “?
The Celtic job is one of the best jobs in football!
Nobody good wants it – no one that any of us would be happy with. I’m sure there are plenty of no marks that’d take it.
Cool. Where are they then? I don’t like the current board at the club, but the worst mistake you can make is thinking that they’re completely stupid. Arrogant? Yes. Don’t care about the fans? Definitely. But not stupid.
They’ll have been looking for people for at least a wee while, and they’re still backing Lennon. The only reasonable explanation for that is that they can’t find someone good enough to take over. Otherwise you’re looking at blind loyalty, sentimentality or conspiracy, none of which I buy.
If they have been looking for people for a wee while, then they havn’t been looking hard enough, that’s where the arrogance comes in. Simple arithmetic, spend on a quality manager and get into the C.L. Qualifiers for the bigger reward. Our income includes an emotionally invested support, its reliant on the support backing the club with its cash, take them for granted at your peril. If they don’t care about the fans, then they really are stupid. The small supporter shareholders do not have enough shares to make much of a difference, they still have rights, but if the support becomes disillusioned enough to stop supporting the club in numbers, then they will soon appoint a better manager pdq. Empty stands Delia?
Not really sure I understand your point. You think they’re not looking for a replacement? Don’t buy it.
Of course I think they are looking, but one that Lawwell can control, unlike Rodgers whom he could’nt. Lawwell will always looks to the cheap option like Deila, he was a disaster and Lennon is Delia-esque. If it was’nt for Covid, the stands would be emptying now. Go for a more modern manager, get into the CL Qualifiers and keep the support happy and the money keeps coming in.
Depending on the money and control DD is willing to spend and give, Celtic could target any one of a group of very good modern coaches. The money is there and we do have European potential 60000 every home game etc. and more or less guaranteed European football every year. Let’s be bold and finance a top management team signing. Rodgers despite his personal traits is a very good modern manager there are more Rodgers out there.
Perhaps time for a an Argentine, Spanish, French or Italian management team.
Okay, you ‘don’t buy’ either ‘blind loyalty, sentimentality or conspiracy’?
So now you’ve ruled out three of the main components of what motivates folk, what do you ‘buy’ ..?
You’ve not much left.
Kennedy?!
You’d be better off giving it to your granny, ffs.
He’s only still there for being Peter’s boy in the dressing room, that’s it.
He’s done nothing for the defence in all the years he’s held his unqualified tenure.
Arsene Wenger was a centre half and some of his defences were utterly shambolic. That’s not how management works.
Wtf has that to do with anything?!
Ffs, mate, if your name wasn’t ’Joe’ I’d ask if you were John Kennedy in disguise.
He’s Peter’s spy.
Thats why he’s served, and done fvck all, under our last 4 managers (Lennon twice).
Fvckin Arsène Wenger, ffs.
If Lenny,Kennedy and Strachan have to go,could I put forward Massimo Allegri and his coaching staff as replacement?Six Serie A titles in 10 years.Known for coaching defenders to organise and actually defend.Known for demanding discipline from his midfielders and coaches forwards to exploit weaknesses of the opposition.Sounds pretty good to me…what do you think?
It’s almost an indisputable fact that at the end of the season in any league at any level, that the team that concedes the fewest goals becomes champions. We effectively play with two defenders as our two wing backs don’t seem to realise that their primary task is to defend. Only when the occasional opportunity presents itself should they vacate their posts. These forays are more difficult for opponents to deal with as they are outwith the established pattern of play. The number of times our two fullbacks had to try and sprint back into their designated positions led to our downfall. Midfielders had to try and cover, which a) they’re not good at, and b) it takes them away from their jobs and upsets the balance of the team.
We won’t shake off this malaise until we get back to the basics of a high level of fitness and organisation. This last observation also applies to the board.
Well said.
This week has gone from shambolic to brutal and Lenny really does look and sound like he’s coming apart at the seams yet he has to face the media alone, again, while Peter & Dermot hide in their ivory towers and order him to come out and say that they’re ‘all united’ ..?
Those two cowards should face the fans at CP tomorrow and give the real reason for this fiasco they’ve dragged the club into.
qui cum canibus concumbunt cum pulicibus surgent
Woof!
