It takes years before you can properly judge the impact of winning any league title. For me, although 1998 feels most precious, 2001 was far more significant in its impact, that title changed the world. After this league title win, secured at Tannadice last night, Celtic fans look ahead with a confidence that we might just be onto something special.
A year ago, everything went wrong, a timely reminder that football will never be without sporting risk. The response, however, has been nothing short of spectacular. Oh, Howe we waited for the appointment of a new manager. At the time I wrote that Eddie Howe was the best English manager in the game, someone who had consistently overachieved and who was very capable of restoring Celtic to the top. As the wait for his decision continued to an uncomfortable level, two chief executives, one outgoing, one incoming, shuffled furtively around each other.
It took Howe, himself, to put us out of our misery. Plan B had been agreed, even if one or two never thought it would get to that stage. Ange Postecoglou wanted the job from the moment he knew it was available and made his intentions clear to the club. He watched what happened as all three trophies slipped away and knew this was the club and that was his time to take control.
On getting an offer from Celtic, Ange had to complete some business in Japan, then isolate for two weeks in a London hotel, watching videos and immersed in videoconferences, before finally flying to Scotland and meeting those he would be working with in person for the first time.
Eddie Howe’s reason for not taking the job was that he didn’t think it possible to achieve what was necessary without taking his backroom team with him. Ange brought no backroom team, he worked with those already here, who, it turned out, were not actually the problem all along.
An early priority was to sort out the playing squad. Captain, Scott Brown, retired at the end of the previous campaign, but several of the remaining top performers were refusing to extend soon-expiring contracts and wanted away.
The men who didn’t do the 10 were still able to attract sufficient money to seed the pot for a rebuild. Odsonne Edouard and Ryan Christie stayed until the close of the window, but disruption was such that Kristoffer Ajer was offloaded between Champions League games against Midtjylland.
By the end of September, league form saw three wins, three defeats and one draw, and were still without an away win in domestic football since February. If you based your expectations for the season on results until that point, you would have been significantly wrong.
Celtic won 24 of the next 27 games, drawing two and losing only away at Bayer Leverkusen, who scored twice in the final 8 minutes to deny Celtic a win. Livingston and St Mirren successfully shut up shop to take a point, every other team Celtic played in that run were beaten. Our Europa League group stage ended with three wins from four games and the League Cup was secured in a memorable win over Hibs at Hampden.
It is tempting to interpret the story of our season as being transformed by a spectacular January transfer window. We did have a spectacular transfer window, but the winning routine was well established before this. Ange’s system was by then embedded and paying significant dividends.
Saturday, 29 January, was the day the penny dropped for even the casual observer that Celtic had their name on this title. Newco were a goal ahead at Ross County in the 96th minute but could not hold on for the win. Celtic, who kicked off later, were drawing when they went down to 10 men against Dundee United. Liel Abada’s 89th minute winner thundered across the land. If Celtic won their next game, against Newco, they would go top of the league!
That run of 27 games ended against a team of preseason Norwegians. Those Conference League games aside, Celtic swept all before them, only a draw at Easter Road marked the copybook on a march to the title that was effectively secured when a win at Ibrox put the club six points clear with six to play. We knew the league title was coming home.
After that game at Ibrox, I thought the final winning margin would be in excess of 10 points. It turns out, Newco had more in the tank than I credited them with. Not only did we win a league with a new manager, new chief exec, an horrendous start and a significant squad overhaul, we did it against a team fortified by the kind of strength you only get after a £100m overspend. Celtic, it seems, are doomed to compete against sides who will play fast and loose with their very existence, gamblers to the bitter end.
In January 2005, when Martin O’Neill’s Celtic team were shrinking before our eyes, I wrote that we were in a Generation of Domination that started with Martin’s arrival in 2000. 17 years later our forward prospects are as good as they were then. Enjoy and appreciate these special years.
