On Friday, after the Sparta debacle, I predicted, “There is worse to come”, it did not take long. Losing at home by two goals to Ross County is worse than losing by three goals away to Sparta Prague. If you were surprised, you have not been paying attention, Ross County were a punter’s dream. Celtic are dysfunctional, vulnerable to anyone prepared to put their bodies in the way and take their chance at corner kicks.
The biggest concern I have is the message the players get from persistently overhauling roles and tactics; going from four at the back, to three, to four and back to three. Add to this how Christie and Elyounoussi play a variety of roles: wide, middle, off the striker, and we shuffle between one and two up front.
If you are a player, you interpret this as, “We have no faith in our plan and we don’t know what to do about it.” At least in this respect, the manager, players, you and me all believe the same thing.
When will it end? Soon, I hope. St Johnstone visit in six days and they are more potent than Ross County.
Reports of missiles being thrown at our players outside Celtic Park yesterday evening beggars belief. Across the world, on a variety of issues, you see anger whipped up in online echo chambers. This has consequences: some bring that anger into their personal interactions, some gather to demonstrate.
A smaller percentage of them have no boundaries. Fuelled by the echo chamber and the crowd around them, they resort to violent acts, which Mr Angry behind his keyboard can condemn. The violence is a consequence of entitled anger and together they make it more difficult to resolve the situation. Imagine how you would react if you were a player?
A football team has come off the rails after winning a record 11 consecutive domestic trophies. For a club that has known so many hard times, it was a pitiful bookend to this historic period.
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SID
It’s all to do with the moon apparently.
and…..Towel Retention
Best regards,
WG
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 30TH NOVEMBER 2020 9:27 PM
Because Dan Petrescu has achieved a lot more in the last ten years than WGS and O’Neill combined – winning domestic trophies and punching above his weight in Europe. I’m pretty sure he didn’t do that just by shouting at officials.
Not necessarily saying he’s the man for the job but if it was out of him or WGS then it would be Petrescu all day long.
Neil Lennon has been dismissed. Martin O’Neill will take over until end of season,
DANDAN on 30TH NOVEMBER 2020 8:44 PM
Thanks for sharing and I wish your boy all the best, I can’t imagine what you and your family are going through.
DanDan
Very sorry to hear about your son’s diagnosis
for which we all hope he recovers.
Yes, perspective is required. I may want the management and executive structures to change at Celtic and the next fan may disagree. One of us will be disappointed, but both of us should bear in mind the fact that there really are more important things in life.
I think we will improve soon and that might cheer you all up a little but even if we don’t, the past decade hasn’t been too bad?!
My prayers will be offered for your son and for your family.
Hail! Hail! to your lad.
Roy Keane to be his assistant.
DANDAN – 8:44 PM
Hope and pray your son makes a full recovery from his illness and he and your family will certainly be in my prayers. Also nice to know that the players and manager have been so supportive. God bless.
DANDAN-can’t imagine what the family is going through.🍀
God bless 💚
ERNIE,
Oh,that peripheral.Silly me,I was thinking of another peripheral.A word they often use in Turkey,which means nothing like your peripheral.It is in fact spelt peri feral.Thank goodness thats all cleared up.
FAIRHILL BHOY:
Sometimes I can be mate. I need to learn to STOP and take a deep breath sometimes.
If I wasn’t so serious cheesed off with this whole scenario and the horror of having to write negatively, all day, every day, about my own club I’d have tempered my reaction to this editorial today. I’d have waited to see what reaction it got first. The non-reaction it WOULD have got would have convinced me not to bother.
But we are all thinking less critically at the moment, even the smartest of us.
I think we’re all a little shell-shocked at where our season has gone and how it has unravelled like this. I don’t know when you, yourself, mate started to believe we’d win ten … I think for me it was at six. Sevco were in the top flight already. Even so, I just knew the Ten campaign would be a reality.
Had it unravelled in a normal year that would be bad enough … but the surrealism of this one makes it 100% worse. That’s why the reaction of those guys last night was so spectacularly OTT.
This is a bad, bad few months. And I know, intellectually, that there will be an end to it … but I cannot see light at the end of the tunnel at the moment because the board has us in a holding pattern, and as bad as where we are right now there are decisions they can take which WILL make this worse.
Incredible as it is to actually write this down … keeping Lennon in place ISN’T the worst thing that can happen. Some of us are justifiably worried what these people might do next.