Owen, more measured, better. We are all angry. I apologise.
No need for apologies you were probably right – I was just a scunnered with that performance.
GBNL.
oh dear
Drop Ajer and Ntcham immediately. Send Duffy back down south.
Get the signings you need arranged for January.
But i think Lawell dictates who he wants in the shop window.
Get behind Lenny.
Sure, Duncan.
We don’t really mind corruption in Scottish football so long as we’re winning.
Peter lawell has been at it for a long time, but his gambles just about paid off.
If celtic blow 10 in a row it’ll be unforgivable but we’ll deserve it. It should have been made clear by everyone in celtic that the huns were a new club but no too busy gorging on jelly and ice cream.
Resolution 12 didn’t matter when we were doing trebles. This day was always coming but you have to do whats right at the time no matter how hard. When you’re right you stand firm. When you have truth on your side you don’t back down.
I still think we’ll do it though celtic will come good and the huns will buckle and lawell will ride off into the sunset a hero with a huge pension.
55 will come eventually and that’s what the records will show. No liquidation or starting a new club in the bottom tier, just an unjust demotion after some undeserved financial difficulties.
Never mind maybe we’ll get our freedom passes soon so we can all cheer on the pantomime.
There are none so hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Here’s the full quote from DD in The Athletic I’ve mentioned this week.
He calls him ‘a work in progress’ and not a ‘project’ but I still think he’s referring to ‘taming’ Lenny into the board’s way of thinking.
Which is selling The Ten to get his baws scratched further down the line.
(With thanks to Chairbhoy from the Sentinels site):
’on NL replacing BR] –“Lenny was always on our radar. Lenny has been a work in progress for us. He’s been that person we have kind-of tutored and he’s learned along the way. The advice we gave him he’s now realised was good advice, and he’s matured and everybody’s allowed to make mistakes. None of them were fatal.
“So we took him back in even though some of the fans thought it was a retrograde step. But you learn more from mistakes, it can change your personality, your modus operandi. We saw that with Lenny and he has repaid our belief in him.”
For the record, Martin and his recent pandering to the British press can do one.
That guy knows the media’s anti Celtic bias inside out so for him to come out and blow bubbles up their arse strips him of any remaining cred I thought he might have had left.
Leaving us with a choice between John Cannae Dae and Eddie Howe No.
Fvckin great eh?
For the record , I am sure Martin will not sleep tonight , or possibly any night knowing that he has lost all remaining ‘cred’ that you, Big don had left for him.
You have , to quote one of my favourite comedians , ‘No Respect At All’.
Not Bobby ball this time , for those that seem interested.
Lets see if you can guess who the comedian is from the quote , answers on a postacard.
On ye go, doll.
I’m off for a kip.
Say Goodnight, sorry, Good riddance, to Duncan from me, will you, Duncan?
Ta.
Lol
Your missing him Doll , aren’t you ?
He is Right inside your head !
Who?
We are not a 90 minute side, never mind a 120 minute side.
We do have some good penalty takers though.
If only games lasted 35 minutes and Celtic got penalties …
i see the boca ultras have murdered 2 out of the 3 funerla directors that took pics with Maradona’s dead body
i wonder what they would make of duncy the donkey’s jibe the other night?
Why don’t you contact them and ask ?
Condoning murder but vilifying a picture of a can of coke ?
Maybe your hoping the ultra’s can help take Duncan out of your head ?
hi duncan 🙂
Yeah , he’s gonna be Inside You for a long time……..
Who?
Haha lol that sounds wrong on so many levels
Yeah
Enough to give You nightmares
lol
And you dreams, sicko
Gibberish
lol
Big Don Gibberish
There are no official reports of that. They’ve been fired from their jobs certainly but it wouldn’t come as a surprise if they eventually do get done in. Rancid bastards.
Probably More lies from the serial offender
Jimboh and Steve, probably a bit harsh on my part regarding NL but who doesn’t like a good knob joke in these dark times.
Owen, on the subject of knob jokes:
There is a man down Ibrox way I’d like you all to know
He’s just received the latest unpaid tax bill for Sevco
When the Peepul heard of it they came from far and wide
And when they saw the size of it this is what they cried:
“Oh, that’s a stottir!”