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James Brown get on up..
https://youtu.be/BCCkb6k_aow
HH
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Didn’t it Rain
https://youtu.be/Y9a49oFalZE
HH
Ella Fitzgerald,Louis Armstrong
Dream a little dream of me
https://youtu.be/XRpLb4PXVyQ
HH
Hi AN TEARMANN
Late night for you ?
Are you still celebrating ?
Thanks for the wee shout out on previous pages.
H.H. Mick
CELTIC MAC
tom mclaughlin
The point raised about the post match fixtures was not about the difficulty of playing Ross County, not for me at any road, it was about the failure of the SPL to use the final games to promote our League. Not one later Saturday afternoon game, we could have had a 5.30 kick off against Hearts for example, or a full house midweek game at home last night. Repeat, it was about promoting the game in Scotland. Comprehension is not your strong point Tom
What makes you think my comment was aimed exclusively at you? Your ego getting the better of you?
Young Sevconian in work yesterday, buzzing about gettin booked up for Seville.
Me…did you know Seville has 200 chapels and holy statues everywhere, so don’t be doing a George Square.
Him… hahaha there’ll be nane left when we’re finished (more laughs).
tom mclaughlin
Not exclusively Tom, just that you had responded to my own criticism of the match schedule after the fixtures had been announced. Not a fan of Sunday football generally, never have been, or Saturday 12.00 kick-offs for that matter, and feel that in early summer in Scotland a late afternoon match would work better than lunchtime starts, but you and I know Sky Sports decides those. As it turns out last nights’ league winning game up at Tannadice did gain some good positive coverage for the SPL and especially Celtic, so I’m glad you made it to the game. Kept up a Lisbon Lion tradition, never won the league at home. It was you who threw it out last night not me.
Agree with your other post re some of the singing, just do not see how this fits in with the ethos of the club.
Others see it differently I know.
A good article from the Daily Record :
The Celtic insider line on Ange Postecoglou declaring ‘this guy has balls’ saw sorcery sink cynicism – Keith Jackson. The Celtic boss deserves an apology from a host of early cynics including our chief sports writer.
For those of us who have had to learn to live with the daily inconveniences of dyslexia, this was an appointment designed to make the heart sink.
With his arrival in Glasgow’s east end came the realisation it was going to take a couple of weeks just to perfect pronouncing the name, never mind spelling it.
The only crumb of comfort, a sense of inevitability that he would probably be someone else’s problem in just a few months’ time. I mean, this was never going to work out. How could it?
Hands up, there are many of us who owe this gruff, straight talking Australian a huge apology for ever doubting him in the first place.
And that’s not restricted only to the pundits and media ‘experts’ who suspected he was biting off more than he could possibly chew.
There were plenty of Celtic fans out there too who were whipping themselves up into a state of high anxiety at the thought of a relative unknown being shoehorned into what had become a full-blown crisis situation.
Suffice to say, on Wednesday night on Tayside, Postecoglou earned himself a far more manageable moniker.
From now on let’s just refer to him as the Wizard of Oz because what he has achieved in these past 11 months has been some kind of sorcery – turning the seemingly impossible into silver-lined reality and unifying a club which appeared to be fractured beyond repair.
His impact on Celtic has been a real life magic trick but it’s been no sleight of hand. What we have witnessed here is not some cheap illusion. This is the multi-million pound manifestation of a manager with an iron will, a contemporary philosophy and the courage of his own convictions.
Put it this way, the day after Eddie Howe finally headed for the hills after leading Celtic on a merry dance for what seemed like an eternity, I had a conversation with outgoing chief executive Peter Lawwell.
Without breaking any confidences, the phone call ended with one resounding message. ‘This guy has balls,’ is how Lawwell put it, having spent the previous 24 hours thrashing out the terms of the contract to bring him in on an SOS from the other side of the planet.
In real terms, having been waiting for Howe to make his mind up for so long, it took no time at all for Lawwell to convince Postecoglou to come to Celtic’s rescue. On the contrary, the big man was packing his suitcase while Lawwell was still on the other end of the line.
