I was disappointed to hear Neil Lennon was ‘mutually consented’ by Bolton yesterday. He picked the club up off the floor early last season, putting together a remarkable run of form which saw them talked as promotion candidates, but a reply cup defeat to Liverpool saw momentum dip. The year since has seen Bolton look like the relegation fodder they were before Neil’s arrival.
Forget all this nonsense the newspapers are throwing around this morning (anything to undermine the team ahead of Kilmarnock on Saturday), Neil’s ship has sailed in Glasgow, but he should plan to remain in the game.
The people of Bolton might not have seen him at his best, but he’s a genuine managerial talent. After a shaky 18 months at Celtic he turned a corner and became a remarkable success, crafting a team who could compete with anyone in the world.
Looking back now, I think the intensity of the Celtic job got too much for Neil. It’s a 24x7x365 life, you need vast oceans of patience, and need to be prepared to make enormous sacrifices. It’s not just about structuring a defence to subjugate wee Leo and his pals.
The Bolton job was always going to be a tall order. He picked them up in a relegation spot, there was no money to improve things, while each passing month the financial position deteriorated. He also had to find an unusual pre-match technique to address the ‘I know you’re not getting paid but how about giving 110% anyway?’ problem.
The same media who are trying to disrupt our title challenge have misread the mood music this time. If anything, they’ve focussed the support on the task in hand.
On another matter………….. I’m one of the many who have signed up to Zip Slide across Celtic Park on Easter Saturday morning in aid of the Celtic Foundation. This is a great initiative; all those who have signed up have paid event costs, so money raised goes straight to the Foundation’s mission to improve Health, promote Equality, encourage Learning and tackle Poverty.
The work the Foundation do in our name is incredible. If you can contribute, please do so here.
Thank you.
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GreenPinata
Does the past not have consequences for the present, political ideology has roots in the past, its not a new invention.
If people dont know their history….Then politicians/historians could tell you any old twaddle.
See David Irving for example.
HH
Talking of History…..here’s a wee bit of Celtic’s…..amongst other snippets, why Patsy’s surname was Gallacher when his parents were Gallagher!
http://goo.gl/BLwiXO
Hail hail
Matt
Matt Stewart
Thats what its all about.
What would you given to have seen that goal:)
Of course…lets forget the requirement for time machine.
Good Stuff.
HH
Hello this is WEE BGFC. Driving in the car with Dad. I’ve been told to ask has there been any news about Celtic and res 12? Have they indicated any response to regans email posted yesterday? Is Lawell still colluding with the enemy?
HH
WEE BGFC
LAWELL OUT
BGFC
NO
NO
Yes
HH
WEE BGFC
Hows it going super Celt.
Tell your dad, there’s no change…Yet:)
Hail Hail to the bold Wee BGFC
Matt Stewart
A really good post earlier about the recent vilification of Ronny.
My feelings about Ronny are well enough known to any poor soul who has had to endure my empty vessel ramblings. Quite simply, I don’t think he’s good enough.
However, and it’s a mighty large however, the recent treatment he has had to endure has been as scandalous as it’s been predictable.
The low level, but heartfelt, grumbles from the Celtic support recently manifested in a GTF chant at Parkhead. Again my opinions are known; feel free to criticise any player or any member of the management team but keep it outside the stadium.
The MSM response to Celtic’s recent ‘monumental collapse’ has been altogether more predictable. What has surprised me has been the depths to which they’ve trolled.
The inclusion of Davie Moyes on a National radio show, and the subsequent line of questioning where he was asked about the possibility of replacing Ronny, is disrespectful in the extreme but even worse is it’s blatant attempt at undermining our journey to the Double.
Win it Ronny and stuff it down their collective throats.
Ps then I hope he goes.
Hello this is WEE BGFC. Thanks for the reply guys. :) hope to see you at Kilmarnock on Saturday :)
HH
WEE BGFC
LAWELL OUT
HT
I agree with most of what you say.