Amazingly, at a time when some of us are having to defend ourselves for our own responses, we aren’t the ones running a multi-million pound organisation and digging in our heels because we don’t want to admit that we were wrong. We’re not the ones “refusing to bow to the mob” when, actually, this is a straightforward decision which has NOTHING to do with the protests last night.
I think it’s other people who need to take deep breaths, calm down … and start behaving rationally.
THEORIGINALSADIESBHOY on 30TH NOVEMBER 2020 9:44 PM
Source or guesswork?
I would actually rather have John Kennedy than MON or WGS
‘Petrescu’ always sounds like the name of a tv series about an animal sanctuary.
The one thing MoN has going for him is that there’s no way in God’s green earth that we defend as we have done this season under him. That defence will get sorted.
Stopping the stupid goals will quickly stabilise us. The ten is still there to be won.
PETETHEBEAT
Liked that one
DanDan,
All the best to your son, and the rest of your family at this time.
that villa goal getting chopped off is an embarrassment to the game
thank fk scottish football is that skint we cant affoard VAR
2 and a half minutes it took to over rule the ref
pointless pish
in cricket they have an ‘umpires decision’ rule when its that tight.
LIVIBHOY on 30TH NOVEMBER 2020 2:54 PM
Greeting fellow Tim’s
It’s been a while but like a comfort blanket I find myself looking for solace in the company of like minded individuals and my long absence from this fine blog is over. I’ve not read back prior to this recent article so I will probably cover old ground but I need to share my thoughts in some shape or form.
It’s said there are 5 phases of grief. I think our support have exhibited all of them in the past few months.
To have any chance of winning the league, we need someone in before our next game on Thursday and I’m sure with a win on Sunday we could still do it.
The one thing MoN has going for him is that there’s no way in God’s green earth that we defend as we have done this season under him. That defence will get sorted.
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he would need to buy several new defenders then
TURKEYBHOY-fairy savage
SAINT STIVS on 30TH NOVEMBER 2020 7:26 PM
Dermot Desmond 32,772,073 34.7%
Lindsell Train Ltd. 17,557,438 18.6%
Chris Trainer 9,796,784 10.4%
James Mark Keane 5,909,847 6.26%
Thomas Allison 3,357,505 3.56%
Banque Lombard 1,105,936 1.17%
Peter Lawwell 356,000 0.38
well corrected.i was basing mine on a David Low figure pre lindsell train holding.days
thanks.
hh
DANDAN on 30TH NOVEMBER 2020 8:44 PM
That must have taken a lot to put so eloquently into words what was must be very painful for you and your family. May God bless your son and take care of him and I pray for his full recovery. Perspective in these times
I love MON but this season has been bad enough already. I’ve got a horrid vision of TWO Celtic legends being hounded out before Sevco win the title.
MON hasn’t done anything of note for years. He was sacked at Forest after failing to gain the respect of influential members of the squad who doubted his methods and results suffered (remind you of anyone?).
Never go back….let his name live on in our hearts but let’s think with our heads here – he really is yesterday’s man.
DanDan,
Very touching post puts a lot of things is perspective.
Please God your son will make a full recovery.
*CQN PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2020-21*
RESULTS FROM GAME #23 – CELTIC 0 ROSS COUNTY 2
Maybe I’m slightly mad to keep this going throughout what is obviously a very difficult season. But I’ve started so I’ll finish!
A huge thank you to the 16 who could be bothered to vote. Totally understandable that most folk couldn’t be motivated to get involved this time around.
The votes cast for each player are as follows (with my own choices asterisked) –
Barkas: 0
Elhamed: 4
Bitton: 0
Jullien: 1
Ajer*: 3
Laxalt: 7
Brown*: 13
Rogic: 2
Christie*: 7
Ajeti: 0
Edouard: 3
McGregor: 3
Elyounoussi: 0
Duffy: 0
Klimala: 0
So, the players receiving points for the Ross County game are –
Brown – 5 points
Christie – 4 points
Laxalt – 4 points
Elhamed – 2 points
Ajer – 1 point
Edouard – 1 point
McGregor – 1 point
And the overall table is now –
1st – Laxalt – 44 points
2nd – Christie – 40 points
3rd – McGregor – 37 points
4th – Frimpong – 30 points
5th – Ajer – 24 points
6th – Elyounoussi – 23 points
7th – Brown – 19 points
8th – Ntcham and Rogic – 16 points
10th – Duffy – 15 points
11th – Bitton and Griffiths – 12 points
13th – Edouard – 11 points
14th – Taylor – 10 points
15th – Barkas – 9 points
16th – Ajeti – 8 points
17th – Elhamed – 7 points
18th – Forrest and Jullien – 5 points
20th – Bain, Klimala and Welsh – 4 points
23rd – Turnbull – 1 point
24th – Bolingoli, Dembele and Soro – 0 points
*Player Of The Month*
During November we played 6 games, winning 2 (Aberdeen and Motherwell), drawing 1 (Hibs) and losing 3 (Sparta Prague twice and Ross County). We scored 10 but conceded 13. Our top goalscorers this month were Elyounoussi with 4 and Edouard with 2.