While men of lesser substance might have been scared rigid by the scale of the task awaiting him in Glasgow, Postecoglou rushed towards it. This was not something for him to fear. This was a once in a lifetime opportunity for him to prove that ‘his football’ works in any language and on any continent.
That he did not even bother to argue the toss about the make-up of his backroom team perhaps made him look a little too eager. In retrospect – and with the benefit of 20-20 hindsight – that was patently not the case at all.
On the contrary, Postecoglou needed to bring nothing more to the job than a head full of big ideas and unshakable self belief.
And he thoroughly deserves every bit of gushing credit that’s been coming his way over these past few weeks as well as the manager of the year awards which are a tangible confirmation of the levels of respect he has garnered in such a short space of time.
In fact, perhaps his biggest trick of all, has been making it so easy to forget just what a horrendous state Celtic had got themselves into in the aborted pursuit of 10 successive league titles.
With fans locked out of the stadium during a global pandemic, they took to the car park instead to vent their fury at those inside.
Amidst this unfolding chaos, skipper Scott Brown chose to bow out and Odsonne Edouard and Kristoffer Ajer were tripping up over themselves to follow him out of the door. Even Lawwell himself decided that his time had come and gone.
No trophies, no chief executive, no captain, no top scorer and no central defenders? No worries mate.
Postecoglou had the balls to take it all on and, in a very short space of time, he had Celtic playing in a high intensity, attacking style which confounded all of those who questioned what on earth he was going here in the first place.
Yes, there were teething issues in those first few weeks. How could there not be?
But as a raft of new signings – including stand outs such as Cameron Carter-Vickers, Kyogo Furuhasi, Joe Hart and Jota – settled and his messaging began to sink in on the training pitch at Lennoxtown, so his Celtic side began to take shape.
It very quickly became clear Postecoglou was a different prospect entirely from some of the other head-in-the-cloud dreamers who have washed up on these shores, full of philosophical gobbledygook and powerpoint presentations.
Postecoglou’s down to earth, straight talking approach allowed him to connect with his players and perhaps help simplify a complex style of play. They got him right from the start.
Anthony Ralston opened up the season unrecognisable from the fringe man who had been loaned out to Queen’s Park, Dundee United and St Johnstone. Almost overnight he was transformed from surplus to requirements to a Scotland international.
And Callum McGregor was also allowed to flourish and grow into Brown’s armband. That the captain was crowned player of the year by his own peers is fitting recognition of his personal blossoming under Postecoglou.
But it is also proof positive Postecoglou was smart enough to identify McGregor’s immense value back in those early days when he was conducting a hurried on-the-spot assessment of the manpower at his disposal.
A shrewd start to what has been an almost faultless first season at the helm even if some dunts were taken along the way on his travels across the continent.
But with access to the Champions League already secured, that will be Postecoglou’s next trick.
And if nothing else these past 11 months have taught us that, where the Wizard of Oz is concerned, nothing should be ruled out.
Good morning all from Govanhill. The party never stops.
Celtic have not lost a single league game since the Camerom Carter-Vickers & Carl Starfelt partnership began
Celtic have only concede 15 goals in 29 league games since the two started playing together
Ange Postecoglou’s record for
@CelticFC
in the
@spfl
(33 games):
– 26 wins, 4 draws, 3 losses
– 78 goals scored, 19 conceded
– Average of 2.48pts per match
– Undefeated since September 20 2021
– Won the Premiership with a round to spare
Happy music Friday ladies and gents! Good stuff from An Tearmann up above :))) Be sure to nip in to strathfusion.com to hear Hippy Hour with WEE BGFC!
We have won the league all is good
Bless the Ange Train
HH
WEE BGFC
CHOOCHOOCFC
CELTIC MAC
Thanks for your response. To be clear, the only song I objected to at Tannadice was the sectarian song about Jimmy Bell. That was the lowest of the low.