The MSM – a particularly apt acronym for bottom feeding creatures who are Monumentally Sad Morons – is a slightly different kettle of red herring.
I know that irrespective of fan sentiment I could up until the last week or two silenced and thwarted their attempts to create unrest/get a scoop/sell advertising space or whatever.
They haven’t and what were originally ripples from stones tossed speculatively into Celtic waters, have become storm tossed seas.
I don’t believe that the questions,insinuations or the interviews have arisen purely on scattergun speculation.
Celtic have either not strangled the serpent, failed to exercise due care and attention or worst of all possibly started a process of putting feelers out.
The night before last on Sportsound, Graham Spiers sniggered at the mention of Ronny being viewed a success even if he achieved a double. Kenny MacIntyre was even taken aback and Tom English said nothing. I immediately contacted the BBC about this infantile and scandalously unprofessional attitude to a man, his dignity and his livelihood. I asked for a retraction and an apology from the the presenters to be broadcast.
I backed Graham Spiers when The Herald treated him abysmally and I stand by that stance. But having had no response from the BBC, believe me that I would willingly see him slapped in the face by karma.
There are times, irrespective of professional disagreement when the tie that binds is stronger than the short term desire to mollify the rumblings of dissent or the scratch-yer-back relationship with hacks.
Forgetting Res 12 for the moment, for their laissez faire approach and demeaning attitude to the man who until the end of the season at least carries the simple hopes of so many thousand upon thousand of supporters, the board of Celtic Football club should be eternally ashamed.
I won’t forget it.
Hail Hail
Matt
What is the stars
If you are lurking.
About ten days ago you tipped up Yorkhill in what ever race it ran at Cheltenham and said Vatour would probably not run in the Gold cup.
I passed on your advice and also took it myself.
So thank you from me and the friends I passed it on to,who backed Yorkhill today and took Vatour at a better price for the Ryanair. Impressive stuff.
Hail Hail
One stand now completely sold out and the remaining tickets in the other end are selling fast.
Celtic supporters are responding to the relentless attacks on our manager.
If we get to 10 in a row we will look back at 5 and remember that as the critical point.
They can’t stop us. Next season they will get their reality check in the big league and hopefully we will stuff them in the cup next month. Their lack of resource will stop them challenging as 5 becomes 6 and 6 , 7 …
That’s their fear and this is their chance.
Every game until the Cup Final is a cup final now.
I hope Ronny brings back his Roar on Saturday and does it at every game.
Defiance.
BMCUW,
From earliery.
Society has changed..and we are all part of society.
The halcyon days of our youth, mine anyway, are gone, never to return.
There is a cruel, dog eat dog out there and, unfortunately, it is not really the survival of the fittest, but the most adaptable.
The Corinthian regime of Bob Kelly would have been swallowed by the sharks of today.
Look what the latter day Kelly’s and Whites led us to.
Celtic have to operate and survive in today’s environment, not in the more forgiving era of the past.
As much as I regret the callousness of commercial world of today, it is hardheartedness of some of our fans that disturbs me more.
Celtic supporters never publicly denounced any section of the club.
Now, we have so called “supporters” writing the MSM copy for them. Totally unjustifiable.
My late father summed up, for me, the difference between Us and Them.
They lacked he Grace of God.
The lines have become blurred, I’m afraid.
Off to watch Barca.
Winning Captains
Great post.
I normally like to support the underdog but will not be hoping for a Juve win tonight!
And Juve up 1-0 already :-(
Inter supporting old codger from down the valley gets mightily peeved as Rube score. ( Pogba ) Mrs S of T couldn’t resist telling him it was karma for his hatred .
