{"id":16829,"date":"2021-03-02T10:08:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T10:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etims.net\/?p=16829"},"modified":"2021-03-02T10:08:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T10:08:20","slug":"celtic-diary-tuesday-march-2-can-we-just-get-it-over-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etims.net\/?p=16829","title":{"rendered":"Celtic Diary Tuesday March 2: Can We Just Get It Over With ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems like everything is taking forever of late, time passing slower than the proverbial week in jail.<\/p>\n

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Even the plague seems to be reluctant to give in to lockdowns and vaccines, with the new Brazil variant looking particularly nasty…<\/p>\n

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James Forrest is no nearer even getting a date for his return, and there’s a chance that he will miss the Euros and possibly even the UCL qualifiers, which would be a disaster for the club because he can usually be called on to dig us out of a hole in these games.<\/p>\n

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He hasn’t played since September of last year and for someone who has been a fixture in the side for the last decade or so, that must be tough.<\/p>\n

Still, at least he’s stuck at home when everyone else is and won;t be missing much, but if I was in\u00a0 his shoes I’d be looking somewhat wistfully at Keiran Tierney who also had a long term injury and had to leave Celtic to get it looked at properly.<\/p>\n

Tierney is on record as saying he wasn’t allowed to rest long enough for a proper recovery, and this would have played a part in his decision to leave.<\/p>\n

Forrest has remained loyal throughout his time at the club, and probably needs a wee bit of\u00a0 cheering up right now.<\/p>\n

I’d suggest the club should order him a Cup winners medal so that he can have the full set of quadruple treble gongs….<\/p>\n

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There’s still plenty of turmoil at the ranch, with John Kennedy now running the team, and under his guidance they stormed to a 1-0 win over Aberdeen at the weekend.<\/p>\n

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Alright, perhaps storm is perhaps too strong a win.<\/p>\n

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In fact, the attitude of one or two players gave the impression that the only movement of air was them blowing smoke up our arses.<\/p>\n

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Gordon Strachan, clearly worried his son might lose his job at the club and move back into the parental home, was rather upset…<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou know talking about team spirit and being close together, I wouldn\u2019t have been happy if I was a manager and had seen those two laughing [Soro and Edouard] at something like that.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201c I would be saying to them I\u2019ve made a 50-yard run, boost me in, we win 2-0 and then we celebrate. Then the guy who has made a mistake can take it. That\u2019s more together than saying \u2018oh here, that was unlucky, that was fine, big smiles\u2019.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cNo. A manager has resigned this week. How can you smile after that, an opportunity to lay somebody in, pass and score, 2-0, rather than go yourself. That would be my concern.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u00a0“That\u2019s personalities. That\u2019s all to do with personalities. And what you are trying to get out of life. Do you want to go to the top, do you want to make the team go to the top? Do you want to make this group of players better? Can you demand from each other to be better rather than accepting things to be not good enough.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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He went on to moan about anything else that came to mind, and he has got a point, but frankly that point would have come across better had he shaved and put on a nice suit.<\/p>\n

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Then again, if any of my kids were in a situation where they might be out of work and looking to move back home I’d grow a beard and pretend it wasn’t me either when they turned up at the door.<\/p>\n

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Of course, he has a point, and there is a malaise among the players, for whatever reason, and the sooner a new guy comes in and starts kicking butts the better.<\/p>\n

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Jeremie Frimpong isn’t at Celtic any more, but for some reason he chucked his tuppence worth in as well…<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think in football, obviously\u00a0Celtic<\/a>\u00a0in previous years they always win, but there was always going to be a point where they can\u2019t win everything, so there was always going to have to be a time where they have to lose.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u00a0Thing is, whether you think you’re going to win, or you think you are going to lose, you will always be right…<\/div>\n
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\u00a0And that is the problem at Celtic, which is becoming glaringly obvious by the day.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Told you, piece of piss this management lark. I’m surprised Dermot hasn’t phoned me yet.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0I’m even more surprised I’ve not been linked with the job in the papers, as it seems everyone else has.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Though I’m led to believe you can ignore all the speculation, as Dermot has picked who he wants and is now working on how to get them in…<\/div>\n
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\u00a0And by all accounts, it will be worth waiting for. ( Well, two, and they were both pissed )<\/div>\n
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\u00a0What we need to do, and I know its difficult, is get a little perspective here.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0In a way, we’re all in acceptance mode about the title, in that it’s gone, and there’s maybe a little bit of comfort in knowing we threw it away over a longer period than were , say, cheated out of it in a decider by a career minded referee, or some such other travesty.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0This is all our own work, and so therefore we should know how to put it right.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Over the last decade, 29 trophies have been divided up….<\/div>\n
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20 – Celtic 2 – ST JOHNSTONE 1 – Aberdeen 1 – Hearts 1 – Hibernian 1 – ICT 1 – Kilmarnock 1 – Ross County 1 – St Mirren\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n
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\u00a0We’d have taken that ten years ago, and in ten years from now the share will most likely be the same, although a couple of Ibrox entities might be in there as well.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0If we start to look at it for what it was, a glitch, then we might feel a little more generous and heap praise on the new club that came from nowhere to win the league, taking advantage of our complacency.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0And that way we can largely ignore there 55 campaign, a nonsensical achievement that is nether true nor signficant.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0The media are touting Gerrard as next Liverpool manager, with the Merseyside club also suffering a bad season by their own recent standards, which for a fellow with the budget he has had at Ibrox who took a few years to win anything is quite a leap of faith.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Maybe the highs of success at Liverpool, as with Celtic, are harder to continue when you take away the noise of the crowd, and maybe it lends a surreal atmosphere to the whole situation that is much more difficult to deal with than just plodding along and hoping for the best….<\/div>\n
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\u00a0As we said at the top of the page,\u00a0 the sooner normality returns the better, and then we can all move on.<\/div>\n
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