As a miserable,glass half empty, pessimistic Celtic fan, the last 12 years have been a nightmare for me
Right guys i need help!!!!……aye medical annaw!
I’m 65 at the end of June and Celtic are telling me i don’t qualify wtf. Heres the site statement
“To qualify for an Over 65 Season Ticket, supporters must be aged 65 or over on June 1, 2022. Proof of age will be required”
Am i missing something.do i have to be 65 before the 1st of June???
Sounds like anyone who turns 65 after June 1st will have to wait until next year to get the discount.
FOURSTONECOPPI on 13TH MAY 2022 9:37 AM
Yeah seems if you turned 65 on the 2nd of June 2022 onwards you would not qualify.
*until next year as Dessybhoy stated
FOURSTONECOPPI
It means you have to be 65 or over on 1st June, so you don’t qualify.
However, I turned 65 on 5th September 2018 and got a £50 discount on my 2018/19 ST because I turned 65 after 1st June but during the season. Unless that has stopped, you should be due the discount.
It would be worth asking the ticket office about that.
FOURSTONECOPPI
Ist June deadline seems a bit early as, in your case, you won’t be able to use your ST until after you turn 65.
1st July cut-off would make more sense.
Tom, Martim and Dessyboy…….thanks
bloody bloody BOOOOOOO!
I didn’t realise the season book discount was from age 65. I thought it was 66. Makes more sense and is fairer if there is at least some discount, calculated by which month you turn 65. Having a definitive cut-off is unfair, especially if you’re talking days or weeks.
Do you have to prove your date of birth when renewing your season ticket?
David Squires on … worshipping at the Church of Saint Angelos Postecoglou
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/ng-interactive/2022/may/13/david-squires-on-worshipping-at-the-church-of-saint-angelos-postecoglou
THE_HUDDLE on 13TH MAY 2022 10:27 AM
Do you have to prove your date of birth when renewing your season ticket?
—
No.
If someone turns 65, during the season, then their birth month can simply equate to a discount based on twelths.
THE_HUDDLE
The first time you request the Age65+ concession you need to show proof of age. After that they’ll never ask you for proof again as you renew each year.
Ah right, cheers.
ZIGGYDOC1
If someone turns 65, during the season, then their birth month can simply equate to a discount based on twelths.
It doesn’t work that way. They don’t give part year pro rata discounts. If you turn 65 during the season you get the £50 discount and that’s it. To get the 65+ concession you have to be 65 on 1st June. Even if you turn 65 on 2nd June you miss out.
This keech jackshun…
“Rangers won’t threaten Lisbon Lions’ place as best ever side but their end goal might be greater – ”
Coutinho completes permanent move to Villa from…
A year ago, everything went wrong, a timely reminder that football will never be without sporting risk. The response, however, has been nothing short of spectacular. Oh, Howe we waited for the appointment of a new manager. At the time I wrote that Eddie Howe was the best English manager in the game, someone who had consistently overachieved and who was very capable of restoring Celtic to the top. As the wait for his decision continued to an uncomfortable level, two chief executives, one outgoing, one incoming, shuffled furtively around each other.
It took Howe, himself, to put us out of our misery. Plan B had been agreed, even if one or two never thought it would get to that stage. Ange Postecoglou wanted the job from the moment he knew it was available and made his intentions clear to the club. He watched what happened as all three trophies slipped away and knew this was the club and that was his time to take control.
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On getting an offer from Celtic, Ange had to complete some business in Japan, then isolate for two weeks in a London hotel, watching videos and immersed in videoconferences, before finally flying to Scotland and meeting those he would be working with in person for the first time.
Eddie Howe’s reason for not taking the job was that he didn’t think it possible to achieve what was necessary without taking his backroom team with him. Ange brought no backroom team, he worked with those already here, who, it turned out, were not actually the problem all along.
An early priority was to sort out the playing squad. Captain, Scott Brown, retired at the end of the previous campaign, but several of the remaining top performers were refusing to extend soon-expiring contracts and wanted away.
