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Who can make a case for Deila taking us into the ECL qualifiers? Based on our experience to date? And that assumes he can hold off the mighty (cough) Aberdeen. If we get beat on Wednesday Ronny will know what real pressure is. This season has been rank rotten and could get worse under this B-list manager.
When will we get to the ‘ look, the emperor has no clothes on moment’ ?
CANAMALAR IT LOOKS LIKE OCD OBSESSION on 1ST FEBRUARY 2016 8:48 AM
At least the books will be balanced, what more do you want or need ?
come on the Plc.
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128 years of continuos history counts for something in these parts.
Peter Latchford’s belly
“Who can make a case…..”
Peter Lawell.
Peat from Islay. Exactly my point. For the money we spend its a poor return ,mainly due to the remit given to the scouts from PL. is they must have a sell on valve
boycott the pie stalks and merchandise Lawell must leave our club. He is killing it , easy pension money for him
WITS
Just to place your winning percentages argument in context, I list:-
Martin O’Neill 75.53%
Neil Lennon 72.12%
Jock Stein 69.20%
Billy McNeill 66.67%
John Barnes 65.51%
Gordon Strachan 65.19%
Willie Maley 64.75%
Wim Jansen 64.71%
Jozef Venglos 58.00%
Liam Brady 57.14%
Kenny Dalglish 55.55%
Tommy Burns 54.80%
David Hay 51.78%
Tony Mowbray 51.11%
Jimmy McGrory 49.58%
Lou Macari 32.00%
Barnes & Deila are tied at 5th equal currently for what that’s worth. WGS, with a lower percentage won 3 and narrowly lost the 4th league. WIm Jansen is lauded for stopping the 10 but his percentage is lower. Ronny won a double domestically last year and was cheated out of a treble. This year a double is still on the cards.
I am well aware of the fans loss of confidence in RD but, whatever this is, it is not a domestic failure. And I will stand by that even if we lose to Aberdeen on Wednesday.
Into work now.
Big Peat…,
We are taking massive gambles, gambling on the loyalty of supporters not chucking it, no matter what is served up on the pitch.
Been gambling on that one for over 10 years now and its still paying off.
TheTimReaper,
do you think we are likely to go into liquidation ?
can you see a day the support will let that happen ?
can you remind me what happened the last time we even came close to administration ?
Do you consider competence to be special ?
HJ
All about opinions
I feel the ones who can’t see what is staring them in the face add even less to the blog, and that says even more about them.
Canamalar
Aye the ‘tick and thin’ is looking a bit on the thin side, if you ask me. Have we learned to accept so little?
MWD
” Does anyone like criticising their own?
Do parents enjoy criticising their kids?
Do brothers gleefully criticise their sisters or sisters their brothers?
Does anyone truly enjoy criticising their own? ”
I am afraid the answer to all of those questions is sadly, yes, some people do in all of those situations. Not all families are anywhere near free of guilt in regard to that. Thankfully, most families are a lot better than that.
My contradiction does not change the fact that we are currently in a situation where the majority view is anti-Deila. While that situation exists, RD’s jaiket hanging hook is in need of some screwdriver remediation. We can sack him and win a double, we can keep him and win a double. We can sack or keep him and a double might be lost either way.
Sings in a Brook accent.
We wish to welcome you to munchkin land
SFTB
Interesting. Surprised me, but nevertheless it does add context.
Cheers
People don’t enjoy criticizing Celtic? In which case there’s a lot of people out there spending a large amount of their spare time (and probably other people’s) doing something they don’t enjoy doing, which is pretty perverse behavior.
RIP Reammon Gormley
Five years to the day since his tragic death.
Thoughts and prayers are with his family.
His memory lives on through the Thai Tims.
SFTB
Well done. Reality does not always sit well with agenda but your post very often reinforce the former.
Cheerio for now,
JJ
SFTB
I do wonder how the % success figures of Big Jock, MON, WGS etc were year on year. Only from memory, I ain’t got the time to do the analysis, all of the above had a significantly stronger initial period than the likes of Ronnie, and John Barnes, Tony Mowbray.
BT
Canny believe it’s been 5yrs, a total tradegy, hope his mum and dad find a bit of comfort in their bhoys legacy, in such a short life he done more good than most could do in a lifetime
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Reamonn RIP child
We were great yesterday. For 10 minutes.
Ross County’s penalty was less of a penalty than Hibs’ the day before.
We know the score. We know the mild (by sfa standards) of MIBery that was apparent at their second goal.
We should have more than enough to still cope and win.
I am by inclination an RS happy clapper. But change of formation after losing Efe exacerbated the sieve. And later changes were, as usual, too late.
Told the Wee mhan griff would miss the pen so then got punched for my troubles!
Told him Celtic of old you’d still have hope of pulling it back even with a few mins to go. He’s not seen that in his few years watching us.
JJ – Bitton. Languid. I like languid with purpose. Thought yesterday he was languid in a highly anonymous fashion. Me no likey!
Off I fly
HH jamesgang
antipodean red on 1st February 2016 7:09 am
There is never simply one cause to explain the demise of a football team .
