Love him, or love him, you have to love Martin O’Neill. He is a tonic for what ailed Celtic in recent weeks. Stiffer challenges lie ahead, however, Celtic recorded not only an impressive 4-0 win, but did so while recording season-high attacking stats. His self-deprecating charm, “That’s something to do with my dreadful insecurity problems” belies an impressive intellect and oceans of experience.
Auston Trusty returned to the team for his first outing since August, replicating the Scales-Trusty central defensive due from last season’s most impressive performance – away to Atalanta. Anthony Ralston relieved Colby Donovan, as experience was preferred over potential.
The goals came from three players who should benefit from them. Johnny Kenny is our first-choice striker, for now, and got the important first two goals. Sebastian Tounekti got his second for the club, with Benjamin Nygren again getting on the scoresheet. All three will benefit this weekend.
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Tim Malone Will Tell @ 11:34 am,
Well, in one way holding cash is a mystery, certainly shareholders should get some dividends if the Board are not going to utilise it.
Yet “very wealthy man hoards money”, is a “dog bites man” enigma…
Celtic40me @ 11:51 am,
“Football operations are part of the business, they aren’t separate.
No need to complicate it or make stuff up”
Nothing is made up, your misdirection is both predictable and transparent.
The vast majority of the revenues of Celtic PLC come from the football club.
Yet the football club is starved of investment.
The business strategy is not conducive to building a quality football club, the opposite, the only way the business can make money is by syphoning out much needed funds from the club.
Hail Hail
“Love him, or love him, you have to love Martin O’Neill.
Great to see Paul67 eventual getting the Martin thing…
Twenty years later…
Did Martin ever tell us what happened to the Saville money!?
Hail Hail
A couple of days on the training pitch ahead of Sunday should benefit everyone.
Don’t want to rain on anyone’s parade but, Nygren could have scored 12 (yes, TWELVE) in the last three games.
EKBHOY on 30TH OCTOBER 2025 12:13 PM
Ticket arrived
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Glad you got your ticket
The day after an impressive 4-0 victory, we have THREE posts in quarter of an hour. Droped points would have resulted in Hundreds !!
Being manager of Celtic under such pewssure must win every game and a board who operate in such fashion is extremely stressfull and clearly takes it toll as the past couple of decades have shown us.
This will cheer you up no.doubt
https://youtu.be/V900EsRJawA?si=YR2ZBV-fq-G2hZmJ
*pressurre
Vale Bhoy – agreed but hopefully he’ll start getting a bit of luck as well and score from more of these chances.
Much better than somebody who remains anonymous on the pitch.
Saville money. I’d delete that quick smart. Surely a typo.
A welcome return to winning ways and good to see more purpose in the play.
Hearts, meanwhile, learned the hard lesson of the myth of the “six-pointer”, failing to back up their “big win” with three points in Paisley.
Winning leagues is every bit as much about taking care of the teams at the other end of the table as it is about beating the teams next to you.
Chairbhoy – point is nobody is syphoning off anything and I certainly don’t expect the preference shares to make me a wedge of cash.
But you keep chewing that bone if it makes you happy.
Better with new tactics Ball forward.quicker. Happier team. What’s not to like
CHAIRBHOY
“Nothing is made up, your misdirection is both predictable and transparent.
The vast majority of the revenues of Celtic PLC come from the football club.
Yet the football club is starved of investment.”
You did make it up.
It’s the chapter one in business studies textbooks
The football club isnt an entity itself, football operations are part of the Celtic football
Club plc. One basic thing we learned from the Huns going bust was that there is no separate entity.
The footballers are paid by the business, Brendan was paid by the business because they’re employees of the business, contracts are owned by the business, all the football departments expenses are paid by the business, all its revenues are made for the business – football operations generate the majority of the revenues because were a football business.
If you think underfund the departure thats a diffetent thing, but a separate “football club” is made up
Thought the speed of play going forward last night was excellent. Good to see young Osman getting a chance and he looked sharp when he came on. Don’t know what that says when someone new comes in the door and gives a kid 15 minutes when he never had a sniff before! Sarracchi was excellent. Great determination and never one to shy away from the tackle. Did think VAR was going to pull up Arne and give him a red. My only complaint, and this is about the ref, is that when players delay a game by kicking the ball away, that is supposed to be an automatic yellow card. The Ref did nothing when Falkirk did it at least 4 times, but when Johnny Kenny, nudged the ball away , he was is his face for a good few seconds.
Hail Hail and good to have some positivity, and even better to hear the Bold Martin talk about our captain in such a brilliant way.
Sean
Nygen is an enigma,,chane conversion reminiscent of Frank mcgarvey.
However…top scorer, always in the right place at the right time and always snatched a goal.