The men who didn’t do the 10 were still able to attract sufficient money to seed the pot for a rebuild. Odsonne Edouard and Ryan Christie stayed until the close of the window, but disruption was such that Kristoffer Ajer was offloaded between Champions League games against Midtjylland.
By the end of September, league form saw three wins, three defeats and one draw, and were still without an away win in domestic football since February. If you based your expectations for the season on results until that point, you would have been significantly wrong.
Celtic won 24 of the next 27 games, drawing two and losing only away at Bayer Leverkusen, who scored twice in the final 8 minutes to deny Celtic a win. Livingston and St Mirren successfully shut up shop to take a point, every other team Celtic played in that run were beaten. Our Europa League group stage ended with three wins from four games and the League Cup was secured in a memorable win over Hibs at Hampden.
It is tempting to interpret the story of our season as being transformed by a spectacular January transfer window. We did have a spectacular transfer window, but the winning routine was well established before this. Ange’s system was by then embedded and paying significant dividends.
Saturday, 29 January, was the day the penny dropped for even the casual observer that Celtic had their name on this title. Newco were a goal ahead at Ross County in the 96th minute but could not hold on for the win. Celtic, who kicked off later, were drawing when they went down to 10 men against Dundee United. Liel Abada’s 89th minute winner thundered across the land. If Celtic won their next game, against Newco, they would go top of the league!
That run of 27 games ended against a team of preseason Norwegians. Those Conference League games aside, Celtic swept all before them, only a draw at Easter Road marked the copybook on a march to the title that was effectively secured when a win at Ibrox put the club six points clear with six to play. We knew the league title was coming home.
After that game at Ibrox, I thought the final winning margin would be in excess of 10 points. It turns out, Newco had more in the tank than I credited them with. Not only did we win a league with a new manager, new chief exec, an horrendous start and a significant squad overhaul, we did it against a team fortified by the kind of strength you only get after a £100m overspend. Celtic, it seems, are doomed to compete against sides who will play fast and loose with their very existence, gamblers to the bitter end.
In January 2005, when Martin O’Neill’s Celtic team were shrinking before our eyes, I wrote that we were in a Generation of Domination that started with Martin’s arrival in 2000. 17 years later our forward prospects are as good as they were then. Enjoy and appreciate these special years.
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AN TEARMANN on 13TH MAY 2022 1:06 AM
James Brown get on up..
https://youtu.be/BCCkb6k_aow
HH
AN TEARMANN on 13TH MAY 2022 1:12 AM
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Didn’t it Rain
https://youtu.be/Y9a49oFalZE
HH
AN TEARMANN on 13TH MAY 2022 1:21 AM
Ella Fitzgerald,Louis Armstrong
Dream a little dream of me
https://youtu.be/XRpLb4PXVyQ
HH
MELBOURNE MICK on 13TH MAY 2022 1:26 AM
Hi AN TEARMANN
Late night for you ?
Are you still celebrating ?
Thanks for the wee shout out on previous pages.
H.H. Mick
TOM MCLAUGHLIN on 13TH MAY 2022 6:44 AM
CELTIC MAC
tom mclaughlin
The point raised about the post match fixtures was not about the difficulty of playing Ross County, not for me at any road, it was about the failure of the SPL to use the final games to promote our League. Not one later Saturday afternoon game, we could have had a 5.30 kick off against Hearts for example, or a full house midweek game at home last night. Repeat, it was about promoting the game in Scotland. Comprehension is not your strong point Tom
What makes you think my comment was aimed exclusively at you? Your ego getting the better of you?
BLAKEY on 13TH MAY 2022 7:29 AM
Young Sevconian in work yesterday, buzzing about gettin booked up for Seville.
Me…did you know Seville has 200 chapels and holy statues everywhere, so don’t be doing a George Square.
Him… hahaha there’ll be nane left when we’re finished (more laughs).