Make that 2-0
Juvequicknews
MATT STEWART on 16TH MARCH 2016 4:15 PM
BSR/BMCUWP
Sometimes we endow those with the greatest invective, ‘action this day’ opinions and madame guillotine solutions, with having a monopoly on enthusiasm and passion. Like the crowd baying for a goal as we surge forward on a tide of optimism and hope to grab that winner….only to find out that we’ve got ten forwards and no defence.
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Elegant but strangely illogical analogy .
I would imagine that the sacking of Jimmy McGrory would have caused you to speak in similar fashion .
Who spoke up against the sacking of ” take it on the jaw ” Tony Mowbray or others before him.
Where was ” principle ” then ?
Who thinks the Tony Mowbray decision was bad or unprincipled ?
Patently it was the right decision.
It`s a simple enough assessment.
If you think that success in Scotland is to be Celtic`s ” station in life ‘ , then of course we should know our place
And that is at the back of the European football bus driven by Ronny.
Our greatest visionaries thought differently.
I`m comfortable about being in agreement with them.
As I said before .
Action this day.
If not before. :-)
THOMTHETHIM
Difficult to argue,mate. Disnae mean I have to like it.
Might have to lump it though.
Are those lines only blurred because of self-interest being put before the rest of the community? That’s my opinion anyway.
IMHO Juve are the only team to beat Barca.
Choketheopposition.com
PSV have disassociated themselves from the group of PSV fans who burnt money in front of beggars in Madrid and threw pieces of bread and coins on the ground for begging women to fight over…Same group chanted racist / anti Jewish slogans in Madrid and some were later arrested for violence and drunken disorder.
Matt Stewart 7:18
I don’t think Spiers or English even understand the mechanics of football particularly well.
Both continually trot out reams of stats about teams and players, but you rarely hear them discussing a player’s technical attributes or how a team sets up or anything tactical.
Adi_dasler
They are the smarter football than the Germans………so far…….
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 16TH MARCH 2016 8:16 PM
MATT STEWART on 16TH MARCH 2016 4:15 PM
Celtic being at the back of the European bus has absolutely nothing to do with Ronny.
For good or bad, he is simply playing the hand he was dealt.
Celtic’s current situation is rooted in ignoring MON’s warning as to where lack of investment would lead us.
Since Seville there has been a deliberate lowering of quality on the field and expectations off it.
BSR/BMCUWP
– See more at: http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/neil-lennon-should-plan-to-remain-in-the-game/comment-page-5/#comment-2795987
quonno on 16th March 2016 8:24 pm
No question that lack of investment is an issue and a part of the problem.
Lenny ,however , managed to deal with that.
As did wee Gordon to a limited extent.
However, ” nothing to do with Ronny.”
There I profoundly disagree.
Since his arrival , one word ” freefall .”
SOT
Much to admire and despise in Juve’s performance. Does the Inter supporting codger know how famous he is on CQN?
Juve doing a job on Bayern. Should be three up. Don’t know if Robben is injured, but they miss his pace. Look a bit predictable without him.
Second goal was a bit like some of the ones we have conceded this season, so it does happen to the top teams too!
Good Evening.
Our old ‘friend’ Ally McCoist has been on the radio, commenting on Neil Lennon, Ronny, Celtic and… liquidation…
https://theclumpany.wordpress.com/2016/03/16/the-gardener-digs-a-hole/
Hibs 2 up ICT
Matt Stewart on 16th March 2016 7:18 pm –
Matt, I don’t believe there is a private relationship with the press from anyone in a position of power at Celtic Park. When it was an open secret at both Lennoxtown and Celtic Park that Lenny was leaving no one in the press ran with the story, now why was that?
Who was it that broke the story of Ronny joining Celtic? Hint it wasn’t the MSM.
Things like the above tell us that Celtic’s PR isn’t what it should be and relationships that would have been fostered previously are no longer.
There is also the not insignificant fact that a PR company who are retained by Sevco and also are the official PR company for the SPFL is openly planting anti Celtic stories in the press.