None of our players played the full 6 games. But Christie and Laxalt did start all 6, both being substituted once.
Based on the total votes across all 6 games, in 3rd place we have Ryan Christie on 83 points, in 2nd place it’s Tom Rogic with 124. But, for the 2nd month in a row, the PLAYER OF THE MONTH for November with 151 votes (3 MOTM awards and 1 2nd place) is DIEGO LAXALT.
Next up, our ‘friendly’ away to AC Milan on Thursday with a 5.55 kick off.
Hail Hail!
Brilliant.On BEIN,the 2 fudsSheer comedy.,Keys and Gray,going tonto over the offside goal.
Sorry again. Someone sent me a copy of a “missive” 😄 on WhatsApp. I can’t post it here .
I can’t see any club crest on the notepaper. It says
Celtic Plc , confirms that first team manager, Neil Lennon, will leave the Club with immediate effect. The Club would like to thank Neil for his contribution during his time at Celtic and wishes him success in the future.
Martin O’Neill has been appointed first team manager until the rest (sic) of the season and will be assisted by Roy Keane who will be assistant manager.
Enquiries:
Celtic PLC
Michael Nicholson, Company Secretary 0141-551-4298
Canaccord Genuity Limited
Simon Bridges, Nominated Advisor
Richard Andrews 020-7523-8350
Could be a hoax. Would Celtic say “until the rest of season” or until the end of the season.
James-I don’t want to come across as sycophantic.But going for 8&9 and especially 8 was murder but you’re blog kept me believing.You genuinely had me feeling ten foot tall as a Celtic supporter after reading some of your stuff.You didn’t want Lenny from the start and neither did I.But I wanted him to succeed.I always had the impression you were just waiting on him failing.Tough times ahead and we all need to band together 🍀
Stop saying you’re finished with cqn.🤷🏽♂️
a couple of eye-catchers…….
Is there a World Record for the shortest and most bumptious flounce?
and……
Those voluble others that project such disdain for our accommodating host and his platform seem inexorably drawn to make their mark here still………..
Hmmmmm.
THEORIGINALSADIESBHOY on 30TH NOVEMBER 2020 10:09 PM
Has hoax written all over it. Not literally, of course :)
It’s important to get a new presence into Lennoxtown. No point bringing in a new gaffer if Kennedy and Strachan are left to their own devices again. A new gaffer with his own coaching staff.
I saw it too TOSB.
Didn’t look genuine to me, however it appears Paddy Power are no longer taking bets on Martin O’Neill being net Manager of Celtic.
2 players on opposing teams tonight Benrahma,and Watkins teammates at Brentford sold for around 70 million.From the championship.
CORKCELT on 30TH NOVEMBER 2020 10:13 PM
I saw it too TOSB.
Didn’t look genuine to me, however it appears Paddy Power are no longer taking bets on Martin O’Neill being net Manager of Celtic.
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Corkie is Martin going to be goalie coach .
DanDan
That must have been a very difficult decision to return to this blog and post that
Wishing your Bhoy and family all the very best and a full recovery for the Bhoy.
Another irregular poster now, and original from this parish (on our WhatsApp group)
Lost his Mum yesterday
Rest in Peace Margaret Docherty
Other posters earlier asking about big Mike from Toronto
He still looks in here, dropped me an email last week after I had posted a message 🤣
Big Mike has also had his own health issues to deal with, but on my last message with him
He is recovering and fighting back to full health
Now Celtic
Agree with many posters
Full deflection mode froman omnishambles on several levels
Drastic changes required from Board to our full management/coaching set up
Get back to having the professional approach at the club, which Brendan had driven in 2 years.
Quick question, how much was our club/Playing squad worth under Brendan ??
How much is it worth now
Some accountants may want to look at what downsizing is actually costing the club
Hail Hail
PETETHEBEAT @9:51pm – Petrocelli
DanDan ! So sad bud stay strong!