CELTIC MAC on 13TH MAY 2022 8:09 AM
tom mclaughlin
Not exclusively Tom, just that you had responded to my own criticism of the match schedule after the fixtures had been announced. Not a fan of Sunday football generally, never have been, or Saturday 12.00 kick-offs for that matter, and feel that in early summer in Scotland a late afternoon match would work better than lunchtime starts, but you and I know Sky Sports decides those. As it turns out last nights’ league winning game up at Tannadice did gain some good positive coverage for the SPL and especially Celtic, so I’m glad you made it to the game. Kept up a Lisbon Lion tradition, never won the league at home. It was you who threw it out last night not me.
Agree with your other post re some of the singing, just do not see how this fits in with the ethos of the club.
Others see it differently I know.
HRVATSKI JIM on 13TH MAY 2022 8:22 AM
A good article from the Daily Record :
The Celtic insider line on Ange Postecoglou declaring ‘this guy has balls’ saw sorcery sink cynicism – Keith Jackson. The Celtic boss deserves an apology from a host of early cynics including our chief sports writer.
For those of us who have had to learn to live with the daily inconveniences of dyslexia, this was an appointment designed to make the heart sink.
With his arrival in Glasgow’s east end came the realisation it was going to take a couple of weeks just to perfect pronouncing the name, never mind spelling it.
The only crumb of comfort, a sense of inevitability that he would probably be someone else’s problem in just a few months’ time. I mean, this was never going to work out. How could it?
Hands up, there are many of us who owe this gruff, straight talking Australian a huge apology for ever doubting him in the first place.
And that’s not restricted only to the pundits and media ‘experts’ who suspected he was biting off more than he could possibly chew.
There were plenty of Celtic fans out there too who were whipping themselves up into a state of high anxiety at the thought of a relative unknown being shoehorned into what had become a full-blown crisis situation.
Suffice to say, on Wednesday night on Tayside, Postecoglou earned himself a far more manageable moniker.
From now on let’s just refer to him as the Wizard of Oz because what he has achieved in these past 11 months has been some kind of sorcery – turning the seemingly impossible into silver-lined reality and unifying a club which appeared to be fractured beyond repair.
His impact on Celtic has been a real life magic trick but it’s been no sleight of hand. What we have witnessed here is not some cheap illusion. This is the multi-million pound manifestation of a manager with an iron will, a contemporary philosophy and the courage of his own convictions.
Put it this way, the day after Eddie Howe finally headed for the hills after leading Celtic on a merry dance for what seemed like an eternity, I had a conversation with outgoing chief executive Peter Lawwell.
Without breaking any confidences, the phone call ended with one resounding message. ‘This guy has balls,’ is how Lawwell put it, having spent the previous 24 hours thrashing out the terms of the contract to bring him in on an SOS from the other side of the planet.
In real terms, having been waiting for Howe to make his mind up for so long, it took no time at all for Lawwell to convince Postecoglou to come to Celtic’s rescue. On the contrary, the big man was packing his suitcase while Lawwell was still on the other end of the line.
While men of lesser substance might have been scared rigid by the scale of the task awaiting him in Glasgow, Postecoglou rushed towards it. This was not something for him to fear. This was a once in a lifetime opportunity for him to prove that ‘his football’ works in any language and on any continent.
That he did not even bother to argue the toss about the make-up of his backroom team perhaps made him look a little too eager. In retrospect – and with the benefit of 20-20 hindsight – that was patently not the case at all.
On the contrary, Postecoglou needed to bring nothing more to the job than a head full of big ideas and unshakable self belief.
And he thoroughly deserves every bit of gushing credit that’s been coming his way over these past few weeks as well as the manager of the year awards which are a tangible confirmation of the levels of respect he has garnered in such a short space of time.
In fact, perhaps his biggest trick of all, has been making it so easy to forget just what a horrendous state Celtic had got themselves into in the aborted pursuit of 10 successive league titles.