“We’ve never seen wan as big as that afore”
“Oh, that’s a stottir!”
“It must be two feet long or even more”
“The ink’s the deepest shade o’ red, when folded up it’s fat”
“We’ve never seen an unpaid tax bill quite as big as that”
“Oh, that’s a stottir!”
“We’ve never seen wan as big as that afore”.
He was standing outside Ibrox park just the other day
And beckoned to a young hunette who chanced to pass his way
He reached into his trousers and brought it out with pride
And when she saw it in his hand she turned bright red and sighed:
“Oh, that’s a stottir!”
“Ah’ve never seen wan as big as that afore”
“Oh, that’s a stottir!”
“It must be two feet long or even more”
“The colour’s sort o’ reddish pink, it’s nice and thick and fat”
“Ah never thought Ah’d get tae see wan quite as big as that”
“Oh, that’s a stottir!”
“Ah’ve never seen wan as big as that afore”.
I’m howling here. Just marvellous. Get it into production A3 and framed.
…… a must for all Celtic man caves.
Unfit For Purpose is the biggest knob joke in Celtic cyberspace.
Don’t flatter him/ it.
The new web site gives you local game time from where you sit.
Are we on the way to go to wearing a top of the head attire English management approach?
With my job description, I have no say.
Jesus H Christ, Port, 1st sentence scared the FN crap outa me.
Even there, thought I, is there no privacy left?
Then I re-read it………..
Nae wonder ah’m a baggae nerves…..
TF for the low flyer at £16 a litre in Tesco. Hic!
FC not PLC
Remarkable righteous go to Heaven:
PLC campaigns abroad…what can we get for these?
Prime SMSM…
“That is bullshit. I told you I was there.”
Tangerine segments.
Bullets in the post , Bomb threats , Assaulted on the park And 24 hr security and a panic button required at his Family home.
Neil Lennon never gave in
The Scottish Government , The SFA , Police Scotland And the HUNS can all stand back and watch the Celtic Support and the Green Brigade try to finish what they collectively could not.
GBNL
When there’s no defence of the manager for his managerial ability and belief in being able to turnaround our woeful season then you know the game’s up.
Ironically the Huns are the biggest supporters of Lennon staying as Celtic manager.
If you’re genuinely worried for his safety then perhaps Corporal Jones (Duncan) and Private Pike (yourself) can get an army together to provide protection.
LMG
If you truly believe the HUNS want him to remain then you are a much Bigger fool than i thought .
Why on earth, given the way we are (not) playing, do you think they’d want him to leave?
The last time they were this giddy was when they beat us in the Scottish Cup.
We took the correct action then and it paid off big style.
They are praying or sacrificing goats that we don’t take it this time.
LMG!
If the HUNS are relevant to you , that is your choice.
They are irrelevant to me , so what they think has no bearing on my actions.
They are almost as irrelevant as you and the crew ChaChaCha
and yet it’s you that brought them up.
You have the same cognitive dissonance as the dearly departed.
I brought them up saying they are standing back , allowing arseholes like you to do their dirty work.
You then claimed the HUNS are the biggest supporters of Lennon staying manager.
You try to give them relevance.
Why would a so called Celtic fan be interested in doing that ?
ChaChaCha the HUN sympathiser
Wow, the contortions and contradictions.
It’s probably best we leave it there, as simple logical thought process seems to be an alien concept to you.
Just you trying to twist things as usual ChaChaCha.
Not been working so well for you lately.
You Must try harder.
I apologise and take it all back.
The Huns must be watching that first half and saying “the sooner Celtic get rid of Lennon the better for us”.
The crew you can’t stay away from, Vicki.
‘Former Scotland & Rangers winger Neil McCann on Sportsound
Celtic have got monumental problems in there now it seems. I wouldn’t like to see Neil Lennon lose his job. I and others feel the players have let him down. There’s something not right in there, there’s clearly issues behind the scenes.’
You’re a fvckin halfwit, pal.
No, he’s expressing the sentiment of Rangers fans.
On yonder hill there stood a coo,
It must’ve moved, it’s no’ there noo!