He is a first choice pick for now
Great energy and goals last night
Very enjoyable
Article heading- a tonic for ‘part of’ what ailed us.
We still have issues. These need to be resolved.
Would be remiss not to
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy @ 12:25 pm,
Thanks for pointing that out, didn’t even notice the darn poor autocorrect.
Seville Money of Course:)))
Hail Hail
Because Martin jokes and quips his way through an interview , don’t think for a minute he isn’t taking the business of getting the team back on an even keel very seriously . It’s exactly the right tone to take after what we’ve been hearing the last several weeks .
I actually find it a real relief and much more relateable.
Was nice to get a convincing win and Falkirk were just about the perfect opponent for last night especially given the first 20 mins or so which was a little nervy. Last thing we needed last night was a Kilmarnock or St Mirren super low block type game.
A few goals and a wee boost in confidence will do us a world of good. Two things about Sunday – we have to assume they will try and take Callum out the game so we have to have a plan for that and I think we could roast them out wide with Seb/James/Diazen but we need to get the ball to them quickly – miss the midfield and get wide quickly and we will get joy.
Paul67 et al
A timely and welcome return of Martin O’Neill to Celtic FC. A real tonic indeed Paul, and we’re not talking Vimto here we are not even talking Magnum, we are talking Sanatogen (yer Granny’s favourite) a bona fide blast from the past, the real Mackay with added iron. Just what Dr John ordered!
Seen Hayen linked with the job. Certainly an interesting option, although I’m not sure why you would leave Club Bruges to go to Celtic.
Having said that, it may be that he is far enough away from the factory to not be aware of how the sausages are made.
Tim Malone Will Tell @ 12:30 pm,
Why would the fact that a Club with huge revenues like Celtic have consistently punch way under it’s weight because of the robber Barons make me happy?
Very strange state of affairs…
Celtic40me @ 12:33 pm,
That was NOT made up…
While looking a Celtic’s FSR, Swiss Rambler took the view that pretty much all of Celtic’s revenues could be classified as football revenues under the UEFA rules.
Hail Hail
“Hearts, meanwhile, learned the hard lesson of the myth of the “six-pointer”, failing to back up their “big win” with three points in Paisley”.
I heard McInnes’ pre-game interview on Shortie last night – total jibberish. I don’t think he’ll be able to take the pressure.
If we win on Sunday, no rush to get a new manager in ASAP,we can possibly wait till the end of the season, if we need to wait for the right guy IMO
https://x.com/cassidy_alan/status/1983679262617170410?s=48&t=L_1d7iEcJiQkqh34fZI_3w
St Mirren disallowed goal last night….
PeteTheBeat
Fingers crossed.
Hope he gets right on Sunday.
If every striker scored every chance we’d have cricket scores.
Pele said in his book ‘The Beautiful Game’ he scored 1 of 10 chances.
Always much better for a team to miss a chance than not create a chance.
the Bada Bing re: nae rush for a gaffer.
I’m inclined to agree with you.
CHAIRBHOY
“That was NOT made up…
While looking a Celtic’s FSR, Swiss Rambler took the view that pretty much all of Celtic’s revenues could be classified as football revenues under the UEFA rules.”
You made up the existence of a separate football club to the PLC, what you are talking about there is something completely different.
Boondock Saint @ 12:35 p.m.,
Yes, really good to hear Martin big up Calmac…
He is one smart cookie…
Hail Hail
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Unique Angle
Guess you’ve never heard of NewCo then…
Are you one of those guys who think Martin O’Neil will be facing Rangers AGAIN!!
Hail Hail
Trusty won a good tackle after about 20 minutes, a good reaction from the crowd,he looked a different player after that
Unique Angle CSC
We have an urgent need for a new long-term manager, ideally appointed by next week. January is massive, and we’ll likely lose Daizen, plus we have multiple vacancies all over the pitch that need filled The much vaunted Summer rebuild is coming, and the new man needs to have his feet well under the table , plannin for CL qualifiers
Last time DD put his head above the parapet was to appoint BR (ironically) on the back o Ronnies Celtic losing to Newco.
Lets hope the new appointment will be equally as seismic
I think it’s great that Nygren is getting into so many goal scoring chances. Someone mentioned Frank McGarvey, if he’s anywhere near as good as Frank, he’ll do ok. Anyone heard that shareholders are receiving invites yet, for the AGM?
CHAIRBHOY on 30TH OCTOBER 2025 1:00 PM
“Guess you’ve never heard of NewCo then…
Are you one of those guys who think Martin O’Neil will be facing Rangers AGAIN!!”
I’m one of those guys who took a professional interest in the process of Rangers ceasing to exist. It was an education for a lot of us.