With fans locked out of the stadium during a global pandemic, they took to the car park instead to vent their fury at those inside.
Amidst this unfolding chaos, skipper Scott Brown chose to bow out and Odsonne Edouard and Kristoffer Ajer were tripping up over themselves to follow him out of the door. Even Lawwell himself decided that his time had come and gone.
No trophies, no chief executive, no captain, no top scorer and no central defenders? No worries mate.
Postecoglou had the balls to take it all on and, in a very short space of time, he had Celtic playing in a high intensity, attacking style which confounded all of those who questioned what on earth he was going here in the first place.
Yes, there were teething issues in those first few weeks. How could there not be?
But as a raft of new signings – including stand outs such as Cameron Carter-Vickers, Kyogo Furuhasi, Joe Hart and Jota – settled and his messaging began to sink in on the training pitch at Lennoxtown, so his Celtic side began to take shape.
It very quickly became clear Postecoglou was a different prospect entirely from some of the other head-in-the-cloud dreamers who have washed up on these shores, full of philosophical gobbledygook and powerpoint presentations.
Postecoglou’s down to earth, straight talking approach allowed him to connect with his players and perhaps help simplify a complex style of play. They got him right from the start.
Anthony Ralston opened up the season unrecognisable from the fringe man who had been loaned out to Queen’s Park, Dundee United and St Johnstone. Almost overnight he was transformed from surplus to requirements to a Scotland international.
And Callum McGregor was also allowed to flourish and grow into Brown’s armband. That the captain was crowned player of the year by his own peers is fitting recognition of his personal blossoming under Postecoglou.
But it is also proof positive Postecoglou was smart enough to identify McGregor’s immense value back in those early days when he was conducting a hurried on-the-spot assessment of the manpower at his disposal.
A shrewd start to what has been an almost faultless first season at the helm even if some dunts were taken along the way on his travels across the continent.
But with access to the Champions League already secured, that will be Postecoglou’s next trick.
And if nothing else these past 11 months have taught us that, where the Wizard of Oz is concerned, nothing should be ruled out.
BIGRAILROADBLUES on 13TH MAY 2022 8:33 AM
Good morning all from Govanhill. The party never stops.
BOGNORBHOY on 13TH MAY 2022 9:00 AM
Celtic have not lost a single league game since the Camerom Carter-Vickers & Carl Starfelt partnership began
Celtic have only concede 15 goals in 29 league games since the two started playing together
BOGNORBHOY on 13TH MAY 2022 9:12 AM
Ange Postecoglou’s record for
@CelticFC
in the
@spfl
(33 games):
– 26 wins, 4 draws, 3 losses
– 78 goals scored, 19 conceded
– Average of 2.48pts per match
– Undefeated since September 20 2021
– Won the Premiership with a round to spare
WEE BGFC on 13TH MAY 2022 9:12 AM
Happy music Friday ladies and gents! Good stuff from An Tearmann up above :))) Be sure to nip in to strathfusion.com to hear Hippy Hour with WEE BGFC!
We have won the league all is good
Bless the Ange Train
HH
WEE BGFC
CHOOCHOOCFC
TOM MCLAUGHLIN on 13TH MAY 2022 9:21 AM
CELTIC MAC
Thanks for your response. To be clear, the only song I objected to at Tannadice was the sectarian song about Jimmy Bell. That was the lowest of the low.
31003 on 13TH MAY 2022 9:23 AM
As a miserable,glass half empty, pessimistic Celtic fan, the last 12 years have been a nightmare for me
FOURSTONECOPPI on 13TH MAY 2022 9:37 AM
Right guys i need help!!!!……aye medical annaw!
I’m 65 at the end of June and Celtic are telling me i don’t qualify wtf. Heres the site statement
“To qualify for an Over 65 Season Ticket, supporters must be aged 65 or over on June 1, 2022. Proof of age will be required”
Am i missing something.do i have to be 65 before the 1st of June???