Ralph, I’ve a coupla wee funnies (short videos) but no idea how to put them up on here.
Feel free to contact me here, or directly, if you get the time to respond.
Hope you and yours are well, and remain so.
TicToc
WE ARE ALL NEIL LENNON!
That’s why it hurts so much to want him to go, this is ripping me to bits!
We got fed up searching for something worth watching on TV, Netflix et cetera ages ago, and hence looked to our own collection. It turns out that “Goblin’s Not Only a Noun” is explicit in its ‘educational’ explanation, that ‘verbs’ can be far more entertaining than ‘nouns’.
Went straight over my napper of course but I did ‘feel’ that ‘her indoors’ should have her false teeth adjusted in case she ends up choking on part of a ‘sausage’.
I’m kinda ‘off’ Celtic FC just now (as well as my trolley)…..TBPH, they need to earn my support and respect again.
HH the FC
Fukk the PLC
Cobra Kai
See, see when there’s little or nothing to watch on terrestrial TV (mostly), we go to various options like Netflix.
My wife is intelligent, tough and discerning (relatives in the Mafia (North), and apart from an old love of ‘soaps’ which I kicked out of her, she’s super-cool and super-hotl
Anyway, the point is this. We watched a very watchable series of “The Crown” (Clare Foy?) as the Queen, et cetera. So, when the latest version was available I thought “okay, she likes it I’m okay with that.” The latest thing is fukking mince from start, but I got FACT I’d never known before, and before binning it I gleaned this: Thatcher was HUMILIATED at Balmoral (had to pack and run away), that’s kinda perfect to me, but it gets better. Around the same time there was the victory at the Narrow Water when the PIRA nailed 18 and put a slightly larger number in ICUs. And then, (possibly) the last words of Louis Mountbatten, “I’m just blown away out here!………” 27th August 1979
Of course, my all time favourite is “we only need to be ‘lucky’ once”.
HH
Fitba, ah, the fitba. Today must be 4-4-2 in order to give defenders breathing space to defend and attackers breathing space NOT to defend.
Barkas
Elhamed/Ajer/Jullien/Taylor
Christie/Turnbull/Soro/Laxalt
Edouard/Griffiths
Soro/Turnbull/Ajeti/Klimala/Elyounoussi all to figure. No predictions but let’s keep a clean sheet whilst running riot. We need two strikers up front, that way Eddie will get some service and freedom to move. C’mon The Celtic.
We all can see Broony’s legs have gone, he was floored several times agin Sparta when before he would have been solid, if I were told fringe players agin, AC, I would be even more pished, no Dembele, which means instead of an excited player signing on for a couple more seasons, he’ll be off for peanuts. Just no bravery here from Lenny. He just does not realise he has no the nouse to take it forwards. Lost it IMO. HH!
No Bravery ??????
Have you just woken up from a 10 year coma ?
you get yourself to F*** ya clown
With respect, I think Lenny is in one. A brave manager does no have his players who respect him slipping off to Spain for a day and leaving good talent going to waste while his favourites plod on through game after game. Would you do that to a boss you had a bit of fear of? He has lost it and better get that mean streak back or even Lawwell wil have to come out of hiding to go with the many we are on the end of. HH!
Poor, pathetic, bottle merchant of a manager, this is Ross County, not exactly a super team. But so far this is diabolical.
Thirty minutes of garbage
he is treating the support with complete contempt now
he should just walk out the front doors at half time
You’re right.
He’s gone from “I can fix this” to “Desmond and Peter back me, so it doesn’t matter what you the fans think”.
Are you watching this Dermot/Peter?
Are you still calm?
This is lamentable!
Back by unpopular demand it’s theHalf time Word Jumble Competition
Yes folks, just complete the sentence to win a chance to knock sense into all the members (members as in cocks) on the Celtic Board using a nail encrusted baseball bat.
Misery……Put…..His……Lennon…..Of……Out
A ICT HT revolt did for Barnes.
Do we have any brave players today?
Board trying its best to force Neil to walk
Anybody got a stream…I need to see this disaster first hand.
Are we heading for Christopher Jullien playing centre-forward?
Missed the first half due to the Celticfc website updating to use my local time instead of always using Celtic Park time.