If you were around 20 years ago, you lived through an era when every time a manager in the English topflight came under pressure, we had to endure speculation Martin O’Neill would leave us to move back south. We even had the Tory party leader urge Liverpool to appoint Martin!
These days., Ange Postecoglou’s name is sure to appear on betting lists whenever a vacancy appears. The issue is also put into the public domain on occasions like yesterday, when Ange is back home in Australia and was asked about moving to England.
Ange responded correctly, “Celtic play in front of 60,000 people, we have the opportunity to win trophies and we’re in the Champions League. It’s a massive football club.” I expect it would take an incredible offer to move him now (maybe something like Liverpool), specifically because he thinks – he thinks, not I think – he has only scratched the surface of what he could achieve at Celtic.
There is a glass ceiling here. We are never going to win the Champions League without huge environment change. It is possible, however, to go deeper into the tournament that we have gone before in its current guise.
Martin’s name will forever be sacred around these parts. While Wim Jansen won the league for Celtic two years before he arrived, it was Martin who truly put us back on top. Since then, we have never been the underdogs we were even at the start of this first season. Five years into the job, Martin’s race was run at Celtic in every respect and he left for personal reasons, without an enticement from elsewhere.
There are two requirements necessary to achieve enduring legendary status: break new ground and when you leave, do so on good terms. Four years ago, Brendan Rodgers had us eating out of his hand, but his abrupt departure means he would not be considered appropriate to make the Paradise Windfall Draw these days.
If Ange remains as successful as he is, someone will eventually put a £10m/yr offer in front of him and that will be the end of this era. He has work to do to justify anything like that, as he said on Australian TV yesterday, “I keep saying to [the players]if they do what they do well then all this other stuff takes care of itself, whatever their ambitions or my ambitions may be.” Within a couple of years, I believe Ange can do something very special here.
Martin is at Dalziel Park Hotel, Motherwell, this Saturday, 24 September, for a brunch, a Q&A and photos. Tickets are £50 and available from Alan, 07970 716422. Kick off 11:45am.
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ROCK TREE BHOY @ 5:58 PM
“I think it’s obvious who has hijacked MadMitch’s user name, he really really doesn’t like him,”
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You haven’t narrowed the field down by much with that observation, now.
Is this their “life in the slow lane” moment?
Welsh Score
Ol classic Blazing Saddles on telly 10.40 beeb4.
HH
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Watch it quick before it gets cancelled.
Oh God.
Croatia v Denmark is a good watch- brilliant team Croatia
Life expectancy down by 2 years in scotland, wow 😮 , suppose its the Toarys fault, cos it couldn’t be ?? Fault, Ernie MM absolutely suberb on here , HH Ghuys
Got to page 3…wtf is going on…I know it’s an international break…but didn’t realise it also meant of sanity & civility ;-)) Will check back tomoz
H.H.
Also surprised to see no comment on Bunter Blackfords comments today, ach well maybe Tomorrow
I posted Bunter’s effort this morning, looking for a Knighthood
Bada Bing , sorry fella, probably eat the knighthood,, the wee cuddly crofter with the cple rangers rovers , a real man of the peep ell .
Just back from Celtic The Musical.
Brilliant night.
If you haven’t already … I’d recommend it.
The Buffler….whoever the f u are….James Forrest on The Celtic Blog addresses Blackfords comments quite succinctly…but you’d know that if you haunted more than 1 site
the buffler
That yer nom? Ah see yer freens wi Mitchie an Bertie. Grand
Will add ye tae the Census
Better late than never
JJ probably put a few million onto his value tonight.Superb,as were Croatia.
Luka Modric,absolute genius.
Has Bufty,does Kev J know you are out?.
Just like we were saying,how bad is it when,Piers Morgan,Jeremy Kyle,etc are on your side,we now get Kev J and his umpteen lodgers on supporting Ernie and Mad Hatter.
Deary me.
THE BUFFLER on 22ND SEPTEMBER 2022 10:19 PM
Life expectancy down by 2 years in scotland, wow 😮 , suppose its the Toarys fault, cos it couldn’t be ?? Fault, Ernie MM absolutely suberb on here , HH Ghuys
Trolls of the site unite, nothing to lose but the chains of anonymity
ROCK TREE BHOY @ 5:58 PM
“I think it’s obvious who has hijacked MadMitch’s user name, he really really doesn’t like him,”
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Thats about 95% of CQN
Morning, seems upset a few sorry about that , must remember, never point anything negative about the SG after all done a splendid Job over the last 15 years.
Celtic
Good morning all Good guys across the globe.
Celtic musical last night was greeeeeat.
My Celtic daft grandson was singing away as was I and his dad.
To top it off he got a photo with Jim Craig.
He also collected 35 plastic cups with £1 return on them.
When people seen him they were saying here wee man batter in and giving him there cups.
Get a piece at emdys door that bhoy.
Today we descend on Haggerston 14 of us. Bring it on.
D :)
Aw diddems, has the porky fud upset some of his flock.
Just be thankful that his parties flagship football policy, the OB act is no longer in stature.
HH.
Only 250,000 eejits walked past the Queen’s coffin in London, yet the BBC et al were telling us it was millions.
Hi Tom,
I also saw it reported that 33,000 people did the same in Edinburgh.
So, 33,000 of a total population is 0.6%, then 99.4% of the population of Scotland didn’t.
In London if 250,000 walked past that is 0.4% of the population of England, so 99.6% didn’t.
Not the wall to wall ‘ the nation mourns’ as the media insisted.
I understand that for all sorts of reasons there would have been plenty of people who would have liked to have walked past the coffin but for a variety of reasons couldn’t. But again even taking that into account not exactly North Korea levels of mourning, the BBC will be disappointed.
Deed gone, good riddance, move on.
That’s the way I see it. Now we have same fly’s different shite.
D :)
The Lard of the Isles once again reminding us that the cult have more faces than a town hall clock.
Ernie,
Amateur when it comes to the Unionists.
Anyway,how is Arthur Donaldson these days?.
Kev J thinking he ruffled a few feathers last night.Delusional.
When you get to the dizzy height that Ernie has reached in that department,maybe.At the moment you are a figure of fun,surrounded by your gaggle of strangely named,little yellow Minions
who`s been rolled out to hate us today?
Must be a rent-a-gob somewhere wanting to have his moment on the news.
LT / KK — Uber rational Maggie Luvvers without the politics.
59th version of FME of the last 250 years or is it the 159th version of FME.
They right will get it right sometime — free market this / free market that.
Currently we live on a Blue on Blue society — 12 years / 4 different economic policies.
All failed or will fail but all the Forger’s Gazette wants to tell us is that KS will ruin it.
2010 Austerity started the rot and it has just got worse year on year.
Cleggie got out of it — we continue to pay the price.
GARYGILLESPIESHAMSTRING on 22ND SEPTEMBER 2022 9:28 PM
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Watch it quick before it gets cancelled
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🤣🤣🤣
GGH
Some classic lines
Nearly as funny as here at times
HH
UK 2022 = US 1981.
Voodoo economics is back in town.
Real voodoo not ConDemNation 2010 kid on voodoo.
Whats he talking about now
Bring back MM2
Mentalist right wing — I know / I know they are all that now — Tory economic policy …
Turn the housing market up to 11 and claim ignorance when it all goes belly up.
1972 was the Barber boom.
2022 is the KK Catastrophe.
Double or quits economics.
Casino at 5am desperation..
Madmitch(s)
How many of you does it take to reach credibility?
Isnt there a Quick News site for Mad Mitch type loonies