Celtic Diary Saturday October 24: We Are Celtic Supporters ! Aren’t We ?

Yesterdays diary was fairly short, but the replies were , well, lengthy. A number of them went astray, but they are all back where they should be now.

As ever, the quality of most of them was high. If you haven’t read through them, get a coffee and do it.

( Unless your name is monti, and if it is , check your emails.)

Why should you read the replies ?

Because they are indicative of how the support feels this morning.

Some want Deila out. Some want Deila in.

And some want him to shake it all about.

I’ll go with the latter option.

Not based on the picture , I feel I must stress.

Thursday , by general consensus , showed that maybe one or two players can be accused of not playing for the jersey ( I counted ten at least- Ed )

Of those who started, only Stuart Armstrong and Deydrick Boyata were Deila’s own signings.

Maybe he is aware of the lack of passion within the players, on the park at least, shouting at the coaches when you’ve been pulled off

doesn’t count.

Incidentally, Commons has apologised for his outburst;

It takes a man to do this. Well done, Kris, now can we move on. The video of his rant shows him saying ” They’ve had enough ”  Then he points to the fans and says “Listen ”

Without knowing what was said before, and what was said to him, its important not to take that out of context, but what should be noted is the body language of John Collins, who apears to be completely aloof.

Which, I fear, may be the problem. Maybe not the whole problem, but certainly a key factor.

Anyhow, I’m rambling again.

Of the eleven who started against Molde, only two were Deila signings.

Ryan Christie and Scott Allen.

Add to that James Forrest, Liam Henderson, Stuart Armstrong and Gary Mackay Steven.

And chuck in Leigh Griffiths , Tom Rogic , Keiran Tierney, Ade Nesbitt as well.

And Nadir Ciftci, Saidy Janko and  Darnell Fisher

We’re around eighteen months into Deila’s tenure. About half the time it should reallistically take to build your own team, hopefully a team who won’t spend their long nights staring wistfully south hoping to jump on the gravy train down there full of mediocre mercenaries who have already got everything they wanted, except for medals.

And be honest, thats not why they came into the game anyway,

As a supporter, I want players who grow into the jersey.

Players who want to sit their grandchildren on their knees and tell of great victories, and not of great cars or big houses.

An example ? Okay.

Bertie Auld.

As his wife once told a fan, whom Bertie was showing his European winners badge to;

“See when he dies , I’m selling that fucking medal” ( I’m paraphrasing, but you get the point. )

So do you.

Ronny must be given the time to try to create another Bertie. Or a Billy. Or a Jinky.

Further thoughts on this come from Tictactic;

tictactic

After all, this split in the support has the mainstream media doing something else that begins with M

The MSM, pictured here before their christmas do last year;

Have a look at this, from the SFA twitter timeline, apparently posted, and then quickly deleted by David Childs,  Social and Web Content Producer at the Scottish Football Association

They want him out, which is enough of a reason itself for us to want him in.

By the way, maybe we should get this guy in if we want passion on the park…

Pasion Pasion

Right, on to a new section of the diary.

You know when you are watching a game on the telly, and they tell you about other games to come ?

Keep an eye out for the next Rumour mill, currently in its third draft and with a QC.

It’s explosive, it’s dynamite, and it might just contain the story that makes us all go “Aahh, so thats whats up. ”

Follow us on twitter for more details. @etims,net

I don’t have any input to the twitter account, which is why sometimes the account differs in content from the diary or other articles.

I have my own account, which usually makes even less sense than the diary @Richiestoke

Something else is also in the pipeline, well, to the extent that it’s being discussed at Celtic.

Maybe the club is about to remember it’s roots after all, and take bold steps towards filling the ground again. I’ll keep you informed on that one, but if it happens, then Celtic will truly be more than a club.

Heres a clue… this is a graph of what someone thinks are the average ticket prices throughout Europe.

Away from all that, mind when i was up in Dunoon the other week ? I chapped the door of the house i grew up in, and asked if i might have a look around, for old times sake.

I was told no, and advised to fuck off,  which leads me to think my parents could do with learning some manners.

Oh, almost forgot.

We’ve signed carlton cole.

fucking hooray