Even before our Euro campaign was over stories appeared in the press saying the only way Ronny could stay in his job was to win the treble.
Being a winner Ronny stated from day 1 of the season that his goal is to win the treble and believes Celtic should aspire to this every season. That’s what winners do set high goals for themselves but the MSM have tried to use this against Ronny and unfortunately a proportion of our fans have also.
When RC put us out the cup cue the multitude of negative headlines in MSM, unfortunately for them there has been little sign from within Celtic Park that Ronny was to be relieved of his duties while top of the league and in the semi finale of the major domestic cup competition. In the last couple of days they have increased the negativity and openly interviewed unemployed ex EPL managers and touting them for a position that isn’t vacant. To their shame these mediocre unemployed failures have responded exactly in the way the media want them to.
If there is one good thing to come from this then look no further than WC’s post at 7:40pm, Celtic fans are increasingly coming together to support the team. Whether they do or not though I still believe we’ll win the league, I also believe we’ll stuff Sevco. It would be nice to do it without listening to so much negativity coming from the Celtic support though.
A gentleman by the name of Anthony Stokes has scored both goals. We should try & sign him.
Pep was waxing lyrically earlier this week about how much he admired Bonucci (a hint! hint! about moving to City – even though he’s 29) – think he’s just stuck £10M on the asking price.
Question – is Pep the genius everyone thinks he is?
Bayern to win @ 8/1- to draw @ 4/1.
Hmmmm!
Lichtsteiner gets booked for no apparent reason – GOOD!
Blogg feckd ?
Morata contrived to put the ball over the bar when he only had the GK to beat.
7 yellows so far – a red bound to follow.
Macjay,
I’ve probably misunderstood your thrust, but that’s only to be expected as my mind wanders towards confusion.
Jimmy McGrory ?
Tony Mowbray?
Irrespective of their performance in hugely different circumstances, I (that’s me) would never have condoned any form of ad hominem attacks or the undermining of their dignity.
I agree that Ronny’s number has probably been called and my own point of view is that is the right call. I would have made it earlier….but sadly they didn’t ask. I would also have put a rocket up the backside of the first hack to question his position.
Action this day? Fine. End of the season? Fine.
Jimmy McGrory was manager in name only. I used to play keepie up outside Celtic Park when he was arriving at the ground. He never clocked the raw and exceptional talent that was on offer from my magic feet, knees and head.
I should have waited on Bob Kelly.
Man City have decided to replace Pellegrini. Everyone knows. Pep is coming in. I think that has more humanity about it than the silence that reigns in the the corridors of Kerrydale Street.
The mandarins at the club are paid enough and have the authority and stature to deal with external upstarts in addition to their duty to make AND MANAGE difficult decisions….in fact that should be one of their key roles. If it was easy then anyone could do it.
Celtic’s station in life?…..we have no station …we have a launch pad where anything is possible.
So as I said, not sure what I am responding to but you’ve probably got me one way or another. :)
Hail Hail
Matt
WITS
You posted about Yorkhill a few weeks ago. The hospital of that name has treated my kids and grandkids well over the years. Today the horse namesake treated me well. Thanks pal.
HH
Eddie
I hope you are right re formal relations and your examples do give weight.
My point which I so poorly communicated was that irrespective of the formality with the media, Ronny has been apparently abandoned. The scavenging that ranges from the BBC, to STV, Sky, BT and a host of ‘professional print commentators’ .
Perhaps it is because Celtic know that he is here for the foreseeable future….one in the eye for the vultures eh! But surely an announcement to the support would be better.
I am not comfortable with Ronny, but that is a personal view as everyone’s is based on the games I have been to and the disappointment I have felt in my perception of lack of progress.
If the club have decided however that his position is secure and that his approach meets the desired strategy, then in these days of the ‘buisnessification’ of our club and football in general then I think it might be a good tactic to let that be known.
Hail Hail
Matt (back to the IC v Hibs game) …will look in later