DESSYBHOY on 13TH MAY 2022 9:40 AM
Sounds like anyone who turns 65 after June 1st will have to wait until next year to get the discount.
MARTIM1980 on 13TH MAY 2022 9:44 AM
FOURSTONECOPPI on 13TH MAY 2022 9:37 AM
Yeah seems if you turned 65 on the 2nd of June 2022 onwards you would not qualify.
MARTIM1980 on 13TH MAY 2022 9:44 AM
*until next year as Dessybhoy stated
TOM MCLAUGHLIN on 13TH MAY 2022 9:49 AM
FOURSTONECOPPI
It means you have to be 65 or over on 1st June, so you don’t qualify.
However, I turned 65 on 5th September 2018 and got a £50 discount on my 2018/19 ST because I turned 65 after 1st June but during the season. Unless that has stopped, you should be due the discount.
It would be worth asking the ticket office about that.
TOM MCLAUGHLIN on 13TH MAY 2022 9:52 AM
FOURSTONECOPPI
Ist June deadline seems a bit early as, in your case, you won’t be able to use your ST until after you turn 65.
1st July cut-off would make more sense.
FOURSTONECOPPI on 13TH MAY 2022 10:12 AM
Tom, Martim and Dessyboy…….thanks
bloody bloody BOOOOOOO!
ZIGGYDOC1 on 13TH MAY 2022 10:18 AM
I didn’t realise the season book discount was from age 65. I thought it was 66. Makes more sense and is fairer if there is at least some discount, calculated by which month you turn 65. Having a definitive cut-off is unfair, especially if you’re talking days or weeks.
THE_HUDDLE on 13TH MAY 2022 10:27 AM
Do you have to prove your date of birth when renewing your season ticket?
THE_HUDDLE on 13TH MAY 2022 10:29 AM
David Squires on … worshipping at the Church of Saint Angelos Postecoglou
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/ng-interactive/2022/may/13/david-squires-on-worshipping-at-the-church-of-saint-angelos-postecoglou
ZIGGYDOC1 on 13TH MAY 2022 10:35 AM
THE_HUDDLE on 13TH MAY 2022 10:27 AM
Do you have to prove your date of birth when renewing your season ticket?
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No.
If someone turns 65, during the season, then their birth month can simply equate to a discount based on twelths.
TOM MCLAUGHLIN on 13TH MAY 2022 10:37 AM
THE_HUDDLE
The first time you request the Age65+ concession you need to show proof of age. After that they’ll never ask you for proof again as you renew
TOM MCLAUGHLIN on 13TH MAY 2022 10:43 AM
ZIGGYDOC1
If someone turns 65, during the season, then their birth month can simply equate to a discount based on twelths.
It doesn’t work that way. They don’t give part year pro rata discounts. If you turn 65 during the season you get the £50 discount and that’s it. To get the 65+ concession you have to be 65 on 1st June. Even if you turn 65 on 2nd June you miss out.
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I’m sure you’re correct but it’s not fair is it. If it’s June, then if you’re born in July you should get 11/12 discount, August = 10/12 etc.
I’ll be 65 during the season and there’s no mention of any discount on my renewal notification. I’ve emailed the ticket office.
Rogic and Bitton to leave at the end of the season.
Hoped Tom might stay another year, must have a lucrative offer for his retirement
Knackered after that
https://www.celticfc.com/news/2022/may/13/celtic-sends-best-wishes-to-tom-and-nir-as-they-leave-the-club/
Rogic away, bad news
ZIGGYDOC1
As I say, it may no longer apply, but I got £50 off my ST in 2018 because I was due to turn 65 during the season.
My finger us exhausted from scrolling😱
Sorry. I somehow pasted the whole blog (blame the ads around CQN frames 😁).
Rogic going, that’s a shocker! Still love the big man. He’s actually been stronger, fitter and faster this year. Added, of course, to his sublime skill.
Rogic leaving is a major disapointment, but probably not a great surprise.