But we must start with the coach.
Just a quiet thought…….was Kris Commons injured for yesterday`s game ?
I sure hope so.
Celtic40me
I have often thought the same 0:-)
Definite offsky now.
Cheerio,
JJ
so how do we get better players to celtic park ?
we have
some young players
some players who look half decent when in other spl teams given space
players who can’t maintain a long run of good form
brown and commons
players who don’t come up on the radar of big leagues
players out of contract
Once you scratch the surface of that anybody can beat us. Add in Ronnie’s cerebral approach to footie and lack of instinct and you feel we’re not making progress.
%’s have to be weighted against level of competition (and cheating) each manager and their teams faced.
Obviously there is no scientific formula that could be applied but I bet if each of us judged the managers we had personally witnessed based on our eyes evidence Ronny’s current joint fifth would fall considerably.
MWD
No point in moaning about the board or the coach
Thompson got the job done yesterday. Just like McLean the year before. The pitch was a mess as usual.
Macjay
I backed Kris for the first goal. Was surprised he wasn’t featuring even on the bench.
Injury I guess.
Timaloy
I just can’t go along with the ‘ref to blame’ for yesterday. Believe me I’d like to, but he wasn’t, for me, the problem.
TnT
Kris has been a marvellous contributor for a number of years.
I would have expected him to play unless injured.
Macjay
Agreed.Also, Hampden has been a happy hunting ground for him.
CELTIC40ME 900
It might be perverse behaviour in your opinion. In mine,it is known as facing up to the facts and trying to do something about it.
This blind faith mantra,unquestioning loyalty because it’s Celtic,a aye,it’s great on paper but look where it’s led us.
I can look at Rangers and PMSL at what’s happened to them. . But I could cry when I look at what Celtic have become.
Lies ,damned lies, and statistics,look at the
stats from yesterday’s game,they don’t add
up with what I witnessed.
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Waste of time looking at stats, when you are 3-1 up you don’t need possession or shots on goal you just need to hold what you have.
We got pumped in the semi final by Ross County !!
They simply wanted it more than us, end of !
JJ
I believe most on here criticise when it is due. Can be OTT but remember this is Scotland we are playing in and our budget is multiples of any opposition.
The criticism is wholly due at this juncture and is fare. IMO.
I personally don’t believe the criticism of Ambrose has been fair. The boy cut across him and he clipped him accidentally at pace. Very difficult to stop that in a game when you are at pace (I used to play at pace) and defending. Almost inhuman to pull a dead stop in that situation. It was defo a pen and a red card under the current rules. But them should only be a yellow considering there was no intent if the rules were able to accomodate that type of judgement.
MWD
twists n turns on 1st February 2016 9:11 am
It was barely a penalty. It wasn’t a red (Gordon was collecting that ball)
He also allowed County to manhandle Gordon.
Celtic were all over County and yet the ref changed the game AGAIN
Jamesgang, that punch was well deserved:-(
Leigh will score many more than he will ever miss.
And we have had a few last minutes goals in recent times, not as many as of old, but Griif v PT on January 2nd, game was dire.
Samaras v Sheep, after being a couple of goals behind a coupl of years back.
I may be clutching at straws of course.
But SFTB’s % stats were interesting, 65.51% is decent, to say the least.
Tell the pilot to watch the wind!
I decided to take the train after seeing the forecast, don’t much like bumpy rides.
Yes we could have reacted better to going down to 10 men & certainly Deilia was found wanting with his tactics but like goals, refereeing decisions changes games. Whether it’s subtle decisions in allowing one team to grab & kick opponents more than the other or massive game changing moments. Yes the ref gave us a soft pen but the the score was 3-1 & the damage had already been long done. It’s too easy for people to point the finger at Efe, even when he does little wrong. What was he supposed to do yesterday? He was left exposed by poor defending in front of him & by Lustig going to sleep. He had to react but seeing he had no chance of getting the ball he let the Ross .county striker go. There was no challenge & any Minimal contact (with a capital M) was made cleverly by the striker & not Efe. Just as Derk Bo did at St Johnstone a few years back. Though he got a three game ban & was castigated, while Ross County’s player draws the plaudits, go figure eh?
For me it was never a pen, but making excuses in real time it could have looked like one. Though it was was never deserving of a red as Gordon had the ball. Thomson as ever couldn’t wait to get his red card out just as he couldn’t wait with Virgil & Tanadice. This guy like so many whistlers in Scotland Are desperate to punish Celtic players while allowing the opposition free reign to do what they like. Just as he did for Ross County’s second goal. Funny he missed a rugby tackle on Gordon but saw the slightest of touches on Ros County’s attacker at the other end? How could he possibly see the most difficult one and not the other more obvious infringement? Indeed I wonder!
I hope to see Celtic appeal Efe’s red card he should have it recinded.
Shooie
Yes. I think we all have to remember we were humped by Ross County (again)
This is so very depressing and unacceptable.
Ronnie must go, and we need to oust Lawwell somehow